# xe.gr - Greek Real Estate (`swerve/xe-scraper`) Actor

Scrape real estate listings from xe.gr, Greece's #1 classifieds site. Returns price, area, rooms, location, images, and floor for rent and sale listings. Paste any xe.gr search URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/swerve/xe-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Swerve](https://apify.com/swerve) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 16 total users, 6 monthly users, 97.1% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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".

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

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# README

## xe.gr Scraper — Greek Real Estate API

Extract real estate listings from [xe.gr](https://www.xe.gr/property), Greece's #1 classifieds site. Returns clean structured data for both rent and sale listings: price, area, rooms, location, images, floor, year built, and more.

### What you get per listing

**Always returned (basic):**

- `listingId` — xe.gr UUID
- `url` — direct link to the listing
- `listingType` — `rent` or `sale`
- `propertyType` — apartment, maisonette, house, etc.
- `price` (EUR), `pricePerSqm` (EUR/sqm)
- `areaSqm`, `rooms`, `bathrooms`, `floor`, `yearBuilt`
- `city`, `neighbourhood`, `rawAddress`, `imageUrl`
- `scrapedAt`

**With `enrichListings: true` (full details):**

- `description` — full listing text
- `streetAddress` — exact street + number
- `postalCode`, `region` — administrative location
- `images` — full image gallery (typically 10-25 photos)
- `datePosted` — exact upload timestamp
- `renovationYear`, `energyClass` (A+ through Z)
- `airConditioning`, `furnished`, `heating`, `heatingType`
- `shortTermAvailable`, `availableFrom`
- `agentName` — listing agent or agency name

### How to use

**Easy mode (recommended):** type a Greek city or area name and pick listing type. The actor resolves it via xe.gr's own location service.

```json
{
  "location": "Athens",
  "listingType": "rent",
  "propertyCategory": "residential",
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

Other examples:

```json
{ "location": "Mykonos", "listingType": "rent", "maxItems": 50 }
{ "location": "Thessaloniki", "propertyCategory": "commercial", "maxItems": 100 }
{ "location": "Crete", "listingType": "rent", "maxItems": 200, "enrichListings": true }
```

**Power-user mode:** if you want a very specific filter (sale listings, custom price/area/room ranges, sub-neighborhood) — set your filters on [xe.gr/property](https://www.xe.gr/property), copy the results URL from your browser, paste it into `searchUrl`. This bypasses the structured inputs entirely.

```json
{
  "searchUrl": "https://www.xe.gr/property/results?...",
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

`searchUrl` also accepts xe.gr category browse URLs like `https://www.xe.gr/property/s/enoikiaseis-katoikion`; the actor rewrites them to the equivalent results URL and scrapes that category across all of Greece.

### Sale, rent, and commercial — all supported

Pick `listingType` (`rent` or `sale`) and `propertyCategory` (`residential`, `commercial`, `land`, `parking`). Mix and match — sale residential, rent commercial, sale land, etc. all work via structured input.

### Example output

```json
{
  "listingId": "bb4109ee-5232-41e7-b423-34e95a4bc360",
  "url": "https://www.xe.gr/property/d/enoikiaseis-katoikion/bb4109ee-5232-41e7-b423-34e95a4bc360/athhna-pagkrati-1100-70",
  "listingType": "rent",
  "propertyType": "Διαμέρισμα",
  "areaSqm": 70,
  "price": 1100,
  "pricePerSqm": 16,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "rooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "floor": "1ος",
  "yearBuilt": 1970,
  "city": "Αθήνα",
  "neighbourhood": "Παγκράτι",
  "rawAddress": "Αθήνα (Παγκράτι) | Ενοικίαση κατοικίας",
  "imageUrl": "https://blob.cdn.xe.gr/live/.../source.jpg?width=640&height=480&format=jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-05T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Common use cases

- **Investor monitoring** — track new listings in target neighborhoods, surface price drops, compare price/sqm trends.
- **Real-estate agencies** — pull competitor listings, monitor agent activity, build comparable-deal databases.
- **Market research** — snapshot rent vs sale supply by city, area, price band.
- **Price aggregators / portals** — feed your platform with up-to-date xe.gr inventory.

### Notes on data

- All prices are EUR. xe.gr is Greek-only, so `propertyType` and `rawAddress` are in Greek.
- `floor` is a string (Greek ordinals like `1ος`, `2ος` or `Ισόγειο` for ground floor) — not a number, because xe.gr's floor field has multiple non-numeric values.
- `yearBuilt` is filled when xe.gr exposes it (~88% of listings).
- `neighbourhood` is filled when the listing has one (~75% of listings).
- The actor uses Apify's residential proxy (Greece) to access xe.gr reliably. Each failed request is retried up to 3 times, each time through a fresh proxy session.
- Results are saved to the dataset page by page as they are scraped. If xe.gr blocks a later page, the run still succeeds with everything collected so far and a clear partial-results status message.

### Pricing

Pay per result. See the Pricing tab for the current per-result price. You only pay for listings successfully scraped — failed pages cost nothing.

### Known limitations

- Structured input covers rent searches; for sale searches use `searchUrl` (set your filters on xe.gr and copy the results URL, or use a category browse URL like `https://www.xe.gr/property/s/poliseis-katoikion`).

Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue — I respond within 24h.

# Actor input Schema

## `location` (type: `string`):

Greek city, area, or neighborhood name (e.g. 'Athens', 'Thessaloniki', 'Mykonos', 'Crete', 'Glyfada'). The scraper resolves it via xe.gr's autocomplete. Required unless 'Search URL' is set.

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

Rent or sale.

## `propertyCategory` (type: `string`):

Type of property

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Optional cap on how many listings to return. Leave blank to scrape ALL matching results for your search (this can be large on popular searches, for example all rentals in Athens). Set a number, for example 50 or 200, only if you want to limit results and cost.

## `enrichListings` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, fetches each listing's detail page to add: full description, complete street address with postal code, all images (often 20+), agent or owner name, renovation year, energy class, air conditioning, furnishing status, heating type, short-term-rental availability, and exact date posted. Costs an extra detail-page fetch per listing.

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

Optional. Power-user override and the only way to scrape sale listings until structured-input sale ships. Paste a xe.gr property results URL: set your filters on xe.gr (city, rent/sale, price, rooms, etc.) and copy the URL from the address bar, e.g. https://www.xe.gr/property/results?transaction\_name=rent\&item\_type=re\_residence\&country=GR. Category browse URLs like https://www.xe.gr/property/s/enoikiaseis-katoikion also work and scrape that category across all of Greece.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "Athens",
  "listingType": "rent",
  "propertyCategory": "residential",
  "enrichListings": false
}
```

# 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 = {
    "location": "Athens"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swerve/xe-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 = { "location": "Athens" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swerve/xe-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 '{
  "location": "Athens"
}' |
apify call swerve/xe-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,swerve/xe-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/Je1gHVawIVw8OYGVs/builds/JaAsEZo3QlCnXNWkw/openapi.json