Houzz Scraper

Pull design photos, professional profiles, magazine stories, and Q&A discussions from Houzz at scale — complete with style and budget filters, city-scoped pro searches, ratings, project counts, public phone numbers, and direct CDN photo URLs. Built for interior designers, contractors, market researchers, and lead-gen teams who need a clean Houzz dataset without clicking through infinite-scroll galleries one card at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• Four Houzz surfaces in one actor — search inspiration photos, the professional directory, Houzz Magazine stories, and the Q&A discussion forum from a single run, with a recordType discriminator on every row so you can split the dataset cleanly downstream.
• 13 verified professional categories — Interior Designers & Decorators, Architects & Building Designers, Design-Build Firms, General Contractors, Kitchen & Bathroom Designers, Kitchen Remodelers, Bathroom Remodelers, Landscape Architects & Designers, Landscape Contractors, Home Builders, ADU Contractors, Home Remodeling, and Home Additions.
• City-scoped professional search — type "Austin, TX" or "Brooklyn, NY" and the actor auto-resolves it to Houzz's internal region ID, so you get directory results pinned to one metro instead of the national mix.
• Four photo filter families, stackable — 18 design styles (Contemporary, Modern, Farmhouse, Mediterranean, Mid-century, Scandinavian, etc.), 4 budget tiers ($ Budget through $$$$ Luxury), 4 room sizes (Compact through Expansive), and 14 color palettes including "Black & white" and "Metallics".
• Verified pro signals on every record — isProVerified, hasVerifiedKyc, license number, license type, follower count, and the Houzz badge list ("Best of Houzz Service", etc.) so you can rank designers by trust signals, not just star rating.
• Public contact enrichment with includeContacts — opt in to fetch each professional's profile page and capture publicly visible phone (call-tracking obfuscation auto-detected and dropped), website, and social links across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter, plus the most recent published review (rating, body, project date, reviewer name).
• Ratings on a familiar 0–5 scale — Houzz stores ratings internally on a 0–50 scale; the actor normalizes to one decimal so a 5.0-star pro shows as 5.0, not 50.
• One Houzz entity = one row — a professional with 800 photos and 200 reviews is still a single record with photosCount: 800 and reviewsCount: 200. No surprise fan-outs, predictable cost on every run.
• Up to 50,000 results per seed — overshoot-not-trim pagination keeps the full final page so you never lose results to a tight cap.

Use Cases

Lead Generation & Outreach

• Build city-scoped lists of interior designers or general contractors with phone numbers and websites
• Source verified kitchen-and-bath remodelers in a target metro for partnership outreach
• Pull landscape architects with high follower counts and Best of Houzz badges
• Enrich existing CRM records with social profiles, license numbers, and project counts

Market & Trend Research

• Compare which design styles dominate "modern kitchen" results across regions
• Track inspiration-photo save counts as a leading indicator of color and material trends
• Map professional density by city and category for market-entry analysis
• Monitor which Houzz Magazine topics generate the most reader comments

Competitive Intelligence

• Track a competing design firm's public photo count, follower growth, and review velocity
• Benchmark a portfolio against the top-rated pros in the same category and metro
• Watch which styles, colors, and budgets a competitor's projects show up under
• Pull the full review rating + featured-review snippet for any pro on the platform

Content & Editorial Research

• Surface trending Houzz Magazine stories with author and topic tags for content inspiration
• Mine the Q&A forum for high-engagement renovation questions to answer in your own content
• Find the most-saved photos in a category to inform mood boards and pitch decks
• Build a citation-ready bibliography of Houzz articles by topic and date

Real Estate & Property Tech

• Link properties in your inventory to local renovation pros who serve that ZIP
• Enrich listing pages with curated Houzz inspiration photos for a given style
• Source vetted contractors for renovation-finance referral programs
• Surface local design trends to home sellers prepping for listing

Recruiting Design Talent

• Find architects and interior designers in a metro with a verified portfolio and license number
• Identify rising designers with strong project counts but not yet at scale
• Build a national bench of vetted general contractors for a multi-market expansion

Getting Started

Quick Photo Search

The simplest possible run — one keyword, 20 inspiration photos:

