RentCafe Scraper

Pull US apartment and rental listings from RentCafe at scale — rent ranges, floorplans with per-bedroom starting prices, structured addresses with latitude/longitude, amenities, photo galleries, star ratings, and verified leasing contacts for every apartment community. Built for rental-market analysts, relocation and PropTech platforms, and multifamily lead-generation teams who need clean, structured RentCafe data without copy-pasting listings by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• Latitude and longitude on every property — each community ships map-ready geo coordinates, so listings drop straight onto a map or into a radius query with no geocoding step.
• Structured floorplan array with per-bedroom starting rents — every property carries a floorplans list where each entry pairs a bedroom label ("Studio", "1 Bed", "2 Beds") with its starting rent as both a display string and a parsed number.
• Verified leasing phone + online-leasing URL — the leasing office phone and the direct apply/lease-online link come attached to each row, ready for outreach or handoff.
• Star ratings with review counts — the resident rating and the number of reviews behind it land on every property for reputation filtering and ranking.
• True photo gallery counts, not just previews — photosCount reports the full gallery size (often 20–70 images) alongside a set of preview photo URLs and a hasVideo flag.
• Rent parsed into priceMin and priceMax — the human "$1,114 – $1,685" range is kept and also split into clean numeric min/max fields you can sort and filter on directly.
• Search 50 US states by "City, ST" or ZIP — or paste a URL — type "Austin, TX" or "78701" and the actor builds the RentCafe search for you; any price, bedroom, or amenity filter already in a pasted URL is applied automatically.
• Batch many cities and URLs in one run — queue a whole list of locations and search URLs in a single invocation and get every community in one dataset, deduplicated by property.
• Availability and freshness signals — unitsAvailable, a verified-listing flag, and a last-updated marker show which communities are actively renting right now.

Use Cases

Rental Market Research

• Map median and range rents by city, neighborhood, or ZIP
• Compare price-per-bedroom across submarkets using the floorplan array
• Track available-unit counts to gauge supply and vacancy pressure
• Benchmark amenity offerings across competing communities

Relocation & PropTech

• Power apartment-search and relocation tools with map-ready geo coordinates
• Build "communities near me" experiences from latitude/longitude
• Feed rent ranges and floorplans into affordability calculators
• Surface actively-renting communities with available units for movers

Lead Generation

• Build leasing-office contact lists with property name, phone, and apply link
• Target management companies operating in specific metros
• Assemble outreach lists for vendors selling into multifamily operators
• Route verified listings with open units straight into a CRM

Investment & Competitive Analysis

• Compare a property's rents against nearby communities for underwriting
• Track star ratings and review counts as a reputation signal
• Monitor rent movements over repeated runs on the same searches
• Identify management companies expanding into a target market

Getting Started

Search by City or ZIP

The simplest way to start — just type a location, no URL required:

{
    "searchLocations": ["Austin, TX"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Paste a Filtered RentCafe URL

Any filters already in the URL — price, bedrooms, property type — are applied automatically:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/az/phoenix/?PriceMin=1000&PriceMax=2000"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Multi-City Batch

Mix locations and URLs, cap the run, and drop floorplans for a lighter result:

{
    "searchLocations": ["Dallas, TX", "78701"],
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/az/phoenix/"
    ],
    "maxResults": 500,
    "includeFloorplans": false
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	["https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/az/phoenix/"]	Paste RentCafe search-result URLs. Any filters already in the URL — price, bedrooms, property type, location — are applied automatically. Add as many URLs as you like to scrape several searches in one run.
searchLocations	array	[]	Search by typing a city and state (for example "Austin, TX") or a ZIP code (for example "78701"). No need to build a URL yourself — the scraper finds the matching RentCafe search for you.

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of properties to return across all URLs and searches. Set to 0 for unlimited. Start with 10–50 to test, then increase.
includeFloorplans	boolean	true	Include the list of floorplans for each property (bedrooms and starting rent). Turn this off for a lighter result with just the overall price range.

