BiggerPockets Scraper — Forum Threads, Posts & Investor Leads

Extract structured data from BiggerPockets, the largest real-estate investing community: forum threads and full discussions (original post + every reply with authors), reply/upvote/view counts, and member profiles with investor type and location for lead generation. Paste forum URLs, thread URLs and/or usernames and get clean JSON/CSV/Excel in seconds. Built for real-estate marketers, investors, analysts and researchers.

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What This Actor Does

BiggerPockets is the biggest online community for real-estate investors — millions of forum posts on rentals, flipping, financing, landlording, syndication and deal analysis, plus a huge directory of investor members. This Actor turns that public activity into structured data. Three record types, mix and match in a single run:

Record type	You provide	You get
forum-thread	A forum or category URL	Thread list: title, category, reply count, URL (paginated)
thread	A thread URL (or forum + Include full posts)	Full discussion: title, author, original post, every reply with author & date, post count, upvotes, views, location, dates
user	A member username	Member profile: name, investor type (Investor / Agent / Lender / …), location, join date, avatar, profile URL

Everything is public data you can see on biggerpockets.com — this Actor just collects it into rows you can analyze.

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Why Use This

• Real-estate investor leads. Every thread author and member profile carries a name, an investor type and a location — a targeted B2B lead source for agents, lenders, wholesalers, property managers, SaaS and service providers in the real-estate space.
• The full conversation, structured. Not just thread titles — the original post and every reply, with the author of each, ready for analysis or summarization.
• Market & sentiment research. See what investors are actually asking and debating right now — deal metrics, market fears, strategies, tools — across any forum category.
• Fast and cheap. Pure-HTTP with a browser-grade fingerprint. No headless browser, so it stays quick and inexpensive even across thousands of threads.

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Quick Start

Run it in the console (no code)

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Forums: paste a forum/category URL (e.g. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311-buying-selling-real-estate).
3. Toggle Include full thread posts to fetch each thread's full discussion.
4. Members: optionally add usernames (e.g. alex1333) for member lead data.
5. Click Start, then export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or push to Google Sheets, a webhook or a database.

Run it via API (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "forumUrls": ["https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311-buying-selling-real-estate"],
    "includePosts": True,
    "maxThreadsPerForum": 200,
}

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/biggerpockets-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for rec in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if rec["type"] == "thread":
        print(rec["title"], "·", rec["author"], "·", rec["commentCount"], "posts")

Build an investor lead list (Python)

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/biggerpockets-scraper").call(run_input={
    "forumUrls": ["https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311-buying-selling-real-estate"],
    "includePosts": True,
    "maxThreadsPerForum": 300,
})

# Collect unique authors from thread posts, then enrich as members
authors = set()
for r in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if r["type"] == "thread":
        if r.get("authorUsername"): authors.add(r["authorUsername"])
        for p in r.get("posts", []):
            if p.get("authorUsername"): authors.add(p["authorUsername"])

leads = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/biggerpockets-scraper").call(run_input={
    "usernames": list(authors)[:500],
})
for lead in client.dataset(leads["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if lead["type"] == "user":
        print(lead["name"], "|", lead["investorType"], "|", lead["location"])

Pull a single thread's discussion (Node.js)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_USERNAME/biggerpockets-scraper').call({
    threadUrls: ['https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1280356-determining-what-is-a-good-deal-on-a-long-term-rental'],
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
const thread = items.find(r => r.type === 'thread');
console.log(thread.title, 'by', thread.author);
thread.posts.forEach(p => console.log('  ', p.author, '—', p.text.slice(0, 80)));

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Input Parameters

Field	Type	Description
forumUrls	array	BiggerPockets forum/category URLs. Lists threads across pages.
threadUrls	array	Direct thread URLs. Each returns the full discussion with all posts.
usernames	array	Member usernames or profile URLs. Each returns member lead data.
includePosts	boolean	For forum threads, fetch each thread's full posts. Default false.
maxThreadsPerForum	integer	Cap on threads collected per forum URL. Default 100.
maxItems	integer	Optional hard cap on total records. 0 = no limit.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy. Datacenter is enough and enabled by default.

