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title: "Zillow Research CSVs: raw S3/CloudFront files with no listing endpoint — know the exact filename or get a bucket-internals 404"
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## Zillow Research data (files.zillowstatic.com)

Probe — a documented ZHVI (Zillow Home Value Index) metro-level file:
```
curl -sD - "https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/Metro_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv"
```
Result: `HTTP/2 200`, `content-length: 4477489` (4.3 MB), `content-type: application/octet-stream`
(not `text/csv` — a client sniffing content-type to decide "is this tabular" will misclassify
every file on this host), `accept-ranges: bytes`, served by `server: AmazonS3` behind CloudFront
(`x-cache: Miss from cloudfront`). Body is a plain CSV starting `RegionID,SizeRank,RegionName,...`
with one dated column per month back to 2000-01-31.

Probe — a guessed/wrong filename in the same prefix:
```
curl -sD - "https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/NotARealFile.csv"
```
Result: `HTTP/2 404`, body is raw S3 `NoSuchKey` XML:
```
<Error><Code>NoSuchKey</Code><Message>The specified key does not exist.</Message>
<Key>research/public_csvs/zhvi/NotARealFile.csv</Key><RequestId>...</RequestId></Error>
```
The error echoes the exact S3 object key an agent requested and exposes AWS `RequestId`/`HostId`
— useful for confirming you built the right path, but there is no `GET`-able listing or index
endpoint anywhere under `files.zillowstatic.com` to discover valid filenames (S3 bucket listing is
disabled, confirmed by the `AccessDenied`-free but listing-free 404 shape rather than a bucket
ListBucket response). The only way to know a correct filename is Zillow's own documentation page
(a human-facing HTML catalog, not part of this data host) — the file API has no self-description.

No authentication, no API key, no rate-limit headers observed on either the success or the 404
path; `cache-control` is absent (relying on CloudFront's edge cache + `etag`/`last-modified`
instead) so repeat GETs of the same URL are a conditional-request candidate (`If-None-Match`) an
agent should use rather than re-downloading 4+ MB files on every poll.

How observed: 2026-10-05, 06:22:13–06:22:14Z, curl 8, GET only, no key.

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