Import Realtor Data To Google Sheets

We’ll use a Realtor API on RapidAPI that will allow us to retrieve real estate and property data into Google Sheets.

Login to RapidAPI here. If you don’t have an account created, you will need to click the Sign-up option and create one.

Search for Realtor API and click on the result according to the snippet below. Or just click this link to go directly to the Realtor API documentation in RapidAPI.

Click on the Subscribe to Test option and choose the plan you wish to subscribe to. The paid plans will allow you to make significantly more requests than the free plan, i.e., Basic Plan.

After subscribing to a plan, we’ll be able to pull real estate and property data into Google Sheets using the Realtor API.

Upon subscribing your API key will be generated and automatically added as one of the required parameters in the API documentation segment.

In the leftmost section of the API documentation, you will find the list of endpoints available with which you can import Realtor data to Google Sheets.

For the purpose of the tutorial, we will import property data from Realtor for a specific region in the US. 

Select the Search properties for sale endpoint under Properties.

In the centre section of the API documentation, you will find a list of query name and their parameters. While the required parameters will be automatically filled with default values, we can modify the optional query parameters to filter the property data to suit our preferences. 

For instance, to find the list of properties available for sale in Chicago we change the location query‘s parameter from Santa Monica to Chicago.

Once you have inputted the optional parameters click on Test Endpoint. If you have entered proper query values, you will find a success message in the rightmost section of the Realtor API documentation. 

Click on Code snippets→ change the programming language from (Node.js) Axios→ Shell→cURL.

Copy the API endpoint URL and take note of the headers and their values. The same will be used to import real estate data to Google Sheets from Realtor.

The Amigo Data Add-on is an extension in Google Sheets that allows you to import data from various sources without coding. 

You can either install the extension directly from the Google Workspace Marketplace by following the link given below.

Install Amigo

You can also follow the steps below and get the addon from Google Sheets.

1. Open Google Sheets
2. Click on Extension→ Add-ons→ Get Add-on
3. Search for “Amigo Data” and install it.

Go to the Google Sheet in which you want the data to be imported and launch Amigo Data to import real estate and property data with Realtor API. Click on Extensions→Amigo Data→Connect.

Select Custom API from the list of sources.

Paste the Realtor API endpoint URL copied earlier under the API URL section. Click the Details tab and add the following headers along with their values noted earlier and click Preview.

Key: X-RapidAPI-Host
Value: realtor16.p.rapidapi.com

Key: X-RapidAPI-Key
Value: Your_API_key

Click on Flatten to present the data in separate columns. Once the data are separated into columns, click on Import.

Amigo Data will shortly import Realtor data to Google Sheets and the list of properties available for sale in Chicago will be displayed on your screen as shown below.