Apartments Scraper

Scrape rental listings from Apartments.com ??? property name, address, rent, beds/baths, square footage, phone and listing URL ??? mostly over cheap plain HTTP, no browser required. Built on the Apify platform with API access, scheduling, integrations and cost monitoring built in.

What does Apartments Scraper do?

This actor scrapes Apartments.com search result pages (optionally filtered by city, ZIP, price, beds, number of bedrooms, etc.) and extracts every listing card. It runs mostly without a browser: requests go out through impit, a TLS-fingerprinting HTTP client, routed through Apify proxies. When Akamai Bot Manager flags a session, the actor rotates to a fresh IP and retries. An opt-in Playwright/Firefox browser seed can take over page 1 ??? the hardest page ??? when HTTP hunting is exhausted.

Try it with a single input ??? a city like charlotte nc or a pasted search URL like https://www.apartments.com/charlotte-nc/ ??? and get a clean JSON dataset back in a couple of minutes.

Why use Apartments Scraper?

• Fast & cheap ??? no browser by default. Pure HTTP via impit, right-sized to 1024 MB (browser available only on request). A typical 50-listing run costs a couple of thousandths of a dollar and finishes in ~2 minutes.
• Akamai resilient. Sticky trusted sessions (same IP + cookies) plus automatic IP rotation when a session is flagged. Page 1 gets a double IP hunt since it faces the worst WAF pressure; AUTO proxy pool + Firefox 144 fingerprint are the defaults that clear it most reliably.
• Browser seed as insurance. If page 1 still shells after the HTTP hunt, an opt-in browserSeed loads it in a real Playwright/Firefox browser, mints a trusted session, and hands it to the cheap HTTP path for pages 2+.
• Standard Apify pattern. Uses the apify SDK ??? Actor.getInput, Actor.pushData, datasets ??? the same architecture used by most scrapers on the platform.
• Structured output. Every listing is one clean JSON object, dataset-ready for CSV/Excel download or direct API consumption.

How to use Apartments Scraper

1. Open the actor's Input tab.
2. Either paste one or more Apartments.com search URLs into Apartments.com URLs, or type a location (city, ZIP, or state) into Search location.
3. Set Maximum listings (default 50). It derives how many pages to fetch and fetches them in parallel.
4. Click Start and wait ~30 seconds, then open the Dataset tab to preview or download results.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	https://www.apartments.com/charlotte-nc/	Apartments.com search URLs. Filters in the URL are preserved.
search	string	???	Alternative: a location string (e.g. charlotte nc, 10001) to auto-build the search URL.
maxItems	integer	50	Max listings per search. Pages are auto-counted from this (~40/page, fetched in parallel). Apartments.com caps a search at ~720.
proxyConfiguration	object	{useApifyProxy: true}	Use the Apify proxy pool.
proxyGroup	string	AUTO	Apify proxy pool: AUTO, RESIDENTIAL, or DATACENTER (availability varies).
proxyCountry	string	US	Apify proxy country to pin (US residential IPs clear Apartments.com best).
proxyUrls	array	???	Optional custom residential proxy URLs (own provider).
maxProxyRotations	integer	8	Fresh proxy IPs to try per request before giving up (page 1 gets double).
browser	string	firefox144	Browser fingerprint: firefox, firefox144, firefox135, firefox133, firefox128, chrome, chrome142, chrome136, chrome131, chrome124.
browserSeed	boolean	false	Opt-in: if page 1 stays blocked after the HTTP hunt, load it in a real Playwright/Firefox browser and reuse its trusted session for pages 2+. Adds ~15 s and 1024 MB.
browserSelfTest	boolean	false	Debug tool: launch the browser against the first URL and exit, to check if a browser can clear the current IP.

Finding good search URLs

Pick a city from the Apartments.com header search, copy the URL, then add refinement filters:

https://www.apartments.com/charlotte-nc/2-bedrooms/3-1-1-floorplans/
https://www.apartments.com/brooklyn-ny/
https://www.apartments.com/10001/

Output

Each dataset row is one listing card from a search page:

{
  "listingId": "mnxn0r4",
  "url": "https://www.apartments.com/the-vue-charlotte-nc/mnxn0r4/",
  "propertyName": "The Vue",
  "address": "700 N Church St, Charlotte, NC 28202",
  "street": "700 N Church St",
  "city": "Charlotte",
  "state": "NC",
  "zip": "28202",
  "latitude": null,
  "longitude": null,
  "rentMin": null,
  "rentMax": null,
  "rentText": "$1,850",
  "beds": 2,
  "baths": 2,
  "sqft": 980,
  "contactPhone": "(980) 555-0100",
  "page": 1,
  "searchUrl": "https://www.apartments.com/charlotte-nc/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-11T12:10:35.039Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, CSV, HTML or Excel from the Dataset tab.

Data table

Field	Description
listingId	Apartments.com listing identifier
propertyName	Property name
street / city / state / zip	Address breakdown
latitude / longitude	GPS coordinates (when present on the search card)
rentText / rentMin / rentMax	Rent shown on the card
beds / baths / sqft	Unit size
contactPhone	Leasing office phone
page / searchUrl	Where the listing came from
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

Pricing / Cost estimation

How much does it cost to scrape Apartments.com? Because this actor uses plain HTTP requests by default (no browser), it consumes very few compute units. A realistic 50-listing run costs about $0.005 and takes ~2 minutes ??? roughly $0.0001 per listing. Free-tier Apify accounts are capped at 10 items per run; paid accounts run unlimited.

Headline caveat: Apartments.com is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. On a given search, the first page is the hardest ??? it has no trusted session to reuse, so it depends on finding a clean IP. The actor hunts twice as hard for page 1 (maxProxyRotations ?? 2), then offers the browser seed as a final fallback. Note that Akamai sometimes blocks at the IP level ("Access Denied" / Reference #), which no browser can bypass ??? in that case a retry on a different pool usually clears it.

Tips and advanced options

• Use filtered search URLs ??? 2-bedrooms/, price filters ??? to narrow results and reduce page counts.
• Stuck on page 1? The defaults already hunt hard (AUTO, firefox144, double rotation for page 1). For extra odds, raise maxProxyRotations, tick browserSeed, or switch proxyCountry. A fresh pool (or a retry later) helps when an IP was flagged at WAF level.
• Verify your browser can help: run once with browserSelfTest on ??? if it reports "Access Denied", the block is IP-level and the browser won't help either.
• Custom proxies: paste your own residential URLs into proxyUrls to skip the Apify pool entirely.
• Keep delays low ??? rotation is cheap; leave browserSeed off unless page 1 really needs it.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal? Scraping publicly available rental listings for personal or market analysis is generally acceptable, but you are responsible for complying with Apartments.com's Terms of Service and applicable law. This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apartments.com.

Why does page 1 sometimes fail? Apartments.com's Akamai protection is stricter on the first request from a fresh IP. The actor hunts page 1 with a doubled IP rotation and can fall back to a real browser (browserSeed), but when the WAF denies the IP itself ("Access Denied"), the retry must come from a different IP or pool. Re-running usually clears it.

Got a question or issue? Open the Issues tab. Need a custom scraper for another site or a dedicated data pipeline? Contact us ??? custom actors are available.