Zillow scraping 101: how to scrape Zillow data

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Ever considered diving into real estate data for your next big move or to find your dream home? Learn to scrape housing listings with Zillow Search Scraper.

Zillow.com is a free and extensive property listing platform that offers real estate data. It provides users with information on over 140 million homes, ranging from neighborhood demographics to in-depth property details. This Zillow Search Scraper allows you to extract such data from real estate listings. Let's learn how to use it together.

This scraper can be integrated with existing Zillow scrapers, such as the Zillow ZIP Code Search Scraper 🔗 which scrapes house listings by zip code area.

🏭 Why use Zillow Scraper?

With this Zillow scraper 🔗, you can extract property information data at scale and download it in a number of structured formats, such as JSON, CSV, XML, or as an Excel file. You don’t even need programming or coding skills to use it. You can get more than 2,000 results for free.

Which data can I get from Zillow using this scraping tool?

If you're unsure of how to use Zillow rental data, check out our real estate industry page. Price monitoring, competitor tracking, market research, and property finding. Web scraping has been revolutionizing the real estate industry, allowing you to do all these in a matter of seconds.

🤔 Is there an official Zillow data API?

Zillow offers multiple APIs, such as the Zillow Property Details API and the Zillow Neighborhood Data API, to enable easy access to its comprehensive real estate data.

The Zillow scraper allows you to extract data through Zillow data API without daily call limits.

🏠 How to scrape data from Zillow

Follow this quick and simple step-by-step guide on using the Zillow scraper to extract data from real-state listings or watch our brief YouTube video on the topic.

Step 1. Go to Zillow Search Scraper and click Try for Free

In the Apify Store, search for the Zillow Scraper page, and click the Try for free button. You’ll be redirected from our website to the Apify Console.

If you don’t yet have an Apify account, sign up using your email, Gmail, or GitHub account. You'll start with a free trial. (Don’t worry, no credit card strings attached)

Step 2. Add your desired Zillow URL

What data do you want to extract? Now you can start setting up the Zillow scraper. First, let’s go to Zillow and do a search so we have a starting point. Select the URL(s) related to your chosen categories (sale, rent, recently sold).

Step 3. Click Save & Start ▶️ to run the scraper

While the Zillow Scraper is running, you’ll see the output of the data starts coming in, but it is not done until the status changes to Succeeded.

Step 4. View the results and download Zillow data

We extracted 45 results in a minute! Now, click the Export button to view and download your Zillow housing data.

Note that you can preview your results before downloading them. You can download and export Zillow data to Excel, JSON, CSV, and HTML.

Well done! That's it. You’ve just extracted Zillow's real state data in a couple of minutes!

🏘️ How can I use scraped Zillow housing data?

• Use Zillow housing data to enhance your real estate business, offering extra information to your visitors.
• Gather insights to forecast real estate market trends, monitor population shifts, and spot emerging popular neighborhoods.
• Make wiser investment choices by staying up to date on market changes.
• Automate real estate agency's lead generation to consistently attract and retain the right clients over time.
• Train AI models to predict future trends and speed move when opportunities arise.

❓FAQs

Do I need proxies for scraping Zillow?

Zillow Scraper may have limitations based on the volume of data you want to scrape. Some websites may have anti-scraping measures that could affect the scraping process.

Is it legal to scrape Zillow data?

Yes, it is perfectly legal to scrape publicly available information from the web. Zillow provides a public directory of real estate listings, so scraping Zillow data is perfectly legal. Here you can learn more about the legality of scraping.

Can I use this tool for other tasks as a web scraping API?

Zillow Search Scraper is designed to scrape housing data from Zillow.com. You can feed scraped Zillow datasets through an API into any data project or visualization tool.

Can I use Zillow API in Python?

Yes, by using Apify API. To get access to the Zillow Search API using Python, simply use the apify-client PyPI package. Learn more here 👉 Docs for Python Client.

Can I integrate this Zillow API with other apps?

Yes. Zillow Search Scraper can be connected with almost any web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate Zillow with Zapier, Make, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, LangChain and more.