{
    "queryType": "photos",
    "searchQueries": ["modern kitchen"],
    "maxResults": 20
}

Local Pro Lead List

City-scoped designer directory — phone, address, ratings, and project counts for every interior designer in Austin:

{
    "queryType": "professionals",
    "professionalCategory": "interior-designers",
    "location": "Austin, TX",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Pro Lead List with Full Contact Enrichment

Same as above but also fetches each pro's profile page for social links, badges, and license verification:

{
    "queryType": "professionals",
    "professionalCategory": "general-contractors",
    "location": "Brooklyn, NY",
    "includeContacts": true,
    "maxResults": 30
}

Filtered Photo Search (All Four Filter Families)

Mid-range modern kitchen photos in white, sized for a medium room:

{
    "queryType": "photos",
    "searchQueries": ["kitchen"],
    "styles": ["modern"],
    "budgets": ["midrange"],
    "sizes": ["medium"],
    "colors": ["white"],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Direct URL Paste

Paste any Houzz URL — search, category, professional, photo, story, or discussion — and the actor classifies and routes it automatically:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.houzz.com/photos/farmhouse-bathroom",
        "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designers/c/Brooklyn--NY"
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	string[]	[]	Paste one or more Houzz URLs. Accepts photo, professional, story, and discussion pages, plus search and category listings. When provided, these override the keyword/filter fields below.
searchQueries	string[]	["modern kitchen"]	One keyword per line. Each line runs as its own search and produces its own results. Ignored when Houzz URLs are provided.
queryType	select	photos	Which Houzz section to search: Photos, Professionals, Stories (Houzz Magazine), or Discussions (Q&A forum).

Professional Filters

Apply only when Search Section is Professionals.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
location	string	null	City, region, or "City, State" to scope a professional directory search (e.g. "Austin, TX", "Brooklyn, NY"). Auto-resolved to Houzz's internal region ID.
professionalCategory	select	Default (Interior Designers)	Restrict to one of 13 verified categories: Interior Designers, Architects, Design-Build Firms, General Contractors, Kitchen & Bathroom Designers, Kitchen Remodelers, Bathroom Remodelers, Landscape Architects, Landscape Contractors, Home Builders, ADU Contractors, Home Remodeling, or Home Additions. Leave blank to use the default (Interior Designers) — Houzz cannot browse every category at once.

Photo Filters

Apply only when Search Section is Photos. All four are optional and stack.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
styles	multi-select	[]	18 design styles: Contemporary, Modern, Traditional, Transitional, Farmhouse, Industrial, Mediterranean, Scandinavian, Rustic, Craftsman, Midcentury, Coastal, Tropical, Asian, Eclectic, Shabby Chic, Victorian, Southwestern.
budgets	multi-select	[]	4 budget tiers: Budget ($), Mid-range ($$), High-end ($$$), Luxury ($$$$).
sizes	multi-select	[]	4 room sizes: Compact, Medium, Large, Expansive.
colors	multi-select	[]	14 dominant colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Brown, Beige, Gray, White, Black, Black & white, Metallics.

Output Detail

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeContacts	boolean	false	When enabled, fetch each professional's profile page to capture publicly visible phone, website, social links, badges, license verification, and the most recent published review. Adds two extra requests per pro.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum results per URL or keyword. Set to 0 to collect everything (internal cap of 50,000 per seed). The actor stops requesting new pages once the cap is reached but keeps the full final page.

Output

Every row carries a recordType field — photo, professional, story, or discussion — so you can split the dataset by surface downstream.

