Craigslist Scraper: Listings, Prices, Housing, Jobs, For Sale

This Craigslist scraper collects postings from any Craigslist city: for sale, housing, jobs, services, gigs and community. Paste search URLs copied from Craigslist, or pick a city, a category and some search words. Each posting comes with its price and currency, place, category, date, map position and image links. Switch on full details to also get the whole text, every attribute (bedrooms, square feet, condition, make, model), large images and the original posted and last updated dates. No login, no API key.

• Search URLs or city mode. Paste any search address, with its filters and sort order, or give city names like toronto and sfbay plus a category and search words. Both can be used in one run.
• Up to 10,000 postings per search. Craigslist's own limit. The Actor reads the same data the Craigslist website loads, so titles, prices and images arrive in bulk, not one page at a time.
• Full details when you want them. One extra page read per posting adds the description, attributes and large images.
• No duplicates. A posting that shows up in two searches is saved once.
• Searches with no results do not fail. The run finishes with an empty dataset and a clear status message.

What data you get

Field	What it holds
postingId, postingUuid, url	The posting's number, its short code and the link to its page
title	Posting title
price, priceText, currency	Price as a number, as Craigslist shows it ("$1,250"), and the currency code (USD, CAD and so on)
site, subarea, location, neighborhood	Craigslist city, sub-area code, the place name the poster gave and the neighbourhood when there is one
category, categoryName, section	Category code (apa, cta, jjj), its name, and the section (housing, for sale, jobs)
listedAt	Date the posting was last listed or renewed, as search results show it
latitude, longitude	Map position of the posting (Craigslist blurs it a little)
bedrooms, sqft	For housing postings
imageCount, images, thumbnail	Image links
company, jobTitle, salary	For job postings
mileage, monthlyPayment	For vehicle postings that show them

With Include full posting details you also get:

Field	What it holds
description	The full posting text
attributes	Labelled attributes from the page, for example condition, make / manufacturer, model name / number, rent period. The labels differ per category.
features	Tags without a label, for example 1BR / 1Ba, 600ft2, laundry in bldg
bedrooms, bathrooms, sqft	Read from those tags
postedAt, updatedAt	When the posting was first posted and when it was last edited
address, postalCode, region, country	The location text under the map, when the poster gave it
images	All images in the large 1200x900 size

How to use it

1. Paste one or more Search URLs. Open a search on Craigslist, set your filters and sort order, and copy the address from the browser. Or fill Cities and pick a Category, then add Search words.
2. Optional: set a price range, sort order, postal code with distance, or turn on Include full posting details.
3. Set Maximum postings. Start small, then raise it.
4. Run it and export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

If you start the Actor with no search URL and no city, it runs a small example (Toronto, "bike", 20 postings) instead of failing, and says so in the run's status message.

Example input

{
  "searchUrls": [{ "url": "https://toronto.craigslist.org/search/apa?min_price=1500" }],
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 10
}

City mode:

{
  "cities": ["vancouver", "seattle"],
  "category": "cta",
  "query": "honda civic",
  "minPrice": 2000,
  "maxPrice": 15000,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example output (one posting with full details, images shortened)

{
  "postingId": 7993738983,
  "postingUuid": "ozzQabZB2hdDG9Ly5JmJSv",
  "title": "Raleigh 2+2 Bike Hitch Rack",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/mississauga-raleigh-22-bike-hitch-rack/ozzQabZB2hdDG9Ly5JmJSv",
  "price": 180,
  "priceText": "$180",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "site": "toronto",
  "subarea": "mss",
  "location": "Mississauga",
  "neighborhood": null,
  "category": "bop",
  "categoryName": "bicycle parts - by owner",
  "section": "for sale",
  "postedAt": "2026-11-02T00:24:29.000Z",
  "listedAt": "2026-11-02T00:28:29.000Z",
  "updatedAt": null,
  "latitude": 43.5924,
  "longitude": -79.7611,
  "bedrooms": null,
  "bathrooms": null,
  "sqft": null,
  "imageCount": 4,
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00v0v_2Hz5AR7VcxC_0hq0dX_1200x900.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00s0s_7CDMw8lLM5t_0g80aL_1200x900.jpg"
  ],
  "thumbnail": "https://images.craigslist.org/00v0v_2Hz5AR7VcxC_0hq0dX_300x300.jpg",
  "description": "This hitch-mounted carrier holds 2 or 4 bicycles securely. It features a durable black metal construction and folds up when not in use. Approximately 100 cm wide by 80 cm deep. Only used a few times, in great condition.\n\nRetail for $460 plus tax.\n\nPickup only. Cash or e-transfer.",
  "attributes": {
    "part type": "racks, fenders, bags",
    "condition": "like new",
    "make / manufacturer": "Raleigh",
    "model name / number": "2+2 Hitch Rack",
    "size / dimensions": "100 cm x 80 cm"
  },
  "features": [],
  "postalCode": "L5N",
  "region": "ON",
  "country": "CA",
  "detailsFetched": true,
  "searchUrl": "https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/toronto?cat=sss&query=bike",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-02T02:20:41.771Z"
}

