# Centris Scraper - Quebec Homes for Sale (`scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Quebec real estate listings from Centris: price, property type, address, city, beds, baths, coordinates and link, or a property's description and photos. Paste a search or property link. Pay only when a page has listings. Made by ScraperCompany.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ScraperCompany](https://apify.com/scrapercompany) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $40.00 / 1,000 centris results pages

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## 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

## Centris Scraper - Quebec Homes for Sale

**Centris Scraper** by ScraperCompany reads **Quebec** homes for sale from **centris.ca**. Paste a search link to get up to 20 listings with **price, property type, address, city, beds, baths, coordinates and link**, or a property link for its **status, description and photos**. Pricing is pay-per-event: **$0.04 per results page** and **$0.004 per property**; empty pages and failed requests are free.

**Nothing to set up:** no code, no login and no keys. Start a run, then export JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the results through the Apify API. You pay only for results; failed and empty requests are free.

### What can this Centris scraper do?

- **Quebec listings from Centris**, in Canadian dollars.
- **Any search on the site**: filter on centris.ca, then paste the link.
- **Coordinates** on search results and property pages.
- **Property details** with description and photos.
- Batch many links per run, or mix search and property with custom requests.

#### Modes

| Mode | What it returns | Price per request |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `search` | Quebec listings from a Centris search link: price, type, address, city, beds, baths, coordinates and link | $0.04 |
| `property` | One property: price, status, address, beds, baths, type, coordinates, description and photos | $0.004 |

### What makes it different?

| | **Centris Scraper** | Many alternatives |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Setup | Nothing to configure: no login, no keys | Often your own accounts, cookies or network setup |
| You pay for | Successful results; failed and empty requests are free | Often run time, or every attempt |
| When a site pushes back | Retried and handled for you | Often an empty or failed run |

### Who uses Centris data?

- **Real estate investors**: Scan Quebec listings for a town or area and compare asking prices.
- **Brokers and agents**: Follow new listings and asking prices in your market.
- **Market researchers**: Build datasets of asking prices, property types and locations across Quebec.

### Common jobs

#### Watch a town or area

Set your filters on centris.ca, copy the search link in thumbnail view, and schedule the run to see new listings and prices.

#### Go deeper on one home

Pick **Property details** and paste a property link for its status, description and photos.

### What Centris data can you extract?

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `listings[].id / url / property_type` | The listing and its link |
| `listings[].price / currency` | Asking price |
| `listings[].address / city / province` | Where it is |
| `listings[].beds / baths / latitude / longitude` | Size and coordinates |
| `status / description / photos` | Property details mode |

Every dataset item also carries `input` (the options used for that request), `request_id` (quote it to support), `billed` and `scraped_at`.

### How to scrape Quebec homes for sale

1. Open Centris Scraper in Apify Console and go to the **Input** tab.
2. Pick **What to get**, then enter **Centris links**. For a search, set your filters on centris.ca, switch to the thumbnail view and copy the address.
3. Adjust the options if needed.
4. Click **Start** and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download the results from the **Output** tab as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or fetch them with the Apify API.

### Input

| Input | Name | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `mode` | What to get | A page of listings from a search link, or one property from its own link. |
| `urls` | Centris links | .ca link per line...?view=Thumbnail`)...ca/en/houses~for-sale~drummondville/14123365`). |

### Input example

This is the default input; running the Actor without changes uses it.

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
  ],
  "includeErrors": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRetries": 2
}
```

### Output example

One dataset item per request (trimmed here; real items contain all the fields):

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "input": {
    "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
  },
  "listings": [
    {
      "address": "1295, Rue Beauchemin",
      "baths": 3,
      "beds": 4,
      "city": "Drummondville",
      "currency": "CAD",
      "id": "14123365",
      "latitude": 45.889146,
      "longitude": -72.522265,
      "photo": null,
      "price": 899900,
      "property_type": "House for sale",
      "province": "QC",
      "sqft": null,
      "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~drummondville/14123365"
    }
  ],
  "search_parameters": {
    "limit": 20,
    "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
  },
  "total": 20,
  "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail",
  "request_id": "req_3f9c0d6e2b8a4c1f9e7d5b3a1c0e8f6d",
  "billed": true,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-01T14:03:27.512Z"
}
```

A request that fails is saved with an `error` message instead (turn off **Include failed requests** to skip those). Failed requests are never charged.

