AutomationData aggregation
HuurPlug
HuurPlug is a free search engine for rental homes in the Netherlands. Around sixty scrapers collect listings every minute and feed one up-to-date overview.
HuurPlug
Website
The HuurPlug search site: built in Astro, free search without an account and a daily mail with new homes.
- Role
- Design and build
- Stack
- Astro, serverless API
- Status
- Live
- Type
- Product
The problem
A rental search site has to stay fast with thousands of listings, and work without an account or paywall.
Approach
The site is built in Astro and talks to its own serverless API for the listings and photos.
An email address and a search are enough for an alert. The mail only goes out when there are new listings.
Result
huurplug.nl is live, with about 15,000 listings on the home page (November 2026).
Worth noting
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No account
Search and the daily mail are free.
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No empty mails
Only a mail when there are new listings.
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Separate API
Site and data kept apart.
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