Centris Scraper: Quebec Real Estate Listings from Centris.ca

Turn any Centris.ca search or listing URL into clean rows of Quebec real estate data. Paste a search URL, a listing URL, or just type a city, and get price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, GPS coordinates and photos for houses, condos, plexes, lots, commercial property and rentals. Turn on full details to add the description, year built, living and lot area, municipal assessment, yearly taxes, condo fees, Walk Score, every listing broker with phone numbers, and the complete photo gallery with captions.

Why Use This Scraper?

• Start from a URL or a city. Paste Centris search or listing URLs, or type a city (accents and spaces are fine) and pick sale or rent and a property type.
• All of Quebec. Montréal and its boroughs, Laval, Quebec City, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Lévis and any other city Centris has a search page for.
• Fast card mode. One request returns 20 listings with price, address, beds, baths, GPS and the main photo.
• Full details when you need them. Description, rooms, year built, areas, every characteristic on the page, municipal assessment, taxes, condo fees and Walk Score.
• Broker contacts. Every listing broker with title, agency, phone numbers in +1 XXX-XXX-XXXX format and Centris profile link.
• Every photo. The full gallery with captions at 1260×1024, the largest size Centris serves.
• English and French pages. Both /en/ and /fr/ URLs work.
• No silent empty runs. A misspelled city returns one row that says what went wrong.

Overview

The Centris Scraper is built for real estate investors, brokers, proptech teams and market analysts who need structured listing data from Centris.ca, the listing site used by Quebec's real estate brokers.

The output is always one row per listing. Whether you start from a city, a search URL or a single listing URL, the dataset is a stream of listing rows. Brokers and photos are nested inside each listing row; they are not separate rows.

The actor has two depths:

• Card-only (default). The fields on the search results card. One request covers 20 listings.
• Full details (fetchFullDetails: true). Also opens each listing's page and photo list for the description, characteristics, finances, brokers and every photo. Two extra requests per listing.

A listing URL given as input always returns the full row, whatever fetchFullDetails is set to.

Supported Inputs

URL types

URL type	Pattern	Example
Search results (English)	/en/<type>~<for-sale or for-rent>~<city>	https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal
Search results (French)	/fr/<type>~<a-vendre or a-louer>~<city>	https://www.centris.ca/fr/propriete~a-vendre~montreal
Listing page (English)	/en/<type>~<transaction>~<city>/<Centris number>	https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal-ville-marie/20267781
Listing page (French)	/fr/<type>~<transaction>~<city>/<Centris number>	https://www.centris.ca/fr/condo~a-vendre~montreal-ville-marie/20267781

Copy-pasteable startUrls

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal" },
    { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/cottages~for-sale~sherbrooke" },
    { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal-ville-marie/20267781" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 200
}

You can mix search URLs and listing URLs in one run. The same listing found twice (for example, the English and French URL of one property, or a condo that shows up in two searches) is returned once, keyed by its Centris number.

City search mode

Leave startUrls empty and the actor builds the search from three fields:

{
  "city": "Trois-Rivières",
  "transaction": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "houses",
  "maxItems": 100
}

• City takes plain names with accents and spaces: montreal, laval, gatineau, sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, longueuil, levis.
• Boroughs work too: Montréal (Ville-Marie) searches the Ville-Marie borough only.
• Quebec City: type Quebec City or quebec. Both map to Centris's quebec page.
• The Console prefills city with montreal. That value is ignored as soon as startUrls has a URL in it.

Property types

propertyType	For sale	For rent
properties (all residential)	yes	yes
houses	yes	yes
condos	yes	yes (condos / apartments)
plexes, duplexes, triplexes	yes	no, sale only
lofts-studios, intergenerational-homes, cottages, mobile-homes	yes	yes
lots, farms	yes	yes
commercial-properties, offices, businesses	yes	yes

Asking for plexes, duplexes or triplexes with for-rent stops the run at once with a message explaining the fix.

Unsupported inputs

• URLs outside centris.ca. They are skipped with a warning; if none of the start URLs is valid, the run fails with a clear message.
• Broker profile pages and agency pages as start URLs.
• Filters from the Centris filter panel (price range, number of bedrooms and so on). Narrow the search by property type, transaction and city or borough, then filter the dataset on price, bedrooms and the other fields.
• Saved searches, favourites and anything else behind a Centris login.
• Sold prices and listing history. The actor returns the listings Centris currently shows.

