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, star ratings, public phone numbers, street addresses, 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 you get directory results pinned to that city's metro area, about a 50-mile radius, instead of the national mix. Metros follow Houzz's own map, so a Brooklyn search covers the New York metro and reaches into northern New Jersey and Connecticut.
• Four photo filter families, stackable — 19 design styles (Contemporary, Modern, Farmhouse, Mediterranean, Mid-century, Scandinavian, French Country, etc.), 4 budget tiers ($ Budget through $$$$ Luxury), 4 room sizes (Compact through Expansive), and 14 color palettes including Turquoise, Wood tones, and Beige. A room search takes two at once — Blue plus Green, or Modern plus Mid-range — and a descriptive phrase like "kitchen backsplash" takes four.
• Every photo carries its own style, room and metro — not the label of the page it came from. One unfiltered "kitchen" run turned up all 19 Houzz styles and 65 metro areas across 5,209 photos, with the style filled on 98% of rows and the metro on 92%, so you can pivot a dataset by style, room type or city without a second pass. Descriptive keywords also narrow themselves for free: "small bedroom" arrives already scoped to Compact rooms and "modern kitchen" returns 100% Modern kitchens with no filter box ticked.
• Search in any language — Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other non-Latin keywords run as real Houzz photo and forum searches rather than being quietly swapped for an English word. Anything Houzz genuinely cannot search is named in the run log instead of billed as a substitute.
• 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 (100% of pros in testing), social links across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter (80%), Houzz badges such as "Best of Houzz Service" (100%), license verification, project and photo counts, audience size as a follower count (100%), plus the most recent published review with rating, body, project date and reviewer name.
• Forum threads with real dates and real names — every discussion row carries the asker's display name, an ISO 8601 posted date and an ISO 8601 last-reply date, so you can sort a 44,000-thread topic by recency in a spreadsheet instead of decoding raw timestamps.
• One Houzz entity = one row, with honest depth limits per surface — a professional listed on six directory pages is a single billed record and a photo Houzz re-ranks between pages is never charged twice. A room-word photo browse runs 50,000 deep while any other photo keyword stops at about 4,800 — the run tells you which one you are on before it starts; Houzz itself caps the rest at about 1,200 distinct professionals per category-and-city, roughly 5,000 discussions per search, and a magazine topic's complete article list. The run ends cleanly at each ceiling instead of spinning, and keeps the full final page so a tight cap never loses you results.

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 carrying Best of Houzz badges and verified licenses
• Enrich existing CRM records with websites, social profiles, 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, project count, 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, author, and comment volume

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 license and a published portfolio
• 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 — name, phone, street address, rating and review count 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 website, social links, badges, project and photo counts, and license verification — none of which Houzz puts on a directory listing:

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

Filtered Photo Search

Modern kitchen photos in white — a room search takes two photo filters at a time, from any of the four families:

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

Or take two from one family — every kitchen photo that is blue or green:

{
    "queryType": "photos",
    "searchQueries": ["kitchen"],
    "colors": ["blue", "green"],
    "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. Photo and discussion searches accept keywords in any language, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean. On professional searches the keyword ranks the chosen category and city by relevance (Latin characters only — the run says so if a keyword can't be used), and a professional matched by several keywords is returned once. 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"). Resolves to that city's surrounding metro area, about a 50-mile radius, which can cross state lines.
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, and they work on every photo search. On a room keyword — kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room, dining room, outdoor, kids, home office, garage, basement, entryway, laundry room, home gym, staircase and more — Houzz takes two selections at once. On a descriptive phrase such as "kitchen backsplash" or "farmhouse sink" your words and your filters are kept together and up to four selections apply, one of which can be a style; those results can cover more than one room. Anything that cannot be applied is named in the run log rather than dropped in silence.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
styles	multi-select	[]	19 design styles: Contemporary, Modern, Traditional, Transitional, Farmhouse, Industrial, Mediterranean, Scandinavian, Rustic, Craftsman, Midcentury, Coastal, Tropical, Asian, Eclectic, Shabby Chic, Victorian, Southwestern, French Country. Two selections widen the search to either.
budgets	multi-select	[]	4 budget tiers: Budget ($), Mid-range ($$), High-end ($$$), Luxury ($$$$). Two selections widen the search to either.
sizes	multi-select	[]	4 room sizes: Compact, Medium, Large, Expansive. Two selections widen the search to either.
colors	multi-select	[]	14 dominant colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Turquoise, Pink, Brown, Wood tones, Beige, Gray, White, Black. Two selections widen the search to either.

