scrapehero / zillow_real_estate

Zillow.com Web Scraper written in Python and LXML to extract real estate listings available based on a zip code.

Zillow Real Estate Listing Scraper

This script will scrape Zillow.com, an online real estate database to extract real estate listings available based on a zip code. If you would like to know more about this scraper you can check out our blog post at this link https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-scrape-real-estate-listings-on-zillow-com-using-python-and-lxml/

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Fields

This zillow scraper can extract the fields below

1. Title
2. Street Name
3. City
4. State
5. Zip Code
6. Price
7. Facts and Features
8. Real Estate Provider
9. URL

Prerequisites

For this web scraping tutorial using Python 3, we will need some packages for downloading and parsing the HTML. Below are the package requirements:

• lxml
• requests

Installation

PIP to install the following packages in Python (https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/).

Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the pages (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/install/).

To install python request module:

pip3 install requests

Python LXML, for parsing the HTML Tree Structure using Xpaths (Learn how to install that here – http://lxml.de/installation.html) Installing lxml:

pip3 install lxml

Running the scraper

You must run the script using Python with arguments for zip code and sort. The sort argument has the options ‘newest’ and ‘cheapest’ listings available. As an example, to find the listings of the newest properties up for sale in Boston, Massachusetts we would run the script as:

python3 zillow.py 02126 newest

Sample Output

This will create a csv file:

Sample Output

zillow_real_estate's Issues

No output in .csv file

When I run the file I don't get any output in the .csv file.

No module named 'unicodecsv'

Getting this issue on m2 macbook with python 3.10.9, pip 23.1.2:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/enos/zillow_real_estate/zillow.py", line 3, in
import unicodecsv as csv
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'unicodecsv'

returns empty dataset using testcase

csv is blank

Is this repo still updated?

Wondering because I'm gonna go house hunting and I'm going to start writing my own scraper if necessary.

I'd imagine that A LOT has changed with the API / UI so writing from scratch might be more ideal.