Houzz Home Pro Directory & Reviews Scraper

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan runs can return at most 5 dataset records per run from this Actor, even if you request more.

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

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,
  "proxyCountry": "US"
}

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-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	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond	When it is charged
houzz-result	$0.005001	$0.004875	$0.004750	$0.004000	One structured Houzz record written to the dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.006251	$0.006094	$0.005938	$0.005000	Actor starts; the charged count depends on allocated memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).

Event prices vary by Apify plan tier. Apify platform usage and DataImpulse transfer are separate usage costs; maxTotalChargeUsd limits event charges and does not cap those usage costs. DataImpulse transfer is estimated from run receive bytes as described below.

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. With useProxy enabled (the default), the Actor uses DataImpulse residential proxy routing in the selected country (US by default) with a ten-minute sticky session. DataImpulse charges $1 per decimal GB; estimate transfer from a cloud run as stats.netRxBytes / 1,000,000,000 × $1. Container receive bytes approximate provider transfer and are not an invoice total. Set useProxy to false to connect directly.

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.