pp-loopnet

name: pp-loopnet description: "LoopNet shows you today — this CLI remembers, building the price-cut, days-on-market, and supply trends LoopNet... Trigger phrases: search loopnet for commercial real estate, find industrial properties for sale in, track price cuts on loopnet, what is the cap rate distribution in, screen for distressed commercial properties, use loopnet, run loopnet-pp-cli." author: "user" license: "Apache-2.0" argument-hint: " [args] | install cli|mcp" allowed-tools: "Read Bash" metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - loopnet-pp-cli

LoopNet — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the loopnet-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install loopnet --cli-only
   

2. Verify: loopnet-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.3 or newer):

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/commerce/loopnet/cmd/loopnet-pp-cli@latest

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

When to Use This CLI

Use this CLI when an agent or analyst needs commercial real estate inventory, pricing, or market-intelligence data from LoopNet in a structured, scriptable form. It is the right choice for building a CRE data pipeline, tracking a submarket over time, screening for distressed or mispriced assets, or assembling comp sets. It is not for residential rentals (use Apartments.com) and it cannot access CoStar's subscriber-only analytics.

When Not to Use This CLI

Do not activate this CLI for requests that require creating, updating, deleting, publishing, commenting, upvoting, inviting, ordering, sending messages, booking, purchasing, or changing remote state. This printed CLI exposes read-only commands for inspection, export, sync, and analysis.

Unique Capabilities

These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.

Change tracking only the local store enables

• price-cuts — Surfaces every synced listing whose asking price dropped between syncs, with old price, new price, percent cut, and days on market at the cut.

  Reach for this to find motivated sellers and re-priced assets — a price cut is the single strongest deal-sentiment signal LoopNet itself never exposes.

  loopnet-pp-cli price-cuts worcester-ma --type industrial-properties --agent
  

• dom — Computes true days on market for every live listing from the date the CLI first saw it, and flags aged inventory past a threshold.

  Use this to tell a fresh comp from a stale one and to find listings that have languished — both invisible on LoopNet.

  loopnet-pp-cli dom worcester-ma --min-days 90 --agent
  

• velocity — Reports absorption for a submarket: new listings, delistings, median days on market, and net supply change per period.

  Reach for this to gauge whether a submarket is heating up or cooling — the supply-and-demand pulse for a market-intelligence brief.

  loopnet-pp-cli velocity worcester-ma --agent
  

• delisted — Lists listings present in a prior sync but absent now — sold, withdrawn, or expired.

  Use this to track which assets cleared the market — a proxy for transaction velocity LoopNet never publishes.

  loopnet-pp-cli delisted worcester-ma --since 30d --agent
  

Pricing, yield and distress intelligence

• caprate — Reports the cap-rate, NOI, and price-per-square-foot distribution (count, min, median, quartiles, max) for synced for-sale listings in a submarket, and flags listings whose cap rate falls outside the interquartile range.

  Use this to benchmark a single asset's yield against its submarket and spot mispriced cap rates.

  loopnet-pp-cli caprate worcester-ma --type industrial-properties --agent
  

• distress — Flags listings carrying motivation signals: price-reduced and must-sell keyword hits in the description, Ten-X auction listings, and recent price cuts.

  Reach for this to find distressed and motivated-seller assets in one sweep instead of reading every listing's free text.

  loopnet-pp-cli distress worcester-ma --agent
  

Analyst and pipeline workflows

• digest — Rolls a synced submarket into one report: live supply count, recent price cuts, median days on market, new and delisted counts, and distress hits.

  Reach for this for a one-command market-intelligence snapshot of a submarket instead of running five separate analysis commands.

  loopnet-pp-cli digest worcester-ma --type industrial-properties --agent
  

• feed — Exports the latest synced submarket as a run-stamped JSON or CSV file, with records mapped to the six CRE market-intelligence data categories.

  Reach for this to drop LoopNet data straight into a downstream CRE pipeline (e.g. a data/raw ingest folder) without glue code.

  loopnet-pp-cli feed worcester-ma --format csv --out ./loopnet-worcester.csv
  

HTTP Transport

This CLI uses Chrome-compatible HTTP transport for browser-facing endpoints. It does not require a resident browser process for normal API calls.

