Provident Estate Scraper

What does Provident Estate Scraper do?

Provident Estate Scraper collects property listings from Provident Real Estate, one of Dubai's larger brokerages, covering ready and off-plan apartments, villas and townhouses across the city. Open a for-sale or for-rent results page on the site, copy the URL, paste it into Start URLs, and run the Actor. You get back a clean, structured dataset of every matching property — price, size, bedrooms, bathrooms, community, DLD permit number, completion and furnishing status, images and the full description — ready for market research, price benchmarking, or lead lists.

Why use Provident Estate Scraper?

• Dubai sale and rent coverage — apartments, villas, townhouses and off-plan projects.
• Compliance field — the DLD (Dubai Land Department) permit number for every listing.
• Complete per-listing data — price, size, bedrooms, bathrooms, community, completion and furnishing status, and the full description.
• Clean, normalised output — numeric price and area, community split out, deduplicated image URLs.
• Simple input — paste a search URL, set how many results you want, run.
• Automation-ready — schedule recurring runs to track new listings and price changes.

What makes this different

This Actor reads the listing data straight from each property page, so the DLD permit number, completion status and furnishing type come through alongside the basics in one clean row. It works without a proxy, which keeps runs fast and cheap.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
id / reference	Provident listing reference (e.g. PS-3108264)
url	Canonical listing URL
channel	sale or rent
title	Listing headline
description	Full listing description
propertyType	Apartment, Villa, Townhouse, Penthouse, Commercial
purpose	For Sale / For Rent
completionStatus	Completed or off-plan
furnishing	Furnished / semi-furnished / unfurnished
price / priceCurrency	Numeric price and currency (AED)
bedrooms / bathrooms	Room counts (0 = studio)
area / areaUnit	Built-up area and unit (sqft)
location / community	Address string and community
developer	Master developer, where shown
permitNumber	DLD permit number
agencyName	Always "Provident Real Estate"
imageUrls	Listing photo URLs
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection

How to use Provident Estate Scraper

1. Open providentestate.com and build a search (for sale / for rent, community, price).
2. Copy the URL from your browser's address bar.
3. Open this Actor, paste the URL into Start URLs (you can add several).
4. Set Max properties per start URL — start small (3–5) to test, then raise it.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Dataset tab, or connect it via API.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	Yes	Dubai properties for sale	Provident Estate results pages or direct property page URLs.
maxItems	Integer	No	5	Maximum listings to collect per start URL.
useCache	Boolean	No	false	Reuse data collected for a property in an earlier run.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Apify Proxy off	Optional proxy settings. Enable only if results look blocked or incomplete.

Output Data

Each dataset item is one property. Example:

{
  "id": "PS-3108264",
  "reference": "PS-3108264",
  "url": "https://www.providentestate.com/buy/1-bedroom-apartment-for-sale-in-avelon-boulevard-arjan-dubai32063/",
  "channel": "sale",
  "title": "Apartment for sale with 1 bedroom in Avelon Boulevard, Arjan, Dubai at AED 1,265,000 [PS-3108264]",
  "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "completionStatus": "Completed",
  "furnishing": "Semi furnished",
  "price": 1265000,
  "priceCurrency": "AED",
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "area": 1096,
  "areaUnit": "sqft",
  "community": "Avelon Boulevard",
  "permitNumber": "71615942617",
  "agencyName": "Provident Real Estate",
  "imageUrls": ["https://d3h330vgpwpjr8.cloudfront.net/x/property/PS-3108264/images/.../1008x640/one.webp"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Usage Examples

• All Dubai properties for sale: https://www.providentestate.com/dubai/properties-for-sale/
• Properties for rent: https://www.providentestate.com/dubai/properties-for-rent/
• A specific community: https://www.providentestate.com/dubai/properties-for-sale/downtown-dubai/
• A single property: paste any .../buy/... or .../rent/... URL.

Tips for Best Results

• Apply community and price filters on the site before copying the URL.
• Add multiple search URLs in one run — maxItems applies to each URL separately.

Known Limitations

• developer is only returned where the listing names one.
• Agent contact details are not published on the public listing pages and are not collected.
• Very large searches are limited by the site's own pagination depth.

Integrations

Connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack or your own systems via the Apify API and webhooks. Schedule recurring runs from the Actor's Schedule tab.

Export Formats

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and RSS via the Dataset tab or the Apify API.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many results can I get per run? As many as you set in maxItems, up to the site's pagination limit. maxItems is per start URL.

Can I scrape a specific community or price range? Yes — apply those filters on providentestate.com and use the resulting URL.

Are duplicates removed? Yes. Each property URL is only collected once per run.

Why are some fields null? The listing didn't publish that field. Missing values are always null, never guessed.

Does caching affect freshness? With useCache on, a property already collected in a previous run is reused instead of re-fetched. Leave it off (the default) for current prices.

Can I schedule it? Yes, from the Actor's Schedule tab, or via the API.

Support

Found a bug or a missing field? Open an issue from the Issues tab on the Actor's page and include the run ID and the input you used.

Legal / Responsible Use

You are responsible for ensuring your use of this Actor complies with Provident Real Estate's terms of service and all applicable laws. Listings may include personal data; if you collect personal data you are responsible for complying with applicable privacy and data-protection laws (for example GDPR) and for using that data lawfully.

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