Houzz Pro Scraper

Houzz Pro Scraper

Extract professional listings from Houzz's directory of architects, interior designers, contractors, and 70+ other home-service categories — across all 14 Houzz country sites. Search by category and location, run a free-text keyword search, deep-fetch specific pros for full profile details, or paste any Houzz directory URL.

Search any Houzz category + location, or paste a Houzz URL directly, and get ratings, review counts, contact info, services, service areas, and photos as clean, ready-to-use JSON, CSV, or Excel rows.

Copy to your AI assistant

Copy this block into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any LLM to start using this actor: Use the Apify actor parsebird/houzz-scraper via ApifyClient — example: client.actor("parsebird/houzz-scraper").call(run_input={"mode":"search","site":"houzz.com","category":"interior-designers","locations":["New-York--NY"],"maxPages":5,"maxListings":100}) — key inputs are mode (search/keyword/review/url), site (one of 14 Houzz country domains), category, locations (array of "City--State" strings), queries (free-text keywords for keyword mode), proUrls/urls (for review/url modes), minRating, minReviewCount, verifiedOnly, sortBy, maxPages, maxListings, and fetchDetails (richer per-pro fields) — output rows have displayName, userName, proTypeDisplayName, city/state/country, latitude/longitude, formattedPhone, website, numReviews, reviewRating, featuredReview/mostRecentReview, verified, awards, aboutMe, servicesProvided, areasServed, socialFacebook/socialInstagram/socialLinkedin, and url — full API spec at https://apify.com/parsebird/houzz-scraper/api and get a token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

What does Houzz Pro Scraper do?

Houzz Pro Scraper pulls structured data out of Houzz's professional directory — the same directory home-owners browse to find architects, interior designers, general contractors, kitchen & bath remodelers, landscape architects, and 70+ other trade categories. It works as a Houzz API alternative, and covers all 14 Houzz country sites: houzz.com, houzz.com.au, houzz.co.nz, houzz.co.uk, houzz.ie, houzz.de, houzz.fr, houzz.it, houzz.es, houzz.dk, houzz.se, houzz.com.sg, houzz.in, and houzz.jp.

• 🔍 Search mode — pick a category and one or more locations (New-York--NY, Sydney--NSW), and the actor pages through every matching pro.
• ⌨️ Keyword mode — narrow a category/location search with free-text keywords (matched against each pro's name, about-me text, and category, since Houzz's directory has no server-side keyword search).
• 👤 Review mode — deep-fetch specific pros by profile URL or username, always pulling the richer profile-page fields (services, areas served, cost estimate, rating breakdown).
• 🔗 URL mode — paste any Houzz professional-directory URL (or a single pro's profile URL) and scrape it directly.
• ⭐ Post-fetch filters — minRating, minReviewCount, and verifiedOnly narrow results after fetching; sortBy reorders by rating, review count, name, or newest.
• 🔁 Resume & Incremental mode — continue an interrupted run with resumeFromRunId, or track a scheduled search over time with incrementalMode, which classifies every pro as NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, or EXPIRED between runs.
• ⏱️ Automation-ready — run it on a schedule, trigger it via the Apify API, or wire it into Make, Zapier, or n8n.
• 📤 Export anywhere — download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML straight from the Apify Console, or pull them via API/webhook.

What data can you extract from Houzz?

Field	Description
displayName, userName	Business/pro name and Houzz username
proTypeDisplayName	Category, e.g. "Interior Designers & Decorators"
city, state, country, zip, latitude, longitude	Location
formattedAddress, formattedPhone, website	Contact info
numReviews, reviewRating	Review aggregate (0-5 scale)
aspectCommunication, aspectOnTime, aspectQuality, aspectValue	Rating breakdown by aspect (requires fetchDetails)
featuredReview, mostRecentReview	Sample reviews with author, text, and rating
verified, hasVerifiedLicense	Paid/claimed business profile and license verification flags
awards, badges, merits	Best of Houzz awards and profile badges
aboutMe	Full about-me / bio text
servicesProvided, areasServed, costEstimate	Requires fetchDetails
socialFacebook, socialInstagram, socialLinkedin	Social profile links
url	Canonical Houzz profile URL

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	No	search	search / keyword / review / url
site	string	No	houzz.com	One of 14 Houzz country domains
category	string	No	interior-designers	Service category (search/keyword modes)
locations	array	No	[] (all)	"City--State" strings
queries	array	Keyword mode	—	Free-text keywords
proUrls	array	Review mode	—	Pro profile URLs or usernames
urls	array	URL mode	—	Any Houzz directory URLs
minRating	integer	No	0	Minimum rating (0-5), applied after fetching
minReviewCount	integer	No	0	Minimum review count, applied after fetching
verifiedOnly	boolean	No	false	Only paid/claimed profiles
sortBy	string	No	default	default / rating-desc / review-count-desc / newest / name-asc
maxPages	integer	No	5	Max result pages per search (15 pros/page)
maxListings	integer	No	0 (unlimited)	Total cap across all searches
fetchDetails	boolean	No	false	Visit each pro's own page for richer fields
resumeFromRunId	string	No	—	Continue a previous interrupted run
incrementalMode	boolean	No	false	Track a scheduled search across runs
emitUnchanged / emitExpired	boolean	No	false	Also emit UNCHANGED / EXPIRED rows (Incremental mode)
proxy	object	No	Apify default	Works for all 14 sites; Residential optional

