AppFolio Rental Listings Scraper

Scrape rental vacancy listings from any property manager's public AppFolio site: rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, address, coordinates, photos, and availability date. No API key and no login required. Useful for rental lead generation, vacancy monitoring, property management competitor research, and local rental market analysis.

{
  "listing_id": 90,
  "title": "2 Bedroom 1 Bath Upstairs Apartment with Shared Laundry and Storage",
  "address": "701 Spencer - 701-5, Apt. 5, Riverton, WY 82501",
  "city": "Riverton",
  "state": "WY",
  "rent_min_usd": 725,
  "beds": 2,
  "baths": 1,
  "sqft": 800,
  "available_date": "2026-11-13",
  "pets_allowed": false,
  "company_name": "Riverton Rentals Property Management LLC",
  "company_phone": "307 856 7178",
  "is_new_listing": true,
  "rent_change_usd": null
  // amenities, pet_policy, utilities_included, appliances, description, and photo_urls are trimmed here for length
}

What it does

• Give it one or more AppFolio listings page URLs, and it pulls every currently vacant unit.
• Real filters, applied by the source itself, not guessed after the fact: rent range, minimum bedrooms, minimum bathrooms, and pets allowed. Square footage and keyword filters are applied on our end for the fields the source doesn't filter natively.
• Optional detail enrichment: the full photo gallery (not just one thumbnail), a video walkthrough link when the listing has one, a direct link to apply, a full description, pet policy, amenities, utilities included, appliances, application fee, security deposit, and the property manager's name, phone number, and website.
• Optional automatic change tracking: run this actor on a schedule and every listing gets flagged as new or returning, with the exact rent change and days on market since you first saw it, computed for you.

Missing source values are returned as null, never invented.

Why this scraper

• Real, source-side filtering, not a slow full pull filtered afterward. Rent range, bedrooms, bathrooms, and pets allowed are sent straight to the source and only matching listings come back.
• Automatic new listing and rent change tracking. Schedule this actor daily or weekly and every row tells you whether it's new, whether the rent moved, and how many days it's been sitting vacant, with zero setup beyond turning a checkbox on.
• One run, multiple property managers. Point it at several companies' AppFolio sites in a single run for straight, side-by-side comparison.
• The property manager's own contact info, name, phone, and website, right next to every listing, for outreach or lead generation.

How it compares

Capability	This actor	Other AppFolio scrapers
Rent, beds, baths, size, address, coordinates	yes	yes
Real source-side rent/bedroom/bathroom/pet filters	yes	some
Pet policy, amenities, utilities, appliances, fees	yes	some
Full photo gallery, video walkthrough, and a direct apply link	yes	some
Property manager contact info	yes	some
New listing and rent change tracking across runs	yes	no
Multiple property managers in one run	yes	some

Use cases

• Rental lead generation. Pull every open unit at a target property manager along with their office phone number for outreach.
• Vacancy monitoring. Schedule a run and get an alert-ready feed of newly listed units and rent changes at the companies you track.
• Property management competitor research. Compare a rival's current rent levels, unit sizes, and vacancy duration against your own.
• Local rental market analysis. Aggregate rent per square foot and days on market across several property managers in one area.
• Pet-friendly housing search. Filter straight to units that actually allow cats or dogs instead of reading every listing by hand.

Quickstart

Default sample:

{ "listingUrls": ["https://rivertonrentals.appfolio.com/listings/listings"], "includeDetails": true, "trackChanges": true }

Only larger, pet-friendly units under a rent ceiling:

{ "listingUrls": ["https://example.appfolio.com/listings/listings"], "rentMax": 1500, "bedsMin": 2, "petsAllowed": true }

Multiple property managers in one run, filtered by keyword:

{ "listingUrls": ["https://companyone.appfolio.com/listings/listings", "https://companytwo.appfolio.com/listings/listings"], "keyword": "downtown" }

Input reference

Field	Description
maxItems	Caps how many rows this run writes across all listing pages given.
listingUrls	One or more AppFolio listings page URLs.
rentMin / rentMax	Only listings within this monthly rent range.
bedsMin / bathsMin	Only listings with at least this many bedrooms or bathrooms.
sqftMin	Only listings at or above this size.
petsAllowed	Only listings that allow cats and/or dogs.
keyword	Match listings whose title or address contains this text.
includeDetails	Add pet policy, amenities, utilities, appliances, fees, and contact info. Defaults to off.
trackChanges	Flag new listings and rent changes since your last run. Defaults to on.

Output reference (selected)

Field	Description
rent_min_usd / rent_max_usd	Monthly rent, or the low and high end of a range.
beds / baths / sqft	Bedroom count, bathroom count (fractional for a half bath), and square footage.
available_date	The date this unit is available, in ISO format.
pet_policy / pets_allowed	The raw pet policy lines, and a derived yes/no (detail enrichment only).
photo_urls / photo_count	Every full-size photo in the listing's gallery, not just the one preview thumbnail (detail enrichment only).
video_url	A video walkthrough link, when the listing has one (detail enrichment only).
apply_url	A direct link to the rental application for this unit (detail enrichment only).
description	The listing's full free-text description (detail enrichment only).
company_name / company_phone / company_website	The property manager's own listed contact info, company_website normalized into a real, complete URL (detail enrichment only).
error / source_url	null on a normal row. If a given listings page URL couldn't be reached or parsed, a row with error set to the reason and source_url set to that URL is written instead, so a broken input never just silently disappears.
is_new_listing	True the first time this unit has been seen (change tracking only).
previous_rent_usd / rent_change_usd	The rent your last run saw, and the difference (change tracking only).
days_on_market	Days since this unit was first seen by this actor (change tracking only).

Run via API and CLI

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/norm-data~appfolio-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listingUrls":["https://rivertonrentals.appfolio.com/listings/listings"],"includeDetails":true}'

$apify call norm-data/appfolio-scraper --input '{"listingUrls":["https://rivertonrentals.appfolio.com/listings/listings"]}'

Fetch results

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=json"
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?format=csv"

Billing and limits

You pay per result written, plus a separate event only for listings where detail enrichment actually ran. Change tracking adds no extra charge. Free plan runs are locked to a fixed 10 row sample with detail enrichment and change tracking off.

Base listings across many property managers move fast, around 3,000 rows in under a minute. Full detail enrichment is slower since it means one real request per unit to that property manager's own site, expect a fully enriched 3,000 row run to take a few minutes rather than under one.

FAQ and troubleshooting

Do I need to know every property manager's AppFolio URL myself? Yes. This actor reads the listings pages you give it; it doesn't maintain its own directory of every AppFolio customer.

Why did my run return 0 rows? Either the property manager currently has no vacant units, or your filters excluded everything available. You are not charged for a run that returns nothing.

One of my listing URLs was wrong or unreachable, what happens? That URL comes back as its own row with error set to the reason and everything else null, instead of silently vanishing from the results. Your other, working URLs are unaffected.

How do I get new-listing alerts? Turn on trackChanges and run this actor on a schedule. Every row after the first run on a given unit tells you whether it's new and how its rent has changed.

Why is a field like description often empty? Many property managers simply don't write one for every unit. This is a real gap in the source, not a parsing miss.

Is this an official AppFolio tool? No. This is an independent actor built on public AppFolio-hosted listings pages, not affiliated with or endorsed by AppFolio.

Local development

bun install
bun test
bun run src/main.ts