# Zolo

> Zolo (Zolo Ventures Ltd.) is one of Canada's largest national residential real estate marketplaces and a licensed brokerage, owned by Questrade Financial Group Inc. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Toronto, it reports 10M+ monthly visitors, 750+ REALTORS(R) and $1.5B+ in annual transaction volume. Zolo publishes **no public API**: no developer portal, no documentation, no machine-readable contract, and no data-licensing programme. This file is generated by API Evangelist from the public evidence, not published by Zolo.

## API posture

- [No developer portal, no API programme](https://www.zolo.ca/): api., developer., developers., docs., data. and partners.zolo.ca do not resolve in DNS and have never appeared in Certificate Transparency.
- [Contract discovery log](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/well-known/zolo-well-known.yml): every /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api-docs, /graphql and /.well-known/* path on www.zolo.ca returns HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare bot challenge.
- [Access is licensed, not open](https://www.zolo.ca/legal-terms): Section 23 of the Terms of Use is a Virtual Office Website (VOW) clause requiring registration, a bona fide buying/selling interest, personal non-commercial use, and prohibiting scraping, data mining, redistribution and sublicensing — enforceable by CREA, TRREB, ITSO, REBGV, Pillar9 and OREB.
- [Not RESO certified](https://www.reso.org/canadian-membership/): Zolo is not a RESO member, holds no Web API or Data Dictionary certification, and exposes no OData $metadata or Universal Property Identifier.

## Public data surfaces

- [New listings RSS feed](https://www.zolo.ca/rss_new_listings.php): RSS 2.0, unauthenticated, declared in robots.txt; title/description/link/pubDate per item, with MLS(R) number, bed/bath counts and price carried in prose. The only genuinely public machine-readable surface.
- [Listings sitemap](https://www.zolo.ca/xmlsitemap-index/listings.xml), [cities](https://www.zolo.ca/xmlsitemap-index/cities.xml), [neighbourhoods](https://www.zolo.ca/xmlsitemap-index/neighbourhoods.xml), [content](https://www.zolo.ca/xmlsitemap-index/content.xml), [index](https://www.zolo.ca/site_map_index_https.php): sitemaps.org XML.
- [schema.org JSON-LD](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/json-ld/zolo-organization.jsonld): site-wide WebSite + Corporation nodes; organization identity only, no listing markup.

## Artifacts (API Evangelist derived)

- [API conventions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/conventions/zolo-conventions.yml): data-access conventions, public surfaces, undocumented surfaces, and the VOW licence model.
- [Conformance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/conformance/zolo-conformance.yml): which standards Zolo meets (robots, sitemaps, RSS, schema.org, IDX/VOW display rules) and which it does not (OpenAPI, GraphQL, OAuth, RESO, RFC 9116).
- [Map listing JSON Schema](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/json-schema/zolo-map-listing.schema.json): observed shape of the undocumented /gallery_map_json.php response. Descriptive only — that endpoint is robots-disallowed and covered by the anti-scraping clause.
- [Packages](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/packages/zolo-packages.yml): no first-party SDK in any registry; two first-party mobile apps (com.ols.zolo) implying a private backend.
- [Domain security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/security/zolo-domain-security.yml): TLS 1.3, HSTS 1y, SPF and DMARC p=reject, no DNSSEC.
- [Well-known probe log](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/well-known/zolo-well-known.yml)
- [robots.txt (verbatim)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zolo/refs/heads/main/well-known/zolo-robots.txt)

## Company

- [Zolo](https://www.zolo.ca/)
- [Blog](https://www.zolo.ca/blog) / [Blog RSS](https://www.zolo.ca/blog/feed/)
- [Contact](https://www.zolo.ca/contact_us.php)
- [Careers](https://www.zolo.ca/careers)
- [Mobile apps](https://www.zolo.ca/mobile) — [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/zolo-real-estate-apartments/id898656833), [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ols.zolo)
- [Terms of Use](https://www.zolo.ca/legal-terms) / [Privacy](https://www.zolo.ca/legal-privacy) / [Legal](https://www.zolo.ca/legal)

## Notes for agents

- There is nothing to sign up for, no key to obtain, and no rate limit to respect, because no API programme exists.
- Automated retrieval of listing data from zolo.ca is prohibited by the Terms of Use and blocked at the Cloudflare edge. Use CREA's REALTOR.ca DDF or a member board's licensed feed for Canadian listing data instead.
- Zolo expresses no AI-crawler preference: robots.txt blocks YandexBot, Baiduspider, trovitBot and Sogou but names no AI agent, and there is no ai.txt, llms.txt or ai-plugin.json.