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# [How to scrape Zillow](https://serpapi.hashnode.dev/how-to-scrape-zillow?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Scrape Zillow real estate listings with SerpApi in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or with just plain cURL. Retrieve homes for sale, rentals, and recently sold properties in structured JSON.

Sep 7 · 14 min read · serpapi.hashnode.dev  
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[OnlineProxy](https://hashnode.com/@onlineproxyio)

[Sep 8](https://hashnode.com/posts/how-to-scrape-zillow/6a9ebce45a1daa2e985af886/comment/6a9fc8c23b22db02c897a59a)

the guide kind of buries that rent searches need a lot\_id fallback in your dedup keys, otherwise apartment buildings get counted twice wherever map\_bounds tiles overlap. also that free cache on identical searches within an hour deserves way more attention than a pagination footnote, it changes how you schedule collection jobs since repeat hits cost nothing. watch out with time\_on\_zillow too, it caps listing age server side so anything older than your filter never reaches the client, we read days\_on\_zillow ourselves and widen the query when we need to see what got filtered out. and the response only gives current price fields, no real history, so we snapshot every run and diff against previous ones, that's what actually makes price drop alerts reliable since price\_reduction just means there was some reduction, not that it was recent