Craigslist Scraper

Craigslist Scraper returns one row per listing from any Craigslist site: title, price, posting time, neighborhood with approximate map coordinates, category and photo links. Turn on Include description and attributes to add details: the full text and the listing's attribute box, such as odometer and title status for cars. Paste a search URL from your browser and click Start. A single Craigslist search shows only its newest 360 listings, so older listings need narrower searches. It costs $1.00 per 1,000 listings on the Free plan ($0.50 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 5,000 listings.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
title	Listing title as posted, e.g. 2011 Toyota Highlander Limited. Phone numbers and emails in it are masked.
price, priceText	Asking price as a number in the site's currency (12500) and as Craigslist prints it ($12,500; UK sites show pounds). price is null when there is no price, as in jobs and free stuff.
postedAt, updatedAt	When the listing was posted and last updated, ISO 8601 in UTC. updatedAt needs details on.
area, areaName	The Craigslist site and its name, e.g. sfbay and SF bay area.
subarea, neighborhood	Subarea code on sites that have subareas (nby is the north bay) and the place the poster typed, e.g. novato.
latitude, longitude	Approximate position of the listing on Craigslist's map.
category, categoryCode	Category name and code, e.g. cars & trucks - by owner and cto.
images, imageCount	Links to the photos at 600x450 pixels, and the number of photos.
description	Full listing text, with details on. Where the poster hid a number behind Craigslist's contact button, the text reads show contact info.
attributes	The attribute box as keys and values, with details on; for cars that means odometer, fuel, title status, transmission, type and more. summary holds the headline, e.g. 2011 toyota highlander limited.
url, postingId	Link to the listing on craigslist.org and Craigslist's posting number.
search	The search URL or area search that found the listing.

How to scrape Craigslist

1. Run the search on Craigslist in your browser, with the category, keywords and filters you want, and paste the address into Search URLs. Every parameter in the address is passed on to Craigslist, so filters the form lacks, such as model year, work too. The form starts with a bicycle search in the SF bay area.
2. Or fill Areas with site names as they appear in the address (sfbay for sfbay.craigslist.org), pick a Category and type a Search query. Minimum price, Maximum price, Only listings with photos, Posted today only and Search titles only apply to these area searches.
3. Turn on Include description and attributes if you need the full text. The actor then opens every listing page, six at a time, and the run takes longer; the price per listing stays the same.
4. Set Maximum rows. The form starts at 50, and API runs without the field stop at 1,000.
5. Click Start, watch the rows arrive in the Output tab and export them as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read them through the API.

An area search as API input:

{
  "areas": ["sfbay", "losangeles"],
  "category": "cta",
  "query": "toyota tacoma",
  "minPrice": 8000,
  "maxPrice": 30000,
  "hasPic": true,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example output

A car listing from a run on 30 September 2026 with details on. The images list is cut to 3 of the listing's 18 photos.

{
  "key": "craigslist:7975151073",
  "postingId": "7975151073",
  "title": "2011 Toyota Highlander Limited",
  "price": 12500,
  "priceText": "$12,500",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/novato-2011-toyota-highlander-limited/ewR6mfrGJbios4TBUEcgTt",
  "postedAt": "2026-09-29T22:04:38.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-29T22:04:39.000Z",
  "area": "sfbay",
  "areaName": "SF bay area",
  "subarea": "nby",
  "neighborhood": "novato",
  "latitude": 38.1163,
  "longitude": -122.5714,
  "category": "cars & trucks - by owner",
  "categoryCode": "cto",
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00303_aBRTjqazcfu_0CI0t2_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00g0g_iS5c6HSIupp_0CI0t2_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00F0F_gyz8ws0XA16_0CI0t2_600x450.jpg"
  ],
  "imageCount": 18,
  "description": "96K Miles \nOne owner \n4 Wheel Drive\nFor more information contact show contact info",
  "attributes": {
    "summary": "2011 toyota highlander limited",
    "fuel": "gas",
    "odometer": "96,000",
    "title status": "clean",
    "transmission": "automatic",
    "type": "SUV"
  },
  "search": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?query=toyota&min_price=5000"
}

How much does it cost to scrape Craigslist?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 listings	$1.00	$0.80	$0.65	$0.50

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

Exporting 10,000 listings costs $10.00 on the Free plan and $5.00 on Business. A listing found by two searches is charged once, and listings skipped by the new-only mode are not charged.

Limits

• The 360-listing cap applies to each search: in September 2026, toyota from $5,000 in the SF bay area car category matched 3,374 listings, and a single search read the newest 360 of them.
• On the 20 sites that Craigslist divides into subareas, among them sfbay, newyork, losangeles, chicago and seattle, a search with more matches is repeated in every subarea, 360 listings each: up to 2,160 in sfbay with its 6 subareas. Split large searches by subarea turns this off. On other sites, split a large search by price range or category yourself; the log shows how many listings each search matched and how many it read.
• Search URLs are used as they are. The form's price, photo, posted-today and title-only fields apply to Areas only.
• A search term also matches descriptions: the toyota search above returned a Honda Odyssey whose text mentions a Toyota. Search titles only limits the match to titles; in a search URL, use Craigslist's own title-only option.
• Email addresses and phone numbers in the title, description and attributes are replaced with [email removed] and [phone removed], including numbers split into odd groups, written with the letter O for zero or spelled out in words. Names and street addresses that sellers put in the text stay in it.
• The Areas field takes Craigslist's site names, such as sfbay, or the place names Craigslist uses, such as SF bay area, New York or London. A city inside a larger site, such as San Francisco, searches that whole site (sfbay). A name that matches no site is skipped with a note in the log.
• If fewer than 60% of the requests to Craigslist succeed, the run is marked as failed. Rows saved until then stay in the dataset.

Getting only new listings

Turn on Return only listings new since the last run, give the run a Watch name such as sf-road-bikes (or save the input as a task) and schedule it hourly or daily. The first run returns everything and saves a snapshot; later runs return only listings that are not in it. A listing stays in the snapshot for 60 days after it was last seen, so one that drops out of the results and comes back is not sent twice. The CHANGES record in the run's key-value store lists listings whose price or title changed since the previous run. Without a watch name or a task, the mode has nothing to compare with and every listing counts as new.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Craigslist?

Craigslist listings are public ads that anyone can read without an account, and the actor reads only those pages. It does not use the reply button, so the contact details Craigslist keeps behind it are never collected. The ads are written by private people, so a description can still contain a seller's name or an address. You are responsible for handling that data lawfully and for following Craigslist's terms of use if you republish listings.

Which Craigslist sites are covered?

Every site in Craigslist's own list, more than 700 in September 2026: 413 in the US, 55 in Canada, 27 in the UK and the rest in 75 other countries. Use the name from the site's address, for example sfbay, newyork or london.

Which categories can I search?

The Category list includes for sale, cars and trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, electronics, furniture, free stuff, housing, apartments, rooms, sublets, real estate, jobs, gigs, services, community and events. A search URL can use any other category from Craigslist's own menu. The attribute box differs by category: cars have odometer and title status, apartments rent period and laundry, bikes frame size and wheel size.

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Support

This actor is built and maintained by deriverge s.r.o., a software company based in the Czech Republic. If a run fails or a field you need is missing, please open an issue in the Issues tab or write to us at info@deriverge.com. We respond in English and Czech. Runs can be scheduled in Apify Console or started from the API tab, which has examples for Python, JavaScript and cURL and works with Make, Zapier, n8n and the Apify MCP server. If the actor saves you time, a short review helps other people find it.