How to Extract Real Estate Data from Zillow and Realtor.com

Real estate data is one of the most valuable scraping targets. Here's what you can extract and how. What Data Is Available Property listings (address, price, beds, baths, sqft) Historical prices and tax assessments Neighborhood data (schools, crime, demographics) Agent contact information Recent sales (comps) Approach 1: Zillow API (Official) Zillow deprecated their public API in 2021, but alternatives exist: RapidAPI Zillow alternatives — several third-party APIs wrap Zillow data Realtor.com API — available through RapidAPI Redfin — has public data endpoints Approach 2: API-First Scraping Real estate sites load property data via AJAX calls: // Intercept the data loading request const browser = await chromium . launch (); const page = await browser . newPage (); const propertyData = []; page . on ( ' response ' , async ( res ) => { if ( res . url (). includes ( ' property ' ) || res . url (). includes ( ' listing ' )) { try { const json = await res . json (); propertyData . push ( json