BiggerPockets Scraper

BiggerPockets Scraper

Scrape BiggerPockets forum topics, replies, and user profiles from every real estate investing forum on BiggerPockets.com — no login, no BiggerPockets API. The BiggerPockets Scraper turns the largest real estate investing community into structured JSON you can analyze, monitor, or feed into a CRM.

Pull newest, trending, or unanswered topics from any of 50+ forums, filter by replies, votes, views, and keyword, optionally attach full comment threads, and enrich with author profiles — all in one run.

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Actor: parsebird/bigger-pockets-scraper (Apify). Scrapes BiggerPockets forums (biggerpockets.com/forums). Call with ApifyClient.
Input JSON fields:
  mode: "forumLatest" | "forumTrending" | "forumUnanswered" | "multiForum" | "byTopicIds" | "byTopicUrls" | "byUsernames"  (default "forumLatest")
  forumId: string numeric forum id, e.g. "88" (Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice) — used by forumLatest/forumTrending/forumUnanswered
  forumIds: string[] of forum ids — used by multiForum
  sortBy: "newest" | "trending" | "unanswered"  (multiForum only, default "newest")
  topicIds: string[] numeric topic ids — used by byTopicIds
  topicUrls: string[] full biggerpockets.com topic URLs — used by byTopicUrls
  usernames: string[] — used by byUsernames
  includeComments: bool (default false), maxCommentsPerTopic: int (default 50)
  minReplies: int, minVotes: int, minViews: int, containsKeyword: string (title/body substring, case-insensitive)
  maxItems: int (default 50, also the number of billed results), maxPagesPerForum: int (default 3)
  proxyConfiguration: { "useApifyProxy": true }
Output: one dataset item per record. recordType "topic" (topicId, forumId, category, title, slug, body, authorName, authorUsername, authorUrl, createdAt, publishedAt, modifiedAt, commentCount, likeCount, viewCount, topicUrl, scrapedAt), "comment" (commentId, topicId, forumId, category, body, authorName, authorUsername, authorUrl, createdAt, likeCount, commentUrl, scrapedAt), "user" (userId, username, name, description, jobTitle, avatarUrl, profileUrl, postsMade, votesReceived, followingCount, followerCount, scrapedAt). All fields are omit-empty.
Example: { "mode": "forumLatest", "forumId": "88", "maxItems": 50 }
API: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parsebird~bigger-pockets-scraper  ·  Get a token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What does BiggerPockets Scraper do?

BiggerPockets is the biggest online community for real estate investors, with millions of forum posts about deals, financing, landlording, and market trends. This BiggerPockets scraper extracts that discussion data at scale:

• 📋 Forum topics — newest, trending-now, or unanswered threads from any forum, with body text, author, and engagement counts.
• 💬 Full reply threads — every comment on a topic, with author and like count, when includeComments is on.
• 👤 User profiles — bio, job title, posts made, likes given, and follower / following counts by username.
• 🏷️ All 50+ forums — Real Estate Deal Analysis, BRRRR, House Hacking, Wholesaling, Short-Term Rentals, Creative Financing, Tenant Screening, Market Trends & Data, and more, as a simple dropdown.
• 🔎 Engagement filters — keep only topics above a reply, vote, or view threshold, or matching a keyword in the title or body.
• 🧭 Seven modes — crawl a forum, scan many forums at once, or look up specific topics and users by ID, URL, or username.

Common uses: investor-question lead generation for agents, lenders, and wholesalers (forumUnanswered); market and sentiment research (containsKeyword); competitive monitoring of a niche; building a dataset for analysis or an LLM knowledge base.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	Yes	forumLatest	forumLatest, forumTrending, forumUnanswered, multiForum, byTopicIds, byTopicUrls, or byUsernames.
forumId	string	No	88	Forum to crawl in the single-forum modes. Numeric ID from the dropdown or a /forums/<id> URL.
forumIds	array	No	—	Forum IDs to scan in multiForum mode, e.g. ["48", "853", "311"].
sortBy	string	No	newest	Ordering for each forum in multiForum mode: newest, trending, or unanswered.
topicIds	array	No	—	Numeric topic IDs for byTopicIds mode.
topicUrls	array	No	—	Full BiggerPockets topic URLs for byTopicUrls mode.
usernames	array	No	—	Usernames (the /users/<username> slug) for byUsernames mode.
includeComments	boolean	No	false	Also scrape every reply and emit one record per comment.
maxCommentsPerTopic	integer	No	50	Cap on comments scraped per topic.
minReplies	integer	No	0	Keep only topics with at least this many replies.
minVotes	integer	No	0	Keep only topics with at least this many votes.
minViews	integer	No	0	Keep only topics with at least this many views.
containsKeyword	string	No	—	Case-insensitive substring that must appear in the topic title or body.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum output records (topics + comments + users). Also the number of billed results.
maxPagesPerForum	integer	No	3	Forum listing pages to crawl per forum (25 topics per page).
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings. BiggerPockets does not block datacenter IPs, so the default is enough.

