# Homely.com.au: Buy, Rent, Sold, Agents, Suburbs Reviews (`abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper`) Actor Scrape Homely.com.au properties for sale, rent, and sold, plus agent finder, suburb reviews, ratings, and Q\&A. Search by suburb or use URLs. Returns 50+ fields, including price, beds, baths, parking, geo, agent contacts, photos, and inspections. - **URL**: https://apify.com/abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [AbotAPI](https://apify.com/abotapi) (community) - **Categories:** Real estate, Automation, Social media - **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Homely.com.au Scraper - Buy, Rent, Sold, Agents, Suburb Reviews & Q&A Scrape everything that matters on Homely.com.au, Australia's community-driven property portal - in one actor: - 🏠 **Buy** - properties for sale - 🔑 **Rent** - properties for rent - 💰 **Sold** - sold/completed listings with sold dates - 👤 **Agent Finder** - agents *and* offices/agencies, with contact details - 🌟 **Suburb Review** - community suburb ratings, pros/cons and full reviews - ❓ **Questions** - community Q&A for any suburb Search by suburb name, or paste exact Homely URLs. Datacenter-friendly, with optional one-click export into Notion, Linear, Airtable or Apify via MCP connectors. --- ### What you get | Mode | Records | Highlights | |------|---------|-----------| | **Buy / Rent / Sold** | one per listing | price (+ parsed numeric value), beds/baths/cars, property type, full address + GPS, agent names & phones, office, all photos, inspections, auction, days on market; Rent adds bond + available date; Sold adds sold date + sold price | | **Agents** | one per agent | name, profile URL, **email + mobile + office phone**, bio, agency, tier, follower count, review summary, listing counts (buy/rent/sold/leased), transactions | | **Agents → Offices** | one per office | office name, agency/company, review summary, listing counts, transactions | | **Suburb** | one per suburb | score, rating, ranking, "great for"/"not great for", who lives here, pros/cons, **all reviews inline** (title, body, rating, pros/cons, helpful count, author, comments), best/other nearby suburbs, popular questions | | **Questions** | one per question | title, author, reply count, follower count, suburb, question URL | Turn on **Fetch full details** to enrich listings with agent **email**, full description, council rates and floor plans, and agents with job title, website, areas of expertise and performance stats. --- ### Input | Field | Applies to | Description | |-------|-----------|-------------| | **Mode** | all | `buy`, `rent`, `sold`, `agents`, `suburb`, `questions`, or `url` | | **Location** | all but URL | Suburb to scrape, e.g. `Bondi NSW 2026`, `Bondi, NSW`, or a slug `bondi-nsw-2026`. State + postcode disambiguate same-named suburbs | | **Min/Max price, beds, baths, car spaces** | buy/rent/sold | Client-side listing filters (price = weekly rent for Rent) | | **Property types** | buy/rent/sold | house, unit, apartment, townhouse, villa, land, etc. | | **Required features** | buy/rent/sold | Keep only listings whose tags include all of these | | **Sort** | agents | Agent finder ordering: `rating`, `reviews`, `sales`, `listings`. Listings are returned in Homely's default order | | **Agent finder: agents or offices** | agents | Return individual agents or whole offices | | **Agent specialty** | agents | `sales` or `rentals` agents | | **Office ID** | agents | List all agents in a specific office | | **Homely URLs** | url | Paste for-sale / for-rent / sold / suburb-profile / questions / listing / agent URLs | | **Fetch full details** | all | Add a detail request per record for extra fields | | **Max records** | all | Run cap (default 20, 0 = unlimited) | | **Max pages per location** | all | Optional per-location page limit | | **Proxy** | all | Default datacenter works on all plans | | **MCP connectors** | all | Optionally pipe a summary of each record into Notion / Linear / Airtable / Apify | #### Example - properties for sale in a suburb ```json { "mode": "buy", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026", "bedroomsMin": 2, "priceMax": 5000000, "maxItems": 100, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ```` #### Example - agent finder with contact details ```json { "mode": "agents", "location": "Surry Hills NSW 2010", "agentSpecialty": "sale", "detail": true, "maxItems": 50 } ``` #### Example - suburb reviews ```json { "mode": "suburb", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026" } ``` *** ### Notes - A **suburb name** with state + postcode (e.g. `Bondi NSW 2026`) resolves most reliably; bare names pick the best match by state/postcode. - Listing **filters are applied to the fetched results**, so a tightly filtered search may read several pages to fill `Max records`. - **Leased** rentals are not exposed publicly by Homely; use Sold for sales history. - This actor returns publicly visible information only. You are responsible for how you use scraped data, including any personal data of agents (GDPR/CCPA and Homely's terms). # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): What to scrape. Buy / Rent / Sold = property listings. Agents = agent finder (and offices). Suburb = community suburb reviews & ratings. Questions = community Q\&A. URL = paste exact Homely links. ## `location` (type: `string`): Suburb to scrape, e.g. 