Buyers, sellers, and real estate brokers can all benefit from a variety of real estate websites. These websites provide useful information such as rates, photos, location, rooms, and bathrooms. These websites can also be used to locate business properties.
The best part about these websites is that they provide real-time MLS listings. As a result, you may have access to a variety of real estate listings.
Trying to identify and extract real estate relevant data, on the other hand, can be a time-consuming and arduous task.
We’ll demonstrate when to use a real estate scraper like Scraping Intelligence today. We’ll show you how and when to crawl a real estate website for information that you can employ for things like:
- Comparison of costs
- Make a list of properties for potential clients.
- Observations on the industry
Before we guide you through the processes, keep in mind that certain real estate websites have blocks in place that prohibit you from scraping their content. Our customer support team would be pleased to assist you with any web scraping projects you may have.
Select a Real Estate Scraper
You will need to download and install our free real estate scraper for initiating. While there are other web scrapers available, we will be a good fit for you. It’s completely free to use and has several features that we believe you’ll find useful, such as scheduling and IP rotation.
Web Scraping a Real Estate Information
For instance, we will scrape residential properties that require the following requirements:
- Calgary real estate is available for purchase.
- A price range of $400,000 to $700,000 is available.
- It’s in the southwest quarter.
Scraping the Real Estate Results Page
1. Once you download real estate scraper and install it, open the app and click on the “New Project” and utilize the URL from Royal LePage’s results. Inside the app, the page will now be rendered.
2. A selection feature will be built immediately once the website has been rendered. If you don’t see the + sign next to the page selection, click it.
3. Go to the first address listed on the page by clicking on it. The address you clicked will become green, indicating that it has been chosen.
4. The other components you want to extract will now be suggested by our experts. The Yellow highlight will emphasize the remaining addresses on the page. The second address in the list should be selected. As they are selected, all of the things that were earlier enumerated have turned green.
5. Rename your option to “Address” in the left sidebar. You’ll see that each listing’s address and URL are now extracted by Scraping Intelligence.
6. Select the Relative Select command from the left sidebar by clicking the PLUS (+) sign next to every address selection.
7. Click on the first address of the listing on the page, then on the price, using the Relative Select command. You’ll notice an arrow connecting the two options.
8. Expand the new command you just made, and then eliminate the URL which is automatically extracted.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 to get the number of rooms, type of property, and city. Make care to title your new choices appropriately.
We will now select all of the information from the results page that we want to scrape. This is how your project should now look:
Scraping More Information from Every Real Estate Listing
We will now install a list where you can click on every listing page that we have selected and fetch further data from each page. In this situation, we will take the following:
- Description of the property
- Information on the property
- To begin, click the three dots next to the main template text on the left sidebar.
To begin, click the three dots beside the main template text on the left sidebar.
Rename your template to anything like “listing_results_page” or whatever you like. We use template to keep separate page layouts independent, and you may use them to structure your project.
Select the “Click” command using the PLUS(+) button next to your “address” selection. If this link is a “next page” button, a pop-up will display asking if you want to continue. Select “No” and type a new template name in the box next to Create New Template; in this case, listing_page will suffice.
2. This new template will now be created automatically by Scraping Intelligence, and the first property listing on the results page will be rendered.
3. Select one of the property’s photographs; it will be highlighted in green, while the other suggested images will be highlighted in yellow. To extract the photos, click on the following image in yellow.
4. Select the page command by clicking on the PLUS (+) icon next to it.
5. Tap on the property information description while using the select command. Keywords that purchasers look for when searching for a house are usually included in these descriptions, such as “open concept.”
6. Rename your choice to “property information” or whatever you like.
7. Now it’s time to extract the building’s characteristics! Select one of the labels under “building features” by clicking on the PLUS (+) sign next to the page instruction use pick select.
After you’ve chosen a label, click on the next yellow-highlighted label.
8. Your option should now be called building features.
9. Select the relative select command by clicking the PLUS (+) next to your “building features” selection.
10. Select the first label and then the feature. You may need to repeat this process a few times to get what you want to extract.
Your listing_page template will look like this:
Adding Pagination (Optional)
Depending on just how many entries you want to extract, you can add pagination to this application. Let’s look at how to deal with pagination in this project, which contains two results pages.
Let’s tell Scraper to go to the next page of results.
- Go to the listing results page template on the left sidebar. It’s also possible that you’ll need to switch the browser tab to the search results page.
- Must choose Select command by clicking on the PLUS(+) sign next to the page selection.
- Then, at the end of the Royal Lepage website, click the Next page option. Next button should be the name of the selection.
- This link’s text and URL will be extracted by default by Scraping Intelligence, so expand your new next button selection and remove these two commands.
- Now use the Click command on the PLUS (+) sign of your next button selection.
- If it is a “Next” link, a pop-up will display. Yes, and then select the number of pages you’d want to visit. We’ll scrape one more page in this situation.
Your Final Project will look something like this:
Executing and Exporting Real Estate Scraping Project
Now we’re ready to scrape Royal Lepage with our project. Simply navigate to the left sidebar and select the green “Get Data” option.
You’ll be sent to the following page:
You can use this to test, run, or schedule your project. We recommend performing a Test Run for longer and larger projects to ensure that your data is retrieved and formatted correctly.
However, for this application, click the “Run” option to start scraping.
You’ll be notified by email when the process has finished scraping the website, and you’ll be able to download your extracted data as an Excel/CSV or JSON file.
Conclusion
You now know how and when to scrape a real estate website like Royal Lepage for a list of available properties.
This list could be used to compare prices, provide to clients, and learn about the industry.
Please keep in mind that some real estate websites will prevent web scrapers from obtaining information. Our IP rotation feature will be required.
For any help with scraping real estate web site, you can feel free to contact Scraping Intelligence.
For more information or real estate data scraping services, you can contact Scraping Intelligence or ask for a free quote!
