Apartments.com Rentals Scraper

Extract Apartments.com rental search results by city, neighborhood, ZIP, or direct Apartments.com search URL. The actor returns structured property rows for rent comps, market monitoring, apartment-lead research, and cross-portal rental intelligence.

This actor is read-only. It never clicks Contact, Apply, Request Tour, phone/tel links, or other conversion flows that can notify or charge a property advertiser.

Features

• Build deterministic Apartments.com search URLs for city, ZIP, neighborhood slug, bedroom, max-rent, pet-friendly, property-type, and style filters.
• Accept direct Apartments.com search URLs for uncommon neighborhood slugs or prebuilt filters.
• Extract property name, address, rent range, bed/bath range, phone, canonical listing URL, and listing ID.
• Paginate up to Apartments.com's practical 28-page cap, with max-results limits per search.
• Filter out sponsored/out-of-state placards when the requested state is known, with optional exact-city filtering.
• Retry protected, rewritten, or empty pages with fresh browser/proxy sessions.
• Save run summaries, normalized search specs, and failed targets to key-value storage.
• Optional Smart Scrape mode emits only new or materially changed listings.

Inputs

• searches: Structured search objects. Each object can set location, locationSlug, scope, state, zipCode, propertyType, bedrooms, maxRent, petFriendly, modifiers, maxPages, and maxResultsPerSearch.
• startUrls: Direct Apartments.com search URLs, such as https://www.apartments.com/austin-tx/min-1-bedrooms-under-2500-pet-friendly/.
• locations / location: City, neighborhood, or ZIP values. For uncommon neighborhoods, use locationSlug.
• propertyType: apartments, houses, townhomes, or condos.
• bedrooms: studio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+, or any.
• maxRent: Maximum monthly rent. Apartments.com's URL layer supports max-only pricing filters.
• petFriendly and modifiers: Optional canonical filters.
• browserEngine: playwright by default, with patchright retained for hosted A/B diagnostics.
• filterToRequestedCity: Optional exact-city filter for city searches. Leave off for borough, neighborhood, metro, and Apartments.com nearby-result behavior.
• maxPages, maxResultsPerSearch, maxAttemptsPerPage, maxConcurrency, delayMs: Browser and pagination controls.
• onlyNew, cacheName: Smart Scrape controls.
• proxyConfig: US residential proxies are strongly recommended because Apartments.com search pages are Akamai-protected.

Example Input

{
  "searches": [
    {
      "location": "Austin, TX",
      "bedrooms": "1",
      "maxRent": 2500,
      "petFriendly": true,
      "maxPages": 1,
      "maxResultsPerSearch": 25
    }
  ],
  "browserEngine": "playwright",
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Direct URL Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.apartments.com/manhattan-ny/studios-under-3000/"
    }
  ],
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50
}

Output

Each rental listing row includes:

• Search URL, resolved URL, requested location, page, and result count metadata
• Property name, listing ID, listing URL, address, city, state, ZIP
• Rent range, parsed min/max rent, bed range, bath range
• Phone number when surfaced on the search card
• Sponsored flag and scrape timestamp

Run metadata is saved to the default key-value store under SUMMARY, SEARCH_SPECS, and FAILED_TARGETS.

Example Output

{
  "type": "listing",
  "source": "apartments.com",
  "status": "ok",
  "requestedLocation": "Austin, TX",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.apartments.com/austin-tx/min-1-bedrooms-under-2500-pet-friendly/",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://www.apartments.com/austin-tx/min-1-bedrooms-under-2500-pet-friendly/",
  "page": 1,
  "propertyName": "The Quincy",
  "listingId": "abcde",
  "url": "https://www.apartments.com/the-quincy-austin-tx/abcde/",
  "address": "215 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "78701",
  "priceRangeUsd": "$1,750 - $5,200",
  "priceMinUsd": 1750,
  "priceMaxUsd": 5200,
  "bedRange": "Studio - 3 bd",
  "bathRange": "1 - 2 ba",
  "phone": "(512) 555-0100",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-02T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The primary charge is a listing-row event, with a small page-load event for successful rendered search pages.

• listing-extracted: charged once per listing row emitted. Launch pricing starts at $4.75 / 1,000 rows, with lower rates for higher Apify customer tiers.
• search-page-loaded: $0.015 per successfully loaded rendered search page.
• apify-actor-start: $0.005 one-time start event.

Platform usage is paid by the user because the actor uses browser rendering and residential proxies for Apartments.com's Akamai-protected search pages.

Limitations

• Apartments.com may rewrite invalid geo slugs to nearby valid locations. The actor records resolvedUrl and logs rewrites.
• Apartments.com's current indexed combined-filter grammar uses one segment, such as min-N-bedrooms-under-price-pet-friendly; studio filters use studios / studios-under-price. Older N-bedrooms-under-price, studio-bedrooms-under-price, and split /min-N-bedrooms-under-price/pet-friendly/ URLs can now return 404.
• patchright is available as a diagnostic browser mode, but playwright is the default hosted smoke path.
• Search pages are protected by Akamai and should be treated as browser-only unless live testing proves a cheaper path.
• ZIP-only input depends on public ZIP resolution. If exact geography matters, provide an Apartments.com locationSlug.
• Apartments.com URL filters support max rent, not min rent. Min-rent or price-band needs post-filtering or a future form-driven browser path.
• Search-card pages do not consistently expose coordinates in hosted runs. Coordinates are intentionally not part of the launch dataset contract; add a tested detail-page hydrator before promising lat/lon.