CommercialCafe Scraper

CommercialCafe Scraper

Scrape commercial real estate listings from CommercialCafe by city, state, or property type, up to a million per run. Each listing comes with its address, size, asking rent or sale price, broker contacts, and full property details. No login or API key. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.

CommercialCafe's public search pages hold thousands of office, industrial, retail, multifamily, and land listings across the US and Canada, but there is no official API and manual copying is slow. This Actor reads those pages directly, filters by location, property type, and lease or sale, and returns each match in one fixed schema. You can also paste any CommercialCafe search URL to scrape exactly what you see.

Who uses it	What they scrape CommercialCafe for
Commercial real estate brokers	Monitor new lease and sale listings in their market before clients see them
Market researchers	Track asking rents and sale prices by property type across metro areas
Investors and asset managers	Build a pipeline of on-market office, industrial, and retail properties
Data analysts	Feed clean CommercialCafe listing data into BI tools or valuation models

What it does

This Actor collects CommercialCafe commercial real estate listings by search URL or by country, state, city, property type, and listing type, and returns each one as a flat row.

• 📍 Location search: pick a country, state, and city, or leave city empty to scrape an entire state.
• 🏢 Property type filter: office, industrial, retail, flex, land, special purpose, multifamily, or coworking.
• 💰 Lease or sale: filter to for-lease, for-sale, or all listings.
• 🔗 Direct URLs: paste any CommercialCafe search URL and the scraper follows it exactly.
• 📄 Detail pages: optionally visit each property page for full description, broker info, amenities, floors, year built, and image gallery.
• ⚡ Fast mode: disable detail fetching to collect listing-card fields only and finish runs faster.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

What you can do with CommercialCafe data

📈 Track asking rents by market.

A market researcher scrapes all for-lease office listings in New York City each week and charts asking rent per square foot to spot pricing trends.

🏭 Build an industrial property pipeline.

An investor scrapes industrial listings for sale across Texas and filters by size to shortlist warehouses that fit their acquisition criteria.

🤝 Find broker contacts for outreach.

A commercial real estate agent scrapes retail listings in Chicago with detail pages enabled to collect broker names and phone numbers for cold outreach.

🗺️ Compare metro areas.

A data analyst scrapes multifamily listings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle and joins the datasets to compare asking rents and vacancy signals.

Why choose this scraper

	What you get
No API key or login	Scrape public CommercialCafe pages without registering an app or waiting for approval
Full property details	Get address, size, asking rent or sale price, broker contacts, and more in one row
US and Canada coverage	Search all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico, and every Canadian province
Flexible input	Use a search URL or build a search from location and property type fields
Export anywhere	Download as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or push to Apify storage

How it compares

No other Store actor targets CommercialCafe the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	CommercialCafe Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When CommercialCafe changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

Configure the run

Drive the Actor from CommercialCafe search URLs or from country, state, city, property type, and listing type filters, and filters run as each listing is read so only matches reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.

A first run with the defaults:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.commercialcafe.com/commercial-real-estate/us/ny/new-york/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}

A larger pull:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.commercialcafe.com/commercial-real-estate/us/ny/new-york/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.125 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.

Results collected	Approximate cost
100 results	$12.50
1,000 results	$125.00
10,000 results	$1250.00

New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.

Free users

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the CommercialCafe Scraper.
3. Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to CommercialCafe through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/commercialcafe-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

Troubleshooting

Why am I getting no results?

Check your filters. If you set a city slug that does not match CommercialCafe's format, the search may return nothing. Try using a direct search URL from the site instead.

Why are some fields empty?

If Fetch Details is disabled, you only get listing-card fields. Enable it to collect broker info, full description, amenities, and more. Some listings may also have missing data on CommercialCafe itself.

Why is the run slow?

Fetch Details visits every property page, which takes time. Disable it if you only need listing-card fields, or reduce the maximum listings count.

Why did I get fewer results than expected?

CommercialCafe may paginate results, and the scraper stops at your maximum listings limit. Increase the limit or narrow your filters to a smaller area.

Can I scrape a specific property page?

Yes. Paste the property URL into Start URLs. The scraper will treat it as a single listing and return its details.

FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a CommercialCafe account or API key?	No. The scraper reads public listing pages directly. No login, no API registration, no rate-limit headaches.
Can I scrape a specific city or state?	Yes. Use the country, state, and city fields to build a search. Leave city empty to scrape the entire state, or paste a CommercialCafe search URL for exact control.
What property types are supported?	Office, industrial, retail, flex, land, special purpose, multifamily, and coworking. You can filter by one type or leave it on all types.
Can I get both lease and sale listings?	Yes. Set listing type to for-lease, for-sale, or all listings. The default is all.
What extra fields do I get when I enable Fetch Details?	Broker info, full description, amenities, floors, year built, and the full image gallery. Without it, you get only the fields visible on the listing card.
How many listings can I scrape in one run?	Up to 1,000,000. Set the maximum listings field to control how many rows you want.
Does this work for Canada?	Yes. Choose Canada as the country and pick a province like Ontario, British Columbia, or Quebec. City slugs work the same way.
Can I scrape a search URL I already have?	Yes. Paste any CommercialCafe search URL into the Start URLs field and the scraper will follow it exactly, ignoring the location and property type filters.
What format is the output?	Each listing is a flat row with consistent fields. You can export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML from Apify.
Is this legal?	You should only scrape public data that you are allowed to access. Check CommercialCafe's terms of service and your local laws before scraping.

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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CommercialCafe, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.