Houzz Pro Scraper — Contractor, Designer & Architect Leads (with Emails) 🏠

Turn the Houzz professional directory into a clean, structured B2B lead list: general contractors, architects, interior designers, kitchen & bath remodelers, home builders, landscape architects and more — with names, phones, addresses, ratings, reviews, “Best of Houzz” badges, services, social links, and email addresses.

What makes this scraper different: Houzz hides email addresses behind its internal messenger, so other Houzz scrapers can’t give you emails. This Actor visits each pro’s own website and extracts verified contact emails — the single most valuable field for outreach. No other Houzz scraper on the market does this.

Highlights

• 📧 Verified emails — the only Houzz scraper that has them. We crawl each pro’s own website (Houzz hides emails behind its messenger).
• 🏙️ Search by plain city — just type “Austin, TX”. No cryptic Houzz URLs.
• 🧰 10 categories — general contractors, architects, interior designers, kitchen & bath, home builders, remodelers, landscape architects, closet designers and more.
• ⭐ Rich profiles — rating, review count, Best-of-Houzz badges, services, hire count, address, GPS, social links, description.
• 🔌 Pipeline-ready — stable null-safe schema, ISO dates, one-call API, n8n/Make webhook, CSV/JSON/Excel export.
• 💸 Fair pricing — $3/1k for directory data (same as others), pay the email premium only when an email is actually found.

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Table of contents

• Quick start
• Two modes
• Input reference
• Output: what you get
• Full output example
• Field reference
• Run it with the API
• Use it with n8n / Make
• Pricing
• Tips, limits & FAQ

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Quick start

1. Open the Actor and leave What do you want to scrape? on “Search a city”.
2. Pick a Category (e.g. General Contractors).
3. Type a City — e.g. Austin, TX.
4. Set How many results (e.g. 50) and click Start.

You’ll get a table of pros with name, phone, address, coordinates, website, and social links. Want full detail (reviews, badges, hire count, emails)? Copy the url values from your search and run Full profiles mode on them.

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Two modes

	Search a city (mode: search)	Full profiles (mode: pro)
Input	Category + City	List of pro profile URLs (proUrls)
Proxy	None needed	Residential, US (default — datacenter IPs are blocked)
Speed	Very fast	Fast
Returns	Identity, phone, address, coords, website, socials	Everything: rating, review count, reviews, badges, services, hire count, description, emails, socials
Best for	Building a lead list for a city	Enriching/qualifying specific pros

* In search mode some fields (rating, reviews, badges) are only on the full profile; run Full profiles mode on the URLs you collect to fill them in.

Recommended workflow: Search a city → take the url column → run Full profiles on those URLs with Find email addresses on. You now have a complete, email-enriched lead list.

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Input reference

Field	Key	Applies to	Description
What do you want to scrape?	mode	both	search (default) or pro.
Category	proCategory	search	Dropdown — General Contractors, Architects, Interior Designers, Kitchen & Bath Remodelers, Kitchen Remodelers, Home Remodelers, Home Builders, Design-Build Firms, Landscape Architects, Closet Designers.
City	location	search	Plain text: Austin, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY. Leave blank for nationwide (US).
How many results	maxResults	both	1–1000. Default 50.
Profile URLs	proUrls	pro	Houzz profile URLs (contain pfvwus), e.g. https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/chapter-pfvwus-pf~666806768.
Include reviews	includeReviews	pro	Default true.
Only reviews after	reviewsSince	pro	ISO date, e.g. 2026-01-01, for incremental runs.
Find email addresses	enrichEmail	both	Default true. Crawls each pro’s website for emails.
Webhook URL	webhookUrl	both	POST results to n8n/Make/any endpoint when the run finishes.
Advanced: direct URLs	searchUrls	search	Paste any Houzz listing URL to scrape as-is (overrides Category + City).
Proxy	proxyConfiguration	both	Residential US by default (required for pro).

Example input — Search a city

{
  "mode": "search",
  "proCategory": "general-contractor",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "enrichEmail": true
}

Example input — Full profiles

{
  "mode": "pro",
  "proUrls": [
    "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/chapter-pfvwus-pf~666806768",
    "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/design-build-firms/knockout-renovation-pfvwus-pf~1636076815"
  ],
  "includeReviews": true,
  "enrichEmail": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "countryCode": "US" }
}

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Output: what you get

One JSON object per professional. Every field is always present — when Houzz doesn’t provide a value you get null (or []), so your n8n/Zapier/spreadsheet mappings never break. Dates are emitted in ISO‑8601 UTC.

A trimmed example record:

{
  "name": "Chapter",
  "phone": "(212) 680-4628",
  "email": "itstime@hellochapter.com",
  "website": "https://www.hellochapter.com",
  "address": "345 7th Ave 9th floor, New York, NY, 10001, United States",
  "coordinates": { "lat": 40.7484, "lng": -73.9967 },
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewsCount": 26,
  "badges": ["Best of Houzz 2023", "Best of Houzz 2022", "Recommended on Houzz"],
  "services": ["Bathroom Remodeling", "General Contracting", "Home Additions"],
  "hireCount": 61,
  "socialLinks": { "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/hellochapter", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/chapter.renovations/" },
  "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/chapter-pfvwus-pf~666806768"
}

A complete record (all fields) is in docs/example-output-pro.json; a search-mode record is in docs/example-output-search.json.

