# OnTheMarket Scraper — UK Property, Prices & Days Listed (`bovi/onthemarket-properties-scraper`) Actor Scrape OnTheMarket UK property listings by location & operation (sale/rent). Returns numeric price, days listed, Reduced flag, agent name & phone, GPS, images, parse confidence per record. Pay per result. - **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/onthemarket-properties-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community) - **Categories:** Real estate, Business - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $1.89 / 1,000 property results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## OnTheMarket Properties Scraper Scrape property listings from [OnTheMarket.com](https://www.onthemarket.com) — the UK's leading property portal. Extract properties for sale or to rent by location, with bedroom, bathroom, and price filters. ### What you get (20+ fields per property) | Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | `id` | OTM property ID | | `title` | Full property title (e.g. "2 bedroom flat for sale") | | `operation` | `sale` or `rent` | | `property_type` | Flat, House, Studio, etc. | | `address` | Full address string | | `price` | Numeric price in GBP | | `price_text` | Original price string (e.g. "£300,000") | | `price_qualifier` | e.g. "Offers in excess of", "Guide price" | | `bedrooms` | Number of bedrooms | | `bathrooms` | Number of bathrooms | | `location_lat` / `location_lon` | GPS coordinates | | `agent_name` | Estate agency name | | `agent_telephone` | Agent phone number | | `url` | Direct link to the property listing | | `images` | Array of image objects (default + webp URLs) | | `thumbnail` | First image URL | | `days_listed` | Listing age label (e.g. "Added today", "Reduced > 14 days") | | `recently_added` | Boolean | | `reduced` | Boolean — price was reduced | | `exclusive` | Boolean — OTM exclusive listing | | `features` | Array of property feature strings | ### Input | Parameter | Type | Description | |-----------|------|-------------| | `operation` | string | `sale` or `rent` (default: `sale`) | | `location` | string | Location slug from OTM URL (e.g. `london`, `manchester`, `bristol`) | | `minBeds` | integer | Minimum bedrooms | | `maxBeds` | integer | Maximum bedrooms | | `priceMin` | integer | Minimum price (GBP) | | `priceMax` | integer | Maximum price (GBP) | | `maxItems` | integer | Max properties to return (default: 100; 0 = all) | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy settings (RESIDENTIAL GB recommended) | #### Finding the location slug Visit OnTheMarket.com, search for a location, and copy the slug from the URL: - `https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/london/` → slug is `london` - `https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/west-london/` → slug is `west-london` - `https://www.onthemarket.com/to-rent/property/edinburgh/` → slug is `edinburgh` ### Pricing **Pay per result** — you are charged only for properties actually returned: - `property-item`: £0.002 per property ($2 per 1,000) ### Usage examples **50 cheapest 2-bed flats for rent in London under £2,500/month:** ```json { "operation": "rent", "location": "london", "minBeds": 2, "maxBeds": 2, "priceMax": 2500, "maxItems": 50 } ```` **All 3+ bed houses for sale in Manchester between £200k–£500k:** ```json { "operation": "sale", "location": "manchester", "minBeds": 3, "priceMin": 200000, "priceMax": 500000, "maxItems": 200 } ``` ### Technical notes - **Data source**: `__NEXT_DATA__` embedded Redux state (no scraping of CSS classes — structural JSON extraction only). - **Proxy**: Apify RESIDENTIAL GB proxy prefilled — recommended for reliable access. - **Pagination**: up to 34 pages × 30 results = ~1,020 properties per search (OTM platform limit). - **Parse confidence**: every record includes `parse_confidence` (0–1) and `warnings` so you know immediately if OTM changed their data structure. # Actor input Schema ## `operation` (type: `string`): Whether to scrape properties for sale or to rent. ## `location` (type: `string`): Location slug as it appears in OnTheMarket URLs, e.g. 'london', 'manchester', 'birmingham', 'bristol', 'edinburgh'. Visit onthemarket.com, pick a location, and copy the slug from the URL path (the part after /for-sale/property/). ## `minBeds` (type: `integer`): Minimum number of bedrooms. Leave blank for no lower bound. ## `maxBeds` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of bedrooms. Leave blank for no upper bound. ## `priceMin` (type: `integer`): Minimum price in GBP. For sale: purchase price; for rent: monthly price. Leave blank for no lower bound. ## `priceMax` (type: `integer`): Maximum price in GBP. For sale: purchase price; for rent: monthly price. Leave blank for no upper bound. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of properties to return across all pages. Set to 0 for all available results. Default 100. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. OnTheMarket has moderate anti-bot protection. Apify Residential proxy with country GB is recommended for reliable results. ## Actor input object example ```json { "operation": "sale", "location": "london", "maxItems": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" } } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "location": "london", "maxItems": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("bovi/onthemarket-properties-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "location": "london", "maxItems": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB", }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("bovi/onthemarket-properties-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "location": "london", "maxItems": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" } }' | apify call bovi/onthemarket-properties-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/onthemarket-properties-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "OnTheMarket Scraper — UK Property, Prices & Days Listed", "description": "Scrape OnTheMarket UK property listings by location & operation (sale/rent). Returns numeric price, days listed, Reduced flag, agent name & phone, GPS, images, parse confidence per record. Pay per result.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "YcwxX7umThAm3ZNc7" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/bovi~onthemarket-properties-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-bovi-onthemarket-properties-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/bovi~onthemarket-properties-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-bovi-onthemarket-properties-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/bovi~onthemarket-properties-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-bovi-onthemarket-properties-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "location" ], "properties": { "operation": { "title": "Operation", "enum": [ "sale", "rent" ], "type": "string", "description": "Whether to scrape properties for sale or to rent.", "default": "sale" }, "location": { "title": "Location", "type": "string", "description": "Location slug as it appears in OnTheMarket URLs, e.g. 'london', 'manchester', 'birmingham', 'bristol', 'edinburgh'. Visit onthemarket.com, pick a location, and copy the slug from the URL path (the part after /for-sale/property/)." }, "minBeds": { "title": "Min bedrooms", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Minimum number of bedrooms. Leave blank for no lower bound." }, "maxBeds": { "title": "Max bedrooms", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of bedrooms. Leave blank for no upper bound." }, "priceMin": { "title": "Min price (GBP)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Minimum price in GBP. For sale: purchase price; for rent: monthly price. Leave blank for no lower bound." }, "priceMax": { "title": "Max price (GBP)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum price in GBP. For sale: purchase price; for rent: monthly price. Leave blank for no upper bound." }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max properties to scrape", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of properties to return across all pages. Set to 0 for all available results. Default 100.", "default": 100 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings. OnTheMarket has moderate anti-bot protection. Apify Residential proxy with country GB is recommended for reliable results.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```