Metrocuadrado Real Estate Extractor: Scrape Colombian Property Listings

Metrocuadrado Real Estate Extractor scrapes property listings from Metrocuadrado.com, Colombia's major real estate portal. Paste a search URL or pick a city, then export price, area, rooms, estrato, location, and photos as JSON or CSV.

No proxy picker in the input form. Configure the run, hit start, and download structured listing data for market research, lead lists, price tracking, or local SEO content.

About this actor

Detail	Value
Target site	metrocuadrado.com
Data type	Sale and rent property listings (and project cards)
Coverage	Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, and other cities listed on Metrocuadrado
Output	One dataset item per listing
Default limit	maxItems = 50 (raise up to 1000)
Auth in input	None. Bypass runs through built-in infrastructure
Best for	Market research, agency leads, price monitoring, local SEO pages

The actor reads your Metrocuadrado search URL (or builds one from city + transaction type), pulls the first results page, then paginates automatically until it reaches maxItems or runs out of listings.

What data does this actor extract?

Each dataset item is one Metrocuadrado listing (or project card) with fields such as:

Field	Description
url	Full listing URL
listingId	Metrocuadrado ID
itemTitle	Listing headline
itemDescription	Summary text when available
price / salePrice / rentPrice	Prices in COP
priceCurrency	Usually COP
transactionType	Venta or Arriendo
propertyType	Apartamento, Casa, Oficina, and more
propertyStatus	e.g. Nuevo / Usado
bedrooms / bathrooms / parkingSpaces	Room counts
areaM2 / privateAreaM2	Area in square meters
estrato	Socioeconomic stratum
city / neighborhood / zone	Location labels
address	Approximate address when present
latitude / longitude	Coordinates when present
projectName	Project name for new developments
publisherType / publisherName	Publisher labels
contactPhone / whatsapp	Contact details when shown
images	Photo URLs
features	Feature tags from the card
housingCategory / housingType	Extra housing labels
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp
error	Set only when a page fails

How to use

1. Open the actor on Apify.
2. Paste one or more Metrocuadrado search URLs into Start URLs, or set City plus Transaction type.
3. Optionally narrow Property type, toggle Include images, and set Max items.
4. Run the actor and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Example input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.metrocuadrado.com/inmuebles/venta/bogota/?search=form"
    ],
    "includeImages": true,
    "maxItems": 100,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Or build the search from filters:

{
    "city": "medellin",
    "transactionType": "arriendo",
    "propertyType": "apartment",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example output

{
    "url": "https://www.metrocuadrado.com/inmueble/venta-casa-bogota-villas-del-madrigal-3-habitaciones-3-banos/15594-M6905366",
    "listingId": "15594-M6905366",
    "itemTitle": "Casa en Venta, Villas Del Madrigal, Bogotá D.C.",
    "price": 450000000,
    "priceCurrency": "COP",
    "transactionType": "Venta",
    "propertyType": "Casa",
    "bedrooms": 3,
    "bathrooms": 3,
    "areaM2": 120,
    "estrato": 3,
    "city": "Bogotá D.C.",
    "neighborhood": "Villas Del Madrigal",
    "images": [
        "https://multimedia.metrocuadrado.com/15594-M6905366/15594-M6905366_1_p.jpg"
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T12:00:00+00:00",
    "error": null
}

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	Bogotá sale search	Metrocuadrado search or category URLs
city	string	(empty)	City slug if you skip startUrls (bogota, medellin, cali, ...)
transactionType	string	venta	venta or arriendo
propertyType	string	all	Optional type filter when building a URL from city
includeImages	boolean	true	Include image URLs
maxItems	integer	50	Cap listings saved per run (max 1000). Actor paginates until this number
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	Per-request timeout

How maxItems works

Metrocuadrado returns roughly 50–65 listings per results page. If you set maxItems higher than one page (for example 100), the actor:

1. Loads your start URL and saves the first batch
2. Requests the next pages automatically
3. Stops when it reaches maxItems, or when no new listings are left

So maxItems=100 should save close to 100 unique listings (not just the first page). If the search itself has fewer matches than your limit, you get whatever exists.

Supported URL patterns

These all work as start URLs:

• City sale: https://www.metrocuadrado.com/inmuebles/venta/bogota/?search=form
• City rent: https://www.metrocuadrado.com/inmuebles/arriendo/medellin/
• Property type: https://www.metrocuadrado.com/apartamentos/venta/cali/
• Neighborhood-style paths when Metrocuadrado exposes them in the URL

You can also mix several start URLs in one run. Duplicates are skipped by listing ID.

Use cases

• Market research: compare sale and rent prices by city, neighborhood, and estrato
• Agency lead lists: collect listing URLs, phones, and WhatsApp contacts from public cards
• Price monitoring: schedule runs and watch how asking prices move over time
• Local SEO: feed real inventory stats into city and neighborhood landing pages
• Investment screening: filter by area, bedrooms, and budget before manual review

Tips for better coverage

• Prefer specific Metrocuadrado URLs (city, barrio, or property type) over the national homepage.
• Raise maxItems when you need a deeper sample of a large city search.
• Add several start URLs if you want apartments, houses, and offices in the same dataset.
• Keep the first test run small (maxItems=20 or 50), then scale up once the output looks right.

Integrations

• Export dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML from the Apify console
• Call the actor from the Apify API, webhooks, or schedules
• Pipe results into Sheets, warehouses, n8n, Make, or your own backend

FAQ

Why did I only get ~65 results before? Older runs stopped after the first results page. Current builds paginate until maxItems is filled.

Does this cover sale and rent? Yes. Use a venta or arriendo URL, or set transactionType when you build the search from a city.

Which cities work? Any city Metrocuadrado lists, including Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, and others. Prefer real search URLs from the site when possible.

Do I need to configure proxies in the input? No. Requests go through built-in bypass infrastructure. There is no proxy field in the actor input.

How many listings can I get per run? Up to 1000 via maxItems. The actor keeps paging through results until that cap is reached.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Use Apify schedules or the API to refresh datasets daily or weekly.

Are images included? Yes by default. Set includeImages to false if you only need text fields and want smaller output.

Run Metrocuadrado Real Estate Extractor when you need clean Colombian property data without manual copy-paste.