🏘️ Hotpads Rental Scraper — Apartments, Houses & Rental Listings With Lead Scores

Extract rental listings from Hotpads.com — one of the largest US rental marketplaces (Zillow-owned) covering apartments, houses, condos, townhomes and rooms. Search any US city with filters for rent, bedrooms, pet policy and property type, and get back clean, structured listings with pricing, beds, photos, verification badges and a 0–100 lead score on every result. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🏘️ What is the Hotpads Rental Scraper?

It turns any Hotpads rental search into a structured dataset. Give it a city (san-francisco-ca, new-york-ny, …) and optional filters for price, bedrooms, pets and property type, and it paginates through the available results up to your cap, returning source-provided listing fields — so property managers, investors, relocation services and rental aggregators can monitor pricing and availability without manual browsing. You can also paste exact Hotpads listing URLs in direct_urls mode to pull richer per-listing detail (baths, square footage, amenities, description and contact phone).

What data does it extract?

• Rent price range (price_min, price_max) and bedroom range (beds_min, beds_max)
• Property/building name and full address
• Building type and property type
• Verification badge (is_verified), 3D tour (has_3d_tour) and special offer (has_special_offer) flags
• Units available and photo URLs
• Lead score (0–100) ranking listing quality
• Listing URL, source and scrape timestamp
• Direct-URL mode extras: bathrooms, square footage, amenities list, description and contact phone

⬇️ Input

Run it two ways — search a city with filters, or pass exact listing URLs:

Field	Description
mode	search (by city + filters) or direct_urls
location	City and state, e.g. san-francisco-ca, new-york-ny, chicago-il
propertyType	apartments-for-rent, houses-for-rent, condos-for-rent, townhomes-for-rent, rooms-for-rent
minPrice / maxPrice	Monthly rent range
minBeds / maxBeds	Bedroom range (0 = studio)
petsAllowed	dogs, cats, dogs,cats, or blank for any
listingUrls	Exact Hotpads listing URLs (for direct_urls mode)
maxListings	Cap the run (1–1000)
includePhotos	Extract photo URLs (default on)

Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "location": "san-francisco-ca",
  "propertyType": "apartments-for-rent",
  "minPrice": 2000,
  "maxPrice": 4500,
  "minBeds": 1,
  "maxBeds": 2,
  "petsAllowed": "dogs,cats",
  "maxListings": 100,
  "includePhotos": true
}

⬆️ Output

Selected fields from a real San Francisco result checked on September 5, 2026:

{
  "listing_id": "skfw2p",
  "name": "1190 Mission at Trinity Place",
  "url": "https://hotpads.com/1190-mission-at-trinity-place-san-francisco-ca-94103-skfw2p/pad",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "state": "CA",
  "zipcode": "94103",
  "price_min": 3769,
  "price_max": 4099,
  "beds_min": 1,
  "beds_max": 1,
  "units_available": 1,
  "lead_score": 73,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-05T11:49:16.729977+00:00"
}

Search filters select buildings or listings on HotPads. A returned building's price_min/price_max and bedroom ranges can cover all of its units, including units outside your filters. These are the source's ranges; the Actor does not clamp them or invent matching-unit prices. Open the source listing to confirm a particular unit's availability.

A row is a listing or building, not necessarily one vacant apartment. units_available, badges, contact fields, photos and amenities reflect what the current page exposes. Missing values stay empty or null. The lead score is a heuristic, not a verification of suitability, ownership or investment return.

Pricing and reliability

The Free-tier result price is $0.01 per saved listing. At 512 MB, a run starts with a $0.00005 event; larger memory settings charge one start event per GB, minimum one. Three rows cost $0.03005, and 45 rows cost $0.45005, before plan discounts. Contact fields and photos have no additional Actor event charge. An empty result still incurs the start event.

Use maxListings and Apify's maximum run charge to bound cost. Start with three listings while testing filters. A genuine no-match search returns an empty dataset; a blocked page or unrecognized response fails the run. The Actor keeps the requested city and filters and does not substitute another market.

Current HotPads access needs residential routing with bounded retries. September 5 cloud checks covered filtered San Francisco results, New York, two-page pagination, a direct listing and a genuine empty search. Some cases needed retries; these checks are not a long-term reliability guarantee. Inspect the run log and status, especially before importing a partial dataset after a failure.

💡 Use cases

• 🏢 Property managers: monitor competitor rents, availability and amenities across a metro to price your units right.
• 💰 Real-estate investors: find rental properties, benchmark yields and spot premium buildings worth analysing.
• 🚚 Relocation & moving services: help clients find rentals in a new city and generate warm leads from active searchers.
• 📊 Market research & aggregators: track rental trends over time and build comprehensive rental databases.

🧮 How the lead score works

A transparent 0–100 score combining verification (verified listings score higher), listing features (3D tour, special offer), availability (units available) and price point (premium rentals score higher as leads for agents and managers). Use it to sort and work the strongest listings first.

❓ FAQ

How do I scrape Hotpads rentals? Pick a location (city-state slug like san-francisco-ca) and optional filters for price, beds, pets and property type, then Run. You get structured listings with pricing, beds, photos, verification and a lead score.

How do I format the location? Use the city and state as a lowercase slug, e.g. new-york-ny, los-angeles-ca, chicago-il, houston-tx — it matches the Hotpads URL path. Works with any US city on Hotpads.

Can I scrape specific listing URLs? Yes — set mode: direct_urls and paste Hotpads listing URLs in listingUrls. Detail pages also return bathrooms, square footage, amenities, description and contact phone where available.

Can I filter for pet-friendly rentals? Yes — set petsAllowed to dogs, cats or dogs,cats.

Do I need an API key? No. It reads public Hotpads listing data — just give it a location and filters.

What does the lead score mean? It is a 0–100 quality score (verification, features, availability, price) so you can rank the best listings first. Higher means a stronger, more complete listing.

How many listings can it return? Up to your maxListings cap; it paginates automatically through the search results.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

Is scraping Hotpads legal? It extracts publicly available rental listing data. Use it responsibly for market research and lead generation, and follow applicable laws and Hotpads' terms.

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