Add active listings tab from RentCast API
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- update_listings.R: pulls 1-mile radius, clips to plat boundary
- Listings tab: table with listed date, address, sqft, price, $/sqft
- Weekly cron: Sunday 11:30pm (30 min after owners refresh)
- httr2 added to renv.lock
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2026-03-09 16:11:34 -04:00
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commit b6f67eefc8
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.Renviron Normal file
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RENTCAST_API_KEY=489cba549ec548e2a11516e7bd4f3b5b

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app.R
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# load data ----
owners <- readRDS("./data/owners.rds")
listings <- readRDS("./data/listings.rds")
last_sale_date <- format(attr(owners, "last_sale_date"), "%Y-%m-%d")
sbdvn <- sf::st_read("./data/plats/plats.shp")
venice_bndry <- readRDS("./data/venice.rds")
@@ -87,6 +88,11 @@ ui <- f7Page(
title = "Owners",
icon = f7Icon("person_2_fill")
),
f7PanelItem(
tabName = "Listings",
title = "Listings",
icon = f7Icon("tag_fill")
),
f7PanelItem(
tabName = "Resources",
title = "Resources",
@@ -244,6 +250,17 @@ ui <- f7Page(
)
)
),
#### listings ----
f7Tab(
title = "Listings",
tabName = "Listings",
icon = f7Icon("tag_fill"),
f7Card(
title = "Active Listings:",
divider = TRUE,
DTOutput("listings_table")
)
),
#### services ----
f7Tab(
title = "Resources",
@@ -456,6 +473,25 @@ server <- function(input, output) {
}
)
# listings table ----
output$listings_table <- renderDT({
datatable(
listings |>
select(listed_date, address, sqft, price, price_per_sqft) |>
mutate(
price = scales::dollar(price),
price_per_sqft = scales::dollar(price_per_sqft)
),
colnames = c("Listed", "Address", "Sq Ft", "Price", "$/Sq Ft"),
rownames = FALSE,
options = list(
pageLength = 25,
searching = FALSE,
dom = 't'
)
)
})
# venice map ----
output$venice_map <- renderLeaflet({
leaflet() %>%

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# update_listings.R
# Weekly update: pull active listings from RentCast within 1 mile of
# St. Andrews center, clip to plat boundary, save data/listings.rds.
# Input: .Renviron (RENTCAST_API_KEY)
# data/plats/plats.shp
# Output: data/listings.rds
library(httr2)
library(jsonlite)
library(sf)
library(dplyr)
# ── API key ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
api_key <- Sys.getenv("RENTCAST_API_KEY")
if (identical(api_key, "")) stop("Missing RENTCAST_API_KEY in .Renviron")
# ── Pull listings ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
resp <- request("https://api.rentcast.io/v1/listings/sale") |>
req_headers(
"Accept" = "application/json",
"X-Api-Key" = api_key
) |>
req_url_query(
latitude = 27.076199,
longitude = -82.362253,
radius = 1,
status = "Active",
limit = 500
) |>
req_retry(max_tries = 3) |>
req_perform()
if (resp_status(resp) >= 400)
stop("RentCast API error: HTTP ", resp_status(resp), "\n", resp_body_string(resp))
listings_raw <- jsonlite::fromJSON(resp_body_string(resp), flatten = TRUE)
cat("Fetched:", nrow(listings_raw), "listings\n")
# ── Clip to St. Andrews plat boundary ────────────────────────────────────────
plats <- sf::st_read("./data/plats/plats.shp", quiet = TRUE) |>
sf::st_union()
listings_sf <- sf::st_as_sf(
listings_raw,
coords = c("longitude", "latitude"),
crs = 4326,
remove = FALSE
)
in_plat <- lengths(sf::st_within(listings_sf, plats)) > 0
listings <- listings_raw[in_plat, ]
cat("After plat clip:", nrow(listings), "listings\n")
# ── Select and clean columns ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
listings <- listings |>
transmute(
listed_date = as.Date(listedDate),
address = formattedAddress,
sqft = as.numeric(squareFootage),
price = as.numeric(price),
price_per_sqft = round(price / sqft, 0),
latitude,
longitude
) |>
arrange(desc(listed_date))
cat("Listings saved:", nrow(listings), "\n")
saveRDS(listings, "./data/listings.rds")

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"Maintainer": "Hadley Wickham <hadley@posit.co>",
"Repository": "P3M"
},
"httr2": {
"Package": "httr2",
"Version": "1.2.2",
"Source": "Repository",
"Title": "Perform HTTP Requests and Process the Responses",
"Authors@R": "c( person(\"Hadley\", \"Wickham\", , \"hadley@posit.co\", role = c(\"aut\", \"cre\")), person(\"Posit Software, PBC\", role = c(\"cph\", \"fnd\")), person(\"Maximilian\", \"Girlich\", role = \"ctb\") )",
"Description": "Tools for creating and modifying HTTP requests, then performing them and processing the results. 'httr2' is a modern re-imagining of 'httr' that uses a pipe-based interface and solves more of the problems that API wrapping packages face.",
"License": "MIT + file LICENSE",
"URL": "https://httr2.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/httr2",
"BugReports": "https://github.com/r-lib/httr2/issues",
"Depends": [
"R (>= 4.1)"
],
"Imports": [
"cli (>= 3.0.0)",
"curl (>= 6.4.0)",
"glue",
"lifecycle",
"magrittr",
"openssl",
"R6",
"rappdirs",
"rlang (>= 1.1.0)",
"vctrs (>= 0.6.3)",
"withr"
],
"Suggests": [
"askpass",
"bench",
"clipr",
"covr",
"docopt",
"httpuv",
"jose",
"jsonlite",
"knitr",
"later (>= 1.4.0)",
"nanonext",
"otel (>= 0.2.0)",
"otelsdk (>= 0.2.0)",
"paws.common (>= 0.8.0)",
"promises",
"rmarkdown",
"testthat (>= 3.1.8)",
"tibble",
"webfakes (>= 1.4.0)",
"xml2"
],
"VignetteBuilder": "knitr",
"Config/Needs/website": "tidyverse/tidytemplate",
"Config/testthat/edition": "3",
"Config/testthat/parallel": "true",
"Config/testthat/start-first": "resp-stream, req-perform",
"Encoding": "UTF-8",
"RoxygenNote": "7.3.3",
"NeedsCompilation": "no",
"Author": "Hadley Wickham [aut, cre], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd], Maximilian Girlich [ctb]",
"Maintainer": "Hadley Wickham <hadley@posit.co>",
"Repository": "CRAN"
},
"janitor": {
"Package": "janitor",
"Version": "2.2.1",