Houzz Professionals Scraper — Leads, Reviews & Contacts 🏠

💰 From $1.9 per 1,000 results — professional profiles extracted directly from Houzz's embedded JSON data, bypassing heavy frontend rendering entirely.

Scrape home professional profiles from Houzz — home builders, interior designers, architects, contractors, and more. This actor finds and parses the embedded ProfessionalStore JSON instead of scraping visible HTML, so it's faster, more stable, and harder to block than a traditional DOM-based scraper. Built for lead generation, market research, and outreach automation.

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Why use this actor?

• 💸 Cheap & fast — from $1.9 per 1,000 results; extracts via internal JSON, not heavy DOM parsing.
• 🧩 Structured at the source — reads Houzz's own ProfessionalStore data object, so fields stay accurate and complete without brittle CSS selectors.
• 🛡️ Anti-block handling built in — session rotation plus residential proxy support keeps runs stable at scale.
• 🔄 Automatic pagination — crawls full category/location search results without manual page handling.
• 📦 Rich, ready-to-use output — contact info, badges, reviews, ratings, and profile URLs, ready for CSV, CRM, or outreach tools.
• 🌍 Any location or category — works with any Houzz professional search URL, from kitchen remodelers to design-build firms.

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Use cases

Lead generation for contractors & agencies

Agencies building prospect lists of home professionals by category and location. Input: search URL per city/category · Output: contact info, address, specialty, badges · Use: build targeted outreach lists for tools, materials, financing, or marketing services.

Market research

Analysts studying the density and quality of home professionals per market. Input: multiple location searches · Output: review counts, ratings, years in business · Use: map competitive density and service quality by region.

Outreach & sales pipelines

Sales teams targeting home-services professionals with a relevant offer. Input: category-filtered search · Output: phone, address, profile URL, badges · Use: prioritize outreach to verified, highly-rated, or high-volume pros.

Data pipelines & automation

Teams feeding a CRM or internal directory with structured professional data. Input: scheduled runs per region · Output: structured JSON · Use: keep an internal directory of home professionals up to date automatically.

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How to use

1. Open the actor's Input tab.
2. Add search URLs — one or more Houzz professional search URLs, e.g. https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-builders/c/Los-Angeles--CA.
3. Set Max items to cap how many professionals to scrape.
4. Set Max concurrency (recommended 2–5) and enable a Residential proxy for best reliability.
5. Run and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or via API.

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-builders/c/Los-Angeles--CA"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

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Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	Array	List of Houzz search URLs
maxItems	Number	Maximum number of professionals to scrape
maxConcurrency	Number	Parallel requests (recommended: 2–5)
proxy	Object	Proxy configuration (Apify Residential recommended)

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How it works

Instead of scraping visible HTML, this actor:

1. Loads the Houzz search page.
2. Finds the embedded JavaScript containing ProfessionalStore.
3. Extracts the structured JSON data directly.
4. Parses and normalizes it into clean professional profiles.

This makes it faster, more stable, and harder to block than traditional HTML-scraping approaches.

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Output

The actor returns one dataset item per professional. Each item includes contact details, location, badges, review data, and profile metadata pulled straight from Houzz's internal data — for example: formattedAddress, formattedPhone, aboutMe, proTypeDisplayName, numReviews, reviewRating, highlightBadges, mostRecentReview, featuredReview, and profileUrl.

See the Output tab for a full example item with all available fields.

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Integration examples

JavaScript / Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('ahmed_jasarevic/houzz-professionals-scraper').call({
  startUrls: ['https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-builders/c/Los-Angeles--CA'],
  maxItems: 50,
  maxConcurrency: 3,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('ahmed_jasarevic/houzz-professionals-scraper').call(run_input={
    'startUrls': ['https://www.houzz.com/professionals/kitchen-and-bath/chicago-il-us-probr0'],
    'maxItems': 100,
    'maxConcurrency': 3,
})

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item)

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ahmed_jasarevic~houzz-professionals-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"startUrls":["https://www.houzz.com/professionals/home-builders/c/Los-Angeles--CA"],"maxItems":50,"maxConcurrency":3}'

Automation workflows (n8n / Zapier / Make)

1. Trigger: schedule or webhook
2. HTTP Request: call the actor API
3. Process: parse the JSON results
4. Action: push to a CRM, outreach tool, or spreadsheet

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Pricing

At $1.9 per 1,000 results, this actor delivers structured, JSON-sourced professional data — ready for CRM import or outreach without any manual cleanup.

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Performance tips

• Use Residential proxies for the best success rate.
• Keep maxConcurrency between 2–5.
• Avoid extremely high maxItems without proxy rotation.
• If blocked, the scraper automatically rotates sessions.

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FAQ

How much does it cost? $1.9 per 1,000 results.

Do I need a proxy? Recommended, not strictly required. Residential proxies give the best success rate and let the scraper's session rotation work most effectively at scale.

Are phone numbers and websites always available? No — some fields (phone, website) may not be listed on every profile; availability depends on what the professional has published.

Can I search by category and location together? Yes — pass a Houzz search URL that already includes both, e.g. /professionals/kitchen-and-bath/chicago-il-us-probr0.

What output formats are supported? JSON and CSV, exportable directly from the Apify dataset, or fetch programmatically via the API tab.

Will it break if Houzz changes their site? Houzz may change its internal data structure over time, which could require an update to the actor — it is actively maintained.

Is scraping Houzz legal? This actor extracts publicly available professional profile data. Users are responsible for complying with Houzz's Terms of Service and applicable data protection laws.

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Notes

• Some fields (phone, website) may not always be available.
• Houzz may change its internal structure over time — the actor is updated accordingly.
• Respect Houzz's Terms of Service when using the extracted data.

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Summary

This actor gives you fast, scalable access to Houzz professionals data without dealing with complex frontend scraping — perfect for turning Houzz into a lead generation pipeline.