# PropertyFinder UAE Property Scraper (`devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-scraper`) Actor

Scrape property listings from PropertyFinder.ae, the UAE's leading property portal. Get clean price, bed/bath, size, location, and agent data per listing while we handle blocks and fingerprint rotation for you.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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## PropertyFinder UAE Property Scraper

**💰 $8.20 / 1 000 results**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*The devil's in the data — we handle the blocks so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Scrape sale and rent property listings from PropertyFinder.ae, the UAE's leading property portal, with clean numeric price, bed/bath, size, and location data per listing.

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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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Property category. Combined with Purpose to select the site's `c=` category+transaction filter.

## `purpose` (type: `string`):

Transaction type. Combined with Category to select the site's `c=` category+transaction filter.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Area/community — Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, etc. Leave blank for all of UAE.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Minimum price in AED.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Maximum price in AED.

## `bedrooms` (type: `integer`):

Bedroom filter. 0 = studio. Applied client-side to parsed rows (no confirmed server-side filter param on this target).

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Search-result pages to walk.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on rows emitted this run; stops early once hit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Defaults to RESIDENTIAL. The Actor pins apifyProxyCountry='AE' internally whenever a proxy is used (never user-configurable) — a geo-random exit is known to return wrong-currency/wrong-inventory data on this target.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "residential",
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "location": "Dubai",
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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 = {
    "category": "residential",
    "purpose": "for-sale",
    "location": "Dubai",
    "maxPages": 2,
    "maxResults": 30,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-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 = {
    "category": "residential",
    "purpose": "for-sale",
    "location": "Dubai",
    "maxPages": 2,
    "maxResults": 30,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-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 '{
  "category": "residential",
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "location": "Dubai",
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/propertyfinder-uae-property-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/JazuzmmWusv6Isebf/builds/lmtpu8DvIqoG9RTBT/openapi.json