🏠 Zillow Listings Scraper — Price, Beds/Baths, History & Contact

Live Zillow listings — for sale, for rent, or recently sold — in any US city or ZIP. Zillow retired its public API years ago, so this reads the same structured JSON Zillow's own site renders from (__NEXT_DATA__ / gdpClientCache), not scraped HTML text, via a stealth browser. Every field below was verified against live zillow.com data before this was built — nothing here is guessed.

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✅ What you get (search mode — fast, default)

One row per listing: price, status, beds, baths, sqft, full address + lat/long, home type, lot size, days on Zillow, tax-assessed value, price-reduction note, Zillow link.

📞 What you get with "Include contact/description detail" (slower, optional)

Per listing, an extra page load adds: full description text, complete price history (every sale/listing price change on record, not just current), MLS ID/name, listing status + last-updated timestamp, the listing's contact phone number, brokerage name, Zestimate/Rent Zestimate, price-per-sqft, HOA fee, parking details, last sold price/date.

Honest limits on the contact field: Zillow does not publish an individual agent's personal e-mail anywhere on the page — only a phone number, which is usually a brokerage call-routing line (sometimes the listing agent's own line). No email field exists in Zillow's own data, so none is fabricated here. The number is also format-validated and labeled, not passed through blindly:

• contact_phone — normalized (XXX) XXX-XXXX format
• contact_phone_valid_format — true only if it parses as a real 10-digit US number
• contact_phone_type — "toll_free_call_tracking" (800/888/877/866/855/844/833 prefix — this is Zillow's own Premier-Agent lead-routing line, NOT the listed agent's direct number, most of the time) vs "direct_or_local" (an actual area-code number, more likely to reach the agent/brokerage directly). Reported, never silently upgraded to "verified agent contact" — this codebase checks shape, not liveness (that needs an actual call, out of scope here).

Detail pages are bot-protected (PerimeterX) and get blocked on roughly half of individual attempts (verified live, repeatedly). The real cause: a fresh browser context alone resets cookies/fingerprint but NOT the egress IP, and PerimeterX's block is IP-reputation/rate driven — so a handful of listings in a batch could still fail even after 4 retries from the same machine IP (seen live: 8/10 on a real run). Fixed with three stacked layers, all tried per attempt: (1) a cheap crawler-UA + TLS-impersonation HTTP pre-check (no browser — the same "many sites serve a crawler a challenge-free SEO page" technique used in Aman's own cloudreveal research project, ported here rather than pulled in as a dependency to keep this actor's image small); (2) if that fails, a real browser routed through a brand-new Apify Proxy session (= a real new exit IP) every attempt; (3) attempts alternate between two independently-built stealth-browser stacks (Camoufox / CloakBrowser) — a block a site learns against one fingerprint doesn't sink every attempt, since the two projects implement their anti-detection patches completely separately. Randomized backoff between tries throughout, never a fixed metronome delay. An occasional listing can still come back without detail fields after all attempts — it's marked as such, never left silently blank-looking.

🌐 Optional: brokerage website + general contact lookup

Zillow's own listing data has never included an individual agent's name, profile link, or e-mail — verified live, repeatedly, across real listings (only contact_phone + brokerage_name ever appear). Turn on "Also look up brokerage website + general email" to add one extra, clearly-separate step: search for the listing's brokerage's own official website and read its published contact e-mail/phone off it — real, found data, never a guessed name.pattern@domain. This is the brokerage's general office contact, not the specific listing agent — output as brokerage_website / brokerage_general_email / brokerage_general_phone, labeled as such, cached per brokerage per run (most listings in one city share an office, so this is one extra lookup per unique brokerage, not per listing).

Honest limit: this depends on a live web search (DuckDuckGo), which — like every search engine — can itself challenge/CAPTCHA automated traffic independent of anything this actor does; confirmed live during development. It's opt-in and best-effort: when blocked, the three fields simply come back null rather than guessed. For reliable email enrichment instead, feed this actor's brokerage_name output into a dedicated company-name → email finder (e.g. Aman's own Lead Enricher Pro actor), which resolves contacts via GitHub/SPF/DKIM rather than search-engine scraping.

📋 Every output field

Always included (search mode):

Field	What it is
zpid	Zillow's unique property ID
status	Listing status text, e.g. "Active", "House for sale"
home_type	SINGLE_FAMILY, CONDO, TOWNHOUSE, MULTI_FAMILY, MANUFACTURED, LOT, APARTMENT
price	Current price, raw number (USD)
price_display	Formatted price, e.g. "$739,000"
price_reduction	Recent price drop note, e.g. "$9,000 (Sep 16)", or null
address	Full street address
street / city / state / zip	Address parts
latitude / longitude	Coordinates
beds / baths	Bedroom/bathroom count
living_area_sqft	Interior square footage
lot_size / lot_size_unit	Lot size + unit (acres or sqft)
days_on_zillow	Days the listing has been live
tax_assessed_value	Most recent county tax-assessed value (USD)
is_fsba	true if "for sale by agent" listing sub-type
is_showcase	true if a Zillow Showcase (premium) listing
image_url	Main listing photo
detail_url	Link to the listing's own Zillow page

With includeDetails: true (adds these):

Field	What it is
description	Full listing description text
mls_id / mls_name	MLS record ID and the MLS board name
listing_status	MLS-sourced status (e.g. "Active")
listing_last_updated	When the MLS record was last updated
contact_phone	Normalized (XXX) XXX-XXXX contact number (see honest limits above)
contact_phone_valid_format	true only if it parses as a real 10-digit US number
contact_phone_type	"toll_free_call_tracking" or "direct_or_local"
brokerage_name	Listing brokerage's name
zestimate / rent_zestimate	Zillow's own value/rent estimate, where published
price_per_sqft	Price ÷ living area
hoa_fee_total	HOA fee as published, e.g. "$300 monthly"
parking_features	List of parking features, e.g. ["Attached", "Garage"]
has_garage	true/false
price_history	Full list of {date, price} — every recorded price change, going back to the property's earliest Zillow record
last_sold_price / date_sold	Most recent recorded sale, where available
mortgage_monthly_hoa	Monthly HOA used in Zillow's mortgage calculator

With includeBrokerageContact: true (adds these, needs includeDetails):

Field	What it is
brokerage_website	The brokerage's own official site, found via live search
brokerage_general_email	General contact e-mail found on that site (null if none published or lookup blocked)
brokerage_general_phone	General contact phone found on that site (null if none published or lookup blocked)

🔧 Input

Field	What it does
location	City/state or ZIP, e.g. austin-tx, 78704, miami-fl
listingType	for_sale, for_rent, or recently_sold
minPrice / maxPrice	Price range filter
minBeds / minBaths	Minimum bed/bath count
homeTypes	Restrict to specific home types
includeDetails	Fetch description/price-history/contact per listing (slower)
includeBrokerageContact	Also look up brokerage website + general email (needs includeDetails)
maxResults	How many listings to pull
maxPages	Safety cap on search pages (~40 listings/page before filtering)

Example input

{ "location": "austin-tx", "listingType": "for_sale", "minPrice": 300000, "maxPrice": 800000, "maxResults": 100 }

💡 Use cases

• Investors / wholesalers — scan a market by price band, home type, days on market
• Agents — competitive-listing research, price-history due diligence
• Lead generation — brokerage contact numbers attached to active listings
• Market analysts — price trends, days-on-market distributions by city

🤖 Use via MCP / AI agents

This actor works out of the box with Apify's official actors-mcp-server — connect your AI agent to Apify's MCP gateway and call this actor as a tool, no extra setup needed on this actor's side.

💰 Cost

Pay-per-result, no subscription. Tip: leave includeDetails/includeBrokerageContact off for a fast first pass across a market, then turn them on only for your shortlist.

🔌 Integrations

• Zapier / Make / n8n — alert an investor the moment a new listing matches their search.
• API / MCP — call this Actor directly via the Apify API, or through Apify's official actors-mcp-server for AI agents.

👤 About the developer

Built and maintained by an indie developer running a suite of real-estate and public-records Actors (HUDHawk foreclosures, DXBHawk UAE listings). Need another field or market added? Reach out — custom builds are welcome.

⚖️ Legal

Reads the same publicly-viewable listing data Zillow serves to any visitor's browser — no login, no paywall bypass. Use responsibly and don't use contact numbers for unlawful solicitation (TCPA/do-not-call rules apply to phone outreach same as anywhere else).