Expedia Car Rentals Scraper

Scrape rental-car offers from Expedia by location and dates. One result = one rental-car offer.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, and no API key required
• Search by place name (e.g. "Los Angeles Airport"), by Expedia region ID, or by pasting a full Expedia car-search link
• Every offer: vehicle class & model, rental company, per-day and total price, pickup location, rating, badges, and a direct booking link
• Set your own currency and language
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, price tracking, or travel analytics

How it works

1. Tell the actor where and when: one or more pickup locations plus the pickup and drop-off dates and times (or just paste Expedia car-search links).
2. The actor looks up each location and collects the available rental-car offers for those dates.
3. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You don't manage scrapers, browsers, or retries — the actor handles all of that.

Input

{
  "locations": ["Los Angeles Airport", "4933443"],
  "pickUpDate": "2026-06-25",
  "dropOffDate": "2026-06-26",
  "pickUpTime": "1030AM",
  "dropOffTime": "1030AM",
  "currency": "USD",
  "locale": "en_US",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 0,
  "concurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Type	Description
locations	array	Pickup locations — place names ("Paris, France") or numeric Expedia region IDs. Combined with the dates/times below.
pickUpDate / dropOffDate	string	Dates in YYYY-MM-DD form, applied to all locations.
pickUpTime / dropOffTime	string	Times like 1030AM or 0230PM. Default 1030AM.
startUrls	array	Alternative to locations: full Expedia /carsearch links (the actor reads the location and dates from each link).
currency	string	Price currency (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP). Default USD.
locale	string	Language/region (e.g. en_US, de_DE). Default en_US.
maxResultsPerSearch	integer	Cap offers per search. 0 = no cap (all offers at the location).
pageCount	integer	How many offers to request per search. Default 100 (captures essentially all — car inventory per location is small).
concurrency	integer	How many searches to run in parallel. Default 3.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. A residential pool is recommended for reliable results.

Output

{
  "_input": "Jakarta, Indonesia",
  "_source": "S1-graphql",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T15:33:29Z",
  "recordType": "CAR_OFFER",
  "searchRegionId": "4933443",
  "searchPickUpDate": "6/25/2026",
  "searchDropOffDate": "6/26/2026",
  "vehicle": {
    "category": "Economy",
    "description": "Kia Rio Hatchback or similar",
    "image": { "url": "https://mediaim.expedia.com/cars/2/f5297e42-....jpg", "description": "Economy" },
    "attributes": [
      { "text": "5" }, { "text": "5 Doors" }, { "text": "Air Conditioning" },
      { "text": "Unlimited mileage" }, { "text": "Automatic" }
    ]
  },
  "vendor": { "image": { "description": "ACE Rent A Car", "url": "https://mediaim.expedia.com/cars/logos/AC.png" } },
  "priceSummary": {
    "lead": { "price": { "amount": 48.84, "formatted": "$49", "currencyInfo": { "code": "USD" } }, "accessibility": "$49 per day" },
    "total": { "price": { "amount": 54.21, "formatted": "$54", "currencyInfo": { "code": "USD" } }, "qualifier": "total" }
  },
  "tripLocations": { "pickUpLocation": { "text": "Counter and car in terminal", "locationId": "CGK-T-2-002" }, "dropOffLocation": null },
  "review": { "rating": "0%", "totalCount": null },
  "offerBadges": [ { "text": "Great Deal", "theme": "DEAL_GENERIC" } ],
  "infositeURL": { "relativePath": "/carsearch/details?date1=6%2F25%2F2026&....&dpln=4933443" }
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always CAR_OFFER.
vehicle	object	Category, model description, image, and attributes (seats, doors, transmission, mileage, A/C).
vendor	object	Rental company name and logo.
priceSummary	object	lead = per-day price, total = full rental price, with currency.
tripLocations	object	Pickup (and drop-off) counter/location details.
review	object	Rating and review count for the offer, when available.
offerBadges	array	Deal badges shown on the offer (e.g. "Great Deal").
infositeURL	object	Direct booking link path on Expedia for this offer.

Fields are passed through exactly as Expedia provides them, so new fields flow through without changes. An offer/search that can't be read returns an _error record instead of being dropped.

Notes and limits

• Expedia heavily throttles automated car-search requests. Expedia strictly limits how often car availability can be requested from outside a normal browser, so live offers are not guaranteed on every run. When a request is throttled, the actor does not fail silently — it emits a clearly marked status record for that search so you always know what happened, instead of returning an empty dataset.
• To improve your chances of live results, use a residential proxy and let the actor apply its automatic retries. Running fewer locations at a time (low concurrency) also helps.
• Every run always produces at least one record: either car offers or a status record explaining why a search returned none — so an empty output never goes unexplained.
• Car inventory per location is small (typically 10–50 offers); one search captures essentially all of them, so there are no extra pages to walk.
• Prices, badges and availability are point-in-time and change frequently.

Related actors

Part of an Expedia suite — one actor per travel type: Cars, Stays, Flights, Packages, Cruises.