Hitting a 600 listing limit

[Alexis-Daigle]

Just wanted to confirm this limit is on the Realtor.CA and if anyone else is seeing that limit.

Thanks.

[Iron4884]

Yes still seeing that limit. I haven't found a way around it yet. Maybe it's imposed by the API itself and it's not possible to get more than 600? Instead maybe we could sort the data in the order we desire (newest, since x date, price, etc)?

[rachitt96]

Thanks @Iron4884 for suggesting the solution.

Hi @Alexis-Daigle,

As @Iron4884 suggested, we do have the work around to get more data by sorting and re-submitting the API. For now, resolved the issue by considering "Price" column.

Here is the updated code block you can use to get more than 600 listings from REALTOR.CA
(Just used 'Montreal' area as an example, since it has more than 600 active listings. But, make sure to use the same value for 'sorted_col_name' parameter)

import pyRealtor

house_obj = pyRealtor.HousesFacade()
house_obj.search_save_houses(
  search_area='Montreal',
  country='Canada',
  sorted_col_name='Price'
)

This change has been pushed in pyRealtor version 0.2.5. So, you may need to reinstall the library through pip with below commands:

pip uninstall pyRealtor

Once it is uninstalled, you can reinstall it with

pip install --upgrade pyRealtor

This solution has been designed to work with column 'Price' in descending order, and in future will make it for "Listing Date" column.

Hope this will resolve the API limit issue you were facing earlier.

[Iron4884]

Thanks for looking into this. I haven’t tried it but will this weekend.

Is there a way to do the opposite, and limit the number of results from the API to say 50? I tried to play with number per page and max records (my naming could be off, but they are defaulted to 200 and 600), but that didn’t seem to change anything.