RentalCars.com Scraper (Pay Per Search)
Pricing
from $1.20 / 1,000 result scrapeds
Scrape car rental offers from RentalCars.com billed per search, not per car. One $0.01 search returns up to 500 offers with prices, suppliers, ratings and policies.
City, airport, or station to pick up the car. The actor resolves this via the RentalCars location search and uses the best match. Example: "Barcelona Airport", "Brussels", "Malaga". For multiple destinations in one run, use Pickup Locations (batch) below instead.
Run many searches in one go, all with the same dates. Overrides the single Pickup Location field. Up to 100 locations per run, but each search takes 1-3 minutes (RentalCars.com sits behind an AWS WAF challenge that has to be solved per search), so about 20 locations fit in the default 1-hour run timeout. Locations that do not fit are named in the run status message — raise the timeout or split the batch.
Pickup date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty to default to about 30 days from now. Dates in the past are automatically replaced by that default.
Drop-off date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty to default to a 7-day rental.
Driver age (affects pricing and availability).
ISO 4217 currency code to price results in (e.g. EUR, GBP, USD, CHF, PLN). Leave empty to auto-detect from the pickup destination's country — a Spanish airport returns EUR, a UK airport returns GBP, etc. Set this to force a specific currency regardless of destination (e.g. price a Spanish rental in USD for a US customer).
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. "gb", "es", "us") sent as the location-search locale. Affects location-suggestion ordering only — it does NOT control pricing currency (use the Currency field above for that). Leave empty to use the default "gb".
Optional. A RentalCars.com search-results URL. The actor extracts the location name and dates from it (query params like locationName, puDay/puMonth/puYear). Most users should leave this empty and use the pickup location and dates above instead.
Maximum number of car rental offers to return per search. Results are billed per item, so this is also the per-search cost cap: 500 results is 500 charged items. Results beyond the cap are dropped.
Proxy used for the pickup-location lookup. RentalCars.com blocks datacenter IPs, so keep this on residential. The search itself does not use this proxy — it goes through Bright Data Web Unlocker, which is what clears the AWS WAF challenge.
{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"}Bright Data API key for the Web Unlocker zone. RentalCars.com's search API sits behind an AWS WAF JS challenge that only Bright Data Web Unlocker clears. Optional — falls back to the BRIGHT_DATA_API_KEY environment variable configured on the actor.