Trulia Scraper — Extract US Real Estate Listings for Deal Sourcing & Price Monitoring

Scrape Trulia (trulia.com) for-sale, for-rent, and sold listings by city or ZIP code and get clean, machine-readable property data: price, beds/baths, square footage, full address, agent/broker name + phone, photos, price history, and the property URL. Built for US real estate wholesalers, buy-and-hold investors, rental comps teams, and skip-trace / direct-mail campaigns who need structured listing data at scale.

Main Use Cases

• Wholesale deal sourcing — pull fresh listings across your target ZIPs every morning to spot motivated sellers and below-market inventory first.
• Rental price monitoring — track for-rent listings and rent levels per neighborhood or market for pricing and comps.
• Real estate market research — collect price, beds, baths, sqft, and property type across a metro or a single ZIP for market analysis.
• Building a structured property database — assemble nationwide property records with agent and broker contact details.
• Sold-comps & price history analysis — pull recently sold listings and per-property price history for valuation and negotiation leverage.
• Skip-trace / direct-mail lead lists — extract agent/broker name + phone to reach the listing agent or identify the listing brokerage.

How It Works

Trulia is a Zillow Group marketplace protected by PerimeterX bot protection. This actor uses a hybrid, API-first strategy to return the cleanest-structured data with no browser required:

1. Internal GraphQL API (primary, fastest): POSTs to Trulia's search-results GraphQL query and reads the matching listings directly as clean JSON — no HTML parsing.
2. __NEXT_DATA__ JSON (automatic fallback): if the API query is rejected, the actor re-parses the page's embedded JSON blob to pull the same listings.
3. Detail pages (optional): opens each listing's detail page for price history, agent phone, and enriched fields.

Everything runs on the Apify platform, so you get API access, scheduling, proxy rotation (UNBLOCKER), and monitoring out of the box — no scraping infrastructure to manage.

Build Property & Rental Databases Without Official API Access

Trulia used to offer public developer APIs, but those were sunset after its acquisition by Zillow Group. There is no official public Trulia API you can call — the only remaining programmatic route is the gated Bridge Interactive partner platform for MLS-affiliated brokerages and approved vendors. This actor fills that gap for everyone else: point it at a city or ZIP code and get structured listing data you can drop into a spreadsheet, CRM, or database, without an MLS relationship or enterprise contract.

Verified performance: each search request returns a clean feed of structured listings (verified at 40 listings per request against live Trulia data), which makes it dramatically cheaper and faster than manual copy-paste or DOM scraping.

Input

Pull directly from the actor's input schema:

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
locations	array	—	—	Cities or ZIP codes to search (e.g. Los Angeles, CA, 90210). Each generates a Trulia search URL.
startUrls	array	—	—	Optional direct Trulia property URLs to enrich specific listings.
searchType	string	—	for_sale	Which listing type to search: for_sale, for_rent, or sold.
maxItems	integer	—	50	Maximum number of listings to push to the dataset.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	—	200	Maximum number of page requests (search + detail pages).
fetchDetails	boolean	—	false	Also open each listing's detail page for price history, agent phone, and full feature data. Roughly doubles the request count.
useApifyProxy	boolean	—	true	Route requests through the Apify proxy. Trulia blocks datacenter and residential IPs, so keep this ON.
proxyGroup	string	—	UNBLOCKER	Apify proxy group. UNBLOCKER bypasses Trulia's PerimeterX protection.

Output

Each dataset item is a normalized listing record:

Field	Description
url	Canonical Trulia property URL
title	Property title / address
price	Numeric listing price (USD)
priceDisplay	Formatted price string (e.g. $750,000)
listingType	FOR_SALE, FOR_RENT, SOLD
status	Listing status
bedrooms / bathrooms	Bed and bath counts
sqft	Interior square footage
lotSize	Lot size (e.g. 0.12 acres)
propertyType	e.g. Single Family Home, Condo
streetAddress / city / state / zipCode	Full address components
neighborhood	Neighborhood name
latitude / longitude	Property coordinates
agentName / brokerName	Listing agent and brokerage
dateListed	Listing date
zpid / listingId	Stable property and listing identifiers
photos / heroImage	Photo URLs
sourceUrl	Trulia search URL that produced the listing
priceHistory	(detail mode) price history records
agentPhone / agentEmail / brokerPhone	(detail mode) agent/broker contact fields

With fetchDetails enabled, detail pages are pushed as separate enriched rows alongside the search rows.

Example Input

{
  "locations": ["Los Angeles, CA", "90210"],
  "searchType": "for_sale",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "proxyGroup": "UNBLOCKER"
}

Example Output

{
  "url": "https://www.trulia.com/home/123-main-st-los-angeles-ca-90001-123456789",
  "title": "123 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90001",
  "price": 750000,
  "priceDisplay": "$750,000",
  "listingType": "FOR_SALE",
  "status": "for_sale",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "sqft": 1800,
  "lotSize": "0.12 acres",
  "propertyType": "Single Family Home",
  "streetAddress": "123 Main St",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "state": "CA",
  "zipCode": "90001",
  "neighborhood": "Downtown",
  "latitude": 34.0522,
  "longitude": -118.2437,
  "agentName": "Jane Doe",
  "brokerName": "Acme Realty",
  "dateListed": "2026-08-01",
  "zpid": "123456789",
  "listingId": "987654321",
  "photos": ["https://www.trulia.com/pictures/..."],
  "heroImage": "https://www.trulia.com/pictures/...",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.trulia.com/for_sale/Austin,TX/"
}

Integrations & Automation

• Apify API — call the actor programmatically and pull results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.
• Webhooks — send new/updated listings to your CRM, Slack, or webhook endpoint.
• Zapier / Make — connect dataset output to Google Sheets, Airtable, or your real estate stack.

