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Returns name, full address, GPS coordinates, photos, rent range, resident rating, up to 10 reviews, leasing phone and office hours for any US city.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "kgpX5eqmcytdb8upZ" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/scrapyx~rentcafe-rentals-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapyx-rentcafe-rentals-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/scrapyx~rentcafe-rentals-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapyx-rentcafe-rentals-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/scrapyx~rentcafe-rentals-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-scrapyx-rentcafe-rentals-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "locations": { "title": "Cities", "type": "array", "description": "US cities to crawl, as 'city-state' slugs or plain 'City, ST' text — 'austin-tx', 'Chicago, IL', 'seattle wa' all work. One crawl per entry, each with its own SEARCH_SUMMARY row. A slug RentCafe does not recognise returns a clean HTTP 404 (verified — it never silently falls back to statewide or nationwide listings), so a wrong guess costs you one honest ERROR row, never wrong data. Watch out for New York: its slug is 'new-york-city-ny', not 'new-york-ny'.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "propertyType": { "title": "Property type", "enum": [ "apartments", "houses", "townhomes", "condos" ], "type": "string", "description": "Which of RentCafe's four rental inventories to crawl. These are genuinely separate listing sets, not one list re-sliced — Austin apartments and Austin houses share zero property ids. Applies to every entry in 'Cities'.", "default": "apartments" }, "filters": { "title": "Filter (choose at most one)", "type": "array", "description": "An optional refinement applied to every city. RentCafe accepts only ONE filter per search — asking for two (e.g. 1-bedroom AND pet-friendly) produces a URL it answers with a 404, so this actor refuses the combination up front instead of silently dropping one. Every value here was verified to genuinely move the result count. Note 'pet-friendly' barely narrows most markets (14,105 of 14,299 in Austin) because most US stock allows pets.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "studio", "1-bedroom", "2-bedroom", "3-bedroom", "4-bedroom", "cheap", "luxury", "pet-friendly", "furnished", "short-term", "utilities-included", "under-500", "under-600", "under-700", "under-800", "under-900", "under-1000", "under-1100", "under-1200", "under-1300", "under-1400", "under-1500", "under-2000" ], "enumTitles": [ "Studio", "1 bedroom", "2 bedrooms", "3 bedrooms", "4 bedrooms", "Cheap", "Luxury", "Pet friendly", "Furnished", "Short term", "Utilities included", "Under $500", "Under $600", "Under $700", "Under $800", "Under $900", "Under $1,000", "Under $1,100", "Under $1,200", "Under $1,300", "Under $1,400", "Under $1,500", "Under $2,000" ] }, "default": [] }, "searchUrls": { "title": "Search URLs (optional)", "type": "array", "description": "Escape hatch: paste RentCafe search URLs copied from the site, e.g. https://www.rentcafe.com/apartments-for-rent/austin-tx/1-bedroom/. Each is parsed into the same city/type/filter triple as the fields above, so unverified filter segments are rejected rather than sent blind. RentCafe's own filter UI produces query-string URLs (?Bedroom=…&PriceMax=…) which its robots.txt disallows — those are refused; use the fields above instead.", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max properties per city", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Stop after this many properties per city. Set to 0 for unlimited — the crawl then walks every page the site's own pagination offers (Austin apartments: 14 pages, 332 properties). Note RentCafe's headline count ('14,299 Rentals') counts individual rentable UNITS, not properties; one dataset row is one property, so expect far fewer rows than that number.", "default": 100 }, "includePropertyDetails": { "title": "Fetch full property details", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each property's page via one extra request: the rent range (low/high), resident rating, up to 10 full resident reviews with text and dates, leasing phone number, office hours and the neighborhood breadcrumb. Worth keeping on — the search card carries NO structured price at all (rent appears only as free text). Turn it off for a fast address/geo-only crawl.", "default": true }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max concurrent requests", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 16, "type": "integer", "description": "How many requests may be in flight at once. This absorbs latency variance; it is NOT the throttle — the crawl rate is set by 'Minimum interval between requests' below.", "default": 5 }, "minRequestInterval": { "title": "Minimum interval between requests (seconds)", "minimum": 0.05, "maximum": 10, "type": "number", "description": "The actual speed control: the shortest gap between two requests to RentCafe, across all workers. RentCafe serves no bot challenge at all, which is worth preserving — an unthrottled crawl is how a WAF-free site stops being WAF-free. Values below 0.05s are clamped.", "default": 0.4 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "RentCafe runs no bot challenge at all (8/8 TLS profiles clean on search and detail), but Residential pinned to the US is the cloud default — container egress is a different posture than a home connection, and this is a US-only rental network.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }