PropertyFinder UAE Property Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

PropertyFinder.ae is the UAE's leading property portal, sitting in the deepest demand cluster in this fleet — property-portal scrapers of the PropertyFinder/Bayut/Dubizzle shape post 6,748 runs and 182 users a month across 56 rival Store actors. This Actor pulls listing cards straight from PropertyFinder's own search-results page, parsed from the page's embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob rather than fragile DOM selectors, so you get every field the page actually knows about a listing — price, bedrooms, bathrooms, size, location hierarchy, agent, and agency — normalized into one clean row per listing.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome and Firefox TLS handshakes, rotated across requests, so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy session rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block, always pinned to a UAE (AE) residential exit so you never get wrong-currency or wrong-inventory data silently.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Page- and row-level fault isolation — one blocked page or one bad listing is skipped and logged, never crashes the run.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, numeric price/size fields with an explicit currency and unit instead of one rendered blob.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Property investment research — pull current for-sale listings for a UAE area, price and size included, to compare communities fast.
• Rental market benchmarking — track for-rent listing prices and size across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and other emirates in one run.
• PropTech and real-estate analytics — feed a clean, structured listings dataset into a pricing or valuation model.
• Agency competitor tracking — monitor a rival agency's live inventory, pricing, and listing velocity.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Pick a category, purpose (for-sale/for-rent), and optional filters — location, price range, bedrooms.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
category	string	no	residential	Property category (maps to the c= search param).
purpose	string	no	for-sale	for-sale or for-rent.
location	string	no	—	Area/community — Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, etc.
minPrice	integer	no	—	Minimum price in AED.
maxPrice	integer	no	—	Maximum price in AED.
bedrooms	integer	no	—	Bedroom filter. 0 = studio.
maxPages	integer	no	10	Search-result pages to walk.
maxResults	integer	no	50	Hard cap on rows emitted; stops early once hit.
proxyConfiguration	object	yes	RESIDENTIAL group	The Actor pins apifyProxyCountry="AE" internally whenever a proxy is used (never user-configurable).

Example input

{
  "category": "residential",
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "location": "Dubai Marina",
  "minPrice": 500000,
  "maxPrice": 3000000,
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "maxResults": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
listing_id	string	Listing object ID from PropertyFinder's __NEXT_DATA__ blob.
title	string	Listing title.
price_amount	['number', 'null']	Numeric price.
price_currency	string	Price currency, e.g. AED.
property_type	['string', 'null']	e.g. "Apartment", "Villa".
bedrooms	['integer', 'null']	Bedroom count. 0 = studio.
bathrooms	['integer', 'null']	Bathroom count.
size_value	['number', 'null']	Numeric floor area.
size_unit	['string', 'null']	sqft or sqm as displayed.
location	['string', 'null']	Flattened display string.
location_hierarchy	array	City > community > sub-community, if present.
agent_name	['string', 'null']	Listing agent's name.
agency_name	['string', 'null']	Listing agency's name.
listing_url	string	Canonical detail-page URL.
image_urls	array	Gallery photo URLs (empty OK).
posted_at	['string', 'null']	ISO-8601, if present in the source JSON.
updated_at	['string', 'null']	ISO-8601, if present in the source JSON.
latitude	['number', 'null']	WGS-84 latitude, if present.
longitude	['number', 'null']	WGS-84 longitude, if present.
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC row-creation timestamp.

Example output

{
  "listing_id": "12345678",
  "title": "Luxury 2BR Apartment | Marina View",
  "price_amount": 2100000,
  "price_currency": "AED",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 3,
  "size_value": 1350.0,
  "size_unit": "sqft",
  "location": "Dubai Marina, Dubai",
  "location_hierarchy": ["Dubai", "Dubai Marina"],
  "agent_name": "John Smith",
  "agency_name": "Example Realty",
  "listing_url": "https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/plp/buy/apartment-for-sale-dubai-marina-12345678.html",
  "image_urls": ["https://example.cdn/img1.jpg"],
  "posted_at": "2026-09-20T10:00:00+00:00",
  "updated_at": null,
  "latitude": 25.0805,
  "longitude": 55.1403,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-25T05:45:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.008	Per listing row written to the dataset

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $8.20. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account free credit to try. Rates shown are a proposal from this Actor's spec; final pricing is confirmed at publish time.

🚧 Limitations

v1 is search-results only — no detail-page enrichment, so fields only the detail page carries (full description text, amenities list, floor plan) are out of scope for v1. location_hierarchy, latitude/longitude, and agency_name are null when PropertyFinder's own JSON doesn't carry them for a given listing. Non-UAE PropertyFinder sites (PropertyFinder operates other country portals under different domains) are out of scope.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a PropertyFinder account or API key?

No. This Actor scrapes PropertyFinder.ae's own publicly listed property data — no login, no API key.

Can I filter by price and bedrooms?

Yes — set minPrice, maxPrice, and bedrooms in the input; leave them out to get every listing matching category/purpose/location.

Why is the proxy country locked to AE?

A geo-random exit is known to return wrong-currency or wrong-inventory data on this target, so the Actor always pins a UAE residential exit internally regardless of your proxy settings.

Do you scrape individual listing detail pages?

Not in v1 — the search-results page's own JSON already carries rich structured data per listing; detail-page enrichment is a candidate for a future version.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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