Send your listings to your own website

Create a website feed in Outbound Feeds, point your site at its private address, and your own listings appear on your website and stay up to date on their own.

Your NLS listings can power your own website. A website feed is a private XML address (Kyero v3 format, with a JSON version) that carries your listings, photos and prices in English and Spanish. Your website, or your web developer, reads it on a schedule, so a change you make on The NLS shows on your site without you touching it again.

Many agency websites and WordPress property plugins already read Kyero feeds, because the same format is used by the big portals. If yours does not, the JSON version is easy for a developer to work with.

1. 1

   Open Outbound Feeds

   From your dashboard go to Mis inmuebles and choose Feeds de salida in the menu on the left. This is where every feed that leaves The NLS lives: feeds to portals and feeds to your website.

2. 2

   Tell The NLS about your website

   Scroll to Your website and area. Enter your Website address, for example https://www.your-agency.com.

   If your site has a page per listing, add a Listing URL pattern so every listing in the feed links back to the right page on your site. Use {ref} for your agency reference or {id} for the NLS listing number, for example https://www.your-agency.com/property/{ref}/. Click Save.

   Note Without a pattern the feed carries no listing links. Feeds never link to thenls.com, so visitors stay on your site.

3. 3

   Choose the area, if you want one

   In the same section you can limit website feeds to certain Provinces or Towns, one per line or separated by commas. A listing appears if it is in any listed province or town. Leave both empty to carry everything you have, anywhere in Spain.

   This limit applies to your website feeds and your Property Hub website only. Portal feeds are not affected.

4. 4

   Create the website feed

   Under Create a feed, give it a name you will recognise, such as Agency website. For Destination pick My website. If the NLS network has approved your account for shared listings you will also see Include listings other agents shared with me; tick it to show network listings on your site as well as your own.

   Click Create feed. The new feed appears in your list with its private address.

   Note The address contains a long private token. Anyone with the address can read the feed, so share it only with your web developer.

5. 5

   Give the address to your website

   Click Copiar next to the feed address. The address ends in .xml; swap the ending for .json if your developer prefers JSON. Both carry the same listings.

   Paste the address into your website's property import. On WordPress this is usually a property or real-estate plugin with a Kyero or XML feed import option. On a custom site, your developer sets up a job that fetches the address every hour or so and refreshes the listings from it.

   Open the address in a browser once to check it loads and shows your listings.

6. 6

   Check it, and keep it fresh

   Your website should now show the listings, photos and prices from The NLS. From here on the feed updates itself whenever you add, edit, sell or withdraw a listing.

   If you have just changed a listing and want the feed rebuilt straight away, click Rebuild now on the feed. Rebuilds are rate-limited, so give it a moment between clicks.