ApartmentFinder Scraper

Scrape rental listings from ApartmentFinder.com (part of the CoStar Group / Apartments.com network) for any US state/city — bedroom-count feeds, furnished, luxury, pet-friendly, senior/student/short-term housing, by-owner and rent-specials, with price and bedroom filters. No login, no API key, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• 14 listing categories — all, studio, 1-4 bedroom, furnished, luxury, pet-friendly, senior housing, short-term housing, student housing, for-rent-by-owner, rent specials
• Filters — min/max price, min/max bedrooms
• Full listing detail — property name, address, coordinates, phone, per-bedroom starting-price tiers, special offers/deals, listing tier, student-housing requirement notes, photo
• Automatic pagination up to your maxItems cap
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains data actually present on the listing

Output per listing

• listingId, name, url
• street, city, state, zip, fullAddress
• latitude, longitude
• bedPricePairs[] — {bedLabel, beds, startingPrice} per unit type advertised
• minPrice, maxPrice, minBeds, maxBeds
• listingTier (e.g. "Diamond" — ApartmentFinder's own listing-prominence tier)
• specialOffer (e.g. "Good Value", "$250 Off")
• housingRequirementLabel, housingRequirementMessage (student/senior housing notes, when applicable)
• phone, photoUrl
• locationState, locationCity, category, scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
state	select	Texas	US state (or DC) picked from a 51-option dropdown
city	string	Austin	City name, e.g. Austin, Los Angeles
category	select	all	Which listing feed to scrape (14 options)
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	–	Monthly starting-price range
minBeds / maxBeds	integer	–	Bedroom count range
maxItems	integer	40	Hard cap on emitted records (1-2000)

Example: 2-bedroom pet-friendly-category listings in Austin, TX under $2,500

{
  "state": "Texas",
  "city": "Austin",
  "category": "pet-friendly",
  "maxBeds": 2,
  "maxPrice": 2500,
  "maxItems": 50
}

How to find state/city names

Pick your target state from the dropdown, then browse ApartmentFinder.com for the exact city spelling it uses — the URL path is /{State}/{City}-Apartments (e.g. apartmentfinder.com/Texas/Austin-Apartments). Just type the city name naturally (Austin, Los Angeles) and the actor will normalize it into the URL segment ApartmentFinder expects.

Data source & reliability

ApartmentFinder server-renders listing cards directly into the page HTML (each card carries structured data-* attributes for price, coordinates, and listing ID); this actor parses that HTML using a Chrome-TLS-fingerprint HTTP client. No residential proxy, cookies or login are used or required — the free Apify AUTO datacenter proxy group is only engaged automatically as a fallback if a request is ever blocked.

Note on the url/photoUrl fields: ApartmentFinder's bot-protection blocks requests whose TLS fingerprint doesn't match a real browser — a plain curl or non-browser HTTP client will get a 403 even though the URL itself is valid and opens normally in any real web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.).

FAQs

Does this require a proxy or login? No — it runs entirely on Apify's free datacenter access, no credentials needed.

Why do some listings have fewer fields than others? ApartmentFinder only shows what the property manager provided (e.g. not every listing has a special offer or student-housing note). Fields with no real data are omitted rather than emitted as null/empty.

Can I scrape multiple cities in one run? Run the actor once per state/city/category combination for now — each run targets one location + category feed, matching how ApartmentFinder's own search works.