Scrape Zumper Rental Listings, Rents and Building Data

What we extract from Zumper

A Zumper scraper has to handle two record shapes. A building or complex record describes one address with many units: it carries a unit total, an amenity set, leasing office hours, ratings and a list of floorplan listings, each with its own listing id and price band. A single unit listing describes one home: one rent, one bed and bath count, one availability date. We keep those as two linked tables rather than flattening them, because a complex we read that lists 426 units and a rent range is not the same object as a studio at a fixed price.

Fields we extract from public Zumper pages, subject to what a record actually publishes:

• Identity and location: building id, listing id, upstream provider id and feed name, street address, city, state, zip, neighborhood, latitude and longitude, and the canonical URL.
• Price: asking rent, or the minimum and maximum of a floorplan band, a price change marker, and the price per bedroom map a geography carries from studio to four bedroom.
• Unit facts: bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, floorplan name, active and total unit counts, furnished flag and short term flag.
• Timing: date available, minimum and maximum lease days, lease type, and the created and modified timestamps.
• Cost beyond rent: deposits and fee rows with a name, an amount in cents, a min and a max, a cadence, and required and refundable flags.
• Pets: a per species policy row with cats and dogs held separately, a limit, an allowed flag and the restriction text.
• Amenities: readable amenity tags, building amenities, and the grouped amenity taxonomy with its group and nesting level values.
• Attribution: leasing office or agent name, brokerage name, company name, and the verification and pro flags on the poster record.
• Media: image ids and image URLs, with the Zumper and PadMapper fields kept apart.
• Offers: the specials text where a concession is running, plus year built and year remodelled.

Fees, pets and other structured detail

Some of the useful detail on Zumper is easy to miss on a first pass. Fee rows are structured rather than prose: each carries an amount in cents, a cadence, a required flag, a refundability value and a species field that is used when the charge is tied to a cat or a dog. Monthly trash, pest control and renters insurance charges can therefore be summed into a real monthly cost instead of being left inside a paragraph a human has to read.

Pet policy is stored per species with its own limit and restriction text, so a building that allows a cat or a dog but not both is representable without guesswork. Ratings arrive as numbered category scores alongside review text. Leasing office hours arrive as a weekday table. Amenities arrive twice, once as readable tags and once as a grouped taxonomy with a group number and a nesting level, which is what you want if you plan to normalise amenities across several sources.

Personal data. Some Zumper listings are posted by individual landlords rather than by a management company. Our default output is limited to listing and commercial data. Personal contact details are excluded, and we do not collect anything behind a login. Several US states now operate comprehensive consumer privacy statutes, so treating individual posters as people rather than as rows is the sensible default. Where a leasing office line is published as the contact for a managed building, that is a business number and can be kept if you ask for it.