Zillow Property Search Scraper — Extract Listings, Zestimates & Market Data

What does Zillow Property Search Scraper do?

Zillow Property Search Scraper extracts structured real-estate listings from Zillow by location — price, address, beds and baths, square footage, lot size, Zestimate, rent Zestimate, latitude and longitude, property type, listing status, days on Zillow, and photos. It is built for real estate investors, agents, and wholesalers who need Zillow data without the official API.

Unlike browser-based Zillow scrapers, it calls Zillow's own internal search JSON API (async-create-search-page-state) over plain HTTP/2 — no JavaScript rendering, no __NEXT_DATA__ parsing, no headless browser. That makes it dramatically faster, cheaper and more reliable against Zillow's PerimeterX/HUMAN anti-bot wall, because an HTTP/2 client with a real-browser TLS fingerprint and full Chrome headers, routed through the Apify Unblocker proxy group, clears the IP rotation that a datacenter or browser-automation client would be challenged on.

Because it is an Apify Actor, you get proxy rotation, scheduling, a clean JSON/CSV/Excel dataset, monitoring and API access out of the box. Give it a location ("New York, NY") and it returns a normalized table you can pipe straight into a CRM or marketplace.

Why use Zillow Property Search Scraper?

Real estate investors, wholesalers, agents, and CRM/marketplace builders use it to:

• Build lead lists by area — e.g. new construction, for-sale, for-rent, recently sold, FSBO, or foreclosure inventory.
• Extract comps (price, beds/baths/sqft, geo) for automated valuation and underwriting.
• Enrich a Follow Up Boss / GoHighLevel pipeline or custom dashboard without maintaining a fragile in-house scraper.
• Pull thousands of listings in minutes with far lower compute cost than a browser crawler.

How to use Zillow Property Search Scraper

1. Open the Actor and click Try it (or Run on the Apify platform).
2. In Location, type a city, ZIP code, or neighborhood (e.g. New York, NY or 94110).
3. Pick a Listing status (New construction is the default), a Sort order, and set Max results.
4. Optionally filter by min/max price, bedrooms, bathrooms, HOA fees, and property types.
5. Keep the Apify Unblocker proxy group selected — this is what beats Zillow's IP blocks.
6. Click Run and wait for the search to finish.
7. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab, or pull it through the API.

Extract Zillow Listings for Real Estate Lead Generation

Agents and wholesalers use location-based searches to build hyper-local lead lists across every Zillow inventory: new construction, for sale, for rent, recently sold, FSBO, and foreclosure. Each row carries the address, price, beds/baths, square footage, Zestimate, and a direct Zillow URL — the exact fields you need to prioritize outreach, farm a ZIP code, or source off-market and distressed deals before competitors.

Build Real Estate Comps & CMAs Without the Zillow API

Zillow retired its public listings API in 2021, so there is no official, self-serve way to pull comparable sales. This Actor fills that gap: query a neighborhood with recentlySold, and you get sold price, beds/baths, living area, lot size, and geo coordinates for every comparable — the inputs your automated valuation models, CMAs, and underwriting spreadsheets need, refreshed on demand.

Monitor Zillow Price Changes & New Listings Daily

Set Sort order to Recently changed and schedule the Actor to run daily or weekly. You will capture new listings and price drops the moment they appear — the earliest signal of motivated sellers, stale inventory, and shifting local demand. Pipe the delta into a sheet or database to track a watch-list of properties over time.

Pull Rent Zestimates & Rental Market Data at Scale

Switch Listing status to For rent to extract active rental listings with the rent Zestimate, beds/baths, square footage, and geo for thousands of properties at once. Analysts and property managers use this to benchmark rents, spot underpriced units, and forecast income across neighborhoods without manual lookup.

Use Zillow Data to Enrich Your CRM Pipeline

Every result is a flat, normalized record with a stable zpid primary key and a Zillow detail URL. Webhook the Actor's dataset into Follow Up Boss, GoHighLevel, or your own warehouse so new listings and price changes land in the pipeline automatically — no scraper to host, no parsers to maintain.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
query	string	New York, NY	Location to search (city, ZIP code, or neighborhood). Required.
homeStatuses	select	newConstruction	New construction, For sale, For rent, Foreclosure, Coming soon, FSBO, For sale by agent, Auction, Recently sold.
sortOrder	select	recentlyChanged	Recently changed, Best match, Price low→high, Price high→low.
maxResults	integer	500	Max records (a single region is capped at ~500 by Zillow).
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	—	Minimum / maximum price in USD.
minBedrooms / maxBedrooms	integer	—	Bedroom range filter.
minBathrooms	integer	—	Minimum bathrooms.
maxHoaFees	integer	—	Maximum HOA fees per month in USD.
homeTypes	array	—	Single family, Multi family, Condo, Manufactured, Land, Townhome, Apartment.
maxConcurrency	integer	10	Search pages fetched in parallel.
cacheTtlSecs	integer	3600	Cache the (paid) Unblocker response for this many seconds on repeat runs.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	UNBLOCKER	Apify Unblocker proxy group. Required to bypass Zillow blocking.

