Gumtree UK Scraper - 11 Categories, No Login

Scrape classifieds from gumtree.com, the UK's largest classifieds site, across 11 categories (cars, property, jobs, electronics, furniture, services, pets, baby, sports, music, books) by category, keyword or any search URL you build on the site itself. No login required.

Why use this scraper

Gumtree is where millions of UK sellers list cars, rentals, jobs and second-hand goods every day, but the listings turn over fast and the site has no public API. Anyone tracking a local market, whether used-car prices in a city, rental listings in a postcode, or resale demand for a product category, ends up refreshing search pages by hand. This actor turns any Gumtree UK search (by category, keyword or a direct URL) into structured data in one run, so you get price, location and description for every listing without opening a single page.

Gumtree listings also disappear once sold or expire, so a run from last week already misses what is live today. Scheduling this actor against the same category, location or keyword keeps a dataset current without anyone manually re-checking the site.

Overview

Point the actor at a Gumtree UK category, a keyword search, or a direct search URL you built on gumtree.com, and it paginates through the results automatically, returning one record per listing with title, price, location, description and images. A 50-listing run (the default) finishes in under a minute. Cost is $0.003 per listing, so a 1,000-listing batch costs $3.

Supported inputs

• Category (category, default cars) - one of Gumtree's own category slugs: cars, property, jobs, electronics, furniture, services, pets, baby, sports, music, books.
• Location (location, default london) - any UK city or region slug Gumtree accepts, e.g. manchester, birmingham, glasgow, bristol.
• Keywords (keywords) - optional free-text search term, combined with category and location.
• Custom start URL (startUrl) - a full Gumtree search URL you built on the site (with any filters already applied there, such as price range). Overrides category, location and keywords when set.
• Max listings (maxItems, default 50, capped at 500) and max pages (maxPages, default 5) - how many listings and search-result pages to fetch.

Use cases

• Used-car dealers and classifieds aggregators - pull current car and van listings for a city to benchmark prices against their own stock.
• Letting agents and relocation services - track rental listings in a postcode or city to see what is actually on the market this week.
• Local service businesses - monitor the services category in their area to see what competitors charge and advertise.
• Resale and second-hand market research - run the same keyword (e.g. "iphone", "nintendo switch") across cities to compare asking prices for the same product nationwide.
• Recruiters - pull the jobs category for a city and keyword to see which local employers are hiring right now.

How it works

The actor builds a Gumtree search URL from the category, location and keywords you give it (or uses your own startUrl directly), then follows the site's own result pagination up to maxPages. Each listing card on the page is parsed into a flat record: title, price, location, description and up to 5 images, with the listing ID and URL taken from the ad's own link. No login or session is required because listing data is public on the search page itself.

Input configuration

Mode 1: category + location

{
  "category": "cars",
  "location": "manchester",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Mode 2: keyword search inside a category

{
  "category": "electronics",
  "location": "london",
  "keywords": "nintendo switch",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Mode 3: a filtered search URL built on the site

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.gumtree.com/search?search_category=property&search_location=bristol",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output sample

Real output from a run against the electronics category (keyword "nintendo switch"):

{
  "listingId": "1803478621",
  "title": "Nintendo Switch Console with Case and Game - Good Condition",
  "price": 110,
  "priceText": "£110",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "location": "Chislehurst, London",
  "category": "electronics",
  "postedAt": null,
  "description": "Nintendo Switch console in good working order, screen is clear and responsive. Comes with a protective travel case and a game cartridge, showing minor signs of use. Includes the original box, power adapter, and HDMI cable.",
  "images": [
    "https://img.gumtree.com/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/6c05efcf2331459baf_40e02e6238b2/86"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-games-consoles/nintendo-switch-console-with-case-and-game-good-condition/1803478621",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T08:04:31.448Z"
}

A second real record:

