# Houzz Home Pro Directory & Reviews Scraper (`muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper`) Actor

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

- **URL**: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhammad Afzal](https://apify.com/muhammadafzal) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 home professional records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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:

```json
{
  "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:

```json
{
  "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:

```bash
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

```json
{
  "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.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Use this when you already have public Houzz professional-directory or professional-profile URLs, for example https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractor/probr0-bo~t\_11786. This overrides professional type and location.

## `professionalType` (type: `string`):

Use this when you do not provide startUrls. Select one supported Houzz directory; default is General contractors. For locations or advanced filters, copy the exact directory URL from Houzz into startUrls.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Use this to cap delivered directory records and result-event charges. Free users receive at most 5 records per run; paid runs may use the configured limit.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Use this to cap pagination per starting URL. Default is 1; allowed range is 1–20. It has no effect after the result cap is reached.

## `useProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Use this when Houzz challenges or rate-limits the default network. Default is enabled and recommended; proxy traffic may be billed separately by Apify.

## `proxyCountry` (type: `string`):

Use this to keep the proxy session in one country, for example US. Leave empty to use Apify's default proxy routing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "professionalType": "general-contractor",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "useProxy": true,
  "proxyCountry": "US"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `professionals` (type: `string`):

Schema-valid professional directory records with ratings and review counts.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

OUTPUT record containing delivered count, synthetic event count, status, and warnings.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,muhammadafzal/houzz-home-pro-directory-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CNX6jy77hbvdwpkVa/builds/yoK0DNjDVdTTzXxIW/openapi.json