# Rightmove Scraper (`lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper`) Actor Extract Rightmove UK property listings as clean JSON with zero personal data - prices, bedrooms, tenure, price reductions, agency brand only. For sale & to rent, newest-first monitoring, pay per result. Built for market research, price tracking and AI pipelines. - **URL**: https://apify.com/lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Lowland Data](https://apify.com/lowlanddata) (community) - **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.59 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. - **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use). - **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`. - **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`. - **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`. - **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Rightmove Scraper — privacy-safe UK property data Extract property listings from **Rightmove** — the UK's largest property portal — as clean, structured JSON. Prices, bedrooms, property types, tenure, floor area, listing dates, price reductions and photos, ready for market research, price monitoring and data pipelines. **No personal data, ever.** This scraper is built privacy-first: agent phone numbers, contact routes and exact map coordinates never appear in the output — not as an option you have to remember to switch off, but by design. Addresses come exactly as the listing displays them; the agency appears as a business name only. ### Quick start (30 seconds) 1. Put a place name into **location** — a town (`Manchester`), area (`Camden, London`) or outcode (`EN2`), just like the Rightmove search box. 2. Click **Start**. That's the whole minimum setup. 3. When the run finishes, open the dataset's **Overview** tab for a clean table, or **Export** it as CSV/Excel/JSON. Optional knobs: for-sale or to-rent channel, a price band, a bedrooms band, a search radius and newest-first sorting — and any input works on a daily Schedule. ### What you can build with it - **Track a local market.** Run `location: "Leeds"` with `sortBy: "date"` daily — every new listing arrives with price, type, tenure and the added-or-reduced banner already parsed. - **Catch price reductions.** `listingUpdateReason: "price_reduced"` plus the update date turn the dataset into a reductions feed — filter and alert on it. - **Compare rent levels by area.** Run the `rent` channel over several locations and compare `priceGbp` per month against bedrooms and property type. - **Feed an AI agent clean data.** Every field is structured, predictable and free of personal data, so an assistant or pipeline can consume it directly — no scrubbing, no compliance review before you store it. ### What you get Each property is one dataset item: ```json { "propertyId": "169700001", "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169700001", "title": "3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale", "displayAddress": "Chase Side Avenue, Enfield, EN2", "priceGbp": 680000, "currency": "GBP", "priceFrequency": null, "priceQualifier": "Guide Price", "bedrooms": 3, "bathrooms": 1, "propertyType": "End of Terrace", "channel": "buy", "tenureType": "FREEHOLD", "displaySize": "1,033 sq. ft.", "summary": "This well proportioned 3 bedroom house...", "firstVisibleDate": "2025-11-25T16:25:20Z", "listingUpdateReason": "price_reduced", "listingUpdateDate": "2026-08-01T09:06:33Z", "addedOrReduced": "Reduced on 01/08/2026", "agencyName": "Ian Gibbs, Enfield", "featured": false, "auction": false, "imageUrls": ["https://media.rightmove.co.uk/property-photo/example.jpeg"] } ``` Field notes, so you know exactly what you are buying: - `priceGbp` is in pounds. For rentals, `priceFrequency` says whether it is per month or per week. - `displayAddress` is the address exactly as the agent published it. Rightmove's data contains exact coordinates — they are deliberately never collected. - `agencyName` is the estate agency's trading name and branch: business identity, no phone numbers, no contact links. - `listingUpdateReason` and `addedOrReduced` carry the site's own freshness signals — ideal for reduction alerts. - `featured` marks paid placements. ### How much does it cost to scrape Rightmove? $1.99 per 1,000 properties delivered, pay-as-you-go — no subscription, no charge for empty or failed runs. In plain pounds and pence: - **100 properties ≈ $0.20** — a daily local-market watch. - **1,000 properties ≈ $1.99** — a full city snapshot. The price is all-inclusive — your runs' platform usage is covered by it, with no separate compute or proxy charges. Runs are fast — a scoped few-hundred-item run typically finishes in under ten seconds. Datacenter proxies are sufficient — no residential proxy surcharge needed. Free-plan runs are limited to a sample of 25 items, enough to evaluate the output format against your real query. ### Not technical? Let your AI assistant set it up Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude or any AI assistant, fill in the one line, and follow the conversation: ```text Help me set up the "Rightmove Scraper" actor on Apify (https://apify.com/lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper). Guide me one step at a time. What I want to watch: [E.G. "2-3 bedroom houses under 300k in Sheffield"] Guide me to: 1. Propose my input values: location (as I'd type it on rightmove.co.uk), channel buy or rent, an optional priceMinGbp/priceMaxGbp band, bedroomsMin/bedroomsMax, sortBy "date" for newest-first monitoring, and maxItems. 