'Bondi NSW 2026', 'Bondi, NSW', or a Homely slug like 'bondi-nsw-2026'. Used by Buy/Rent/Sold/Agents/Suburb/Questions. The state and postcode help disambiguate same-named suburbs. ## `locationIds` (type: `array`): Optional pre-resolved numeric Homely location IDs (Agents mode can use these directly without a name lookup). ## `priceMin` (type: `integer`): Only keep listings at or above this price. For Rent this is the weekly rent. Applied to Buy/Rent/Sold. ## `priceMax` (type: `integer`): Only keep listings at or below this price (weekly rent for Rent). ## `bedroomsMin` (type: `integer`): Minimum number of bedrooms. ## `bedroomsMax` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of bedrooms. ## `bathroomsMin` (type: `integer`): Minimum number of bathrooms. ## `carSpacesMin` (type: `integer`): Minimum number of car spaces. ## `propertyTypes` (type: `array`): Keep only these property types. Leave empty for all. ## `propertyFeatures` (type: `array`): Keep only listings whose tags include ALL of these (e.g. 'pool', 'air conditioning'). Leave empty to skip. ## `isUnderOffer` (type: `boolean`): If on, keep only listings currently under offer. Leave off to include all. ## `sort` (type: `string`): Ordering for the Agent finder: default, rating, reviews, sales, or listings. Listings (Buy/Rent/Sold) are returned in Homely's own default order. ## `agentSubMode` (type: `string`): In Agents mode, return individual agents or whole offices/agencies. ## `agentSpecialty` (type: `string`): Filter agents by what they list. ## `officeId` (type: `integer`): List all agents in a specific office by its numeric Homely office ID. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Paste exact Homely URLs (for-sale / for-rent / sold-properties SERPs, suburb-profile pages, questions pages, a listing or agent page). Used only in URL mode. ## `detail` (type: `boolean`): Open each record's detail source for extra fields: listing agent EMAIL + full description + council rates + floor plans; agent job title, website, areas of expertise, performance. Adds one request per record. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): THE cap for the run: stop after this many records (default 20). Set to 0 for unlimited. ## `maxPages` (type: `integer`): How many result pages to read per location. Leave empty (or 0) for unlimited; the run is bounded by Max records. ## `proxy` (type: `object`): Network connection. The default (datacenter) works on all plans and is recommended. Switch to Residential only for heavier runs. ## `mcpConnectors` (type: `array`): Optionally send the scraped results into apps you use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations, then select it here. The connector receives a condensed summary per item; the full record stays in the dataset. Supported: Notion, Linear, Airtable, Apify. ## `notionParentPageUrl` (type: `string`): URL (or id) of the Notion page under which item pages are created. Required to enable the Notion export; ignored by other connectors. ## `maxNotifyListings` (type: `integer`): Cap on items written to each connector per run. Does not affect the dataset. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "buy", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026", "locationIds": [], "propertyTypes": [], "propertyFeatures": [], "sort": "default", "agentSubMode": "agents", "agentSpecialty": "any", "startUrls": [ "https://www.homely.com.au/for-sale/bondi-nsw-2026/real-estate" ], "detail": false, "maxItems": 20, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "maxNotifyListings": 50 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `overview` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "mode": "buy", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026", "locationIds": [], "propertyTypes": [], "propertyFeatures": [], "sort": "default", "agentSubMode": "agents", "agentSpecialty": "any", "startUrls": [ "https://www.homely.com.au/for-sale/bondi-nsw-2026/real-estate" ], "detail": false, "maxItems": 20, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "mode": "buy", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026", "locationIds": [], "propertyTypes": [], "propertyFeatures": [], "sort": "default", "agentSubMode": "agents", "agentSpecialty": "any", "startUrls": ["https://www.homely.com.au/for-sale/bondi-nsw-2026/real-estate"], "detail": False, "maxItems": 20, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "mode": "buy", "location": "Bondi NSW 2026", "locationIds": [], "propertyTypes": [], "propertyFeatures": [], "sort": "default", "agentSubMode": "agents", "agentSpecialty": "any", "startUrls": [ "https://www.homely.com.au/for-sale/bondi-nsw-2026/real-estate" ], "detail": false, "maxItems": 20, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=abotapi/homely-com-au-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Homely.com.au: Buy, Rent, Sold, Agents, Suburbs Reviews", "description": "Scrape Homely.com.au properties for sale, rent, and sold, plus agent finder, suburb reviews, ratings, and Q&A. Search by suburb or use URLs. 