Photo (recordType: "photo")

{
    "recordType": "photo",
    "id": "172984321",
    "url": "https://www.houzz.com/photos/modern-kitchen-with-marble-island-phvw-vp~172984321",
    "title": "Modern Kitchen with Marble Island",
    "description": "Open-plan kitchen featuring a waterfall marble island, brass fixtures, and walnut cabinetry.",
    "style": "Modern",
    "roomType": "Kitchen",
    "location": "Minneapolis",
    "saveCount": 345,
    "questionCount": 4,
    "ownerId": "98712345",
    "ownerName": "McDonald Remodeling",
    "ownerProfileUrl": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/mcdonald-remodeling-pfvwus-pf~98712345",
    "imageUrl": "https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/kitchens/modern-kitchen-marble-island_8-img.jpg",
    "imageIds": ["172984321"],
    "altText": "Modern Kitchen Photos",
    "tags": ["marble", "open plan", "brass fixtures"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T14:30:00Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "photo"
id	string	Houzz photo ID
url	string	Canonical photo URL
title	string	Photo title
description	string	Caption or auto-generated description
style	string	Design style label (when the search was scoped to a known style or room topic)
roomType	string	Room or space type (Kitchen, Bath, Living Room, etc.)
location	string	City or region of the project
saveCount	integer	Number of users who saved the photo to an Ideabook
questionCount	integer	Number of questions on the photo
ownerId	string	ID of the pro or user who posted the photo
ownerName	string	Display name of the owner
ownerProfileUrl	string	Owner's professional profile URL
imageUrl	string	Direct CDN URL of the photo
imageIds	string[]	All image IDs associated with the post
altText	string	Alt text
tags	string[]	Keyword tags
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 capture timestamp

Professional (recordType: "professional")

{
    "recordType": "professional",
    "id": "31285009",
    "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designers/etch-design-group-pfvwus-pf~31285009",
    "title": "Etch Design Group",
    "proType": "Interior Designers & Decorators",
    "aboutMe": "Etch is a full-service interior design firm based in Austin, Texas...",
    "formattedAddress": "2900 W Anderson Ln, Austin, TX 78757",
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip": "78757",
    "country": "US",
    "latitude": 30.3567,
    "longitude": -97.7421,
    "phone": "(512) 555-0142",
    "website": "https://etchdesigngroup.com",
    "socialLinks": {
        "instagram": "https://instagram.com/etchdesigngroup",
        "pinterest": "https://pinterest.com/etchdesigngroup"
    },
    "reviewRating": 5.0,
    "reviewsCount": 40,
    "projectsCount": 18,
    "photosCount": 246,
    "followerCount": 1840,
    "badges": ["Best of Houzz Service"],
    "featuredReview": {
        "rating": 5,
        "body": "Etch designed our living room and dining room. They listened carefully, kept us on budget, and the result is a space we love coming home to.",
        "projectDate": "2025-11-15",
        "authorName": "Sarah K."
    },
    "licenseNumber": "TX-12345",
    "licenseType": "Registered Interior Designer",
    "isProVerified": true,
    "hasVerifiedLicense": true,
    "hasVerifiedKyc": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T14:30:00Z"
}

Identity & Location

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "professional"
id	string	Houzz user ID
url	string	Canonical professional profile URL
title	string	Business display name
proType	string	Category label (Interior Designers & Decorators, General Contractors, etc.)
aboutMe	string	Bio / about text (HTML stripped)
formattedAddress	string	Full address string
city	string	City
state	string	State or region
zip	string	Postal code
country	string	Country code
latitude	number	Geo latitude
longitude	number	Geo longitude

Contacts & Social

Field	Type	Description
phone	string	Public phone (call-tracking proxies auto-dropped)
website	string	External business website
socialLinks	object	{facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, youtube} URLs where exposed
email	string	Always null — Houzz does not expose pro emails publicly

Ratings & Trust Signals

Field	Type	Description
reviewRating	number	Average rating on a 0–5 scale (one decimal)
reviewsCount	integer	Total review count
projectsCount	integer	Total project count
photosCount	integer	Total photo count
followerCount	integer	Houzz follower count
featuredReview	object	Most-recent published review when includeContacts: true — {rating, body, projectDate, authorName}. null for pros with zero reviews.
badges	string[]	Earned Houzz badges ("Best of Houzz Service", etc.)
licenseNumber	string	Business license number when posted
licenseType	string	License type or issuing authority
isProVerified	boolean	Houzz pro-verification flag
hasVerifiedLicense	boolean	Houzz license-verification flag
hasVerifiedKyc	boolean	Houzz KYC-verification flag

Story (recordType: "story")

Houzz Magazine articles.

