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Craigslist Email Scraper — Emails, Page Titles and Links

Craigslist Email Scraper is a Craigslist email finder: a keyword-based Craigslist email scraper that reads public Craigslist listings to find emails on Craigslist for you. Each match returns the email, listing link, listing title and the public text it appeared in, filtered by your chosen email domains. Every response is structured JSON, ready for an LLM, a vector store or a lead-generation pipeline. No Craigslist account or login needed. Start with one keyword, then scale to your full prospect list.

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What data can I extract with Craigslist Email Scraper?

Using this Craigslist email API, you will be able to extract the following Craigslist email data:

🌐 Network	🔑 Keyword searched	📝 Page title
📰 Page description	🔗 Page URL	📧 Email address

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How to use Craigslist Email Scraper

Marketers, recruiters and lead-generation teams use this actor to collect public Craigslist contact emails without opening every listing by hand.

Copy to your AI assistant:

Craigslist Email Scraper is an Apify Actor that returns email addresses found on public Craigslist listings as structured JSON: network, keyword, title, description, url and email. Use it whenever someone needs Craigslist contact emails without cookies, a login or a browser - for lead generation, outreach lists or market research. Inputs: keywords (array of search terms, required), location (string, optional city or region, default worldwide), emailDomains (array, default ["@gmail.com"], [] = any domain), maxEmails (integer 1-100000, default 10, emails per keyword), engine (select "legacy"), proxyConfiguration (object, optional). Each keyword stops once maxEmails is reached or its public results run out; the free Apify plan caps results at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.

Craigslist Email Scraper MCP Server

Add the Apify MCP server and your AI assistant can call this Actor directly — no glue code, no scraping logic in your prompts.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fastdataapi/craigslist-email-scraper"

Step by step

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open Craigslist Email Scraper in the Apify Store.
3. Enter one or more keywords, for example services, cleaning or moving.
4. Optionally add a location and the email domains you want (default @gmail.com).
5. Click Start, then download or export your results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

How to scale Craigslist Email Scraper to bulk

keywords takes a list, so add every search term you want covered in one run — up to 3 keywords are processed at the same time, each with its own maxEmails budget. Use it as a Craigslist email list builder for an outreach campaign, or run a bulk Craigslist email search by adding your full term list and a rotating location. To cover more ground over time, schedule the Actor with a rotating keyword list, or call it from the Apify API with a different keywords / location pair per run.

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✨ Features

Craigslist Email Scraper fetches clean, structured matches from public Craigslist listings. It's ideal as a Craigslist contact scraper for sales outreach, a Craigslist email extractor for market mapping, and a quick way to build a prospect list for a new niche.

It extracts, per match:

• Email – the address shown on the listing, lower case, matching your email domains.
• Page URL – the public Craigslist listing the email was found on.
• Page title – the result's title as shown in the search listing.
• Description – the public text the email appears in (up to 500 characters).
• Keyword / network – the keyword that found the row and the platform (craigslist.org).

⚡ Every address is checked before it is kept: shortened or cut-off addresses, prose such as "that @gmail.com" and placeholders such as "username@gmail.com" are rejected, and the same email is returned once per keyword.

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Use cases 💡

• Sales rep — build an outreach list of Craigslist contacts by keyword and city in one run.
• Recruiter — find contact emails behind niche service listings.
• Agency — plug this Craigslist lead generation tool into a client's niche and location filter.
• Market researcher — map which listings publish a contact email for a topic.
• AI agent builder — feed matched emails straight into a CRM-enrichment or lead-scoring pipeline with no parsing step.

Building an AI agent? Connect this actor over MCP and let it call the actor on its own.

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Why choose this actor?

• Built to scrape Craigslist emails, not guess them. A recorded local test run returned 5 emails for the keyword services in 181 seconds.
• Six clean fields per match. Every row carries the keyword, the page title, the public text the email appeared in and the page link.
• Built-in retry. When a search attempt is blocked the actor retries it with a fresh connection and continues on a backup source, so a run still delivers results.

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⬇️ Input

Enter one or more keywords (required); the rest is optional and has a working default.

