# Centris.ca Property Scraper (`fayoussef/centris-property-scraper`) Actor

Fast Centris.ca real-estate scraper. Extracts title, price, address, rooms, full description, characteristics and every gallery image.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fayoussef/centris-property-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [youssef farhan](https://apify.com/fayoussef) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

## Centris Property Scraper — Extract Centris.ca Listings With Photos

Scrape Centris.ca real-estate listings into clean, structured JSON — price, address, rooms, full description, every spec, and the complete photo gallery. Built for real-estate investors, brokers, data teams, and price trackers who need reliable Centris data at scale. Unlike thumbnail-only tools, it opens each property page and captures all gallery images plus the full characteristics table.

### What you get

**Listing info**
- `url` — Canonical Centris property URL
- `title` — Listing title (e.g. "House for sale")
- `address` — Full street address with borough/city
- `scraped_at` — UTC ISO timestamp of capture

**Pricing**
- `price` — Asking price as a clean integer (no `$` or commas)

**Property attributes**
- `rooms` — Total room count (e.g. "14 rooms")
- `bedrooms` — Bedroom summary (e.g. "4 bedrooms (1 in basement)")
- `bathrooms` — Bathroom + powder-room summary
- `characteristics` — Key/value object: building style, year built, lot area, living area, parking, pool, fireplace, move-in date, and more

**Content**
- `description` — Full listing description text

**Media**
- `images` — Array of every high-resolution gallery image URL
- `image_count` — Number of images captured

### Sample output

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~montreal-le-plateau-mont-royal/22323456",
  "title": "House for sale",
  "price": 2250000,
  "address": "1674, Rue Gilford, Montréal (Le Plateau-Mont-Royal)",
  "rooms": "14 rooms",
  "bedrooms": "4 bedrooms (1 in basement)",
  "bathrooms": "2 bathrooms and 1 powder room",
  "description": "Magnificent semi-detached Plateau home blending century character with modern updates...",
  "characteristics": {
    "Building style": "Two or more storey, Semi-detached",
    "Year built": "1910",
    "Lot area": "2,600 sqft",
    "Parking (total)": "Driveway (2), Garage (2)"
  },
  "image_count": 28,
  "images": [
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DAD2EA20DDDDDDDDDD2&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
    "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DDDDF4F3DDDDDDDDDD2&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c"
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-07T22:31:04+00:00"
}
````

### Use cases

- ✓ Real-estate investors tracking price changes across Montreal Island boroughs
- ✓ Mortgage and appraisal teams pulling comparables (comps) by area and price band
- ✓ Brokers building lead lists of new for-sale inventory daily
- ✓ Market researchers analyzing inventory, days-on-market, and pricing trends
- ✓ Proptech startups feeding live Centris listings into apps and dashboards
- ✓ Data teams enriching CRMs with addresses, specs, and listing photos

### How it works

- **Input:** a Centris.ca search URL plus a page range (`startPage` → `endPage`).
- **Pagination:** the actor walks each search-results page and collects every property link.
- **Detail scraping:** it opens each property page concurrently and extracts price, address, rooms, description, the full characteristics table, and all gallery photos.
- **Output:** every property is pushed to the Apify dataset — export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.
- **Scheduling & webhooks:** run on an Apify schedule and trigger webhooks on finish out of the box.

### Why this scraper

- **Full gallery, not thumbnails** — captures every high-resolution image per listing, not just the cover photo.
- **Dedicated residential proxies** — Canada-geo-matched IPs with automatic rotation and retries to avoid blocks.
- **Fast & concurrent** — configurable parallelism (default 10) scrapes detail pages simultaneously.
- **Migration-safe & resumable** — persists state and resumes exactly where it left off after platform migrations or aborts, so you never re-scrape or lose progress.

### Input example

```json
{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal-island?pageSize=20&page=1",
  "startPage": 1,
  "endPage": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "CA"
  }
}
```

Omit `maxResults` to scrape every property in the page range.

### FAQ

**Does it handle anti-bot protection?**
Yes. It routes every request through dedicated residential Apify proxies with rotation and automatic retries.

**What output formats are supported?**
The Apify dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML via the Console or API.

**Can I scrape for-rent listings too?**
Yes. Paste any Centris search URL — for-sale or for-rent, any city or borough — and the actor paginates it.

**How do I filter results?**
Apply filters (price, property type, location) directly on Centris.ca, then copy that search URL into `searchUrl`.

**Does it support scheduling?**
Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run it hourly, daily, or weekly, with webhooks on completion.

**Is the data live?**
Yes. Each run fetches current listings directly from Centris.ca at runtime.

**What happens if the run migrates or restarts?**
State is persisted continuously, so the run resumes from the last processed listing without duplicating work.

**Can I call it from code or an AI agent?**
Yes — via the Apify REST API and as an MCP server. See below.

### Use via API or MCP

Run it programmatically via the Apify REST API:

```
POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/youssef~centris-property-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN
```

Or connect it to AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) as an MCP server:

```
https://mcp.apify.com/actors/youssef~centris-property-scraper
```

# Actor input Schema

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

A Centris.ca search-results URL (for-sale or for-rent). The actor automatically paginates through every results page.

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

Maximum number of properties to scrape. Leave empty to scrape every result. Free-plan users are always capped at 20.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal-island?pageSize=20&page=1"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `properties` (type: `string`):

All scraped Centris property listings (title, price, address, rooms, characteristics, gallery images, coordinates).

# 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 = {
    "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal-island?sortSeed=1773071411&sort=None&pageSize=20&page=1"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fayoussef/centris-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 = { "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal-island?sortSeed=1773071411&sort=None&pageSize=20&page=1" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fayoussef/centris-property-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 '{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal-island?sortSeed=1773071411&sort=None&pageSize=20&page=1"
}' |
apify call fayoussef/centris-property-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fayoussef/centris-property-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Centris.ca Property Scraper",
        "description": "Fast Centris.ca real-estate scraper. Extracts title, price, address, rooms, full description, characteristics and every gallery image.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "8h7G8Bafk96TKmHnb"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/fayoussef~centris-property-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-fayoussef-centris-property-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/fayoussef~centris-property-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-fayoussef-centris-property-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/fayoussef~centris-property-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-fayoussef-centris-property-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "searchUrl"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "searchUrl": {
                        "title": "Search URL",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "A Centris.ca search-results URL (for-sale or for-rent). The actor automatically paginates through every results page."
                    },
                    "maxResults": {
                        "title": "Max results",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of properties to scrape. Leave empty to scrape every result. Free-plan users are always capped at 20."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
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                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
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                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```