Output

Each dataset item contains the fields below (derived from Zillow's search card). null values mean the field was not present in the search results for that listing.

Field	Description
zpid	Zillow property ID (stable primary key).
url	Zillow detail page URL.
price / unformattedPrice	List price (number + raw).
streetAddress, city, state, zipcode, address	Parsed address components.
beds / baths	Room counts.
sqft / lotSize	Living area / lot size (sqft).
zestimate / rentZestimate	Zillow home-value and monthly-rent estimates.
latitude / longitude	Geo coordinates.
homeType	Property type (SINGLE_FAMILY, CONDO, …).
listingStatus	FOR_SALE / FOR_RENT / SOLD / …
daysOnZillow / timeOnZillow	Listing age signals.
photos	Array of photo URLs.

Example Input

{
  "query": "Austin, TX",
  "homeStatuses": "forSale",
  "sortOrder": "recentlyChanged",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "minPrice": 400000,
  "maxPrice": 800000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["UNBLOCKER"]
  }
}

Example Output

{
  "zpid": 2057430830,
  "url": "https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2256-20th-Ave-San-Francisco-CA-94116/2057430830_zpid/",
  "price": 2195000,
  "unformattedPrice": 2195000,
  "streetAddress": "2256 20th Ave",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "state": "CA",
  "zipcode": "94116",
  "address": "2256 20th Ave San Francisco CA 94116",
  "beds": 3,
  "baths": 2,
  "sqft": 1840,
  "lotSize": 4000,
  "zestimate": 1936000,
  "rentZestimate": 4023,
  "latitude": 37.74961,
  "longitude": -122.47499,
  "homeType": "SINGLE_FAMILY",
  "listingStatus": "FOR_SALE",
  "daysOnZillow": 12,
  "timeOnZillow": 1036800,
  "photos": ["https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/7fb5cc0d6ed64f744cf80e1d5907ecbb-p_f.jpg"]
}

The record above is an illustrative example of a single result shape; actual values depend on the listing.

Integrations & Automation

• API & webhooks: every run writes to a dataset you can fetch as JSON/CSV/Excel or stream via the Apify API; attach a webhook to push new rows into your CRM, warehouse, or n8n/Zapier flow.
• Scheduling for recurring usage: Zillow rewards re-runs, so schedule the Actor daily (price-drop / new-listing monitoring) or weekly (market snapshots). Recurring runs also improve the Actor's visibility in Apify Store and MCP discovery.
• Proxy: the Apify Unblocker group is pre-selected and required; it is what clears Zillow's anti-bot wall.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify pay-per-event pricing: you are charged a small fee when the run starts (scaled by memory) plus about $0.001 per result in the dataset. A 500-listing search therefore costs roughly $0.50 — far less than a browser-based crawler, because there is no headless browser to run.

Related Actors

Part of a larger real-estate data toolkit on Apify:

• Zillow Search Scraper — the most-used Zillow search Actor on the platform.
• Zillow Detail Scraper — enrich search results with full property-detail pages.
• Redfin Search Scraper — pull listings from Redfin for cross-portal coverage.
• Realtor.com Scraper — scrape Realtor.com sale, rental, and sold data.
• Apartments.com Scraper — rental listings, prices, and reviews.

FAQ

Why use this actor instead of the official Zillow API?

Zillow retired its public listings API in 2021. Today, programmatic access runs through partner-only channels (e.g. Bridge Interactive / MLS affiliation) that most teams cannot use. This Actor is a scraper and API alternative: it returns the same structured listing data through a simple HTTP/JSON interface, with no MLS approval required.

What are alternatives to this actor / Zillow data source?

Several Zillow scrapers exist on Apify and elsewhere. This one is differentiated by a browserless HTTP/2 approach — it queries Zillow's internal search API directly instead of rendering pages, which is faster, cheaper, and less prone to breakage from UI changes.

How do I get Zillow data without coding?

Run this Actor from the Apify console (no code), schedule it, and download the dataset as CSV/Excel — or call it from any workflow via the Apify API. No proxy farm or parser to maintain.

What data can I collect from Zillow with this scraper?

Price, address, beds/baths, square footage, lot size, Zestimate, rent Zestimate, latitude/longitude, property type, listing status, days on Zillow, and photo URLs — for for-sale, for-rent, recently-sold, new-construction, FSBO, and foreclosure inventories.

How does it avoid Zillow's anti-bot blocking?

It calls Zillow's internal search JSON API with a browser-like TLS fingerprint and full Chrome request headers, routed through the Apify Unblocker residential-grade proxy group with IP rotation. That combination clears PerimeterX/HUMAN challenges that block plain HTTP and datacenter clients.

Is scraping Zillow allowed?

Respect Zillow's Terms of Service and applicable laws; this Actor is a technical tool and you are responsible for lawful use. The underlying listing data (price, square footage, address) is generally considered public information in the US.