Dubizzle Property Scraper — Dubai/UAE + DLD Deed Data 🏛️

🎉 NEW: The ONLY Apify actor with Dubai Land Department (DLD) deed/building data alongside Dubizzle listings

Built for UAE PropTech engineers, Dubai investment analysts, off-plan developers, agency-intelligence teams, RERA-compliance firms, and Arabic-speaking market researchers.

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📋 Overview

Stop stitching three brittle Dubai scrapers together. The Dubizzle Property Scraper ships for-sale + for-rent listings, agent + agency profiles, and — uniquely on the Apify Store — the full Dubai Land Department (DLD) deed/building registry layer per listing. Title-search firms, off-plan investors, and RERA-compliance buyers pull it all in one run.

Why UAE PropTech teams choose this scraper:

• 🏛️ Dubai Land Department (DLD) deed data — unique on the Apify Store: Building registry, floor count, parking spaces, off-plan project metadata (offplan_project_info), and the official dubailand_listing_validation_url. Premium pay-per-event enrichment at $0.006 BRONZE. Zero incumbent actors expose this layer.
• 🧭 6 search modes vs incumbents' 1–2: bylocation, bylocationid, bycoordinates, bypolygon, byurl, byid. Polygon mode unlocks neighbourhood-level analyst workflows incumbent URL-only actors can't touch.
• 🌐 Bilingual EN + AR fields per row: listingTitleAr, listingDescriptionAr, location.nameAr, urlAr — shipped automatically. Other Dubizzle scrapers silently drop Arabic.
• 📜 RERA permit_number per listing: UAE-mandatory legal-listing field surfaced on every row. Critical for compliance, title-search, and broker-validation workflows.
• 👤 Agent + agency drill-down: /agent/details + /agent/listings map a single agent's full inventory in 2 extra calls. Plus an auto-generated HTML market KPI report per run (median AED, AED/sqft, ready vs off-plan tally, top areas by inventory).
• ✨ NEW: Tier-laddered pay-per-event pricing — FREE $0.030 → flat $0.0015 at GOLD on the bulk row. Premium DLD layer priced separately so you only pay when you actually call it.

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✨ Features

• 🏙️ Search by Location Name — Free-text Dubai Marina, JBR, Business Bay, Downtown Dubai; resolved server-side
• 🆔 Search by Location ID — Numeric Dubizzle locationId (e.g. 63 = Dubai Marina) for deterministic re-runs
• 📍 Search by Coordinates — Lat / long + radius (km) for centroid-driven market scans
• 🔷 Polygon Search — Custom-drawn polygon ([[lat,lng], …]) for analyst-grade hyperlocal cuts
• 🔗 Search by URL — Paste any Dubizzle search URL; filters are parsed for you
• 🎯 Direct Listing Lookup — Pull a single listing by listing_id + category_id
• 🏛️ DLD Deed Enrichment — Dubai Land Department building registry, parking spaces, floor count, off-plan project metadata, validation URL (PAID, unique on platform)
• 🔁 Similar Listings Enrichment — Up to 12 similar listings bundled per call for comp-set construction (PAID)
• 🌐 Bilingual EN+AR Surfacing — Arabic variants of title, description, URL, and location names shipped per row
• 📜 RERA Permit Number — UAE legal-listing compliance field on every row
• 👤 Agent + Agency Profiles — Full agent name, slug, agency, contact details where exposed
• 🏠 Sale + Rent in One Run — Set purpose: "both" to ship sale and rent inventory side-by-side (PAID)
• 📊 HTML Market Report — Median AED price, AED/sqft, ready vs off-plan tally, top-locations leaderboard — saved to report.html
• 💸 Pay Per Event — Granular charging: bulk row, DLD enrichment, and similar bundle priced separately
• 🆓 Free Tier With No Credit Card — 25 listings per run, all six search modes available — try the full thing before you commit

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🎬 Quick Start

Pick a search mode, hand us a location (or URL, coordinates, polygon, ID), choose whether to enrich with DLD or similar listings, and run. Results stream straight to the Apify dataset; the HTML market report saves to the run's key-value store at report.html.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~dubizzle-property-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "purpose": "for-sale", "searchMode": "bylocation", "locationName": "Dubai Marina", "maxResults": 25 }'

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🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Pick your purpose and search mode

Choose purpose: for-sale, for-rent, or both (PAID). Choose searchMode: bylocation, bylocationid, bycoordinates, bypolygon, byurl, or byid.

