Forrentuniversity Listings Extractor

Pull student housing and off-campus apartment listings from ForRentUniversity by location. Paste a city or campus housing URL and get clean, structured data for every property on the results page: rent prices, addresses, bed and bath counts, ratings, phone numbers, image links, and more. The actor pages through the results for you, so one run can return hundreds of listings.

What it does

Give it a ForRentUniversity results URL like https://www.forrentuniversity.com/tx/austin-student-housing and it returns one row per property with all the details shown on the listing card. It reads the same search results a student would see when browsing the site, then walks through the result pages automatically up to the limits you set. No clicking through page after page, no copy and paste, no missed listings.

Each result page holds up to 40 properties. By default the actor returns the first page (40 listings). Raise maxItems and maxPagesPerUrl when you want to go deeper into a city with thousands of results.

Why use it

• Skip the manual work of opening every listing and copying details into a sheet
• Get consistent fields across every property, even when listing cards differ
• Pull an entire city or a single campus in one run
• Keep a dated snapshot of prices and availability so you can compare over time
• Feed real listing data straight into your own app, model, or dashboard

What you get per listing

Every property returns the following fields:

Field	Description
listingKey, siteId	Stable identifiers for the property on ForRentUniversity
name	Property or community name
propertyType	Apartment, house, condo, and similar
propertyAddressText	Address line as shown on the card
adLevel	Listing tier (Diamond, Premium, and so on)
listingUrl	Direct link to the full listing page
streetAddress, city, state, zipCode	Full postal address
latitude, longitude	Map coordinates
rating	Property rating
phone	Contact number for the property
bedsFormatted, bathsFormatted, sqftFormatted	Bed range, bath range, and size
priceLow, priceHigh, priceFormatted	Rent range as numbers and as a display string
callForPrice	True when the property hides price and asks you to call
groupedPricing	Price broken out per bedroom count
imageCount	Total number of photos on the listing
mainImage, images	Photo links, built at the size you choose
hasVideo, hasTours	Whether the listing offers video or a virtual tour
managementCompany	Property management company name
propertyFees	Fee breakdown when the property lists one
lastUpdated	When ForRentUniversity last refreshed the listing
searchUrl, pageNumber	Which search and page the listing came from
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp of the run

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	list	required	One or more ForRentUniversity location pages. Paste the full URL of a city or campus results page.
imageSize	string	984x658	Resolution used to build image URLs. Choose from the preset sizes.
maxPagesPerUrl	integer	5	How many result pages to walk through per location. Each page holds up to 40 listings.
maxItems	integer	40	Cap on the total number of listings collected per run.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	Per-request timeout in seconds.

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.forrentuniversity.com/tx/austin-student-housing"
  ],
  "imageSize": "984x658",
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 5,
  "maxItems": 40
}

Finding the right URL

Open forrentuniversity.com, search for a city or campus, and copy the address from your browser. Any results page works, for example:

• https://www.forrentuniversity.com/tx/austin-student-housing
• https://www.forrentuniversity.com/ca/los-angeles-student-housing
• https://www.forrentuniversity.com/ny/new-york-student-housing

You can drop several URLs into startUrls to cover multiple cities in a single run. Pasting a page-two style link is fine too, the actor normalizes it and starts from the first page.

Example output

{
  "listingKey": "fj5zblt",
  "name": "Carson Crossing",
  "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.forrentuniversity.com/tx/austin/carson-crossing/fj5zblt",
  "streetAddress": "3335 Caseybridge Ct",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "78744",
  "latitude": 30.2105511,
  "longitude": -97.7033177,
  "rating": 3,
  "phone": "(737) 265-3786",
  "bedsFormatted": "1 - 3 Beds",
  "bathsFormatted": "1 - 2 Baths",
  "sqftFormatted": "650 - 1,198 sq. ft.",
  "priceFormatted": "$1,104 - $1,617",
  "priceLow": 1104,
  "priceHigh": 1617,
  "callForPrice": false,
  "groupedPricing": [
    { "beds": "1 Bed", "price": "$1,176" },
    { "beds": "2 Beds", "price": "$1,104+" },
    { "beds": "3 Beds", "price": "$1,268+" }
  ],
  "imageCount": 33,
  "mainImage": "https://images1.forrent.com/i2/KVunvu_HQbHaB7-GYIlewxxSjm5ou2rV6aDaTFR6JHY/984x658/image.jpg",
  "hasVideo": false,
  "hasTours": true,
  "managementCompany": "The Richman Group of Companies",
  "propertyFees": [
    { "label": "Base Rent", "value": "$1,104 - $1,617" },
    { "label": "Required Monthly Fees", "value": "None" }
  ],
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-12T05:40:41.920Z",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.forrentuniversity.com/tx/austin-student-housing",
  "pageNumber": 2,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T09:01:19Z"
}

Ways to use it

• Build a rental dataset for a city or a specific campus
• Track how prices move across student housing over time
• Feed listings into your own housing search or comparison app
• Watch availability and new floor plans near a university
• Pull contact details and management companies for outreach
• Map properties by coordinates to study distance from campus

How pagination works

ForRentUniversity returns 40 listings per page. The actor reads the first page, checks how many pages exist for that location, then continues page by page until it hits either maxPagesPerUrl or maxItems, whichever comes first. Set maxItems to 40 for a quick single-page pull, or raise both limits to collect a full city.

Export options

Results land in a dataset you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, or read through the Apify API. You can also connect the run to Google Sheets, a database, or another tool through Apify integrations, and schedule it to run on a set interval.

Frequently asked questions

How many listings can I get? As many as the location has, up to the limits you set. A large city can hold thousands of properties across many pages.

Do I need any account or key from ForRentUniversity? No. You only provide the location URLs you want to extract.

Can I extract several cities at once? Yes. Add each city URL to startUrls and the actor processes them in order within your item cap.

What image sizes are available? Pick from the presets in imageSize, such as 984x658, 1400x720, or 1880x900. The chosen size is applied to every image link.

Notes

This actor reads listing pages the same way a visitor would and returns the data those pages already show. Use the page limits and item cap to keep runs focused on the locations you care about.