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Real estate data API for property listings, market data and CRE research
The short answer
A real estate data API returns property information as structured records instead of HTML: address, price, beds, baths, square footage, lot size, listing status and days on market. ClawEngine crawls public listing pages, brokerage sites, rental portals and public records portals, renders the ones that build client-side, and fills a schema you define, so a proptech app, an investor model or a commercial research desk gets a consistent feed without a parser per source. It is not an MLS or IDX feed, which requires a broker license, so it complements licensed data rather than replacing it. Plans start at $39 a month.
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Last updated July 2026
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Property data in the United States is scattered across three very different worlds. Licensed MLS data reaches you through an IDX or RESO Web API feed and requires a broker relationship, so it is gated by contract rather than by technology. Public records, assessor rolls, deed filings and permit data sit on thousands of county portals, each with its own layout. And a large tier of genuinely public listing and market pages, brokerage sites, rental portals, new-construction sites, CRE listing pages and market reports, sits on the open web with no API at all. A real estate data API is how you turn that third tier into records.
ClawEngine handles the extraction half of that problem. You give it a listing URL or a seed to crawl plus a schema, and it returns address, price, beds, baths, square footage, lot size, year built, property type, listing status and days on market as typed JSON, in the same shape from every source. Most modern listing pages build client-side, so rendering is not optional: fetch the raw HTML and you get an app shell with no price in it. Be clear-eyed about the boundary, though. We do not resell MLS data, we do not bypass logins or anti-bot systems, and some large portals restrict scraping in their Terms of Service. The durable sources are your own brokerage sites, permitted partner sites, public government portals and listing pages whose robots.txt allows crawling. Build there and the pipeline keeps working.
Any URL in LLM-ready data out
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Why it works
What you get with Real estate
Listings in, typed records out
Send a listing URL and a schema and get address, price, beds, baths, square footage and status back as JSON, in one consistent shape across every source.
Renders client-side listing pages
Modern portals build the price and detail panel in the browser. Each page is rendered before extraction, so the fields come back filled rather than blank.
Honest about the MLS boundary
This is not an IDX or RESO feed and does not resell licensed MLS data. It covers the public web that licensed feeds do not, on permitted sources only.
What it handles
Any URL in, clean structured data out
Point ClawEngine at a public page and it crawls, renders the JavaScript and extracts clean markdown or typed JSON in one call. Define a schema for structured fields, and respect robots.txt and Terms of Service by default.
- Extracts price, beds, baths, sqft and status
- Works on residential, rental and CRE listing pages
- Renders JavaScript listing portals
- Tracks price cuts and status changes over time
- Normalizes fields across many different sources
- Reads robots.txt and stays on permitted pages
{
"url": "https://example.com/products/atlas",
"title": "Atlas Field Notebook",
"markdown": "# Atlas Field Notebook\n\nDurable...",
"data": {
"name": "Atlas Field Notebook",
"price": 24.00,
"currency": "USD",
"rating": 4.7
},
"links": [ "/products", "/cart" ],
"metadata": { "rendered": true }
}
Why ClawEngine
One API that crawls, renders and extracts
Not a raw HTML dump, not a headless browser fleet to run, and not a brittle parser to maintain. One call crawls a public page, renders its JavaScript and returns clean markdown or typed JSON, built for RAG pipelines and AI agents.
LLM-ready output
Clean markdown or typed JSON with the boilerplate stripped, so the data drops straight into a vector store, a prompt or an agent without a cleanup step.
JavaScript rendered
Each page loads in a real browser environment before extraction, so single-page apps and client-rendered content come back complete, not as an empty shell.
Compliance-first
ClawEngine works on public, permitted data only. It respects robots.txt and site Terms of Service and honors crawl-delay, so responsible scraping is the default.
