StreetEasy Scraper: NYC Rental Listings & Brokerage Data

Scrape streeteasy.com NYC rental listings across all five boroughs and export address, neighborhood, ZIP, latitude/longitude, price, net-effective rent, beds/baths, square footage, building type, broker, no-fee status, photos and full price history as clean structured JSON. It calls StreetEasy's own internal GraphQL endpoint server-side with no browser, so a run is fast and cheap even at scale.

Built for NYC real-estate investors, relocation and rental agencies, buy-box and comp analysts, and lead-generation teams who want StreetEasy coverage alongside Zillow/Redfin data.

Main use cases

• NYC rental market research: track asking rents, net-effective rents and inventory across boroughs and neighborhoods.
• Rental price monitoring: schedule recurring snapshots to catch price drops (priceDelta), concessions (monthsFree) and no-fee (noFee) listings.
• Real estate lead generation: pull the broker/brokerage label from active listings for outreach and partner research.
• Build a NYC rental database / property dataset: warehouse StreetEasy rentals with geo-coordinates, building type and price history.
• Buy-box and comps analysis: filter by price, beds and baths to line up comparables across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and more.
• Relocation and apartment search tooling: power your own apartment-search UI with fresh StreetEasy listings and photos.

How it works

StreetEasy's Next.js frontend queries its own internal GraphQL endpoint, and this actor calls that same endpoint server-side. There is no browser and no HTML scraping: search pages and detail records come back as clean JSON.

• Endpoint: POST https://api-v6.streeteasy.com/
• Search: searchRentals(input: {...}), paged with perPage / page, filtered by numeric areas codes plus price, beds and baths.
• Details: rentalByListingId(id: ...) for description, amenities, all photo and floor-plan keys, the building record (ZIP) and propertyHistory.rentalEventsOfInterest (price history).
• Photos: https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/{key}-se_large_800_400.webp (public CDN, not bot-walled).

Rentals are fully supported. Sales are a best-effort probe of a mirrored endpoint; if the server rejects it, the run logs a warning and continues rentals-only.

Extract NYC Rental Listings For Market Research

Every rental search returns listing cards that the actor maps into one dataset row each: listing id and URL, street address and unit, neighborhood and borough, city/state/ZIP (with detail enrichment), latitude/longitude, current price and net-effective rent, concession months free and no-fee flag, last price change, bedrooms, full and half bathrooms, square feet, building type, broker label, status, availability date, photos and (with enrichment) description, amenities, floor plans and price history.

You provide one or more areas (areas, e.g. MANHATTAN, Williamsburg, park-slope-brooklyn, or numeric area ids) plus optional price/bed/bath filters.

Build A NYC Rental Database Without A StreetEasy API

StreetEasy has no public rental API, and its www.streeteasy.com HTML pages sit behind PerimeterX (a plain HTTP fetch gets a 403 challenge page). This actor sidesteps both by calling the internal api-v6.streeteasy.com GraphQL endpoint the site's own frontend uses, carrying the frontend's headers (Origin: https://streeteasy.com, Apollographql-Client-Name: srp-frontend-service, a browser User-Agent) and valid PerimeterX cookies (_px3, _pxvid).

A critical quirk: enum values are sent as plain JSON strings inside variables.input (for example "rentalStatus": "ACTIVE", "attribute": "LISTED_AT"), which is exactly how the current StreetEasy frontend calls api-v6.

Anti-bot handling (PerimeterX): PX signs its _px3 cookie to the egress IP and User-Agent. On fresh residential exit IPs the API accepts requests without cookies; datacenter IPs get a 403 challenge regardless. The actor therefore:

1. Rotates the session (fresh exit IP) on every blocked response and retries.
2. If the API starts returning 403, attempts a one-shot PX cookie bootstrap by loading the public StreetEasy HTML page through the same exit IP with got-scraping; if PX blocks the HTML too, it falls back to IP rotation only.
3. Optionally accepts manually pasted browser cookies (cookies) as a fallback.

For reliable runs, enable Apify Proxy (residential group) in the input and raise maxRequestRetries if needed.

Known limitations

• Rentals are fully supported; sales depend on an undocumented endpoint and may fall back to rentals-only.
• Broker contact details (phone/email) are not exposed by the internal API, only the brokerage label.
• api-v6.streeteasy.com is an internal, unpublished endpoint with no stability guarantee; if StreetEasy changes the schema, the actor's GraphQL layer is the single place to update.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
areas	array (stringList)	Yes	["MANHATTAN"]	StreetEasy neighborhoods or boroughs, e.g. Manhattan, Williamsburg, Chelsea, Astoria, Park Slope. Numeric area ids are also accepted.
listingType	string (enum)	No	rentals	rentals (full support), sales or both (best-effort probe; falls back to rentals-only).
maxItems	integer	No	100	Maximum listings to return (1 to 5000). Free users are capped at 10 items per run.
minPrice	integer	No	-	Minimum monthly rent (or sale price) filter.
maxPrice	integer	No	-	Maximum monthly rent (or sale price) filter.
minBeds	integer	No	-	Minimum bedroom count (0 = studio).
maxBeds	integer	No	-	Maximum bedroom count.
minBaths	integer	No	-	Minimum bathroom count.
maxBaths	integer	No	-	Maximum bathroom count.
enrichDetails	boolean	No	false	Fetch each listing's detail record (ZIP code, description, amenities, all photos, floor plans, price history). One extra request per listing, roughly triples run time.
listingIds	array (stringList)	No	-	Specific rental ids or URLs (e.g. 4808197 or https://streeteasy.com/rental/4808197) to enrich directly.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	No	500	Safety cap on total API requests (search pages plus detail fetches).
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	10	Retries per request (0 to 100). Each retry rotates to a fresh proxy session/IP and re-acquires PX cookies. Raise if runs return little data.
cookies	string	No	-	Optional fallback: paste the full Cookie header from a working streeteasy.com browser session. The actor normally self-bootstraps PX cookies per proxy IP.
proxy	object (proxy)	No	Apify proxy, RESIDENTIAL group	Residential proxy strongly recommended. PerimeterX blocks datacenter IPs regardless of cookies.

Output Fields

One dataset item per listing. The default overview view shows Address, Neighborhood, Price, Beds, Baths, Sqft, Broker and URL.

Field	Type	Description
listingId	string	StreetEasy numeric listing id.
listingType	string	rental or sale.
listingUrl	string / null	Canonical StreetEasy listing URL.
urlPath	string / null	Listing path on streeteasy.com.
address	string / null	Street plus unit, e.g. 160 West 24th Street #3N.
unit	string / null	Unit / apartment number.
street	string / null	Street address.
neighborhood	string / null	StreetEasy area name, e.g. Chelsea.
borough	string / null	Borough derived from the area code.
city	string / null	City (detail enrichment only).
state	string / null	State (detail enrichment only).
zipCode	string / null	ZIP code (detail enrichment only).
latitude	number / null	Listing latitude.
longitude	number / null	Listing longitude.
price	number / null	Current list price ($/mo for rentals).
netEffectivePrice	number / null	Net-effective rent after concessions.
noFee	boolean / null	Whether the listing is no-fee.
monthsFree	number / null	Concession months free, if any.
priceDelta	number / null	Last price change amount.
bedrooms	number / null	Bedroom count (0 = studio).
bathroomsFull	number / null	Full bathrooms.
bathroomsHalf	number / null	Half bathrooms.
sqft	number / null	Living area in square feet (null when not listed).
buildingType	string / null	Building type, e.g. RENTAL, CONDO, CO_OP.
broker	string / null	Brokerage/agent label from the listing source.
sourceType	string / null	Listing source type.
status	string / null	Listing status (ACTIVE, ...).
availableAt	string / null	Availability date.
description	string / null	Full listing description (detail enrichment only).
amenities	array	Amenity and feature codes (detail enrichment only).
photos	array	Photo URLs (Zillow CDN).
floorPlans	array	Floor-plan image URLs (detail enrichment only).
priceHistory	array	Price/status events {date, price, event} (detail enrichment only).
areaName	string / null	Raw StreetEasy area name.
scrapedAt	string	Row timestamp (ISO).

Fields that require detail enrichment (zipCode, description, amenities, floorPlans, priceHistory and the extra photos) are null/empty when enrichDetails is false or the detail fetch fails; the search-level row is still returned.

Example Input And Output

Input

{
  "areas": ["Williamsburg", "Astoria"],
  "listingType": "rentals",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPrice": 5000,
  "minBeds": 1,
  "enrichDetails": true
}

Output (one dataset row)

{
  "listingId": "4808197",
  "listingType": "rental",
  "listingUrl": "https://streeteasy.com/rental/4808197",
  "urlPath": "/rental/4808197",
  "address": "160 West 24th Street #3N",
  "unit": "3N",
  "street": "160 West 24th Street",
  "neighborhood": "Chelsea",
  "borough": "Manhattan",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "zipCode": "10011",
  "latitude": 40.74419,
  "longitude": -73.99374,
  "price": 5200,
  "netEffectivePrice": 4766,
  "noFee": true,
  "monthsFree": 1,
  "priceDelta": -200,
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathroomsFull": 1,
  "bathroomsHalf": 0,
  "sqft": 720,
  "buildingType": "RENTAL",
  "broker": "Corcoran Group",
  "sourceType": "broker",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "availableAt": "2026-11-01",
  "description": "Sunny one-bedroom with southern exposure ...",
  "amenities": ["ELEVATOR", "LAUNDRY_IN_UNIT", "GYM"],
  "photos": ["https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/....-se_large_800_400.webp"],
  "floorPlans": [],
  "priceHistory": [{ "date": "2026-10-01", "price": 5400, "event": "LISTED" }],
  "areaName": "chelsea",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-11T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Integrations & Automation