Use Cases

Audience	Use case
Real estate investors	Screen Montréal plexes by price, unit mix and potential gross revenue, then compare taxes and assessments.
Brokers and agencies	See who holds the listings in a territory: brokers, agencies and phone numbers.
Proptech and data teams	Feed Quebec listings with GPS, photos and descriptions into a search product, map or valuation model.
Market analysts and researchers	Compare asking prices, municipal assessments and yearly taxes by city, borough or property type.
Rental and relocation services	Collect monthly rents for condos and houses for rent across Quebec.

How It Works

1. Input. Give Centris search or listing URLs, or a city with sale or rent and a property type.
2. Page through the results. Each search is read 20 listings at a time, in a fixed order, until maxItems or maxPages is reached.
3. Read the cards. Price, address, city, region, bedrooms, bathrooms, coordinates, main photo and photo count come straight from the results page.
4. Full details (optional). With fetchFullDetails, each listing page and its photo list are fetched for the description, characteristics, finances, brokers and every photo.
5. Output. Listings are deduplicated by Centris number and written as one row each, ready to export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input Configuration

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Notes
startUrls	array of { "url": string }	none	Centris search or listing URLs, English or French. When this has URLs, the city search is not used.
city	string	none (Console prefills montreal)	Quebec city or borough to search when startUrls is empty. Accents and spaces are fine.
transaction	string: for-sale, for-rent	for-sale	Used with city.
propertyType	string (15 values, see table above)	properties	Used with city. plexes, duplexes and triplexes are sale only.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum listings to return across all searches.
maxPages	integer	0	Stop each search after this many result pages (20 listings each). 0 means no page limit.
fetchFullDetails	boolean	false	Open each listing's page for the description, characteristics, finances, brokers and all photos. Adds two requests per listing.
maxConcurrency	integer (1 to 50)	10	How many Centris requests run at once.
proxy	object	Apify datacenter proxy	Switch to residential only if runs fail with HTTP 403.

Common scenarios

1. Fast card-only pull for a city

{
  "city": "montreal",
  "maxItems": 250
}

2. Full details for condos from a search URL

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal" }],
  "fetchFullDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

3. Condo rentals in Quebec City

{
  "city": "Quebec City",
  "transaction": "for-rent",
  "propertyType": "condos",
  "maxItems": 100
}

4. Specific listings (always returned with full details)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal-ville-marie/20267781" },
    { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/duplexes~for-sale~montreal-saint-laurent/10046657" }
  ]
}

Output Overview

Each dataset item is one Centris listing. Every row has the card fields; full-details rows add the rest.

• Identity: Centris number, URL, sale or rent, category ("Condo for sale").
• Price: number, text as shown (keeps "+ GST/QST" and "/month"), currency.
• Location: address, city (with borough for Montréal), region, coordinates.
• Layout: bedrooms, bathrooms; rooms, year built, living and lot area with full details.
• Media: main photo, photo count, virtual tour; every captioned photo with full details.
• Finances (full details): municipal assessment with its year, yearly taxes, condo fees.
• Brokers (full details): every listing broker with title, agency, phones and profile URL; the first one also as flat brokerName, brokerPhone, agency columns.

Fields the page does not show come back as null; the rental sample below has no assessment or taxes, for example.

Keys inside characteristics, municipalAssessment, yearlyTaxes and yearlyFees are Centris's own labels, so they are in French when you use French URLs. The description is in whatever language the broker wrote it; many are in French even on English pages.

