Centris Canada Scraper — Québec Real Estate Listings

What does Centris Canada Scraper do?

Centris Canada Scraper extracts structured listing data from centris.ca — including contact details, full descriptions, prices, and location data. It supports keyword search, location filters, and controllable result limits, so you can run the same query consistently over time. The actor also offers detail enrichment (full descriptions and contact information) where the source provides them.

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Key features

• 🔍 Keyword search: search centris.ca by keyword with the query input.
• 🔗 Paste-mode: paste centris.ca URLs into startUrls to scrape exactly the pages you picked in the browser.
• 🏠 Property facts as numbers: every listing carries mlsNumber, category, propertyType, price with currency, bedrooms, bathrooms, livingArea, lotArea, yearBuilt, buildingStyle, parking and moveInDate — sortable values, not price text to parse.
• 🧾 Municipal assessment and property taxes: with includeDetails on, get the municipal valuation (municipalAssessmentLot, municipalAssessmentBuilding, municipalAssessmentTotal, assessmentYear) and the yearly taxes (municipalTax, schoolTax, annualTaxTotal, taxYear) for each listing.
• 📇 Listing broker and agency: see who sells each property — brokerName, brokerTitle, brokerPhone and agencyName — plus mainImage and photoCount for the listing photos.
• 📍 Search by city or around a point: target a city with location, or pass lat, lon and radiusKm to keep only listings within that distance; each record gets address, city, searchCity, lat, long, walkScore and distanceKm.
• 📋 Detail enrichment: two-stage scraping — list first, then enrich each listing with the full detail-page payload. One input toggle controls the depth.
• ♻️ Incremental mode: daily runs emit only listings that are new or whose price/condition changed since last run. Perfect for inventory-diff dashboards and competitive pricing alerts. Saves 80–95% on recurring monitoring.
• 🔔 Notifications: telegram / Slack / Discord / WhatsApp / webhook alerts on each run. Combine with incremental to ping only when prices or inventory actually move.
• 📦 Compact mode: light payload with core fields only — comparable rows across listings without HTML or metadata overhead. Perfect for pricing dashboards.
• 🔌 MCP connectors: export your results into Notion via Apify's MCP connectors — a clean run-summary page, no glue code. Opt-in via the App connector field; deterministic field-mapping, no AI. Built on Apify's connector framework, so more destinations open up as their catalog grows.

What data can you extract from centris.ca?

Each result includes Core listing fields (listingId, mlsNumber, listingKey, propertyId, searchCity, searchQuery, searchPage, and category, and more), detail fields when enrichment is enabled (description and detailFetched), and contact information (brokerPhone and brokerPhones). In standard mode, all fields are always present — unavailable data points are returned as null, never omitted. In compact mode, only core fields are returned.

Enable detail enrichment in the input to get richer fields such as full descriptions and contact information where the source provides them.

Input

The main inputs are a search keyword, an optional location filter, and a result limit. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• query — City, borough or region to search — e.g. Montreal, Laval, Outaouais. Accepts a Centris path slug for a narrower search (houses~for-sale~laval, condos~for-rent~montreal~ville-marie) or a full centris.ca search URL. Use a JSON array for several searches in one run: ["Laval","Longueuil"]. Required unless you provide Start URLs.
• location — Optional city / region filter, same accepted forms as the search field. When both are filled, this one decides the area. JSON array for several locations: ["Laval","Gatineau"].
• maxResults — Maximum total listings (0 = as many as the search returns). Note: centris.ca itself stops paging a single search at 5,000 results — split by city or property type to go past that. (default: 100)
• startUrls — Paste search URLs from centris.ca (e.g. https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~laval?view=Thumbnail). Each URL becomes its own search, keeping every filter it carries — property type, price, rooms, map area — and results are merged and deduped by MLS number. When provided, these replace the search/location fields. Single-property URLs are not searches and are skipped. (default: [])
• includeDetails — Open each listing for the data the result cards don't carry: description, living/lot area, year built, parking, move-in date, broker name + phone, municipal assessment, taxes and the full photo list. Turn off for a faster, cheaper run with card-level data only. (default: true)
• includeWalkScore — Walk Score exists only on the full listing page (~600 KB per listing); turn it off to read every other detail field from Centris' lighter listing data (~20 KB, ~30x less), which is faster. Only matters when Include Full Details is on. (default: true)
• descriptionMaxLength — Truncate the broker description to N characters. 0 = keep the full text. (default: 0)
• compact — Core fields only — MLS, type, price, address, rooms, areas, broker, coordinates and URL (for AI-agent/MCP workflows). (default: false)
• excludeEmptyFields — Drop null, empty-string, and empty-array fields from each record before push. Smaller payloads for AI agents and dashboards. (default: false)
• incrementalMode — Compare against previous run state and return only new or changed listings. stateKey is optional — defaults to a value derived from your search inputs (searches, locations, start URLs) so different filter sets never share state. (default: false)
• stateKey — Optional. Stable identifier for the tracked search universe. Leave empty to auto-generate from the search inputs.
• emitUnchanged — When incremental, also emit listings that have not changed since the previous run (marked changeType "unchanged"). (default: false)
• ...and 19 more parameters

Input examples

Basic search — Keyword-driven search with a result cap.

→ Full payload per result — all standard fields populated where the source provides them.

{
  "query": "Montreal",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Incremental tracking — Only emit listings that changed since the previous run with this stateKey.

→ First run builds the baseline state. Subsequent runs emit only records that are new or whose tracked content changed. Set emitUnchanged: true to include unchanged records as well.

{
  "query": "Montreal",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "montreal-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows.

→ Small payload with the most important fields — ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

{
  "query": "Montreal",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured listing records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example listing record

{
  "listingId": "12420489",
  "mlsNumber": "12420489",
  "listingKey": "centris.ca:12420489",
  "propertyId": "12420489",
  "searchCity": "Laval",
  "searchQuery": "Laval",
  "category": "Lot for sale",
  "propertyType": "Lot",
  "propertyTypeSlug": "lots",
  "listingType": "sale",
  "title": "Lot for sale in Laval (Fabreville), Laval, 3563, boulevard Sainte-Rose, 12420489 - Centris.ca",
  "price": 3000000,
  "currency": "CAD",
  "priceText": "$3,000,000",
  "address": "3563, boulevard Sainte-Rose",
  "location": "3563, boulevard Sainte-Rose",
  "city": "Laval",
  "region": "Laval",
  "province": "Quebec",
  "lat": 45.58769066,
  "long": -73.81643708,
  "latitude": 45.58769066,
  "longitude": -73.81643708,
  "lotArea": "48,383 sqft",
  "lotAreaSqft": 48383,
  "moveInDate": "According to leases",
  "characteristics": {
    "Lot area": "48,383 sqft",
    "Zoning": "Residential",
    "Move-in date": "According to leases"
  },
  "walkScore": 34,
  "description": "OPPORTUNITY FOR BUILDERS AND DEVELOPERS! Large ±4,506.5 m² (48,508 sq. ft.) lot at 3563 Sainte-Rose Boulevard in Laval. Zoning grid T4.4-2063 allows residential uses H1, H2 and H3, with buildings of u...",
  "brokerName": "Michel Clermont",
  "brokerTitle": "Certified Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker",
  "brokerPhone": "4387956770",
  "brokerPhones": [
    "4387956770",
    "4509752112"
  ],
  "agencyName": "IMMODEV AGENCE IMMOBILIÈRE",
  "brokers": [
    {
      "name": "Michel Clermont",
      "title": "Certified Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker",
      "agency": "IMMODEV AGENCE IMMOBILIÈRE",
      "image": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DDDD96CEDDDDDDDDDD4&t=c&w=190&h=220&sm=m"
    }
  ],
  "mainImage": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D6CDDDDDDDDDD2&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
  "photo": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D6CDDDDDDDDDD2&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
  "images": [
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D6CDDDDDDDDDD2&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D62DDDDDDDDDD4&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D61DDDDDDDDDDD&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D6EDDDDDDDDDDC&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA2E3D6ADDDDDDDDDDE&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "... 4 more items"
  ],
  "photoCount": 9,
  "municipalAssessmentLot": 1840200,
  "municipalAssessmentBuilding": 54100,
  "municipalAssessmentTotal": 1894300,
  "assessmentYear": 2026,
  "municipalTax": 9814,
  "schoolTax": 1226,
  "annualTaxTotal": 11040,
  "taxYear": 2026,
  "listingUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/lots~for-sale~laval-fabreville/12420489",
  "portalUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/lots~for-sale~laval-fabreville/12420489",
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/lots~for-sale~laval-fabreville/12420489",
  "source": "centris.ca",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-04T10:34:46.266Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T10:34:46.266Z",
  "contentQuality": "full",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "contentHash": "6d49a628f173cafb8a6dd0aaafe65d440d52b189d8ff9d2e81c98d391b883571"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to opt into the others.
• isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt — populated when a new listing matches the tracked content of a previously expired one. Set skipReposts: true to drop detected reposts from the output.

How to scrape centris.ca

1. Go to Centris Canada Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Enter a search keyword and optional location filter.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Enable includeDetails if you need full descriptions, contact info.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Extract listing data from centris.ca for market research and competitive analysis.
• Track pricing trends across regions and categories over time.
• Monitor new and changed listings on scheduled runs without processing the full dataset every time.
• Use structured location data for regional analysis, mapping, and geo-targeting.
• Feed structured data into AI agents, MCP tools, and automated pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.

How much does it cost to scrape centris.ca?

Centris Canada Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.0045 per run
• Per result: $0.0009 per listing record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.013
• 25 results: $0.027
• 100 results: $0.095
• 200 results: $0.18
• 500 results: $0.45

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of listings that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 listings per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Costs scale linearly with the number of listings.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.23	$0.02	$0.21 (93%)	$0.47
15% — moderate broad query	$0.23	$0.04	$0.19 (83%)	$1.15
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.23	$0.07	$0.16 (69%)	$2.16

Full re-scrape monthly cost at the same cadence: $6.89. First month with incremental costs $0.69 / $1.34 / $2.32 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage is included in the per-result fee shown above.

FAQ

How many results can I get from centris.ca?

The number of results depends on the search query and available listings on centris.ca. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does Centris Canada Scraper support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed listings on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate Centris Canada Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Centris Canada Scraper works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use Centris Canada Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use Centris Canada Scraper through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, descriptionMaxLength, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape centris.ca?

This actor extracts publicly available data from centris.ca. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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Disclaimer

This actor accesses only publicly available data on centris.ca. You are responsible for how you use the extracted data — in particular any personal information such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses — and for complying with Centris Canada's terms of use, applicable data-protection law (including the GDPR where it applies), and the anti-spam rules of your jurisdiction.

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Centris Canada or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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