Every Apify actor is reachable through the Apify API, and this one plugs into webhooks, Zapier and Make so results can flow into a Google Sheet, Airtable base, CRM or data warehouse. For rental price monitoring and market research, run it on a schedule: a daily or weekly snapshot of your target neighborhoods is enough to catch new listings, price drops and concessions, and recurring runs also improve the actor's Store recommendation signals.

Related Actors

• zillow-scraper: the largest US listings scraper; pairs StreetEasy rentals with broad national coverage.
• zillow-detail-scraper: adds full Zillow detail pages for listings StreetEasy does not expose.
• zumper-scraper: US rental listings to complement StreetEasy's NYC inventory.
• century21-scraper: another US real-estate source for a multi-portal property database.
• coldwellbanker-scraper: brokerage-level US listings with agent and office data.

FAQ

Is there an official StreetEasy API?

No. StreetEasy (a Zillow brand) does not publish a public rental API, and its HTML pages are protected by PerimeterX. This actor reads StreetEasy's own internal GraphQL endpoint directly, so you get structured rentals without an API key and without a browser.

What are the alternatives to this actor / this data source?

For NYC rental data you can combine this with Zillow, Zumper, Realtor.com or HotPads scrapers. StreetEasy is the most NYC-focused of these, so it is worth having alongside the national portals to widen coverage of active rentals, brokerages and price history.

How do I get NYC rental price history and no-fee data at scale?

Set enrichDetails to true and provide your areas plus any price/bed/bath filters. The actor follows search pagination automatically, then enriches each listing to return priceHistory, netEffectivePrice, monthsFree, noFee and priceDelta alongside price, size and geo-coordinates.

Does StreetEasy block scrapers?

StreetEasy uses PerimeterX, which blocks datacenter IPs with a 403 challenge even with valid cookies. This actor avoids that by rotating to fresh residential exit IP sessions and optionally bootstrapping PX cookies, so enable the residential Apify proxy group in production runs.

Best way to monitor NYC rent prices by neighborhood?

Schedule this actor daily or weekly against your target neighborhoods and store each run's dataset. Comparing runs over time gives you new-listing, rent-change and concession trends without manual checks.

Why are zipCode, description and price history null?

Those fields live on the per-listing detail record. They are returned only when enrichDetails is true (roughly one extra request per listing, which triples run time). Leave it off for fast basic rows.

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: return one structured NYC rental-listing row per StreetEasy listing for a given set of areas and optional price/bed/bath filters.

Minimal working input:

{ "areas": ["MANHATTAN"], "maxItems": 20 }

Variant input (enrich a specific listing, or search sales):

{ "listingIds": ["4808197"], "enrichDetails": true }

Output fields: listingId, listingType, listingUrl, urlPath, address, unit, street, neighborhood, borough, city, state, zipCode, latitude, longitude, price, netEffectivePrice, noFee, monthsFree, priceDelta, bedrooms, bathroomsFull, bathroomsHalf, sqft, buildingType, broker, sourceType, status, availableAt, description, amenities, photos, floorPlans, priceHistory, areaName, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• areas is the only required field; it accepts neighborhood or borough names, or numeric StreetEasy area ids.
• listingType defaults to rentals. sales/both are best-effort and may fall back to rentals-only; an unsupported sales probe does not fail the run.
• maxItems defaults to 100; free-plan runs are capped at 10 listings regardless.
• Detail-only fields (zipCode, description, amenities, floorPlans, priceHistory, extra photos) are null/empty unless enrichDetails is true. Do not treat their absence as a failure.
• listingIds, when set, enriches those specific listings directly and does not require areas.
• Enable the residential proxy for production; without residential IPs PerimeterX returns 403.

Billing: pay-per-event: $0.0015 per result ($1.50 / 1,000 listings) via the apify-default-dataset-item event, an additional $0.001 per listing ($1.00 / 1,000) full-details event when enrichDetails is on, plus a $0.00005 actor-start event.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by StreetEasy or Zillow Group. It accesses only publicly available StreetEasy / StreetEasy API surfaces; it does not log in, bypass authentication, or solve CAPTCHAs on anyone's behalf. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with StreetEasy's Terms of Service and with applicable data-protection law.