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RUN * 114 active pipelines * vrbo.com live

Vrbo market data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract property details, availability calendars, nightly rates, and Premier Host metrics from Vrbo. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Properties tracked
1.2M /day
Calendar updates
4.8M /24h
Review records
340K /run
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from vrbo.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Property Listings objects from vrbo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idheadlineproperty_typebedroomsbathroomsmax_guestslatitudelongitudepremier_hostratingreview_counturl
property_listings
● 200 OK
"property_id": "9842104ha",
"headline": "Oceanfront Villa with Private Pool",
"property_type": "Villa",
"bedrooms": 4,
"bathrooms": 3.5,
"max_guests": 10,
"premier_host": true,
"rating": 4.9,
"review_count": 142
# property_idheadlineproperty_typebedroomsbathroomsmax_guests
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Fees objects from vrbo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_iddatebase_ratecurrencycleaning_feeservice_feetax_amounttotal_priceminimum_stay
pricing_& fees
● 200 OK
"property_id": "9842104ha",
"date": "2026-07-15",
"base_rate": 450.0,
"currency": "USD",
"cleaning_fee": 150.0,
"service_fee": 65.0,
"tax_amount": 45.0,
"total_price": 710.0
# property_iddatebase_ratecurrencycleaning_feeservice_fee
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Complete list of extractable fields for Availability Calendar objects from vrbo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_iddateis_availablepriceminimum_staybooking_windowupdated_atcalendar_hash
availability_calendar
● 200 OK
"property_id": "9842104ha",
"date": "2026-07-15",
"is_available": false,
"price": 450.0,
"minimum_stay": 3,
"updated_at": "2026-05-12T10:15:00Z",
"calendar_hash": "a8f9c2e4b"
# property_iddateis_availablepriceminimum_staybooking_window
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from vrbo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idproperty_idguest_nameratingreview_datereview_texthost_responsestay_dateorigin_country
reviews_& ratings
● 200 OK
"review_id": "rvw_8472910",
"property_id": "9842104ha",
"guest_name": "Sarah M.",
"rating": 5,
"review_date": "2026-04-20",
"review_text": "Incredible views and very clean. The host was highly responsive.",
"stay_date": "April 2026",
"origin_country": "United States"
# review_idproperty_idguest_nameratingreview_datereview_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Host Intelligence objects from vrbo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

host_idhost_namemember_sinceresponse_timeresponse_ratepremier_host_badgetotal_propertieslanguages
host_intelligence
● 200 OK
"host_id": "hst_44921",
"host_name": "Coastal Retreats Management",
"member_since": "2018",
"response_time": "within an hour",
"response_rate": 98.5,
"premier_host_badge": true,
"total_properties": 14,
"languages": "['English', 'Spanish']"
# host_idhost_namemember_sinceresponse_timeresponse_ratepremier_host_badge
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Vrbo, structured and scaled

Our Vrbo scraper handles complex GraphQL APIs, stateful pricing requests, and aggressive bot mitigation to extract accurate property and market data.

Property Metadata Extraction

Extract headline, description, property type, exact coordinates, house rules, and cancellation policies for any listing.

Dynamic Pricing & Fees

Capture nightly base rates, seasonal adjustments, and hidden fee structures including cleaning and service fees.

Availability Calendars

Perform forward-looking 365-day availability scraping to calculate occupancy rates and booking velocity.

Amenity Normalisation

Extract and categorise structured amenities like pools, hot tubs, EV chargers, and pet policies.

Premier Host Tracking

Monitor host performance metrics, response rates, review averages, and total portfolio sizes.

Review Mining

Extract full text reviews, star ratings, stay dates, and host responses across all paginated views.

Minimum Stay Rules

Track dynamic minimum length of stay requirements across different seasons and local events.

Geo-Spatial Extraction

Extract bounding box coordinates and precise location markers for spatial analysis and market mapping.

Scheduled Change Detection

Run daily or weekly diffs to track price elasticity, new listing creation, and market saturation.

