Nextdoor Scraper

What does Nextdoor Public City Scraper do?

This Actor extracts structured place-level data from public Nextdoor city pages such as city metadata, FAQs, neighborhood links, business directory links, local group summaries, resource links, and city statistics.

Use it when you need a repeatable way to collect public city information from Nextdoor for research, market analysis, local discovery, or downstream workflows. On Apify, you also get API access, scheduling, monitoring, integrations, dataset exports, and run history.

Why use Nextdoor Public City Scraper?

Nextdoor city pages expose useful public information even without logging in: city descriptions, resident counts, affordability and friendliness indicators, FAQ content, neighborhood discovery links, and directory-style public resources. This Actor turns those public signals into structured JSON so they are easier to search, analyze, and connect to other systems.

Typical use cases:

1. Build local market or neighborhood discovery datasets.
2. Track public city-page changes over time.
3. Feed public place metadata into internal search, analytics, or enrichment pipelines.
4. Export public links for additional compliant processing.

How to use Nextdoor Public City Scraper

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. In the Input tab, add one or more public Nextdoor URLs, ideally city pages such as https://nextdoor.com/city/north-miami--fl/.
3. Set crawl limits such as maxRequestsPerCrawl, maxConcurrency, and maxItemsPerSection.
4. Run the Actor and inspect the dataset output.

The Actor is intentionally designed for public pages only. If Nextdoor responds with a login wall, verification step, or other access restriction, the Actor records that state instead of trying to circumvent it.

Input

Configure the Actor in the Input tab.

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://nextdoor.com/city/north-miami--fl/" }
  ],
  "downloadStartUrlsToHtmlSources": false,
  "downloadedHtmlDirectory": "storage/html_sources/default",
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "maxItemsPerSection": 25,
  "followNeighborhoodPages": false,
  "followBusinessDirectoryPages": false,
  "followAdditionalResourcePages": false,
  "saveHtmlSnapshots": false,
  "htmlSnapshotKeyPrefix": "HTML"
}

Main input fields

Field	Description
startUrls	Public Nextdoor URLs to crawl. City pages are the main supported entry point.
downloadStartUrlsToHtmlSources	Saves startUrls to local HTML files first, then scrapes those saved files offline.
downloadedHtmlDirectory	Local directory where downloaded HTML files and sidecar metadata are stored.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	Limit the number of live pages.
maxConcurrency	Browser concurrency for live crawling.
maxItemsPerSection	Caps stored arrays such as FAQs and neighborhoods.
followNeighborhoodPages	Queues public neighborhood pages found on city pages.
followBusinessDirectoryPages	Queues public topic and business directory pages.
followAdditionalResourcePages	Queues additional public resource pages.
saveHtmlSnapshots	Saves page HTML to the default key-value store for debugging.

Use one entry per URL. This is correct:

"startUrls": [
  { "url": "https://nextdoor.com/city/bellaire--oh/" },
  { "url": "https://nextdoor.com/city/bellbrook--oh/" },
  { "url": "https://nextdoor.com/city/belle-center--oh/" }
]

Do not put multiple "url" keys inside one object. In JSON, duplicate keys are overwritten and only the last one survives.

Output

The Actor stores one dataset item per parsed page.

{
  "url": "https://nextdoor.com/city/north-miami--fl/",
  "finalUrl": "https://nextdoor.com/city/north-miami--fl/",
  "pageType": "city",
  "title": "North Miami, Florida | Nextdoor",
  "description": "Public city summary extracted from Nextdoor.",
  "cityName": "North Miami",
  "state": "FL",
  "residentsCount": 59854,
  "neighborhoodCount": 26,
  "businessDirectoryCount": 54,
  "faqCount": 7,
  "accessStatus": "public",
  "faqs": [
    {
      "question": "What is the population of North Miami?",
      "answer": "According to US Census Data, there are 59,854 residents in North Miami."
    }
  ],
  "neighborhoods": [
    {
      "title": "128th St",
      "url": "https://nextdoor.com/neighborhood/128thst--north-miami--fl/",
      "pageType": "neighborhood"
    }
  ]
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
pageType	The detected public page type, usually city.
title	HTML title or structured page title.
description	Meta description or structured city description.
cityName	City name from structured data.
state	State abbreviation.
residentsCount	Parsed public resident count when available.
faqCount	Number of FAQ entries captured.
neighborhoodCount	Number of neighborhood links captured.
businessDirectoryCount	Number of business directory links captured.
accessStatus	public, restricted, or partial.

Read more

To learn more about configuring this Actor through a step-by-step guide, please check out our article on How to Scrape Nextdoor Public Pages for Demographics and Community Insight.