Output

Each result is one apartment community, with its floorplans nested inside:

{
    "propertyId": "1234567",
    "name": "The Maxwell Apartments",
    "companyName": "Greystar",
    "description": "Modern apartment living in the heart of downtown with resort-style amenities.",
    "url": "https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments/az/phoenix/the-maxwell/default.aspx",
    "onlineLeasingUrl": "https://www.rentcafe.com/onlineleasing/the-maxwell/apply.aspx",
    "phone": "(602) 555-0142",
    "address": {
        "street": "125 N Central Ave",
        "city": "Phoenix",
        "state": "AZ",
        "zip": "85004"
    },
    "addressFormatted": "125 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004",
    "latitude": 33.4515,
    "longitude": -112.0740,
    "priceRange": "$1,114 - $1,685",
    "priceMin": 1114,
    "priceMax": 1685,
    "beds": "Studio - 2 Beds",
    "baths": "1 - 2",
    "area": "520 - 1,050 Sq Ft",
    "amenities": ["Pool", "Fitness Center", "In-Unit Laundry", "Covered Parking"],
    "photos": ["https://cdn.rentcafe.com/the-maxwell/photo-1.jpg"],
    "photosCount": 34,
    "hasVideo": true,
    "starRating": 4.5,
    "reviewsCount": 128,
    "unitsAvailable": 12,
    "unitsAvailableLabel": "12 Units available",
    "verifiedListing": true,
    "isFavorite": false,
    "lastUpdatedDate": "Today",
    "searchUrl": "https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/us/az/phoenix/",
    "floorplans": [
        { "beds": "Studio", "rent": "$1,114", "rentValue": 1114 },
        { "beds": "1 Bed", "rent": "$1,340", "rentValue": 1340 },
        { "beds": "2 Beds", "rent": "$1,685", "rentValue": 1685 }
    ]
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
propertyId	string	Unique RentCafe property identifier
name	string	Apartment community name
companyName	string	Management company display name
description	string	Marketing description of the community
url	string	RentCafe property detail page URL
onlineLeasingUrl	string	Direct online leasing / apply URL
phone	string	Leasing office phone number
searchUrl	string	The search URL or location this property came from

Address & Location

Field	Type	Description
address	object	Structured address: street, city, state, zip
addressFormatted	string	Full single-line address
latitude	number	Latitude
longitude	number	Longitude

Pricing & Size

Field	Type	Description
priceRange	string	Rent range as displayed, e.g. "$1,114 - $1,685"
priceMin	number	Minimum rent, parsed to a number
priceMax	number	Maximum rent, parsed to a number
beds	string	Bedroom range, e.g. "Studio - 2 Beds"
baths	string	Bathroom range
area	string	Square-footage range

Floorplans, Media & Amenities

Field	Type	Description
floorplans	object[]	Nested floorplans, each with beds, rent (display string), and rentValue (parsed number). Present when includeFloorplans is on
amenities	string[]	Human-readable amenity labels
photos	string[]	Preview photo gallery image URLs
photosCount	integer	Full photo gallery size
hasVideo	boolean	Whether the property has video

Ratings & Availability

Field	Type	Description
starRating	number	Average resident star rating
reviewsCount	integer	Number of resident reviews
unitsAvailable	integer	Number of available units, parsed to a number
unitsAvailableLabel	string	Available-units text as displayed, e.g. "12 Units available"
verifiedListing	boolean	Verified-listing flag
isFavorite	boolean	Whether the listing is marked as a favorite
lastUpdatedDate	string	When the listing was last updated, e.g. "Today"

Tips for Best Results

• Start small — set maxResults to 10–50 on your first run to confirm the data matches your needs, then scale up.
• Type a location instead of building a URL — "Austin, TX" or "78701" is faster and more reliable than hand-crafting a RentCafe search link.
• Embed filters directly in a pasted URL — apply the price and bedroom filters on RentCafe first, then paste that finished URL; every PriceMin, PriceMax, and bedroom filter in it carries straight through.
• Use a ZIP for precise micro-markets — a ZIP code targets a single submarket far more tightly than a whole city, ideal for comps and neighborhood-level analysis.
• Batch a whole metro at once — drop several city URLs or locations into one run; results are deduplicated by property, so overlapping searches never double-count a community.
• Turn off floorplans for lighter output — set includeFloorplans to false when you only need the overall price range, addresses, and contacts.
• Sort on priceMin / priceMax, not priceRange — the numeric min/max fields sort and filter cleanly, while the display range is text meant for reading.

Pricing

From $2.50 per 1,000 results — flat pay-per-result, no matter how many floorplans, photos, or amenities a community carries. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.30	$0.28	$0.265	$0.25
1,000	$3.00	$2.80	$2.65	$2.50
10,000	$30.00	$28.00	$26.50	$25.00
100,000	$300.00	$280.00	$265.00	$250.00

A "result" is one apartment community row in the output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Platform fees depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate rental-market research, relocation services, and lead generation. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and RentCafe's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose. Be mindful of fair housing regulations when using rental and location data.