Movoto Scraper — Real Estate Listings & MLS Data API

Scrape Movoto.com real-estate listings for any US city, neighborhood or ZIP code and export price, beds, baths, square footage, address, MLS number, agent and brokerage as clean structured JSON. It runs on plain HTTP (no browser, no headless Chrome) against Movoto's server-rendered listing data, so a run is fast and cheap even at scale.

Built for US real-estate investors, agents, iBuyers and lead-generation teams who want Movoto coverage alongside Zillow/Redfin data.

Main use cases

• Real estate market research — track asking prices, price-per-sqft and inventory across US cities and neighborhoods.
• Real estate lead generation — pull listing agents, brokerages and brokerage phone numbers for outreach lists.
• Build a property database / MLS listings dataset — expand a warehouse with Movoto active listings, MLS numbers and geo-coordinates.
• Investment and comps analysis — compare beds, baths, sqft, lot size, year built and days-on-market for comparables.
• Competitor and price monitoring — schedule recurring snapshots of a market to watch prices and listings change over time.

How it works

Movoto server-side-renders its full Vue app state into every page as an __INITIAL_STATE__ JSON blob. This actor requests the search pages you give it (city / neighborhood / ZIP), parses that embedded state and writes one row per listing to the dataset. Search pages return 50 listings each and the actor follows pagination automatically until maxItems is reached. It uses a CheerioCrawler (HTTP-only, 256 MB) — there is no browser and no DOM scraping. Requests ride the standard Apify proxy when enabled and are paced with a 2-second same-domain delay.

Detail pages are deliberately not scraped: they rate-limit (HTTP 403 after roughly 30 requests/minute) and made every run take minutes longer. Every field below already comes from the search data, so description is always null.

Extract US Real Estate Listings For Market Research

Every Movoto search page embeds state.pageData.listings[] — a full listing card — plus pageData.totalCount. The actor parses each card into a dataset row covering price, beds/baths/sqft, lot size, structured address, latitude/longitude, property type, agent, brokerage and phone, photos, listing status, MLS number, year built, list date, days-on-Movoto and the detail URL. You supply the search URLs (e.g. https://www.movoto.com/los-angeles-ca/) and the actor paginates through the result pages itself.

Build A Property Database Without The Movoto API

Movoto has no public listing API, and its pages sit behind PerimeterX (px-captcha) plus CloudFront geo-blocking — desktop browser User-Agents from datacenter or foreign IPs get a 403 px-captcha page. This actor sidesteps both without a browser by sending a consistent mobile Chrome session (mobile User-Agent plus matching sec-ch-ua-* client hints) so Movoto returns the same __INITIAL_STATE__ blob a real visitor's browser would receive. Mismatched hints (for example Windows platform hints on an Android User-Agent, which generic HTTP clients generate by default) are flagged by PerimeterX and blocked, so the header set is applied deliberately in preNavigationHooks.

For maintainers — surfaces checked and not used:

• /api/dosearch/ (allowed in robots.txt) → still PerimeterX-walled from datacenter IPs.
• Algolia / third-party search backend → Movoto does not use one.
• pi2.movoto.com (the boundaryUrl in the state blob) → S3 image host, no listing API.
• __NEXT_DATA__ / __NUXT__ → not present; it is a Vue SSR app using __INITIAL_STATE__.
• Sitemaps (/ssl/sitemap.xml) confirm URL patterns and are a useful bulk-URL discovery aid, but the crawler starts from the search URLs you provide and paginates itself.

Always enable the proxy in production — Movoto's own VPS IP is CloudFront geo-blocked, and residential proxies are the next escalation step if the header set is tightened.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
startUrls	array (requestListSources)	No (prefilled)	https://www.movoto.com/los-angeles-ca/	Movoto search-result page URLs (city / neighborhood / ZIP), e.g. https://www.movoto.com/los-angeles-ca/.
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum listings to scrape in total; result pages are followed automatically until it is reached.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	No	300	Hard cap on total HTTP requests the crawler may make.
proxy	object (proxy)	No	useApifyProxy: false	Standard Apify proxy picker — enable (residential) for production runs.

Free-plan users are capped at 10 listings per run; paid users get the full maxItems range.

Output Fields

One dataset item per listing (31 fields). The default overview view shows Title, Price, Beds, Baths, Sqft, City and URL.

Field	Type	Description
source	string	Row origin; always search (detail pages are not scraped).
title	string	Listing headline.
price	integer	List price in USD.
beds	integer / null	Bedroom count (null for studios).
baths	integer / null	Bathroom count.
sqft	integer / null	Living area in square feet.
lotSize	integer / null	Lot size in square feet.
address	string	Full formatted address.
streetAddress	string	Street line.
city	string	City.
state	string	US state code.
zip	string	ZIP code.
latitude	number / null	Latitude.
longitude	number / null	Longitude.
neighborhood	string / null	Neighborhood name.
county	string / null	County.
propertyType	string / null	Display property type.
propertyTypeCode	string / null	Machine property-type code.
agent	string / null	Listing agent name.
brokerage	string / null	Brokerage / office name.
brokeragePhone	string / null	Brokerage phone number.
photos	array	Photo URLs.
photoCount	integer / null	Number of photos on the listing.
description	string / null	Always null — detail pages are not scraped.
status	string / null	Listing status, e.g. Active.
mlsNumber	string / null	MLS ID.
yearBuilt	integer / null	Year built.
listDate	string / null	Date listed on Movoto.
daysOnMovoto	integer / null	Days on market.
propertyId	string / null	Movoto internal property ID.
url	string	Listing detail URL.