Output example

{
    "id": "5208",
    "userId": 16380,
    "professionalId": 5208,
    "displayName": "Ruthie Staalsen Interiors",
    "userName": "ruthiedesigner",
    "proTypeDisplayName": "Interior Designers & Decorators",
    "country": "US",
    "state": "TX",
    "city": "Grapevine",
    "zip": "76051",
    "latitude": 32.9328,
    "longitude": -97.0808,
    "formattedPhone": "(817) 592-8379",
    "website": "http://www.ruthiestaalsen.com",
    "numReviews": 109,
    "reviewRating": 5.0,
    "aspectQuality": 5.0,
    "aspectCommunication": 5.0,
    "aspectValue": 5.0,
    "verified": true,
    "servicesProvided": ["Interior Design", "Kitchen Design", "Bathroom Design"],
    "areasServed": ["Fort Worth", "Irving", "Grapevine"],
    "costEstimate": "$5,000 - 500,000",
    "socialFacebook": "https://www.facebook.com/ruthiedesigner",
    "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designers-and-decorators/ruthie-staalsen-interiors-pfvwus-pf~1199665728",
    "mode": "search",
    "category": "interior-designers",
    "location": "New-York--NY"
}

Use cases

• Lead generation — build a list of interior designers, contractors, or architects in a target city with phone/website contact info.
• Competitive research — compare ratings, review counts, and services across pros in the same category and market.
• Market monitoring — schedule a search with Incremental mode to catch new pros and rating changes as they happen.
• CRM / lead-scoring pipelines — pipe structured JSON straight into your own database via the Apify API.

How to scrape Houzz

1. Pick a Mode: search (category + location), keyword, review (specific pros), or URL.
2. For search/keyword mode, set Category and Locations (e.g. interior-designers + New-York--NY).
3. Set Max pages and Max listings to control run size.
4. Optionally turn on Fetch pro detail pages for services, areas served, cost estimate, and rating breakdown.
5. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel once the run finishes.

How much does it cost to scrape Houzz?

This actor uses pay-per-event (PPE) pricing — you pay only for what you get.

Event	Price per event	Price per 1,000
Result	$0.00149	$1.49
Enrichment (optional, fetchDetails)	$0.00079	$0.79

Result fires once per pro row saved. Enrichment fires in addition, once per pro, only when fetchDetails is on (always on in Review mode). Scraping 1,000 pros without detail enrichment costs about $1.49; with it, about $2.28.

Resume & recurring updates

Resume (resumeFromRunId) continues one specific interrupted run: paste the run ID (or its dataset ID) and this run skips every pro already collected there, picking up only what's still missing.

Incremental mode (incrementalMode) is for a search you run on a schedule (daily/weekly) against the same category/location/query. It remembers what the search returned last time and classifies every pro as NEW, UPDATED (with a changedFields list), UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED (was gone, is back), or EXPIRED (tracked before, no longer found — only after a run that scanned every page of every search without being cut short by Max pages/Max listings). By default only NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED/EXPIRED rows are pushed; emitUnchanged/emitExpired also push the others (billing extra rows). stateKey names the saved baseline — leave it empty and the actor derives one automatically from mode/site/category/locations/queries/filters.

Is it legal to scrape Houzz?

Yes — this actor only collects publicly available directory data that Houzz itself shows to any visitor, without logging in or bypassing any paywall. You're responsible for how you use the extracted data; review Houzz's Terms of Service before republishing personal contact information. See Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping for more detail.

FAQ

Which Houzz sites are supported? All 14: houzz.com, houzz.com.au, houzz.co.nz, houzz.co.uk, houzz.ie, houzz.de, houzz.fr, houzz.it, houzz.es, houzz.dk, houzz.se, houzz.com.sg, houzz.in, and houzz.jp. Categories differ by site — an unavailable category stops the run with the list of categories that site actually has.

Why do some fields come back null unless I turn on Fetch pro detail pages? servicesProvided, areasServed, costEstimate, and the per-aspect rating breakdown only appear on a pro's own profile page, not in directory search results — turning on fetchDetails (or using Review mode, where it's always on) fetches that page for each pro.

Does keyword search happen on Houzz's servers? No — Houzz's public directory has no server-side keyword search endpoint, so Keyword mode fetches a category/location search and matches your keyword client-side against each pro's name, about-me text, and category. A broad search with a higher Max pages gives it more to search through.

Can I schedule recurring runs? Yes — use Apify's built-in Scheduler, and combine it with Incremental mode to only get charged for pros that are new or changed since the last run.

Something looks wrong or missing — how do I report it? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab in Apify Console, including the input you used and the run ID.