🏠 Student Accommodation Scraper

🚀 Collect student housing listings in minutes. Search by city, category, and bathroom type. Export prices, locations, amenities, and availability. No coding, no account required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 15+ fields per listing · 🔍 City + category filters · 🏠 Accommodation data · 🚫 No auth required

The Student Accommodation Scraper collects student housing listings, returning 15+ fields per property: title, price, location, bedrooms, bathrooms, amenities, availability, images, and listing URL. Filter by city, accommodation category, and bathroom type.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Students, university housing offices, property managers, relocation services, real estate researchers	Housing search, market analysis, rent benchmarking, accommodation comparison, student services

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📋 What the Student Accommodation Scraper does

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste a listing page URL.
• 🏙️ City filter. Search by city slug.
• 📂 Category filter. Accommodation type categories.
• 🛁 Bathroom filter. Private or shared bathroom options.

💡 Why it matters: finding student housing means browsing dozens of listings one by one. This Actor exports structured accommodation data for comparison and analysis.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
startUrl	string	""	Direct listing page URL.
citySlug	string	""	City slug for location filter.
categorySlugs	array	[]	Accommodation categories.
bathroomTypes	array	[]	Private or shared bathroom.

Example: student housing in London.

{ "citySlug": "london", "maxItems": 50 }

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
📝 title	string	"Studio Apartment near UCL"
💰 price	string	"£250/week"
📍 location	string	"Bloomsbury, London"
🛏️ bedrooms	number	1
🛁 bathroomType	string	"Private"
🔗 url	string	"https://..."
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🏙️	City-based search. Find housing by location.
📂	Category filters. Accommodation types.
🛁	Bathroom filters. Private or shared.
💰	Price data. Weekly/monthly rent per listing.
⚡	Scalable. Quick lookups to full city sweeps.
🚫	No authentication. Public listing data.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Student Accommodation Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Listing site	Live per run	city, category, bathroom	⚡ 2 min
Manual browsing	Free	One at a time	Manual	UI only	🕒 Hours

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Student Accommodation Scraper page.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a city and filters.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

🎓 Students & Parents Compare housing options Track pricing by neighborhood Find accommodation near campus Build shortlists

🏢 Property & University Monitor market rent rates Track accommodation supply Build housing databases Benchmark against competitors

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating Student Accommodation Scraper

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• GitHub - Trigger from commits
• Google Drive - Export to Sheets

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more real estate and education scrapers.

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available listing data is collected.