Example inputs

Get the 50 newest deal-analysis topics:

{ "mode": "forumLatest", "forumId": "88", "maxItems": 50 }

Scan multiple investing forums for trending topics with an engagement filter:

{
  "mode": "multiForum",
  "forumIds": ["48", "853", "311", "922", "432"],
  "sortBy": "trending",
  "minVotes": 3,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerForum": 3
}

Pull a specific topic with its full reply thread:

{
  "mode": "byTopicUrls",
  "topicUrls": ["https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property"],
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerTopic": 100,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Find unanswered questions (lead-gen for agents / lenders / wholesalers):

{ "mode": "forumUnanswered", "forumId": "12", "maxItems": 50 }

Pull user profiles:

{ "mode": "byUsernames", "usernames": ["sparkrental", "abelc2"], "maxItems": 50 }

Keyword research — finance topics mentioning "DSCR":

{
  "mode": "multiForum",
  "forumIds": ["49", "22", "50"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "containsKeyword": "DSCR",
  "includeComments": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPagesPerForum": 5
}

Forum catalog

All active BiggerPockets forums ship as a dropdown. A few of the most popular IDs:

ID	Forum	ID	Forum
88	Real Estate Deal Analysis & Advice	853	BRRRR - Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat
311	Buying & Selling Real Estate	922	House Hacking
48	General Real Estate Investing	530	Short-Term & Vacation Rental Discussions
52	General Landlording & Rental Properties	925	Medium-Term Rentals
93	Wholesaling	67	Rehabbing & House Flipping
50	Creative Real Estate Financing	432	Multi-Family and Apartment Investing
49	Private Lending & Conventional Mortgage Advice	32	Commercial Real Estate Investing
12	Starting Out	903	First-Time Home Buyer
897	Tenant Screening	899	Managing Your Property
921	Market Trends & Data	963	Out of State Investing
51	Tax, SDIRAs & Cost Segregation	104	1031 Exchanges
960	Syndications & Passive Real Estate Investing	888	Real Estate News & Current Events

What data can you extract from BiggerPockets?

Topic record (recordType: "topic")

Field	Description
topicId	Numeric topic ID
forumId	Numeric forum ID
category	Forum name, e.g. "Buying & Selling Real Estate"
title	Topic title
slug	URL slug
body	Full opening-post text
authorName / authorUsername / authorUrl	Topic author
createdAt / publishedAt / modifiedAt	ISO 8601 timestamps
commentCount	Number of replies
likeCount	Number of votes
viewCount	Number of views
topicUrl	Canonical topic URL
scrapedAt	When this record was captured

Comment record (recordType: "comment")

Field	Description
commentId	Numeric comment (post) ID
topicId / forumId / category	Parent topic context
body	Comment text
authorName / authorUsername / authorUrl	Comment author
createdAt	ISO 8601 timestamp
likeCount	Votes on the comment
commentUrl	Deep link to the comment
scrapedAt	When this record was captured

User record (recordType: "user")

Field	Description
userId	Numeric user ID
username / name	Handle and display name
description	Profile bio
jobTitle	Self-reported role, e.g. "Investor"
avatarUrl / profileUrl	Avatar image and profile page
postsMade	Lifetime posts
votesReceived	Lifetime votes received on the user's posts
followingCount / followerCount	Follow graph counts
scrapedAt	When this record was captured

All output is omit-empty — a field that would be null, an empty string, an empty list, or an empty object is left out entirely, at every depth.

Output example

{
  "recordType": "topic",
  "topicId": 1288127,
  "forumId": 311,
  "category": "Buying & Selling Real Estate",
  "title": "Thinking about this property",
  "slug": "thinking-about-this-property",
  "body": "I'm a first-time buyer looking to use an FHA loan to house hack...",
  "authorName": "Eddie Germosen",
  "authorUsername": "eddieg118",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/eddieg118",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-12T17:48:36-07:00",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T19:43:43-07:00",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-05-20T19:43:43-07:00",
  "commentCount": 16,
  "likeCount": 2,
  "viewCount": 144,
  "topicUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T03:14:15.972+00:00"
}

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "commentId": 7217617,
  "topicId": 1288127,
  "forumId": 311,
  "category": "Buying & Selling Real Estate",
  "body": "Hello Eddie, Are both units the same size?...",
  "authorName": "Abel Curiel",
  "authorUsername": "abelc2",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/abelc2",
  "createdAt": "2026-05-12T18:31:22-07:00",
  "likeCount": 0,
  "commentUrl": "https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1288127-thinking-about-this-property#post_7217617",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T03:14:16.124+00:00"
}

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML from the Storage tab or the API.

