# Rightmove Scraper: UK Property Listings API (`barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper`) Actor

Rightmove API for UK property listings. Paste any Rightmove search URL or pick one of 10 UK cities; get sale and rental listings with price in GBP, address, property type, bedrooms, bathrooms, photos, agent and first-seen date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Philip Kirkbride](https://apify.com/barefoot_grade) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.60 / 1,000 listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Rightmove Scraper: UK Property Listings API

Turn any Rightmove search into a clean dataset. Paste a search results
URL from `rightmove.co.uk`, with every filter you set in the browser, or
pick one of ten major UK cities and choose sale or rent. Each listing
comes back as one record with the price in GBP, address, property type,
bedrooms, bathrooms, photos, the agent and the date the listing first
appeared.

Use it as a Rightmove API for UK property data: schedule it, call it
from your code, or download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel. Rightmove
is the UK's largest property portal, so one search covers most of the
homes on the market in an area.

### What you can do with it

- **Track asking prices in a market.** Re-run the same searches every
  day or week and follow asking prices, stock and new instructions by
  area, property type and bedroom count. Prices are integers in GBP, so
  medians and price bands need no cleanup.
- **Spot new listings first.** Sort a search by newest on Rightmove,
  paste it, and schedule the run. The stable `listing_key` and the
  `first_seen` date show which listings are new since your last run.
- **Build lead lists for agents, mortgage brokers and removal firms.**
  Every record names the selling or letting agent branch, so you can
  see which agents hold stock in a postcode district and how much.
- **Feed a valuation, rental-yield or investment model.** Run a sale
  search and a rental search for the same area and compare asking
  prices with monthly rents by bedroom count.
- **Research a relocation or a portfolio.** Pull every two-bed flat
  under a price cap in several towns into one spreadsheet, with links
  back to each listing and its photos.

### Quick start

1. Open [Rightmove](https://www.rightmove.co.uk/), search for a town,
   postcode or area and set the filters you want (price, bedrooms,
   property type, radius, added to site, sort order).
2. Copy the address of the results page and paste it into **Rightmove
   search URLs**.
3. Set **Maximum results** and run.

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?searchLocation=London&useLocationIdentifier=true&locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&radius=0.0&minBedrooms=2&maxPrice=600000&_includeSSTC=on&sortType=6&channel=BUY&transactionType=BUY"}
  ],
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 30
}
```

Prefer not to paste URLs? The city input still works exactly as before:

```json
{"city": "london", "operation": "sale", "maxPages": 1, "maxResults": 50}
```

### Input

| Name | Type | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `startUrls` | array | empty | Optional. One or more Rightmove sale or rental search results URLs with any filters. When set, these searches run instead of `city`, `operation` and `locationIdentifier`. |
| `operation` | string | `sale` | Sale (`sale`) or rental (`rent`) listings. |
| `city` | string | `london` | `london`, `manchester`, `birmingham`, `liverpool`, `leeds`, `sheffield`, `bristol`, `newcastle`, `glasgow` or `edinburgh`. |
| `locationIdentifier` | string | empty | Optional Rightmove location code such as `REGION^475`; overrides `city`. |
| `maxPages` | integer | `1` | Result pages per search, 1 to 10 (24 listings per page). |
| `maxResults` | integer | `50` | Maximum listings for the whole run, 1 to 500. |
| `requestDelaySecs` | number | `1.0` | Pause between pages, 0.5 to 10 seconds. |

With `startUrls`, `maxPages` applies to each URL, `maxResults` is the
total for the run, and a listing that appears in two of your searches is
returned once. You can paste up to 20 URLs per run.

### Input recipes

**Any town, postcode or filter (pasted URL).** Search on Rightmove,
then paste the results page. Two-bed-plus homes under £600,000 in
London, sorted by newest:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&minBedrooms=2&maxPrice=600000&sortType=6"}
  ],
  "maxPages": 3,
  "maxResults": 72
}
```

**Several rental searches in one run.** Flats to rent under £2,000 a
month in Bristol and Edinburgh:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E219&maxPrice=2000&propertyTypes=flat"},
    {"url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E475&maxPrice=2000&propertyTypes=flat"}
  ],
  "maxPages": 2,
  "maxResults": 96
}
```

**A city, no URL needed.** Rentals in Manchester:

```json
{"city": "manchester", "operation": "rent", "maxPages": 2, "maxResults": 48}
```

**A Rightmove location code.** If you already know the code of an area,
pass it directly:

```json
{"locationIdentifier": "REGION^475", "operation": "sale", "maxResults": 24}
```

### Output

One record per listing:

| Field | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| `listing_key` | Stable key (`rightmove.co.uk:<id>`); use it to deduplicate across runs. |
| `url` | Listing page on rightmove.co.uk. |
| `price_gbp` | Asking price in whole pounds: the sale price, or the monthly rent as listed. |
| `address` | Display address, usually street, town and postcode district. |
| `property_type` | Flat, Apartment, Terraced, Semi-Detached, Detached and so on. |
| `bedrooms`, `bathrooms` | Counts when the listing shows them, otherwise null. |
| `images` | Photo URLs for the listing. |
| `agent_name` | Selling or letting agent branch. |
| `first_seen` | Date the listing first appeared on Rightmove (`YYYY-MM-DD`), when shown. |
| `city` | The city you searched; for a pasted URL, the searched place name. |
| `location_identifier` | Rightmove location code of the search. |
| `operation` | `sale` or `rent`. |
| `source` | `rightmove.co.uk`. |
| `scraped_at` | When the run collected the listing (UTC). |

### Output example

A record from the pasted London search above (run on 2026-10-20; photo
list trimmed to two of its entries):