Step 2: Drop in your input

• bylocation → locationName: "Dubai Marina"
• bylocationid → locationId: 63
• bycoordinates → latitude: "25.0805", longitude: "55.1403", radius: 2
• bypolygon → polygon: "[[25.08,55.14],[25.10,55.14],[25.10,55.18]]"
• byurl → searchUrl: "https://www.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/dubai/"
• byid → listingId: "17485226", categoryId: 31

(Optional, PAID) Tick includeDld: true for the Dubai Land Department layer or includeSimilar: true for up to 12 similar listings per row.

Step 3: Hit run

The first 25 listings are free (no credit card). Watch the dataset fill in real time. Download as JSON / CSV / Excel directly from the Apify UI. The report.html market dashboard is saved to the run's key-value store.

That's it! In under 5 minutes, you'll have:

• A clean dataset of Dubizzle listings with 30+ fields, bilingual EN+AR
• Per-listing RERA permit_number, completion status, AED price, area in sqft / sqm
• (Optional) DLD deed/building data — the unique title-search layer
• An HTML market report you can share with your team

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📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
purpose	string	Yes	for-sale, for-rent, or both (PAID — doubles query count)
searchMode	string	Yes	One of: bylocation, bylocationid, bycoordinates, bypolygon, byurl, byid
maxResults	integer	Optional	Hard cap per query (1–500, default 50). FREE tier capped at 25 per run.
locationName	string	Conditional	Free-text location for bylocation (e.g. "Dubai Marina")
locationNames	array	Optional	Bulk location names — PAID tier only
locationId	integer	Conditional	Numeric Dubizzle location ID for bylocationid (e.g. 63 = Dubai Marina)
locationIds	array	Optional	Bulk location IDs — PAID tier only
latitude / longitude	string	Conditional	Decimal-degree centre for bycoordinates
radius	integer	Optional	Radius in km (1–50) for bycoordinates
polygon	string	Conditional	JSON-array string [[lat,lng], …] (min 3 points) for bypolygon
searchUrl	string	Conditional	Full Dubizzle search URL for byurl
listingId	string	Conditional	Dubizzle listing_id for byid (combined with categoryId)
categoryId	integer	Conditional	Dubizzle category_id for byid (e.g. 31 = Apartment for Sale)
includeDld	boolean	Optional	Enrich each listing with Dubai Land Department deed/building data — PAID tier only
includeSimilar	boolean	Optional	Enrich each listing with up to 12 similar listings — PAID tier only

Example — Location search:

{
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "searchMode": "bylocation",
  "locationName": "Dubai Marina",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Example — Polygon (analyst-grade hyperlocal):

{
  "purpose": "for-rent",
  "searchMode": "bypolygon",
  "polygon": "[[25.08,55.14],[25.10,55.14],[25.10,55.18],[25.08,55.18]]",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Example — Full PAID run with DLD enrichment:

{
  "purpose": "both",
  "searchMode": "bylocationid",
  "locationIds": [63, 199],
  "maxResults": 500,
  "includeDld": true,
  "includeSimilar": true
}

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📤 Output

Results are saved to the Apify dataset with 30+ fields per listing, including bilingual EN+AR variants and optional DLD deed data:

Field	Type	Description
propertyId	string	Dubizzle listing_id (canonical)
externalId	string	Dubizzle external_id (separate namespace)
categoryId / categorySlug / categoryNames	mixed	Category breadcrumb (e.g. apartment-for-sale)
purpose	string	for-sale or for-rent
listingTitle / listingTitleAr	string	Bilingual title (English + Arabic)
listingDescription / listingDescriptionAr	string	Bilingual full description
url / urlAr / shortUrl	string	English / Arabic / short links
pricing	object	{ value, currency: "AED", type, frequency }
specs	object	{ bedrooms, bathrooms, area, areaUnit, completionStatus, isFurnished }
location	object	Hierarchical { id, name, nameAr, slug, lat, lng }
agent	object	Full agent profile (name, slug, agency, contact where exposed)
agency	object	Agency profile
permitNumber	string	RERA permit (UAE-mandatory legal field)
completionStatus	string	ready or off-plan
isVerified / isFeatured	boolean	Dubizzle quality flags
photos / photoCount	array / int	Full photo URL list
createdAt / updatedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamps
dld (PAID)	object	DLD building registry: floor count, parking spaces, off-plan project info, validation URL
similar (PAID)	array	Up to 12 similar listings bundled in one call

