HAR MLS Images (Houston, TX)

[Mariano Iglesias]

Hey guys,

Anyone worked with HAR? What's the deal with images? While they do offer RETS Objects (Photo, in particular), when you query all objects for a given property you get nothing.

This is not unheard of, as CRMLS does the same, but provides media images through a different RETS resource / class combination. HAR does this too, offering the MEDIA resource & class.

Querying the MEDIA class for a given MLS number does provide the list of images. However these images are simple file names, no indication as to which URL to download from.

Any ideas?

[Christopher Reichert]

What field are you using to query /GetObject for a listing? Are you using Location=1?

The KeyField is 'UID' but you should try using 'MLSNUM' to query to media objects directly.

Hope that helps,

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[Mariano Iglesias]

Location=1 also provides no results.

I figured it out. THe URL to the full image is built using a simple regex out of the actual file name. For example for property with MLS # 20345740 one of the images that are returned after querying the resource MEDIA and class MEDIA with query (MLSNUM=20345740) gives back a record where the file name is here:

'MEDIASOURCE' => string(14) "3750503-10.jpg"

Taking that filename, and extracting the last two digits of the basename (previous to -10, so that means extracting 03), you can build the URL to the high resolution image like so:

http://images-03.har.com/e1/MediaDisplay/03/hr3750503-10.jpg

Not the best thing on earth (they could've made it so much nicer if they just conformed to RETS objects), but gets the job done

[Gennadiy Kofman]

How did you figure that out?  Did they provide a document?

[Mariano Iglesias]

Nop. Just a little reverse engineering by looking at their web app.

Been downloading images for thousands of properties now without issues

[Abhinandan Dev]

Hi mariano can you please resolve my problem.
I am not getting images from https://pt.rets.crmls.org/contact/rets/login

I tried
$results = $rets->Search("Media", "Media", "(MediaKey=0+)",
        [
        'QueryType' => 'DMQL2',
        'Count' => 1, // count and records
        'Format' => 'COMPACT-DECODED',
        'Limit' => 1,
        'StandardNames' => 0, // give system names
    ]);

[Barclay Berger]

Here is how to get images from HAR

$objects = $rets->GetObject("Property", "LargePhoto", "147496590", "*", 1);
foreach ($objects as $object) {
    // does this represent some kind of error
    $object->isError();
    $object->getError(); // returns a \PHRETS\Models\RETSError

    // get the record ID associated with this object
    $object->getContentId();

    // get the sequence number of this object relative to the others with the same ContentId
    $object->getObjectId();

    // get the object's Content-Type value
    $object->getContentType();

    // get the description of the object
    $object->getContentDescription();

    // get the sub-description of the object
    $object->getContentSubDescription();

    // get the object's binary data
    $object->getContent();

    // get the size of the object's data
    $object->getSize();

    // does this object represent the primary object in the set
    $object->isPreferred();

    // when requesting URLs, access the URL given back
    $object->getLocation();  //this is the location for the CDN for the image

    // use the given URL and make it look like the RETS server gave the object directly
    //$object->setContent(file_get_contents($object->getLocation()));
}