Homegate Rental Extractor: scrape Homegate.ch rental listings

Homegate Rental Extractor scrapes rental listings from Homegate.ch search pages. Paste a matching-list URL you already filtered on the site and you get rent in CHF, rooms, living space, address, coordinates, and photo URLs from the result cards.

It pages through Homegate search results until it hits your max. One dataset row per property. German, French, Italian, and English Homegate search URLs all work.

Use cases

• Watch asking rents in Zurich, Bern, or smaller towns without opening every card
• Export Homegate listing images and addresses for a weekly market note
• Keep a sheet of rooms, living space, and CHF rent for one canton
• Recheck the same search URL on a schedule and see what was added
• Pull filtered Homegate search results into Sheets or a webhook

What data does this actor extract?

Data comes from Homegate search cards only.

Field	Type	What it is
listingId	string	Homegate listing ID
listingUrl	string	Public listing page
searchUrl	string	Search URL that produced the row
offerType	string	Usually RENT
listingTier	string	Card placement such as PREMIUM or STANDARD
listingTitle	string	Headline in the language you picked
listingDescription	string	Listing text, HTML stripped
categories	array	Homegate categories such as APARTMENT or HOUSE
priceGross	number	Gross rent from the search card
currency	string	Usually CHF
priceInterval	string	Usually MONTH
rooms	number	Room count, including half rooms
livingSpaceSqm	number	Living space in m²
floor	number	Floor number when the search card has it
yearBuilt	integer	Construction year when published
street	string	Street address
postalCode	string	Swiss postcode
locality	string	City or town
region	string	Canton or region
country	string	Country code
latitude	number	Latitude
longitude	number	Longitude
imageUrls	array	Listing photo URLs
imageCount	integer	How many photos were found
features	array	Flags such as balcony, garage, pets_allowed
publishedAt	string	When the listing was created
scrapedAt	string	UTC time this row was written

Fields that only appear on individual listing pages (net rent, extra charges, available-from, agency phone) are not collected.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	Effretikon search URL	Homegate rental search pages. One URL per line.
outputLanguage	string	auto	Language for titles and descriptions: auto, de, en, fr, or it.
maxItems	integer	20	Cap on listings per run (1 to 1000).
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	60	Per-request timeout in seconds.

Example input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/real-estate/city-effretikon/matching-list?be=50000"
    ],
    "outputLanguage": "auto",
    "maxItems": 20,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 60
}

A city search looks like https://www.homegate.ch/rent/real-estate/city-effretikon/matching-list. The German equivalent is https://www.homegate.ch/mieten/immobilien/ort-zuerich/trefferliste.

If Homegate already applied location or price filters, leave them in the URL. The actor does not invent a second filter form.

Example output

{
    "listingId": "4003444710",
    "listingUrl": "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4003444710",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/real-estate/city-effretikon/matching-list?be=50000&ep=1",
    "offerType": "RENT",
    "listingTier": "PREMIUM",
    "listingTitle": "Frisch renoviertes 5.5-Zimmer-Reihenhaus mit Garten in familienfreundlicher Siedlung",
    "listingDescription": "Dieses frisch renovierte Einfamilienhaus in ruhiger, familienfreundlicher Lage...",
    "categories": ["HOUSE", "ROW_HOUSE"],
    "priceGross": 3670,
    "currency": "CHF",
    "priceInterval": "MONTH",
    "rooms": 5.5,
    "livingSpaceSqm": 125,
    "floor": null,
    "yearBuilt": 1978,
    "street": "Lindenstrasse 82",
    "postalCode": "8307",
    "locality": "Effretikon",
    "region": "ZH",
    "country": "CH",
    "latitude": 47.428689311663,
    "longitude": 8.699511310228,
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/hgonif/4003444710/image/28168b01d5f9dbe5baa6404d6e84babb.jpg"
    ],
    "imageCount": 15,
    "features": ["balcony", "garage", "washing_machine", "pets_allowed", "quiet", "child_friendly", "wheelchair_accessible", "old_building"],
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-04T15:04:31.497Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-12T06:18:49.024578+00:00"
}

floor stays null when the search card has no floor value (common for houses). Apartment cards often include it.

How it works

1. You paste one or more Homegate.ch rental search URLs.
2. The actor loads each search page through built-in bypass infrastructure and reads the cards on it.
3. Search URLs are paged with Homegate's ep parameter until maxItems is reached.
4. Each property is written as one dataset row you can download as JSON or CSV.

Integrations

Connect Homegate Rental Extractor to other apps with Apify integrations. Typical setups go to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, or a webhook when a run finishes.

FAQ

Can this actor scrape Homegate rentals by city? Yes. Open the city on Homegate, copy the matching-list URL, and paste it into startUrls.

Does the Homegate rental extractor collect listing images? Yes. Photo URLs are stored in imageUrls from the search cards.

How many Homegate listings can I extract per run? Up to 1000. The default is 20.

Do German, French, or Italian Homegate URLs work? Yes. /mieten/, /louer/, and /affittare/ search paths are accepted. Use outputLanguage if you want titles in a specific language.

Why are agency phone and available-from missing? Those fields are not on Homegate search cards. This actor only reads search pages.

Copy a Homegate rent search, set maxItems, and run Homegate Rental Extractor when you want Swiss rental listings in a dataset instead of a browser tab.