Homegate & ImmoScout24.ch Scraper – Swiss Real Estate

What does Swiss Real Estate Scraper do?

Scrape Swiss property listings from Homegate.ch, ImmoScout24.ch and Flatfox.ch in one run: apartments, houses, multi-family houses, parking, commercial space and building plots, for rent or sale, anywhere in Switzerland. You get CHF prices, rooms, living area, CHF/m², full address with canton and GPS coordinates, features, photos, description and publication date in one flat table. Listings with matching shared SMG identifiers are deduplicated when enabled. Similar properties without a shared identifier can remain separate. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect through the API. No login or API key needed.

What data can you extract?

Field	Example
id / portal / url	4003557220 / homegate / https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4003557220
homegate_url, immoscout24_url, flatfox_url	links to the same listing on each portal
title	Zentrale Wohnung beim Kunsthaus mit Terrasse
offer_type / property_type	rent / apartment
price / price_unit / currency	2530 / month / CHF
rent_net / rent_extra	2280 / 250 (net rent and charges)
price_per_sqm	46
rooms / living_area_sqm / lot_area_sqm	2.5 / 55 / –
floor / year_built / year_renovated	1 / 1985 / 2025
available_from	2026-11-01
street / zip_code / city / canton	Wolfbachstrasse 18 / 8032 / Zürich / ZH
lat / lng	47.3704 / 8.5513
has_balcony, has_elevator, has_parking, pets_allowed, features	true, true, true, true, [balcony, elevator, …]
agency_name / agency_phone / contact_name	Peter Stalder Immobilien AG / +41 61 226 64 00 (when the portal shows them)
description, images, main_image, virtual_tour_url	full text and photo URLs
published_at / updated_at	2026-10-15T17:26:12Z
duplicate_key / address_key	keys for matching the same property across portals
egid / reference_id	federal building ID and agency reference (with details)

How to use

1. Enter one or more locations: a city (Zürich, Genève, Lugano), a ZIP code (8004), a canton (ZH, Kanton Zug) or paste search URLs from homegate.ch or immoscout24.ch.
2. Choose rent or buy, the property type, optional price, room and area filters, and the portals.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

{
  "locations": ["Zürich"],
  "offerType": "rent",
  "propertyType": "all",
  "portals": ["homegate", "flatfox"],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeDetails": false
}

Tips

• propertyType: all uses the broad Homegate/ImmoScout24 real-estate category, which can include commercial listings; Flatfox searches apartments and houses. Choose an explicit category when comparing portals.
• maxItems is global across locations and portals. Earlier streams can fill it before later portals are visited. Source ordering is not a globally merged newest-first timeline. For comparable portal coverage, use separate bounded runs.
• SMG searches are limited to at most 50 pages. Flatfox requests at most 400 candidates per category and then applies location/room/area filters. A successful run is not a full market inventory.
• Set includeDetails: true to open each listing page for agency name and phone, net rent and charges, availability date, EGID and reference number. This is slower; see the FAQ.

Output example

Real record from a test run (description and arrays shortened):

{
  "id": "4003557220",
  "portal": "homegate",
  "url": "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4003557220",
  "homegate_url": "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4003557220",
  "immoscout24_url": "https://www.immoscout24.ch/mieten/4003557220",
  "flatfox_url": null,
  "published_on": [
    "immoscout24",
    "homegate",
    "alleimmobilien",
    "home"
  ],
  "title": "Zentrale Wohnung beim Kunsthaus mit Terrasse",
  "offer_type": "rent",
  "property_type": "apartment",
  "property_subtype": "APARTMENT, TERRACE_FLAT",
  "price": 2530,
  "price_unit": "month",
  "currency": "CHF",
  "rent_net": null,
  "rent_extra": null,
  "price_per_sqm": 46,
  "rooms": 2.5,
  "living_area_sqm": 55,
  "usable_area_sqm": null,
  "lot_area_sqm": null,
  "floor": 1,
  "number_of_floors": null,
  "year_built": 1985,
  "year_renovated": 2025,
  "available_from": null,
  "street": "Wolfbachstrasse 18",
  "zip_code": "8032",
  "city": "Zürich",
  "canton": "ZH",
  "address": "Wolfbachstrasse 18, 8032 Zürich",
  "lat": 47.370411942307,
  "lng": 8.551291464946,
  "has_balcony": true,
  "has_elevator": true,
  "has_parking": true,
  "has_garage": true,
  "is_new_building": true,
  "pets_allowed": true,
  "wheelchair_accessible": true,
  "has_view": false,
  "features": [
    "balcony",
    "child_friendly",
    "elevator",
    "garage",
    "new_building"
  ],
  "agency_name": null,
  "agency_phone": null,
  "agency_website": null,
  "agency_address": null,
  "agency_id": null,
  "contact_name": null,
  "contact_phone": null,
  "reference_id": null,
  "description": "Ruhige, helle, zentrale Wohnung mit Parkettböden. Für 1 bis 2 Personen geeignet.Kernsaniert, energiearm. Badewanne, neue getrennt begehbare Küche mit Backofen, Einbaukasten. Kellerraum und Fahrradabstellmöglichkeiten. Pa...",
  "main_image": "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/hgonif/4003557220/image/78f42edb536ae961de2e7650aa6317e4.jpg",
  "images": [
    "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/hgonif/4003557220/image/78f42edb536ae961de2e7650aa6317e4.jpg",
    "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/hgonif/4003557220/image/50d39be59b2422aba95d849e4c9b2d18.jpg"
  ],
  "image_count": 5,
  "virtual_tour_url": null,
  "listing_tier": "STANDARD",
  "published_at": "2026-10-15T17:26:12.678Z",
  "updated_at": null,
  "duplicate_key": "smg-4003557220",
  "address_key": "8032|wolfbachstr18|2.5|55|rent",
  "egid": null,
  "search_location": "Zürich",
  "detail_scraped": false,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-15T19:11:50+00:00"
}

