# Dubizzle Property Search (UAE Real Estate) - PAUSED (`tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search`) Actor PAUSED: excluded from active promotion while Dubizzle Imperva access blocks current builds before output. Recent runs produced 0 dataset items. - **URL**: https://apify.com/tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search.md - **Developed by:** [Tugelbay Konabayev](https://apify.com/tugelbay) (community) - **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, Marketing - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 listing extracteds 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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? 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Dubizzle Property Search (UAE Real Estate) Scrape **Dubizzle** — the UAE's largest classifieds site — for real-estate listings across all 7 emirates. Get AED prices, bedroom/bathroom counts, area, location, agency, and listing URLs in clean JSON. ### Why this actor? | Need | This actor | | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | | Imperva (Incapsula) handling | Playwright + stealth + UAE residential proxy default | | All emirates supported | Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, RAK, Fujairah, Ajman, UAQ | | Pagination (`?page=N`) | Automatic page walking per start URL | | Agency surfaced per listing | Extracted directly from listing cards when available | | Pricing | Pay per result | This actor is built for UAE property search workflows where proxy reliability and normalized listing fields matter more than a generic page dump. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | | -------------------- | ------ | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | `searchUrl` | string | sale apartments Dubai | Any Dubizzle property listing URL. | | `startUrls` | array | — | Additional listing URLs (multiple emirates / categories). | | `maxItems` | int | 50 | Hard cap on dataset emissions. | | `maxPages` | int | 5 | How many paginated pages per URL. | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | UAE residential | Required for Imperva bypass. | ### Examples **Apartments for sale in Dubai:** ```json { "searchUrl": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/", "maxItems": 200, "maxPages": 10 } ```` **Multi-emirate aggregation:** ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-rent/residential/" }, { "url": "https://abudhabi.dubizzle.com/property-for-rent/residential/" }, { "url": "https://sharjah.dubizzle.com/property-for-rent/residential/" } ], "maxItems": 500 } ``` ### Output ```json { "url": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/.../id-12345/", "title": "Spacious 2BR with Marina View | High Floor", "price_aed": 1850000.0, "price_display": "AED 1,850,000", "location": "Dubai Marina, Dubai", "bedrooms": 2, "bathrooms": 3, "area_text": "1,425 sqft", "agency": "Allsopp & Allsopp", "source_url": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/?page=1" } ``` ### Use cases 1. **Real-estate agencies** — daily competitor + market price feed 2. **Investors** — find under-priced listings by neighborhood and configuration 3. **Property aggregators** — power your own search portal with normalized data 4. **CRM enrichment** — match listings to existing leads by area/budget 5. **Market research** — price-per-sqft trends by emirate / neighborhood ### Cost estimation - Proxy cost depends on your Apify plan and residential proxy usage. - Listing pages are relatively light, but large runs should still use `maxCostUsd`. - Pay per result. Start with `maxItems: 25` to verify output and cost before larger runs. **Safety:** No captcha service is called. Set `maxCostUsd` (e.g. `10`) for an additional hard kill-switch — the run aborts cleanly when estimated spend reaches the cap. ### FAQ **Why is Playwright (not plain HTTP) required?** Dubizzle sits fully behind Imperva (Incapsula). Plain `httpx` gets a 4.7 KB JS challenge instead of the page. A real Chromium with proper TLS fingerprint clears it in 5–8 seconds. **Will it work without UAE residential proxy?** Often it won't. Imperva fingerprints datacenter IPs and challenges them harder. Default config uses Apify's UAE residential pool — keep it. **What if a listing has no agency?** That's a private seller; `agency` will be `null`. **Can I get phone numbers?** Currently no — Dubizzle hides them behind a click-to-reveal flow. Future versions may surface them via second-pass enrichment. **Why isn't `area_text` parsed into a number?** UAE listings mix sqft and sqm in the same field. We surface the raw display so you can split on a unit you trust rather than guessing. **How fresh is the data?** Real-time per run. Dubizzle does not throttle the listing pages (only the detail pages, which we don't deep-fetch by default). ### Troubleshooting - **Empty results + `Imperva challenge persisted` in log** — proxy session burned. Re-run; the actor rotates sessions automatically. - **Some listings missing beds/baths** — short-let / commercial listings often omit these fields; not a parsing bug. - **Currency mismatch** — Dubizzle is AED-only. Convert in your downstream pipeline if needed. - **Rate-limited despite UAE proxy** — lower `maxPages` to 3 and split runs. ### Limitations - AED-only currency. - Listing-card data only — no full property description, no detail-page DLD transactions yet. - No phone / WhatsApp extraction in v0.1 (planned for v0.2). - Single language (English locale URLs); Arabic locale URLs work but field names will be Arabic where Dubizzle hasn't translated. ### Changelog - **0.1** (2026-05-03) — Initial release. Playwright + UAE residential, multi-emirate, all 7 emirates supported. # Actor input Schema ## `searchUrl` (type: `string`): A Dubizzle search URL — e.g. https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/. Leave empty to use startUrls. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Extra listing-page URLs to scrape (e.g. multiple emirates / categories in one run). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on dataset items emitted across all URLs and pages. ## `maxPages` (type: `integer`): How many paginated pages to walk per starting URL. ## `maxCostUsd` (type: `integer`): Hard kill-switch on estimated proxy spend. 0 = no cap. Run aborts cleanly when reached. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Dubizzle is Imperva-gated. Apify residential UAE is the default and required for reliable runs. ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchUrl": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/", "maxItems": 25, "maxPages": 5, "maxCostUsd": 0, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "AE" } } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "searchUrl": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/" }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "searchUrl": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/" } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "searchUrl": "https://dubai.dubizzle.com/property-for-sale/residential/apartment/" }' | apify call tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=tugelbay/dubizzle-property-search", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Dubizzle Property Search (UAE Real Estate) - PAUSED", "description": "PAUSED: excluded from active promotion while Dubizzle Imperva access blocks current builds before output. 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Leave empty to use startUrls." }, "startUrls": { "title": "Additional start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Extra listing-page URLs to scrape (e.g. multiple emirates / categories in one run).", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on dataset items emitted across all URLs and pages.", "default": 25 }, "maxPages": { "title": "Max pages per URL", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "How many paginated pages to walk per starting URL.", "default": 5 }, "maxCostUsd": { "title": "Max spend per run (USD)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard kill-switch on estimated proxy spend. 0 = no cap. Run aborts cleanly when reached.", "default": 0 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Dubizzle is Imperva-gated. Apify residential UAE is the default and required for reliable runs.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "AE" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```