# Houzz Professionals Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🔨🏡 (`delectable_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape home improvement professional listings 🔨🏡 with a powerful contractor directory scraper. Extract business names, ratings, contact details, specialties, badges, locations, and profile URLs. Ideal for lead generation, contractor research, market analysis and home services intelligence 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

<p align="center">
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="Houzz Professionals Scraper" width="100%">
</p>

---

## 🏗️🔨 Houzz Professionals Scraper 🌍 | Bulk Houzz Contractors & Designers Scraper | Apify Actor

### 🚀 Extract Houzz Professional Listings in Seconds (No Code)

The **Houzz Professionals Scraper (Apify Actor)** is a powerful, scalable and SEO-optimized lead generation tool designed to extract professional listings from Houzz at scale.

Scrape contractors, interior designers, architects, remodelers, landscapers, builders, carpenters, kitchen designers, bathroom specialists and other home improvement professionals directly from Houzz search pages.

Perfect for **lead generation, market research, competitor analysis, recruitment, sales prospecting, AI datasets, contractor intelligence and business development.**

---

### 🔥 Why This Houzz Scraper?

✔ Best Houzz Professionals Scraper on Apify

✔ Supports **Bulk URL Scraping (Multi-Search Mode)**

✔ Fast & scalable professional data extraction

✔ No proxy required

✔ Extract ratings, reviews, phone numbers & credentials

✔ 100% structured JSON / CSV / Excel output

✔ Perfect for agencies, contractors, recruiters & data analysts

✔ No coding required

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does (Houzz Professional Data Extraction)

This Apify Actor extracts professional listings directly from Houzz search result pages.

#### 📌 Core Features

✅ Scrape Houzz professional listings

✅ Bulk URL scraping (SEO BOOST 🚀)

✅ Scrape contractors, architects, designers & builders

✅ Extract ratings and review counts

✅ Extract phone numbers when available

✅ Extract city and state information

✅ Extract professional badges and achievements

✅ Extract verified license status

✅ Extract financing and online payment options

✅ Extract profile URLs

✅ Automatic pagination handling

✅ Clean structured dataset output

✅ High-speed extraction engine

---

### ⚡ Input Configuration (Simple & Powerful)

#### 🔥 BULK URL MODE (SEO BOOST 🚀)

````

{
"startUrls": \[
"https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t\_11831",
"https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architect",
"https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer",
"https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractor",
"https://www.houzz.com/professionals/landscape-contractor"
],
"maxitems": 500
}

```

---

### 📊 Extracted Professional Data (Structured Output)

| Field              | Description                    |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------ |
| professionalId     | Unique professional identifier |
| name               | Professional or company name   |
| rating             | Average Houzz rating           |
| reviewCount        | Total number of reviews        |
| phone              | Contact phone number           |
| city               | City                           |
| state              | State or region                |
| badges             | Awards and achievements        |
| hasVerifiedLicense | Verified license status        |
| offersFinancing    | Financing available            |
| payOnline          | Online payment supported       |
| profileUrl         | Professional profile URL       |

---

### 💡 Use Cases (High Demand SEO Keywords)

This Houzz scraper is commonly used for:

🏗️ Contractor lead generation

🏠 Home improvement market research

🎯 Interior designer prospecting

📊 Construction industry analysis

📈 Competitor intelligence

🏢 B2B sales outreach

📞 Contractor contact databases

🤖 AI training datasets

🌎 Local business intelligence

⚡ Bulk professional data extraction

---

### 🚀 Key Features (Apify SEO Optimized)

⚡ Bulk URL scraping support

🌍 Worldwide Houzz coverage

📌 Smart pagination system

🧠 Clean structured output

📊 High-speed scraping engine

🔁 Auto retry & stability system

💾 Export-ready datasets

⚙️ Scalable cloud execution

🚀 Enterprise-ready architecture

---

### 📤 Output Formats Supported

✔ JSON (API Ready)

✔ CSV (Excel Compatible)

