Property24 South Africa Scraper

🏡 What is Property24 Real Estate Properties Scraper? This Property24 properties Scraper will enable you to scrape any sale/rent listing from property24.com, South Africa's leading property portal. You can simply take your listing URL from browser and enter it into this actor. This actor will crawl through all pages of particular listing and generate dataset for you. Listing URL is something you get when you perform the search on Property24 site. Example listing URLs: - https://www.property24.com/for-sale/val-de-vie-estate/paarl/western-cape/11726?sp=bd%3d5 - https://www.property24.com/to-rent/cape-town/western-cape/509 - https://www.property24.com/for-sale/johannesburg/gauteng/103 ## 🚪 What can this Property24 Scraper do? 📈 Extract Property24 market data listings in South Africa 👀 This actor is not just a scraper but also has monitoring capability. You can turn on monitoring mode and it will give you only newly added properties compared to your previous scrapes. 📩 This actor also helps you to identify which properties are not listed anymore. Please refer to Identifying delisted properties ⬇️ Download Property24 real estate data in Excel, CSV, JSON, and other formats ## 📚 How do I start scraping with this scraper? 1. Register for your free Apify account here 2. You don't need to provide your credit card details for free account. Just click on "Get Started" button on above link and complete the registration only. 3. Free account comes with reasonable credits to try out this actor. This actor also comes with free trial of 3 days without any commitment/upfront charge. 4. Run this actor and verify the scraped data. Apify has huge integration possibilities. You can download the data or push the data into any 3rd party platform directly. ## 🌳 What Property24 data can I extract using this tool? | 📝 | 📝 | |------------------|----------------------------| | Listing Title | Property ID | | Listing URL | Property Type | | Price | Bedrooms | | Bathrooms | Parking Spaces | | ERF Size | Floor Size | | Location | Listing Date | | Garages | Zoning | | Description | Images | | Features | Rooms Details | | Direct Owner | Points Of Interest | ### Direct Owner Field The directOwner field is a boolean value that indicates whether the property is being sold/rented directly by the owner or through an agent: - true - Property is listed by the direct owner or landlord - false - Property is listed through a real estate agent ## ⬇️ Input For simple usecase, you just need to provide browser URL of Property24 search result page & that's all. You can leave other fields as they are to be sensible defaults. ### Input example json { "listUrls": [ { "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/val-de-vie-estate/paarl/western-cape/11726?sp=bd%3d5" } ], "fullPropertyDetails": true, "monitoringMode": false, "enableDelistingTracker" : false, "maxProperties": 10, "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true } } Understanding the input options: - listUrls: Array of Property24 search result URLs you want to scrape - fullPropertyDetails: By default it will scrape every single property page to get full details of property. If you don't need full details but basic details is enough for you, it's highly encouraged to turn off this setting. It will run the scraping a lot faster and save cost and resources. - monitoringMode: This option when turned on will only scrape newly added property listings compared to previously scraped properties by this actor. - enableDelistingTracker : This option when turned on will start tracking date against each property under Apify Key Value store. This KV store can be queried later to find out which properties are delisted. - maxProperties: Maximum number of properties to scrape (default: 5) - proxy: Proxy configuration for bypassing rate limits and geo-restrictions ## ⬆️ Output The scraped data is stored in the dataset of each run. The data can be viewed or downloaded in many popular formats, such as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, and HTML. ### Output example The result for scraping a single property like this: json { "id": "111446108", "price": "R 39 000 000", "directOwner" : true, "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/val-de-vie-estate/paarl/western-cape/11726/111446108", "title": "5 Bedroom House for Sale in Val De Vie Estate", "bedrooms": "5", "bathrooms": "5", "parkings": "4", "description": "Double Storey", "images": [ "https://images.prop24.com/287289515/Ensure1280x720", "https://images.prop24.com/359071910/Ensure1280x720" ], "garages": "2", "parking": "2", "listingNumber": "111446108", "typeOfProperty": "House", "listingDate": "12 June 2025", "erfSize": "1 714 m²", "floorSize": "870 m²", "petsAllowed": "Yes", "zoning": "General Residential", "rooms": { "bedrooms": "5", "bathrooms": "5, Guest Toilet, En suite", "kitchen": "1", "office": "1", "diningRoom": "1", "lounge": "1" }, "features": [ "Air Conditioning", "Alarm System", "Balcony", "Braai Room", "Built In Cupboards" ], "pointOfInterest": [ { "category": "Schools", "name": "Val de Vie Primary School", "distance": "2.5 km" }, { "category": "Shopping", "name": "Boland Centre", "distance": "15 km" } ] } ## ❓Limitations Since Property24 may have rate limiting and anti-bot measures, it's recommended to use residential proxies with South African IPs to get results smoothly. The scraper includes proxy rotation and session management to handle these challenges. This actor has ability to bypass basic anti-bot measures. However, please run this actor with residential proxy with country South Africa to get results smoothly. ## 🔎 Identifying delisted properties This actor provides you monitoring mode configuration using which you can get only incremental updates about newly added properties. In case, you also want to identify which properties are delisted from platform, you can use any of the following techniques with the help of this actor. 1. Running Always in full scraper mode : Run this actor always in full scrape mode and cross check the new incoming batch of data with your existing database. If any property that exists in yoru database but not in newly scraped data batch, that means it's not listed anymore 2. Use Key Value Store generated by scraper : If your are monitoring very large batch of data and you don't want to scrape everything all the time, this method involves bit of technicality but achieves the goal efectively. Apify has storage feature called Key-value store. When you run this scrape, this scraper stores every single property in key value store along with timestamp in property24-properties store. Inside this store, key is property id itself and value is timestamp like this { lastSeen : '2023-11-02T05:59:25.763Z'} Whenever you run this scraper, it will update the timestamp against particular id if it finds property on the platform. e.g. if we have 2 proprties with id prop1 and prop2 and we scraped them both on November 1, key value storage would look like this : prop1 -> { lastSeen : '2023-11-01T05:59:25.763Z'} prop2 -> { lastSeen : '2023-11-01T05:59:25.763Z'} Now if you run this scraper again on December 1 and prop1 is not on the platform anymore but prop2 is still there, key value storage would change like this : prop1 -> { lastSeen : '2023-11-01T05:59:25.763Z'} prop2 -> { lastSeen : '2023-12-01T05:59:25.763Z'} That means if any property has lastSeen less than latest batch you loaded, that property is delisted now. You can directly iterate through whole Key value storage using Apify key value storage API to identify this. Please refer to this API documentation to do the same. Please remember store name generated by this scrape will be property24-properties. Alternatively, you can iterate through your existing database active properties and use this API to identify listing status. For this approach to work, it's important that you enable this feature via enableDelistingTracker (Enable Delisting tracker) input. ## 🙋‍♀️ For custom solutions In case you need some custom solution, you can contact me : dhrumil@techvasu.com Or learn more about me on github : https://github.com/dhrumil4u360 This scraper is specifically designed for Property24.com (South Africa) and includes features like: - Proxy rotation and session management - Anti-bot detection handling - Comprehensive property data extraction - Monitoring mode for tracking new listings