Pricing

The base price is $3.00 per 1,000 delivered listings, plus $0.00005 per start event. One start event applies per allocated GB, with a minimum of one. At 1,024 MB, 20 listings cost $0.06005 in events; 30 separate 100-listing runs cost $9.0015, if each returns 100 billable listings. These are arithmetic examples, not demand, availability or margin forecasts. Proxy and compute usage are included in the current event price. Check the Pricing tab for current rates.

The Actor checks the remaining SDK result allowance before location lookup, before fetching another stream and before detail enrichment. It trims work to that allowance and counts only accepted rows. A start event can apply even if no results are returned. Use the platform's maximum charge setting as well as maxItems.

Coverage and restarting a run

Inspect RUN_SUMMARY alongside the dataset. delivered counts saved rows including existing rows on restart; resumedItems and newItems distinguish them. stopReason identifies max_items, budget_limit, source_exhausted or a runtime/delivery error. unfinishedStreams identifies streams not exhausted; the global limit may stop before any request to a later portal. status: partial is expected when a result/budget limit leaves streams unfinished, or when a source/detail error occurs. incomplete marks an interrupted runtime or failed delivery; storage errors fail the run even if earlier results exist. complete means all requested streams finished within the source limits, not exhaustive market coverage.

Keep the input unchanged when restarting. Existing dataset identities prevent repeated output/charges and count toward the global limit. Source pages can be requested again because page checkpoints are not retained. Changed input or an older dataset without an input checkpoint is rejected: start a fresh run. Fresh scheduled runs can overlap; deduplicate by duplicate_key in your destination before treating a row as a new listing.

Detail enrichment first probes access sequentially. After two initial failures without a successful detail response, it stops requesting more details and keeps the search data, with errors and detailEnrichmentDisabled in the report. This contains failed-request costs; it does not solve upstream blocking or guarantee any detail fields.

Use cases

• Real estate investors: track asking prices, CHF/m² and new supply by canton, city or ZIP code.
• Agencies and property managers: monitor competitor listings, pricing and time on market.
• Relocation and corporate housing firms: get daily feeds of rentals that match a client's brief.
• Proptech and valuation models: training data with GPS, size, year built, features and EGID.
• Market research and media: rent indices and supply statistics for Swiss regions.
• Lead generation: agencies and private landlords who are actively advertising (with details enabled).

Integrations

Use the results anywhere through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airbyte or Slack. Schedule runs from the Apify Console.

Python example for apify-client==3.2.0; keep the token in an environment variable. This bounded example has a $0.10 event limit and four-minute runtime limit:

import os
from datetime import timedelta
from decimal import Decimal
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/swiss-real-estate-scraper").call(
    run_input={"locations": ["Zürich"], "offerType": "rent", "propertyType": "all",
               "portals": ["homegate", "flatfox"], "maxItems": 20, "includeDetails": False},
    memory_mbytes=1024,
    run_timeout=timedelta(seconds=240),
    max_total_charge_usd=Decimal("0.10"),
)
if run is None or run.status != "SUCCEEDED":
    raise RuntimeError("Inspect the run log before using partial results")
record = client.key_value_store(run.default_key_value_store_id).get_record("RUN_SUMMARY")
summary = record["value"] if record else {}
if summary.get("errors") or summary.get("stopReason") not in {"max_items", "source_exhausted"}:
    raise RuntimeError("Inspect RUN_SUMMARY for errors or a budget stop")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item["portal"], item["price"], item["rooms"], item["url"])

The example accepts an expected global-limit stop; inspect unfinishedStreams when portal-by-portal completeness matters.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Homegate and ImmoScout24.ch? The Actor collects only publicly visible listing data. Personal data, such as contact names and phone numbers, may be protected under the Swiss FADP and the GDPR. Use it only for legitimate purposes, and consult a lawyer if you are unsure.

Why are Homegate and ImmoScout24.ch combined? Both portals belong to SMG Swiss Marketplace Group and share one listing database, with identical listing IDs. The Actor uses these IDs to remove duplicates exactly. Every record tells you which portals carry the listing (published_on) and links to each of them. Flatfox rows are matched to SMG only when Flatfox supplies an smg_id; address similarity alone is not used for automatic deduplication.

Do I need a proxy? The portals use DataDome bot protection, so the default is Swiss residential proxies. The Actor first tries fast HTTP requests and switches to a real Chrome browser when it is challenged. If a portal blocks a search, the run continues with the other portals and logs the problem in the RUN_SUMMARY record.

Detail data is missing. Listing pages are protected more strictly than search pages. When they are blocked, the Actor keeps the search-page data, which already includes the description, photos, features and GPS. It then skips the remaining detail requests instead of failing the run.

How many listings can I get? The global maxItems, per-search page limit and each source response all constrain delivery. Adding locations expands the search but does not guarantee full coverage.

Support? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Feature requests are welcome.

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