✔ Excel XLSX

✔ XML

✔ HTML

---

### 📦 Example Output

```

{
"professionalId": "hz-12345",
"name": "John Doe Carpentry",
"rating": 4.9,
"reviewCount": 112,
"phone": "+1 555-1234",
"city": "Los Angeles",
"state": "CA",
"badges": \[
"Best of Houzz 2025",
"Top Pro"
],
"hasVerifiedLicense": true,
"offersFinancing": false,
"payOnline": true,
"profileUrl": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/john-doe-carpentry"
}

````

---

### 🔥 Why This is the BEST Houzz Professionals Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify marketplace ranking

✔ High-performance scraping engine

✔ Bulk URL support (rare feature)

✔ Professional lead generation ready

✔ Clean structured datasets

✔ Enterprise-grade scalability

✔ Worldwide professional coverage

✔ Perfect for SEO traffic & marketplace visibility

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** $0.98 / 1,000 results

---

### ❓ FAQ (SEO BOOST SECTION)

#### Can I scrape multiple Houzz URLs at once?

Yes — Bulk URL Mode is fully supported.

#### Can I scrape contractors and designers?

Yes — any Houzz professional category is supported.

#### Do I need proxies?

No — proxies are not required.

#### Is coding required?

No — this is a 100% no-code Apify Actor.

#### Can I export the data?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML formats are supported.

#### Can I scrape professionals from different countries?

Yes — worldwide Houzz professional listings are supported.

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is not affiliated with Houzz.

It is an independent data extraction solution built for publicly accessible information.

---

### 🔗 Related Actors (PrimeScrape Ecosystem)

We are building a complete **PrimeScrape Lead Generation & Business Intelligence Suite**.

👉 More professional, company, real estate, jobs and local business scrapers coming soon 🚀

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for large-scale:

📊 Lead generation

🏢 Company intelligence

🏠 Real estate intelligence

📈 Market research

🤖 AI training datasets

⚙️ Automation pipelines

🌎 Business intelligence

🚀 Growth hacking & prospecting

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review if you like this scraper.

📩 Need a custom scraper, enterprise solution or additional features?

Contact us directly through Apify.

# Actor input Schema

## `target_urls` (type: `array`):

One or more Houzz professionals search URLs to scrape.

Examples:
• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831
• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/probr0-bo~t_11783
• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architect/probr0-bo~t_11801
## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Max listings to scrape per URL (total across all URLs may be higher)
## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Use RESIDENTIAL to bypass Akamai/Cloudflare.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "target_urls": [
    "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Complete overview of all scraped professional listings

## `byLocation` (type: `string`):

Professionals grouped by location (city and state)

## `topRated` (type: `string`):

Highest-rated professionals with most reviews

## `verified` (type: `string`):

Professionals with verified licenses and payment options

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "target_urls": [
        "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831"
    ],
    "maxitems": 50,
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "target_urls": ["https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831"],
    "maxitems": 50,
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "target_urls": [
    "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Houzz Professionals Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🔨🏡",
        "description": "Scrape home improvement professional listings 🔨🏡 with a powerful contractor directory scraper. Extract business names, ratings, contact details, specialties, badges, locations, and profile URLs. Ideal for lead generation, contractor research, market analysis and home services intelligence 📊🚀",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "eyadGNInJHwdPkdnj"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-houzz-professionals-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "target_urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "target_urls": {
                        "title": "Target URLs 🔗",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "One or more Houzz professionals search URLs to scrape.\n\nExamples:\n• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831\n• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/probr0-bo~t_11783\n• https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architect/probr0-bo~t_11801",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/carpenter/probr0-bo~t_11831"
                        ]
                    },
                    "maxitems": {
                        "title": "Maximum professionals per URL 🔢",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Max listings to scrape per URL (total across all URLs may be higher)",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "proxy": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Proxy settings. Use RESIDENTIAL to bypass Akamai/Cloudflare.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true,
                            "apifyProxyGroups": [
                                "RESIDENTIAL"
                            ],
                            "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```