Cookbook·Real estate·apartments.com

Scrape listings on apartments.com

The call that returns listings from apartments.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026.

99.1% success · Aug 2026Browser neededStandard price · 1 credit

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.1%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 100% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 11.5s.

Among the 6 real estate sites in the Cookbook, apartments.com sits at 3 of 6 by success rate; the category median is 99.1%. Its median answer of 11.5s is slower than the category median of 3.2s. 3 of the 6 accept the plain token; this one needs the JavaScript token.

The call

Product pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real product URL from the site.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_JS_TOKEN&country=US&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apartments.com%2Fexample-page"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryUS41.3% of successful calls set it and they succeed at 99.6%; calls without a country succeed at 98.9%.
javascriptuse the JavaScript token100% of calls use the JavaScript token and succeed at 99.2%. The plain token was tried too rarely (0 calls) to say anything about it.

URL patterns accounts fetch

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/{slug}21.5%100%USnone
/{slug}/{slug}20.5%100%USnone
/property-management/{slug}/{slug}7.3%100%USnone
/{slug}/{slug}/{slug}3.3%100%USnone

Fields you get

A product page usually carries an ld+json Product block with name, price, currency and availability, and the same values in the visible markup. Read the block first; it changes less often than the layout.

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

403: 78.0% of failures A 403 is the site refusing the exit. Set the country the successful calls use and retry once; a second 403 means the URL itself is protected.
0: 6.4% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.
591, 530: 10.7% of failures together A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

A catalogue refresh is a list of product URLs. Push it to the Crawler with a callback, let it pace the calls and retry what the site refuses, and read the results from Cloud Storage. The median answer on this site is 11.5s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape apartments.com?

Yes for most pages. JavaScript-token calls succeed at 99.2% while plain-token calls reach -%.

How much does a apartments.com page cost on Crawlbase?

1 credit without a browser. apartments.com is in the standard tier.

Which country should I set for apartments.com?

US: that is what 41.3% of successful calls use.

Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly