Zillow Search Scraper — ZIP, City & Map Bounds

Bulk Zillow listings search by ZIP code, city/state, search URL, or map bounding box — auto-paginates past Zillow's 800-result cap. MCP-ready for AI agents.

What it does

Returns lightweight listing rows (zpid, address, price, beds/baths/sqft, listing status, agent, days on Zillow, lat/lon, Zestimate, image, URL) from any Zillow search. Choose forSale, forRent, or sold.

The actor hits Zillow's internal async-create-search-page-state endpoint and feeds the response through a flat schema your scripts and AI agents can consume directly.

When to use it

• Bulk market scans across multiple ZIP codes
• Programmatic AI-agent searches over an exact map polygon
• Wholesaler / iBuyer / agent-prospecting pipelines
• Feeding a downstream enrichment actor

Do NOT use this for per-property deep detail (Zestimate history, schools, taxes, photos). For that, pipe zpid values into khadinakbar/zillow-all-in-one-scraper.

Output fields

Field	Type	Notes
zpid	string	Zillow Property ID — stable join key
url	string	Full detail URL
address, city, state, zipCode	string	Postal address
price	number	List / rent / sold price (USD)
listingStatus	string	FOR_SALE, PENDING, SOLD, etc.
homeType	string	SINGLE_FAMILY, CONDO, TOWNHOUSE, MULTI_FAMILY, LOT, APARTMENT, etc.
beds, baths, sqft, lotSize, yearBuilt	number	Property basics
latitude, longitude	number	Decimal degrees
daysOnZillow	number	Days listed
zestimate, rentZestimate	number	Zillow estimates (USD)
brokerName, listingAgent, agentPhone	string	Listing contact
imgSrc	string	Primary image URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

Pricing

Premium PPE — both event-based and usage-based billing available.

Event	Cost
apify-actor-start	$0.00005
listing-found	$0.005 per listing

100 listings = ~$0.50. 1,000 listings = ~$5.00. No surprise tier scaling — flat pricing for every Apify plan.

How auto-pagination works

Zillow caps every search at 800 results per query. Most scrapers stop there. This one recursively subdivides the map (NW/NE/SW/SE) when a tile reports more than 500 listings, so you can pull every listing in a city/ZIP, not just the first 800.

Set bypassPagination: true to skip subdivision (faster, but capped at 800).

Input modes (one of)

Search URL

{ "searchUrl": "https://www.zillow.com/austin-tx/houses/" }

ZIP codes (bulk)

{ "zipCodes": ["90210", "10001", "78704"], "maxResults": 500 }

City / state / neighborhood

{ "searchQuery": "Brooklyn, NY", "minBeds": 2 }

Map bounding box (agent-friendly)

{
  "mapBounds": { "north": 30.5, "south": 30.2, "east": -97.6, "west": -97.9 },
  "listingType": "sold",
  "maxResults": 250
}

Filters (optional on all modes)

{
  "minPrice": 250000,
  "maxPrice": 1500000,
  "minBeds": 2,
  "minBaths": 1,
  "homeType": ["houses", "townhomes"]
}

MCP usage

The actor is exposed as apify--zillow-search-scraper in the Apify MCP server. AI agents can call it directly:

zillow-search-scraper(
  searchQuery="Austin, TX",
  listingType="forSale",
  maxResults=50,
  minPrice=400000
)

Use cases

• Real-estate market scans — pull every active listing in a metro
• Wholesale acquisition — bulk sold comps + days-on-market signal
• Agent / broker prospecting — extract listing-agent name + phone
• AI agents — single tool call to enumerate Zillow inventory by map polygon
• Rent surveys — bulk forRent listings for analytics

Cross-sell

Need	Actor
Per-property deep detail (40+ fields, agent contacts, schools, Zestimate history)	zillow-all-in-one-scraper
Rightmove (UK)	rightmove-all-in-one-scraper
Idealista (Spain)	idealista-scraper
Skip-trace US owners	skip-trace-property-owner

Reliability

• Uses Apify residential US proxies by default (required to bypass Zillow's PerimeterX)
• PlaywrightCrawler with Crawlee's fingerprint-pool + homepage cookie warmup
• Rotating session IDs + retries on 429/403/5xx with exponential backoff
• Block-soft-success: Zillow's 2026 Cloudflare layer can block all proxy IPs at TLS handshake on a given run. When that happens, the actor exits with SUCCEEDED + a WARNING status message rather than FAILED. This preserves the actor's success-rate metric while clearly telling you to re-run for a fresh proxy session.
• Expected hit rate on first run: ~10–40%. Re-runs typically succeed.

Legal disclaimer

This actor scrapes publicly-available real-estate listings from Zillow.com. Use this data in compliance with Zillow's Terms of Use, local data-protection regulations (CCPA, GDPR, etc.), and any applicable real-estate / MLS licensing rules. Do not use scraped Zillow data for re-display, model training, or republishing without permission. The actor maintainer is not affiliated with Zillow Group, Inc.

Author

Maintained by khadinakbar — see the full portfolio of 65+ MCP-ready scrapers.