Example Input And Output

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.movoto.com/los-angeles-ca/" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 300,
  "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output (one dataset row)

{
  "source": "search",
  "title": "11734 Sunshine Ter Studio City, CA 91604",
  "price": 1998000,
  "beds": 3,
  "baths": 3,
  "sqft": 2150,
  "lotSize": 4986,
  "address": "11734 Sunshine Ter Studio City, CA 91604",
  "streetAddress": "11734 Sunshine Ter",
  "city": "Studio City",
  "state": "CA",
  "zip": "91604",
  "latitude": 34.137952,
  "longitude": -118.388604,
  "neighborhood": "Studio City",
  "county": "Los Angeles",
  "propertyType": "Residential - Single Family",
  "propertyTypeCode": "single-family",
  "agent": "Gene Bush",
  "brokerage": "Coldwell Banker Realty",
  "brokeragePhone": "(310) 777-6200",
  "photos": ["https://pi.movoto.com/p/203/....webp"],
  "photoCount": 30,
  "description": null,
  "status": "Active",
  "mlsNumber": "26997899",
  "yearBuilt": 1937,
  "listDate": "2026-10-08 05:54:43",
  "daysOnMovoto": 0,
  "propertyId": "2902695",
  "url": "https://www.movoto.com/studio-city-ca/11734-sunshine-ter-..../"
}

Integrations & Automation

Every Apify actor is reachable through the Apify API, and this one plugs into webhooks, Zapier and Make so results can flow into a Google Sheet, Airtable base, CRM or warehouse. For price monitoring and market research, run it on a schedule — a daily or weekly snapshot of your target cities is enough to track new listings and price changes, and recurring runs also improve the actor's Store recommendation signals.

Related Actors

• zillow-scraper — the largest Zillow listings scraper; pairs Movoto data with the broadest US market coverage.
• zillow-detail-scraper — adds full Zillow detail pages (description, gallery, agent) for listings Movoto does not expose.
• zumper-scraper — US rental listings to complement Movoto's for-sale inventory.
• century21-scraper — another US real-estate source for a multi-portal property database.
• coldwellbanker-scraper — brokerage-level US listings with agent and office data.

FAQ

Is there an official Movoto API?

Movoto does not publish a public listing API, and its pages are protected by PerimeterX plus CloudFront geo-blocking. This actor reads the server-rendered listing data directly through a consistent browser-like client, so you get structured listings without an API key and without paying for an anti-bot service or a browser.

What are the alternatives to this actor / this data source?

For US real-estate data you can combine this with Zillow, Redfin or Realtor.com scrapers. Movoto is one of the larger US portals (licensed nationwide) and is worth having alongside the others to widen coverage of active listings, MLS numbers and listing agents.

How do I get MLS number and agent data at scale?

Provide a city, neighborhood or ZIP search URL and set maxItems; the actor paginates through the search result pages automatically and returns the MLS number, listing agent, brokerage and brokerage phone for each listing, alongside price, size and geo-coordinates.

Does Movoto block scrapers?

Movoto uses PerimeterX and blocks datacenter/foreign IPs with a captcha page. This actor avoids that by sending a consistent mobile Chrome session and by routing through the Apify proxy; enable the proxy in production runs.

Best way to monitor US home prices by city?

Schedule this actor daily or weekly against your target city or ZIP URLs and store each run's dataset. Comparing runs over time gives you new-listing, price-change and days-on-market trends without manual checks.

Why is description null?

Listing descriptions live on detail pages, which Movoto rate-limits (HTTP 403 after roughly 30 requests/minute) and which slowed every run. Every other field is already present in the search data, so detail pages are skipped by design.

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: return one structured US real-estate listing row per Movoto listing, for a given city/neighborhood/ZIP search URL.

Minimal working input:

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.movoto.com/los-angeles-ca/" }], "maxItems": 50 }

Output fields: source, title, price, beds, baths, sqft, lotSize, address, streetAddress, city, state, zip, latitude, longitude, neighborhood, county, propertyType, propertyTypeCode, agent, brokerage, brokeragePhone, photos, photoCount, description, status, mlsNumber, yearBuilt, listDate, daysOnMovoto, propertyId, url.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• startUrls must be Movoto search-result URLs (city/neighborhood/ZIP). Detail-page URLs are not scraped.
• If maxItems is left unset it defaults to 50; free-plan runs are capped at 10 listings regardless.
• description is always null by design — do not treat it as a missing/failed field.
• Enable the proxy for production; without it results depend on whether your IP is geo-blocked.
• source is always search and can be ignored.

Billing: pay-per-event — $0.0035 per result ($3.50 / 1,000 results) plus a $0.00005 actor-start event.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Movoto. It accesses only publicly available Movoto listing pages; it does not log in, bypass authentication, or solve CAPTCHAs on anyone's behalf. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with Movoto's Terms of Service and with applicable data-protection law. Where output includes agent or brokerage contact details, it must not be used for unsolicited commercial outreach in violation of applicable law (e.g. CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR).