Centris Property Listings Extractor

Turn any Centris search into structured data. Give this actor the URL of a Centris search results page and it pages through the whole result set for you, returning one clean row per property: price, address, MLS number, property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, land area, the direct listing link, and the main photo.

No copy-pasting, no clicking through result pages. Point it at a search, set how many listings you want, and export the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

What it does

Centris is the main real estate listing service for Québec, run by the province's real estate boards. When you search there (say, houses for sale in Montréal under $700k), the results come back 20 at a time across many pages. This actor opens your search in a real browser, walks through the pages, and hands you the data behind every listing in a format you can actually work with.

Set Max items to 500 and it collects 500 listings, not just the first page.

Data you get for each listing

Field	Description
mlsNumber	The Centris/MLS reference number, unique per listing
propertyCategory	Listing type, for example "Maison à vendre" or "Condo à vendre"
price	Price exactly as displayed, including notes like "+TPS/TVQ"
priceValue	The price as a plain number, ready for sorting and calculations
address	Street address of the property
cityName	City (or city plus borough)
bedrooms	Number of bedrooms, when the listing shows one
bathrooms	Number of bathrooms, when the listing shows one
landArea	Lot size, common on land and lot listings
listingUrl	Direct link to the full property page on Centris
imageUrl	URL of the main listing photo
sourceUrl	The search this listing came from
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp of when the row was collected

How to use it

1. Open Centris and search for what you want. Apply your filters: city, price range, property type, number of bedrooms, whatever matters.
2. Copy the URL of the results page from your browser.
3. Paste it into the Search results URL field.
4. Set Max items to how many listings you want, then run.

To combine several searches in one run, add extra result-page URLs under Additional search URLs.

Input reference

Field	Type	Description
searchUrl	string	The main Centris search results page to read
searchUrls	array	Optional extra result pages to process in the same run
maxItems	integer	How many listings to collect per run (default 100, up to 2000)
navigationTimeoutSecs	integer	Timeout per page load or pagination step (default 60)
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings; residential proxies are recommended

Example input

{
    "searchUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/fr/propriete~a-vendre?view=Thumbnail",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Example output

{
    "mlsNumber": "21177720",
    "propertyCategory": "Quintuplex à vendre",
    "price": "1 459 000 $",
    "priceValue": 1459000,
    "address": "4350 - 4356, Rue de Venise",
    "cityName": "Montréal (Saint-Léonard)",
    "bedrooms": 2,
    "bathrooms": 1,
    "landArea": null,
    "listingUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/fr/quintuplex~a-vendre~montreal-saint-leonard/21177720",
    "imageUrl": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=...&t=pi&w=320&h=240&sm=c",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/fr/propriete~a-vendre?view=Thumbnail",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-26T05:12:44.170963+00:00"
}

Good for

• Building a snapshot of a local market: what is listed, at what price, where
• Watching a neighbourhood or price band for new listings over time
• Feeding listings into a spreadsheet, CRM, or internal dashboard
• Comparing asking prices across cities or property types
• Sourcing leads for agents, investors, and analysts

Notes on proxies

This actor drives a real browser, so a residential proxy gives the most reliable access. The default configuration uses Apify Proxy residential addresses. You can change the proxy group or supply your own in the input.

Exporting the results

Every run stores its results in a dataset. Download it as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML straight from the run's Storage tab, or pull it through the Apify API and connect it to your own tools.

Broker and agency names are not part of the search results and live only on each property's own detail page, so they are not included here. Listing details change often, so re-run the actor when you need current data. Use the data responsibly and in line with Centris's terms and applicable laws.