Example dataset row:

{
  "propertyId": "17485226",
  "externalId": "DXB-2-BR-MARINA-001",
  "categoryId": 31,
  "categorySlug": "apartments-for-sale",
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "listingTitle": "2 BR Apartment | Marina View | High Floor",
  "listingTitleAr": "شقة غرفتين | إطلالة على المارينا | طابق مرتفع",
  "listingDescription": "Spacious 2-bedroom apartment in Dubai Marina with full marina view…",
  "listingDescriptionAr": "شقة واسعة بغرفتي نوم في دبي مارينا مع إطلالة كاملة على المارينا…",
  "url": "https://www.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/2024/2/15/2-br-apartment-marina-view/",
  "urlAr": "https://www.dubizzle.com/ar/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/2024/2/15/2-br-apartment-marina-view/",
  "pricing": { "value": 2850000, "currency": "AED", "type": "sale", "frequency": null },
  "specs": { "bedrooms": 2, "bathrooms": 3, "area": 1450, "areaUnit": "sqft", "completionStatus": "ready", "isFurnished": false },
  "location": { "id": 63, "name": "Dubai Marina", "nameAr": "دبي مارينا", "slug": "dubai-marina", "lat": 25.0805, "lng": 55.1403 },
  "agent": { "name": "Ahmed Al-Mansouri", "slug": "ahmed-al-mansouri-12345", "agency": "Marina Real Estate LLC" },
  "permitNumber": "71234567890",
  "completionStatus": "ready",
  "isVerified": true,
  "isFeatured": false,
  "photos": ["https://images.dubizzle.com/…"],
  "photoCount": 14,
  "createdAt": "2026-02-15T08:23:11Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-12T14:02:47Z",
  "dld": {
    "buildingInfo": "Marina Heights Tower",
    "floorCount": 47,
    "parkingSpaces": 1,
    "offplanProjectInfo": null,
    "dubailandListingValidationUrl": "https://dubailand.gov.ae/en/eservices/validate-listing/?ref=71234567890"
  }
}

The HTML market report is saved alongside the dataset at key_value_stores/default/report.html and includes: median AED price, median AED/sqft, area medians, ready vs off-plan breakdown, and top locations by inventory.

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💼 Use Cases & Examples

1. UAE PropTech analytics platforms

PropTech engineers building Dubai-focused dashboards.

Input: searchMode: "bypolygon" over a target neighbourhood, includeDld: true. Output: Per-listing AED price, area, completion status, plus DLD building data for portfolio depth. Use: Feed a comparables engine, build a price-index, or back a buyer-rec dashboard with the full Dubai inventory.

2. Off-plan property investment research

Investors and developers tracking off-plan supply.

Input: searchMode: "bylocationid", filter on completionStatus: "off-plan", includeDld: true. Output: Listings with offplan_project_info from the DLD payload, project completion dates, RERA permits. Use: Identify undersupplied submarkets, monitor pre-handover pricing, track active off-plan projects by master developer.

3. Dubai real-estate agency intelligence

Brokerages mapping agent-level competitor inventory.

Input: Bulk run by locationIds for your competitive set; then drill into /agent/details + /agent/listings per agent slug. Output: Full agent profile + every active listing per agent. Use: Map competitor pipeline, identify top-performing agents to recruit, benchmark your own agent inventory.

4. Bilingual EN+AR market research

Arabic-speaking analyst teams who today get English-only scrapes.

Input: Any search mode; purpose: "both" for full sale + rent coverage. Output: Every text field paired with its Arabic variant — listingTitleAr, listingDescriptionAr, urlAr, location.nameAr. Use: Native-language analyst reports, Arabic-content marketing, bilingual property platforms.

5. RERA compliance + title-search workflows

Legal teams and title-search firms validating Dubai listings.

Input: searchMode: "byurl" or byid with includeDld: true. Output: RERA permit_number + DLD dubailand_listing_validation_url per listing. Use: Validate legal-listing compliance, run title searches, build broker-verification flows.

