AppFolio & Buildium Rentals Scraper

Scrape the rental listings of any property manager on AppFolio or Buildium. This AppFolio scraper and Buildium scraper reads a manager's public listings (the pages at <manager>.appfolio.com/listings and <manager>.managebuilding.com) and gives every vacancy in one normalized schema for both platforms: rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, full address split into street, city, state and zip, map coordinates (AppFolio), available date, pet policy, photo, listing link and apply link.

For Buildium managers it adds what each listing's own page shows: every photo with its caption, the features and amenities, the security deposit, lease terms, the date listed, the property type, and the leasing office's name, phone, email and address.

Paste a subdomain, an AppFolio or Buildium link, a single listing link, or simply the property manager's own website: the Actor finds its AppFolio or Buildium link for you. Filter by rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, state, city and pets, and schedule it to get only new listings and rent changes. No login, no browser. Pay only for the listings you get.

What you can do with this AppFolio and Buildium scraper

• Rental market research: asking rents, unit sizes and availability across the managers of a city or a whole portfolio, in one table.
• Real-estate investors and single-family rental funds: track what competing property managers list, at what rent, and how fast rents change.
• Lead generation for property-management services: Buildium managers with their leasing office phone and email (business contact data published on their listings).
• Rental listing aggregation and alerts: schedule a daily run with Only new listings and rent changes and receive only the vacancies posted, and the rents changed, since the last run.
• Relocation and housing teams: pet-friendly homes with three bedrooms under a budget, across the managers you work with.

How it works

• AppFolio: the manager's listings page (https://<manager>.appfolio.com/listings, then its numbered pages) holds every vacancy as a card with rent, beds and baths, square feet, availability, address, pet policy, utilities and appliances, and the page's map gives each listing's coordinates. AppFolio's robots.txt allows only these list pages and asks 10 seconds between requests, so the Actor reads nothing else and keeps that pace; a large manager (800+ listings, 3 pages) takes about 30 seconds.
• Buildium: one request reads the manager's public listing feed (/Resident/PublicPages/XMLRentals.ashx, the feed Buildium publishes for websites to embed listings), with the same listings as its rentals page and everything its listing pages show.
• A manager's own website: the Actor opens the page you give, finds its link to <manager>.appfolio.com or <manager>.managebuilding.com (a login, application or listings link), and reads that manager. If the home page names neither platform it opens the site's rentals page and looks there.
• Every site's robots.txt is read first and obeyed.

Input example

{
  "managers": [
    "https://evernest.appfolio.com/listings",
    "zoulproperties",
    "https://www.sdppm.com/"
  ],
  "maxRent": 2000,
  "minBedrooms": 3,
  "states": ["TX"],
  "maxListingsPerManager": 0
}

Field	What it does
Property managers	One per line: an AppFolio listings link, a Buildium rentals link, a single listing link of either, the subdomain alone (evernest: looked up on AppFolio, then on Buildium), or the manager's own website.
Maximum listings per manager	Stop each manager after this many listings; 0 reads all of them.
Include Buildium details	On by default: Buildium listings come with photos, features, deposit, lease terms, date listed and the leasing office contact. Off: as their list shows them, at the lower price.
Minimum / maximum rent	US$ a month. A listing without a rent is left out when a rent filter is set.
Minimum bedrooms / bathrooms	0 bedrooms includes studios; half baths count as 0.5.
States / Cities	Two-letter state codes (TX) and city names (San Antonio).
Only pet-friendly	Keep listings that say some pet is allowed.
Only new listings and rent changes	For schedules: deliver only listings an earlier run did not, and listings whose rent changed, with the earlier rent.