### How much does it cost to scrape Quebec homes for sale?

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing: you pay for successful requests, not for compute time.

| Event | Charged when | Price | Per 1,000 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `search-page` | One page of Centris listings (up to 20). An empty page is free. | $0.04 | $40.00 |
| `property-details` | One Centris property with its description, details and photos. | $0.004 | $4.00 |

**What a real run costs:**

- 10 search links, once: **$0.40**
- Details for 200 properties: **$0.80**

Apify's $5 of free monthly usage covers about **125** `search-page` events.

- Failed requests (errors, invalid input, a site refusing after retries) are **free**.
- Requests where the source returns nothing at all (no results, nothing priced) are saved but **not charged**.
- Set **Maximum cost per run** when you start a run and the Actor stops cleanly before going over it.

### Run it on a schedule

Use Apify **Schedules** to repeat a run hourly, daily or weekly and compare results over time, and **webhooks** or the **Integrations** tab to push new results to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or your own warehouse.

### Use it with AI agents

Results are structured JSON, so they are easy to feed to a model. AI agents such as Claude can run this Actor and read its results through the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com).

### FAQ

#### Do I need an account on the site, or an API key?

No. The Actor is ready to run as is, and you only pay the per-event prices above.

#### Which areas does it cover?

Centris is Quebec's real estate site, so listings are in Quebec. The default link covers all residential homes for sale there.

#### How many listings does one link return?

Up to 20: one page of results, for one charge.

#### Are square footage and year built included?

Those fields are in the output, but Centris often leaves them out, so they can be empty.

#### Is it legal to scrape Quebec homes for sale?

The Actor collects publicly available information that anyone can see without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the results: respect the source site's terms, copyright and privacy law (such as GDPR) and do not collect personal data without a lawful basis. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

#### What happens when a request is blocked or rate-limited?

Temporary errors are retried automatically. If a request still fails it is saved with the error message and not charged, and the rest of the batch keeps going. A run only fails when every request failed.

#### Why did a request return an error?

Read the `error` field: it says what was wrong with the input, for example a malformed date or an unknown id. Fix it and run again; failed requests cost nothing.

#### How many requests can I run at once?

Any number per run. The Actor sends up to 3 requests in parallel by default (change it under **Run options**); larger batches simply take longer.

### Use it from your code

Call the Actor from any language through the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2). With the JavaScript client (`npm install apify-client`):

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper').call({
    "mode": "search",
    "urls": [
        "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
    ]
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

With Python (`pip install apify-client`):

```python
import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "urls": ["https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"],
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)
```

### Related scrapers

- [US Homes for Sale Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapercompany/us-homes-for-sale-scraper): Zillow and Redfin listings
- [Rightmove Property Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapercompany/rightmove-property-scraper): UK homes for sale

### Support

Questions, a field you need, or a site that stopped working? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab. Include the `request_id` from the dataset item so we can trace the request.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

A page of listings from a search link, or one property from its own link.

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One centris.ca link per line. <b>Search results</b>: a search page in thumbnail view (<code>https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale~montreal?view=Thumbnail</code>). <b>Property details</b>: a property page (<code>https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~drummondville/14123365</code>).

## `customRequests` (type: `array`):

Optional list of JSON objects, one request each, using the field names shown above. Each object is merged over the options above, so you only need to give what differs. Use <code>"mode"</code> to pick search or property per object. Example: <code>{"mode":"property","url":"https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~drummondville/14123365"}</code>

## `includeErrors` (type: `boolean`):

When on, a request that fails (for example an unknown property id) is saved as a dataset item with an <code>error</code> message so you can see what went wrong. Failed requests are never charged.

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

How many requests run at the same time (1-8). Parallel runs share one limit, so extra requests wait for a free slot instead of failing.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times a request that failed for a temporary reason is tried again. Invalid input is never retried.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
  ],
  "includeErrors": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRetries": 2
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One dataset item per request.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts of succeeded, failed, skipped and charged requests.

# 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 = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapercompany/centris-property-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 = { "urls": ["https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapercompany/centris-property-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 '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.centris.ca/en/properties~for-sale?view=Thumbnail"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapercompany/centris-property-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapercompany/centris-property-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/z3dwsll0hSLz7srS7/builds/0nRqiPTb8MSafdfXX/openapi.json