Houzz Home Pro Directory & Reviews Scraper

Extract public Houzz home-professional directory listings, ratings, review counts, visible badges, and profile URLs for prospecting and home-improvement research.

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan users receive at most 5 professional records per run. Paid-plan runs may use the configured result limit.

What it extracts

Field	Description
name, profileUrl	Professional or firm name and public Houzz profile URL
rating, reviewCount	Visible Houzz rating and review-count signals
description, location	Visible directory-card description and location when available
serviceCategories, badges	Visible service categories and badges, such as Verified License
imageUrl, featuredReview	Listing image and a profile-page featured-review excerpt when present

The Actor produces one stable professional record per directory listing. It does not bypass authentication, contact professionals, or claim to retrieve hidden or private reviews.

Inputs

Provide an exact public Houzz directory URL for the most reliable location and filter selection:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractor/probr0-bo~t_11786" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "useProxy": true
}

For a broad category lookup, select one supported professional type:

{
  "professionalType": "general-contractor",
  "maxResults": 10
}

Supported types include general contractors, interior designers, architects, kitchen and bathroom designers, design-build firms, home builders, landscape architects, and landscape contractors. startUrls overrides professionalType. For a city, region, or advanced Houzz filter, copy the exact resulting directory URL into startUrls. Use a direct profile URL for one professional; the Actor may return a visible featured-review excerpt from that page.

Run through the Apify API:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/muhammadafzal~houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper/runs' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"professionalType":"interior-designer","maxResults":10}'

Output example

{
  "recordType": "professional",
  "name": "Goldenline Remodeling",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/example-pfvwus-pf~123",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewCount": 72,
  "serviceCategories": ["General Contractors", "Home Remodeling"],
  "badges": ["Verified License"],
  "sourcePage": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractor/probr0-bo~t_11786"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.005	Home professional record — One schema-valid Houzz home professional directory record written to the default dataset.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

Reliability and limits

The Actor uses direct HTML extraction first and follows Houzz's visible next-page link. It maintains cookies, headers, and proxy identity within bounded sessions, uses low concurrency, validates every record, and stops cleanly at the result or charge limit. If Houzz returns an access challenge, the run reports BLOCKED in OUTPUT without fabricating records or charging result events. Keep Apify Proxy enabled and select a country consistent with the directory when Houzz challenges the default network.

Responsible use

Use only public pages and comply with Houzz terms, robots guidance, applicable law, and reasonable request rates. You are responsible for your submitted URLs and any downstream handling of business or personal data.