Craigslist Scraper — Listings, Prices, Photos & Details

Craigslist Scraper extracts listings from craigslist.org for any city or region it serves: items for sale, cars and trucks, apartments and other housing, jobs, gigs, services and events. Type search terms, pick a location and a category, add filters (price, posted today, has photos, ZIP radius, bedrooms, model year ...) or paste search links straight from your browser. Every listing becomes one flat JSON row with its title, price, currency, category, location with map coordinates, photos, posted date and link. Turn on the details add-on to also get the full posting text and attributes. It reads the same data the craigslist website loads, over plain HTTP: no browser, no account, and a small run finishes in seconds.

Data you get

• Listing: posting ID, link, title, price as a number and as shown ($445, £250), currency of the area, posted date (ISO), category code and name, section (for sale, housing, jobs ...).
• Location: craigslist site (sfbay), sub-area (sfc), the location text of the post, neighborhood, latitude and longitude.
• Photos: main image and all image links (600 x 450), photo count.
• Extras when craigslist lists them: bedrooms and square feet (housing), open-house dates, compensation, company and job title (jobs and gigs), odometer (cars), monthly payment, event dates.
• Search context: the search term, location, category and the public craigslist link of the search, so rows from many searches stay apart.
• Details add-on (optional): full posting text, attributes (condition, make / manufacturer, model year, fuel, transmission, bathrooms, laundry, parking, employment type ...), first-posted and last-updated dates, repost reference, area and sub-area names, and for housing the street address or cross streets when the poster published them.

E-mail addresses, phone numbers and @handles are removed from titles, locations, attributes and texts, and contact details hidden behind craigslist's reply button are never requested. Every run also stores a SUMMARY record with the result count craigslist reports for each search, rows saved and request statistics.

How to use it

Input	What it does
searchQueries	One search per term and location: road bike, 2 bedroom, toyota tacoma. Empty = everything in the category.
locations	Craigslist sites by the name in their address (sfbay, newyork, losangeles, chicago, toronto, london), area names (new york city) or sub-areas (sfbay/sfc, newyork/brk).
category / categoryCode	A dropdown with 120+ categories (for sale, cars & trucks, furniture, apartments, rooms, software jobs, labor gigs, household services, events ...) or any craigslist code such as cto.
sortBy	Newest, relevance, oldest, price up or down.
minPrice, maxPrice, sellerType, postedToday, hasImage, searchTitlesOnly, hideDuplicates	The common filters of the craigslist form.
postalCode, searchDistance	Search around a ZIP or postal code.
extraFilters	Any other filter by its craigslist name, e.g. {"min_bedrooms": 2, "pets_dog": 1} or {"min_auto_year": 2018, "auto_make_model": "toyota"}.
searchUrls	Craigslist search links with all their filters, old style (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/bia?query=road+bike) or new (https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/newyork?cat=apa).
includeDetails	Adds the details listed above (one extra request per listing, billed as an add-on).
includeNearby	Keep the listings craigslist adds from nearby sites when a search has few local results (marked isNearby).
maxItems, maxItemsPerSearch	Exact limits for the run and for each search.

Bikes in the San Francisco Bay Area (the default input):

{ "searchQueries": ["road bike"], "locations": ["sfbay"], "category": "sss", "maxItems": 30 }

Two-bedroom apartments under US$4,000 in New York that allow dogs, newest first:

{
  "locations": ["newyork"],
  "category": "apa",
  "maxPrice": 4000,
  "extraFilters": { "min_bedrooms": 2, "pets_dog": 1 },
  "maxItems": 500
}

Used Toyotas in three cities, with the full text and attributes:

{
  "locations": ["losangeles", "sandiego", "phoenix"],
  "category": "cta",
  "extraFilters": { "auto_make_model": "toyota", "min_auto_year": 2018 },
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100
}

Your own saved searches:

{ "searchUrls": ["https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/jjj?is_telecommuting=1"], "maxItems": 200 }

Example output

A real row from a test run (23 October 2026, details add-on on, image list shortened):

