# Mexico Real Estate Scraper - Mercado Libre Inmuebles (`ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-scraper`) Actor

Extract houses, apartments, land and commercial listings for sale or rent in any Mexican state from Mercado Libre Inmuebles: price, bedrooms, bathrooms, m², location, photo and URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [JUAN JOSE romero benitez](https://apify.com/ambiotec) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Mexico Real Estate Scraper – Mercado Libre Inmuebles

Extract **houses, apartments, land, offices, retail and warehouse listings for sale or rent anywhere in Mexico** from [Mercado Libre Inmuebles](https://inmuebles.mercadolibre.com.mx), the largest real estate marketplace in the country. Pick a state (or paste your own filtered search URL) and get clean JSON/CSV/Excel with price, bedrooms, bathrooms, square meters, location, photo and link — optionally with the full description, seller name and GPS coordinates.

No browser, no login, no API key. Pay only for the listings you receive.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `id` | `MLM3472970087` |
| `url` | `https://casa.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-3472970087-...` |
| `title` | `Casa En Venta, Conde Santiago De La Laguna Guadalupe, Zacatecas` |
| `listingType` | `Casa en venta` |
| `label` | `DESARROLLO` (new development) or `null` |
| `isSponsored` | `true` for paid placements (the URL is still the real listing) |
| `price`, `currency`, `pricePrefix` | `2700000`, `MXN`, `Desde` |
| `bedrooms`, `bathrooms`, `builtAreaM2`, `totalAreaM2`, `parkingSpots` | `3`, `1`, `110`, `null`, `null` |
| `attributes` | `["3 recámaras", "1 baño", "110 m² construidos"]` (raw text) |
| `location` | `Tiro 109, Conde De Bernardez, 98617 Guadalupe, Zacatecas` |
| `image` | main photo URL |
| `description`, `seller`, `latitude`, `longitude` | only when **Open each listing** is on |
| `source`, `searchUrl`, `scrapedAt` | provenance |

Numbers are parsed from Mercado Libre's own labels; ranges such as `70 - 99 m² construidos` keep the lower bound in the numeric field and the full text in `attributes`.

### How to use it

1. Choose **Operation** (sale/rent) and **Property type**.
2. Choose a **State** (all 32 supported) and, if you want, a **City** slug such as `zapopan` or `monterrey`.
3. Set **Maximum listings**. Each listing costs one result event.
4. Optional: tick **Open each listing** to add description, seller and coordinates (one extra page per listing, slower).
5. Run and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or call it from the API.

#### Custom searches

Any search URL from inmuebles.mercadolibre.com.mx works in **Custom search URLs**, including price ranges, number of bedrooms, neighborhoods and sort order. Build the search on the website with the filters you need and paste the URL; the structured fields are then ignored.

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://inmuebles.mercadolibre.com.mx/departamentos/renta/distrito-federal/benito-juarez/_PriceRange_10000MXN-20000MXN" }],
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

### Example input

```json
{
  "operation": "venta",
  "propertyType": "casas",
  "state": "jalisco",
  "city": "zapopan",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchDetails": false
}
```

### Example output

```json
{
  "id": "MLM3472970087",
  "url": "https://casa.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-3472970087-casa-en-venta-conde-santiago-de-la-laguna-guadalupe-zacatecas-_JM",
  "title": "Casa En Venta, Conde Santiago De La Laguna Guadalupe, Zacatecas",
  "listingType": "Casa en venta",
  "price": 2700000,
  "currency": "MXN",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "builtAreaM2": 110,
  "location": "Tiro 109, Conde De Bernardez, 98617 Guadalupe, Zac., Mexico",
  "image": "https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_2X_830049-MLM115959684140_092026-E.webp",
  "seller": "Housalemx",
  "latitude": 22.7660141,
  "longitude": -102.5268956,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-26T01:38:33+00:00"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Market studies and appraisals** – price per m² by municipality or neighborhood.
- **Lead generation for agents and developers** – new listings every morning via the scheduler.
- **Investment screening** – filter below-market properties across several states in one run.
- **Dashboards and AI agents** – the output is flat JSON, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools or an LLM.

### Pricing and performance

Pay-per-event: one `result` event per listing saved, plus one `detail` event per listing page opened when **Open each listing** is on. Residential proxy traffic is included in these prices. A typical run collects ~48 listings per page request; with **Open each listing** off, 1,000 listings take about a minute.

### Limitations

- Mercado Libre shows at most ~2,000 results per search. Split big searches by city or price range (custom URLs) to go beyond that.
- Contact details of sellers are not collected.
- This Actor reads public listing pages. Respect Mercado Libre's terms and local law when using the data.

### Need Inmuebles24, Vivanuncios or Lamudi?

Open an issue in the Actor's **Issues** tab describing the site and fields you need.

# Actor input Schema

## `operation` (type: `string`):

Sale (venta) or rent (renta).

## `propertyType` (type: `string`):

Kind of property to search for.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Mexican state to search in, or all of Mexico.

## `city` (type: `string`):

URL slug of a municipality inside the state, exactly as Mercado Libre writes it, e.g. `zapopan`, `monterrey`, `benito-juarez`. Leave empty for the whole state.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste any search URL from inmuebles.mercadolibre.com.mx (with your own filters: price, bedrooms, neighborhood...). When filled in, the fields above are ignored.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many listings have been saved (across all searches).

## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Adds `description`, `seller`, `latitude` and `longitude`. One extra request per listing, so the run takes longer.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Mercado Libre shows a login wall to datacenter IPs, so the default is Apify residential proxy located in Mexico. Keep it unless you have your own Mexican proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "operation": "venta",
  "propertyType": "casas",
  "state": "jalisco",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "MX"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "city": "",
    "startUrls": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "city": "",
    "startUrls": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "city": "",
  "startUrls": []
}' |
apify call ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ambiotec/mexico-real-estate-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Ow8Wyy2IdLiqzmPkW/builds/JJKhQCtrgklAQk6Xh/openapi.json