We extract house tours, product recommendations, style categorisations, and high resolution image metadata from Apartment Therapy. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for House Tours objects from apartmenttherapy.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/brooklyn-apartment-tour-photos-12345", "title": "A Colourful Brooklyn Apartment", "location": "Brooklyn, New York", "square_footage": 850, "style": "Maximalist", "rent_or_own": "Rent", "years_lived_in": 3, "image_urls": "['https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/v2/image/1.jpg', 'https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/v2/image/2.jpg']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Shopping Guides objects from apartmenttherapy.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/best-sofas-2026", "product_name": "Sven Sofa", "product_brand": "Article", "product_price": 1299.0, "category": "Furniture", "affiliate_url": "https://go.skimresources.com/?id=...", "image_url": "https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/v2/image/sofa.jpg"
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Complete list of extractable fields for DIY Projects objects from apartmenttherapy.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/diy-painted-arch", "title": "How to Paint an Arch", "difficulty": "Beginner", "cost_estimate": 45.0, "time_estimate": "3 hours", "materials_list": "["Painter's tape", 'Wall paint', 'Roller', 'String']", "publish_date": "2026-03-12T14:30:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Before and After objects from apartmenttherapy.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/kitchen-renovation-before-after", "title": "A $5000 Kitchen Remodel", "room_type": "Kitchen", "budget": 5000, "duration": "4 weeks", "before_image_urls": "['https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/v2/image/b1.jpg']", "after_image_urls": "['https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/v2/image/a1.jpg']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from apartmenttherapy.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "AT-AUTH-902", "name": "Jane Doe", "role": "House Tour Editor", "article_count": 342, "first_published": "2021-04-10", "last_published": "2026-05-14", "social_links": "['https://instagram.com/janedoe']"
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Our scraper handles editorial layouts, lazy loaded galleries, and infinite scroll pagination to deliver clean, structured interior design intelligence.
Extract square footage, location, rent versus own status, years lived in, and interior design style from unstructured tour introductions.
Bypass lazy loading to capture the highest resolution image URLs available in the CDN for every gallery and article.
Resolve Skimlinks and other affiliate redirect URLs to capture the actual target retailer and product page.
Parse editorial text into structured arrays for materials, time estimates, cost estimates, and step by step instructions.
Extract and normalise Apartment Therapy's internal taxonomy for room types, colours, and design styles.
Align image sets and extract budget and timeline metrics from renovation case studies.
Monitor prolific contributors, track their publication velocity, and extract biographical metadata.
Execute JavaScript to trigger infinite scroll events and capture complete historical archives of category pages.
Configure continuous pipelines to track new content publication at daily or hourly cadences.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide category URLs, author profiles, or search terms. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, handle infinite scroll, and set up DOM parsing rules.
Schema validation, null rate checks, and image URL verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Extracting structured data from an editorial CMS requires heavy DOM normalisation. Here is how we maintain pipeline stability.
Apartment Therapy uses heavy lazy loading for high resolution images to optimise page speed. We run full Playwright browser sessions with scroll simulation to trigger image hydration in the DOM.
Category pages rely on infinite scroll rather than static pagination. Our crawlers intercept XHR requests and simulate scroll events to exhaust the content feed reliably.
Shopping guides use Skimlinks and other affiliate networks. We follow 301 and 302 redirects to capture the final destination URL, revealing the actual brand and product.
Editorial content varies wildly in structure. We use multi layer fallback chains and natural language heuristics to extract consistent metrics like square footage from unstructured paragraphs.
We utilise residential ISP proxies and realistic browser fingerprints to bypass basic Cloudflare and WAF protections without triggering rate limits.
Interior design brands analyse colour palettes, styles, and furniture types across thousands of house tours to forecast consumer trends.
Retailers track competitor brand mentions and product placements within shopping guides and editorial recommendations.
Agencies extract staging inspiration and correlate design styles with specific neighbourhoods and square footage metrics.
Machine learning teams ingest high resolution interior images mapped to style and room type metadata to train generative models.
Publishers identify high engagement DIY topics, average project costs, and time investments to inform their own editorial calendars.
Marketing teams detect sponsored posts and brand partnerships to analyse competitor media spend and placement strategy.
"Apartment Therapy holds a decade of interior design trends, but extracting consistent metadata from editorial content requires heavy DOM normalisation."
Editorial sites present unique scraping challenges: inconsistent article templates, heavily lazy loaded image galleries, and infinite scroll pagination. DataFlirt handles the JavaScript execution and schema mapping so your data science team receives clean, normalised records ready for analysis.
Everything supported by our apartmenttherapy.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, scroll events, and interaction flows required for editorial sites.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies to bypass WAF protections and rate limits during high volume historical archive extractions.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About apartmenttherapy.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available editorial content is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non authenticated articles, images, and metadata. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use Playwright to simulate user scrolling, which triggers the lazy loading scripts. We then capture the network requests or parse the hydrated DOM to extract the highest resolution CDN URLs available.
Yes. Our crawlers follow the HTTP 301 and 302 redirect chains generated by Skimlinks and other affiliate networks to record the final destination URL, brand, and product page.
Editorial sites lack strict schemas. We use multi layer CSS and XPath selectors combined with regex and natural language processing heuristics to extract consistent fields like budget, square footage, and location from varied text formats.
We can configure pipelines to poll category feeds and author pages at hourly cadences, ensuring new articles and house tours are extracted within 60 minutes of publication.
Yes. We can execute a one off historical crawl to extract all accessible past content within specific categories, followed by a continuous pipeline for new publications.
Our smallest packages start at a defined category or author list with weekly delivery. For full site archives or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a full archive of House Tours or a continuous feed of new DIY projects, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
