Feed the world . . .
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
Post Archive,
RSS FeedPosted: Monday, July 31st, 2006, 12:04 am MST
Category: Disintermediation,Marketing,Real Estate
Because I’m too stupid to sleep, I wrote software to parse my MLS feed into customized XML feeds for the real estate aggregators. I have Trulia.com done (because I want to play with their free maps API) and I have what I need to do Propsmart.com. Google Base, too.
What do I need?
More.
If you know of a real estate aggregator, hit me with a comment or an email, if you would. From where I am now, I’m maybe 15 minutes a feed to add new ones. Tower of Babel, but it is what it is. I’d be grateful if you could tell me who I’m missing.
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Gregg,
Hope the sites listed in these posts help.
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/?p=513
(vertical search sites)
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/?p=1035
(these are primarily NY listing sites but, hey, New Yorkers buy in Phoenix)
Also check out http://www.postlets.com/home.php
Happy listings
Point2 has a graphic of the sites that they distribute listings to on this page.
Joseph, Dustin — Thank you both. You’re the best!
Trulia gets our listings off my feed. I didn’t know PropSmart, GoogleBase and Oodle accepted feeds. It would make sense, though. I will check it out.
I have a part time assistant that spends most of her time inputing listings to Craigslist, GoogleBase, Backpage, Ooodle, LiveDeal, WorldsList, CityCribs, etc., etc., etc. It would simply things if they all just grabbed the feed.
RealEstateAdvisor.com is a new one to me. Whoa. Trulia’s twin! So, who copied who? Thanks -CJ
Postlets (www.postlets.com) has a few that aren’t on the Point2 list.
Excellent. Thanks!
The listings from your feed went live this afternoon at 1:19 PST; we’ll visit your feed URL at least once daily and refresh our site with any updates. Elegant job with the XML although there is a “NUL” character at the end of your zipcodes so if they didn’t parse properly we may have extracted the zips via geo-coding.
If you want another API toy, try typing in “www.bloodhoundrealty.com” at http://www.trulia.com/truliamap. It’s a new tool from Trulia that lets you stick a map with your properties on your site (or blog). Call it a way for us to disintermediate ourselves…
Listing: http://www.trulia.com/property/1019764988-1110-W-Culver-St-Phoenix-AZ-85007
Very slick, Jeff. I’ll kill the NUL; too much C, not enough caffeine. God bless the insomniacs!
Just like that. This is slicker than whale snot…
[...] Jeff at Trulia.com ate my feed and set up what I needed to make my own map. You can customize many details. Note that while Trulia gives you a color palette to work from, you can plug in your own hexadecimal values for web-safe colors. Very, very slick… BloodhoundRealty’s Historic Properties [...]