6. Off-plan vs ready market sizing

Developers and city analysts sizing the off-plan vs handover supply curve.

Input: Run by locationId across all major Dubai areas; let the HTML report do the breakdown. Output: Ready vs off-plan tally + top-locations table per report.html. Use: Quarterly market reports, board-deck supply charts, supply-vs-demand decks.

7. Dubai rental yield analysis

REITs and yield-focused investors comparing sale to rent in the same submarket.

Input: purpose: "both", same locationId, maxResults: 500. Output: Side-by-side sale and rent inventory with bedrooms, area, AED price. Use: Compute gross rental yield by submarket, find arbitrage between buy-to-let zones.

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🔗 Integration Examples

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('sian.agency/dubizzle-property-scraper').call({
  purpose: 'for-sale',
  searchMode: 'bylocation',
  locationName: 'Dubai Marina',
  maxResults: 100,
  includeDld: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Pulled ${items.length} listings — first: ${items[0].listingTitle}`);
console.log(`DLD building: ${items[0].dld?.buildingInfo}`);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('sian.agency/dubizzle-property-scraper').call(run_input={
    'purpose': 'for-rent',
    'searchMode': 'bypolygon',
    'polygon': '[[25.08,55.14],[25.10,55.14],[25.10,55.18],[25.08,55.18]]',
    'maxResults': 200,
    'includeSimilar': True,
})

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['listingTitle']} — AED {item['pricing']['value']}/{item['pricing']['frequency']}")
    print(f"  RERA: {item.get('permitNumber')}  |  AR: {item.get('listingTitleAr')}")

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~dubizzle-property-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "purpose": "for-sale",
    "searchMode": "bylocationid",
    "locationId": 63,
    "maxResults": 100,
    "includeDld": true
  }'

Automation Workflows (N8N / Zapier / Make)

1. Trigger: Schedule (e.g. weekly Dubai Marina pull) or webhook
2. HTTP Request: Call the actor API with your searchMode + input
3. Process: Parse JSON, filter by completionStatus or permitNumber
4. Action: Push to your warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake), CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce), or notify Slack with new off-plan inventory

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📊 Performance & Pricing

FREE Tier (Try It Now — No Credit Card)

• 25 listings per run — full feature access across all 6 search modes
• Polygon, coordinates, URL, location name, location ID, listing ID — every search mode available
• Auto-generated HTML market report saved every run
• Perfect for testing, evaluation, and small Dubai market snapshots

PAID Tier (Production Ready)

• Unlimited listings per run (up to 500 per query, multiple queries per run)
• Bulk location arrays — locationNames / locationIds pull many neighbourhoods in one shot
• DLD deed enrichment — the unique Dubai Land Department layer no other actor offers
• Similar listings enrichment — 12 comps per row bundled into one call
• purpose: "both" — sale and rent in a single run

6-Tier Pay-Per-Event Pricing

Every event is laddered from FREE → DIAMOND. You only pay for what you actually extract, and the DLD layer (our unique USP) is priced separately so it never gets bundled into the base run cost.

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD	PLATINUM	DIAMOND
apify-actor-start (per GB of memory)	$0.050	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005
PropertyExtracted (primary — per listing)	$0.030	$0.003	$0.00225	$0.0015	$0.0015	$0.0015
🏛️ DldDeedEnriched (premium — unique on platform)	$0.060	$0.006	$0.00525	$0.0045	$0.0045	$0.0045
SimilarEnriched (12 listings bundled per call)	$0.030	$0.003	$0.00225	$0.0015	$0.0015	$0.0015

Why the DLD event costs more than the bulk row: the Dubai Land Department layer is unique to this actor on the entire Apify Store. No incumbent exposes building registry, floor count, parking spaces, off-plan project metadata, or the official validation URL. The 2× premium reflects platform-wide uniqueness, not extra cost on our side — and it's an opt-in toggle so the base run stays cheap.

💰 Best price on the market — at GOLD tier, the bulk row drops to $0.0015 / listing, matching the SIÁN portfolio framework ($0.003 BRONZE → flat at GOLD). Incumbent Dubizzle actors charge flat $0.005–$0.0075 with no tier ladder and no DLD layer.

