D.R. Horton Scraper

Extract new-home data from drhorton.com, America's largest homebuilder, at scale. This actor pulls entire states of communities and quick move-in homes in seconds, with firm prices, monthly payment estimates, floor plans, square footage, amenities, and map coordinates.

Why this scraper?

• Three record types, one run: communities (neighbourhood summaries), quick move-in homes (move-in-ready homes with firm prices), and floor plans (model name, code, specs).
• Whole states in two requests: one state returns every community and every move-in home D.R. Horton lists there, hundreds of records, in two calls.
• 40+ fields per record, including monthly payment estimates, original vs current price (so you can spot price drops), lot numbers, plan codes, and GPS coordinates.
• Datacenter-friendly: the data source returns full results over datacenter connections, so you do not pay for premium residential traffic. Residential remains available as an option.
• Search or URL mode: pick states from a list, or paste any drhorton.com state, market, city, or community page.
• Built-in cost controls: a residential traffic budget with automatic downgrade to datacenter, plus a hard record cap.
• Resilient: automatic retries, connection rotation, health monitoring, and a backup connection gateway for failover.

Data you get

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

Community record

Field	Example
recordType	community
communityName	Sample Community
brand	Express Series
propertyType	Single family
address	Sample City, ST 00000
url	https://www.drhorton.com/state/market/city/sample-community
imageUrl	https://www.drhorton.com/-/media/.../000000000.jpg
sellingStatus	Now Selling
availableHomes	6
latitude / longitude	33.0000 / -87.0000
minBeds / maxBeds	3 / 4
minBaths / maxBaths	2 / 2.5
minSqft / maxSqft	1272 / 2164
minPrice / maxPrice	244400 / 294900
amenities	["Granite Countertops", "HOA"]

Quick move-in home record

Field	Example
recordType	home
address	100 Sample Drive
price	347900
originalPrice	355900
monthlyPayment	1964.52
bedrooms / bathrooms / garages	4 / 3 / 3
sqft	2273
lot	0000
series	Tradition Series
city / market	Sample City / Sample Market
latitude / longitude	33.0000 / -87.0000
pending / underContract / sold	false / false / false
url	https://www.drhorton.com/state/market/city/community/qmis/100-sample-drive

Floor plan record

Field	Example
recordType	plan
planName	The Sample
planCode	SMPL
brandName	Express Series
sqft	1618
bedrooms / bathrooms / garages	3 / 2 / 2
price	269900
status	Available
communityPhone	000-000-0000
communityHours	[{"dayOfWeek": "Monday", "opens": "10:00", "closes": "18:00"}]
url	https://www.drhorton.com/state/market/city/community/floor-plans/smpl

Floor plan records also include communityAddressDetail (full postal address) and communityHours (sales office opening hours), pulled from the community page during the detail crawl.

Every record also includes a raw object with all original source fields, so no field is ever lost.

How to use

Scrape one state (communities + move-in homes):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "states": ["Texas"],
  "includeCommunities": true,
  "includeQmiHomes": true,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Scrape several states, move-in homes only:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "states": ["Florida", "Georgia", "South Carolina"],
  "includeCommunities": false,
  "includeQmiHomes": true,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Add floor plans (detail crawl):

{
  "mode": "search",
  "states": ["Arizona"],
  "includeFloorPlans": true,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Scrape specific pages (URL mode):

{
  "mode": "url",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.drhorton.com/texas/dallas",
    "https://www.drhorton.com/florida"
  ],
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	"search" iterates states; "url" scrapes pasted URLs.
states	array	["Texas"]	States to scrape in search mode.
includeCommunities	boolean	true	Output one record per community.
includeQmiHomes	boolean	true	Output one record per quick move-in home.
includeFloorPlans	boolean	false	Output one record per floor plan (fetches one extra page per community; billed separately).
startUrls	array	-	drhorton.com state, market, city, or community URLs (url mode).
maxItems	integer	20	Stop after this many records. The default keeps a trial run small; set 0 for no limit (hundreds of records per state).
proxy	object	Apify datacenter	Connection settings. Datacenter is the cheapest reliable option here.
maxResidentialMB	integer	0	Residential traffic budget in MB; after the cap the run auto-downgrades to datacenter. 0 means no cap.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe the scraped results into the apps you already use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. This is an extra delivery step after the scrape — the Apify dataset is never changed.

What gets written to the connector: a condensed, human-readable summary of each record — not the full JSON. Each item becomes one entry with a title and its key fields flattened to plain text. The complete record always stays in the Apify dataset.

1. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations (Notion, Linear, Airtable, or Apify).
2. Select it in the "Pipe results into your apps" input field. (If the picker is empty, you haven't authorized a connector yet.)
3. For Notion, also set notionParentPageUrl to the page where items should be created.

The connection is mediated by Apify's MCP proxy, so this actor never sees your third-party credentials. Leave the field empty to skip.

Output example

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders.

{
  "recordType": "home",
  "id": "home:/state/market/city/community/qmis/100-sample-drive",
  "state": "Texas",
  "address": "100 Sample Drive",
  "lot": "0000",
  "url": "https://www.drhorton.com/state/market/city/community/qmis/100-sample-drive",
  "communityName": "Sample Community",
  "communityUrl": "https://www.drhorton.com/state/market/city/community",
  "price": 347900,
  "originalPrice": 355900,
  "monthlyPayment": 1964.52,
  "bedrooms": 4,
  "bathrooms": 3,
  "garages": 3,
  "stories": 1,
  "sqft": 2273,
  "propertyType": "Single Family",
  "series": "Tradition Series",
  "city": "Sample City",
  "market": "Sample Market",
  "latitude": 33.0000,
  "longitude": -87.0000,
  "pending": false,
  "underContract": false,
  "sold": false
}

Plan requirement

This actor runs on Apify datacenter connections by default, which work on every plan including the Free tier. Residential connections are optional and only needed if datacenter is ever blocked; they require a Starter plan or higher. For the lowest cost, keep the default datacenter setting and leave the residential traffic budget at 0.