Code examples
Extract a property listing in a few lines
Send a listing URL and the fields you want. ClawEngine renders the page and returns a typed record. Crawl a listings index to build a full feed, and re-run it to track price changes.
curl https://api.clawengine.ai/v1/extract \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://listings.example.com/homes/1421-oak-street",
"format": "json",
"render": true,
"schema": {
"street": "string",
"city": "string",
"state": "string",
"zip": "string",
"list_price": "number",
"beds": "number",
"baths": "number",
"sqft": "number",
"status": "string"
}
}'
import os, requests, datetime
BASE = "https://api.clawengine.ai/v1"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['CLAWENGINE_API_KEY']}"}
schema = {
"street": "string", "zip": "string", "list_price": "number",
"beds": "number", "sqft": "number", "status": "string",
}
watchlist = [
"https://listings.example.com/homes/1421-oak-street",
"https://listings.example.com/homes/88-harbor-view",
]
for url in watchlist:
rec = requests.post(f"{BASE}/extract", headers=headers,
json={"url": url, "format": "json",
"render": True, "schema": schema}).json()["data"]
prior = last_price.get(url) # your own store, keyed by canonical URL
if prior and rec["list_price"] < prior:
cut = round((prior - rec["list_price"]) / prior * 100, 1)
print(f"{rec['street']}: price cut {cut}% to {rec['list_price']}")
last_price[url] = rec["list_price"]
// CRE pages carry different fields, so the schema changes, not the call.
const res = await fetch("https://api.clawengine.ai/v1/extract", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CLAWENGINE_API_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
url: "https://cre.example.com/office/300-market-plaza",
format: "json",
render: true,
schema: {
address: "string",
building_class: "string",
rentable_sqft: "number",
asking_rent_psf: "number",
lease_type: "string",
occupancy_pct: "number",
},
}),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(`${data.address}: ${data.rentable_sqft} sf at $${data.asking_rent_psf}/sf`);
People also ask
Real estate data API: the questions buyers ask
What is a real estate data API?
A real estate data API is a service that returns property information as structured records rather than web pages. Depending on the provider it draws from licensed MLS feeds, aggregated public records, or public listing pages on the open web. ClawEngine is the third kind: you send a listing or market page URL plus the fields you want, and it returns address, price, beds, baths, square footage and listing status as typed JSON in one call.
How do I get MLS data through an API?
Licensed MLS data reaches you through an IDX or RESO Web API feed, and access requires a relationship with a broker or a participating MLS rather than just a credit card. The RESO Web API with the RESO Data Dictionary is now the standard shape for that data. If your product needs authoritative on-market listings, license them. Use a scraping API for the public pages the licensed feed does not cover, such as brokerage marketing pages, rental portals and CRE listings.
Is it legal to scrape real estate listings?
Accessing publicly available web pages is broadly lawful in the United States, and courts have repeatedly declined to treat scraping public data as unauthorized access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. What still binds you is the site's Terms of Service, its robots.txt, copyright in listing photos and descriptions, and MLS rules that travel with syndicated listings. Several major portals prohibit scraping outright. Read the terms per source and build on ones that permit it. This is general information, not legal advice.
What fields can I extract from a property listing?
Anything the public page shows: street address, city, state, ZIP, list price, beds, baths, interior square footage, lot size, year built, property type, HOA fee, listing status, days on market, the agent or brokerage name and the description. Because you define the schema, the same fields come back from every source, which is what makes deduplication and comparison across sites tractable.
How do I track price changes on a property?
Re-extract the listing on a schedule, key each record by a stable identifier such as the canonical listing URL or the parcel number, and store a row per observation rather than overwriting. Comparing the new price against the last one gives you price cuts, status flips from active to pending, and true days on market. That time series is usually more valuable to an investor product than the snapshot itself.
Can it pull commercial real estate data?
Yes, and the schema just changes shape. A CRE record typically wants building class, rentable square feet, asking rent per square foot, lease type, cap rate, occupancy, year renovated and the tenant list when it is published. The same crawl-plus-schema pattern applies to broker listing pages and market reports, which is where most public CRE data actually lives since there is no national commercial MLS.
Good questions
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