MCP server overview
What is Zillow Skills?
Zillow Skills (powered by Zillapi) provides Zillow-sourced property data for AI agents: Zestimates, comparable sales (comps), for-sale/sold/rental listings, photos, tax records, schools, and full price history for 160M+ U.S. homes. It’s an independent service (not affiliated with Zillow) designed as a drop-in skill/toolkit for agent frameworks.
How to use Zillow Skills
- Install as an agent skill (examples):
- npx clawhub@latest install zillow-full
- hermes skills install skills-sh/nikhonit/zillow-skills/skills/zillow-full
- npx skills add nikhonit/zillow-skills
- Set your API key in the environment: export ZILLAPI_KEY=“zk_…” (get a free key at https://zillapi.com/signup)
- Call the skill from Claude, ChatGPT agent loops, Cursor, Hermes, or your own automation. The repo provides focused skill variants and a full toolkit.
Key features
- Zestimates and valuation lookups
- Property search by bounding box or location
- Address and URL lookups
- Full price history, taxes, schools, photos, agent info
- Multiple skill variants: zillow-full (complete), zillow-zestimate (lightweight), zillow-search (listings)
- Simple auth via ZILLAPI_KEY and REST/OpenAPI endpoint (https://api.zillapi.com/mcp, openapi: https://zillapi.com/openapi.json)
- Pure Python standard library implementation (no dependencies)
- Free tier with immediate signup (100 credits, no card)
Use cases
- Automated property valuations and comparative market analyses inside AI agent workflows
- Real-estate lead generation and listing discovery for brokers/agents
- Rental market scans and investment property screening
- Augmenting chat assistants (Claude/ChatGPT agents) with live property data
- Building dashboards or analytics pipelines that need property history, photos, and tax data
FAQ
- Is Zillapi affiliated with Zillow?
No. Zillapi is independent and not endorsed by Zillow Group. “Zillow” and “Zestimate” are Zillow trademarks.
- How do I get started and is there a free tier?
Get a free API key at https://zillapi.com/signup (100 credits, no card required). One credit roughly equals one property record returned.
- What are rate limits and pricing?
Free signup includes 20 requests/min. Full pricing is available at https://zillapi.com/pricing. Failed calls do not consume credits.
- Do I need any dependencies to use the skills?
No. The provided Python skills use only the standard library. Installation for agent frameworks is via npx/hermes/skills commands as shown.
- What license governs the project?
MIT No Attribution (MIT-0) — fork and use without attribution.
- How accurate are Zestimates?
Zestimates are provided as sourced data from Zillow via Zillapi. Accuracy varies by market and should be used as guidance, not a formal appraisal.
- Where can I find API docs and source?
API reference: https://zillapi.com/openapi.json; Hosted API: https://api.zillapi.com/mcp; Repo: https://github.com/nikhonit/zillow-skills