VRBO Price Scraper

An Apify Actor that scrapes VRBO property pricing including taxes and all fees for given dates and guest configuration.

How it works

1. Navigates to the VRBO property listing page to extract the internal lodgingDirectoryId
2. Navigates to the checkout page using the extracted ID and provided dates
3. Intercepts window.TC.checkoutModelFetch — VRBO's internal pricing promise — to extract the full quote
4. Pushes the structured pricing result to the Apify dataset

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
propertyId	string	✅	—	VRBO property ID (e.g. 2277483)
checkIn	string	✅	—	Check-in date in YYYY-MM-DD format
checkOut	string	✅	—	Check-out date in YYYY-MM-DD format
adults	integer	—	2	Number of adult guests
children	integer	—	0	Number of children (ages 2–12)
infants	integer	—	0	Number of infants (under age 2)
pets	boolean	—	false	Whether pets are included
maxRetries	integer	—	2	Number of retry attempts on failure
lodgingDirectoryId	string	—	—	Skip listing page fetch by providing a known Expedia property ID

Note: The legacy field names arrivalDate and departureDate are still accepted as aliases for checkIn and checkOut.

Example input

{
  "propertyId": "2277483",
  "checkIn": "2026-08-28",
  "checkOut": "2026-08-31",
  "adults": 2,
  "children": 0,
  "infants": 0,
  "pets": false
}

Output

Results are saved to the Apify dataset. Each record contains:

{
  "propertyId": "2277483",
  "lodgingDirectoryId": "66789532",
  "checkIn": "2026-08-28",
  "checkOut": "2026-08-31",
  "adults": 2,
  "children": 0,
  "infants": 0,
  "pets": false,
  "totalAmount": "$874.13",
  "breakdown": {
    "nightly_rate": "$563.00",
    "cleaning_fee": "$150.00",
    "taxes": "$89.13",
    "service_fee": "$72.00"
  }
}

Note: Fee names are normalized to stable English keys (nightly_rate, cleaning_fee, taxes, service_fee, pet_fee, resort_fee) regardless of VRBO's display locale.

Local development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run locally (uses default input values in src/main.ts)
npm run dev

# Build TypeScript
npm run build

# Run compiled output
npm start

Project structure

├── index.ts                  # Entry point
├── src/
│   ├── types.ts              # TypeScript interfaces
│   ├── browser.ts            # Browser launch helper
│   ├── scraper.ts            # Core scraping logic
│   └── main.ts               # Apify Actor entry point
├── .actor/
│   ├── actor.json            # Actor metadata
│   ├── input_schema.json     # Input schema for Apify Console
│   └── Dockerfile            # Docker image for Apify platform
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json