Category: Portal Feed

Rightmove and OnTheMarket Real-Time Data Feed

The Process

The process of getting properties to appear on the live Rightmove website is normally as follows:

  1. Your website must be live and fully functional with at least one property.
  2. Contact Rightmove and inform them you are looking to start sending properties using the real-time feed.
  3. They might send you a form to fill in asking for the client details and your details.
    • Important: If they ask for ‘data provider details’ this will be your details. QuantaTec is not the data provider, We are simply the tool being used.
  4. They will send you the following:
    • A zip containing a variety of certificates. The one we’re interested in is the .pem file
    • A password needed to extract files from the zip (sometimes referred to as an ‘Archive Password’ or ‘Zip Password’).
    • A password for the certificate itself
    • A network ID
    • A branch code
    • A set of URLs
      The first set of details provided will likely be for testing purposes and will change when the feeds are ready to go live.
  5. Once these have been entered you’ll then demonstrate that you can add and remove properties successfully.
  6. When everything is ok and all tests pass, Rightmove will send you a new set of certificates and URLs from step 4 to be uploaded.

That is obviously a high-level overview of the process. Next we will look at how and where to enter the above information, as well as common troubleshooting issues.

Sending Properties

Once you’ve added the portal you need to select which properties should be sent. You can do this by editing a property record and navigating to the ‘Marketing’ tab. Here you’ll see the portals listed that you can check to specify whether it should be sent or not.

Note: As well as the portal tickbox needing to be ticked, the ‘On Market’ tickbox should be checked also should you wish a property to be sent.

As soon as you click the ‘Publish/Update’ button the property will be sent to the portal(s) immediately. If the ‘On Market’ and portal tickboxes are ticked a CREATE/UPDATE request will be sent, otherwise a DELETE request will be sent. A DELETE request will also be sent if the property is drafted or trashed.

If all is successful no errors will be shown. Should an issue arise you will be notified and provided with a quick link to get to the logs so you can see exactly what the error was.