Use cases

• Lead generation — run forumUnanswered on Starting Out, Private Lending, or Tax forums to find investors asking questions your service answers.
• Market research — track how often "DSCR", "assumable", "rate buydown", or a metro name shows up across finance and deal forums over time.
• Content and SEO — mine real investor questions for blog posts, FAQs, and courses.
• Competitive monitoring — watch the Real Estate Technology and "Ask About A Real Estate Company" forums for mentions of your product or a competitor.
• Community analytics — measure engagement, top contributors, and topic velocity per forum.
• LLM training data — build a domain corpus of real estate Q&A with full threads.

How it works

1. Discovery — for forum modes, the scraper reads the forum listing (25 topics per page) up to maxPagesPerForum, in the order you chose (newest, trending, or unanswered).
2. Pre-filter — minReplies, minVotes, and containsKeyword are applied from the listing data before any topic page is fetched, so filtered runs stay cheap.
3. Detail — each surviving topic page is parsed for the full body, timestamps, and view count; minViews is applied here, and containsKeyword is re-checked against the full body.
4. Comments — when includeComments is on, every reply page is walked up to maxCommentsPerTopic.
5. Users — byUsernames reads each profile page directly.
6. Records stream to the dataset as they are produced and stop at maxItems.

Pricing

This actor is pay per result. You are charged once per output record (a topic, a comment, or a user profile).

Plan	Price per 1,000 results
Free	$3.99
Bronze	$3.49
Silver	$2.99
Gold	$2.49

maxItems is the exact number of billed results — set it to control spend. Pulling 50 topics on the Free plan costs about $0.20. Apify's monthly free platform usage covers small runs.

How to scrape BiggerPockets

1. Click Try for free and sign in to Apify.
2. Choose a mode — start with forumLatest.
3. Pick a forum from the dropdown (or paste forum IDs for multiForum).
4. Optionally set includeComments, engagement filters, or containsKeyword.
5. Set maxItems (start low, e.g. 25).
6. Click Start and watch results appear in the Output tab.
7. Export from Storage, or pull results via the Apify API.

Run it via API

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/bigger-pockets-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "forumLatest",
    "forumId": "88",
    "maxItems": 50,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/bigger-pockets-scraper').call({
    mode: 'multiForum',
    forumIds: ['48', '853', '311'],
    sortBy: 'trending',
    minVotes: 3,
    maxItems: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Schedule recurring runs, wire up webhooks, or push results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, and more with Apify integrations.

FAQ

Do I need a BiggerPockets account or API key? No. The BiggerPockets Scraper reads public forum pages only. BiggerPockets has no public forums API — this actor is the alternative.

How current is the data? Live. Each run reads BiggerPockets at that moment. Use Apify's scheduler to keep a dataset fresh.

Can I get every reply on a long thread? Yes. Set includeComments: true and raise maxCommentsPerTopic. The scraper walks every comment page.

What does maxItems count? Every output record — topics, comments, and user profiles combined. It is also exactly what you are billed for.

Why are some topics missing from my results? They were removed by the engagement filters (minReplies, minVotes, minViews, containsKeyword) or the topic was deleted by a moderator after appearing in the listing.

A run took longer than usual or a few items came back with less detail — why? BiggerPockets' edge occasionally rate-limits automated traffic for short windows. The scraper retries automatically and falls back to residential IPs; if a topic's detail page still can't be loaded, that topic is returned from the forum listing instead (full title, author, counts, and a preview of the body). Re-running usually fills in anything that was thin.

How do I find a forum ID? Open any forum on BiggerPockets and read the number in the /forums/<id> URL, or use the dropdown in this actor's input.

Is scraping BiggerPockets legal? See below.

Something's not working. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and the run link — we respond quickly.

Is it legal to scrape BiggerPockets?

Scraping publicly available pages is legal in the US and most jurisdictions, and this actor only accesses content any logged-out visitor can see. It does not collect private messages, gated content, or bypass any login. You are responsible for how you use the data — respect BiggerPockets' Terms of Use, do not republish personal data of EU/UK residents without a lawful basis, and consult a lawyer if you are unsure. See Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping.

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