Zillow Message Inbox API | Extract Rental & Buying Conversations

From Clearpath, creators of Zillow Bulk Search and Zillow Contact. Connect property research, outreach and conversation exports.

Why choose this actor?

• Keep the contact with the conversation. Export landlord phone numbers and agent contact details alongside your messages and property information, where Zillow provides them. Rental email addresses may be Zillow relay addresses.
• Export rental and buying inboxes together. Choose either inbox or both. Enable message history to collect more than the default conversation previews, including message text, senders and timestamps.
• See which rental inquiries need attention. Get unread and not-replied-to flags, inbox counts and application status where available. Bring that context into your CRM or follow-up workflow.

Export your first conversations

Use your own Zillow account credentials. This example selects both inboxes and enables message history.

{
  "mode": "both",
  "email": "you@example.com",
  "password": "YOUR_ZILLOW_PASSWORD",
  "fetchFullConversations": true
}

Open actor input to enter your credentials securely, or use your own session cookies. Export JSON to preserve nested messages and contacts. Check the Pricing tab for current charges.

The rental inbox returns up to 60 conversations; expanded buying threads include up to 250 messages each. Message-history mode takes longer and does not guarantee a complete account archive. The hero shows an example conversation.

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Pricing

$0.01 per exported conversation, flat across Apify plans. Platform usage is included.

A conversation counts once per inbox type within a run. Exporting it again in another run incurs another charge, even if there are no new messages. Optional message history is included in the conversation price. Failed conversation exports and test simulations incur no conversation charge.

Conversation-export charges	Price
10 conversations	$0.10
60 conversations	$0.60
1,000 conversations across exports	$10.00

This Actor exports snapshots. It does not track only new messages across runs. Frequent exports of the same inbox will repeatedly charge for the conversations returned.

Quick start

{
  "email": "you@example.com",
  "password": "your-password",
  "mode": "rental",
  "fetchFullConversations": false
}

Alternatively, supply cookies as a browser cookie string, JSON object or JSON array exported by a cookie extension. Cookies take priority when both methods are supplied. Use an account you are authorized to access.

Input	Description
email, password	Credentials for your Zillow account. Supply both unless using cookies.
cookies	Optional manual session cookies. Treat them as a password.
mode	rental, buying or both. Defaults to rental.
fetchFullConversations	Include available history for each conversation. Defaults to false for previews.

Saved sessions are separated by Apify user and Zillow email. Expired or rejected sessions may require a fresh login. Credentials remain sensitive Actor input; this Actor does not add them or message contents to its usage telemetry.

Output

The Actor preserves the nested output format: one dataset record with rental, buying, mode and scrapedAt. Each exported inbox contains a conversations array. Conversation and message fields returned by Zillow are preserved.

exportSummary reports the number of exported conversations, whether the budget limited the export, failed inboxes and failed history expansions. A failed inbox has an error field. Check this summary before treating an export as complete.

When message history is requested, conversations whose history cannot be fetched are omitted and not charged. Other successfully exported conversations remain available. Empty inboxes have no conversation charge.

Coverage and limits

Rental exports currently include up to the first 60 conversations returned by Zillow. Buying exports include the conversations returned by Zillow. Available buying history is limited to 250 messages per conversation. Rental histories that exceed the bounded export window are omitted; unusually large or slow histories can also be omitted. This is not a guaranteed complete archive of every historical conversation or message.

The Actor checks the budget before authentication and limits conversation selection before fetching history. A run may return fewer conversations when its budget is too small. There is no additional per-message or login event.

An interrupted export with uncertain storage or billing stops for review rather than automatically repeating the export. Check saved results before starting a new run.

Copy to your AI assistant

Use clearpath/zillow-message-inbox-api on Apify to export rental/buying conversation snapshots. Inputs: email+password or cookies, mode=rental|buying|both, fetchFullConversations=false by default. Output: one nested dataset record with rental/buying.conversations and exportSummary. Price: $0.01 per exported conversation; platform usage included. Re-exporting the same conversation in a new run is billable again. Optional available history is included; failed expansions are omitted and not charged. Rental list coverage currently up to 60 conversations; buying history up to 250 messages per conversation. Inspect partial/budget indicators; do not assume a complete archive or new-message-only synchronization.

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