Pararius Scraper [$1/1K💰] | Dutch Rentals | Expat Housing

Pararius NL Scraper

Scrape Pararius.nl — the Netherlands' largest rental platform — for complete Dutch rental listings: monthly rent, m², rooms, furnishing, energy label, availability dates, deposit, letting agent (makelaar) and full photo galleries across Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and every Dutch city.

Built for expat and relocation teams, rental price monitoring, Dutch real-estate market research and agencies building structured rental databases.

Monitor Dutch Rental Prices and Build Expat Housing Datasets

• Rental price monitoring — track asking rents per city, neighbourhood, property type or furnishing level on a schedule.
• Expat & relocation research — English-first listings with furnished/semi-furnished filters, availability dates and m² for assignee housing.
• Market intelligence — analyse supply, energy labels, year built, deposits and days-on-market across Dutch cities.
• Letting-agent (makelaar) leads — every listing carries the letting agent's name and Pararius profile URL.
• Structured rental database — 28 normalized fields per listing plus the full Dutch features table, exportable as JSON/CSV/Excel.
• Portfolio & comps — feed comparable rental evidence into valuations or rent-setting models.

How It Works

The Actor calls the same search XHR the Pararius frontend uses, 30 listings per page, then opens detail pages for their RealEstateListing JSON-LD and Dutch features table. Apify Unblocker proxies solve Cloudflare automatically.

Each row covers one listing with rent, address, rooms, surface, furnishing, availability, deposit, build year, energy label, features, agent profile, photos and coordinates.

No browser is launched. The Actor reads two structured surfaces:

1. Search pages via Pararius' own JSON endpoint — the same XHR the site's frontend makes (card data for up to 30 listings per page), following pagination up to maxPagesPerSearch.
2. Detail pages via embedded JSON-LD — each listing's RealEstateListing structured-data block plus the Dutch features table (Overdracht / Bouw / Oppervlakte en aantal kamers …) supply availability, postcode, rooms, m², furnishing, energy label, agent profile and the photo gallery.

Pararius sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge; the Actor routes traffic through Apify's Unblocker proxies (which solve it automatically) and falls back to residential proxies on accounts without Unblocker access. Results are deduplicated — one record per listing.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
searchUrls	array	No	Amsterdam rentals	Pararius search URLs, including filtered URLs (price / rooms / interior). Pagination followed automatically.
listingUrls	array	No	[]	Direct listing-detail URLs to scrape specific listings only. English pararius.com listing URLs are supported here.
fetchDetails	boolean	No	true	Visit each listing's detail page for the full record. false = search-card data only (faster/cheaper; each detail page is a billed event).
maxListings	integer	No	50	Max listings per run (hard cap 1000).
maxPagesPerSearch	integer	No	3	Pagination depth per search URL (30 listings per page; max 50 pages).
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy (auto)	Pararius requires Unblocker proxies; leave as-is unless you use your own.

Output Fields

Default dataset — one item per listing (28 fields):

Field	Description
listingId, url, title	Canonical Pararius listing identity
propertyType	Appartement / huis / studio / kamer …
price	Monthly rent (EUR, parsed number + raw text)
address	Street, postcode, city, district/neighborhood
rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms	Counts
surfaceM2	Living surface in m²
furnishing	Gemeubileerd / gestoffeerd / kaal …
interiorFeatures	Interior detail list
availableFrom, availabilityText	Availability (ISO where published; raw text like "Per direct" otherwise)
offeredSince, status, datePosted	Listing lifecycle
yearBuilt, energyLabel, floorLevel	Building details
deposit	Security deposit (EUR)
featuresTable	Full Dutch features table (Overdracht / Bouw / Oppervlakte en kamers …)
agent	Letting agent name + Pararius profile URL
photos	Full gallery URLs from the detail page
geo	Latitude/longitude when provided
isFeatured, labels, scrapedAt	Flags and timestamp

Example Input

{
  "searchUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.pararius.nl/huurwoningen/amsterdam/1500-2500/2-kamers" }],
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxListings": 100,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 5
}

Specific listings only (English site URLs also work):

{
  "listingUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.pararius.nl/appartement-te-huur/amsterdam/40454c82/street" }],
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example Output

{
  "listingId": "40454c82",
  "url": "https://www.pararius.nl/appartement-te-huur/amsterdam/40454c82/street",
  "title": "Modern 2-bedroom apartment near Vondelpark",
  "propertyType": "Appartement",
  "address": "StreetName 12, 1054 XX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland",
  "price": 2150,
  "rooms": 3,
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "surfaceM2": 78,
  "furnishing": "Gemeubileerd",
  "availableFrom": "2026-11-01",
  "availabilityText": "Per 1 november 2026",
  "offeredSince": "2026-10-10",
  "status": "Available",
  "yearBuilt": 1964,
  "energyLabel": "A",
  "floorLevel": "3",
  "deposit": 2150,
  "featuresTable": { "Overdracht": { "Vraagprijs": "€ 2.150 p.m." }, "Bouw": { "Soort": "Appartement" } },
  "agent": { "name": "Example Makelaardij", "profileUrl": "https://www.pararius.nl/makelaar/example" },
  "photos": ["https://media.pararius.nl/…"],
  "geo": { "lat": 52.3611, "lon": 4.8736 },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Automate Rental Monitoring With Schedules & Webhooks

