🏠 Apartments.com Rental Scraper

🚀 Export apartment rental listings from Apartments.com with prices, amenities, and contact info in seconds. No account needed.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-21 · 📊 21 fields per record · Thousands of listings · Nationwide US coverage

Extract apartment rental data from Apartments.com at scale. This actor scrapes listing cards from search results pages and returns structured records with property details, rent ranges, bedroom counts, amenities, and contact information.

The data comes directly from Apartments.com's public search results - the same listings any visitor sees when searching by city or ZIP code.

Coverage: All US cities and ZIP codes supported by Apartments.com. Filter by bedroom count and maximum rent to target exactly what you need.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	What they use it for
Real estate analysts	Rental market pricing trends and inventory tracking
Property managers	Competitive rent benchmarking across neighborhoods
Tenant search tools	Aggregating listings for rental comparison apps
Researchers	Housing affordability and market availability studies

📋 What the Apartments.com Scraper does

• Searches any US city, neighborhood, or ZIP code for rental listings
• Captures property name, address, city, state, and ZIP code
• Extracts rent ranges (min and max across all unit types)
• Records bedroom availability (studio through 4+ bedrooms)
• Collects amenities list (Pool, Gym, Parking, Pets Allowed, etc.)
• Captures contact phone number per listing
• Returns property photo URL for each listing
• Paginates automatically to collect as many results as needed

💡 Why it matters: Apartments.com is one of the largest rental marketplaces in the US with millions of listings. Automated extraction saves hours of manual research and enables large-scale market analysis impossible to do by hand.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
location	string	City and state to search (e.g. "New York, NY")	New York, NY
maxItems	integer	Max listings to return (free: 10, paid: up to 1M)	10
minBedrooms	integer	Minimum bedrooms (0 = studio, 1, 2, 3, 4)	-
maxRent	integer	Maximum monthly rent in USD	-

Example - Basic search:

{
    "location": "Chicago, IL",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example - Filtered search:

{
    "location": "Los Angeles, CA",
    "minBedrooms": 2,
    "maxRent": 3000,
    "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free plan users are limited to 10 results per run. Upgrade to paid for up to 1,000,000 results.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	Property photo URL
🏢 propertyName	string	Building or complex name
🔗 url	string	Apartments.com listing URL
📍 address	string	Street address
🏙️ city	string	City
🗺️ state	string	Two-letter state code
📮 zipCode	string	ZIP code
💰 rentMin	integer	Lowest available rent (USD/month)
💰 rentMax	integer	Highest available rent (USD/month)
🛏️ bedroomsMin	integer	Minimum bedrooms (0 = studio)
🛏️ bedroomsMax	integer	Maximum bedrooms
🛁 bathrooms	number	Bathrooms (when available)
📐 sqftMin	integer	Minimum square footage
📐 sqftMax	integer	Maximum square footage
🏠 propertyType	string	Property type (Apartment, etc.)
🔢 unitCount	integer	Total units in property
📞 phone	string	Contact phone number
✨ amenities	array	List of amenities
⭐ rating	string	Property rating
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp
❌ error	string	Error message if applicable

Sample record:

{
    "imageUrl": "https://images1.apartments.com/i2/abc123/118/building-photo.jpg",
    "propertyName": "The Riverdale Tower",
    "url": "https://www.apartments.com/the-riverdale-tower-the-bronx-ny/db9r3kj/",
    "address": "3745 Riverdale Ave",
    "city": "The Bronx",
    "state": "NY",
    "zipCode": "10463",
    "rentMin": 2200,
    "rentMax": 3750,
    "bedroomsMin": 0,
    "bedroomsMax": 2,
    "bathrooms": null,
    "sqftMin": null,
    "sqftMax": null,
    "propertyType": "Apartment",
    "unitCount": null,
    "phone": "(718) 555-1234",
    "amenities": ["Pets Allowed", "Fitness Center", "Dishwasher", "Heat", "Elevator"],
    "rating": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-21T12:00:00.000Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Benefit
🛡️ Residential proxy rotation	Bypasses bot protection reliably
📄 HTML parsing	No API keys or authentication needed
🗺️ Any US location	Supports all cities and ZIP codes
🔍 Bedroom + rent filters	Narrow results to exactly what you need
⚡ Fast pagination	Collects hundreds of listings per minute
💾 Structured output	Clean JSON ready for spreadsheets or databases

