{"id":8628,"date":"2009-05-28T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2009-05-28T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T17:47:43","slug":"truzilla-idx-na-rcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8628\/truzilla-idx-na-rcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Truzilla IDX = N\/A R.Com?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking into whether or not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8352\">Realtor.com was publishing scrapable rss feeds<\/a> based on searches a few weeks ago, I also took a look to see if Trulia was doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, they are, but of course the quality and the diversity of the types of feeds they&#8217;re offering are way juicier than  Realtor.Com&#8217;s. Not surprising.. absent a Move\/NAR type hook up, these guys actually have to innovate, right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, with all this fuss over l<a href=\"http:\/\/agentgenius.com\/g-rants-insanity-more\/real-estate\/did-google-scrape-my-website-you-be-the-judge\/\">ocal boards and NAR trying to control the &#8220;misappropriation&#8221; of property data by regulating idx feeds<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been wondering if one couldn&#8217;t just turn Trulia into a personal, free idx solution using the same method I used to tap R.com&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The ingredients?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self Hosted WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Exec-PHP Plugin<\/li>\n<li>Simple Pie WordPress Plugin<\/li>\n<li>Simple Pie Core<\/li>\n<li>WP-Omatic Plugin (Optional)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/houseyourmom.com\/simplepie\">A few code snippets and some basic html knowledge for use with really getting freaky.<\/a><\/li>\n<p>At the end of the day one would have:<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lotsa fresh goog juicy dynamic content.<\/li>\n<li>Not all, but enough mls info to make your visitors at least hang around for a little while. <\/li>\n<li>Sales Transaction, REO, Pre-foreclosure data and any other information not available in local idx data either because of local<br \/>\nboard regulations or limitations in the fields available in the mls software.<\/li>\n<li> And more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, you could probably &#8220;scrape&#8221; your way to a more informative site then your competitors have without the need to wrestle with the threat of an absurd Mibor type situation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/centralpaliving.com\/sales-transactions\/\">[An Example Start Here For The Curious] <\/a><\/p>\n<h2> But It&#8217;s A Half Measure&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Sure&#8230;that could work, sorta. But Trulia&#8217;s info isn&#8217;t all that comprehensive to begin with and you&#8217;d be offering your visitors a half-assed hacked up version of true idx. So we&#8217;re back pretty much to square one,  with some extra dynamic content but no free idx via Trulia.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Aside: Shouldn&#8217;t these guys do the right thing and disclose to their visitors that their&#8217;s isn&#8217;t a comprehensive &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8560\">search engine?<\/a>&#8221; I&#8217;d buy ads on trulia in a minute if they could say something like: <strong>&#8220;Yo, we don&#8217;t have all the listings, but we&#8217;re real good at roping you in, so why don&#8217;t you click this guy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8628\/truzilla-idx-na-rcom\/#more-8628\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking into whether or not Realtor.com was publishing scrapable rss feeds based on searches a few weeks ago, I also took a look to see if Trulia was doing the same thing. Sure enough, they are, but of course the quality and the diversity of the types of feeds they&#8217;re offering are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","7":"category-technology","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8358,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8358\/nar-idx-fubar-rules\/","url_meta":{"origin":8628,"position":0},"title":"NAR + IDX = FUBAR Rules","author":"John Rowles","date":"May 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Ryan's earlier post, I have spent the morning digging into the NAR's attempt to label the Google Search Engine a \"scraper\". 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