AmberStudent Accommodation Scraper

Extracts detailed student accommodation listings from AmberStudent — property name, weekly pricing, availability, photos, videos, address/location, amenities, tags, reviews and more — from either a city/area search page or an individual property listing page. Outputs structured JSON (exportable to CSV/Excel) with a full property record per row.

Target website: amberstudent.com

✨ Features

• Accommodation listing extraction — captures property name, canonical slug, pricing (currency, weekly min/max price), availability, photos, videos, full address and coordinates, amenities, tags, review rating/count, metadata and the external provider source link.
• Pagination support — automatically follows next page on city/area search results to keep collecting listings until the per-URL item limit is reached.
• Budget-aware crawl — respects maxItems per start URL and stops queueing once the limit is reached.
• Cross-run deduplication caching — optional projectName skips accommodation records already scraped in an earlier run, so repeated runs never re-scrape or re-charge you for the same data.

🔧 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	✅	https://amberstudent.com/places/search/arncliffe-1811238362366	AmberStudent city or area search URLs, or individual property (listing) URLs, to start crawling from.
maxItems	integer	✅	3	Maximum number of items to scrape per start URL.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Proxy configuration to use for requests. Defaults to no proxy to minimize run costs.
projectName	string	—	(empty)	Optional. Enables cross-run caching: set the same name across runs to skip records already scraped (empty = no deduplication).

Supported URL types:

• City / area search pages, e.g. https://amberstudent.com/places/search/sydney-1811019193619
• Neighbourhood search pages, e.g. https://amberstudent.com/places/search/arncliffe-1811238362366
• Individual property (detail) pages, e.g. https://amberstudent.com/places/room-in-a-5-bed-apartment-hocking-avenue-earlwood-australia-nsw-2206-2507183612970

📦 Output

The dataset exposes 1 view, overview, a compact table of the main listing fields.

Sample output:

{
  "id": 3617491,
  "name": "Dulwich Hill, Sydney",
  "canonical_name": "dulwich-hill-sydney-2608033251041",
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "aud",
    "duration": "weekly",
    "min_price": 160,
    "max_price": 300,
    "min_available_price": 160,
    "max_available_price": 300,
    "refundable_token": 50
  },
  "available": true,
  "images": [
    {
      "path": "https://assets.amberstudent.com/inventories/3617510/0129dc3c.webp",
      "type": "bedroom",
      "blurred": false,
      "caption": "Private Room - Bedroom",
      "category": "bedroom",
      "featured": true,
      "base_path": "https://assets.amberstudent.com/inventories/3617510/0129dc3c.webp",
      "watermark_present": false
    },
    {
      "path": "https://assets.amberstudent.com/inventories/3617491/556bd25c.webp",
      "type": "common_area",
      "blurred": true,
      "caption": "Common Area",
      "category": "common_area",
      "base_path": "https://assets.amberstudent.com/inventories/3617491/556bd25c.webp",
      "watermark_present": false
    }
  ],
  "videos": [
    {
      "path": "https://videos.amberstudent.com/res/videos/94144114.mp4?h=720",
      "type": "tour",
      "caption": "Property Tour",
      "duration": "",
      "platform": "gumlet",
      "upload_date": "2026-08-10",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://videos.amberstudent.com/res/videos/94144114.mp4?h=720&thumbnail=true&thumbnail-height=300"
    }
  ],
  "location": {
    "name": "407 Marrickville Rd",
    "primary": "407 Marrickville Rd",
    "secondary": "Dulwich Hill NSW 2203, Australia",
    "route": {
      "long_name": "Marrickville Road",
      "short_name": "Marrickville Rd"
    },
    "country": {
      "long_name": "Australia",
      "short_name": "AU"
    },
    "state": {
      "long_name": "New South Wales",
      "short_name": "NSW"
    },
    "locality": {
      "long_name": "Dulwich Hill",
      "short_name": "Dulwich Hill"
    },
    "district": {
      "long_name": "Inner West Council",
      "short_name": "Inner West Council"
    },
    "postal_code": {
      "long_name": "2203",
      "short_name": "2203"
    },
    "street_number": {
      "long_name": "407",
      "short_name": "407"
    },
    "location_bounds": {
      "northeast": {
        "lat": -33.904689019708506,
        "lng": 151.1467995302915
      },
      "southwest": {
        "lat": -33.907386980291506,
        "lng": 151.1441015697085
      }
    },
    "location_coordinates": {
      "lat": -33.9059386,
      "lng": 151.1455902
    },
    "location_place_id": "EjU0MDcgTWFycmlja3ZpbGxlIFJkLCBEdWx3aWNoIEhpbGwgTlNXIDIyMDMsIEF1c3RyYWxpYSIxEi8KFAoSCUsZZZ15sBJrEbWh4FBNxdGsEJcDKhQKEglbNvDpZLASaxHfSRsshfQ0fA"
  },
  "tags": [
    "social_events",
    "bills_included"
  ],
  "features": [
    {
      "name": "Bills Included",
      "type": "bills_included",
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "Electricity",
          "type": "Electricity",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/electricity.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Water",
          "type": "Water",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/water.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Gas",
          "type": "Gas",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/gas.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Wifi",
          "type": "Wifi",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/wifi.svg"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Property Services",
      "type": "property_services",
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "10 Minute Walk/3 Minute Bike Ride to Dulwich Hill Train Station",
          "type": "location_benefit",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/bicycle.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Free Daily Breakfast",
          "type": "comon_service",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/breakfast-bar.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Full Time Staff Provided",
          "type": "on_site_maintenance_team",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/reception-staff.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Common Kitchen Cleaned Every Day",
          "type": "housekeeping",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/common-service.svg"
        },
        {
          "name": "Bathrooms Twice a Week",
          "type": "housekeeping",
          "icon": "https://prod-static-assets.amberstudent.com/images/bathroom.svg"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meta_short": {
    "cro_tags": {
      "is_student_choice": "false",
      "is_amber_exclusive": "false",
      "is_filling_fast_v2": "false",
      "is_immediate_move_in": "false",
      "is_breakfast_included": "false",
      "is_property_of_the_day": "false"
    },
    "total_virtual_views_count": 0,
    "total_videos_count": 1,
    "is_partnered": true,
    "payment": true,
    "lease_duration_unit": "week",
    "guarantor_required": "information_unavailable",
    "unit_type": "apartment"
  },
  "destination_distances": [],
  "source_link": "https://www.comodohomes.com/dulwich-hill",
  "inventory_featured_image_path": "https://assets.amberstudent.com/inventories/3617510/0129dc3c.webp",
  "active_children_count": 2,
  "provider_id": 12778
}

💡 Uses of This Data

• Campus-adjacent accommodation discovery and shortlisting
• Comparing weekly prices, room types, and availability across amenities
• Monitoring student housing supply and availability over time
• Mapping accommodation close to specific universities and transport hubs

🚀 How to Use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account — includes $5 monthly credit.
2. Open the actor page and click Try for free.
3. Fill in the Input fields (at least one start URL is required).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to complete.
5. Download results from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

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⚠️ Limitations & Known Issues

• Rate limiting — The target site rate-limits requests by IP during sustained high-volume runs. For large-scale scraping, insert delays or use a proxy to avoid temporary blocks.

📝 Notes

• Cross-run deduplication prevents extra charges — Set the same projectName on every run and the actor remembers which accommodation records it has already scraped (keyed by the record's canonical name, stored per account). Later runs skip those records entirely, so you only pay to scrape genuinely new accommodations and never re-run cost on data you already collected. To start over on a project, simply use a new or different projectName.
• Proxy recommended for large-scale scraping — For high-volume runs, enable an Apify Residential or Datacenter proxy to avoid IP-based rate limiting.
• API integration — This actor can be called as an API from any automation platform (Zapier, Make, n8n, custom scripts).

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