{
    "recordType": "story",
    "id": "168247831",
    "url": "https://www.houzz.com/magazine/10-trending-kitchen-ideas-stsetivw-vs~168247831",
    "title": "10 Trending Kitchen Ideas From Houzz Pros",
    "subtitle": "From quiet luxury palettes to walnut cabinetry, here's what's resonating in 2026.",
    "authorName": "Mitchell Parker",
    "authorProfileUrl": "https://www.houzz.com/pro/mitchellparker",
    "commentCount": 38,
    "coverImageUrl": "https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/magazine/cover_8-img.jpg",
    "topics": ["Kitchen Design", "New This Week", "Trends"],
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T14:00:00Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T14:30:00Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "story"
id	string	Houzz article ID
url	string	Article URL
title	string	Article title
subtitle	string	Article subtitle / dek
authorName	string	Author display name
authorProfileUrl	string	Author profile URL
commentCount	integer	Reader comment count
coverImageUrl	string	Cover photo CDN URL
topics	string[]	Topic tags
publishedAt	string	ISO 8601 publish timestamp
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 capture timestamp

Discussion (recordType: "discussion")

Q&A forum threads.

{
    "recordType": "discussion",
    "id": "12348721",
    "url": "https://www.houzz.com/discussions/granite-vs-quartz-for-kitchen-counters-dsvw-vd~12348721",
    "title": "Granite vs quartz for kitchen counters?",
    "body": "We're remodeling our kitchen and torn between granite and quartz. Looking for input on durability and resale value.",
    "topicTitle": "Kitchen Design",
    "numberOfAnswers": 21,
    "numberOfLikes": 4,
    "lastAnsweredAt": "2026-05-12T18:42:00Z",
    "bestAnswerId": "98714523",
    "authorName": "Sarah M.",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T14:30:00Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "discussion"
id	string	Houzz question ID
url	string	Discussion URL
title	string	Question title
body	string	Question body (HTML stripped)
topicTitle	string	Forum topic / category
numberOfAnswers	integer	Reply count
numberOfLikes	integer	Like count
lastAnsweredAt	string	ISO 8601 last-reply timestamp
bestAnswerId	string	ID of the marked best answer, when one exists
authorName	string	Asker display name
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 capture timestamp

Tips for Best Results

• Always pair location with professionalCategory for lead lists. A national interior-designer dump pulls thousands of generic results; "Brooklyn, NY" + "interior-designers" returns a focused, sales-ready set.
• Use includeContacts selectively. It doubles request count per pro (one extra detail-page fetch) — narrow your category and city first, then turn it on.
• Stack photo filters one at a time when prospecting. Adding all four filter families to a broad query (e.g. "kitchen") can return 0 results; start with one filter, see the count, then layer.
• Use Stories topics, not free-text, for Houzz Magazine. Houzz Magazine has a fixed taxonomy — try "Kitchens", "Bathrooms", "Houzz-Tours", or "Outdoors" rather than long-tail keywords.
• Compare regional design trends with one keyword across cities. Run the same searchQueries three times with different location values (Austin, Brooklyn, Seattle) for an instant style-comparison dataset.
• recordType is your friend — when mixing surfaces in one run (e.g. start URLs spanning photos + pros), filter the dataset by recordType downstream rather than hand-splitting.
• Set a sensible maxResults first. Try 50–100 to confirm the data shape matches your needs, then scale up — runs of 1,000+ work fine but cost more to validate.

Pricing

$3.00 per 1,000 results — undercuts the leading Houzz competitor by roughly 25% while covering all four surfaces in one actor.

Results	Estimated Cost
100	$0.30
1,000	$3.00
10,000	$30.00
100,000	$300.00

A "result" is any row in the output dataset — one photo, one professional, one story, or one discussion. No compute charges — you only pay per result returned. Platform fees (storage, data transfer) are additional and depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate market research, lead generation, content research, and competitive analysis. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Houzz's Terms of Service, including respecting professional privacy and not contacting pros for unsolicited spam. Do not use extracted data for harassment, fair-housing violations, or any illegal purpose.