Example output (housing posting, description and images shortened)

{
  "postingId": 7982011173,
  "title": "1 bedroom apartment downtown Toronto",
  "price": 1600,
  "currency": "CAD",
  "site": "toronto",
  "subarea": "tor",
  "location": "city of toronto",
  "category": "apa",
  "categoryName": "apartments / housing for rent",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-12T02:25:24.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T01:40:16.000Z",
  "latitude": 43.6606,
  "longitude": -79.372,
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "sqft": 600,
  "description": "Bright one bedroom, one bathroom apartment for rent available now in a Victorian house in the heart of downtown Toronto. ...",
  "attributes": { "rent period": "monthly" },
  "features": ["1BR / 1Ba", "600ft2", "apartment", "laundry in bldg", "off-street parking"],
  "address": "299 Sherbourne street near Gerrard",
  "postalCode": "M5A3Y1",
  "region": "ON",
  "country": "CA"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay per posting saved: $0.0014 per posting, plus $0.0005 once per run. 1,000 postings cost about $1.40 and 10,000 cost about $14.00. Apify's free plan credit of $5 a month covers about 3,500 postings. The price is the same with or without full details.

Searches with no results, and inputs that fail (an unknown city, a URL that is not a Craigslist search), save no postings, so you pay only the start fee. They are listed with the reason in the SUMMARY record of the run's key-value store.

Use cases

• Price research: compare what bikes, cars, furniture or electronics sell for across cities, with price, location and listedAt.
• Rental market tracking: pull apartments by city with bedrooms, square feet, rent and map position, and watch how rents move week to week.
• Reselling and sourcing: find new postings under a price you set, sorted by newest, and schedule the run every hour.
• Job postings: collect local jobs with employer, title and pay for a region.
• Datasets and maps: plot postings from latitude and longitude, or build a dataset of images and descriptions for analysis.

FAQ

Which Craigslist address do I paste? Any search address. Open a search on Craigslist, copy the address from the browser bar. Addresses in the old style (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa), the new style (https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/sfbay?cat=apa) and sub-area searches (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/apa) all work. A link to one posting also works: it returns that posting with full details.

What are the limits? Craigslist serves at most 10,000 results for one search. To get more, split the search into several cities, price ranges or categories. Sort by newest and schedule the Actor to catch new postings.

Why are there two dates? listedAt is the date Craigslist shows in search results, which moves forward when a poster renews a posting. postedAt is the date the posting was first posted, and updatedAt the last edit. Both are only filled with Include full posting details, because they come from the posting page.

Do I get phone numbers or email addresses? No. Craigslist hides contact details behind its reply button, and this Actor does not try to get past that. If the poster wrote a number or address in the text, it is part of description.

How exact are the coordinates? Craigslist blurs them on purpose. Expect a position within a few hundred metres of the real place, and not every posting has one.

Why did a posting have detailsError? Full details read each posting's page. If the poster deleted the posting between the search and the page read, you still get the search data and detailsError says the page was no longer available.

Why are "nearby" postings missing? When a search has few local results Craigslist adds postings from other areas below them. The Actor leaves those out unless you switch on Include nearby areas.

How fast is it? Search results arrive in bulk: 3,000 postings without details took about 20 seconds in our test on Apify. With full details the Actor reads one page per posting, a few at a time and at a polite pace, so 100 postings take about 90 seconds.

Do I need a proxy? Not in our tests. The Actor ran from Apify's standard servers without a proxy on every search we tried (San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Vancouver). If Craigslist blocks your runs, turn on Apify Proxy in the input. We have not tested the proxy option.

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