HousingAnywhere Property Scraper

Scrape rental listings from HousingAnywhere (housinganywhere.com) — pull title, price, city, coordinates, room count, floor area, house rules, facilities and photos for every listing on a city search page or a single room URL. Results export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or feed straight into your own pipeline through the API. Paste a city search URL or a listing URL and press Start — no configuration required.

Target website: housinganywhere.com

✨ Features of this HousingAnywhere scraper

• Listing extraction — title, description, monthly rent, city, coordinates, room count, floor area, house rules and preferences, facilities/amenities and photos.
• No browser required by default — search and listing pages are fetched over plain HTTP, which keeps runs fast and cheap.
• Optional landlord and FAQ extraction — a toggle switches on a full browser render to also capture landlord profile info and the listing's FAQ accordion, both of which only appear after the page's JavaScript runs.
• Automatic URL detection — search URLs and listing URLs are told apart automatically, so you can mix both in Start URLs.
• Whole-site mode — one toggle crawls HousingAnywhere's main city search pages instead of a hand-picked list.
• Cross-run caching — an optional project name skips listings already scraped in an earlier run.
• Proxy support — optional Apify proxy configuration (datacenter or residential).

🚀 How to scrape HousingAnywhere listings in 5 steps

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.

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

💰 Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result billing based on the compute units a run consumes.

• New Apify accounts include $5 of free monthly credit.
• Because listing and search pages are fetched over plain HTTP by default (no headless browser), runs cost significantly less than browser-based scrapers — enable the landlord/FAQ toggle only when you need those two fields.

🔧 Input configuration

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	✅	[{"url": "https://housinganywhere.com/s/Berlin--Germany"}]	HousingAnywhere city search URLs (/s/City--Country) or direct listing URLs (/room/...). The type of each URL is detected automatically.
maxItems	integer	—	3	Maximum number of listings to scrape for each start URL.
scrapeExtraDetails	boolean	—	false	Landlord info and the FAQ section only render after JavaScript hydration. Enabling this uses a full browser to fetch listing pages so these two fields can be included; leaving it off scrapes listings faster and cheaper without them.
scrapeWholeSite	boolean	—	false	Ignore Start URLs and crawl HousingAnywhere's main city search pages instead.
cacheProjectName	string	—	—	Optional. When set, listings already scraped under this project name in a previous run are skipped instead of being scraped again.
proxyConfiguration	object	—	{"useApifyProxy": true}	HousingAnywhere responds fine without a proxy. Enable datacenter proxies first if you start seeing blocks, and residential only if datacenter still fails.

Supported URL types:

• Search pages — city searches such as https://housinganywhere.com/s/Berlin--Germany.
• Listing pages — https://housinganywhere.com/room/{unitTypeId}/{country}/{City}/{slug}.

📦 HousingAnywhere scraper output data

Each run produces a JSON dataset (exportable to CSV or Excel) with one record per listing containing: url, listingId, title, description, features, price, currency, priceText, city, latitude, longitude, numberOfRooms, propertyArea, rulesAndPreferences, facilities, images, and — only when scrapeExtraDetails is enabled — landlordInfo and faq. The dataset has one view, Overview, showing title, city, price, currency, room count, area and URL in a compact table.

Sample output:

{
  "url": "https://housinganywhere.com/room/ut1739758/de/Berlin/zur-nachtheide",
  "listingId": "ut1739758",
  "title": "Apartment for rent in Berlin, Zur Nachtheide",
  "description": "• Studio apartment with a balcony for rent in Köpenick for women\n• Available: from the 1st of October\n• Location: infront of the tram station \"Zur Nachtheide\" in Köpenick\n• Fully furnished: everything you need is there.\n• Only for women!\n• No smoking, no pets",
  "features": "Entire apartment, 45 m²Furnished, Furnished, 1 bedroom, Floor: 3",
  "price": 900,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "priceText": "€900per month",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "latitude": "52.4246918",
  "longitude": "13.5877019",
  "numberOfRooms": "1",
  "propertyArea": "45 m²Furnished",
  "rulesAndPreferences": [
    { "name": "Age", "value": "No preference" },
    { "name": "Gender", "value": "Female" },
    { "name": "Smoking allowed", "value": "No" }
  ],
  "facilities": [
    "Private living room",
    "Private toilet",
    "Private kitchen",
    "WiFi"
  ],
  "images": [
    "https://housinganywhere.imgix.net/unit_type/1739758/e0ecf041-6c85-4f22-8d05-e889118573ea.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&cs=srgb&fit=clip&h=300&w=490"
  ]
}

🐍 How to scrape HousingAnywhere with Python, JavaScript or the API

Run the actor programmatically with the official Apify clients. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> with the token from your Apify Console.

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run = client.actor("<username>/housinganywhere-property-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://housinganywhere.com/s/Berlin--Germany"}],
    "maxItems": 20,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });

const run = await client.actor('<username>/housinganywhere-property-scraper').call({
    startUrls: [{ url: 'https://housinganywhere.com/s/Berlin--Germany' }],
    maxItems: 20,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

cURL — start a run and wait for the dataset:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<username>~housinganywhere-property-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://housinganywhere.com/s/Berlin--Germany"}], "maxItems": 20}'

💡 What you can use HousingAnywhere rental data for

• Tracking rental prices across European cities over time
• Benchmarking a portfolio against comparable listings
• Relocation and student-housing research
• Market supply analysis by city and price band
• Feeding property dashboards and alerting tools

Rental market analysts, relocation services and PropTech teams use this data to track current European rental pricing and supply without opening listings one by one.

⚠️ Limitations & known issues

• Search results come from HousingAnywhere's own listing index — one search URL returns a batch of matching listings; use maxItems and multiple city searches to widen coverage.
• Rent is read from the page body — HousingAnywhere does not expose the monthly price as structured data, so it's parsed from the rendered listing text.
• Landlord info and FAQ need scrapeExtraDetails — these two fields only render after the page's JavaScript runs, so they're only included when that option is enabled (which also makes the run slower and more expensive).

❓ Frequently asked questions

Can I scrape HousingAnywhere legally?

Yes — this actor only collects data that is already publicly visible on HousingAnywhere listing pages; it does not log in, message advertisers, or access account-only areas. Scraping publicly available data is generally considered lawful (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn as precedent). You remain responsible for complying with HousingAnywhere's Terms of Service and applicable privacy law (e.g. GDPR) if listing data contains personal information.

Does this scraper get landlord contact details or reviews?

No. It collects the landlord's public first name, avatar-linked profile URL and identity-verification badge when scrapeExtraDetails is enabled — HousingAnywhere never exposes private contact details until a rental is confirmed on its own platform.

How many listings can I scrape from one URL?

Set maxItems to control how many listings are collected per start URL — there's no hard cap, though very high values on a single city search will take longer and cost more compute units.

Do I need a proxy to scrape HousingAnywhere?

No. HousingAnywhere responds reliably without one, which keeps run costs down. Enable datacenter proxies first if you start seeing blocks, and residential only if datacenter proxies stop working.

How do I scrape HousingAnywhere with Python?

Install apify-client, call this actor with your startUrls and maxItems in run_input, then iterate the resulting dataset — see the Python example above.

Can I run this HousingAnywhere scraper on a schedule?

Yes, use Apify Schedules to run it daily or weekly. Set cacheProjectName to the same value across scheduled runs so previously scraped listings are skipped automatically.

What output formats are supported?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS, either from the Output tab or through the Apify API.

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