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual browsing	Other scrapers
Speed	⚡ Automated	🐌 Very slow	Varies
Scale	Up to 1M items	Limited	Limited
Structured data	✅ Yes	❌ Manual copy	Partial
Filter support	✅ Beds + rent	✅ Yes	Varies
Cost	Pay per use	Free but slow	Varies

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (comes with $5 credit)
2. Open the Apartments.com Scraper actor page
3. Enter a US city (e.g. "Austin, TX") in the Location field
4. Optionally set bedroom filter and max rent
5. Click Start and wait for results
6. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Rental Market Research

Track rent prices across neighborhoods over time. Compare studio vs 2-bedroom pricing. Identify underpriced or overpriced markets for investment analysis.

Competitive Intelligence

Property managers can benchmark their listing prices against comparable units in the same ZIP code. Adjust pricing strategy based on real market data.

Tenant Tools

Build rental search aggregators, alert systems, or comparison tools that pull live listings across multiple locations simultaneously.

Academic Research

Study housing affordability, rent burden, and inventory trends across US cities. Correlate rental prices with employment data, demographics, or transit access.

🔌 Automating Apartments.com Scraper

Integrate with your workflow using Apify's built-in connectors:

• Make (Integromat) - Trigger on schedule, send results to Google Sheets
• Zapier - Connect to Airtable, Slack, or email notifications
• Slack - Daily rent digest for your team's target market
• Google Sheets - Auto-populate a rent tracking spreadsheet

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research: Study rent burden patterns across US metro areas. Analyze how bedroom count affects per-unit pricing.

Creative projects: Build a "rent heat map" visualization. Create a personal rental search dashboard.

Non-profit: Support affordable housing advocacy with data on market rates vs. income levels.

Experimentation: Test location-based pricing hypotheses. Explore seasonal rental market fluctuations.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI assistant: "How do I use the ParseForge Apartments.com Scraper to find 2-bedroom apartments under $2,500 in Austin, TX?" - and it will guide you through setup.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Does it require an Apartments.com account? No. All data is from public search results pages, no login needed.

❓ What US cities are supported? Any city or ZIP code that Apartments.com supports - which covers the entire United States.

❓ How many listings can I get? Free users get up to 10 per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 listings.

❓ How current is the data? Data is scraped in real time each run. Results reflect what's live on Apartments.com at that moment.

❓ Can I filter by apartment size? Use minBedrooms to set a minimum bedroom count. Filtering by exact bedroom count (e.g. exactly 2 bedrooms) requires post-processing the results.

❓ Are studio apartments included? Yes. Set minBedrooms: 0 to explicitly target studios, or leave it unset to get all unit types.

❓ Can I scrape multiple cities at once? Run the actor once per city. Use Apify's scheduling or Make/Zapier to automate multi-city runs.

❓ Why are some fields null? Fields like bathrooms, sqftMin, and sqftMax are not always shown on listing cards. They appear on individual property pages which this actor does not follow.

❓ Does it work with ZIP codes? Yes. Use the ZIP code as the location input (e.g. "10001") and it will resolve to the corresponding search results.

❓ Is the data legal to use? This actor accesses only publicly available information displayed on Apartments.com. Always comply with Apartments.com's terms of service and applicable laws when using scraped data.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Google Sheets - Airtable - Zapier - Make - Slack - Webhooks - REST API - BigQuery - Snowflake - AWS S3 - Excel - CSV - JSON - XML

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This actor is provided for educational and research purposes. Use responsibly and in accordance with Apartments.com's terms of service. ParseForge is not affiliated with Apartments.com or CoStar Group.