# Trulia Scraper (`onidivo/trulia-scraper`) Actor

Crawl the Trulia real estate listings site and extract data about homes for sale. Scrape home details for multiple search locations (City, Neighborhood, Zip, and County) and various search criteria and filters.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/onidivo/trulia-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Onidivo Technologies](https://apify.com/onidivo) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Travel
- **Stats:** 128 total users, 0 monthly users, 44.0% runs succeeded, 7 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Trulia Scraper

- [Features](#Features)
- [Cost of usage](#Cost-of-usage)
- [Bugs, issues, features, and feedback](#Bugs,-issues,-features,-and-feedback)
- [Input](#Input)
- [Output](#Output)

Crawl the Trulia real estate listings site and extract data about homes for sale. Scrape home details for multiple
search locations (City, Neighborhood, Zip, and County) and various search criteria and filters. Download and use the
data whatever way you want.

### Features

- Multiple properties URLs
- Multiple search locations
- Multiple search types (Buy, Rent, Sold)
- Sort homes

### Cost of usage

When running the actor with memory of **1024 MB**, average consumption is about **1 Compute Unit** and **1 hour** per
**4000 homes**. This will cost about **$0.5** usage credits.

### Bugs, issues, features, and feedback

You can report issues on the Actor tab "Issues" or [here](https://github.com/onidivo/apify-actors/issues/new?title=Trulia+-+) and discuss or leave your
feedback [here](https://github.com/onidivo/apify-actors/discussions).

### Input

You can provide input either through the editor on the Apify platform or as a JSON object.

The only mandatory fields you need to provide are:

- at least one of: **startUrls** or **searchLocations**.
- if you will provide **searchLocations**, at least one of: **searchTypeBuy**, **searchTypeRent**, and **searchTypeSold** with the value `true` (by default, **searchTypeBuy** is `true`).

An example of minimal input:

```json
{
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/fremont/3366-peralta-blvd-fremont-ca-94536--2083375174"
        }
    ],
    "searchLocations": [
        "San Francisco"
    ],
    "searchTypeBuy": true,
    "sortOption": "NEW_LISTINGS",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
}

```

**The scraper forcibly use Apify Proxy so that you don’t get blocked by Trulia. You should also use a low value for max
concurrency.**

### Output

For each **search location** combined with the **search type** (Buy, Rent, or Sold), and for each start URL, you get home results.

The output of each home looks like this:

```json
{
    "url": "https://www.trulia.com/p/ca/fremont/48871-crown-ridge-cmn-fremont-ca-94539--2083417606",
    "searchLocation": "Fremont, CA",
    "query": "Fremont, CA",
    "title": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn, Fremont, CA 94539 - 5 Bed, 4 Bath Single-Family Home - MLS# ML81834752 - 39 Photos | Trulia",
    "metaDescription": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn, Fremont, CA 94539 is a 3,811 sqft, 5 bed, 4 bath Single-Family Home listed for $2,980,000. Welcome to 48871 Crown Ridge Common, an exquisite home located on a tree lined street in the prestigious...",
    "isOffMarket": false,
    "isRecentlySold": false,
    "isForeclosure": false,
    "isActiveForRent": false,
    "isActiveForSale": true,
    "isRecentlyRented": false,
    "location": {
        "stateCode": "CA",
        "jsonLdSchemaFullLocation": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn, Fremont, CA 94539",
        "homeFormattedAddress": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn, Fremont, CA 94539",
        "cityStateZipAddress": "Fremont, CA 94539",
        "summaryFormattedLocation": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn",
        "city": "Fremont",
        "zipCode": "94539",
        "neighborhoodName": "Vineyards-Avalon",
        "streetAddress": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn",
        "formattedLocation": "48871 Crown Ridge Cmn",
        "latitude": 37.47203826904297,
        "longitude": -121.8926010131836
    },
    "price": 2980000,
    "bedrooms": 5,
    "bathrooms": 4,
    "floorSpace": 3811,
    "propertyType": "Single Family Home",
    "lotSize": "0.58 acres"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

The start URLs to scrape. It can be listening or property pages.

## `searchLocations` (type: `array`):

The locations to search for

## `searchTypeBuy` (type: `boolean`):

Search homes for sale

## `searchTypeRent` (type: `boolean`):

Search homes for rent

## `searchTypeSold` (type: `boolean`):

Search sold homes

## `sortOption` (type: `string`):

The option to use for sorting the results

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Provided options to configure connection with a proxy server.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum concurrency that you want to run actor

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/3p_beds/300000p_price/MULTI-FAMILY,SINGLE-FAMILY_HOME,TOWNHOUSE_type/7_nl/"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.trulia.com/property/7095741518-37901-Ocean-Ridge-Dr-Gualala-CA-95445"
    }
  ],
  "searchTypeBuy": true,
  "searchTypeRent": false,
  "searchTypeSold": false,
  "sortOption": "NO_SORTING",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/3p_beds/300000p_price/MULTI-FAMILY,SINGLE-FAMILY_HOME,TOWNHOUSE_type/7_nl/"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.trulia.com/property/7095741518-37901-Ocean-Ridge-Dr-Gualala-CA-95445"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("onidivo/trulia-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/3p_beds/300000p_price/MULTI-FAMILY,SINGLE-FAMILY_HOME,TOWNHOUSE_type/7_nl/" },
        { "url": "https://www.trulia.com/property/7095741518-37901-Ocean-Ridge-Dr-Gualala-CA-95445" },
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("onidivo/trulia-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/San_Francisco,CA/3p_beds/300000p_price/MULTI-FAMILY,SINGLE-FAMILY_HOME,TOWNHOUSE_type/7_nl/"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.trulia.com/property/7095741518-37901-Ocean-Ridge-Dr-Gualala-CA-95445"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call onidivo/trulia-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,onidivo/trulia-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Lpp21dFAf2DXstFRK/builds/D2YMiV4LdX1wRvlJP/openapi.json