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Zillow Detail Scraper

Zillow Detail Scraper

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Maximillian Copelli

Maximillian Copelli

Maintained by Apify

Get details of Zillow properties from URLs. This Actor can be easily integrated with other Zillow Scrapers.

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Total users

1.9K

Monthly users

384

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2 days ago

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"Request was blocked" error?

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kyangrig opened this issue
13 days ago

Recently I have noticed all my attempts have been returning no information, instead with a "Request was blocked". Is anyone having the same issue?

NO

novalandventures

12 days ago

same issue here. whats going on? does it have anything to do with the new build? would love your help.

LE

leocardinale

11 days ago

Same issue here, I have been trying to use this actor for a couple of days and always gets this same error. It returns "error": "No valid items to scrape found, or all requests failed.", and the logs always shows these messages:

WARN HttpCrawler: Reclaiming failed request back to the list or queue. Request was blocked, no JSON data received. Retrying...

I have been sending the request using Postman, my IP is from Madrid.

Please can you advise what I could do to improve the chances of getting a successfull response?

lukas.prusa avatar

Hi all, thanks for joining this issue!

We've been having problems with this for the past few days. We are getting completely blocked at different times a day for a few hours each time. This is some new blocking attempt by Zillow, probably.

We are keeping an eye on this and are working on fixing this, but since it only happens for a few hours a day, it's really hard to debug and fix.

I will keep you updated here, thanks!

lukas.prusa avatar

Just FYI, there was another outage from 8 PM to 12 PM UTC this night. Unfortunately, we didn't have anyone online at that time.

SC

scottdiaz123

9 days ago

Thanks Lukas, I will try again today to see if the issue persists or do you prefer we wait for your feedback?

lukas.prusa avatar

The issue is still there, but as mentioned, it only happens like once a day for a few hours usually. It's still not fixed, because of the timing… There hasn't been any outage since my last report at least :)

SC

scottdiaz123

9 days ago

Thanks, I did experience a failure this morning but i used an old search URL. I created a fresh one and it seems to be running smoothly again for now

LE

leocardinale

9 days ago

I have not yet been able to have a single successful execution. Maybe I am doing something wrong... But since yesterday I have been going to the API Endpoints > Scroll down to "Run Actor synchronously and get dataset items" > And Testing this endpoint: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/maxcopell~zillow-detail-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=***

And the output is always the same: { "error": { "type": "run-failed", "message": "Actor run did not succeed (run ID: PDhHKF2YiHZFjMGyy, status: FAILED)." } } What could I check to be sure that I'm not doing something wrong on my side?

Thanks to everyone!

lukas.prusa avatar

There was another outage yesterday from 6:30 PM to 12 PM UTC. Our working hours are mostly in range from 6 AM to 5 PM UTC, so it's hard to work on this.

@Leonardo you are missing any start URLs in input, that's why it's failing:

{
"startUrls": [],
"addresses": [],
"propertyStatus": "RECENTLY_SOLD",
"extractBuildingUnits": "disabled",
"searchResultsDatasetId": ""
}
lukas.prusa avatar

Hi again, I'm happy to inform you that we've fixed this issue :) The blocking should now be resolved.

Let me know how it works now. Thanks and happy scraping!