RETS (Real Estate Std) and Perl

inblosam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am working with a Realtor in trying to get his Real Estate site up. The MLS uses RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard) for querying the listings. I searched CPAN and around here but found nothing on it. Anyone implemented something in Perl with RETS (http://rets.org)?

There are two Java clients, but I have never integrated a Java client with Perl. Is it somewhat straightforward?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openretsclient/
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71697&release_id=331929

Any ideas are welcome!

Michael

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Re: RETS (Real Estate Std) and Perl by samtregar (Abbot) on Feb 24, 2006 at 18:27 UTC
Integrating Java and Perl is actually surprisingly easy with Inline::Java. You can probably get up and running fast with that and decide if it's worth the trouble to reimplement it in Perl later. Of course it'll help if you know a little Java since you will need to grok the API and possibly write a little glue code. -sam	[reply]
Re: RETS (Real Estate Std) and Perl by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Feb 24, 2006 at 18:11 UTC
If you're looking to gather Real Estate listings, have you looked at the WWW::Mechanize and LWP modules? That's probably a good starting point. And perusing the PDF at the rets.org website shows that there's an Excel plugin so perhaps the Spreadsheet modules for Excel would be another place to look. Good luck! Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.	[reply]
Re: RETS (Real Estate Std) and Perl by gman (Friar) on Feb 28, 2006 at 18:29 UTC
It's been a while, but I thought RETs was a SOAP type application? Maybe SOAP-Lite can help. I would be interested in this project though. I had started something a while back, but found that the lack of cooperation working with the various MLS groups took to much time for what I needed. I also worked with a product called Top Producer, a little better, but the realtor was paying for the service. In the end I did end up screen scraping from realtor.com. Gman Here is the developer "Getting started" Link http://rets.org/retsorg.nsf/pages/developerstart	[reply]