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$1.39 / 1,000 listing records

Craigslist Scraper – Listings, Prices & Seller Contacts

Scrape Craigslist listings from any city and category. Returns title, price, images, location, post_id, URL, and optionally description, posted date, and structured attributes. No proxy required. Parses server-side JSON-LD — stable against layout changes.

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$1.39 / 1,000 listing records

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Craigslist Scraper — Listings, Prices & Locations

Scrape Craigslist listings from any US city, category, and search query. Get title, price, images, location, post ID, and listing URL — plus optional description, posted datetime, and structured attributes (car specs, condition, odometer, etc.) from detail pages. This Craigslist scraper targets the JSON-LD ItemList block embedded by Craigslist itself — structural schema.org data, not CSS class names — making it immune to layout redesigns. No proxy required. Pay per result at $1.39 per 1,000 listings.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Craigslist.

What you get

Field	Source	Notes
`post_id`	DOM link	10-digit Craigslist post ID
`title`	JSON-LD	Listing title
`price`	JSON-LD	Numeric float; `null` for free/contact items
`price_currency`	JSON-LD	`"USD"`
`city`	JSON-LD	City name (e.g. `"San Francisco"`)
`state`	JSON-LD	State abbreviation (e.g. `"CA"`)
`neighborhood`	Detail page	Sub-city neighborhood; `null` if not set
`latitude` / `longitude`	JSON-LD + detail	Precise coords from detail page when `fetchDetails=true`
`url`	DOM link	Full listing URL
`category`	URL	Category abbreviation (e.g. `"bik"`, `"cto"`)
`area_abbrev`	URL	Metro sub-area (e.g. `"sby"`, `"sfc"`)
`posted_datetime`	Detail page	ISO-8601 UTC; requires `fetchDetails=true`
`image_urls`	JSON-LD	Array of full-size CDN image URLs
`description`	Detail page	Plain-text body; requires `fetchDetails=true`
`attributes`	Detail page	Dict of label→value (condition, make, cylinders, etc.)
`parse_confidence`	Computed	0.0–1.0 data quality score
`warnings`	Computed	List of parse-issue codes
`scraped_at`	Computed	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp

Common city slugs

City	Slug
San Francisco Bay Area	`sfbay`
New York	`newyork`
Los Angeles	`losangeles`
Chicago	`chicago`
Seattle	`seattle`
Austin	`austin`
Boston	`boston`
Denver	`denver`

Full list: https://www.craigslist.org/about/sites

Common category codes

Category	Code
For sale — all	`sss`
Bicycles	`bik`
Cars & trucks by owner	`cto`
Electronics	`ele`
Furniture	`fua`
Apartments	`apa`
Jobs	`jjj`
Clothing	`clt`

Full list: https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/abbreviations

Example input

{
  "city": "sfbay",
  "query": "honda civic",
  "category": "cto",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Example output record

{
  "post_id": "7938685561",
  "title": "2018 Honda Civic EX",
  "price": 18500.0,
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "city": "San Jose",
  "state": "CA",
  "neighborhood": "South Bay",
  "latitude": 37.3403,
  "longitude": -121.9701,
  "url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/d/san-jose-2018-honda-civic-ex/7938685561.html",
  "category": "cto",
  "area_abbrev": "sby",
  "posted_datetime": "2026-06-04T10:51:23+00:00",
  "image_urls": ["https://images.craigslist.org/00h0h_ABC_600x450.jpg"],
  "description": "Clean title, low miles, well maintained...",
  "attributes": {
    "condition": "excellent",
    "cylinders": "4 cylinders",
    "drive": "fwd",
    "fuel": "gas",
    "odometer": "45,000",
    "title status": "clean",
    "transmission": "automatic"
  },
  "parse_confidence": 1.0,
  "warnings": [],
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-04T12:00:00+00:00"
}

How it works

One HTTP request fetches the Craigslist search page for your city/category/query.
JSON-LD parsing (structural, not CSS): Craigslist embeds all results as a schema.org ItemList in the page <head>. Up to ~350 results per query.
DOM link extraction: listing URLs (with post_id, category, area_abbrev) are extracted from <a> tags in the body and matched to JSON-LD items by title slug.
Detail page (optional): each listing's page is fetched for posted_datetime, description, and structured attributes.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.00139 per listing ($1.39 / 1,000 listings).

With fetchDetails=false (default): ~1 request/run → very fast, very cheap.
With fetchDetails=true: 1 + N requests (one per listing) → richer data, proportionally more compute.

Use cases for Craigslist data

Price research — benchmark used car, electronics, or furniture prices across cities
Real estate leads — monitor for-rent and for-sale listings in target neighborhoods
Resale arbitrage — find underpriced items listed by private sellers
Job market intelligence — pull job listings from the jjj category across metros
Academic research — analyze classifieds data for economics or sociology studies
Competitor monitoring — track similar items listed by other sellers in your category

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a proxy? No. Craigslist search pages are server-side rendered and respond 200 from datacenter IPs. No proxy configuration is needed.

How many results per search? Craigslist includes all matching results in one JSON-LD block — typically up to ~350 items per query. For more coverage, run multiple narrowed queries.

How do I get descriptions and car specs? Set fetchDetails: true. This fetches each listing's detail page to extract description, posted_datetime, neighborhood, precise latitude/longitude, and structured attributes (condition, make, cylinders, etc.). This multiplies request count by N listings.

What is fetchDetails=false good for? Fast, cheap bulk listing collection — title, price, images, location, and URL from a single search-page request. Good for price monitoring and deduplication.

What does parse_confidence mean? 0.0–1.0 data quality score. 1.0 = all critical fields extracted. Below 0.7 = Craigslist may have changed its JSON-LD structure; check warnings for affected fields.

Can I scrape multiple cities? Yes — run the actor multiple times with different city slugs, or use Apify's batch run API to fan out across cities in parallel.

Limitations

Results per search: up to ~350 (Craigslist's JSON-LD includes all results in one page).
posted_datetime, description, attributes require fetchDetails=true.
neighborhood is only available on listings where the poster set it.
Craigslist does not expose full posted_datetime on search pages.

Integrations

Built for market researchers and resellers tracking US local listings, pricing trends, and inventory by city and category — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.

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