Discovery Signals

This CLI was generated with browser-observed traffic context.

• Capture coverage: 0 API entries from 3 total network entries
• Protocols: ssr_embedded_data (85% confidence)
• Generation hints: requires_protected_client

Command Reference

inventory — Search LoopNet commercial real estate inventory by location, property type, and sale/lease.

• loopnet-pp-cli inventory <location> [--type <property_type>] [--listing for-sale|for-lease] — Search LoopNet listings for a location, property type, and sale-or-lease. Returns a server-rendered results page...

property — Fetch the full detail record for a single LoopNet listing.

• loopnet-pp-cli property <id> — Fetch one LoopNet listing's detail page. The page carries a schema.org RealEstateListing/Product JSON-LD block plus...

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

loopnet-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Recipes

Seed and screen a submarket

loopnet-pp-cli sync worcester-ma --type industrial --listing for-sale && loopnet-pp-cli caprate worcester-ma --type industrial --agent

Pull a submarket into the store, then read its cap-rate and yield distribution in one pass.

Narrow a verbose detail record for an agent

loopnet-pp-cli property 38523625 --agent --select name,price,cap_rate,total_assessment,broker_name

Detail records carry tens of fields; --select returns only the address, price, cap rate, assessment, and broker so an agent does not burn context on the full payload.

Find every price cut this month

loopnet-pp-cli price-cuts worcester-ma --since 30d --agent

After repeated syncs, list listings whose asking price dropped in the last 30 days — the core deal-sentiment signal.

Export a market for a downstream pipeline

loopnet-pp-cli feed worcester-ma --type industrial --format csv --out ./loopnet-worcester.csv

Write the latest synced submarket as a run-stamped CSV ready for a CRE market-intelligence ingest folder.

Roll up a submarket in one command

loopnet-pp-cli digest worcester-ma --type industrial-properties --agent

Supply, recent price cuts, median days on market, new and delisted counts, and distress hits for a submarket in a single report.

Auth Setup

No API key is required, but LoopNet's data pages are protected by Akamai Bot Manager. Live commands (inventory, property, sync) need short-lived clearance cookies:

• loopnet-pp-cli auth refresh — mint cookies (briefly drives a browser).
• loopnet-pp-cli auth set --cookies "<header>" — paste a Cookie header copied from browser DevTools.
• loopnet-pp-cli auth status — check the current cookie state.

Cookies last a few hours; refresh when a fetch fails with an Akamai bot-challenge (HTTP 403) error. The history commands (price-cuts, dom, velocity, delisted, digest, caprate) read the local SQLite store and need no cookies — but need a prior sync to have populated it.

Run loopnet-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

• Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr

• Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:

  loopnet-pp-cli inventory worcester-ma --type industrial --agent --select id,name,status
  

• Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending

• Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available

• Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag

• Read-only — do not use this CLI for create, update, delete, publish, comment, upvote, invite, order, send, or other mutating requests

Response shape

Under --json each command emits a flat object shaped for its own task — there is no shared envelope. List-style commands carry a results array plus a count; for example search:

{
  "count": 12,
  "query": "warehouse",
  "results": [ ... ]
}

sync returns a summary object (listings_synced, properties_synced, total_results, ...); the intelligence commands (caprate, price-cuts, digest, ...) return their own report objects. Inspect a command's --json output directly rather than assuming a common wrapper key.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

loopnet-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
loopnet-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
loopnet-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally at ~/.loopnet-pp-cli/feedback.jsonl. They are never POSTed unless LOOPNET_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or LOOPNET_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled agent calls the same command every run with the same configuration - HeyGen's "Beacon" pattern.

loopnet-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
loopnet-pp-cli --profile briefing inventory worcester-ma --type industrial
loopnet-pp-cli profile list --json
loopnet-pp-cli profile show briefing
loopnet-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

1. Empty, help, or --help → show loopnet-pp-cli --help output
2. Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
3. Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

claude mcp add loopnet-pp-mcp -- loopnet-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

1. Check if installed: which loopnet-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
2. Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.
3. Execute with the --agent flag:

   loopnet-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent
   

4. If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: loopnet-pp-cli <command> --help.