# realestate.com.au Scraper: Price, Beds, Agent (`themineworks/realestate-com-au-scraper`) Actor

Scrape realestate.com.au buy, rent and sold listings by suburb: price, beds, baths, parking, property type, agent and agency, with photos and coordinates. Australia residential proxy, no login, pay per property.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/themineworks/realestate-com-au-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Mine Works](https://apify.com/themineworks) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 properties

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## realestate.com.au Scraper: Price, Beds, Agent

> realestate.com.au runs Kasada bot protection sitewide. This actor routes through Apify's own UNBLOCKER network, which clears Kasada's challenge server-side — no browser required.

> You are only charged for a property that actually lands in your dataset. A blocked or empty page is never billed.

### Overview

realestate.com.au is one of the two major real estate portals in Australia, alongside Domain, and this actor turns any suburb search into structured rows: price, bedrooms, bathrooms, parking, property type, agent and agency, with photos.

Give it one or more suburb and state searches, such as "Chatswood, NSW 2067", choose buy, rent or sold, and it returns the listings realestate.com.au itself would show for that search.

Covers buy, rent and sold in one actor ✅ · Price parsed to a number where possible ✅ · Agent and agency captured on every row ✅ · MCP ready for AI agents ✅

### Why this doesn't need a real browser

realestate.com.au is protected by Kasada, one of the more thorough bot management systems in production use, and this was measured directly before choosing a transport. A plain request routed directly (or through a generic proxy) against the search pages is met with Kasada's sensor challenge shell rather than the real page. Apify's UNBLOCKER proxy group solves that challenge on its own infrastructure before the response ever reaches this actor, so a plain HTTP request gets back the fully rendered page — no browser process, no stealth plugin, no headed Chromium session to keep alive. That is faster and cheaper than a browser for exactly the same result.

### Input

```json
{
  "locations": ["Chatswood, NSW 2067"],
  "listingType": "buy",
  "maxItemsPerLocation": 40,
  "minBedrooms": 3,
  "maxPrice": 1500000
}
```

| Field | What it takes |
| --- | --- |
| `locations` | One or more suburb and state searches, for example "Chatswood, NSW 2067" or "Bondi Beach, NSW". |
| `listingType` | `buy`, `rent` or `sold`. |
| `maxItemsPerLocation` | Hard cap per location. realestate.com.au returns around 20 properties per page, so this is your main cost and runtime control. |
| `minBedrooms` | Optional minimum bedroom count, applied after fetching each page. |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Optional price band, applied to whichever listings carry a numeric price. |

### Output

```json
{
  "listing_id": "142857930",
  "listing_type": "buy",
  "display_address": "12 Example Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067",
  "suburb": "Chatswood",
  "state": "NSW",
  "postcode": "2067",
  "price_label": "Contact Agent",
  "bedrooms": 4,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "parking": 2,
  "property_type": "House",
  "agent_names": "Jane Smith",
  "agency_name": "Example Realty Chatswood",
  "url": "https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-nsw-chatswood-142857930",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-13T21:00:00.000Z"
}
```

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| 🆔 `listing_id` | realestate.com.au listing ID, stable for deduplication across runs |
| 🏠 `display_address` | Full street address as shown |
| 📍 `suburb` / `state` / `postcode` | Parsed address components |
| 💰 `price_label` | Price exactly as the agent wrote it |
| 💵 `price_value` | Numeric price, parsed when the label contains a clean figure |
| 🛏️ `bedrooms` / 🛁 `bathrooms` / 🚗 `parking` | Core feature counts |
| 👤 `agent_names` / 🏢 `agency_name` | Listing agent and agency |
| 🖼️ `image_url` / `image_count` | Primary photo and total photo count |
| 🔗 `url` | Direct link to the listing on realestate.com.au |

### Common use cases

**Market research.** Track asking prices, property mix and days on market in a suburb across the buy, rent and sold views.

**Buyer and investor alerts.** Run on a schedule against a shortlist of suburbs and price bands to catch new listings the day they go live.

**Rental market tracking.** Switch to the rent view to build a live weekly rent benchmark for a suburb rather than relying on a quarterly report.

**Sold price research.** The sold view gives a real, recent comparables set for valuation work.

**AI agents.** Feed live realestate.com.au listings into an agent that answers "what is actually on the market in Chatswood right now under 1.5 million?"

### Pricing

| Event | Price | You pay when |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Property delivered | $0.0011 | A property lands in your dataset |

**$1.10 per 1,000 properties.** A search that returns nothing costs nothing.

### Run it on a schedule

1. Run once with the locations you want repeated, then click **Save as a task**.
2. In the Apify Console go to **Schedules, Create new**.
3. Pick a frequency and attach the saved task.
4. Wire the dataset to Sheets, Slack or a webhook from the **Integrations** tab.

Deduplicate on `listing_id` so a repeated schedule only surfaces genuinely new listings.

### FAQ

**Do I need a realestate.com.au account?**
No. The actor reads realestate.com.au's own public search results only.

**Does this actor use a browser or a residential proxy?**
No. Requests go out as plain HTTP through Apify's UNBLOCKER network, which handles Kasada's challenge on its own side. That keeps this actor's cost, and its price, low.

**Does buy, rent and sold all work the same way?**
Yes, the `listingType` input switches between them and the output shape is the same, though a sold listing typically shows a sold price rather than an asking price in `price_label`.

**Why did I get fewer properties than my cap?**
Because the search has fewer matching listings, your filters narrowed the results, or the result set was exhausted before the cap. The run reports what it actually found rather than padding the count.

### Use from Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent

```
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/realestate-com-au-scraper
```

Or call it programmatically:

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

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('themineworks/realestate-com-au-scraper').call({
  locations: ['Chatswood, NSW 2067'],
  listingType: 'buy',
  maxItemsPerLocation: 40,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

Questions, or need a field we do not return yet? Reach out through the Apify profile.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

One or more suburb and state searches, for example "Chatswood, NSW 2067" or "Bondi Beach, NSW".

## `listingType` (type: `string`):

Search for sale listings, rental listings, or recently sold properties.

## `maxItemsPerLocation` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap per location searched. realestate.com.au returns around 20 properties per page, so this is your main cost and runtime control.

## `minBedrooms` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only return listings with at least this many bedrooms. Applied after fetching each page.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only return listings priced at or above this figure, where a numeric price can be parsed. Applied after fetching each page.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Only return listings priced at or below this figure, where a numeric price can be parsed. Applied after fetching each page.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "Chatswood, NSW 2067"
  ],
  "listingType": "buy",
  "maxItemsPerLocation": 40
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "locations": [
        "Chatswood, NSW 2067"
    ],
    "listingType": "buy",
    "maxItemsPerLocation": 40
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("themineworks/realestate-com-au-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 = {
    "locations": ["Chatswood, NSW 2067"],
    "listingType": "buy",
    "maxItemsPerLocation": 40,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("themineworks/realestate-com-au-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 '{
  "locations": [
    "Chatswood, NSW 2067"
  ],
  "listingType": "buy",
  "maxItemsPerLocation": 40
}' |
apify call themineworks/realestate-com-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,themineworks/realestate-com-au-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/74t1hXI1X5NLeEo7P/builds/vGk7nTMabvSgtJiEU/openapi.json