zillow

A browser-based guide for collecting home-sale listings from Zillow, a US real-estate website. It explains how to get through Zillow’s bot checks and read the search results embedded in the page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect public listings for a city or search page, including the result data stored in the page’s JSON.
Why use it?
Direct requests can be rejected with a 403 error, and a browser session can remain blocked by stored cookies. This guide explains how to recover the session and avoid unnecessary API or scrolling work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agentcomputerai/torch/zillow
Any agent
npx skills add AgentComputerAI/torch --skill zillow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgentComputerAI/torch

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,381 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00112 $0.02381
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01190
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00476
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00238

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4d24b64f7d62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zillow scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

description: Proven scraping playbook for zillow.com /homes/for_sale/ search pages. CloudFront + PerimeterX (HumanSecurity) gates raw curl with HTTP 403 `x-px-blocked: 1`. A puppeteer.connect() to the user's real Chrome
skills/sites/zillow/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zillow (zillow.com)

Server-rendered Next.js search pages behind CloudFront + PerimeterX. Once a session is flagged ("Access to this page has been denied"), every subsequent navigation in that browser context returns the deny page until cookies are cleared. The fix is mechanical: clear cookies, hit Google first, then go to the search URL. After that, all 41 results for a city search are sitting in __NEXT_DATA__ as a single JSON blob — no API replay, no scrolling tricks needed.

Detection

Signal Value
CDN CloudFront (server: CloudFront, via: 1.1 …cloudfront.net)
Anti-bot PerimeterX / HumanSecurity (x-px-blocked: 1 on block, _px* cookies on allow)
Framework Next.js (__NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob)
Auth None for search results
Robots Disallows /search-results, but /homes/ listing pages are public

Bare curl/fetch returns HTTP 403 with a 5.8KB CAPTCHA HTML. Even a real Chrome session gets stuck on "Access to this page has been denied" once a previous tab in that profile got flagged — the deny verdict is sticky in cookies.

Architecture

  • /homes/for_sale/<city>-<state>/ is server-rendered. The full first page of ~41 listings is embedded in <script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json"> at props.pageProps.searchPageState.cat1.searchResults.listResults (or any nested listResults array — walk the tree).
  • The zillow.com homepage and search pages share the same PerimeterX cookie (_pxhd, _px3). A clean session fetched via Google → search URL gets a clean PX challenge that auto-passes.
  • Pagination uses ?searchQueryState=<urlencoded JSON> with a pagination.currentPage field. Cursor-style; not needed for a scout run.

Strategy used

  • Phase 0 (curl): 403, x-px-blocked: 1. Skip.
  • Phase 1 (framework recon): Confirmed Next.js, but couldn't fetch HTML to parse. Skip.
  • Phase 2 (browser via the real Chrome debug port): Works after cookie clear + Google warmup. This is the canonical path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 182 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4d24b64f7d62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zillow is a skill published in the GitHub repository AgentComputerAI/torch (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,381 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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