// engagement pipeline

From target region to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide geographic bounding boxes, city names, or specific property IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, Playwright sessions, proxy rotation, and GraphQL query interception for vrbo.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price outlier detection, and sample property runs before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Vrbo pipeline handles the hard parts

Expedia Group invests heavily in perimeter defence. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction pipelines.

pipeline-monitor · vrbo.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and TLS spoofing

Vrbo uses advanced perimeter defence. We route requests through residential IPs with realistic browser fingerprints and automated session management to prevent IP bans and CAPTCHA walls.

Dynamic pricing hydration
Full Playwright execution

Pricing and availability are heavily dependent on stateful requests. We run headless browsers to trigger the exact pricing API calls required to render accurate nightly rates and fee breakdowns.

GraphQL query extraction
Direct API interception

Rather than parsing complex DOM trees, our pipeline intercepts Vrbo's internal GraphQL responses for cleaner, faster, and more reliable data extraction.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what changed

For large geographic areas, we maintain a hash index of last-seen calendar states. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, schema drift, and coverage drops, responding before you notice.

Applications

Who uses Vrbo data and how

Teams across industries use vrbo.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Revenue Management

Property managers track competitor pricing and availability to optimise their own nightly rates and maximise yield.

02
Real Estate Investment

Investors analyse occupancy rates, gross yields, and seasonality to identify lucrative vacation rental markets.

03
Competitive Intelligence

OTAs and travel platforms monitor Vrbo inventory overlap, exclusive listings, and price parity.

04
Dynamic Pricing Algorithms

Data science teams feed historical price and availability data into machine learning models for predictive pricing.

05
Market Saturation Analysis

Urban planners and local governments track short-term rental density and housing market impact.

06
Amenity ROI Tracking

Hosts analyse which amenities correlate with higher occupancy and premium pricing in specific postcodes.

Why DataFlirt

"Vrbo holds the definitive dataset for entire-home vacation rentals, but accessing historical occupancy and dynamic pricing requires serious infrastructure."

Extracting property data at scale means navigating GraphQL rate limits, stateful pricing requests, and aggressive bot mitigation. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity. We maintain the residential proxies, handle the JavaScript execution, and monitor the schema so your engineers can focus on the data.

Technical Spec

Vrbo scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our vrbo.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for stateful pricing requests
Supported
GraphQL interception
Direct extraction from internal APIs for structured responses
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade IPs rotated per request to bypass perimeter defence
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff for calendar updates and price changes
Supported
Forward calendar scraping
365-day availability lookahead for occupancy calculation
Supported
Review pagination
Full extraction of all historical reviews and host responses
Supported
Fee breakdown
Extraction of cleaning, service, and tax fees
Supported
Host contact details
Direct phone numbers or private email addresses
Partial
Guest booking history
Private user itineraries, messages, and payment methods
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Vrbo pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and Kubernetes. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state is stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested array formatting
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for spreadsheet compatibility
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for analytical queries
S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow for warehouse integration
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted dataset on demand
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Common questions.

About vrbo.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Vrbo legal?

Scraping publicly available information is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated property, pricing, and review data. We do not extract personal guest data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you bypass Vrbo's bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We intercept GraphQL responses directly to minimise unnecessary DOM parsing.

Can you extract hidden fees?

Yes. We simulate booking requests with specific dates and guest counts to trigger the pricing API, allowing us to extract the full breakdown of base rates, cleaning fees, service fees, and taxes.

How far ahead can you scrape availability?

We typically extract 365-day forward-looking calendars for each property, capturing block-out dates, booked dates, and dynamic minimum stay requirements.

Do you extract exact coordinates?

We extract the latitude and longitude provided by the public map interface. While Vrbo sometimes obfuscates exact locations prior to booking, we capture the most precise coordinates publicly available.

How fresh is the pricing data?

Daily runs capture rate changes within 24 hours. For specific sub-markets, we can configure sub-hourly pipelines to monitor high-frequency pricing adjustments.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=vrbo.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a specific postcode or a nationwide property catalogue, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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