🔗 View current pricing on the Apify Store

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What exactly is DLD deed data and why is it unique? A: The Dubai Land Department is the official property registry for the Emirate. Their building-level metadata — buildingInfo, floorCount, parkingSpaces, offplan_project_info, dubailand_listing_validation_url — is the gold-standard reference for title-search firms and PropTech analysts. No other actor on the Apify Store surfaces it. Toggle includeDld: true on a PAID run to enable it; the per-listing charge is the DldDeedEnriched event at $0.006 BRONZE.

Q: Do I always get Arabic text? A: Yes — bilingual fields (listingTitleAr, listingDescriptionAr, urlAr, location.nameAr) ship in every row when Dubizzle has them. No toggle required, no extra charge.

Q: How do I find the right locationId? A: Easiest path: use searchMode: "bylocation" with a free-text name — the platform resolves the ID server-side. Alternatively, the numeric ID appears in every Dubizzle URL and in the location.id field of any search result.

Q: What's the polygon format? A: A JSON-array string of [lat,lng] points (minimum 3): "[[25.08,55.14],[25.10,55.14],[25.10,55.18]]". Semicolon-separated, space-separated, or GeoJSON-feature formats will fail validation — stick to the array-of-pairs shape.

Q: How many listings can I extract? A: FREE tier: 25 per run. PAID tier: unlimited — capped only by maxResults (up to 500 per query) and your query count.

Q: Does this work for both sale and rent? A: Yes. Set purpose: "for-sale", "for-rent", or "both". The both setting runs each query twice (sale + rent) and is PAID-only — it doubles your query count.

Q: Are agent phone numbers included? A: Where Dubizzle exposes them. Most agent profiles ship with name, slug, and agency; phone/email are intermittently available depending on the agent's privacy settings.

Q: Can I scrape historical / sold listings? A: No — Dubizzle only exposes the live active inventory. For sold-history data, consider Dubai Land Department's public-records dataset (linked from the DLD enrichment's dubailandListingValidationUrl).

Q: Output formats? A: JSON, CSV, JSONL, Excel, RSS — export directly from the Apify dataset UI or pull via the Apify SDK in any language.

Q: How fast is each run? A: Search pagination is ~35 results per page at roughly 1 second per page. A 500-row run typically completes in 20–40 seconds. Enrichment adds 1 extra call per listing — budget 1 extra second per row when includeDld or includeSimilar is on.

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🐞 Troubleshooting

"Polygon needs >= 3 points" error

• The polygon field must be a JSON-array string of at least 3 [lat,lng] pairs. Wrap it in quotes and double-check the inner brackets: "[[25.08,55.14],[25.10,55.14],[25.10,55.18]]". Semicolons or spaces will not work.

Empty results for a known location

• Double-check that purpose is correct — for-sale won't return rental listings. If using bylocationid, confirm the ID via a bylocation lookup first (the platform's location tree updates occasionally).

byid mode returns 422

• Both listingId AND categoryId are required for direct lookup. The single-param shape returns a 422 error. Find categoryId in any search response under categoryId (e.g. 31 = Apartment for Sale, 30 = Villa for Sale).

FREE tier hits its 25-listing cap mid-run

• This is by design — FREE is 1 query × 25 listings. Upgrade to a PAID Apify plan to unlock bulk arrays, polygon mode, DLD enrichment, and unlimited query counts.

DLD enrichment doesn't fire

• Two requirements: PAID tier (FREE has enrichment disabled) AND includeDld: true in your input. The per-listing DldDeedEnriched charge only fires on successful fetches — failed enrichment is non-fatal and silently skipped.

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⚖️ Is it legal to scrape data?

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location beyond what listings publicly expose. They only extract what users (sellers, agents, agencies) have chosen to share publicly on the Dubizzle listing pages. We therefore believe that our actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data (agent names, agency profiles, contact details where the agent has chosen to expose them). Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union, the UAE's PDPL (Personal Data Protection Law), and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

You can also read Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

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⚠️ Trademark Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Dubizzle, OLX Group, the Dubai Land Department (DLD), the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA), or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates. All trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and product names mentioned in this Actor or its documentation (including but not limited to Dubizzle, OLX, DLD, RERA, and Dubailand) remain the property of their respective owners.

Use this tool in accordance with the source website's Terms of Service and applicable local law (including UAE law and the UAE Personal Data Protection Law / PDPL). The Actor extracts only publicly available data; you are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the data complies with the relevant terms of service and data-protection regulations.

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