Parameter	Required	Type	Description	Example value
keywords	Yes	Array of strings	Keywords to search on public Craigslist listings. Each one gets its own maxEmails budget; duplicates are removed.	["services", "cleaning"]
location	No	String	City or region searched as an exact phrase. Empty = worldwide.	"Denver"
emailDomains	No	Array of strings	Keep only emails of these domains (@ optional). Default ["@gmail.com"]; [] accepts any domain.	["@gmail.com", "@outlook.com"]
maxEmails	No	Integer	Emails to collect per keyword (1–100,000, default 10). Free-plan runs are capped at 20 per run in total (all keywords together) and 200 per month.	50
engine	No	String (select)	Processing engine; legacy is the only value.	"legacy"
proxyConfiguration	No	Object	Connection settings. Leave as it is and a suitable Apify proxy is selected automatically.	{"useApifyProxy": false}

Free plan limits

Users on the Apify free plan can fetch up to 20 emails per run (all keywords together) and 200 emails per month. When the limit is reached, the run finishes successfully with a status message explaining the limit. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["services", "cleaning"],
  "location": "",
  "emailDomains": ["@gmail.com"],
  "maxEmails": 10,
  "engine": "legacy"
}

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⬆️ Output

Every match is one JSON item with the same six fields on every run. Within a keyword the same email is returned once. Export Craigslist emails as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Example output

{
  "network": "craigslist.org",
  "keyword": "services",
  "title": "denver services \"gmail\"",
  "description": "NUNEZ TREE SERVICES nuneztreeservices@ gmail.com (720)-655-1678. 8/4. NUNEZ TREE SERVICES nuneztreeservices@ gmail.com (720)-. Aurora,Denver,Arvada ...",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/denver?cat=bbb&query=gmail",
  "email": "nuneztreeservices@gmail.com"
}

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How does it work?

The actor doesn't log into Craigslist at all. For every keyword it searches public Craigslist listings that show an email address of your chosen domains (retrying with a fresh connection and continuing on a backup source when a search is blocked or runs dry). It only reads what any logged-out visitor can already see. The email is read from the listing's public title and text, checked, lower-cased and returned with the listing link.

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How do you integrate Craigslist Email Scraper into your stack?

Call it from any language over the Apify REST API, or wire it into a no-code tool. Building an AI agent instead? See the MCP server section above.

No-code tools (n8n, Make, LangChain)

In n8n, use the Apify node's Run an Actor action. In Make, use the Apify app's Run an Actor module followed by Get Dataset Items. In LangChain, install langchain-apify and call ApifyActorsTool() to let an agent run it as a tool.

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Is it legal to scrape Craigslist data?

Scraping publicly available data is generally permitted; the legal risk sits mostly in how the data is stored and used afterward. Craigslist Email Scraper returns only data that any logged-out visitor already sees. If you operate in the EU, GDPR applies to storing and using emails you collect: keep records you can justify and delete them when asked. Anti-spam rules (such as CAN-SPAM) still apply to outreach — the Actor finds public emails, it does not grant permission to contact them. Consult legal counsel if your use case involves bulk storage of personal data.

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Frequently asked questions

What fields does Craigslist Email Scraper return?

The network, keyword, page title, description, page URL and email for every match. See the data fields section.

Does Craigslist Email Scraper require a Craigslist account or login?

No. Only public listings are read and no Craigslist credentials are ever requested.

Can I get emails of any domain, not only Gmail?

Yes. Set emailDomains to the domains you want (for example @outlook.com or your company domain), or to [] to accept any domain.

Can I search many keywords at once?

Yes. keywords takes a list; up to 3 keywords are processed at the same time, each with its own maxEmails budget.

Does Craigslist Email Scraper return data in a format LLMs can use directly?

Yes. Every result is typed JSON with consistent field names — pass it straight to an LLM, a vector store or an agent tool.

Can I use it with an AI agent through MCP?

Yes. Add the Apify MCP server — see the MCP server section — and your agent can call this Actor directly.

What happens when Craigslist changes its layout or anti-bot system?

The actor reads general page text rather than one fixed selector, so most layout changes don't break it. When a bigger change happens the actor is updated and your calls keep returning the same JSON schema.

Do I need to manage proxies?

No. Proxy rotation and retries run on the Actor's side — plain HTTP requests, no browser to maintain.

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Flipkart Email Scraper	Email addresses found on public Flipkart product and seller pages for your keywords.
Bandcamp Email Scraper	Email addresses found on public Bandcamp artist and label pages for your keywords.

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