Rightmove Scraper — UK Property Listings

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🎯 What this scrapes

Rightmove is the UK's largest property portal and publishes no public API. This Actor is your Rightmove scraper: search by location, filter by price, bedrooms, or listing type (for-sale or to-rent), and optionally enrich each result with detail-page data — agent phone, full description, floor plan URL, and EPC graph image. Built on curl-cffi with browser TLS impersonation; every request looks like a real browser visit from a UK residential IP.

Rightmove's site actively resists automated access. We run the gauntlet so you get clean rows.

🔥 Features

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi replays real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so every request looks like a real browser, not a script.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — a fresh UK exit IP on every session, automatically swapped whenever the target pushes back.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page with Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — we slow down when Rightmove signals overload instead of hammering until banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable property IDs, ready for JSON / CSV / Excel export.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for rows that land in your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Property-market analytics — track price-per-square-foot trends across UK postcodes over time.
• Buyer alerting — daily diff for new sub-£500k 2-bed flats in your target postcode.
• Landlord intelligence — aggregate to-rent rows by postcode to estimate rental yields across a portfolio.
• Agent prospecting — build a directory of UK estate agents using agent_name + agent_phone from each listing.
• Floor-plan + EPC enrichment — detail-page data that cheaper competitors miss entirely: full description, floor plan URL, and EPC graph image.
• UK property data API substitute — Rightmove's official data access is restricted to registered agents. This Actor gives PropTech founders a clean postcode-property-data feed without a partner contract.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults (London, for-sale, 50 results).
3. Click Start. Results stream into the run's dataset in real time.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or pull via the Apify API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
searchLocation	string	yes	London	Free-form UK location — city, district, postcode prefix (SW1A), or region. Resolved via Rightmove's location autocomplete.
listingType	string	no	for-sale	Which Rightmove channel to scrape — for-sale or to-rent.
radiusMiles	string	no	0.0	Search radius around the centroid of the resolved location (miles).
maxPriceGbp	integer	no	—	Upper price filter. Total £ for for-sale; £ per month for to-rent. Leave empty for no cap.
minBedrooms	integer	no	—	Minimum number of bedrooms. Leave empty for no floor.
maxProperties	integer	no	50	Hard cap on dataset rows. Rightmove's own search caps at ~1 000 results per query.
enrichDetails	boolean	no	true	Fetch each listing's detail page for full description, floor plan URL, EPC graph URL, and agent phone. Doubles request count and run time; disable to get search-payload fields only.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Apify Proxy spec. UK residential exits are recommended for stable access.

Example input

{
  "searchLocation": "London",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "maxProperties": 5,
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
property_id	string	Rightmove property ID.
property_url	string	Absolute URL to the listing detail page.
address	string	Display address (Rightmove's truncated form).
postcode	string | null	Full postcode (e.g. E17 6ZL) — only present when enriched from the detail page.
latitude	number | null	Latitude (WGS-84).
longitude	number | null	Longitude (WGS-84).
price_gbp	integer | null	Amount in GBP — total for sale, monthly for rent.
price_qualifier	string | null	Price qualifier (e.g. Offers in Excess of, Guide Price).
price_frequency	string | null	monthly for rentals, not specified for sales.
listing_type	string	for-sale or to-rent.
property_type	string | null	Property sub-type (Apartment, Detached, Semi-detached, etc.).
property_type_full	string | null	Human-readable description (e.g. 1 bedroom apartment for sale).
bedrooms	integer | null	Number of bedrooms.
bathrooms	integer | null	Number of bathrooms.
sqft	integer | null	Floor area in square feet (when published by the agent).
tenure	string | null	Tenure type (FREEHOLD / LEASEHOLD / SHARE_OF_FREEHOLD).
epc_graph_url	string | null	URL of the EPC graph image. Enrichment-only.
epc_rating	string | null	EPC rating letter (A–G) when extractable. Currently always null — the letter is image-only; OCR the graph if you need it.
description	string | null	Full property description (HTML stripped to plain text). Enrichment-only.
key_features	array	Bullet list of key features published by the agent.
listing_added_date	string | null	ISO timestamp when the listing first appeared on Rightmove.
listing_update_reason	string | null	Last update reason (e.g. price_reduced).
agent_name	string | null	Estate agent branch display name.
agent_phone	string | null	Agent's contact phone number.
agent_url	string | null	Absolute URL to the agent's Rightmove branch page.
photo_urls	array	List of property photo URLs.
floor_plan_url	string | null	Floor plan image URL when published. Enrichment-only.
scraped_at	string	ISO timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "property_id": "167180126",
  "property_url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/167180126",
  "address": "Gainsford Road, Walthamstow",
  "postcode": "E17 6ZL",
  "latitude": 51.587363,
  "longitude": -0.027555,
  "price_gbp": 300000,
  "price_qualifier": "Offers in Excess of",
  "listing_type": "for-sale",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "sqft": 443,
  "agent_name": "haart, Walthamstow",
  "agent_phone": "020 3910 6244",
  "floor_plan_url": "https://media.rightmove.co.uk/property-floorplan/.../...jpeg",
  "epc_graph_url": "https://media.rightmove.co.uk/property-epc/.../...png"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.05	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.002	Per result pushed to your dataset

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $0.05 per 1 000. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

Rightmove's own search caps any query at ~1 000 results. Enabling detail enrichment roughly doubles request count and run time. The EPC rating letter (A–G) is not available in structured form — only the graph image is surfaced; OCR with Tesseract if you need the letter. Some agent phone numbers are masked behind a click-to-reveal widget on certain listings; in those cases agent_phone may be null.

❓ FAQ

What is the Rightmove scraper?

It is an Apify Actor that extracts UK property listings from Rightmove — for-sale or to-rent — and returns structured data including price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, agent phone, floor plan URL, EPC graph, and full description. No Rightmove API key required.

Is there an official Rightmove API?

Rightmove offers no public API. Their data-access programme is restricted to registered agents under the Property Data Trust Framework. This Actor gives PropTech founders and landlords a practical Rightmove data export without a partner contract.

Can I export Rightmove data to a spreadsheet?

Yes. Every run writes to an Apify dataset that you can export as CSV or Excel directly from the Apify Console, or pull programmatically via the Apify API. That makes this Actor a drop-in Rightmove data export tool.

What is postcode property data and does this include it?

Yes. When enrichDetails is enabled the Actor fetches each listing's detail page and returns the full postcode (e.g. SW1A 1AA), latitude/longitude, and floor area — everything you need for postcode-level property data analysis.

Does this work for rentals?

Yes — set listingType to to-rent. price_gbp is then £ per month and price_frequency reads monthly.

Is detail enrichment optional?

Yes — set enrichDetails to false to halve the request count. You still get price, address, bedrooms, photos, lat/long, and agent name from the search payload — just no floor plan, EPC image, or full description.

Does it cover Zoopla or OnTheMarket?

This Actor covers Rightmove only. Zoopla and OnTheMarket are separate sites with separate structures — a dedicated zoopla-uk-property Actor would be needed for those.

Why isn't the EPC rating letter populated?

Rightmove publishes the EPC as a rendered graph image, not a structured field. We surface epc_graph_url; use Tesseract OCR if you need the letter extracted from the image.

Will the Actor handle blocks if Rightmove pushes back?

Yes — we rotate UK residential proxy exit IPs, rotate browser fingerprints, and retry with exponential backoff. If Rightmove rate-limits mid-run the Actor surfaces a clear status message with the partial result count rather than returning a silent empty dataset.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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