Rightmove UK Property Scraper — Rent, Sale & Agent Leads (MCP)

Scrape Rightmove.co.uk, the UK's biggest property portal (60 000+ homes for sale in London alone): for sale, to rent and new homes. Every row already contains what most UK property datasets charge extra for — above all the estate agent's phone number, Rightmove's own new / price-reduced flag, and the tenure, subtype, GPS coordinates, key features and photo URLs.

No browser, no proxies, no Rightmove account: the Actor reads the same data your browser receives from the search page and normalises it into a clean dataset.

What you get per property

Field group	Examples
Identity	rightmoveId, url
Price	price, priceDisplay, priceQualifier (Guide Price, Offers Over…), priceFrequency
Property	bedrooms, bathrooms, propertySubType, tenure (FREEHOLD / LEASEHOLD), propertyType
Address & map	displayAddress, latitude, longitude, countryCode
Content	summary, keyFeatures[], images[] (up to 20 hi-res), numberOfImages, numberOfFloorplans
Timing	listingUpdateReason (new / price_reduced), listingUpdateDate, firstVisibleDate, updateDate, addedOrReduced
Flags	premiumListing, featuredProperty, auction, newHome, onlineViewingsAvailable, productLabel
Agent (leads)	agencyName, agencyBranch, agencyBrand, agencyPhone, agencyBranchId, agencyUrl
Optional detail (fetchDetails)	epcImageUrl (EPC certificate image), floorplanUrls[]
Monitor	isNew, isUpdated, changeType (new / updated / unchanged / closed), oldPrice, firstSeenAt, closedAt

Hard problems this Actor solves for you

1. Rightmove's 1 008-result cap. Every search on Rightmove is silently truncated after index 1008 (~42 pages). A naïve scraper returns the first 1 008 homes and misses the rest. This Actor detects the cap and splits the query recursively: price bands → property types → bedrooms, then merges everything with a unique-id filter. A city-wide scan really is the whole market. You see each split in the run log, e.g. “Cambridge: 1 286 results > 1 032 cap → splitting this query → 1 200 unique properties”.
2. Locations without hunting for internal IDs. Pass plain names the way Rightmove writes them (London, Manchester, Cambridge), postcode districts (SW1W, EH1, M20), a Rightmove identifier (REGION^87490), or paste any full Rightmove search URL (filters, map searches, estate-agent pages) — the Actor builds the right request for every case.
3. Change monitoring that does not guess. monitor mode keeps a per-search history in the Apify key-value store and returns only new, updated (price cuts included, with oldPrice) and closed properties. Closed detection only runs when the scan was complete and error-free — it never flags a property as gone because a request failed or the pagination was truncated.

Typical uses

• Estate-agent & mortgage lead generation — every listing with its agency phone number.
• UK house-price tracking — daily runs with onlyChanges produce a clean price-cut feed (listingUpdateReason: price_reduced, oldPrice → price).
• Buy-to-let sourcing — filter by price band, bedrooms, property type and city.
• Market analytics — supply per postcode district, asking-price distribution, tenure mix, time-on-market (from firstVisibleDate / updateDate).
• Relocation & investment research — full inventory of a city with photos, floorplans and EPC.

Input tips

• mode: search for a one-off extraction, monitor for a daily schedule.
• channel: buy, rent or new-homes (rent mode splits by rent bands and returns monthly prices).
• sortType: 6 = newest first (default) — ideal for fresh listings and monitoring.
• maxResults: global cap on rows returned (and billed). The Actor stops cleanly as soon as it is reached, so a cheap first run costs only a few rows.
• fetchDetails: adds EPC image + floorplan URLs.
• stateKey: leave empty; the monitor key is derived from your search scope, so each search keeps its own history.

Automation, MCP & scheduling

• Schedule: run monitor every day (or hourly) on the Apify platform; unchanged properties are not returned and not charged — only your deltas land in the dataset.
• Webhooks / integrations: connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Zapier, n8n or your own API through the Apify platform.
• MCP-ready for AI agents: this Actor is exposed through Apify's Model Context Protocol server (https://mcp.apify.com) as amygraphics/rightmove-uk-property-scraper, so an AI agent (Claude, Cursor, custom agent) can search, call it and pipe the properties straight into its own workflow. Tools: search-actors, fetch-actor-details, call-actor.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small start fee per run, then one unit per property returned (property-extracted). You only pay for what the run actually produces — and monitor mode does not charge for unchanged properties.

Notes & fair use

This Actor collects publicly available listing data from Rightmove search and detail pages. Use it in line with Rightmove's terms, the UK GDPR for any personal data, and keep request rates polite (the Actor already throttles itself and retries on 429/5xx with backoff).

Use from AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is exposed as a tool through Apify's MCP server — any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code / Copilot, Codex, custom agents) can discover and run it without writing code:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=amygraphics/rightmove-uk-property-scraper" }
  }
}

Then just ask: "Use amygraphics/rightmove-uk-property-scraper to get me every 3-bed house for sale in Manchester under £400k." Agents can also pay autonomously — this Actor is whitelisted for agentic payments (Direct x402 / Apify AGI prepaid token), so no Apify account is required.

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Keywords

Rightmove scraper · Rightmove API alternative · UK property data · property for sale UK · UK real estate scraper · London property scraper · house prices UK · estate agent leads UK · buy-to-let data · property monitoring · rent data UK · new homes UK · real-estate MCP server · AI agent property data.