# Storia Romania Real Estate Listings (`zinin/storia-bucharest`) Actor

Pull live apartment and house listings straight from Storia.ro — Romania's biggest real-estate classifieds portal — by deal type, property type and city. No login, no browser, no proxies. Unofficial, independent tool — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Storia.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zinin/storia-bucharest.md
- **Developed by:** [Tim Zinin](https://apify.com/zinin) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.70 / 1,000 listing founds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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

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# README

## Storia Romania Real Estate Listings

Pull live apartment and house listings straight from Storia.ro — Romania's
biggest real-estate classifieds portal — filtered by deal type (buy/rent),
property type and city. No login, no API key, no browser needed on your side.

### What you get

- Title, price (with currency), rooms, floor area, sector/district location,
  a short description, preview photos and the direct listing URL for every
  ad found.
- Filter by buy or rent, apartment or house, and any Storia.ro city.
- Runs on Apify: schedule it, monitor it, call it from the API, export to
  JSON/CSV/Excel or push straight into your own pipeline.

### How to run it

1. Click **Try for free** — no card needed on the free plan.
2. Pick **Deal type** (buy/rent) and **Property type** (apartment/house), and
   set **City path** — for example `bucuresti` for Bucharest, or
   `harghita/miercurea-ciuc` (county/city) for smaller towns.
3. Hit **Start** and pull the results from the dataset (UI, API or webhook).

### Pricing

Pay-per-event: **$0.005 per run start + $0.002 per result**. No monthly seat, no minimum. 100 listings found cost about $0.21 (the one-time start fee plus 100 result rows). Rows where the source returned nothing (an unrecognized combination, a search with zero matching listings, or a request that failed) are returned for transparency but are **never** charged for.

### Input

| Field | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `deal_type` | no | `vanzare` (buy) or `inchiriere` (rent). Default `vanzare`. |
| `property_type` | no | `apartament` (apartment) or `casa` (house). Default `apartament`. |
| `city` | no | Storia.ro location path, e.g. `bucuresti` for Bucharest, or `harghita/miercurea-ciuc` (county/city) for smaller towns. Default `bucuresti`. |
| `max_items` | no | Total row cap for this run (default 100). |
| `max_pages` | no | How many result pages to walk before stopping (default 3). |

```json
{
    "deal_type": "vanzare",
    "property_type": "apartament",
    "city": "bucuresti",
    "max_items": 5,
    "max_pages": 1
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "found": true,
    "title": "Apartament 6 camere langa Piata Victoriei, la cheie, ideal investitie",
    "price": 330000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "deal_type": "sale",
    "property_type": "FLAT",
    "rooms": null,
    "area_sqm": 182,
    "location": "Stirbei, Sectorul 1, Bucuresti",
    "lat": null,
    "lng": null,
    "posted_date": "2026-07-30 17:40:34",
    "description": "Vă prezentăm spre vânzare un apartament elegant și spațios, situat într-o vilă interbelică solidă, ci un regim de inaltime S+D+P+1+M, construită în anul 1940, amplasată într-una dintre cele mai apreci...",
    "url": "https://www.storia.ro/ro/oferta/apartament-6-camere-langa-piata-victoriei-la-cheie-ideal-investitie-IDHBw6",
    "source_portal": "storia-bucharest",
    "scraped_at": "2026-07-30T14:41:55.301Z",
    "partial": true,
    "partial_reason": "stopped after 1 page(s), 5 item(s) collected — reached this run's own max_pages/max_items limit before the source confirmed (via confirmedEnd) that there is nothing more; there may be additional matching listings beyond what was collected"
}
```

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `found` | `true` for a real listing row; `false` for an empty-result or error row. |
| `title` | Listing headline as published. |
| `price` | Sale price, or monthly rent for rentals. |
| `currency` | As published by Storia.ro — `EUR` on every listing sampled. |
| `deal_type` | `sale` or `rent`. |
| `property_type` | Storia's own classification: `FLAT`, `HOUSE`, or `INVESTMENT` (new-development project). |
| `rooms` | Number of rooms. `null` when Storia reports an open-ended "5+" instead of an exact count. |
| `area_sqm` | Floor area in square meters. |
| `location` | Most specific location Storia gives (neighborhood/sector where available, otherwise city/county). |
| `lat` / `lng` | Not available on list pages — always `null`. |
| `posted_date` | Raw timestamp as Storia publishes it. |
| `description` | Listing description text as Storia's search API returns it (often pre-truncated by Storia itself). |
| `url` | Direct link to the listing. |
| `images` | Up to 5 photo URLs. |
| `source_portal` | Always `"storia-bucharest"`. |
| `scraped_at` | ISO-8601 timestamp of this check. |
| `partial` | `true` when this run stopped (hit `max_pages`/`max_items`, or a page failed mid-walk) before the source confirmed there was nothing more to page through; `false` when the source itself confirmed the end of results. |
| `partial_reason` | Plain-English reason when `partial` is `true`; `null` otherwise. |

