# Suumo Scraper (`normdata/suumo-scraper`) Actor

Every nearby supermarket, konbini, and drugstore with its exact walking distance, plus the full amenities list, energy and insulation ratings, and listing freshness dates for any Suumo rental in Japan. Paste a real Suumo search URL and every filter is honored, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/suumo-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.50 / 1,000 listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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## 🏠 Suumo Scraper

Search **Suumo**, Japan's largest rental listings site, with no login: every nearby supermarket, convenience store, and drugstore with its exact walking distance, a full amenities list, energy and insulation ratings, listing freshness dates, and agent contact, well beyond rent and floor plan.

Paste a real Suumo search URL or a list of listing URLs, and get export-ready data for relocation services, rental market research, and listing monitoring.

### 🎯 Who uses it?

#### 🚚 Relocation & expat housing services

Amenities, nearby facilities, and station access for matching clients to real listings.

#### 📈 Rental market researchers

Pricing, layout, and area trends by ward or station.

#### 🔔 Listing monitors

Track last-updated and next-update dates to catch genuinely fresh listings.

#### 🏢 Property comparison tools

A consistent, structured record per room for building comparison tables.

### ✨ What it does

- **Search:** paste a real Suumo search-results URL and this Actor walks every page of it, one row per real room.
- **Detail:** enrich a specific list of listing URLs directly.
- **Optional full detail:** adds, on every row, exact-distance nearby facilities, the full amenities tag list, energy and insulation performance, insurance, guarantor terms, transaction type, total units, free-text agent notes, listing last-updated and next-update dates, and agent contact.

Missing source values are returned as `null`, never invented.

### Why this scraper

- **Nearby facilities with exact walking distances, structured.** Not a vague "near shops" tag, the real supermarket, convenience store, or drugstore name, category, and distance in meters, parsed into clean fields.
- **A full amenities list, not a summary.** 20 to 28 real tags per listing (layout details, guarantor requirements, gas type, network availability, and more), not a handful of headline features.
- **Listing freshness you can actually monitor.** Real last-updated and next-scheduled-update dates on every enriched row.
- **Reliable under real load.** Tested at 1,000 rooms with zero duplicates and zero missing core fields.
- **No login, no API key.** Just a real Suumo search URL.

### How it compares

Checked directly against the closest real competitor on Apify (their own declared input/output):

| Capability | This actor | Closest competitor |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| Nearby facilities with exact distances | **yes** | not documented |
| Full amenities tag list | **yes** | not documented |
| Listing last-updated / next-update dates | **yes** | not documented |
| Every real Suumo search filter honored | **yes, via real search URL** | yes |
| Tested at 1,000-row scale | **yes, verified clean** | not documented |

### 📦 What data you get

| Entity | Useful fields |
| --- | --- |
| Listing | Building name and type, address, station access, floor, rent, management fee, deposit, key money, layout, area, orientation, structure, built date, and real listing photos. |
| Nearby & amenities | Every nearby facility with its name, category, and exact distance in meters, plus the full amenities tag list. |
| Building performance | Energy performance, insulation performance, insurance, guarantor requirement, parking, move-in terms, and other initial costs. |
| Freshness & contact | Real last-updated and next-scheduled-update dates, agent name and phone, transaction type, and total units. |

Every record includes `scraped_at` (UTC). Download your dataset from Apify as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

### 💡 Use cases

#### 🔎 Search a real Suumo URL

```json
{ "mode": "search", "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30" }
```

#### 🧩 Search with full details on every room

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30",
  "fetchDetails": true
}
```

#### 📇 Enrich specific listings

```json
{ "mode": "detail", "detailUrls": ["https://suumo.jp/chintai/bc_100527528612/"] }
```

### ⚙️ How the input is organised

Pick a **mode** and a **maximum results** cap first, then fill in the matching section:

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Search mode** | A real Suumo search-results URL (copy it from your browser after setting filters on suumo.jp), plus how many pages to walk and whether to fetch full detail on every room. |
| **Detail mode** | A list of specific Suumo listing URLs to enrich directly. |

> **Apify Free plan:** every run is limited to a fixed 10-row sample. Upgrade your Apify plan to run your own settings.

### 🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only Suumo's own public listing pages. It never signs in and never accesses anything gated behind an account.

`energy_performance` and `insulation_performance` are usually null because Suumo itself leaves these blank on most real listings, especially older buildings, a real gap in what's disclosed, not something this Actor can fill in. Coverage in this version is rental listings; Suumo's own sale and land verticals are not yet included.

If a listing page can't be loaded, its row is still saved with whatever was available plus an `error` field.

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

### Local development

```bash
bun install
bun test                       # offline: parsing, normalization (real fixtures)
bun run src/main.ts             # reads storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
```

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/normdata/suumo-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Search: paste a real Suumo search-results URL (copy it straight from your browser after setting filters on suumo.jp) and this Actor walks every page of it. Detail: enrich a list of specific listing URLs directly.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many rows this run writes.

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

A real Suumo rental search-results URL. Set your filters (area, price, layout, etc.) on suumo.jp itself, then copy the resulting URL here - every one of Suumo's own real filters is honored this way.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many real search-result pages are walked (each page holds several buildings, each with one or more real rooms).

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Opens each room's own real listing page for nearby facilities (with exact distances), the full amenities list, energy/insulation performance, insurance, guarantor terms, listing freshness dates, and agent contact. Slower - only enable if you need these fields.

## `detailUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more real Suumo listing URLs (e.g. https://suumo.jp/chintai/bc\_100527528612/).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30",
  "maxPages": 3,
  "fetchDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

Complete dataset with all scraped rows.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Overview view with key fields displayed in a table.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30",
    "maxPages": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/suumo-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "search",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30",
    "maxPages": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/suumo-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "search",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchUrl": "https://suumo.jp/jj/chintai/ichiran/FR301FC001/?ar=030&bs=040&ta=13&sc=13104&pc=30",
  "maxPages": 3
}' |
apify call normdata/suumo-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/suumo-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5uf9LJFDvO6lnWBp1/builds/Cc25HspaziCYokwVM/openapi.json