Query external data

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Hi. I’m brand new to AppSheet with experience in other low code environments. I am looking to build an app to which a user will input basic property details such as the property address, zip code, sqft of the property, number of beds and bathrooms etc.

when the user clicks the submit button, the app will then query a real estate website such as Zillow and query the surrounding area for properties sold in the last year that have matching attributes of what the user inputted originally.

Is this something that can be done? I assume I would need an API from the website (ie Zillow) and perhaps somehow pass the property attributes as parameters for the query?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

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You can use Appsheet as a front end and as a app to enter data for a search. But you would need something more than Appsheet backend to do the search and match to the other database. But after that, you can retreive these data to Appsheet again, and also get a list or URL links in Appsheet they can choose from.

But if you can fetch the data to a DB used by Appsheet, you can ofcourse make Appsheet search and match there.

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Appreciate the insights. Not sure how I would do what you mentioned. I’ll have to keep digging around for various techniques.

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