redfin

A Python wrapper around the unofficial Redfin API.

Maintained fork: prestomation/pyredfin — fixes 403 errors and adds new methods.
PyPI package name: redfin (unchanged from the original reteps/redfin).

Installation

pip install redfin

Or install directly from GitHub (latest fixes):

pip install "redfin @ git+https://github.com/prestomation/pyredfin@main"

Usage

from redfin import Redfin

client = Redfin()

response = client.search('1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA')
url = response['payload']['exactMatch']['url']

initial_info = client.initial_info(url)
property_id = initial_info['payload']['propertyId']

# Get estimated value
avm = client.avm_details(property_id, "")
predicted_value = avm['payload']['predictedValue']
print(f"Estimated value: {predicted_value}")

# Get neighborhood walk/bike/transit scores
stats = client.neighborhood_stats(property_id)
walk_score = stats['payload']['walkScoreInfo']['walkScoreData']['walkScore']['value']
print(f"Walk score: {walk_score}")

What's Fixed

403 Errors (issues #19, #21)

The original library sent user-agent: redfin which Redfin's CDN now blocks with a 403 response. This fork uses a real browser User-Agent by default:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

You can override it:

client = Redfin(user_agent="MyApp/1.0 (contact@example.com)")

Rate Limiting (issue #18)

Add a delay between requests to avoid hitting Redfin's rate limits:

client = Redfin(request_delay=1.0)  # 1 second between requests

The client also automatically handles 429 responses by sleeping the Retry-After header duration and retrying once.

New Methods

neighborhood_stats(property_id)

Returns neighborhood walk score, bike score, transit score, and full address info.

stats = client.neighborhood_stats(property_id)
payload = stats['payload']
walk_score = payload['walkScoreInfo']['walkScoreData']['walkScore']['value']
bike_score = payload['walkScoreInfo']['walkScoreData']['bikeScore']['value']
transit_score = payload['walkScoreInfo']['walkScoreData']['transitScore']['value']
city = payload['addressInfo']['city']
state = payload['addressInfo']['state']

Notes on above_the_fold and info_panel

These methods still exist in the library but may be blocked by Redfin's CDN for some endpoints (returning 403 or incorrect data). They are kept for backward compatibility. Use neighborhood_stats instead for address and scores data.

All Methods

URL-based

• initial_info(url)
• page_tags(url)
• primary_region(url)
• search(query)

Property ID-based

• avm_details(property_id, listing_id) ✅ working
• neighborhood_stats(property_id) ✅ working (new)
• below_the_fold(property_id)
• hood_photos(property_id)
• more_resources(property_id)
• page_header(property_id)
• property_comments(property_id)
• building_details_page(property_id)
• owner_estimate(property_id)
• claimed_home_seller_data(property_id)
• cost_of_home_ownership(property_id)
• above_the_fold(property_id, listing_id) ⚠️ may be blocked by CDN
• info_panel(property_id, listing_id) ⚠️ may be blocked by CDN
• similar_listings(property_id, listing_id)
• similar_sold(property_id, listing_id)
• nearby_homes(property_id, listing_id)
• avm_historical(property_id, listing_id)
• descriptive_paragraph(property_id, listing_id)
• tour_insights(property_id, listing_id)
• stats(property_id, listing_id, region_id)

Listing ID-based

• floor_plans(listing_id)
• tour_list_date_picker(listing_id)

Table ID-based

• shared_region(table_id)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.txt

Original library by Peter Stenger.
Maintained fork by Preston Tamkin.