Comments on: Surprise! It’s me and the Trulia API in PHP

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By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:59:25 +0000

I was seeing this last night, but I’m not seeing this today. If the the 504s continue, let me know and I’ll harass my friends at Trulia?

By: chris

chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:06:36 +0000

I get 504 error (timed out) often when using this. Is there away around this? Maybe caching the results or something?

By: Barry J

Barry J — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:18:58 +0000

Ok … I am so lost with the coding talk. I think I will stick to using widgets that the programmers like you create.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:14:16 +0000

Ardell,

It appears that Trulia has about 17-25% of the inventory that the NWMLS has for the greater Seattle area and the listings that they do have are usually lower in price than the full inventory from the “real thing”. I guess brokers with expensive listings don’t advertise on Trulia much.

Anyway, I’ve e-mailed you the “Trulia tables” for Seattle, Redmond, Kirkland, and Bellevue, for your reading enjoyment.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:36:52 +0000

Hi Robbie,

I got a geeky boy alert and headed over. I don’t see much Seattle Data in Trulia. Is there enough to provide any kind of tables in our area?

By: Roger from Trulia

Roger from Trulia — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:21:39 +0000

Well done! Now all we need is a Zillow-Trulia mashup that uses both APIs. I built one on my home server but it’s too ugly for public consumption…

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:25:05 +0000

Robbie, I bow to your geekness! I’ll have to give this a whirl, thanks!

By: Drew Meyers

Drew Meyers — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:06:15 +0000

Robbie-
Now, you’ll just have to write a plug-in using the Zillow API

We have an API addition coming that will give you some more data to work with.

By: Robbie Paplin

Robbie Paplin — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:09:18 +0000

I should note that my example code appears to require PHP 5. (Due to my usage of the SimpleXML extension, which apparently doesn’t come with PHP 4).

I thought I would pass that on in case anybody else tries to run this on PHP 4 and gets a “parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR” error.

Sorry about that…