All Forum Posts by: Austin Bright

Gotcha yeah, this kinda stuff is what I’m seeing. If I can scape or use power query on Zillow for free then great, but I think I’ll always have to pay something.

I can query now by building customer URL, grabbing the html, and telling power query which elements from the html to extract. The issue I have with Zillow specifically is that every URL to an address contains an unique identifier called a ZPID. Without knowing how to construct that, or how to find the element in the html, I can’t build a custom url for each address.

I hear you, I’m just trying to understand if they are able to do it (especially for $50), then I’d think I’d should be able to figure it out myself. I use Excel daily and am getting more exposure to power query. If $50 bucks can cover they’re costs, I know there’s a cheaper solution if I look hard enough. I’m trying to use my own skill set to my advantage.

 Ok

 Gotcha, where can I connect power query though? Seems like access to all the APIs/data costs a significant amount of money and that it’s cheaper to use prop stream. I just wanted to check to see if there’s a free data source to plug in the addresses and return the information.

I have a list of addresses. I'd like to pull in beds, baths, sqft, build yr, and lot size. Is there a way to do these lookups in bulk? Such as Excel Power Query, or an API? I'm looking for super low cost, or preferably free. Otherwise, I guess I just stick with Propstream

I realized that Deal Machine now offers free skiptracing with the pro subscription. You can export the info too. Has anyone had experience with the quality of the skiptracing from them? I feel like there's gotta be a catch.

 That’s what I do now. The guy can skip trace thousands of records in a few hours. I’d like to figure out how he does that so I can just do it myself

It looks like a database for deed transfers. I don’t see a way to locate phone numbers?

 What?

I was curious if anyone has tried to use use GPT 4 to search white pages and/or other sites for phone numbers. Would anyone know more about that? If I could have Chat gpt take a list of addresses and return potential phones, that'd be insane.