Padmapper Scraper - Apartment Rentals & Rent Data

Scrape Padmapper (padmapper.com), the rental aggregator that collects apartment listings from dozens of sources across US and Canadian cities, directly from the same inventory service the website reads. This actor returns rental listings with rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, location, photos and source-site links for any covered city. It also monitors listing changes across runs (NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED), resumes interrupted pulls, and pipes results into your apps through MCP connectors.

Why This Scraper?

• Real inventory data: rent range, beds, baths, square feet, address with coordinates, neighborhood, photos and the source-site link in one record.
• City search with the filters that matter: rent range, bedroom counts, minimum bathrooms, cats and dogs.
• Listing mode: paste listing links, building links or bare listing ids for a direct read; a building link returns every listing in that building.
• Availability monitoring: scheduled runs classify every listing as NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED or EXPIRED, with per-campaign state you can name or share.
• MCP connector export: send results to Notion and other connectors without changing the dataset.
• Structured failures: a blocked or broken run fails loudly with a clear message instead of returning an empty dataset.

Data You Get

Sample shape: every value below is invented for illustration, not from a live listing.

Field	Example value
kind	listing
recordId / listingId	12345678
url	https://www.padmapper.com/rentals/12345678p/...
title	Sunny 1BR near the park
description	Light-filled one bedroom near the park...
currency	USD
rentMin / rentMax	1800 / 2100
previousRent	1950
bedrooms / bedroomsMax	1 / 2
bathrooms / bathroomsMax	1 / 2
squareFeetMin / squareFeetMax	600 / 750
dateAvailable	2026/10/01
address	123 Example Street
city / state / zipcode	Springfield / IL / 62704
neighborhood	Downtown
latitude / longitude	39.799 / -89.644
propertyType	apartment
sourceFeed	example_feed_cities
providerUrl	https://www.example-rentals.com/...
phone	(555) 0101
petAmenities	["Cats OK", "Dogs OK"]
imageUrl / imageUrls	https://img.example.com/12345678/1280x960
listedOn	2026-08-25T11:00:02+00:00
changeType	NEW
firstSeenAt / lastSeenAt	2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Every record also carries the full upstream object (raw), so no upstream field is ever dropped.

How to Use

Zero setup: the source serves its listing inventory openly, so paste one or more cities (Austin, TX, New York, NY, Toronto, Ontario) and run. No account is needed. Cities are resolved to the site's own city pages automatically; add filters to narrow the rent, bedrooms or pets. For recurring rent monitoring, switch on incremental mode and schedule the run.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	search (cities) or url (listing and building links)
locations	list	Austin, TX	City names, 'City, ST' form preferred
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	empty	Rent range in dollars per month (search mode)
bedrooms	multi-select	empty	Bedroom counts to keep, 0 = studio (search mode)
bathrooms	integer	empty	Minimum bathrooms (search mode)
catsOk / dogsOk	boolean	empty	Keep only pet-friendly listings (search mode)
listingInputs	array	empty	Listing links, building links or listing ids (url mode)
urls	array	empty	Alias for listingInputs, accepted under the usual Apify URL-mode name
maxItems	integer	20	Stop after this many records (0 = no limit)
currencyHint	select	empty	Fill record currency with USD or CAD instead of deriving it from the ZIP or postal code
resumeFromRunId	string	empty	Continue one interrupted run, skipping collected ids
incrementalMode	boolean	false	Recurring monitoring with change detection
stateKey	string	empty	Name a monitoring campaign (incremental mode)
emitUnchanged	boolean	false	Also return UNCHANGED rows (returns and bills extra rows)
emitExpired	boolean	false	Also return EXPIRED rows after a complete scan
mcpConnectors	array	empty	Optional MCP connector export
notionParentPageUrl	string	empty	Notion parent page for the Notion connector
maxNotifyListings	integer	50	Cap per connector per run
proxyConfiguration	object	proxy on	Standard Apify proxy settings

Filters apply to search mode only; URL mode reads the listings you name directly. The walk pages 50 listings at a time and stops on the city's last page or the Max items budget, whichever comes first; with several cities each gets an equal share of the budget.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe the scraped results into the apps you already use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. This is an extra delivery step after the scrape: the Apify dataset is never changed.

What gets written to the connector: a condensed, human-readable summary of each record, not the full JSON. Each item becomes one entry with a title and its key fields flattened to plain text. The complete record always stays in the Apify dataset.

1. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations (Notion, Linear, Airtable, or Apify).
2. Select it in the mcpConnectors input field. (If the picker is empty, you haven't authorized a connector yet.)
3. For Notion, also set notionParentPageUrl to the page where items should be created.

The connection is mediated by Apify's MCP proxy, so this actor never sees your third-party credentials. Leave the field empty to skip.

Output Example

Sample shape: every value below is invented for illustration, not from a live listing.

{
  "kind": "listing",
  "recordId": "12345678",
  "listingId": "12345678",
  "url": "https://www.padmapper.com/rentals/12345678p/1-bedroom-apartment-at-123-example-st-springfield-il-62704",
  "title": "Sunny 1BR near the park",
  "currency": "USD",
  "rentMin": 1800,
  "rentMax": 2100,
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "squareFeetMin": 600,
  "address": "123 Example Street",
  "city": "Springfield",
  "state": "IL",
  "zipcode": "62704",
  "neighborhood": "Downtown",
  "latitude": 39.799,
  "longitude": -89.644,
  "providerUrl": "https://www.example-rentals.com/listings/12345678",
  "imageUrl": "https://img.example.com/12345678/1280x960",
  "raw": { "full upstream listing object" },
  "changeType": "NEW",
  "changedFields": [],
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "lastSeenAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Plan Requirement and Terms Note

The source refuses datacenter exits on its inventory routes, so the actor runs on the residential proxy pool: use it on a plan that includes residential proxy. Exit rotation is automatic. The source is a free rental site: the actor reads the same inventory the website reads, and automated reading may sit outside the source's terms of use, so keep volumes reasonable and respect the source's terms.