Rightmove UK Property Scraper

Extract UK property listings from Rightmove.co.uk — the largest UK property portal. Returns price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, coordinates, images, key features, agent contact, and more — 36 fields per property in a flat JSON format ready for analytics, CRMs, or property-market research.

Features

• 36 output fields per property — complete listing data in a single object
• For-sale & to-rent support — pass any rightmove.co.uk search URL; all filters (price, beds, property type, radius) are preserved
• Coordinates included — latitude / longitude for mapping and geospatial analysis
• All images captured — every photo URL in imageUrls plus counts for photos, floorplans, virtual tours
• Key features list — bullet-point features extracted as an array
• Agent details — branch name, contact telephone, agent branch ID
• Listing update history — firstVisibleDate, listingUpdateDate, listingUpdateReason (new, price_reduced, etc.)
• No proxy required — Rightmove is served via Fastly CDN which accepts Chrome-131 TLS impersonation directly
• No authentication — works from any datacenter IP
• No nulls — every field has a typed default, guaranteeing predictable output for downstream pipelines

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	Array	Rightmove search URLs. Supports both for-sale (/property-for-sale/find.html) and to-rent (/property-to-rent/find.html) searches. All query parameters (locationIdentifier, minPrice, maxPrice, minBedrooms, propertyTypes, radius) are passed through verbatim.
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of properties to return (default 50, max 1000).

Example Input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&maxPrice=1000000&minBedrooms=2"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

For rentals:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&maxPrice=3000"
    ],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Output

Each property has 36 fields. All fields are always present — empty strings, zero, empty arrays, or false for missing data, never null.

Identity & Location

Field	Type	Description
id	Integer	Rightmove property ID
url	String	Full property permalink
transactionType	String	buy or rent
channel	String	BUY, RENT, RES_LET etc.
displayAddress	String	Human-friendly address
countryCode	String	ISO country code (always GB)
latitude	Number	Latitude
longitude	Number	Longitude

Price & Size

Field	Type	Description
price	Integer	Price in native currency (GBP)
priceDisplay	String	Formatted price (e.g., "£650,000")
priceFrequency	String	Price frequency (weekly, monthly, not specified)
currency	String	Currency code
displaySize	String	Floor area text (e.g., "526 sq. ft.")

Property Details

Field	Type	Description
bedrooms	Integer	Number of bedrooms
bathrooms	Integer	Number of bathrooms
propertySubType	String	Flat, House, Detached, etc.
propertyTypeFullDescription	String	Full type description (e.g. "3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale")
tenureType	String	FREEHOLD, LEASEHOLD, SHARE_OF_FREEHOLD
summary	String	Listing description (truncated to 2,000 chars)
keyFeatures	Array	Array of feature strings

Media

Field	Type	Description
imageUrls	Array	All photo URLs
numberOfImages	Integer	Photo count
numberOfFloorplans	Integer	Floor-plan count
numberOfVirtualTours	Integer	Virtual tour count

Agent

Field	Type	Description
agentName	String	Branch display name
agentPhone	String	Contact telephone
agentBranchId	Integer	Rightmove branch ID

Listing Dates

Field	Type	Description
firstVisibleDate	String	First visible date (ISO 8601)
listingUpdateReason	String	new, price_reduced, etc.
listingUpdateDate	String	Last update date (ISO 8601)
addedOrReduced	String	"Added on 27/03/2026" or similar display text

Flags

Field	Type	Description
premiumListing	Boolean	Premium listing flag
featuredProperty	Boolean	Featured flag
auction	Boolean	Sold via auction
commercial	Boolean	Commercial property

Metadata

Field	Type	Description
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

FAQ

Q: Do I need a proxy? No. Rightmove is served via Fastly CDN and accepts Chrome TLS impersonation without rate-limiting at modest volumes. For very large runs (1,000+ properties) you may want to add your own proxy configuration.

Q: How do I construct a search URL? Apply the filters you want on the Rightmove website, then copy the URL from your browser. The locationIdentifier parameter encodes the region/city — URL-encode it (%5E instead of ^). Common prefixes: REGION^X (area), OUTCODE^X (postcode), STATION^X (transport link).

Q: How many properties per page? Rightmove paginates in steps of 24. The scraper walks pages automatically via &index=N until maxItems is reached.

Q: Does it support sold prices? No — sold price history is on a different Rightmove path (/house-prices/) and uses a completely different data shape. This scraper handles for-sale (/property-for-sale/) and to-rent (/property-to-rent/) listings.

Q: Are full description texts included? The listing summary (up to 2,000 chars) is included in summary. For the full detail-page description (beyond the first 2,000 chars), you'd need to scrape each url individually — not done by default to keep the scraper fast and avoid extra requests.

Q: Why are some bedrooms / bathrooms zero? For certain listing types (land, commercial, or non-residential), Rightmove doesn't populate these fields. They're set to 0 rather than null for consistent typed output.

Use Cases

• Property market research — track inventory, prices, and listing velocity across UK regions
• Investment analysis — find BTL (buy-to-let) opportunities by yield, location, or property type
• Comparative market analysis — export current asking prices for comp sheets
• Estate-agent monitoring — track which branches are listing the most stock in an area
• Rental-market dashboards — aggregate rent prices by postcode, bedroom count, or commute zone
• Data pipelines — feed normalized JSON into CRMs, BI tools, or ML models without post-processing