Real Estate Aggregator - Zillow + Redfin + Realtor

Search several real estate platforms in one run and get one deduplicated list. Listings that appear on more than one site are merged by normalized address, with the price on each platform, the price spread, every source URL and the best photos.

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Quick Start

Run with real data

{
  "zipCode": "78704",
  "platforms": ["zillow", "redfin"],
  "maxResultsPerPlatform": 50,
  "deduplicationStrategy": "keep_all_merged"
}

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How it works

For each platform you pick, the aggregator runs our scraper for that site on your Apify account (Zillow Scraper, Redfin Scraper, Realtor.com Scraper), collects their listings, merges duplicates and returns one row per unique property.

Each source scraper reads only public pages, without stealth browsers, proxy rotation or challenge solving. When a site blocks a source scraper, that scraper returns a status row instead of listings. The aggregator never merges or bills those rows. It reports each platform's outcome:

• one row with resultType: "status" for every platform that returned no listings, with its fetchStatus (blocked, no_data, unsupported_input or error) and message,
• platformStatus in the OUTPUT record of the key-value store.

Realtor.com today: Realtor.com answers automated requests with a bot check on every page, so it usually returns a blocked status row. Leave it out of platforms to skip that source run.

Input notes: a ZIP code gives the most reliable results. City needs its state ('Austin, TX'). Address input searches the address's ZIP code, and the radius is not applied. Redfin is skipped for recently_sold and for_rent, which its scraper does not cover.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Required	Description
platforms	array	["zillow","redfin","realtor"]	No	Which platforms to search
city	string	-	No	City and state, for example 'Austin, TX'
zipCode	string	-	No	ZIP code, for example '78704'
address	string	-	No	Street address with ZIP code; the ZIP code is searched
searchRadius	integer	5	No	Kept for compatibility, not applied
priceMin	integer	-	No	Minimum listing price
priceMax	integer	-	No	Maximum listing price
bedsMin	integer	-	No	Minimum bedrooms
bathsMin	integer	-	No	Minimum bathrooms
propertyTypes	array	[]	No	house, condo, townhouse, multi_family, land
listingStatus	string	"for_sale"	No	for_sale, pending, recently_sold or for_rent
maxResultsPerPlatform	integer	50	No	Maximum listings from each platform
deduplicationStrategy	string	"keep_all_merged"	No	How to handle duplicate listings across platforms
webhookUrl	string	-	No	URL to POST results to when the run finishes

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Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event billing:

Event	When it is charged	Price
Actor start	Once when the run starts, one event per GB of memory (minimum one). At the default 1 GB of memory that is $0.10 per run	$0.10 per GB
Listing Aggregated	Per listing aggregated across platforms	$0.04
Result	Each item written to the default dataset	$0.00001

The source scraper runs are separate runs on your account and are billed by those actors (their run start plus their per-listing event). Status rows are never charged as listings.

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Troubleshooting

Only status rows came back

Every selected platform returned no listings. Read each status row's message. A blocked row means that site answered with its bot check; nothing was charged as a listing.

How do I test for free?

Run the actor with the default input (no location) or set demoMode to true. It returns labeled sample aggregated listings in the live output format. Every sample item carries demo: true and a _notice field, and sample runs charge no task events.

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Built by John Rippy | Actor Arsenal