{
  "listingId": "1803443437",
  "title": "Brand New Nintendo switch 2",
  "price": 320,
  "priceText": "£320",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "location": "Romford, London",
  "category": "electronics",
  "postedAt": null,
  "description": "Brand-new Nintendo Switch 2 console Completely unopened and unused.",
  "images": [
    "https://img.gumtree.com/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/7d3a214bd41e4fda8a_ea3c39ad9efe/86"
  ],
  "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-games-consoles/brand-new-nintendo-switch-2-/1803443437",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T08:04:31.448Z"
}

Key output fields

Field	Type	Description
listingId	String	Gumtree's own numeric ad ID
title	String	Listing headline as posted
price	Number	Parsed asking price (null when the ad lists no price, e.g. "Free" or "Swap")
priceText	String	The price exactly as shown on the page
currency	String	Always GBP
location	String	Area/city as shown on the listing card
category	String	Echoes the category you passed in, so you can tell results apart when fanning out multiple runs
postedAt	String	When the ad was posted, when Gumtree's card exposes it
description	String	Short description text from the listing card (not the full ad body)
images	Array	Up to 5 image URLs from the listing card
url	String	Direct link to the ad
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of the scrape

Pricing

Event	Price
Listing scraped	$0.003

Pay-per-result. A 1,000-listing run costs $3; the default 50-listing run costs $0.15.

What makes this richer than the competition

• memo23/gumtree-cheerio (34 users/30d) covers Gumtree across Australia, UK, New Zealand and South Africa in one actor, at $1.75 per 1,000 items. It is a broader, multi-country tool rather than a UK-focused one.
• bovi/gumtree-scraper (3 users/30d) is UK-only like this actor, at $1.69 per 1,000 items, but does not expose a dedicated category input: it is built around keyword search.

This actor is UK-specific and lets you target any of Gumtree's 11 categories directly (not just cars or a single vertical), combine category, location and keyword in one call, or hand it a fully custom search URL when you need filters Gumtree itself does not expose as simple parameters (price range, specific postcode).

Notes & limitations

• postedAt depends on Gumtree showing a posting date on the listing card itself; on many cards today it does not, so this field is frequently null. The actor never guesses a date.
• price is null when the seller did not put a number on the ad (common for "Free", "Swap" or "Contact for price" listings). The actor reports exactly what Gumtree shows, it does not invent a price.
• description is the short text shown on the search-results card, not the full description from the ad's own page.
• Covers Gumtree UK only. Gumtree Australia, South Africa and other regional sites are out of scope for this actor.
• The actor follows Gumtree's own result pagination up to maxPages; for a category with more listings than you need in one run, narrow by location or keyword instead of raising maxPages very high.

FAQ

Does it need a Gumtree account or API key? No, listing data is public on the search results page; no login or key is required.

Can I search more than one category at once? No, each run covers one category (or a custom URL). Run it once per category and compare results by the category field you passed in.

Why is price sometimes null? Because the seller posted the ad without a price (e.g. "Free" or "Swap only"). The actor never fills in a guessed number.

Can I filter by price range or other site filters? Yes: build the filtered search on gumtree.com itself, copy the resulting URL, and pass it as startUrl. The actor will follow its pagination as-is.

What is the maximum number of listings per run? maxItems caps at 500. For larger coverage, split by category, location or keyword and run multiple times.

Can I track price changes on the same search over time? Yes: save the category/location/keywords combination (or the startUrl) and run the actor on a schedule, comparing each run's output to the previous one by listingId.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

This actor is callable from any MCP-compatible AI assistant through the Apify MCP server, and directly from code through the Apify API.

Via MCP (mcp.apify.com): add the Apify MCP server to your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client) and call the gio21/gumtree-uk-scraper actor by name with a category, location or keywords. The assistant gets back structured JSON it can reason over directly.

Via API (run-sync-get-dataset-items), for a synchronous call that returns the dataset items in the same request:

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/gio21~gumtree-uk-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category": "cars", "location": "manchester", "maxItems": 30}'

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Gumtree or Adevinta. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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