Output Samples

Card-only row (city search, default settings)

{
  "listingId": "17307495",
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/triplexes~for-sale~montreal-rosemont-la-petite-patrie/17307495",
  "transaction": "sale",
  "category": "Triplex for sale",
  "price": 1149000,
  "priceText": "$1,149,000",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "address": "6738 - 6742, 6e Avenue",
  "city": "Montréal (Rosemont/La Petite-Patrie)",
  "region": "Montréal (Island)",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "latitude": 45.553481,
  "longitude": -73.593409,
  "photoUrl": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DAD14633DDDDDDDDDDC&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
  "photoCount": 22,
  "virtualTourUrl": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:07:21.242Z"
}

Full-details row, plex for sale (fetchFullDetails: true, photos trimmed to 3 of 25)

{
  "listingId": "10708877",
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/5plex~for-sale~montreal-villeray-saint-michel-parc-extension/10708877",
  "transaction": "sale",
  "category": "Quintuplex for sale",
  "price": 1449000,
  "priceText": "$1,449,000",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "address": "7568 - 7576, Rue Saint-Dominique",
  "city": "Montréal (Villeray/Saint-Michel/Parc-Extension)",
  "region": "Montréal (Island)",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "latitude": 45.537021,
  "longitude": -73.622858,
  "photoUrl": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA280865DDDDDDDDDDA&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
  "photoCount": 25,
  "virtualTourUrl": null,
  "description": "SUPERB 5PLEX -- NESTLED IN THE HEART OF VILLERAY -- IN HIGHLY SOUGHT-AFTER AREA (family-friendly St-Dominique street) -- Ideal for an owner-occupant, this magnificent 5plex offers a generous 28-foot facade and has been well maintained over the years, including the installation of a new furnace in 2026, 3 fiberglass front balconies, etc. (see addendum). Enjoy a prime location just 350 meters from De Castelnau metro station and in close proximity to all amenities: Little Italy, Jean-Talon Market, Jarry Park, daycares, schools, restaurants, cafes, pharmacies, and quick access to Highway 40. A rare find in the neighborhood -- great opportunity!",
  "rooms": 6,
  "yearBuilt": 1929,
  "livingArea": "3,496 sqft",
  "lotArea": "2,100 sqft",
  "characteristics": {
    "Use of property": "Residential",
    "Building style": "Attached",
    "Year built": "1929",
    "Living area": "3,496 sqft",
    "Lot area": "2,100 sqft",
    "Number of units": "Residential (5)",
    "Residential units": "2 x 3 ½, 2 x 4 ½, 1 x 6 ½",
    "Main unit": "6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms",
    "Potential gross revenue": "$54,000",
    "Additional features": "Basement 6 feet or +",
    "Move-in date": "180 days after acceptance of promise to purchase or rent"
  },
  "municipalAssessment": { "year": 2026, "Lot": 390200, "Building": 900500, "Total": 1290700 },
  "yearlyTaxes": { "Municipal (2026)": 8296, "School (2026)": 974, "Total": 9270 },
  "yearlyFees": null,
  "walkScore": 97,
  "brokers": [
    {
      "name": "Steve Velosa",
      "title": "Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker",
      "agency": "RE/MAX DU CARTIER INC.",
      "phones": ["+1 514-755-5505"],
      "profileUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/real-estate-broker~steve-velosa~re-max-du-cartier-inc.-villeray/d4094"
    }
  ],
  "brokerName": "Steve Velosa",
  "brokerPhone": "+1 514-755-5505",
  "agency": "RE/MAX DU CARTIER INC.",
  "photos": [
    { "url": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA280865DDDDDDDDDDA&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c", "caption": "Frontage" },
    { "url": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA28088ADDDDDDDDDDA&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c", "caption": "Kitchen" },
    { "url": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA280881DDDDDDDDDD1&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c", "caption": "Kitchen" }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:07:21.696Z"
}

Full-details row, condo for rent (photos trimmed to 2 of 40)

