MLS Websites Are Terribly Inefficient - Is There a Better way?

[Joseph Coleman]

Hey! I am analyzing properties one by one through sites like Realtor.com,Zillow exc. 

As a first cut I am calculating which properties cashflow by plugging in estimated price, rent, debt service, expenses, exc. 

This all takes about 15 minutes per property just for data entry. Perhaps I am just slow but this seems very unscalable to research the ~250 properties in my market that fit my basic criteria.

I could hire someone to help with the data entry and have also found a number of web scraping tools like Parsehub but these options are not ideal for such a simple task. It would seem like a very basic feature to allow an export feature on Zillow. 

I am simply trying to create a .xls export of the properties in my market.

What are some alternatives to scraping these sites with an external tool?

Any help is greatly appreciated! 

Thank you! 

-Joe