```json
{
  "listing_key": "rightmove.co.uk:175008980",
  "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/175008980",
  "price_gbp": 450000,
  "address": "St. Quintin Avenue, London, United Kingdom, W10",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "images": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-photo/ad24afe78/175008980/ad24afe78b87621319d07b3fe81d4673.jpeg",
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-photo/ce3070dab/175008980/ce3070dab4b21a9ea0a038bee4e5ffa5.jpeg"
  ],
  "agent_name": "North Kensington",
  "first_seen": "2026-07-22",
  "city": "london",
  "location_identifier": "REGION^87490",
  "operation": "sale",
  "source": "rightmove.co.uk",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-20T04:00:40.755600+00:00"
}
```

In that run all 30 listings had an agent and a first-seen date, and 28
of 30 showed a bathroom count. Listings usually carry 10 to 20 photos.

### FAQ

#### Is there an official Rightmove API?

Rightmove's own data feeds are for estate agents who list with them.
This Actor works as a Rightmove API for everyone else: it returns the
public listings you can see on the website as structured data you can
call from code, schedule or export.

#### Which searches can I paste?

Any Rightmove search results page for property for sale
(`/property-for-sale/find.html`) or to rent (`/property-to-rent/find.html`).
Run the search on Rightmove first so the address contains the location,
then copy it. Single listing pages, commercial property and the
"Property for sale in London" overview pages are not search results and
are rejected with a message.

#### Are my filters kept?

Yes. Price range, bedrooms, property types, radius, "added to site",
"include under offer / sold STC", must-haves and sort order all stay as
you set them, on every page the run reads.

#### How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Rightmove at the time you run it. Nothing is cached
between runs.

#### How many listings can I get?

Rightmove shows 24 listings per page. A run reads up to 10 pages per
search and returns up to 500 listings in total. For a bigger area, split
it into several pasted searches (by price band or postcode district).

#### Does it work for rentals?

Yes. Paste a "to rent" search, or set `operation` to `rent`. For
rentals, `price_gbp` is the monthly rent as listed.

#### Why is a field null?

Some listings do not show a bathroom count, a first-seen date or an
agent. The record keeps the field and sets it to null instead of
guessing.

#### What happens when a page is unavailable?

The run retries temporary failures. If Rightmove keeps refusing, the
run fails with a clear message instead of returning a partial or
misleading dataset.

#### My saved input from an earlier version still works?

Yes. `city`, `operation`, `locationIdentifier`, `maxPages`, `maxResults`
and `requestDelaySecs` behave exactly as before. Pasted URLs are an
optional addition.

#### Is this legal?

The Actor collects publicly visible listing information. You are
responsible for how you use it, including data protection rules for any
personal data such as agent names. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

For help, contact Apify Support and include the run URL.

### Pricing

You pay per listing returned plus a small start event for each run.
The start event is charged per GB of memory, so the
default 512 MB run is one start event. See the Actor's Pricing tab on
Apify for current rates. Total run cost depends on the selected limits and your
Apify plan. Start with a small `maxResults` value and check the run cost
before scheduling larger collections.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste the address of one or more Rightmove sale or rental search results pages (rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html or /property-to-rent/find.html). Every filter you set on Rightmove (price, bedrooms, radius, property type, added to site, sort) is kept. When set, City, Operation and Location identifier below are ignored; Maximum pages applies to each URL and Maximum results to the whole run. Leave empty to search by city.

## `operation` (type: `string`):

Listing operation to search: sale (/property-for-sale/) or rent (/property-to-rent/).

## `city` (type: `string`):

UK city to search. For any other town, postcode district or area, paste a Rightmove search URL in startUrls instead.

## `locationIdentifier` (type: `string`):

Optional explicit Rightmove location identifier (e.g. REGION^87490). Overrides the city lookup; use when a city does not resolve.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Result pages to fetch per search (24 listings per page).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many listings in total.

## `requestDelaySecs` (type: `number`):

Minimum 0.5 seconds.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy. Defaults to the selected country when Apify Proxy is used.

## `apifyProxyGroups` (type: `array`):

Optional platform proxy groups.

## `apifyProxyCountry` (type: `string`):

Optional two-letter country override. Defaults to GB.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [],
  "operation": "sale",
  "city": "london",
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [],
    "operation": "sale",
    "city": "london",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxResults": 50,
    "requestDelaySecs": 1
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [],
    "operation": "sale",
    "city": "london",
    "maxPages": 1,
    "maxResults": 50,
    "requestDelaySecs": 1,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [],
  "operation": "sale",
  "city": "london",
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxResults": 50,
  "requestDelaySecs": 1
}' |
apify call barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,barefoot_grade/rightmove-uk-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7DRXPw22dTOepwsW2/builds/AaJfq2gcHlMEWUmAn/openapi.json