Apartments.com Scraper — US Rental Listings Data

Extract US rental listings from Apartments.com — property name, address, rent prices, beds/baths, square footage, and leasing-office phone — without an official API key. Built for rental market research, rent comps, apartment price monitoring, and property management lead generation.

Main Use Cases

• Rental market research — build city-level datasets of active US rental listings
• Rent comps — collect asking rents, unit sizes, and specs for comparable analysis
• Apartment price monitoring — track rent changes over time with scheduled runs
• Property management lead generation — collect leasing-office phone numbers and property brands
• Apartment hunting & relocation data — shortlist apartments in a new city, by ZIP, or by bedroom count
• Multifamily portfolio benchmarking — compare rent, size, and amenities across markets

How It Works

Apartments.com is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. This actor fetches Apartments.com search result pages with a TLS-fingerprinting HTTP client routed through rotating US residential proxies — no browser needed for most runs. When Akamai flags a session, the actor rotates to a fresh IP and retries; page 1 (the hardest page) gets a double IP hunt. An opt-in Playwright/Firefox browser seed can take over page 1 when HTTP hunting is exhausted, then hand the trusted session back to the cheap HTTP path.

Give it a city (charlotte nc), a ZIP (10001), a state, or a pasted search URL, and get a clean JSON dataset back in a couple of minutes.

Extract US Rental Listings Without an Official Apartments.com API

Apartments.com (CoStar) has no public developer API. Its customer API is restricted to authenticated property managers (review retrieval and listing management for their own properties) and requires OAuth credentials a data buyer cannot obtain. This actor reads public listing data directly from search result pages — no key, no registration, no API contract.

Build Rental Market Research Datasets for Rent Comps

Each run returns one clean JSON object per listing — property name, full address, rent range, beds/baths, square footage, GPS coordinates, and contact phone. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, filter by city/state/ZIP, and feed straight into spreadsheets, BI tools, or pricing models.

Monitor Rent Prices With Scheduled Runs

Set up a daily or weekly schedule in the Apify console (or call the run API from your own scheduler) to keep a rolling history of asking rents, availability, and new listings per market — the data fuel for price-monitoring dashboards and rental trend reports.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
startUrls	array	No*	—	Apartments.com search result URLs; filters in the URL are preserved. Used when search is empty.
search	string	No*	—	Location string — city, state, or ZIP (e.g. charlotte nc, 10001). Builds the search URL automatically.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Max listings per search. Pages are auto-counted (~40/page, fetched in parallel). Apartments.com caps a search at ~720.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{useApifyProxy: true}	Use the Apify proxy pool.
proxyGroup	string	No	AUTO	Apify proxy pool: AUTO, RESIDENTIAL, or DATACENTER (availability varies).
proxyCountry	string	No	US	Proxy country to pin. US residential IPs clear Apartments.com best.
proxyUrls	array	No	—	Optional custom residential proxy URLs (own provider).
maxProxyRotations	integer	No	8	Fresh proxy IPs to try per request before giving up (page 1 gets double).
browser	string	No	firefox144	Browser fingerprint: firefox, firefox144, firefox135, firefox133, firefox128, chrome, chrome142, chrome136, chrome131, chrome124.
browserSeed	boolean	No	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	No	false	Debug tool: launch the browser against the first URL and exit, to check if a browser can clear the current IP.

* One of search or startUrls is required — a run with neither fails.

Filtered search URLs are preserved, e.g.:

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 JSON, CSV, HTML, Excel, or XML from the Dataset tab.

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

Example Input

{
  "search": "charlotte nc",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Filtered search URL mode:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.apartments.com/brooklyn-ny/2-bedrooms/" }],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example Output

See the sample record in the Output section — a realistic listing from the Charlotte, NC search feed.

Integrations & Automation

• Apify API — trigger runs programmatically from any stack (POST /v2/acts/{actorId}/runs)
• Scheduling — daily/weekly/monthly runs for price monitoring and market feeds
• Webhooks & integrations — Zapier, Make, and other tools via the Apify platform
• Export — JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML directly from the Dataset tab

Recommended schedule: weekly for market research feeds, daily for active rent price monitoring.

Cost Estimation

Pay-per-result: $0.001 per listing (primary event) plus a $0.00005 start fee. A typical 50-listing run costs around $0.05 and finishes in ~2 minutes; 1,000 listings ≈ $1. 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. The first page of a search 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. If Akamai blocks at the IP level ("Access Denied" / Reference #), no browser can bypass that — 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.

Related Actors

• Zillow Scraper — for-sale and rental listings from Zillow, no daily call limits
• Redfin Search Scraper — real estate properties from Redfin searches
• Realtor.com Scraper — for-sale, for-rent and sold property listings
• Rent.com Scraper — rental properties, deals, and contact info
• US Real Estate Multi-Source — Zillow, Realtor & Redfin in one deduplicated run

FAQ

Why use this actor instead of the official Apartments.com API?

There is no public Apartments.com API. CoStar's customer API is limited to authenticated property managers (mostly review retrieval and management of your own listings) and requires OAuth credentials a data buyer can't get. This actor reads public listing data directly — no key, no registration, no contract.

What are alternatives to Apartments.com rental data?

Other US rental and real-estate sources available on Apify: Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, and Rent.com.

How do I get rent comps for a city?

Run the actor by city or ZIP with a healthy maxItems, then compare asking rents by beds/baths/sqft across listings. Filtered URLs (e.g. /2-bedrooms/) narrow results to the exact unit type you're benchmarking. Re-run weekly to track changes.

Is scraping Apartments.com 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 or CoStar Group, Inc.

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.

Can I scrape Apartments.com without a proxy?

The actor needs proxy access — the Apify proxy pool (default) or your own proxyUrls. US residential IPs clear Apartments.com best.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is callable via the Apify MCP server and the Apify REST API.

• Purpose: returns structured US rental listings — property name, address, rent prices, beds/baths, square footage, contact phone — from Apartments.com search results.
• Minimal working input:

{ "search": "charlotte nc", "maxItems": 10 }

• Variant modes:
  • Search URL mode: { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.apartments.com/charlotte-nc/" }], "maxItems": 10 }
  • Hard-block fallback: add "browserSeed": true only if page 1 keeps getting blocked.
• Output fields: listingId, url, propertyName, address, street, city, state, zip, latitude, longitude, rentMin, rentMax, rentText, beds, baths, sqft, contactPhone, page, searchUrl, scrapedAt.
• Behaviors an agent should know:
  • If both search and startUrls are set, startUrls take priority.
  • maxItems defaults to 50 if left unset — this caps both results and charges.
  • Free-tier accounts are limited to 10 items per run.
  • One of search / startUrls is required; a run with neither fails.
  • browserSeed / browserSelfTest add ~1024 MB memory and ~15 s to the run.
• Billing: pay-per-result — $0.001 per listing returned + $0.00005 run start.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apartments.com or CoStar Group, Inc. "Apartments.com" is a registered trademark of CoStar Group, Inc.

The actor only accesses publicly available pages — it does not bypass logins and does not solve CAPTCHAs. Akamai bot challenges are handled by rotating to clean proxy IPs, not by breaking security controls. Users are responsible for complying with Apartments.com's Terms of Service and applicable law when using extracted data.

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