Output Detail

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeContacts	boolean	false	Houzz directory listings carry the name, address, phone, rating and review count — but not the website, social links, badges, project count, photo count or license verification. Enable this to fetch each professional's own profile page and add all of them, plus the follower count and the most recent published review. Adds two extra requests per professional.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum results per URL or keyword. Set to 0 to collect everything Houzz will serve. The actor stops requesting new pages once the cap is reached but keeps the full final page. Each surface has its own real ceiling — see below.

How deep each surface actually goes. Setting maxResults above a surface's ceiling is harmless: the run ends cleanly at the ceiling rather than stalling.

Search Section	Ceiling per keyword or URL
Photos — a room word ("kitchen", "bathroom", "home office")	50,000. Houzz holds millions per room, so the run is the only thing that stops
Photos — a room word plus filters	However many photos match the combination — "Kitchen" + Blue is roughly 7,600
Photos — any other keyword or phrase ("kitchen backsplash", "farmhouse sink"), with or without filters	About 4,800. Houzz's search results stop at 250 pages of 20 no matter how many photos match — "kitchen backsplash" has over a million and still stops there — and repeats across those pages resolve to ~4,800 distinct photos. The run names this ceiling in the log before it starts
Professionals	About 1,200 per category-and-city — Houzz publishes 100 directory pages of 15 and re-ranks between them, so ~1,500 listings resolve to ~1,200 distinct firms
Discussions	About 5,000 per search, out of result sets that can run to 44,000
Stories	The complete article list of a magazine topic — all 3,694 Houzz Tours pieces — or a magazine keyword search, up to a ceiling of about 4,900

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	The photo's own design style, one of 19 Houzz styles (Modern, Farmhouse, Coastal, Mid-Century Modern, French Country and more). Empty for the small share of photos Houzz hasn't classified
roomType	string	The photo's own room type (Kitchen, Bathroom, Living Room, Family Room, Home Office, etc.)
location	string	Metro area the project was built in, e.g. Minneapolis. Populates on roughly 9 in 10 photos; empty when Houzz publishes no location
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,
    "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."
    },
    "isProVerified": true,
    "hasVerifiedLicense": true,
    "hasVerifiedKyc": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T14:30:00Z"
}

The example above is a run with Include Contact Details switched on. Without it, Houzz's directory listing supplies everything in the first two tables below; the third table stays empty.

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 & Ratings (every run)

Field	Type	Description
phone	string	Public phone number. Where Houzz substitutes a call-tracking placeholder, you get null instead of a fake number
email	string	Always null — Houzz does not expose pro emails publicly
reviewRating	number	Average rating on a 0–5 scale (one decimal)
reviewsCount	integer	Total review count
hasVerifiedKyc	boolean	Houzz identity-verification flag
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 capture timestamp

With Include Contact Details (includeContacts: true)

Houzz publishes these on a professional's own profile page, never on a directory listing, so they arrive only when Include Contact Details is enabled. Fill rates measured on a 105-professional run.

Field	Type	Description
website	string	External business website — 100%
socialLinks	object	{facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, youtube} URLs where exposed — 80%
projectsCount	integer	Total published project count — 99%
photosCount	integer	How many photos the professional has published across all their projects — often in the thousands
followerCount	integer	How many Houzz members follow the professional — 100%. Directory listings never carry it, so it stays 0 without this option
badges	string[]	Earned Houzz badges ("Best of Houzz Service", etc.) — 100%
hasVerifiedLicense	boolean	Houzz license-verification flag — set on every enriched row; true only for pros Houzz has actually verified
isProVerified	boolean	Houzz pro-verification flag. Directory listings report false for everyone, so the real value only arrives with this option on
featuredReview	object	Most-recent published review — {rating, body, projectDate, authorName}. null for pros with zero reviews.