Recommended schedule: run daily for wholesale deal sourcing and rental price monitoring (listings churn fast and deals move within hours), and weekly for market research and sold-comps snapshots. Recurring runs keep your dataset fresh and build a historical price-trend record.

Related Actors

• Flipkart Scraper — by the same developer; scrape product catalog, pricing, and review data from India's largest e-commerce marketplace.
• Zillow Scraper — extract Zillow listings and Zestimate data for US real estate comps and valuation.
• Redfin Scraper — compare listings across the other major US real estate portal for cross-platform market signals.
• Realtor.com Scraper — pull Realtor.com listings for multi-source US property data.

FAQ

Why use this actor instead of the official Trulia API?

There is no official public Trulia API. Trulia's public developer APIs (Property, Stats, Schools, Locations) were deprecated and shut down after the Zillow Group acquisition; the only remaining programmatic data path is the gated Bridge Interactive partner platform, which requires an MLS-affiliated brokerage or approved vendor relationship. If you're not an MLS partner, a scraper is the only way to get structured Trulia listing data — and this actor bypasses the PerimeterX protection that blocks naive scrapers.

What are alternatives to Trulia data / this actor?

Trulia's data overlaps heavily with other Zillow Group and US portal data. Common alternatives for US real estate listing data include Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com scrapers, each covering similar public listings. Pricing is a key differentiator: this actor costs $0.95 per 1,000 listings (plus optional detail events), versus comparable Trulia actors on the Apify Store priced at $2.50 per 1,000 listings, so heavy-volume runs cost roughly 60% less.

Can I scrape both rental and for-sale listings?

Yes. Set searchType to for_sale, for_rent, or sold, or paste a Trulia /for_rent/, /for_sale/, or /sold/ URL into startUrls — those paths already encode the market. Sold listings include sold prices where Trulia exposes them.

Can I scrape a single property I already know about?

Yes. Paste the direct Trulia property URL (e.g. https://www.trulia.com/home/...) into startUrls to scrape just that listing. With fetchDetails enabled you get the richest detail: price history, agent phone, and full feature data.

Does this collect data without proxy issues?

Yes — the actor routes all requests through the Apify UNBLOCKER proxy, which is the one surface that reliably bypasses Trulia's PerimeterX protection. Datacenter and residential proxy groups both get HTTP 403 from PerimeterX, so the UNBLOCKER group is required and is set by default.

How should I schedule it for price monitoring?

Run daily for active listings and rental price tracking — Trulia listings change fast and price cuts matter. For historical comps and market research, a weekly snapshot is enough. Each run appends to your dataset so you build a price-trend record over time (dedupe on the stable zpid field).

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is callable via the Apify API and the Apify MCP server, so any agent can run it and pull structured US real estate listing data.

• Purpose: returns normalized Trulia for-sale/for-rent/sold listing records (price, beds, baths, sqft, address, agent/broker, photos, price history) for one or more US cities or ZIP codes.
• Minimal working input:

  {
    "locations": ["Austin, TX"],
    "searchType": "for_sale",
    "maxItems": 50
  }
  

• Variant inputs: set searchType to for_rent or sold for other markets; add "fetchDetails": true to return enriched detail rows (price history, agent phone); paste direct property URLs into startUrls to scrape single listings.
• Output fields: url, title, price, priceDisplay, listingType, status, bedrooms, bathrooms, sqft, lotSize, propertyType, streetAddress, city, state, zipCode, neighborhood, latitude, longitude, agentName, brokerName, dateListed, zpid, listingId, photos, heroImage, sourceUrl (plus priceHistory, agentPhone, agentEmail, brokerPhone when fetchDetails is on).
• Behaviors an agent should know:
  • locations and startUrls are independent: if both are set, both are scraped. Use one or the other for predictable runs.
  • maxItems defaults to 50 — set it explicitly to control run size and cost.
  • fetchDetails roughly doubles the request count and charges the Detail item event at $0.004 per row; leave it off for cheap broad sweeps.
  • Keep useApifyProxy true and proxyGroup on UNBLOCKER — the defaults — or PerimeterX will return HTTP 403.
  • maxRequestsPerCrawl defaults to 200 and bounds total page requests.
• Billing: pay-per-event — Actor start (~$0.0005/GB), result at $0.00095 per listing row, and Detail item at $0.004 per enriched row. A typical 50-listing run with no details is well under a dollar.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Trulia or Zillow Group. Zillow Group owns Trulia; this actor is not an official Trulia or Zillow Group product.

The actor only accesses publicly available Trulia listing pages — it does not bypass logins, does not access gated private account data, and does not solve CAPTCHAs (it relies on proxy routing to reach public pages).

Users are responsible for their own compliance with Trulia's Terms of Service and applicable law, including data-protection regulation (such as GDPR/CCPA where relevant) before storing or redistributing listing data. Listing agent contact data (names, phones, emails) returned by this actor should not be used for unsolicited commercial outreach in violation of applicable law (e.g. CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR). This section is informational, not legal advice.