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Buy / Rent / Sold = property listings. Agents = agent finder (and offices). Suburb = community suburb reviews & ratings. Questions = community Q&A. URL = paste exact Homely links.", "default": "buy" }, "location": { "title": "Location (suburb)", "type": "string", "description": "Suburb to scrape, e.g. 'Bondi NSW 2026', 'Bondi, NSW', or a Homely slug like 'bondi-nsw-2026'. Used by Buy/Rent/Sold/Agents/Suburb/Questions. The state and postcode help disambiguate same-named suburbs." }, "locationIds": { "title": "Location IDs (advanced)", "type": "array", "description": "Optional pre-resolved numeric Homely location IDs (Agents mode can use these directly without a name lookup).", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "priceMin": { "title": "Min price", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep listings at or above this price. For Rent this is the weekly rent. Applied to Buy/Rent/Sold." }, "priceMax": { "title": "Max price", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep listings at or below this price (weekly rent for Rent)." }, "bedroomsMin": { "title": "Min bedrooms", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Minimum number of bedrooms." }, "bedroomsMax": { "title": "Max bedrooms", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of bedrooms." }, "bathroomsMin": { "title": "Min bathrooms", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Minimum number of bathrooms." }, "carSpacesMin": { "title": "Min car spaces", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Minimum number of car spaces." }, "propertyTypes": { "title": "Property types", "type": "array", "description": "Keep only these property types. Leave empty for all.", "items": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "house", "unit", "apartment", "townhouse", "villa", "land", "acreage", "rural", "duplex", "studio" ] } }, "propertyFeatures": { "title": "Required features", "type": "array", "description": "Keep only listings whose tags include ALL of these (e.g. 'pool', 'air conditioning'). Leave empty to skip.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "isUnderOffer": { "title": "Under offer only", "type": "boolean", "description": "If on, keep only listings currently under offer. Leave off to include all." }, "sort": { "title": "Sort by (Agent finder only)", "enum": [ "default", "rating", "reviews", "sales", "listings" ], "type": "string", "description": "Ordering for the Agent finder: default, rating, reviews, sales, or listings. Listings (Buy/Rent/Sold) are returned in Homely's own default order.", "default": "default" }, "agentSubMode": { "title": "Agent finder: agents or offices", "enum": [ "agents", "offices" ], "type": "string", "description": "In Agents mode, return individual agents or whole offices/agencies.", "default": "agents" }, "agentSpecialty": { "title": "Agent specialty", "enum": [ "any", "sale", "rent" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter agents by what they list.", "default": "any" }, "officeId": { "title": "Office ID (advanced)", "type": "integer", "description": "List all agents in a specific office by its numeric Homely office ID." }, "startUrls": { "title": "Homely URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Paste exact Homely URLs (for-sale / for-rent / sold-properties SERPs, suburb-profile pages, questions pages, a listing or agent page). Used only in URL mode.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "detail": { "title": "Fetch full details (richer records)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Open each record's detail source for extra fields: listing agent EMAIL + full description + council rates + floor plans; agent job title, website, areas of expertise, performance. Adds one request per record.", "default": false }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max records", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "THE cap for the run: stop after this many records (default 20). Set to 0 for unlimited.", "default": 20 }, "maxPages": { "title": "Max pages per location", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "How many result pages to read per location. Leave empty (or 0) for unlimited; the run is bounded by Max records." }, "proxy": { "title": "Proxy", "type": "object", "description": "Network connection. The default (datacenter) works on all plans and is recommended. Switch to Residential only for heavier runs.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } }, "mcpConnectors": { "title": "Pipe results into your apps (optional)", "type": "array", "description": "Optionally send the scraped results into apps you use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations, then select it here. The connector receives a condensed summary per item; the full record stays in the dataset. Supported: Notion, Linear, Airtable, Apify." }, "notionParentPageUrl": { "title": "Notion parent page (Notion connector only)", "type": "string", "description": "URL (or id) of the Notion page under which item pages are created. Required to enable the Notion export; ignored by other connectors." }, "maxNotifyListings": { "title": "Max items to export per connector", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap on items written to each connector per run. 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