RentHop NYC Apartment Rentals Scraper

Scrape live New York City apartment rental listings from RentHop.com — address, monthly rent, bedrooms/bathrooms, neighborhood, zip code, coordinates, and listing photo. Filter by price range, bedroom count, and neighborhood. No login, no API key, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Pulls current NYC apartment listings, paginating automatically up to your maxItems limit
• Filters by min/max monthly rent, bedroom count (studio through 4+), minimum bathrooms, a free-text neighborhood substring filter (e.g. "Williamsburg", "Astoria", "Manhattan"), amenities/pet policy/listing type (pets allowed, no broker fee, doorman, elevator, laundry, furnished, etc. — RentHop's own search checkboxes), and a free-text keyword search
• Sort by RentHop's own quality score or by price
• Bot-detection resilient — drives a real headless Chromium browser through Apify's free AUTO datacenter proxy group, which reliably passes RentHop's Cloudflare JS challenge

Output fields

• listingId, address, neighborhoods, zipCode, city, state
• price (single price) or priceMin/priceMax (for listings quoted as a range)
• bedrooms, bathrooms
• latitude, longitude
• url — direct link to the listing
• photoUrl
• scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Description
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	Monthly rent range in USD
bedrooms	select	any, studio, 1, 2, 3, 4+
neighborhood	string	Substring filter over neighborhood/borough names
bathrooms	select	Minimum bathrooms: any, 1, 2, 3, 4+
amenities	array (select)	Any of: Cats/Dogs Allowed, Sublet, Short Term Allowed, Furnished, Laundry In Unit/Building, Private/Common Outdoor Space, Home Office, Parking Space, Dishwasher, Doorman, Elevator, Fitness Center, Storage Facility, Exclusive, By Owner, No Broker Fee
keyword	string	Free-text keyword matched against listing descriptions
sortBy	select	hopscore (RentHop's quality ranking) or price
maxItems	integer	Max listings to return (1-1000, default 50)

Example: budget 1-bedroom in Williamsburg

{
  "minPrice": 2000,
  "maxPrice": 3200,
  "bedrooms": "1",
  "neighborhood": "Williamsburg",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: no-fee pet-friendly listings, sorted by price

{
  "amenities": ["catsAllowed", "dogsAllowed", "noFee"],
  "sortBy": "price",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: 2+ bedroom, 2+ bath with a doorman

{
  "bedrooms": "2",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "amenities": ["doorman", "elevator"],
  "maxItems": 30
}

Use cases

• Track new no-fee apartment listings in a specific NYC neighborhood
• Build a rent-price dataset by borough/neighborhood for market research
• Feed a rental-search alert bot with fresh listings matching a budget
• Compare amenity availability (doorman, elevator, in-unit laundry) across price bands
• Power a relocation or apartment-hunting tool with live NYC inventory

FAQ

Do I need a RentHop account or API key? No. This actor scrapes RentHop's public search results directly — no login, API key, or cookies required.

Which cities/markets are covered? New York City only (all five boroughs). RentHop's non-NYC city pages require client-side JavaScript/XHR calls that aren't reliably scrapable, so this actor is intentionally scoped to NYC where results are consistently accurate.

Why do I sometimes get priceMin/priceMax instead of price? A small number of RentHop listings are posted as a price range (e.g. studios that can be leased at different rates) rather than a fixed price. Those come through as priceMin/priceMax instead of a single price.

Are the filters exact? Yes. RentHop's own search parameters aren't always perfectly honored upstream, so this actor re-validates price, bedroom count, and minimum bathroom count against each listing's own data before including it in your results.

Is this affiliated with RentHop? No, this is a third-party actor that scrapes RentHop's public website. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by RentHop.com.

How fresh is the data? Every run scrapes RentHop's live search results at request time, so listings reflect current availability.

Data source and scope

Data is scraped from the public HTML of renthop.com. This actor is scoped to the New York City market only — RentHop server-renders full listing data for NYC search pages, but other city pages on the site require client-side JavaScript/XHR calls to populate results and cannot be reliably scraped without a full browser session. Restricting scope to NYC keeps every run 100% reliable with real data.

Filter accuracy note

RentHop's own server-side min_price/max_price, bedrooms[], and bathrooms search parameters are not always reliably honored upstream (e.g. a search for exactly 2 bedrooms can occasionally include studios/1-bedrooms in RentHop's own raw results). This actor re-checks price, bedroom count, and minimum bathroom count against each listing's own parsed data before emitting it, so the guarantee that returned records actually match your filters holds regardless of any upstream quirks.

Limitations

• The url (listing page) and photoUrl (image) fields point directly to renthop.com/photos.renthop.com, which are fronted by a Cloudflare JS challenge. These links open normally in a real web browser, but a plain HTTP client (curl, most scripts/integrations without a JS-capable browser) will receive an HTTP 403 challenge response instead of the listing page/photo. This is the same protection the actor itself works around internally with a real headless browser; if your workflow needs to fetch these URLs programmatically, use a headless-browser client too.