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Zillow Image Downloader
/**
* NOTE: this specifically works if the house is for sale since it renders differently.
* This will download the highest resolution available per image.
*/
/**
* STEP 1: Make sure to *SCROLL* through all images so they appear on DOM.
* No need to click any images.
*/
/**
* STEP 2: Open Dev Tools Console.
* Copy and paste code below
*/
const script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.4/jquery.min.js";
script.onload = () => {
$ = jQuery.noConflict();
const imageList = $('ul.media-stream li picture source[type="image/jpeg"]').map(function () {
const srcset = $(this).attr('srcset').split(' '); // get highest res urls for each image
return srcset[srcset.length - 2]
}).toArray();
const delay = ms => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms)); // promise delay
// get all image blobs in parallel first before downloading for proper batching
Promise.all(imageList.map(i => fetch(i))
).then(responses =>
Promise.all(responses.map(res => res.blob()))
).then(async (blobs) => {
for (let i = 0; i < blobs.length; i++) {
if (i % 10 === 0) {
console.log('1 sec delay...');
await delay(1000);
}
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.style = "display: none";
console.log(i);
var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blobs[i]);
a.href = url;
a.download = i + '';
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.click();
setTimeout(() => {
window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}, 100);
}
});
};
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
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McMilez commented May 17, 2026

Updated script here:
(() => {
const SCRIPT_NAME = "download-zillow-images.sh";
const FOLDER_NAME = "zillow-images";
const ZIP_NAME = "zillow-images.zip";

const found = new Map();

function cleanUrl(raw) {
if (!raw) return null;

try {
  const url = new URL(raw, location.href);
  url.search = "";

  if (!url.hostname.endsWith("zillowstatic.com")) return null;
  if (!url.pathname.includes("/fp/")) return null;
  if (!/\.(jpe?g|webp)$/i.test(url.pathname)) return null;

  return url.href;
} catch {
  return null;
}

}

function photoKey(url) {
const path = new URL(url).pathname;
return path.match(//fp/([^-./]+)/)?.[1] || path;
}

function qualityScore(url) {
const path = new URL(url).pathname.toLowerCase();

const numbers = [...path.matchAll(/[_-](\d{3,4})(?=[_.-]|\.(?:jpe?g|webp)$)/g)]
  .map(match => Number(match[1]));

const maxSize = numbers.length ? Math.max(...numbers) : 0;
const jpgBonus = /\.(jpg|jpeg)$/i.test(path) ? 25 : 0;

return maxSize * 100 + jpgBonus;

}

function add(raw) {
const url = cleanUrl(raw);
if (!url) return;

const key = photoKey(url);
const existing = found.get(key);

if (!existing || qualityScore(url) > qualityScore(existing)) {
  found.set(key, url);
}

}

function addSrcset(srcset) {
if (!srcset) return;

srcset.split(",").forEach(part => {
  const url = part.trim().split(/\s+/)[0];
  add(url);
});

}

document.querySelectorAll("img, source").forEach(el => {
add(el.currentSrc);
add(el.src);
addSrcset(el.srcset);
});

performance.getEntriesByType("resource").forEach(entry => {
add(entry.name);
});

const html = document.documentElement.innerHTML
.replaceAll("\u002F", "/")
.replaceAll("\/", "/")
.replaceAll("&", "&");

const urlRegex = /https?://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/[^\s"'<>\\]+?.(?:jpe?g|webp)/gi;
for (const match of html.matchAll(urlRegex)) {
add(match[0]);
}

const urls = [...found.values()];

if (!urls.length) {
console.log("No Zillow photo URLs found. Open the full photo gallery, scroll through the photos, then run this again.");
return;
}

const script = `#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

mkdir -p "${FOLDER_NAME}"

cat > zillow-image-urls.txt <<'URLS'
${urls.join("\n")}
URLS

i=1

while IFS= read -r url; do
clean="${url%%\?}"
ext="${clean##
.}"

case "$ext" in
jpg|jpeg|webp) ;;
*) ext="jpg" ;;
esac

out=$(printf "${FOLDER_NAME}/image_%03d.%s" "$i" "$ext")
echo "Downloading $out"

curl -L --fail --retry 3 --connect-timeout 20 \
-A "Mozilla/5.0" \
-e "${location.href}" \
"$url" \
-o "$out"

i=$((i + 1))
done < zillow-image-urls.txt

zip -qr "${ZIP_NAME}" "${FOLDER_NAME}"
echo "Done: ${ZIP_NAME}"
`;

const blobUrl = URL.createObjectURL(
new Blob([script], { type: "text/x-shellscript" })
);

const link = document.createElement("a");
link.href = blobUrl;
link.download = SCRIPT_NAME;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
link.remove();

setTimeout(() => URL.revokeObjectURL(blobUrl), 5000);

console.log(Found ${urls.length} photos.);
console.log(Downloaded ${SCRIPT_NAME}.);
console.log("Then run this in Terminal:");
console.log(cd ~/Downloads && bash ${SCRIPT_NAME});
console.log("Photo URLs:", urls);
})();

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@McMilez :(

Uncaught SyntaxError: expected expression, got '}'
debugger eval code:1
eval-with-debugger.js:304:22
getEvalResult resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole/eval-with-debugger.js:304
evalWithDebugger resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole/eval-with-debugger.js:218
evaluateJS resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole.js:896
evaluateJSAsync resource://devtools/server/actors/webconsole.js:789
makeInfallible resource://devtools/shared/ThreadSafeDevToolsUtils.js:103
enter resource://devtools/server/actors/utils/event-loop.js:82
_pauseAndRespond resource://devtools/server/actors/thread.js:984
onDebuggerStatement resource://devtools/server/actors/thread.js:1970
debugger eval code:1

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