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⚠️ Apartments.com Scraper — Discontinued (Anti-Bot Blocked)

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⚠️ Apartments.com Scraper — Discontinued (Anti-Bot Blocked)

⚠️ Apartments.com Scraper — Discontinued (Anti-Bot Blocked)

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DISCONTINUED — Apartments.com is fronted by Akamai anti-bot protection at the CDN layer; scraping is no longer technically feasible. Use Redfin, Rightmove UK, Real Estate MCP Server, SG HDB Resale Prices, or Boliga Denmark instead.

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Apartments.com Scraper — Discontinued

⚠️ This actor is no longer maintained.

Apartments.com is now fronted by Akamai's anti-bot protection at the CDN/TLS layer. The block applies before any HTML is served — every request returns a 403 "Access Denied" page regardless of user-agent, residential proxy rotation, or Playwright stealth. The block lives in their ASN-reputation + JA3-fingerprint layer, which can't be bypassed by ordinary scraping infrastructure.

We considered wiring in a paid unlocker service (ScrapingBee, Bright Data Web Unlocker) but determined the per-listing economics didn't support the additional cost at the current paying-user volume. If we revisit this decision later, this actor will be restored.

Use these instead

We have working actors for adjacent real-estate use cases:

Use caseActor
U.S. property listings (Redfin)Redfin Real Estate Scraper
UK property listings (Rightmove)Rightmove UK Real Estate Scraper
Singapore HDB resale pricesSingapore HDB Resale Prices
Singapore private property (URA)Singapore URA Property Transactions
Denmark real estate (Boliga)Boliga Denmark Real Estate
Multi-source real estate via MCPReal Estate MCP Server

Background — why Apartments.com is unscrapable

Apartments.com is part of CoStar Group, a $25B real-estate data company with significant infrastructure investment in protecting their listings from competitors. The anti-bot stack applies at three layers:

  1. CDN edge — Akamai's bot manager rejects requests at the TLS handshake based on JA3 fingerprint + ASN reputation
  2. Cookie / fingerprint — even successful TLS sessions are checked against browser fingerprint patterns
  3. Behavioral — request timing, mouse movement, and scroll patterns are profiled

This stack is consistent with what Indeed, Upwork, and Fiverr deploy. Generic Playwright + residential proxy is insufficient. Real-world solutions require specialized stealth tooling (anti-detect browsers, residential CAPTCHA solvers) or commercial unlocker services billing $50-500/month minimum.

Discontinuation notice

This actor's last update was 2026-05-15. As of that date, every run returns a single placeholder dataset item:

{
"_placeholder": true,
"status": "blocked",
"message": "Apartments.com is no longer scrapable due to upstream anti-bot protections. See actor README for alternatives."
}

The placeholder charge is $0.025 to cover compute. If you've been charged for placeholder runs without useful output, we apologize — the actor was failing silently before this discontinuation notice was published. Please contact us via the NexGenData affiliate page if you'd like a refund discussion.


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