Craigslist Scraper — Housing, Jobs, Cars & For Sale

Copying Craigslist by hand means opening page after page. Paste a search link from any city and the listings land in your dataset in seconds.

Engineering Excellence & Reliability 🚀

• Search link in, listings out: Apartments, jobs, cars, furniture, free stuff, and every other Craigslist category. A single listing link works too.
• High-velocity collection: Pagination is handled for you. Large searches keep going up to your maxItems. Results land in seconds.
• We bypass the website limitation and go beyond it. Duplicates are skipped.
• Full listing when you want it: Leave fetchFullDetails off for the search card. Turn it on and each row is the listing itself: description, attributes, photos, and map location.
• Clean exports: JSON, CSV, Excel, or API. One listing is one row.

🛠️ How to Play

Open Craigslist, set the city, category, and filters, then copy the address bar. Paste that link as startUrl.

Field	Type	Description
startUrl	String	(Required) Craigslist search URL from your browser. A single listing URL works too.
maxItems	Number	Maximum listings to save. Default: 100.
fetchFullDetails	Boolean	false = search card. true = the listing page replaces the search card.

Example 1: New York apartments

{
    "startUrl": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/apa",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "fetchFullDetails": false
}

Example 2: San Francisco cars

{
    "startUrl": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "fetchFullDetails": false
}

Example 3: One listing, full text

{
    "startUrl": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/new-york-48-west-50th-street-apartment/q8X3uPzhSEJLWpWWWmaouZ",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "fetchFullDetails": true
}

🆓 Free tier limitations

We want you to see how this actor works before you commit. To keep things fair for everyone, the free tier includes these trial limits:

• Sample data: up to 5 items per run.
• Daily cap: 5 runs per calendar day (UTC).
• Between runs: at least 60 seconds before you can start another run.

Upgrade when you're ready!

Use the free tier to decide if this actor fits your project. Paid Apify plans remove these wait times and caps so you can run at full volume—upgrade to a paid plan.

📦 What’s in the Box?

Each row is one listing. This sample is a New York apartment with full details on.

{
  "attributes": [
    {
      "label": "bedrooms",
      "postingAttributeKey": "bedrooms",
      "specialType": "bedrooms",
      "value": "1"
    },
    {
      "label": "bathrooms",
      "postingAttributeKey": "bathrooms",
      "specialType": "bathrooms",
      "value": "1"
    },
    {
      "label": "move-in date",
      "postingAttributeKey": "movein_date",
      "specialType": "date",
      "value": "2026-10-15"
    },
    {
      "label": "application fee details",
      "postingAttributeKey": "application_fee_explained",
      "specialType": "key_value",
      "value": "20 Dollar Application Fee"
    },
    {
      "forSearch": {
        "rent_period": "3"
      },
      "label": "rent period",
      "postingAttributeKey": "rent_period",
      "specialType": "key_value",
      "value": "monthly"
    },
    {
      "forSearch": {
        "housing_type": "1"
      },
      "label": "housing type",
      "postingAttributeKey": "housing_type",
      "specialType": "value",
      "value": "apartment"
    },
    {
      "forSearch": {
        "laundry": "5"
      },
      "label": "laundry",
      "postingAttributeKey": "laundry",
      "specialType": "value",
      "value": "no laundry on site"
    },
    {
      "forSearch": {
        "parking": "7"
      },
      "label": "parking",
      "postingAttributeKey": "parking",
      "specialType": "value",
      "value": "no parking"
    }
  ],
  "body": "Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUEX4wEe5o&amp;t=16s<br>\nWelcome to apartment 4C of 48 West 50th Street, a renovated elevator building located in the heart of Midtown. Available for an immediate lease start, this thoughtfully laid out 1 bedroom apartment features an updated kitchen with a gas stove, a bright living room with street facing views, and a queen sized bedroom. Ideally located between 5th Avenue and Avenue of The Americas, you will be a 5 minute walk to Central Park and steps to many of the neighborhood's best restaurants and stores. You will also be a 5 minute walk to the E and F train. There is a laundromat 2 blocks from the building. This is a walk up building, the apartment is on the 4th floor. The building is pet friendly.<br>\n<br>\nFees to rent this apartment are 1st months rent, 1 month security deposit, 25 dollar application fee. Heat and hot water are included, tenant is responsible for electricity and internet. Tenants must make 40x the rent(160,000) and have good credit(700 and above). Guarantors(personal only) are welcome. Please call for showings/information.<br>\n<br>\nSarah Rosenfeld(Real Estate Salesperson) (Bond New York) (646-335-8383)\n",
  "category": "apartments / housing for rent",
  "categoryAbbr": "apa",
  "categoryId": 1,
  "hasContactInfo": true,
  "images": [
    "3:01717_Fq1nQWrqwj_0ew09U"
  ],
  "location": {
    "area": "new york",
    "areaAbbr": "nyc",
    "areaId": 3,
    "description": "",
    "displayAddress": "",
    "hostname": "newyork",
    "lat": 40.7651,
    "lon": -73.9858,
    "neighborhood": "Midtown West",
    "subArea": "manhattan",
    "subareaAbbr": "mnh",
    "type": "area"
  },
  "notices": [],
  "postedDate": 1792049933,
  "postingId": 7983827550,
  "postingUuid": "q8X3uPzhSEJLWpWWWmaouZ",
  "price": 3950,
  "priceString": "$3,950",
  "recordCreated": 1792049933,
  "repostOf": 7951113670,
  "section": "housing",
  "seeMyOther": 0,
  "streetAddress": 0,
  "title": "48 West 50th Street Apartment 4C",
  "updatedDate": 1792049934,
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/new-york-48-west-50th-street-apartment/q8X3uPzhSEJLWpWWWmaouZ"
}

Contact 📬

Need a custom solution? Have a feature request or just want to chat? We'd love to hear from you!

• 💬 Discord: @azzouzana
• 📧 Email: labs@azzouzana.com

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor is not affiliated with Craigslist. It collects publicly available listings. You are responsible for complying with Craigslist terms and applicable laws. Read more about the legality of web scraping on the Apify blog.

Keywords

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