2. Create a free Apify account (apify.com), open the actor page, paste the values into the Input form, and start a run. 3. Set up a daily Schedule in the Apify Console with the same input, plus an email or Slack integration so new results reach me automatically. 4. Show me how to export results as CSV/Excel, or read them from the API if I code. 5. If the results are what I wanted, remind me at the end to leave a quick rating on the actor page, and to report anything broken or missing on its Issues tab. ``` ### Input | Field | Description | | -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `location` | Place as you would type it on Rightmove. Required. First suggestion wins. | | `channel` | `buy` (default) or `rent`. | | `priceMinGbp` | Only properties priced at least this many pounds (per month for rentals). | | `priceMaxGbp` | Only properties priced at most this many pounds (per month for rentals). | | `bedroomsMin` | At least this many bedrooms. | | `bedroomsMax` | At most this many bedrooms. | | `radiusMiles` | Widen the search this many miles around the location. | | `sortBy` | `date` (newest first, default), `price_asc`, `price_desc`, or `oldest`. | | `postedAfter` | Only listings posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Stops early with newest-first sorting. | | `postedBefore` | Only listings posted on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). | | `maxItems` | Stop after this many properties (default 1000). | | `proxyConfiguration` | Proxy settings; keep Apify proxy enabled. | A run minimally needs a `location`; invalid combinations (like an inverted price band) fail immediately with the reason in the run's status message. ### Use it from your code Run the actor and get items straight back with one HTTP call (fine for scoped runs up to ~5 minutes): ```bash curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lowlanddata~rightmove-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=" \ -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"location": "Manchester", "maxItems": 100}' ``` Node.js: ```js import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '' }); const run = await client.actor('lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper').call({ location: 'Manchester', maxItems: 100, }); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); ``` Python: ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("") run = client.actor("lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper").call( run_input={"location": "Manchester", "maxItems": 100}) items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items ``` Schedules, webhooks and the Make/Zapier/n8n integrations all work out of the box — this is a standard Apify actor. ### Use it with AI agents (MCP) Claude, Cursor and other MCP-capable agents can run this scraper as a tool through Apify's hosted MCP server: the agent fills in the search itself, starts the run and reads the results — no glue code. Claude Code: ```bash claude mcp add apify --transport http "https://mcp.apify.com?actors=lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper" ``` Cursor or Claude Desktop (add a custom connector / MCP server with this URL): ```text https://mcp.apify.com?actors=lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper ``` Sign in with your Apify account when prompted — runs are billed to it. Setup details per client: [Apify MCP docs](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp). Prompts that work once connected: - "Get the 100 newest listings for sale in Manchester and summarize price per bedroom." - "Search Rightmove rentals in Bristol under 1500 pounds and flag anything added today." - "Watch Rightmove for price reductions in Leeds and list the ten biggest ones." ### Is it legal to scrape Rightmove? Public listing data — prices, property details, listing dates — is public commercial information, and this scraper is built so that the hard part of the question never arises: **no personal data enters your dataset in the first place.** UK GDPR sets strict rules on personal data; an output that carries no phone numbers, no contact routes and no coordinates beyond the address the agent chose to publish is the point of this actor, not an afterthought. Structurally, the extractor maps a fixed whitelist of fields out of the page's data. Agent telephone numbers, contact URLs, map assets and exact coordinates are never read into the output. Requests are paced, load on the site is kept negligible, and no anti-bot protection is bypassed. One honest limit: listing summaries are the agent's own words, delivered as-is. If an agent chooses to type contact details into the summary text, that text is not rewritten — the guarantee covers the data fields, not the content agents publish about themselves. ### Is there a Rightmove API alternative? Rightmove publishes no public API for listings. This actor is the practical alternative: the same listings as structured JSON through one HTTP call (`run-sync-get-dataset-items`), on a schedule, or as an MCP tool for AI agents — with the privacy question already answered in the data itself. ### Does Rightmove block scrapers? Rightmove serves its listings openly to ordinary requests — and this actor stays inside that welcome: paced requests, standard datacenter proxies, load kept negligible. No CAPTCHA fights, no bot-wall cat-and-mouse — which is also why runs are fast and reliable enough for daily schedules. ### How do I monitor Rightmove prices? Set `sortBy: "date"` with your location and filters, cap `maxItems` to a page or two, and add a daily (or hourly) Schedule in the Apify Console with an email/Slack integration on the runs — every new listing lands in your inbox with the price already parsed. For reductions, filter the dataset on `listingUpdateReason: "price_reduced"`. The AI-assistant prompt above walks a non-technical user through exactly this setup. Even tighter: set `postedAfter` to yesterday's date — the dataset then contains only the new listings, nothing to dedupe on your side. ### FAQ **Can I get agent phone numbers or contact details?