### API

Start a run with a bearer token and explicit JSON input:

```bash
curl -sS -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/zinin~storia-bucharest/runs?waitForFinish=60' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"deal_type":"vanzare","property_type":"apartament","city":"bucuresti","max_items":5,"max_pages":1}'
```

Read Dataset rows using the returned `defaultDatasetId`:

```bash
curl -sS "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/$DEFAULT_DATASET_ID/items?clean=true&format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"
```

### MCP

For an Apify MCP client exposing the standard `call-actor` tool, send this exact payload:

```json
{
  "name": "call-actor",
  "arguments": {
    "actor": "zinin/storia-bucharest",
    "input": {
      "deal_type": "vanzare",
      "property_type": "apartament",
      "city": "bucuresti",
      "max_items": 5,
      "max_pages": 1
    }
  }
}
```

### Other tools we built

### Related Actors

Other major European (and adjacent) real-estate portals, for a buyer comparing markets or
running a multi-country portfolio rather than looking at Bucharest alone.

| Actor | Use it when |
|---|---|
| [Imovirtual Portugal Real Estate Listings](https://apify.com/zinin/imovirtual-lisbon) | Add Lisbon to the same pipeline for a pricier Western-EU comparison market, without new plumbing. |
| [Krisha.kz Kazakhstan Real Estate Listings](https://apify.com/zinin/krisha-kz) | Same query shape (deal type, property type, city) extended to Kazakhstan's largest real-estate classifieds portal. |
| [Otodom Poland Real Estate Listings](https://apify.com/zinin/otodom-warsaw) | Compare Bucharest against Warsaw for a rental-arbitrage or portfolio-diversification play across EU capitals. |
| [PropertyFinder.ae UAE Real Estate Listings](https://apify.com/zinin/propertyfinder-gulf) | Add the UAE to the same comparison — a common alternative market for the same relocation-and-investment buyer profile. |
| [Rightmove UK Property Listings (London and beyond)](https://apify.com/zinin/rightmove-london) | Benchmark Bucharest's entry prices against London's for a buyer being priced out of the UK market. |

### FAQ / Limitations

**Does this need a login or API key on Storia's side?** No — it reads the
same public listing pages a visitor would see.

**What this is NOT.** This is not a valuation tool and does not enrich
listings with data Storia itself doesn't publish (no coordinates, no agent
phone numbers). Rooms reported by Storia as an open-ended "5+" come back as
`null`, not a guessed number.

Found a bug or need this adapted to your case — issues on the Actor page.

### Machine use

The Actor is callable through the Apify API, SDK, and Apify MCP server. The input and Dataset row are the machine-facing contract; `rooms: null` covers both "not stated" and Storia's own open-ended "5+" label — an agent filtering on room count should treat `null` as "unknown," never as zero.

# Actor input Schema

## `deal_type` (type: `string`):

`vanzare` for sale listings, `inchiriere` for rentals.

## `property_type` (type: `string`):

`apartament` for flats, `casa` for houses.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Storia.ro location path segment(s), e.g. "bucuresti" for Bucharest, or "harghita/miercurea-ciuc" (county/city) for smaller towns.

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listing rows to return in this run.

## `max_pages` (type: `integer`):

How many result pages to walk before stopping.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "deal_type": "vanzare",
  "property_type": "apartament",
  "city": "bucuresti",
  "max_items": 5,
  "max_pages": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

API URL for the default dataset items produced by this run.

# 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 = {
    "deal_type": "vanzare",
    "property_type": "apartament",
    "city": "bucuresti",
    "max_items": 5,
    "max_pages": 1
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zinin/storia-bucharest").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 = {
    "deal_type": "vanzare",
    "property_type": "apartament",
    "city": "bucuresti",
    "max_items": 5,
    "max_pages": 1,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zinin/storia-bucharest").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 '{
  "deal_type": "vanzare",
  "property_type": "apartament",
  "city": "bucuresti",
  "max_items": 5,
  "max_pages": 1
}' |
apify call zinin/storia-bucharest --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=zinin/storia-bucharest",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/3tjZXfE9NAQyoxBOf/builds/gD4vV57AuvskyfTM4/openapi.json