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Houzz Scraper - Contractors, Designers & Architects Directory

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Houzz Scraper — Home-Pro Directory Leads

Scrape the Houzz professional directory for contractors, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, kitchen & bath pros, and the rest. Get name, profession, phone, full address, rating, review count, badges, and profile URL per record.

What It Does

Two-phase crawl against houzz.com:

  1. Listing walk — picks a profession slug (e.g. general-contractor) or a user-supplied URL and walks the category listing pages (?fi=15, ?fi=30, ... 15 cards per page). Every card on Houzz embeds a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with phone, address, geo coordinates, and the profile URL, so listing mode already carries most of the firmographic payload.
  2. Profile details (optional) — with mode: "both" the scraper also opens each professional's profile page and pulls the long-form bio, company-level JSON-LD, and any additional social links.

Houzz profile pages reject direct-IP requests (HTTP 500 from their anti-bot). The scraper runs behind Apify residential proxy with session keepalive and a canary fetch to confirm the exit IP is healthy before the crawl proper.

Input

Field Type Description
mode string listings (fast — cards only, all core data from JSON-LD) or both (cards + profile bio). Default: listings.
profession string Houzz profession slug (e.g. general-contractor, interior-designer, architect). Leave blank with searchUrls.
minRating number Drop pros with a Houzz rating below this (0–5). Default: 0.
searchUrls array Explicit Houzz URLs. Accepts category listing pages and individual profile pages. Overrides profession.
maxItems integer Cap on returned records. Default: 15. Set 0 for unlimited.
proxyConfiguration object Proxy config. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL in US — required for profile pages.

Sample input

{
  "mode": "listings",
  "profession": "general-contractor",
  "minRating": 4.5,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Or with explicit URLs:

{
  "mode": "both",
  "searchUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/interior-designer/probr0-bo~t_11785" },
    { "url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/goldenline-remodeling-pfvwus-pf~28977151" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

One record per professional. Every field is a scalar or null, except social_links which is an array of external URLs.

{
  "name": "Goldenline Remodeling",
  "profession": "General Contractors",
  "houzz_url": "https://www.houzz.com/professionals/general-contractors/goldenline-remodeling-pfvwus-pf~28977151",
  "description": "High-End Design & Luxury Craftsmanship in Greater LA...",
  "phone": "(424) 280-3130",
  "street_address": "2000 Wattles Drive",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "region": "CA",
  "postal_code": "90046",
  "country": "US",
  "latitude": 34.1074,
  "longitude": -118.3652,
  "image_url": "https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/b663c8de0ec59db7_0-6284/_.jpg",
  "rating": 5.0,
  "reviews_count": 72,
  "hires_on_houzz": 8,
  "verified_license": true,
  "best_of_houzz": true,
  "social_links": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/Goldenline-Remodeling-102333461490745"
  ]
}

Pricing — Pay Per Result

  • $0.002 per record (+ a fixed start fee per run).
  • No seats, no subscriptions. You only pay for records we actually deliver.
  • 100 records ≈ $0.20. 1,000 records ≈ $2. 10,000 records ≈ $20.

If a run fails before any records are saved, you aren't charged for results.

Typical Use Cases

  • Home-services lead generation — pull contractors, remodelers, or designers in your target metro and pipe phone + address into outreach.
  • Market sizing — count professionals per profession and region, with rating and hire counts as proxies for firm scale.
  • CRM enrichment — cross-reference an existing book against Houzz ratings and badges.
  • Vendor shortlisting — filter by minRating and profession, then pass straight into a sales tool.

Notes & Limits

  • Houzz paginates listings in chunks of 15. The scraper walks forward until maxItems is reached or the page count cap (16 pages ≈ 240 cards) is hit.
  • listings mode returns everything you need for outreach — name, phone, address, rating, badges. Only opt into both when you specifically need the long-form bio; it doubles fetch count per record.
  • Residential proxy is not optional. Datacenter IPs and raw direct requests return HTTP 500 from Houzz's profile pages.
  • Houzz occasionally reshuffles card HTML classes. The scraper falls back to multiple selector candidates for each field, but if you see missing data, open an issue.

Issues, feature requests, custom data

Open an issue on the actor's Apify page or message us through the console. Happy to add fields, tune selectors, or build a variant (reviews-only, specific region) if your workflow needs it.

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