Zillow Rent Data Scraper (PPE)

Overview

This Apify Actor scrapes rental property listings from Zillow.com by simulating a map-view search. Instead of scraping individual listing URLs, you define a geographic bounding box and apply filters to collect bulk data efficiently. It's designed for real estate analysis, market research, and lead generation.

Key Features

• Map-based scraping: Define a search area using northeast and southwest latitude/longitude coordinates.
• Filtered results: Apply filters for price range, number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and property type (entire place or room).
• Comprehensive data extraction: Captures addresses, prices, availability, coordinates, listing URLs, and all available photo URLs for each property.
• Structured output: Data is cleaned and saved with absolute URLs for listings and images.
• Built for scale: Uses residential proxies to handle Zillow's blocking and pagination limits.

How to Use

1. Configure Input: In the Apify Console, go to the Input tab and set your search parameters, geographic boundary, and proxy configuration (use Residential Proxies).
2. Run the Actor: Click Start. The actor will scrape data incrementally and save results to the dataset.
3. Get Results: After the run finishes (or during), go to the Storage tab. Open the default dataset to view, preview, or download the data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or other formats.

Input Configuration

The input requires three main sections. For structured fields, you may need to switch the input mode to JSON.

1. Search Query (search_value)

An optional string to define a general search area (e.g., a city or ZIP code).
* Format: String
* Example: "Austin, TX"

2. Search Parameters (search_parameters_section)

A JSON object containing your rental filters.
* Format: Object (JSON)
* Example:

{
  "min_price": 1000,
  "max_price": 3000,
  "min_beds": 1,
  "max_beds": 3,
  "min_bathrooms": 1,
  "max_bathrooms": 2,
  "is_entire_place": true,
  "is_room": false,
  "pagination": 1
}

3. Geographic Boundary (geographic_section)

A required JSON object defining the bounding box for the map search.
* Format: Object (JSON)
* Example:

{
  "ne_lat": 30.6,
  "ne_long": -97.5,
  "sw_lat": 30.0,
  "sw_long": -98.0
}

Tip: Get these coordinates easily by using Zillow's map view in your browser and copying them from the URL, or use a third-party bounding box tool.

4. Proxy Configuration

Select Residential Proxies in the proxy configuration dropdown. This is required on the Apify Platform to avoid blocks from Zillow.

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item represents a rental listing. Typical fields include:
* address
* price
* bedrooms, bathrooms
* latitude, longitude
* zillow_listing_url (full URL to the property page)
* photo_urls (array of direct image URLs)
* availability_date
* square_feet

Data is available for download via the Apify Console in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and other formats.