BiggerPockets Scraper

Scrape the largest real estate investing community on the web. Pull forum topics with full post bodies, comment threads, vote/reply/view stats, and user profiles across 50+ investing categories — no login, no cookies, no paid proxy required.

Whether you're prospecting investor leads, researching market sentiment around BRRRR or house hacking, monitoring a competitor's username, or building a knowledge base from real-world deal analyses, this actor gives you structured JSON access to BiggerPockets' public discussion surface.

What this scrapes

• Forum topics — title, full body text, author, dates, vote / reply / view counts, category
• Forum replies (comments) — body, author, dates, like counts, parent comment ID, threaded
• User profiles — display name, bio, job title, avatar, posts written, likes given, follower / following counts

Modes

Mode	Description
forumLatest	Newest topics from a chosen forum (default)
forumTrending	Trending-now topics from a chosen forum
forumUnanswered	Topics with no replies — investor-question lead gen
multiForum	Scan a list of forum IDs with any sort order
byTopicIds	Lookup specific topics by numeric ID
byTopicUrls	Lookup specific topics by full BiggerPockets URL
byUsernames	Pull user profiles by username

Forum catalog

The actor ships with all 50 active BiggerPockets forums as a dropdown enum, including:

• Real estate strategy — BRRRR, House Hacking, Wholesaling, Rehabbing & House Flipping, Multi-Family, Mobile Home Parks, Commercial, Short-Term Rentals, Medium-Term Rentals, Land & New Construction, Tax Liens & Notes, Syndications & Passive Investing
• Operations — General Landlording, Managing Your Property, Marketing Your Property, Tenant Screening
• Finance — Creative Financing, Personal Finance, Insurance, Private Lending, Mortgage Brokers & Lenders, Tax / SDIRA / Cost Seg, 1031 Exchanges, Foreclosures
• Community — Starting Out, First-Time Home Buyer, New Member Introductions, Success Stories, Horror Stories, Off Topic
• News / data — Real Estate News & Current Events, Market Trends & Data, Out of State Investing
• Services — Contractors, Real Estate Agent, Ask About A Real Estate Company
• Reviews — Guru, Book, & Course Reviews, Real Estate Technology
• Marketplace — Classifieds, Real Estate Events & Meetups, Buying & Selling Small Businesses

Filters

• minReplies, minVotes, minViews — engagement thresholds
• containsKeyword — title/body substring match
• includeComments + maxCommentsPerTopic — pull full reply threads
• maxItems, maxPagesPerForum — output and traversal limits

Output fields

Topic record (recordType: "topic")

{
  "recordType": "topic",
  "topicId": 1288127,
  "forumId": 311,
  "category": "Buying & Selling Real Estate",
  "title": "Thinking about this property",
  "slug": "thinking-about-this-property",
  "body": "I'm a first-time buyer looking to use an FHA loan to house hack...",
  "authorName": "Eddie Germosen",
  "authorUsername": "eddieg118",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/eddieg118",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-12T17:48:36-07:00",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T19:43:43-07:00",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-05-20T19:43:43-07:00",
  "commentCount": 16,
  "likeCount": 2,
  "viewCount": 144,
  "topicUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T03:14:15.972+00:00"
}

Comment record (recordType: "comment")

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "commentId": 7217617,
  "topicId": 1288127,
  "forumId": 311,
  "category": "Buying & Selling Real Estate",
  "body": "Hello Eddie, Are both units the same size?...",
  "authorName": "Abel Curiel",
  "authorUsername": "abelc2",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/abelc2",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-12T18:31:22-07:00",
  "likeCount": 0,
  "commentUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property#post_7217617",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T03:14:16.124+00:00"
}

User record (recordType: "user")

{
  "recordType": "user",
  "userId": 547389,
  "username": "sparkrental",
  "name": "G. Brian Davis",
  "description": "G. Brian Davis cofounded SparkRental, which manages a real estate investment club...",
  "jobTitle": "Investor",
  "avatarUrl": "https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/547389/...",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/sparkrental",
  "postsMade": 2599,
  "likesGiven": 208,
  "followingCount": 259,
  "followerCount": 178,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T03:14:16.512+00:00"
}

All output is omit-empty — never null, empty string, empty list, or empty dict at any depth.

Example inputs

Get the 50 newest deal-analysis topics

{
  "mode": "forumLatest",
  "forumId": "88",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Scan multiple investing forums for trending topics with engagement filter

{
  "mode": "multiForum",
  "forumIds": ["48", "853", "311", "922", "432"],
  "sortBy": "trending",
  "minVotes": 3,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerForum": 3
}

Pull a specific topic with full reply thread

{
  "mode": "byTopicUrls",
  "topicUrls": [
    "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property"
  ],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerTopic": 100,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Find unanswered questions (lead-gen for agents / lenders / wholesalers)

{
  "mode": "forumUnanswered",
  "forumId": "12",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Pull user profiles

{
  "mode": "byUsernames",
  "usernames": ["sparkrental", "abelc2"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Keyword research — finance topics mentioning "DSCR"

{
  "mode": "multiForum",
  "forumIds": ["49", "22", "50"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "containsKeyword": "DSCR",
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerForum": 5
}

Data source

This actor reads publicly accessible BiggerPockets pages (forum index, topic pages, user profiles) and parses the embedded schema.org JSON-LD DiscussionForumPosting / ProfilePage blocks that BiggerPockets serves for SEO. No login, no cookies, no paid proxy required — works from the free Apify plan with zero configuration.

FAQ

Do I need a BiggerPockets account?

No. The actor reads publicly indexed pages.

Do I need a proxy?

No. BiggerPockets serves anonymous datacenter IPs without bot protection. Proxy support is included as optional — pass proxyConfiguration: { useApifyProxy: true } if you want to rotate IPs.

Why aren't blog articles / market insights pages supported?

Those surfaces are React-rendered client-side without server-side data hooks, and Insights pages are gated behind a BiggerPockets PRO paywall. This actor focuses on the publicly accessible forum + user surface, which covers the bulk of investor discussion.

Why aren't search results supported?

BiggerPockets' search endpoint (/search?q=...) is bot-protected and returns 403 from anonymous traffic. The actor exposes equivalent functionality via containsKeyword filtering across forum listings, which works reliably.

Can I get a user's full posting history?

Currently the actor returns the profile metadata. For per-user post histories, use byUsernames to identify high-volume posters by postsMade count, then scan their forum activity via the forum-listing modes.

How fresh is the data?

Forum listings are updated in real-time. Topic detail JSON-LD reflects the latest state when fetched.

Are votes / likes / view counts accurate?

Yes. Counts are pulled from BiggerPockets' own schema.org/InteractionCounter blocks, identical to what they expose to Google.

What happens if a topic is locked or deleted?

The actor returns null for that record and continues. No partial / corrupted data.

What's the maximum throughput?

The actor self-throttles to ~3 requests/second with retries on 429/5xx, comfortably under BiggerPockets' tolerance. A maxItems=1000 run with includeComments=false completes in ~5 minutes.