{
  "listingId": "12783346",
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos-apartments~for-rent~montreal-cote-des-neiges-notre-dame-de-grace/12783346",
  "transaction": "rent",
  "category": "Condo / Apartment for rent",
  "price": 3650,
  "priceText": "$3,650 /month",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "address": "5592, Rue Snowdon",
  "city": "Montréal (Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)",
  "region": "Montréal (Island)",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "latitude": 45.478964,
  "longitude": -73.629352,
  "photoUrl": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA15B290DDDDDDDDDD0&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c",
  "photoCount": 40,
  "virtualTourUrl": null,
  "description": "Discount of 1/2 of 1st month rent!!! Spacious Family 2-Floor Apartment for Rent in a Prime Location! Lower duplex with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a finished basement, double garage, driveway, deck and backyard located in a sought-after neighborhood in CDN/NDG. Enjoy the outdoor space with a private terrace & backyard. 2 steps away from Solomon Schechter, grocery stores IGA and Métro, shops and restaurants, pharmacies, banks, UdM, many schools and hospitals. Walking distance to many buses and located between 2 metro stations Snowdon and Villa Maria and close by Décarie and highway 15. Available as of August 1, 2026.",
  "rooms": 7,
  "yearBuilt": null,
  "livingArea": null,
  "lotArea": null,
  "characteristics": { "Move-in date": "According to leases" },
  "municipalAssessment": null,
  "yearlyTaxes": null,
  "yearlyFees": null,
  "walkScore": 95,
  "brokers": [
    {
      "name": "Myong Hee Kim",
      "title": "Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker",
      "agency": "LES IMMEUBLES CHARISMA INC.",
      "phones": ["+1 514-688-8503"],
      "profileUrl": "https://www.centris.ca/en/real-estate-broker~myong-hee-kim~les-immeubles-charisma-inc.-siege-social/e0878"
    }
  ],
  "brokerName": "Myong Hee Kim",
  "brokerPhone": "+1 514-688-8503",
  "agency": "LES IMMEUBLES CHARISMA INC.",
  "photos": [
    { "url": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA15B290DDDDDDDDDD0&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c", "caption": "Hall" },
    { "url": "https://mspublic.centris.ca/media.ashx?id=ADDD250DA15B29ADDDDDDDDDDA&t=pi&w=1260&h=1024&sm=c", "caption": "Hall" }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:07:21.776Z"
}

Run that found nothing (misspelled city)

{
  "noResults": true,
  "reason": "not_found",
  "message": "Centris has no page at https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~quebecc-cityy. Check the city spelling (e.g. montreal, laval, quebec, trois-rivieres) or open the URL in a browser.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T16:02:42.128Z"
}

Key Output Fields

Listing identity

• listingId (the Centris number), url, transaction (sale or rent), category, scrapedAt

Price

• price (number), priceText (as shown, e.g. $459,900 + GST/QST or $3,650 /month), currency (CAD)

Location

• address, city (with borough for Montréal), region, latitude, longitude

Property

• bedrooms, bathrooms (every row)
• rooms, yearBuilt, livingArea, lotArea, walkScore (full details)
• characteristics: every label and value from the listing page, such as building style, number of units, move-in date or potential gross revenue (full details)

Finances (full details)

• municipalAssessment (with year, lot, building and total values), yearlyTaxes (municipal, school, total), yearlyFees (condo fees)

Brokers (full details)

• brokers[]: name, title, agency, phones[], profileUrl
• brokerName, brokerPhone, agency: the first broker, as flat columns

Media

• photoUrl, photoCount, virtualTourUrl (every row)
• photos[]: url and caption for every photo, 1260×1024 (full details)

Empty-run row

• noResults, reason (not_found or legit_empty), message

FAQ

Which Centris URLs work?

Search results pages and single listing pages on centris.ca, in English (/en/) or French (/fr/). A search URL follows the pattern /<type>~<transaction>~<city>, for example https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~laval. Broker and agency pages are not supported as start URLs.

How much does it cost?

You pay per event, with no subscription:

Event	Price	When
Run start	$0.005	Once per run
Listing	$0.0015	Every row in the dataset ($1.50 per 1,000)
Full listing details	$0.0025	Every listing whose own page was read: with fetchFullDetails on, or for listing URLs given as input

So 1,000 card-only listings cost about $1.50, and 1,000 listings with full details about $4. Set a spending limit on the run and the actor stops opening listing pages once the limit is reached.

Card-only or full details: which should I use?

Card-only is the fast option: one request per 20 listings, with price, address, beds, baths, GPS and the main photo. Use fetchFullDetails when you need the description, finances, brokers or the full gallery; it adds two requests per listing. If a listing page fails to load, you still get that listing's card data rather than losing the row.

How do I get more than 5,000 listings for a city?

Centris shows at most 5,000 listings for a single search (250 pages of 20). Split large searches into several start URLs, one per property type (condos, houses, plexes and so on) or one per borough. Listings that appear in more than one search are returned once.

