Real Estate Scraping

Real-Estate Scraping

Property portals are some of the most JSON-friendly targets on the web. Most render listing data server-side and embed it in __NEXT_DATA__ / __NUXT__ or a JSON-LD block, or load it from an internal search API you can call directly — so you rarely need a browser. The fields that matter for almost every use case:

• Price — asking price (sale) or monthly rent; watch for currency, "price on request", and per-sqft figures.
• Configuration — BHK / bedrooms + bathrooms, furnishing status, property type (apartment, villa, plot, PG, commercial).
• Area — carpet, built-up, and super built-up area (and the unit — sqft vs sqm).
• Location — locality, city, full address, and lat/lng coordinates for mapping and comps.
• Listing meta — floor / total floors, listing age, sale-vs-rent, photos.
• Source — agent vs owner-direct, agent/brokerage name, and (in India) the RERA registration ID.

Common use cases: price monitoring, market/area analysis, rental comps, and lead generation for agents.

Ready-made scrapers

These are maintained, pay-per-result scrapers — anti-bot upkeep and field extraction are handled for you.

| Target | Scraper | From | Notes | |--------|---------|------|-------| | Rightmove (UK) | Rightmove | $0.002/result | for-sale + to-rent, agent data, coords, 20+ fields | | 99acres (India) | 99acres | $0.003/result | rent/buy/PG/commercial, RERA ID, 40+ fields | | MagicBricks (India) | MagicBricks | $0.003/result | rent/buy, BHK/area/floor/furnishing | | NoBroker (India) | NoBroker | $0.003/result | owner-direct, no brokerage | | CommonFloor (India) | CommonFloor | $0.003/result | rent/buy/PG, 25+ fields | | Craigslist (housing) | Craigslist | $0.0015/result | apartments/rooms by city |

Run one

Each scraper returns listing rows as JSON. Run one from the command line:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/thirdwatch~rightmove-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "location": "London",
    "listingType": "for-sale",
    "maxResults": 25
  }'

Get a free token at console.apify.com. Exact input fields are on each actor's Store page (linked in the table above).

Build your own

No maintained scraper for the portal you need? Start with web-scraping-playbook for the build-vs-buy decision and the cost-first technique ladder (try the internal search API / embedded JSON before reaching for a browser). If the site fights back with Cloudflare, DataDome, or similar, see anti-bot-scraping. To package your scraper as a deployable, monetizable Apify Actor, see apify-actor-builder.

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Maintained by Thirdwatch. 70+ ready-made scrapers on the Apify Store.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: thirdwatch-dev
• Source: thirdwatch-dev/scraping-skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.