Provide forums, threads, members — or any combination — in one run.

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Output

type: "forum-thread" (list view)

{
  "type": "forum-thread",
  "topicId": "1300339",
  "catId": "311",
  "url": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1300339-incredible-deal-opportunity",
  "title": "Incredible deal opportunity, nervous because it's over my budget",
  "category": "Buying & Selling Real Estate",
  "replies": 19
}

type: "thread" (full discussion)

{
  "type": "thread",
  "topicId": "1280356",
  "title": "Determining what is a good deal on a long term rental",
  "author": "Benjamin Orsak",
  "authorUsername": "benjamino97",
  "body": "What metrics do you look for when determining whether a long term rental…",
  "location": "Houston, Texas",
  "commentCount": 6,
  "upvotes": 0,
  "views": 43,
  "datePublished": "2026-09-23T06:59:30-07:00",
  "posts": [
    { "author": "Bo Smith", "authorUsername": "bos40", "text": "The 1% rule is dead right now…", "date": "2026-09-23T08:12:00-07:00", "upvotes": 3 }
  ]
}

type: "user" (member lead)

{
  "type": "user",
  "username": "alex1333",
  "userId": "2187910",
  "name": "Alex S.",
  "investorType": "Investor",
  "location": "Washington, US",
  "memberSince": "2021-07-01T19:06:20-07:00",
  "avatar": "https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/…/avatar.jpg",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/alex1333"
}

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Use Cases

1. Real-estate investor lead generation

Every thread author and member profile is a potential lead with a name, investor type and location. Build targeted lists of investors, agents, lenders and wholesalers by forum topic or geography for B2B outreach and marketing.

2. Market & sentiment research

Track what investors are asking and debating — deal metrics, market conditions, financing, landlording pain points — across any category. Quantify themes and sentiment over time by scheduling daily runs.

3. Content, SEO & LLM training data

Thousands of expert Q&A discussions on real-estate investing make a rich corpus for content research, SEO gap analysis, or fine-tuning and RAG for real-estate AI assistants.

4. Competitive & product intelligence

See which tools, lenders and services investors recommend or complain about — product feedback and competitive signal straight from your target market.

5. Community & influencer discovery

Find the most active, most-upvoted members in your niche — the voices worth partnering with for real-estate marketing and PR.

6. Deal & trend monitoring

Monitor threads mentioning specific markets, strategies or price points to spot emerging trends and opportunities early.

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Tips

• Forum URLs: open any forum on biggerpockets.com and copy the URL. Category pages like /forums/311-buying-selling-real-estate work great; /forums lists recent activity across all categories.
• includePosts turns a fast thread list into full discussions — enable it when you need the actual posts and authors.
• Lead workflow: run forums with includePosts to gather authors, then feed those usernames back in to enrich them into member leads.
• Schedule it with Apify Schedules to keep a fresh feed of threads and leads.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a BiggerPockets account? No. The Actor reads publicly visible data — no login required.

Can I get the full text of every reply? Yes — with includePosts (for forums) or by passing thread URLs directly, each thread returns the original post plus every reply with its author.

What investor types are captured? Whatever the member lists on their public profile — e.g. Investor, Real Estate Agent, Lender, Wholesaler, Contractor.

What export formats are supported? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via API — plus Google Sheets, webhooks, Make and Zapier.

Can I scrape many forums and members at once? Yes. Provide arrays of forum URLs, thread URLs and usernames; the Actor processes them all in one run and dedups results.

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Legal & Responsible Use

This Actor collects only publicly available information for research, analytics and business use. You are responsible for how you use the data. Please:

• Respect BiggerPockets' Terms of Service and robots directives.
• Comply with applicable data-protection laws (GDPR/CCPA) when handling member data.
• Do not use the data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.
• Use reasonable request volumes and scheduling.

This project is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by BiggerPockets.