Why are some fields in French?

The description is in the language the broker wrote it, and many Quebec brokers write in French. The keys inside characteristics, municipalAssessment, yearlyTaxes and yearlyFees are Centris's own labels, so they follow the language of the URL. Use /en/ URLs for English labels.

Why did my run fail when I asked for plexes for rent?

Plexes, duplexes and triplexes are only listed for sale on Centris, so there is no rental search to read. Switch transaction to for-sale, or use properties or houses for rentals.

My dataset has a row with noResults: true. What does it mean?

The run finished but found no listings, and the row says why. not_found means Centris has no page for that city or URL (usually a spelling issue); legit_empty means the search is valid but has no listings right now. If Centris blocks the requests or the page layout changes, the run fails with an error instead of writing this row.

Does it return broker email addresses?

No. The actor returns each listing broker's name, title, agency, phone numbers and Centris profile link.

Do I need a residential proxy?

Usually not. The default Apify datacenter proxy works for Centris search and listing pages. Switch to residential only if your runs start failing with HTTP 403.

Can I scrape sold listings or content behind a login?

No. The actor reads the public Centris.ca pages and returns the listings Centris currently shows. Saved searches, favourites and account features are out of scope.

Which export formats are available?

Any format the Apify dataset supports: JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML and more.

Support

• For bugs or feature requests, open an issue on the actor's Issues tab.
• For anything else, contact the author:
  • Website: https://muhamed-didovic.github.io/
  • Email: muhamed.didovic@gmail.com

Additional Services

Need a scheduled Quebec listings feed, delivery to a database or Google Sheets, a custom field set, or a scraper for another real estate portal? Custom actors and data pipelines are available. Get in touch using the contacts above.

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🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (actor: memo23/centris-scraper).

Purpose: Returns Quebec real estate listings from Centris.ca (sale and rent, all property types) as one row per listing, with optional full details: finances, brokers with phones, and every photo.

Minimal input:

{ "city": "montreal", "maxItems": 20 }

For specific searches or listings, pass "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/condos~for-sale~montreal" }] instead. Optional: transaction (for-sale, for-rent), propertyType, maxPages, fetchFullDetails.

Output: one dataset row per listing: listingId, url, transaction, category, price, priceText, currency, address, city, region, bedrooms, bathrooms, latitude, longitude, photoUrl, photoCount, virtualTourUrl, scrapedAt. With fetchFullDetails: true or a listing URL as input, also: description, rooms, yearBuilt, livingArea, lotArea, characteristics {label: value}, municipalAssessment {year, ...}, yearlyTaxes, yearlyFees, walkScore, brokers [{name, title, agency, phones[], profileUrl}], brokerName, brokerPhone, agency, photos [{url, caption}].

Behaviors an agent should know:

• startUrls wins: when it has URLs, city, transaction and propertyType are ignored.
• maxItems defaults to 100. One Centris search tops out at 5,000 listings; split by propertyType or borough for more.
• Card-only mode costs one request per 20 listings; fetchFullDetails adds two requests per listing.
• Results are deduplicated by Centris number across all inputs.
• plexes, duplexes, triplexes with for-rent fail the run immediately (sale only on Centris).
• A run with no listings writes one row {noResults: true, reason, message}; reason is not_found (bad city or URL) or legit_empty.
• Nested object keys are Centris labels (French on /fr/ URLs); description is in the broker's language.
• No broker emails.
• Billing (pay per event): $0.005 per run start, $0.0015 per listing row, plus $0.0025 per listing whose own page was read (fetchFullDetails: true, or a listing URL as input). The empty-run explanation row counts as one listing row.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Centris Corporation inc. (the operator of Centris.ca), the Quebec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB / APCIQ), or any of their affiliates. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

The scraper accesses only publicly available Centris.ca listing pages: no authenticated endpoints, no account features, and no content behind the Centris login. Rows can include broker names and business phone numbers as published on Centris.ca. Users are responsible for making sure their use complies with Centris.ca's Terms of Use, applicable privacy and data-protection law (Quebec's Law 25, PIPEDA, GDPR, CCPA and similar), anti-spam rules such as CASL for any outreach, and any contractual obligations of their own organization.

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