{
  "postingId": 7983732696,
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/alameda-2022-bmc-roadmachine-one-58cm/qGwKXg5xQtP9EBNtdESgG5",
  "title": "2022 BMC Roadmachine X One 58cm SRAM Force AXS Carbon wheels",
  "price": 2850,
  "priceText": "$2,850",
  "currency": "USD",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-23T05:04:55.000Z",
  "category": "bik",
  "categoryName": "bicycles - by owner",
  "section": "for sale",
  "area": "sfbay",
  "subarea": "eby",
  "location": "alameda",
  "neighborhood": "alameda",
  "latitude": 37.7351,
  "longitude": -122.2431,
  "imageUrl": "https://images.craigslist.org/00000_jxcnRXYu9Rn_0fu0bC_600x450.jpg",
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00000_jxcnRXYu9Rn_0fu0bC_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01717_ah7F4s03Tj7_0bC0fu_600x450.jpg"
  ],
  "imageCount": 9,
  "bedrooms": null,
  "squareFeet": null,
  "salary": null,
  "odometer": null,
  "isNearby": false,
  "searchQuery": "road bike",
  "searchLocation": "sfbay",
  "searchCategory": "sss",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/sfbay?cat=sss&query=road%20bike&sort=date",
  "description": "Selling my 2022 BMC Roadmachine X One in size 58cm. Excellent condition. This is BMC's all-road platform, so it covers fast road through light gravel.\n\nBuild:\n- SRAM Force eTap AXS XPLR 12-speed: 10-44 cassette, 44T chainring, 175mm cranks\n...",
  "attributes": {
    "bicycle type": "road",
    "frame size": "58cm",
    "wheel size": "700C",
    "bicycle frame material": "carbon fiber",
    "brake type": "disc (hydraulic)",
    "condition": "like new",
    "make / manufacturer": "BMC",
    "model name / number": "Roadmachine X One"
  },
  "createdAt": "2026-10-15T00:30:17.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T05:00:38.000Z",
  "areaName": "SF bay area",
  "subareaName": "east bay",
  "detailsIncluded": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T08:29:35.629Z"
}

Some empty extras (open houses, company, job title, event dates, street address ...) are left out above; every row carries all of them, as null when craigslist has no value. Without the details add-on the last block (description to detailsIncluded) is not included.

Use cases

• Resale and price research: what used bikes, cars, phones or furniture really ask for in each city, and how fast new listings appear.
• Deal alerts: schedule a search every hour with postedToday and send new rows to Slack, e-mail or a spreadsheet.
• Rental market analysis: asking rents by neighborhood, bedrooms and square feet, with map coordinates for heat maps.
• Jobs and gigs: local hiring demand, pay ranges and company names by category and city.
• Automotive data: asking prices by make, model year and odometer across regions.

Pricing

Pay per listing saved, nothing per run:

• Listing (listing-result): each listing saved.
• Details add-on (listing-details): only when includeDetails is on and the posting was found.

See the Pricing tab for current prices; paid Apify plans get lower rates. Duplicates are never charged, and the run stops at the maximum charge you set.

Compared with other options

This Actor covers every craigslist site and every section except personal posts, accepts both search terms and pasted search links, pages through up to 10,000 results per search, and keeps the extra fields craigslist shows for housing, jobs, cars and events. The full text is an optional add-on, so you only pay for it when you need it.

Good to know

• 10,000 results per search is craigslist's own limit. Split very broad searches by sub-area, price range or category.
• Community and resumes are not supported: they are personal posts (missed connections, rants, job seekers' resumes).
• Contact details are not part of the data. Craigslist hides them behind its reply button and this Actor never asks for them.
• Currency follows the area (USD, CAD, GBP ...); prices are what the poster typed.
• Some craigslist locations outside North America have few listings; then craigslist fills the page with nearby sites, which you can keep with includeNearby.

Integrations

Export results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the Apify API and the JavaScript or Python clients. Schedule runs, send rows to Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook, or use the Actor inside n8n, Make and Zapier. AI agents can call it as a tool through the Apify MCP server.

FAQ

Is scraping craigslist legal? The Actor reads public listings that any visitor can see without an account, at a gentle pace, and skips the pages craigslist's robots.txt excludes (such as reply and flag pages). It removes e-mails, phone numbers and @handles of posters and never collects contact details. You are responsible for how you use the data and for respecting craigslist's terms and privacy laws.

Do I need a proxy? The default Apify datacenter proxy is the starting point. If craigslist blocks it, the Actor changes its browser profile and then moves to a US residential proxy on its own.

Why fewer listings than maxItems? The search has fewer results, nearby listings were left out, maxItemsPerSearch capped a search, or a location was not recognised (see the log and the SUMMARY record).

How fast is it? One request returns 360 listings and one more request lists up to 1,080 at a time, so 1,000 listings take a few seconds. The details add-on needs one request per listing (about four per second).

En español

Craigslist Scraper extrae avisos de craigslist.org de cualquier ciudad: venta, autos, vivienda, empleos, gigs, servicios y eventos. Busca por palabras clave, ubicación, categoría y filtros (precio, publicados hoy, con fotos, código postal, dormitorios, año del auto ...) o con enlaces de búsqueda copiados del navegador. Entrega título, precio y moneda, categoría, ubicación con coordenadas, fotos, fecha y enlace; con el complemento de detalles, el texto completo y los atributos. Quita emails, teléfonos y @usuarios de los textos. Consulta la pestaña Pricing para ver los precios actuales; los planes de pago de Apify tienen tarifas más bajas.

Changelog

• 0.1 (October 2026): first release. Search terms x locations, 120+ categories and any category code, common and extra craigslist filters, ZIP radius, search links (old and new style), paging up to 10,000 results per search, nearby-results switch, details add-on, contact removal, automatic header and residential fallback.