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Full output example

See docs/example-output-pro.json for a real, complete pro-mode record including the full addressComponents, areaServed, reviews, badges, coverImage and description.

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Field reference

Field	Type	Notes
proId	string	Houzz professional ID (the pf~ number).
slug	string	URL slug.
name / businessName	string	Business name.
url	string	Canonical Houzz profile URL.
sourceUrl	string	The page actually scraped.
category / categories	string / array	Category (pro mode may be null; search sets it).
phone	string	Primary phone.
email	string	Best email (prefers role addresses: info@, contact@…). null if none found.
emails	array	All verified emails found on the pro’s website.
website	string	The pro’s own website.
socialLinks	object	facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin, youtube, pinterest, tiktok (each null if absent).
address	string	Formatted single-line address.
addressComponents	object	streetLine1, city, state, postalCode, country, countryCode.
coordinates	object	{ lat, lng }.
areaServed	array	Cities/areas the pro serves.
rating	number	Average rating (e.g. 4.8).
reviewsCount	number	Total reviews on Houzz.
ratingDistribution	object	{1..5} star counts (often null — lazy-loaded by Houzz).
badges	array	Awards, e.g. Best of Houzz 2024, Recommended on Houzz.
yearsInBusiness	number	null when not published.
hireCount	number	Completed projects on Houzz.
verifiedLicense	boolean	null when not published.
services	array	Service/specialty list.
projects	array	Portfolio items (when available).
reviews	array	{ rating, comment, author, date, dateFormatted, reply }. See review-coverage note below.
coverImage / galleryImages	object / array	Image URLs.
description	string	Business “about” text.
extractionPath	string	ld+json+hz-ctx (full), ld+json, hz-ctx, or dom.
partial	boolean	true if only partial data was available.
scraperVersion	string	Scraper version.
scrapedAt	string	ISO‑8601 UTC timestamp.
city / state	string	Flattened from addressComponents for easy CSV/leads view.

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Run it with the API

Replace <YOUR_TOKEN> with your Apify API token. The Actor ID is malikgen~houzz-pro-scraper.

Run and get results in one call (synchronous — best for small/medium runs):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/malikgen~houzz-pro-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "mode": "search",
    "proCategory": "general-contractor",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "enrichEmail": true
  }'

The response body is the JSON array of records — ready to use.

Start a run asynchronously, then fetch the dataset later:

# 1) start
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/malikgen~houzz-pro-scraper/runs?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "mode": "search", "proCategory": "architect", "location": "Miami, FL", "maxResults": 100 }'
# -> note the "defaultDatasetId" in the response

# 2) fetch results (JSON; add &format=csv for CSV, &format=xlsx for Excel)
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>"

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Use it with n8n / Make

Option A — Apify node (recommended). In n8n add the Apify node → Run Actor → Actor malikgen/houzz-pro-scraper → paste the JSON input → connect Get Dataset Items to receive each record as an item.

Option B — HTTP Request node. POST to the run-sync-get-dataset-items URL above; the node receives the records array directly. Works great in Make.com too (HTTP module).

Option C — Push to your own webhook. Set webhookUrl in the input to your n8n Webhook node URL. When the run finishes, the Actor POSTs { mode, recordCount, records, scraperVersion } to it — fully hands-off pipelines.

{
  "mode": "search",
  "proCategory": "kitchen-and-bath-remodelers",
  "location": "Chicago, IL",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "enrichEmail": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://your-n8n.example.com/webhook/houzz-leads"
}

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Pricing

Pay only for what you use — value-tiered:

Charge	Price (Bronze)	When
Base record	$3 / 1,000 ($0.003)	every professional returned
Email enrichment	+$7 / 1,000 ($0.007)	only when a verified email is found

• Directory data (name, phone, address, rating, reviews, badges, services, socials): ~$3/1k — same as other Houzz scrapers, with richer data and no per-run fee.
• A full, outreach-ready lead with a verified email: ~$10/1k (≈$7/1k on Gold+ tiers).

You never pay the email premium unless we actually deliver an email — and emails are something no other Houzz scraper provides. A home-services lead bought elsewhere commonly costs $50–$500 each; here a complete, email-enriched lead is about one cent.

Turn email enrichment off (enrichEmail: false) to pay base price only.

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Tips, limits & FAQ

• Get emails: keep Find email addresses on and use Full profiles mode (search-mode listings often don’t expose a website). Emails come from the pro’s own site, so a pro with no website returns email: null.
• Review coverage: Houzz loads its full review list lazily (via a background request), so each record currently includes the rating, total review count, and the featured review. Full review history is on the roadmap.
• City not found? Use City, ST (e.g. Austin, TX). Bare city names usually work; a known suburb works as its own city (e.g. Santa Monica, CA). For anything unusual, paste a Houzz listing URL into Advanced: direct URLs.
• Why residential proxy for Full profiles? Houzz returns HTTP 500 to datacenter IPs on profile pages. The Actor defaults the proxy to Residential US so it just works.
• Stable schema: every field is always present (null/[] when empty) so downstream automations never break when a value is missing.
• Compliance: scrapes only publicly available business listing information for legitimate B2B lead-generation and market research.

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Changelog

• 0.0.1 — Initial release. Search-by-city + full-profile modes, email enrichment, badges, services, reviews (rating + featured), residential proxy for profiles, n8n webhook, null-safe schema.