Bulk Upload Your Listings to Zillow
By: Jorrit Van der Meulen, VP, Partner Relations | September 11, 2007
Soon, it will be easier than ever for real estate agents and brokers to put their listings on Zillow. To do that, we’re working on supporting bulk uploads of listings through our new Zillow Listings Feed. Back in June, Jeff Somers wrote about our upcoming support for feeds. Since then, our developers have made massive strides in terms of developing our platform and we are now in the early internal testing phases (no listings via feeds are live on the site yet).
To learn more and to sign-up to be among the first to participate, please visit Zillowfeeds.com and fill out the form. If you already have a XML feed set-up, please include the URL so that our developers can begin looking at it as soon as possible. For those of you wishing to build an XML feed especially for Zillow, we’ve published the Zillow Interchange Format (ZIF), which is the ideal XML feed format.
As we have been out talking to Brokers about displaying their listings online, we have heard a lot of great questions. We took the most frequently asked questions and compiled them into a convenient document called Zillow Listings Feed Guide, An Overview. Questions like “Why Should I Feed To Zillow” and “How Do You Handle Leads” are answered.
If you would like to have a feed built for you, there are a number of technology vendors who specialize in this technology listed here.
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John Wen on September 13, 2007 10:41 am
To help agents to use zillowfeeds, a vedio tutorial may be the best tool for majority of the agents who are not internet savey.
Antonio on September 13, 2007 1:28 pm
Would be even better if they could do themself trough IDX, with just the Realtor consent.
DavidG on September 13, 2007 6:28 pm
John -
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately technical specs don’t really lend themselves to video - click on the links above to see what I mean.
Antonio -
It may well be possible to transform an IDX feed of your listings into the Zillow feed fromat. At least one broker has mentioned they’d take that approach. Why dont you have a developer who’s worked with your IDX look at the spec.?
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Graham on August 12, 2008 8:48 pm
For those who want to syndicate are large number of listings without have to retype them all by hand, we have a program that reads the lisings directly from your database and automatically submits them on a regular basis.
See: http://www.artis-usa.com/Products/RES/RESCorp.asp
Land Incorporated on September 3, 2008 2:05 pm
I have submitted our feed to Zillow twice but no response from them. The feed is at http://landincorporated.com/XMLFeed.xml for Land Incorporated at http://www.landincorporated.com. Wish we could find out if it will work as it does work for Vast, Oodle and others.
George
Land Incorporated
Graham Davis on September 3, 2008 9:23 pm
Unfortunately, one size doesn’t fit all and the structure of your feed doesn’t even come close to the way that Zillows should look (see zillow specs at: http://www.zillow.com/feeds/FeedsSpecs.htm ).
Each syndicate has its own set of specs and seldom does the feed for one site work for any of the others. What sets them apart are things such as required fields, field names, date formats, cData tags and xml structrue. Yours most closely resembles the specs for Googlebase, PropSmart, and Propbot.
I too have been trying to get in contact with zillow, but with out success. It is my impression that they are backlogged by several weeks on new feed submissions.
If I can be of further help, let me know.
Graham Davis
http://www.ARTIS-USA.com
David Gibbons on September 4, 2008 7:57 am
Land Inc. -
Graham’s correct. Your feed can’t be integrated because it isn’t to spec. You should have received an email to that effect - my apologies if you didn’t. You have a few options … you can either develop a new feed to Zillow’s specification or use one of the syndication services that are already integrated to Zillow like Postlets, Vflyer or ListHub. If you create a Zillow feed, please resubmit it for integration.
Graham -
Thanks for your help. I’ve followed up by e-mail - we do have a backlog of feeds to integrate but should be able to get you a status update.
Land Incorporated on December 12, 2008 12:44 pm
Thanks, no I never got any email on it at all. I will look into the others.
Stewart on February 17, 2009 1:35 pm
I can’t seem to get anyone to respond to my emails either. I am trying to setup a new feed but haven’t had any luck, no email saying there is a problem and no listings showing up. Any advise?
http://metronashvilleforeclosures.com/documents/trulia.xml
Graham on February 17, 2009 9:28 pm
Hi Stewart,
Just to confirm, you are submitting to Zillow by using the feed format for Trulia, right? I took a quick look and found a few things that did not meet the specs. You will also want to make sure that you have all the required tags. Here are the things I found:
The spec calls for “zipcode”, and you have “zip-code”
For “display-address”, you have “Yes/No”. The spec has lower case “yes/no”
the “status” tag is in the wrong position. You have it wrapped in the “details” tag
num-bedrooms, num-bathrooms, and year-built appear to be out of position and should be wrapped in the “details” tag
I am not 100% sure on this one, but you may also want to use escape characters in the lp-url instead of wrapping it in a CData tag.
Graham
Stewart on February 18, 2009 11:31 am
Thanks for the info Graham. I made some modifications and got a email from Zillow saying they were backed up…Still don’t know if I will get an email about errors or not.
And yes, I meant to send Zillow this feed, since Zillow is compatable with trulia