Zillow Search Scraper — Listings and Details

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Zillow scraper for US homes for sale, for rent, and sold. Each row is one listing: price, beds, baths, sqft, days on market, and brokerage from the search card, plus description, year built, Zestimate, price history, and the public listing contact from the listing page. Use it as a Zillow API alternative from Python, Node.js, cURL, or Apify MCP.

Best for: city or ZIP pulls, CMA worksheets, and a scheduled monitor that emits only new zpids.

Actor	Role
Zillow Search Scraper ◄── you are here	US for-sale, rent, and sold search plus listing details
Realtor.com Scraper	US sold comps, ZIP, and monitor on Realtor.com
LoopNet Scraper	US commercial sale and lease
Furnished Finder Scraper	US mid-term rentals

When to use this Actor

• City or ZIP search — Austin, TX or 78717, for sale, for rent, or sold.
• A saved search URL — Paste a results URL. Page numbers are applied on top of that path.
• One listing — Paste a listing URL (/homedetails/) to fetch that property.
• Scheduled monitoring — Re-run the same search and save only zpids that were not stored last time.
• Comps with history — Keep Fetch listing details on to add Zestimate, year built, and price history on the same row.

When not to use this Actor

• Agent directories or skip tracing — This Actor reads the public listing page. It does not open agent profiles or enrich emails.
• Commercial listings — Use LoopNet for sale and lease inventory.
• A second US portal — For sold comps on Realtor.com, run that Actor next.

Key features

• HTTP pages — Search cards and listing details come from the public HTML. No browser. Default memory is 256 MB.
• Search plus details — One dataset row per home. Price history stays on that row.
• For sale, rent, and sold — Set the status, or paste a results URL that already has filters.
• Monitor mode — A named key-value store remembers zpids per search. A quiet tick writes zero rows.
• Residential US proxy — Datacenter IPs are denied. The default proxy is Apify residential in the US. No extra homepage request.

Input

Field	What it does
Location	City and state, or a ZIP. Ignored when Start URLs is set.
Listing status	for_sale (default), for_rent, or sold.
Start URLs	Search results or one listing URL.
Fetch listing details	On by default. Adds description, Zestimate, price history, year built, and the public listing phone when the page shows one.
Max listings	Cap across all searches. One results page is about 41 cards.
Monitor mode	Save only new zpids for this search.
Proxy	Apify residential in the US. Required on the platform.

{
  "location": "78717",
  "listingStatus": "for_sale",
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 25,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Output

One dataset row per listing.

Field	Meaning
zpid / url	Property id and public listing URL
address, city, state, zip	Address from the search card
price / status	List price or rent, and FOR_SALE, FOR_RENT, or SOLD
beds, baths, sqft	Size
daysOnZillow	Days on market from the search card
zestimate, rentZestimate	Estimates when the listing page includes them
yearBuilt, description, priceHistory	Listing-page fields
brokerName, listingPhone, mlsId	Brokerage, public listing phone, and MLS id when shown
latitude, longitude, image	Map point and primary photo
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp

{
  "zpid": "52830624",
  "url": "https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15120-Thatcher-Dr-Austin-TX-78717/52830624_zpid/",
  "address": "15120 Thatcher Dr, Austin, TX",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "78717",
  "price": 565000,
  "status": "FOR_SALE",
  "beds": 3,
  "baths": 2,
  "sqft": 2537,
  "yearBuilt": 2000,
  "zestimate": 570000,
  "brokerName": "LPT Realty, LLC",
  "daysOnZillow": 5
}

Use cases

• Pull for-sale homes in a ZIP and compare price, sqft, and days on market.
• Schedule a morning monitor and export only new zpids.
• Attach price history and year built for a CMA worksheet.
• For the same ZIP on another US portal, continue with Realtor.com Scraper.

Integration examples

Replace APIFY_TOKEN. The slug below is the Store name.

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor("crawloop/zillow-search-scraper").call({
  location: "78717",
  listingStatus: "for_sale",
  fetchDetails: true,
  maxItems: 25,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("crawloop/zillow-search-scraper").call(run_input={
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "listingStatus": "sold",
    "fetchDetails": True,
    "maxItems": 25,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(len(items))

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~zillow-search-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"location":"78717","listingStatus":"for_sale","fetchDetails":true,"maxItems":10}'

MCP and AI assistants

Use this Actor from AI tools via Apify MCP. Connect your Apify account, then call this Actor by its Store name crawloop/zillow-search-scraper.

Example prompts:

• "Run Zillow Search Scraper for ZIP 78717 for-sale listings and return the top 20 rows as JSON"
• "Scrape Zillow sold listings in Austin, TX and summarize price, sqft, and days on market"
• "Run Zillow Search Scraper for 78717, then run Realtor.com Scraper for sold comps in the same ZIP"

Suite next step

This Actor covers Zillow search and listing details. For sold comps on the other national portal, run Realtor.com Scraper. For commercial sale and lease, run LoopNet Scraper.

FAQ

Does each row include the listing page? Yes, when Fetch listing details is on (the default). Description, year built, Zestimate, and price history are added to the same row. Turn it off to keep search cards only.

Is a proxy required? Yes on Apify. Datacenter IPs are denied. The default is residential in the US. The Actor does not open an extra homepage request.

What does monitor mode skip? Zpids already stored for that same search. A different city, status, or URL is a new cursor. A run with no new ids writes zero rows.

Which locations work? A city and state such as Austin, TX, or a ZIP such as 78717. A pasted results URL keeps the filters already in that address.