Zillow Property Search, Price Drops and Detail Lookup

A Zillow scraper for US real estate searches. Type any US city, ZIP code or neighbourhood, paste any Zillow search link with custom filters, or look up individual homedetails links. Results come back newest first: property address, asking price, bedrooms, bathrooms, living area, lot size, year built, days on market, Zestimate, rent Zestimate, brokerage name, main photo and direct URL. Turn on monitoring and any search becomes a live new-listings alert and price drop tracker, with direct webhook delivery to Discord, Slack, Telegram or your own API endpoint. No login or browser automation required. You pay per listing returned.

This actor extracts only publicly visible listing data published on zillow.com. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Zillow, Inc.

Who it's for

• Real estate investors and house flippers monitoring specific ZIP codes or neighbourhoods for new inventory and price reductions before other buyers make an offer.
• Real estate agents and brokers compiling daily comp tables, tracking price movements, and watching competitor brokerage inventory across their territory.
• Home buyers and renters who want an instant Telegram or Discord notification the moment a qualifying home hits the market, without constantly refreshing apps.
• Data analysts and proptech developers piping structured US property data into Google Sheets, n8n, Make, Clay, PostgreSQL or custom valuation models.

Why this one

• Monitoring is built in. Most Zillow scrapers on Apify Store return a one-off snapshot and stop. This actor includes a persistent watchlist memory across scheduled runs: it flags new listings, price cuts, price rises, and homes that went off-market (sold or withdrawn).
• Direct webhook notifications. Connect your Discord webhook, Slack channel, or Telegram bot with a single URL. Get rich alert cards delivered as changes happen without building an external pipeline.
• Pay only for real listings found. Misses, empty searches, price rises and off-market notifications are completely free. You only pay for returned listings and optional detail lookups.
• Brokerage-level contact only. Respects privacy standards: outputs the listing brokerage firm name without scraping personal agent mobile numbers or private emails.
• Fast HTTP extraction. Uses server-rendered data payloads rather than slow, resource-heavy browser emulation, keeping compute overhead and run times minimal.

How to use

1. In the Apify Console. Open the actor page and click Start — the searches field is already pre-filled with a working example. Results land in the run's dataset as soon as each item is found.
2. Via the API. Call it directly with a POST request — no Console needed once you have an API token:

   curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/accountable_eel~zillow-listing-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
     -X POST \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"searches":["Austin, TX"]}'
   

3. On a schedule. Save this actor as an Apify Task with the input you want, then add a Schedule (hourly, daily, weekly) so it runs on its own — no server of your own required.

Setting up a search

1. In the Input tab, enter one location per line in searches: a city and state (Austin, TX, Miami, FL), a 5-digit ZIP code (90210, 78701), or a neighbourhood (SoHo, New York).
2. Alternatively, paste any Zillow search URL directly into searchUrls to preserve complex polygon map filters or specialized criteria.
3. Choose the listing status: For sale (default), For rent, or Recently sold.
4. Set optional filters: minimum/maximum price, bedroom and bathroom counts, and property type (single family, multi-family, condo, townhouse, manufactured, lot/land, apartment).
5. Set maxListings to your budget limit (default 40 listings per search).
6. To enable change alerts, tick Delta mode under Monitoring and configure your schedule.

Input

{
  "searches": [
    "Austin, TX"
  ]
}

One per line: a city, ZIP code or neighbourhood ('Austin, TX', '90210', 'SoHo, New York'), a zillow.com search URL, or a homedetails property link. Accepted formats: Austin, TX, 90210, https://www.zillow.com/austin-tx/, https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/123-Main-St-Austin-TX-78701/12345678_zpid/.

Filtering and monitoring examples

1. Finding single family homes under $500,000 in Austin, TX:

{
  "searches": ["Austin, TX"],
  "status": "for_sale",
  "maxPrice": 500000,
  "homeType": "single_family",
  "minBeds": 3,
  "minBaths": 2
}

2. Monitoring luxury rentals in Beverly Hills with Discord alerts:

{
  "searches": ["90210"],
  "status": "for_rent",
  "minPrice": 5000,
  "deltaMode": true,
  "alertOnPriceDrop": true,
  "notifyUrl": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL"
}

3. Detailed property inspection including price and tax history:

{
  "listingUrls": [
    "https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/123-Main-St-Austin-TX-78701/12345678_zpid/"
  ],
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output

One row per property listing. Each row contains core property attributes, pricing, market metrics, and change tracking metadata:

Field	Description
zpid, url	Zillow unique property identifier and canonical listing URL
streetAddress, city, state, zipcode	Full property address components
latitude, longitude	Geographic coordinates
price, priceChange, statusText	Asking price in USD, recent price change amount, and listing status
beds, baths, livingArea, lotArea	Bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, and lot size
homeType, yearBuilt, daysOnZillow	Property style, construction year, and cumulative days on market
zestimate, rentZestimate	Zillow estimated market value and estimated monthly rental value
brokerName, photo	Listing brokerage firm name and primary high-resolution photograph URL
description, priceHistory, taxHistory	Extended property details (populated when includeDetails is enabled)
monthlyHoaFee, schools	Monthly HOA assessment and nearby school ratings (with details enabled)
changeType, previousPrice, priceDeltaPct	Watchlist change status (new, price-drop, price-rise, gone)
firstSeenAt, lastSeenAt, daysListed	Watchlist timestamps and duration

query	found	status	searchUrl	totalAvailable	listingCount	detailCount	truncated	newCount	priceDropCount	priceRiseCount	goneCount	monitorStatus	medianPrice	properties	zpid	url	streetAddress	city	state	zipcode	latitude	longitude	price	priceChange	statusText	beds	baths	livingArea	lotArea	homeType	yearBuilt	daysOnZillow	zestimate	rentZestimate	brokerName	photo	description	priceHistory	taxHistory	monthlyHoaFee	schools	changeType	previousPrice	priceDeltaPct	firstSeenAt	lastSeenAt	daysListed	scrapedAt
Austin, TX	true	OK			<listings returned (billed)>	<detail fetches (billed)>								<all listings found (full list)>	<zillow property id (zpid)>								<asking price (usd)>					<living area (sq ft)>	<lot area (sq ft)>													<change type (new, price-drop, gone)>						1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Monitoring: only what changed

When deltaMode is enabled, the actor turns each search into a continuous watchlist backed by a persistent named key-value store on your Apify account (zillow-listing-lookup-delta).

• New listings (changeType: "new"): Properties appearing on the market for the first time since the previous run.
• Price drops (changeType: "price-drop"): Properties whose asking price fell by at least minPriceChangePct (default 0.5%).
• Price rises (changeType: "price-rise"): Properties whose asking price increased. Returned free.
• Off-market homes (changeType: "gone"): Properties that disappeared from the active search window (sold, pending, or withdrawn). Returned free.
• Unchanged listings: Automatically filtered out so you are never billed for duplicate observations.

Use alertOnNewOnly or alertOnPriceDrop to narrow alerts to specific events, or enable skipFirstRun to prime the watchlist memory silently without triggering initial notifications.

Integrations and webhooks

Export or stream listing records directly into third-party tools:

• Discord & Slack: Pass a webhook URL in notifyUrl to receive rich formatted alert cards in your team chat.
• Telegram: Pass https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/sendMessage?chat_id=<CHAT_ID> in notifyUrl.
• Google Sheets / Airtable: Use Apify's native integrations to append each row to a spreadsheet on run completion.
• n8n / Make / Zapier: Trigger downstream workflows via run webhooks or periodic dataset pulls.