Submitting Content to Home-Flip
Overview
If you have a single listing please post it manually. If you have a site or service with many listings, you can supply us with a feed file. A feed file is a dump of your listing data in a format that's easy for our system to understand. We can handle feed files in almost any structured format, but XML is the best. If you're already generating a feed file from your data, we can almost undoubtedly use it without modification. See below for more information on feed formats.
How do I get my data to Home-Flip?
Simply submit this form.
What feed formats does Home-Flip accept?
We accept data feeds in the following formats: XML, CSV, and tab-delimited, though XML is strongly preferred. If you already have a feed formatted for a different site we can accept that too.
Do I need an API key to submit data?
No. Next question.
What the heck is XML?
XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and it is a simple way of formatting data so that it can be easily shared by disparate computer systems over the internet. If you need more information about XML you can visit the World Wide Web Consortium or contact us for more questions.
Do you have some XML feed examples?
Of course! Here are some sample XML files showing the formatting we would like to see in a feed for:
What data should my feed include?
We would like to get as much data as you have. The more data you provide us the cleaner your listings will appear and the better they will be categorized on Home-Flip.com. Specifically, we would like to see as many of the following fields as possible:
Universal Fields
- Record ID
- Unique identifying number of the listing
- Title
- The title of the listing
- Link
- The link (url) of the listing
- Description
- ext description of the listing
- Location
- As many of these as possible: country, state/province, city, street address, zip/postal code, and phone number with the area code.
- Price
- What the property is listed at.
- Image
- URL of image of listed item
- Date posted
- Date item was posted on your site
- Date expires
- The date the listing will expire from your site
- Category
- The top-level category the listing is posted in on your site, such as real estate, foreclosure, rentals and for sale.
- Subcategory
- The category or categories below the main category, such us condos, apartment, single family home, commercial, etc.
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