# Zillow Property Listings Scraper (`seemuapps/zillow-scraper`) Actor

Scrape for-sale, for-rent, recently sold, and foreclosure property listings from Zillow for any US city or zip code.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/zillow-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$6.00 / 1,000 property listing results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Zillow Property Listings Scraper

Extract for-sale, for-rent, recently sold, and foreclosure property listings from Zillow for any US city or zip code — no API key or login required.

### What you get

- Price, beds, baths, living area, home type, and days-on-market for every listing
- Address, latitude/longitude, listing photo, and the direct listing URL
- Four listing categories: active for-sale, for-rent, recently sold, and foreclosure/pre-foreclosure
- Automatic pagination — the actor pages through search results internally to fulfill your requested item count

### Use cases

- Real estate market research and comparable-sales analysis
- Investor lead generation — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure deal sourcing
- Rental market analysis — track asking rents across a metro or zip code
- Property listing aggregation for real estate portals and dashboards
- Tracking recently sold homes for appraisal and pricing research

### How to use

1. Enter a **Location** — a city and state (e.g. `Austin, TX`) or a 5-digit zip code
2. Choose a **Listing status**: For sale, For rent, Recently sold, or Foreclosure / pre-foreclosure
3. Set **Max items** (default 100; set 0 for unlimited — all available result pages for that location)
4. Run the actor — results appear in the **Dataset** tab

### Output format

Each dataset record:

```json
{
  "zpid": "29369311",
  "address": "6305 Leatherwood Cv, Austin, TX 78759",
  "price": 750000,
  "beds": 4,
  "baths": 3,
  "livingAreaSqft": 2164,
  "homeType": "SINGLE_FAMILY",
  "homeStatus": "FOR_SALE",
  "daysOnZillow": 4,
  "url": "https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6305-Leatherwood-Cv-Austin-TX-78759/29369311_zpid/",
  "latitude": 30.422058,
  "longitude": -97.75903,
  "imgSrc": "https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/df9519af671f04d375949143abee6447-p_e.jpg"
}
```

**Field notes:**

- `price` for **Recently sold** listings falls back to the site's own price estimate when the actual closing price isn't publicly disclosed for that record.
- `zpid`, `beds`, `baths`, `livingAreaSqft`, `homeType`, and `daysOnZillow` can be `null` for **For rent** results that represent an apartment building with multiple unit types rather than a single unit — in that case `price` reflects the building's lowest listed rent.

### Known limitations

- The target site runs aggressive bot-detection (PerimeterX) that can block automated requests, including from datacenter IP ranges. This actor was built and verified against real, live responses from a residential development connection; requests made from Apify's shared datacenter IPs may be blocked more often. If you see runs failing with a generic "blocking automated requests" error, that's this protection at work — retrying, or running less frequently, is the best mitigation.
- Search results for a single location/status combination are capped by the site's own pagination limits (typically a few hundred listings). This is a source-side limit, not an actor bug.
- Location matching relies on the site's own city/zip resolution. Unusual or ambiguous city names may not resolve — a 5-digit zip code is the most reliable input.

# Actor input Schema

## `location` (type: `string`):

City and state (e.g. 'Austin, TX') or a 5-digit US zip code to search.

## `statusType` (type: `string`):

Which category of listings to scrape for the given location.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to return. The actor pages through search results internally to fulfill this. 0 = unlimited (all available result pages).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "statusType": "forSale",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One listing per record. Fields: zpid, address, price, beds, baths, livingAreaSqft, homeType, homeStatus, daysOnZillow, url, latitude, longitude, imgSrc.

# 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 = {
    "location": "Austin, TX"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/zillow-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 = { "location": "Austin, TX" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/zillow-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 '{
  "location": "Austin, TX"
}' |
apify call seemuapps/zillow-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/zillow-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/1cT2uKFhmoHzhxrY7/builds/Ro70HGS6tvUUkVgMd/openapi.json