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👁 Zumper Rental Scraper

Zumper Rental Listings Scraper

Scrape rental listings, building details, and rent-market data from Zumper.com — one of the largest US rental platforms. Extract apartments, houses, condos, and rooms with prices, amenities, photos, neighborhood data, individual floorplan units, and historical rent trends.

Features

• Search mode — Scrape city listing pages with full pagination (25 listings/page).
• Detail mode — Scrape individual building pages for the full description and every rentable unit (floorplan-level prices, beds, baths, sqft, availability).
• Rent research mode — Market data: median & average rent, 24-month history, and rent distribution by bedroom count (studio → 4+ bed).
• Property types — Apartments, houses, condos, rooms.
• Neighborhood drill-down — Optionally enumerate and scrape every neighborhood within each city.
• Deduplication — The same listing appearing in city + neighborhood views is pushed only once.
• Anti-bot handling — Runs a real browser to clear Zumper's JavaScript challenge automatically.

Input

Modes

• SEARCH — builds URLs from cities × propertyTypes, paginates, and emits one listing record per unit/building.
• DETAIL — visits each URL in startUrls and emits one building record (full description + all floorplan units).
• RENT_RESEARCH — emits one market-data record per city.

Example: NYC apartments

{"mode":"SEARCH","cities":["new-york-ny"],"propertyTypes":["apartments"],"maxPages":5}

Example: Full building details

{
"mode":"DETAIL",
"startUrls":[
"https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p1528434/the-highland-east-new-york-new-york-ny"
]
}

Example: SF rent trends

{"mode":"RENT_RESEARCH","cities":["san-francisco-ca"]}

City slug format

{city-name-hyphenated}-{state-abbrev-lowercase}

Output

Listing output (SEARCH)

38 fields per listing. sqftMin/sqftMax/leaseMinDays/leaseMaxDays are null when Zumper doesn't publish them.

{
"listingId":63457759,
"buildingId":2022915,
"buildingName":"The Highland",
"address":"2840 Atlantic Avenue",
"city":"New York",
"state":"NY",
"zipcode":"11207",
"neighborhood":"East New York",
"lat":40.6763085,
"lng":-73.8890418,
"priceMin":2300,
"priceMax":3688,
"previousPrice":null,
"bedroomsMin":0,
"bedroomsMax":2,
"bathroomsMin":0,
"bathroomsMax":2,
"sqftMin":null,
"sqftMax":null,
"leaseMinDays":null,
"leaseMaxDays":null,
"floorplanCount":9,
"propertyType":"apartment",
"dateAvailable":null,
"listedOn":"2026-06-11",
"modifiedOn":"2026-06-15",
"rating":9.4,
"petsAllowed":[],
"amenities":["Granite Countertop","Stainless Steel Appliances","Floor-To-Ceiling Windows"],
"buildingAmenities":["Fitness Center","Rooftop Lounge","Co-working lounge"],
"phone":"(516) 619-3153",
"agentName":"Bushburg Properties",
"brokerageName":null,
"isFeatured":false,
"hasFees":false,
"images":["https://img.zumpercdn.com/873992950/1280x960"],
"url":"https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p1528434/the-highland-east-new-york-new-york-ny",
"description":null
}

Building output (DETAIL)

One record per building, with a nested units array (one entry per rentable floorplan).

{
"buildingId":2022915,
"name":"The Highland",
"description":"Housed in what was formerly the Empire State Dairy Company, The Highland …",
"address":"2840 Atlantic Avenue",
"formattedAddress":"2840 Atlantic Avenue, New York, NY 11207, USA",
"city":"New York",
"state":"NY",
"zipcode":"11207",
"neighborhood":"East New York",
"citySlug":"new-york-ny",
"lat":40.6763085,
"lng":-73.8890418,
"yearBuilt":null,
"floors":null,
"phone":"(516) 619-3153",
"agentName":"Bushburg Properties",
"brokerageName":null,
"petsAllowed":["Large Dogs","Cats"],
"amenities":["Fitness Center","Rooftop Lounge"],
"hasFees":false,
"images":["https://img.zumpercdn.com/873992950/1280x960"],
"unitCount":9,
"units":[
{
"listingId":63457779,
"title":"Unit 324",
"priceMin":2300,
"priceMax":2300,
"bedrooms":0,
"bathrooms":0,
"halfBathrooms":0,
"sqft":null,
"dateAvailable":null,
"propertyType":"apartment",
"amenities":["Floor-To-Ceiling Windows","Vinyl Plank Flooring"],
"images":["https://img.zumpercdn.com/873993321/1280x960"],
"url":"https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p1528434/the-highland-east-new-york-new-york-ny"
}
],
"url":"https://www.zumper.com/apartment-buildings/p1528434/the-highland-east-new-york-new-york-ny"
}

Market data output (RENT_RESEARCH)

{
"city":"New York",
"state":"NY",
"citySlug":"new-york-ny",
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-15",
"rentData":{
"studio":{"medianRent":3895,"averageRent":4048.12,"averageSqft":412,"count":1470,"rentRanges":[{"label":"$0 - $1,500","percent":1.85}],"monthlyHistory":[{"date":"2024-06","medianRent":3800}]},
"oneBed":{"medianRent":4750,"averageRent":4912.02,"averageSqft":600,"count":3147,"rentRanges":[],"monthlyHistory":[]},
"twoBed":{"medianRent":5600,"averageRent":6182.17,"averageSqft":900,"count":2381,"rentRanges":[],"monthlyHistory":[]},
"threeBed":{"medianRent":6195,"averageRent":7130.08,"averageSqft":1200,"count":1196,"rentRanges":[],"monthlyHistory":[]},
"fourBedPlus":{"medianRent":7300,"averageRent":8839.63,"averageSqft":1500,"count":315,"rentRanges":[],"monthlyHistory":[]}
}
}

Any bedroom type with no data is null.

How it works

Zumper is a React app served behind a non-interactive JavaScript anti-bot challenge — a plain HTTP request only ever returns a small "Client Challenge" shell, never the real content. This actor therefore drives a real headless browser (Playwright + Chromium):

1. Builds seed URLs from the input (or uses startUrls in DETAIL mode).
2. Loads each page in a browser, which automatically executes the challenge and reloads with the real content.
3. Reads the server-rendered window.__PRELOADED_STATE__ JSON embedded in the page and parses it with a brace-matching scanner (robust to the ~400 KB blob and trailing scripts).
4. Normalizes records (deduplicating by ID, cleaning Zumper's sentinel "unknown" values), then paginates and optionally enqueues neighborhoods / rent research.

A JSON-LD extraction utility is included as a resilience aid if the embedded-state format ever changes.

Pricing

Designed for Pay Per Result — e.g. $0.015 per listing, building, or market-data record (configure in the Apify console). Because each page runs a browser, residential proxy + compute costs are higher than a plain HTTP scraper; per-result pricing keeps that predictable for you.

Limitations & notes

• 25 listings per search page (Zumper's pagination size); use maxPages to control depth.
• Residential proxies are strongly recommended — datacenter IPs are challenged far more aggressively.
• DETAIL expects building pages (/apartment-buildings/p…). The full description and per-unit prices live only on these pages, not in search results.
• Polite by default: capped concurrency and request rate.

Development

npminstall
npm run build
npmtest# 38 unit tests (extraction + normalization)
npm start # runs locally against ./storage with an INPUT.json

The unit tests cover the pure extraction/normalization logic (no network). To smoke-test the browser pipeline locally, drop an INPUT.json into storage/key_value_stores/default/ and run npm start.