How to Import a Listing Photo Set Without Downloading Each File

Paste the listing link, pick the photos you want, and they land in your library ready to edit. With real screenshots and the two places it can stall.

The short answer

Open the Media Library, press Import from listing, and paste the Zillow link. Every photo on the listing comes back in a grid with all of them already picked. Untick the ones you do not want, press Import, and they save to your library. It costs no credits, and the imported photos carry an Imported tag so you can tell them apart later.

Why this beats saving each file

The slow way is the one most agents already know. Open the listing, right click a photo, save it, repeat. Then find the folder again when you want to edit. A set of thirty photos is thirty saves and a folder you will lose by Friday.

Importing does the same job in one pass and puts the photos where the editing happens. Once they are in the library they can go straight into a batch edit, a tour, or a share link without being uploaded first.

It is also free. Importing moves photos, it does not change them, so nothing is charged until you actually edit one.

Importing the set, step by step

Nothing here spends a credit, and you can back out at any point before the last step.

Press Import from listing The control sits in the Media Library header, next to Add photos. It opens a small window asking for the listing link.
Paste the listing link Paste the Zillow link and a card appears underneath naming the address it recognized. That card is read from the link itself, so it appears instantly and before anything is fetched. It is your check that you pasted the right property. Any Zillow link works, including the short one the mobile app shares, so you do not need to hunt for the full address version.
Pick the photos you want The window widens into a grid of everything the listing holds, and every photo arrives already picked. That is the common case: most of the time you want the lot. Click a photo to drop it, or use Deselect all and choose a handful instead. The count on the right and the button at the bottom both follow what you have picked.
Press Import and let it run The photos save one at a time with a counter showing how far along it is. The Escape key is ignored while this runs, so a stray keypress cannot stop it halfway. If one photo fails to save, the rest carry on without it.
Find them at the top of your library The window closes itself and the new photos sit at the front of the grid, each one tagged Imported. That tag stays on them. A month later you can still tell which photos came off the listing and which are your own.

The two places it stalls, and what to do

No photos came back. You get a message saying so, and the window opens a second field where you can type the address instead. Reading the listing page and looking the address up are two different routes, and when one fails the other often works.

It is taking a long time. The fetch gives up after about a minute and a half and tells you to try again. Trying again is usually fast. The lookup it started keeps running for a few minutes, so a second attempt picks up the finished answer.

One thing to know before you start: this window takes Zillow links. A link from another site will not turn the Import button on. If your listing lives somewhere else, use the type the address option instead, which works regardless of where the listing is published.

Other ways to do this

Save each photo from the listing page

When it fits: You want two or three specific photos and nothing else. Or the listing is not on Zillow and the address lookup is not finding it.

Trade-off: It always works, because it is just your browser saving a file. It is slow at any real volume, and the photos land in a downloads folder rather than in the library where you edit.

Ask your photographer for the originals

When it fits: The photos will be printed, blown up for a sign, or edited heavily.

Trade-off: You get the full resolution files instead of the compressed copies a listing site serves, which matters for print. You have to wait for someone to send them, and the delivery link usually expires.

Pull them from your MLS back end

When it fits: You are the listing agent and the photos are already in the system you uploaded them to.

Trade-off: It is the most direct source and often gives the originals. Every board's export works differently, and it only covers listings that are yours.

Common questions

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The import is not the clever part. Having the photos already sitting where the editing happens is.

Screenshots on this page were captured from the live Media Library in November 2026. The address shown is an example listing, not a property for sale.