Buildium Scraper — US Rentals + Email & Phone from Any PM Site

Turn any Buildium / ManageBuilding rentals URL into structured vacancies — including office email and phone. Paste https://{tenant}.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals. The actor hits that manager's public MITS XML feed (one GET) and returns rent, beds, baths, photos, apply URL, email, and phone.

Why Use This Scraper?

• Public XML, not HTML archaeology. Buildium documents XMLRentals.ashx as the listing feed. We use it.
• Email and phone in the feed. HousingFeed's Buildium dump ships listing facts only. The XML includes <Email> and <PhoneNumber>.
• One request per manager. No pagination crawl, no browser.
• URL-in. You choose the property manager. Not a weekly national snapshot.
• Apply URL included. {origin}/Resident/rental-application/new/apply?listingId=…

Overview

One dataset row per advertised floorplan/listing in that tenant's public feed. Typical use: you already have ManageBuilding URLs (from a PM directory, a website, or a client) and want inventory + contacts. There is no "all Buildium in Texas" search — you need origins.

Supported Inputs

Input	What it is	Example
Public rentals page	HTML list	https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals
XML feed	Direct MITS URL	https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/PublicPages/XMLRentals.ashx
startUrl	Single-URL convenience field	same as one startUrls item

The actor rewrites any origin to /Resident/PublicPages/XMLRentals.ashx (Buildium 301s that to /resident/api/public/listingFeeds).

Unsupported: authenticated api.buildium.com (needs client id/secret), tenant login portals, and city-wide search with no URL.

Seed list: this repo ships seeds/start-urls.json — ~526 {tenant}.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals URLs mined from Common Crawl and live-checked against the public XML feed.

Use Cases

Audience	What they get
Rental lead-gen	Office email + phone for managers you already have URLs for
PropTech / aggregators	Inventory that never syndicated to Zillow
Researchers	Asking rents and unit mix for a named manager
Agencies	A dump of one competitor's public vacancies

How It Works

1. Paste one or more ManageBuilding rentals (or XML) URLs.
2. The actor fetches that origin's public MITS XML feed.
3. Each <Floorplan> becomes a dataset row (rent, beds, photos, contacts).
4. It stops at maxItems.

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Default	What it does
startUrls	string list	sample NE manager	Rentals page or XML URL
startUrl	string	empty	Same, for a single URL
maxItems	integer	100	Cap on saved listings (free accounts hard-capped at 100)
includeInactive	boolean	false	?listings=all — active + inactive
proxy	proxy object	off	Optional

Example — one manager, 25 listings

{
  "startUrls": ["https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals"],
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example — two managers, include inactive

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals",
    "https://wisechoiceproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals"
  ],
  "includeInactive": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Output Overview

Each row is one public listing. Email/phone come from the property's XML <Address><Email> and <Phone><PhoneNumber> (and management-level contacts when present).

Output Samples

URL https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals:

{
  "platform": "buildium",
  "id": "buildium:zoulproperties:115843",
  "listingId": "115843",
  "tenant": "zoulproperties",
  "url": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals/115843",
  "title": "Royal Prince - 7A",
  "address": "311 North Lincoln Avenue - 7A, Grand Island, NE, 68801",
  "city": "Grand Island",
  "state": "NE",
  "zip": "68801",
  "rent": 950,
  "beds": 1,
  "baths": 1,
  "sqft": 550,
  "email": "inquiries@grandislandrealty.net",
  "phone": "308-382-4247",
  "officeName": "Grand Island Realty",
  "applyUrl": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/rental-application/new/apply?listingId=115843"
}

Key Output Fields

Group	Fields
Identity	platform, id, listingId, propertyId, tenant, url
Listing	title, description, rent, rentMin, rentMax, deposit, beds, baths, sqft, propertyType, unitCount
Location	address, street, city, state, zip
Media	image, images[], amenities[]
Contact	officeName, email, emails[], phone, phones[], applyUrl
Meta	currency, scrapedAt

latitude / longitude are reserved and currently null — the MITS feed we probed did not include coordinates.

FAQ

Can I scrape all Buildium listings in a state without URLs? Not from Buildium itself. Use seeds/start-urls.json (~526 live-checked ManageBuilding origins) or housingfeed/buildium-scraper if you want a pre-built geo DB instead of live URL-in.

Is the XML allowed? Buildium publishes it for websites to embed listings (help.buildium.com → "Rental listings in XML"). We only read that public feed.

Why might email be empty? Some managers leave <Email /> blank in the feed. Phone can still be present.

Do I need API keys? No. api.buildium.com is a different, authenticated product.

Support

Open an issue on the actor page.

Additional Services

Need a geo-filtered cut of the seed list, a combined AppFolio+Buildium run, or a private feed? Use the issues tab or memo23's profile. Raw seeds: seeds/ in this repo.

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🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (memo23/buildium-scraper).

Purpose: Live-scrape rental vacancies from a Buildium/ManageBuilding public rentals URL via the MITS XML feed, including office email and phone.

Minimal input:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals"],
  "maxItems": 25
}

Output fields: platform, id, listingId, propertyId, tenant, url, title, description, address, street, city, state, zip, latitude, longitude, rent, rentMin, rentMax, currency, deposit, beds, baths, sqft, propertyType, unitCount, amenities, image, images, officeName, email, emails, phone, phones, applyUrl, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• Always set maxItems. Default 100; free accounts capped at 100.
• Requires a *.managebuilding.com rentals or XML URL. No city-wide search.
• includeInactive: true fetches ?listings=all.
• Coordinates are currently null.
• Proxy off by default.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Buildium, RealPage, Inc., or any of their subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only the publicly documented rental-listing XML feed and public rentals pages on *.managebuilding.com — no authenticated Buildium Open API, tenant records, or content behind a login. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with Buildium's Terms of Service, applicable data-protection law (GDPR, CCPA, etc.), and any contractual obligations of their own organization.

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