• Schedule daily or twice-daily runs on filtered search URLs (per city, price band, furnishing) to catch new listings and price changes first.
• Webhooks push each finished run into Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier or Make the moment new rental data lands.
• API — start runs and download datasets programmatically for pipeline integration.
• Cost control — set a maximum cost per run; the Actor stops gracefully when the limit is reached.

Related Actors

Verified related actors on Apify that pair well with this one. All links point to real, publicly available actors.

• Zillow Search Scraper
• ImmoScout24 Scraper — .de/.ch/.at + Price-Cut Archive
• Funda Scraper
• Pararius.nl Scraper
• Rightmove Scraper — UK Property & Sold Prices

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Pararius have an official API?

No. Pararius (Pararius B.V., Amsterdam) publishes no public API — only the website. The Actor uses the same structured surfaces the site itself serves to visitors: the JSON search XHR the frontend calls and the JSON-LD RealEstateListing block embedded in each listing page. Paid third-party "Pararius APIs" exist, but they are resold scrapers of the same public site; this Actor keeps that pipeline inside Apify with pay-per-event pricing and no separate API subscription.

What is the best way to monitor Dutch rental prices?

Point searchUrls at filtered Pararius search pages (city + price band + rooms, e.g. /huuurwoningen/amsterdam/1500-2500/2-kamers), set fetchDetails: false for a cheap price/supply snapshot, and schedule the run daily or twice daily. Turn fetchDetails on for full records when you need m², energy label and furnishing.

How is Pararius different from Funda?

Funda dominates Dutch sales listings; Pararius leads the rental market and is the go-to platform for expats (English-first interface, furnished filters). For full Dutch coverage, pair this Actor with the Funda Scraper linked above.

Can I scrape English-language listings?

Yes. Listing-detail URLs from the English site (pararius.com) are supported through the listingUrls input; the Dutch site (pararius.nl) is used for search crawls.

How much does a run cost?

Pay per event: $1 per 1,000 listings, plus $4 per 1,000 detail pages when fetchDetails is on. 100 listings with full details cost 100 × ($0.001 + $0.004) = $0.50. Free accounts get a capped preview run; paying accounts get the full configured run.

Can an AI agent call this Actor?

Yes — it runs through the Apify API and MCP server with JSON input. See For AI Agents & LLM Apps for the minimal call, output fields and billing rules.

Does the output include letting-agent (makelaar) contact data?

Each listing includes the letting agent's name and their Pararius profile URL. Contact details beyond that depend on what the agent publishes publicly on Pararius.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Returns Dutch rental listings from Pararius.nl: rent, address/postcode, rooms, m², furnishing, energy label, availability, deposit, agent and photos.

Minimal input (Amsterdam rentals, full details):

{ "searchUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.pararius.nl/huurwoningen/amsterdam" }], "maxListings": 25 }

Variant input (card-only price monitoring, no detail fetches):

{ "searchUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.pararius.nl/huurwoningen/rotterdam/0-1500" }], "fetchDetails": false, "maxListings": 200 }

Output fields: listingId, url, title, propertyType, price, address, rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, surfaceM2, furnishing, interiorFeatures, availableFrom, availabilityText, offeredSince, status, yearBuilt, energyLabel, floorLevel, deposit, featuresTable, agent, photos, geo, isFeatured, labels, datePosted, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• searchUrls and listingUrls are alternative entry points (search crawl vs. specific listings).
• fetchDetails: true (default) adds one billed detail-page event ($4/1K) per listing; false returns search-card fields only.
• maxListings hard cap is 1000; maxPagesPerSearch max is 50 at 30 listings per page.
• Leave proxyConfiguration untouched: the Actor routes through Unblocker proxies to pass Pararius' Cloudflare challenge by default.
• English pararius.com URLs work only through listingUrls.
• Free accounts receive a capped preview run; paid accounts run the full configuration.

Billing: pay per event — $0.001 per listing, $0.004 per fetched detail page.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Pararius B.V. or pararius.nl. It accesses only publicly available listing pages — no login, no authenticated areas; the Cloudflare interstitial is handled through Apify's standard Unblocker proxy product rather than by breaking into protected account areas. Listing and agent data returned are whatever Pararius publishes to any visitor. You are responsible for your own compliance with Pararius' Terms of Service and with applicable data-protection law (including GDPR where natural persons' data may appear in listing descriptions or agent records); do not use personal contact data from the output for unsolicited commercial outreach in violation of applicable law such as GDPR, CAN-SPAM or TCPA.

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