GET
Search
/api/apartments-com/search
Search US rentals by location, type, rent, bedrooms, and pet preference
Apartments.com API
US Rental Listings, Property Details, and Renter Resources
Search US rental listings, resolve locations, retrieve property details and fees, and enrich listings with reviews, mobility scores, college housing, and renter resources through one API.
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Structured JSON
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16
Endpoints
US
Rental market
JSON
Response format
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Make one request. Inspect structured JSON.
Use the first endpoint in this API family with a Scrappa API key. Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate the response shape before buying credits.
Request preview
Request
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/apartments-com/search?location=Chicago%2C%20IL&property_type=apartments&max_rent=2200" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"total": 13058,
"returned": 2,
"listings": [
{
"listing_key": "dsd9v8j",
"price": "$1,741+",
"latitude": 41.88,
"longitude": -87.63
}
]
}
}What you can build
Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.
Rental Search Applications
Build apartment finders, relocation tools, and rental-market dashboards with location, price, bedroom, property-type, and pet filters.
Property Data Enrichment
Enrich rental records with property details, fees, unit availability, reviews, mobility scores, and map data.
Student Housing Research
Connect college identity data and off-campus housing pages to rental listings for student-housing discovery and analysis.
Available endpoints
Everything you need in one API.
GET
Locations
/api/apartments-com/locations
Resolve free text to location candidates and geography ids
GET
Property
/api/apartments-com/property
Get full property details, amenities, availability, and freshness
GET
Property Placards
/api/apartments-com/property-placards
Get rich listing cards for a batch of property keys
GET
Property Fees
/api/apartments-com/property-fees
Get property, model, and unit fee details
GET
Property Units
/api/apartments-com/property-units
Get lease terms and move-in details for one unit
GET
Property Reviews
/api/apartments-com/property-reviews
Get renter reviews and the rating average
GET
Property Features
/api/apartments-com/property-features
Get tour, map-link, and rent-estimate feature configuration
GET
Property Walk Score
/api/apartments-com/property-walkscore
Get walk, transit, bike, and car scores for a property
GET
Property Map
/api/apartments-com/property-map
Get building data and points of interest for a property
GET
Property Virtual Tour
/api/apartments-com/property-virtual-tour
Get the units covered by a virtual tour
GET
Property URL
/api/apartments-com/property-url
Get the canonical public page for a listing key
GET
Sitemap Index
/api/apartments-com/sitemap-index
List sitemap files or expand one into listing keys
GET
Colleges
/api/apartments-com/colleges
Resolve college ids to identity and location data
GET
Renter Guides
/api/apartments-com/renter-guides
Get renter-guide index, articles, or neighborhood guides
GET
Student Housing Locations
/api/apartments-com/student-housing-locations
Get an off-campus housing page for a college
Scrappa vs Apartments.com official API
See how Scrappa compares to the official API.
| Feature | Scrappa | Apartments.com official API |
|---|---|---|
| Rental search | no official API | |
| Property detail | no official API | |
| Fees and lease terms | no official API | |
| Reviews with text | no official API | |
| Location autocomplete | no official API | |
| Student housing and college data | no official API | |
| Contract or access approval needed | ||
| Billing setup required |
Rental search
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Property detail
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Fees and lease terms
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Reviews with text
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Location autocomplete
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Student housing and college data
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
no official API
Contract or access approval needed
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
Billing setup required
Scrappa:
Apartments.com official API:
Key features
US rental search with location and property filters
Property details, fees, units, reviews, and features
Walk scores, property maps, and virtual-tour coverage
Sitemap-based listing-key enumeration
College, renter-guide, and student-housing data
Structured JSON responses with API-key authentication
Frequently asked questions
No. Apartments.com publishes no developer portal and offers no public rental-search API. Scrappa gives you structured access to the same listing data without a contract, an access request, or a custom integration.
Not on its own. One search call returns a total count plus at most 500 listings, and every response names that cap rather than pretending to be complete. For full-inventory coverage, use the sitemap endpoint to enumerate listing keys and then read the ones you need.
Yes, but not as a search filter. Apartments.com does not accept townhome as a criteria.type value, and sending one returns an empty result rather than an error. Read the placards endpoint and filter on listingType 16 client side instead.
As fresh as the source. Property detail responses carry the upstream last modified date, a relative freshness label, and the rent matrix date, so you can always see how current a listing is. Prices and availability change daily.
One. Property detail, fees, reviews, lease terms, walk scores, and maps are separate endpoints, each billed separately, so no response ever hides a second lookup inside a single charge.