Output: AppFolio and Buildium rental listings

Each listing is one row in the same shape whatever its platform. A manager or link that gives no listing gets one free row with the reason (status other than ok). An AppFolio listing, a Buildium listing with details, and a free row:

[
  {
    "rowType": "listing",
    "status": "ok",
    "input": "https://evernest.appfolio.com/listings/detail/75b4676e-695d-4c68-b9b7-52731ed8e848",
    "platform": "appfolio",
    "managerId": "evernest",
    "managerName": null,
    "managerUrl": "https://evernest.appfolio.com/listings",
    "listingId": "75b4676e-695d-4c68-b9b7-52731ed8e848",
    "listingUrl": "https://evernest.appfolio.com/listings/detail/75b4676e-695d-4c68-b9b7-52731ed8e848",
    "applyUrl": "https://evernest.appfolio.com/listings/rental_applications/new?listable_uid=75b4676e-695d-4c68-b9b7-52731ed8e848&source=Website",
    "position": 2,
    "title": null,
    "address": "4423 Bonnell Drive Apt D, Hunstville, AL 35816",
    "street": "4423 Bonnell Drive Apt D",
    "city": "Hunstville",
    "state": "AL",
    "zip": "35816",
    "latitude": 34.7442724,
    "longitude": -86.6379711,
    "rent": 675,
    "rentText": "$675",
    "bedrooms": 1,
    "bathrooms": 1,
    "squareFeet": 703,
    "availableDate": "2026-11-08",
    "availableNow": false,
    "petsAllowed": true,
    "petPolicy": "Cats allowed, Small dogs allowed",
    "propertyType": null,
    "photoUrl": null,
    "description": null,
    "utilitiesIncluded": "$35 water/sewer bill to be charged in addition to rent. Owner pays for trash., Tenant must establish the rest of the ...",
    "features": [
      "Electric range",
      "refrigerator",
      "dishwasher"
    ],
    "change": null,
    "previousRent": null,
    "details": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T14:00:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "rowType": "listing",
    "status": "ok",
    "input": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals/151286",
    "platform": "buildium",
    "managerId": "zoulproperties",
    "managerName": "Zoul Properties",
    "managerUrl": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals",
    "listingId": "151286",
    "listingUrl": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/public/rentals/151286",
    "applyUrl": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/rental-application/account/register?listingId=151286&goToApplication=true",
    "position": 16,
    "title": "Woodland Park Ivanhoe - 1",
    "address": "106 County Road 5, Ivanhoe, MN 56142",
    "street": "106 County Road 5",
    "city": "Ivanhoe",
    "state": "MN",
    "zip": "56142",
    "latitude": null,
    "longitude": null,
    "rent": 650,
    "rentText": "$650",
    "bedrooms": 1,
    "bathrooms": 1,
    "squareFeet": 600,
    "availableDate": "2026-05-18",
    "availableNow": true,
    "petsAllowed": true,
    "petPolicy": "Cats allowed, Dogs allowed",
    "propertyType": "Apartment",
    "photoUrl": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/api/public/files/download/listingImages?fileName=585ce4528e2b49ab931144d2048decc6.jpg",
    "description": "1 BR Apartment For Rent. 1 BR/1 BA apartment for rent with water/sewer/trash/heat included. 2 BR available for $750/month. Subsidized rents available. Short term rentals available. Furnished units available for $950/month. Coin-op washer/dryer on site, community room. Some pets allowed. Managed by Zoul Properties.",
    "utilitiesIncluded": null,
    "features": [
      "Pet friendly",
      "Cable",
      "Air conditioner",
      "Refrigerator",
      "Laundry room / hookups",
      "Stove and oven",
      "Heat - electric"
    ],
    "change": null,
    "previousRent": null,
    "details": {
      "photos": [
        {
          "url": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/api/public/files/download/listingImages?fileName=585ce4528e2b49ab931144d2048decc6.jpg",
          "caption": null
        },
        {
          "url": "https://zoulproperties.managebuilding.com/Resident/api/public/files/download/listingImages?fileName=ee206b19c5cb4b3199191b79348b8786.jpg",
          "caption": null
        }
      ],
      "deposit": 650,
      "leaseTerms": null,
      "listedDate": "2026-05-18",
      "yearBuilt": null,
      "unitCount": 1,
      "contactName": "Zoul Properties - Ivanhoe",
      "contactPhone": "507-680-1047",
      "contactEmail": "info@zoulproperties.com",
      "officeAddress": "321 West 2nd Street, Grand Island, NE 68801"
    },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T14:00:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "rowType": "status",
    "status": "not_found",
    "input": "zzqxjvqnotapm",
    "platform": null,
    "managerId": "zzqxjvqnotapm",
    "url": "zzqxjvqnotapm",
    "reason": "No AppFolio or Buildium property manager is called \"zzqxjvqnotapm\": zzqxjvqnotapm.appfolio.com and zzqxjvqnotapm.managebuilding.com both answer \"not found\". Paste the manager's link or website instead.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T14:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

Rental listing fields

Field	Description
rowType, status, input, scrapedAt	listing rows (ok) are charged; status rows (no_results, not_found, invalid, unsupported, disallowed, duplicate, blocked, site_error) are free and carry url and reason. input is the line of your input the row came from; scrapedAt is when it was read (UTC, ISO 8601).
platform, managerId, managerName, managerUrl	appfolio or buildium, the manager's subdomain, its company name (Buildium; AppFolio's list page does not name the company), and its listings page.
listingId, listingUrl, applyUrl	The platform's listing id, the listing page and the rental application link.
position	The listing's place in the manager's list: AppFolio's page order (most recent first), Buildium's feed order.
title	AppFolio's headline when the manager wrote one; Buildium's property name.
address, street, city, state, zip	The address as written and split into parts.
latitude, longitude	AppFolio's map pin; Buildium publishes no coordinates.
rent, rentText	Monthly rent in US$ as a number (the lower end of a range) and as shown.
bedrooms, bathrooms, squareFeet	0 bedrooms is a studio.
availableDate, availableNow	The date the unit is available (YYYY-MM-DD) and whether it is available today ("NOW" or a past date).
petsAllowed, petPolicy	Whether some pet is allowed, and the policy as Cats allowed, Small dogs allowed.
propertyType	Buildium's type: House for Rent, Apartment, Duplex, Townhouse…
photoUrl	The main photo.
description	Buildium's full description; AppFolio's card text, which AppFolio itself cuts at about 400 characters.
utilitiesIncluded, features	AppFolio's utilities line; appliances and amenities (Buildium: with details).
change, previousRent	With Only new listings and rent changes: new or rent_changed, and the earlier rent.
details.photos	Buildium: every photo, in order, with its caption.
details.deposit, details.leaseTerms, details.listedDate	Buildium: security deposit, the manager's lease terms and qualifications, and the date listed.
details.yearBuilt, details.unitCount	Buildium: when given.
details.contactName, details.contactPhone, details.contactEmail, details.officeAddress	Buildium: the leasing office the listing names, and the management company's office address.

Pricing

Pay per event, no start fee:

• US$0.001 per listing (listing): an AppFolio listing, or a Buildium listing without details.
• US$0.002 per Buildium listing with details (listing-with-details).
• Free: rows for a manager with no listings, an unknown manager, a website without AppFolio or Buildium, a Propertyware link, a duplicate, or a site that stopped answering. Listings left out by your filters, or already delivered in monitor mode, are not charged.

Limits

• AppFolio listing pages are not read: AppFolio's robots.txt disallows them, so AppFolio rows carry what the list shows (no full description, no photo gallery, no office phone). AppFolio's 10-second crawl delay is kept per manager.
• Propertyware is not supported: its rental pages load their listings from webreq.propertyware.com/pw/, which its robots.txt closes to every crawler. Such links get a free disallowed row.
• There is no search across all managers: you bring the managers. A website that loads its listings by script from a platform this Actor does not read gets a free unsupported row.
• Only the managers' public listings are read: nothing behind a resident or owner login.

Is it legal to scrape AppFolio and Buildium rental listings?

This Actor reads only the rental listings property managers publish for prospective tenants, with no login, and obeys each site's robots.txt. It collects business contact data only (a leasing office's phone and email) and never tenant or owner data. You are responsible for how you use the data, including privacy and fair-housing rules where you work. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by AppFolio, Inc., Buildium or RealPage, or Propertyware.

Feedback

Found a manager whose listings come out wrong, or need another field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.