Zoopla

Overview

You can extract data from Zoopla.co.uk using Web Scraper API. All you have to do is provide a Zoopla.co.uk URL while submitting your job.

To retrieve data from Zoopla.co.uk:

1. Make a POST request to the https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries endpoint.

2. The JSON payload that you post should contain the "source": "universal" and "url": "https://some.zoopla.url/" parameters.

Input

When submitting a job, you have to send your job parameters inside a JSON payload. See the example below for more details:

Query parameters

Parameter	Description	Value examples
source	Data source. More info.	universal
url	Link to a Zoopla.co.uk page.	https://zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/some_listing_url
user_agent_type	Device type and browser. The full list can be found here.	desktop
geo_location	Geo-location of a proxy used to retrieve the data. The complete list of the supported locations can be found here.	United Kingdom
locale	Locale, as expected in the Accept-Language header.	en-US
render	Enables JavaScript rendering. More info on executing JavaScript with Scraper APIs.	html

- required parameter

Code examples

JSON

{
    "source":"universal",
    "url":"https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing"
}

cURL

curl --user "USERNAME:PASSWORD" \
'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"source": "universal", "url": "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing"}'

Python

import requests
from pprint import pprint


# Structure payload.
payload = {
    "source": "universal",
    "url": "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing",
    #"render": "html", # If page type requires
}

# Get response.
response = requests.request(
    'POST',
    'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
    auth=('YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD'), #Your credentials go here
    json=payload,
)
pprint(response.json())

PHP

<?php

$params = array(
    'source' => 'universal',
    'url' => 'https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing',
    //'render' => 'html', // If page type requires
);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "YOUR_USERNAME" . ":" . "YOUR_PASSWORD"); //Your credentials go here

$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main()
        {
            const string Username = "YOUR_USERNAME";
            const string Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

            var parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>()
            {
                { "source", "universal" },
                { "url", "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing" },
                //{ "render": "html" }, // If page type requires
            };


            var client = new HttpClient();

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://realtime.oxylabs.io");
            client.BaseAddress = baseUri;

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/v1/queries");
            requestMessage.Content = JsonContent.Create(parameters);

            var authenticationString = $"{Username}:{Password}";
            var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
            requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);

            var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
            var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            Console.WriteLine(contents);
        }
    }
}

Golang

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
	const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

	payload := map[string]string{
		"source": "universal",
		"url": "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing",
		//"render": "html", // If page type requires
	}

	jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(payload)

	client := &http.Client{}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
		"https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
		bytes.NewBuffer(jsonValue),
	)

	request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
	response, _ := client.Do(request)

	responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}

Java

package org.example;

import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class Main implements Runnable {
    private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
    public static final String USERNAME = "YOUR_USERNAME";
    public static final String PASSWORD = "YOUR_PASSWORD";

    public void run() {
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
        jsonObject.put("source", "universal");
        jsonObject.put("url", "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing");
        //jsonObject.put("render", "html"); // If page type requires

        Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
            String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);

            return response
                    .request()
                    .newBuilder()
                    .header(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, credential)
                    .build();
        };

        var client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                .authenticator(authenticator)
                .build();

        var mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
        var body = RequestBody.create(jsonObject.toString(), mediaType);
        var request = new Request.Builder()
                .url("https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries")
                .post(body)
                .build();

        try (var response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
            assert response.body() != null;
            System.out.println(response.body().string());
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            System.out.println("Error: " + exception.getMessage());
        }

        System.exit(0);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Thread(new Main()).start();
    }
}

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
const body = {
  'source': 'universal',
  'url': 'https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing',
  //'render': 'html', // If page type requires
};
const response = await fetch('https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries', {
  method: 'post',
  body: JSON.stringify(body),
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString('base64'),
  }
});

console.log(await response.json());

The example above uses the Realtime integration method. If you would like to use some other integration method in your query (e.g., Push-Pull or Proxy Endpoint), refer to the integration methods section.

Although we do not have a dedicated parser for Zoopla, you can write your own parsing instructions with Custom Parser feature and get structured data.

Output

An example of a response that you can expect to get from the Realtime endpoint:

{
  "results": [
    {
      "content": "<html>
      ZOOPLA.CO.UK PAGE CONTENT
      </html>"
      "created_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:01",
      "updated_at": "2019-10-01 00:00:15",
      "id": null,
      "page": 1,
      "url": "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61073315/?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing",
      "job_id": "12345678900987654321",
      "status_code": 200
    }
  ]
}