Casita Student Accommodation Scraper

Scrapes student accommodation listings from Casita, a global student housing marketplace. For each property it extracts the name, address, city/country, provider, pricing, rating, facilities, and every room type with its description and images. Output is a structured JSON dataset, also downloadable as CSV or Excel.

Target website: casita.com

⚖️ Legality of this actor

This actor only collects data that is already publicly visible on Casita's listing and property pages — no login, paywall, or private account content is accessed. Scraping publicly available data is generally considered legal (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn). You are responsible for complying with Casita's Terms of Service and any applicable data protection laws (e.g. GDPR/CCPA) when using this data.

💡 Use Case

Student housing platforms, relocation services, and market researchers who need structured, up-to-date accommodation listings and pricing across cities and countries without manually browsing Casita.

🏭 Industry

Real Estate, Education & EdTech, Travel & Hospitality, Market Research

📤 Output

A structured JSON dataset (exportable to CSV/Excel) with one record per property: id, name, address, url, country, city, provider, priceStructure, minPrice, rating, totalRooms, latitude, longitude, description, facilities, rooms (array with per-room name, description, area, images), and images.

🌐 Domain

Student accommodation listing extraction (Casita)

🏷️ Label

casita, student-accommodation, real-estate-scraper, property-scraper, housing-data

✨ Features

• Property listing extraction — name, address, pricing, rating, facilities, room types, and images for every accommodation
• Automatic URL detection — give it a city search URL or a direct property URL, it detects and handles both
• Pagination support — automatically follows every search-results page for a city
• Whole-site crawl mode — optionally crawl every country and city Casita lists, instead of only your start URLs
• Run-to-run caching — optionally skip properties already scraped in a previous run under the same project name
• Proxy support — works without a proxy by default; datacenter/residential proxies can be enabled if needed

🔧 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	✅	—	Casita city search URLs or property detail URLs. Type is detected automatically.
maxItems	integer	—	3	Max properties to scrape per start URL (or per city, in whole-site mode).
scrapeWholeSite	boolean	—	false	Ignore Start URLs and crawl every country/city on Casita's sitemap.
cacheProjectName	string	—	—	Optional. Skips properties already scraped under this name in a previous run.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	no proxy	Standard Apify proxy configuration.

Supported URL types:

• Search (city) page: https://www.casita.com/student-accommodation/australia/sydney
• Property detail page: https://www.casita.com/student-accommodation/1795-link2-sydney-sydney-australia

📦 Output

1 output view (Overview) showing a compact table of name, city, country, provider, minPrice, rating, and url for each property.

Sample output:

{
    "id": 755,
    "name": "Scape Sydney Central",
    "address": "483 Wattle Street, Ultimo, NSW, 2007",
    "url": "https://www.casita.com/student-accommodation/755-scape-sydney-central-sydney-australia",
    "country": "Australia",
    "city": "Sydney",
    "provider": "Scape Australia",
    "priceStructure": "Week",
    "minPrice": { "amount": "AU$489", "period": "Week", "currency": "AU$" },
    "rating": 3.6,
    "totalRooms": 1,
    "latitude": "-33.882622800000000",
    "longitude": "151.197540700000000",
    "description": "Scape Sydney Central is a Sydney student accommodation that offers twin en-suite rooms...",
    "facilities": [],
    "rooms": [
        {
            "id": 214095,
            "name": "Single Bed, Twin Room In 8 Bed Apartment",
            "description": "A twin room in an 8-bed apartment features a single bed, shared ensuite bathroom...",
            "areaSize": null,
            "images": [
                "https://images.casita.com/uploads/buildings/755/room/214095/orig/scape-sydney-central--....jpeg"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "images": ["https://images.casita.com/uploads/buildings/755/building/thumb/....jpeg"]
}

💡 Uses of This Data

• Comparing student accommodation prices across cities and providers
• Feeding a housing-search or relocation app with structured listings
• Market research on room types, amenities, and availability trends
• Monitoring new listings or price changes over time
• Lead generation for accommodation providers and student services

🚀 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, unless using whole-site mode).
4. Click Start and wait for the run to complete.
5. Download results from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

You can also run this actor via the Apify API or integrate it directly into your workflows using Zapier, Make, or n8n.

⚠️ Limitations & Known Issues

• Whole-site crawls take time — Casita lists thousands of cities and properties; set maxItems and pick specific start URLs for quick runs.
• Regional pricing — prices are shown in the currency Casita serves for that region and may vary by property.

📝 Notes

• Proxy recommended for large-scale scraping — For high-volume or whole-site runs, enable a datacenter (or residential, if datacenter is blocked) proxy to avoid blocks.
• API integration — This actor can be called as an API from any automation platform (Zapier, Make, n8n, custom scripts).

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