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/user/mitchell_parker",
    "commentCount": 38,
    "coverImageUrl": "https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/a821a6a5093197d2_8-7815/home-design.jpg",
    "topics": ["Kitchen Design", "New This Week", "Trends"],
    "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 image URL
topics	string[]	Topic tags
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,
    "createdAt": "2026-04-02T09:15:00Z",
    "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
createdAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the question was posted
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, and think in metros, not cities. A national interior-designer dump pulls thousands of generic results; "Brooklyn, NY" + "interior-designers" returns a focused, sales-ready set for the whole New York metro — about 50 miles around Brooklyn, which means northern New Jersey and Connecticut firms come with it. Pick the metro's name if you want the wider net, or filter the city and state fields afterwards if you need one borough.
• Use includeContacts selectively, but know what it unlocks. Websites, social links, badges, project counts, photo counts, follower counts and license verification are only on a professional's own profile page — a directory-only run returns those columns empty. It costs two extra requests per professional, so narrow your category and city first, then turn it on.
• Two photo filters is the ceiling on a room search, four on a phrase search. "Kitchen" + Blue + Green takes two selections; "kitchen backsplash" + Modern + Mid-range + Compact + Blue takes four. Anything beyond that is skipped and the run tells you which ones it used. To cover more, run them as separate searches and merge the datasets.
• Descriptive phrases keep their words and their filters. "kitchen backsplash" + Blue returns blue kitchens Houzz ranks as backsplash matches, not every blue kitchen it has — the pool is roughly half the size, so twice as much of what you pay for is on target. Room keywords do even better when the phrase carries a hint: "small bedroom" and "modern kitchen" arrive already narrowed to Compact and Modern without spending one of your own picks on it.
• A magazine topic name gets you the curated feed; anything else gets a real search. "Houzz Tours", "Kitchens", "Bathrooms" and the other Houzz Magazine topics return that topic's complete, editor-curated article list. Type a phrase that isn't a topic — "small space living", "japandi bedroom" — and the run searches the magazine for it instead and says so in the log, so you get articles about your phrase rather than the magazine's front page.
• Compare markets by running one category across cities. location narrows the professional directory only (photo searches ignore it), so three runs of "general-contractors" in Austin, Brooklyn and Seattle give you a clean market-density comparison in one dataset.
• Start at 50–100 results, then split deep pulls across seeds rather than one giant cap. Houzz publishes roughly 1,200 distinct professionals per category-and-city and about 5,000 discussions per search, so "every general contractor in the US" is really "every general contractor in each metro you list" — three cities as three runs beat one national run with maxResults: 50000. Photo depth depends on the word you type: a room word ("kitchen") browses that whole room and genuinely goes 50,000 deep, so raise your run's timeout in the Console first, while a phrase ("kitchen backsplash") is a search and stops at about 4,800 however many photos match — over a million do, for that one. To go deeper on a niche, browse the room and filter it rather than describing it.
• Search in the language your audience designs in. "キッチン", "厨房", and other non-Latin keywords run as genuine Houzz photo and forum searches. The professional directory is Latin-only; when a keyword can't be applied there, the run says so by name instead of silently widening the search.

Pricing

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

Apify loyalty discounts apply automatically — the more you have spent on the platform, the less each result costs.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.35	$0.34	$0.32	$0.30
1,000	$3.55	$3.40	$3.20	$3.00
10,000	$35.50	$34.00	$32.00	$30.00
100,000	$355.00	$340.00	$320.00	$300.00

Tiered pricing takes effect on 13 September 2026. Until that date every run is billed at a flat $3.00 per 1,000 results, whatever your discount tier.

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.