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Hey guys,

Anybody have any tips for scraping realtor email addresses from Zillow, Realtor.com, and other real estate sites? I'm not having much luck... probably due to email addresses being hidden behind javascript.
 
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Funnel, SB doesn't grab anything behind JS. A custom scraper would take me about 2 hours to build.

My suggestion is to just write your own. What's your purpose for scraping realtor emails?
 
Cnotey said:
Funnel, SB doesn't grab anything behind JS. A custom scraper would take me about 2 hours to build.

My suggestion is to just write your own. What's your purpose for scraping realtor emails?
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Thanks for the reply... I came to the same conclusion and am stuck. I'm also using FB Candy to scrape realtor groups on FB, but I'm seeking agents in a certain location and can't find any sizable groups in that area to scrape from.

Where can I learn to build my own scraper?

I'm doing some work for a mortgage broker... looking to send cold emails from a private, multi-server bulk mailer system that I've had someone create for me.
 
Funnel Hacker said:
Thanks for the reply... I came to the same conclusion and am stuck. I'm also using FB Candy to scrape realtor groups on FB, but I'm seeking agents in a certain location and can't find any sizable groups in that area to scrape from.
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Real estate for rent <city name>
Real estate for sale <city name>

Other variations of the above.

You'll find groups like this one - https://www.facebook.com/groups/521333748007827/about/
 
Funnel Hacker said:
Hey guys,

Anybody have any tips for scraping realtor email addresses from Zillow, Realtor.com, and other real estate sites? I'm not having much luck... probably due to email addresses being hidden behind javascript.
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When I just randomly checked 2 I only see contact forms no click here to get email etc... which makes sense as they want control over the traffic and thus selling realtors the value of why they need their site.
Craigslist you can easily grab that info , but again it's just an email forwarder most of the time (unless they went for posting their actual info. Do you have any examples where the email would be hidden by some button etc.?
 
Well, I would think you could have a custom scraper built for less than $100. Would be pretty basic though.

You can learn by looking up Python/Beautiful Soup videos.

You should be able to do it yourself in about 3-4 days.
 
Instead of scraping the emails, why not directly contacting Realtors through the provided contact forms? 100% inbox rate.
 
M4DM4X said:
Instead of scraping the emails, why not directly contacting Realtors through the provided contact forms? 100% inbox rate.
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That's great for deliverability but I'm looking to automate the process. I've got a multi-server bulk email system that reaches inbox so I'm not concerned about inbox rate. I'm more concerned about time. It would take me forever to do contact forms on each one lol.
 
Funnel Hacker said:
That's great for deliverability but I'm looking to automate the process. I've got a multi-server bulk email system that reaches inbox so I'm not concerned about inbox rate. I'm more concerned about time. It would take me forever to do contact forms on each one lol.
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Just do a custom bot to submit instead of scraping
 
Cnotey said:
Well, I would think you could have a custom scraper built for less than $100. Would be pretty basic though.

You can learn by looking up Python/Beautiful Soup videos.

You should be able to do it yourself in about 3-4 days.
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Hey man, do you know of any good resources to help me learn? This one is pretty good -- but I've not been successful. Python & BeautifulSoup4 are both installed and the script it working but the exported spreadsheets contain no data. Not sure if it's a change with Zillow or user error on my end. If you've got any resources I'd love to check them out.

github.com/lazorfuzz/python-zillowscraper/blob/master/zillow.py
 
I personally use a program called Outwit Hub which allows you to build custom scrapers for sites. It also has some nice auto features as well, one of which is an string generating tool. Once you build a scraper, you can use the URL string generation tool to create a mass list of URLs for scraping. I have the base Hub program (they have three different levels but I haven't really needed the features of the others) You can download it as a trial - I believe its limited to 100 scrape results in the unlicensed version. There beginner tutorials are enough to get you going but the documentation is spotty and or old. I've had to find my way on a couple of things but for what you're doing it would work pretty well.
 
A two step process might be to use scrapebox to find all of the Realtor websites on their profile pages and then open that list in scrapebox and use the "Grab emails From Local List" in the "Grab/Check" right hand dropdown.
 
ecarder said:
A two step process might be to use scrapebox to find all of the Realtor websites on their profile pages and then open that list in scrapebox and use the "Grab emails From Local List" in the "Grab/Check" right hand dropdown.
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Good thoughts my friend I appreciate the insight.
 
Actually you might want to skip zillow/realtor. I was thinking about what end result you want and realized it may be easier for you to use scrapebox to to find local realtors by using the keyword "Realtors in *location" and "Real estate agents in *location* in the keyword area to harvest local real estate agencies (like if you were doing a NAP check) and then use the grab email dropdown. Does that make sense?
 
ecarder said:
Actually you might want to skip zillow/realtor. I was thinking about what end result you want and realized it may be easier for you to use scrapebox to to find local realtors by using the keyword "Realtors in *location" and "Real estate agents in *location* in the keyword area to harvest local real estate agencies (like if you were doing a NAP check) and then use the grab email dropdown. Does that make sense?
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It does make sense.

I bought ScrapeBox a few weeks ago but haven't learned how to use it yet.

I need to get around to doing that.
 
Funnel Hacker said:
Hey guys,

Anybody have any tips for scraping realtor email addresses from Zillow, Realtor.com, and other real estate sites? I'm not having much luck... probably due to email addresses being hidden behind javascript.
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Hey, I'm trying to build a large list of Realtor email addresses in all locals myself. I've been using Scrapebox for over a month now, and the results are not as great as anticipated. Please don't misunderstand me, I thins Scrapebox is an awesome tool, but it's been difficult to gather a precise, narrow list. Let me know if you have any success on your end, and I'll do the same for you...
 
myfoxteam said:
Hey, I'm trying to build a large list of Realtor email addresses in all locals myself. I've been using Scrapebox for over a month now, and the results are not as great as anticipated. Please don't misunderstand me, I thins Scrapebox is an awesome tool, but it's been difficult to gather a precise, narrow list. Let me know if you have any success on your end, and I'll do the same for you...
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How are you going about getting that list?
 
I've been using Scrapebox, but finding URL's to scrape has not been easy. Most of the Real Estate Agent sites are not displaying their email addresses. Instead, their using optin forms to get your info...Let me know what's working on your end
 
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