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When searching on Zillow using an address, the URL looks like this:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/{Street}", -"{City}," -"{State}" "{PostalCode}_rb/

However, there seems to be no documentation regarding the use of geographic coordinates in such a url.

How to use latitude and longitude instead of an address?

roeygol
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An answer in Can I search Zillow using latitude and longitude coordinates? - Zillow Questions (the 1st Google result on "Zillow search by coordinates") dated 03.2015 gives an example:

http://www.zillow.com/homes/#/homes/for_sale/fsba,fsbo,new_lt/1_pnd/88.769211,-70.092773,-90,-158.686523_rect/3_zm/0_mmm/

Testing shows that only the http://www.zillow.com/homes and /88.769211,-70.092773,-90,-158.686523_rect parts are required. It's x0,y0,x1,y1 (the direction between the points can be any). (The coordinates in the example are quite strange and specify an area up to the North Pole. More realistic ones are e.g. 53.67068,-71.323242,13.453737,-127.045898_rect.) Since the last test, the technique stopped working. Moreover, coordinates appear to have vanished from property details as well!

There is no way provided to bring up a specific object by coordinates - they are instead uniquely identified by an ID (ZPID - Zillow Property ID) - and the way to bring up one as of now is e.g. http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7044216_zpid/.

A possible reason is there's no way to guarantee that coordinates identify anything or identify something uniquely. I.e. coordinates are conceptually a search term rather than a means of identification.

Finally, do keep in mind that all this is undocumented and is subject to change (you can already see one quite-a-change above). They only support API as the means to access their services programmatically.

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  • Thanks so much for your help. A URL of http://www.zillow.com/homes/88.769211,-70.092773,-90,-158.686523_rect only brings up a map of Canada. What step am I missing? An example of a property I would like to locate via URL is: Lat: 40.421776994149 Long: -74.148830107375 – JJB Sep 29 '15 at 18:00
  • Please ignore the above comment! Thanks so much for your help. An example of a property I would like to locate via URL is: Lat: 40.421776994149 Long: -74.148830107375 So, the URL would look like: http://www.zillow.com/homes/40.421776994149,-74.148830107375,40.421776994149,-74.148830107375_rect if I want to zero-in on the specific property, right? Doing so does not result in anything. What am I missing? – JJB Sep 29 '15 at 18:06
  • The coordinates are quite strange and, indeed, specify an area up to the North Pole. I only copied them from the example. More realistic ones are e.g. `53.67068,-71.323242,13.453737,-127.045898_rect` – ivan_pozdeev Sep 29 '15 at 21:27