** No — by design. That is the product: data you can store, share and process without a privacy review. **Can I search by postcode?** Yes — outcodes like `EN2` or `M20` work directly in `location`. **How deep does one search go?** Rightmove serves at most ~1,000 results (42 pages) per search. Narrow by price band or bedrooms to see everything in busy markets. **Can I get only the newest listings?** Yes — set `postedAfter` to a date (yesterday, say) and the dataset contains only listings posted since then. With newest-first sorting the run stops paging as soon as it provably reaches older listings, so a daily watch stays fast and cheap. **How fresh is the data?** Live at run time — every run queries Rightmove directly. For continuous freshness, schedule the actor. **Can I export to Excel or CSV?** Yes — every dataset exports as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Apify Console or API. **Does it work with Make, Zapier or n8n?** Yes — it is a standard Apify actor; all platform integrations, webhooks and schedules apply. **How do I find reduced properties on Rightmove?** Filter the dataset on `listingUpdateReason: "price_reduced"`. Each reduced listing also carries `listingUpdateDate` and Rightmove's own "Reduced on ..." banner in `addedOrReduced`, so building a reductions feed is one filter, not a project. **Does Rightmove have a public API?** No — Rightmove publishes no listings API. This actor is the practical substitute: the same listings as structured JSON through one HTTP call, on a schedule, or as an MCP tool. **Can I scrape Rightmove rentals?** Yes — set `channel: "rent"`. The rent arrives in `priceGbp`, and `priceFrequency` tells you whether that figure is per month or per week. **Does it tell me if a property is freehold or leasehold?** Yes — `tenureType` carries the tenure exactly as Rightmove publishes it, e.g. `FREEHOLD`. **Can I see the floor area?** The `displaySize` field carries the floor area as the listing displays it, e.g. `1,033 sq. ft.` — useful for rough price-per-area comparisons. **Does it include sold house prices?** No — this actor extracts live for-sale and to-rent listings only. The closest signal is the reduction data: `listingUpdateReason` and `addedOrReduced` show where asking prices are moving. **Can I widen the search beyond one town?** Yes — `radiusMiles` extends the search up to 40 miles around the location; leaving it at 0 keeps the search to the place itself. **How do I know when a property was listed?** `firstVisibleDate` is the timestamp Rightmove first showed the listing; `listingUpdateDate` marks its latest change. Both are ISO dates you can sort and filter on. **Are listing photos included?** Yes — `imageUrls` lists the property's photo URLs. Map assets and exact coordinates, by contrast, are deliberately never collected. **Why did my run stop at 25 results?** That is the free-plan sample cap, meant for checking the output format against your real query. Any paid Apify plan removes it. **Do I need residential proxies for Rightmove?** No — the default datacenter proxies are enough, because the actor stays within what Rightmove serves to ordinary requests. That keeps runs cheap and quick. **Does it show auction properties?** Yes — the `auction` flag marks auction listings, and `featured` marks paid placements, so both are easy to include or exclude. **Can I get a property's exact map location?** No — coordinates are excluded by design. You get `displayAddress`, the address exactly as the agent published it, and nothing more precise. **Is the output GDPR-safe to store?** Yes, and structurally so: the extractor maps a fixed whitelist of fields, so phone numbers, contact routes and coordinates never enter the dataset. One honest limit — the `summary` is the agent's own text, delivered as-is. ### Related scrapers The same clean-output guarantee across Europe's biggest marketplaces: - [Gumtree Scraper](https://apify.com/lowlanddata/gumtree-uk-scraper) — the UK's classifieds staple. - [Kleinanzeigen.de Scraper](https://apify.com/lowlanddata/kleinanzeigen-scraper) — Germany's biggest classifieds site. - [Marktplaats.nl Scraper](https://apify.com/lowlanddata/marktplaats-scraper) — the Netherlands' biggest marketplace. ### Troubleshooting The actor fails fast with the reason in the run's status message: - **"Rightmove does not know the location ..."** — type the place as the Rightmove search box suggests it, e.g. `Camden, London` instead of an abbreviation. - **"priceMinGbp must not be higher than priceMaxGbp."** — swap the two values. - **"Rightmove blocked the run before any results could be fetched. This is usually temporary - retry in a few minutes."** — a temporary block on the first request; a retry usually lands on a clean proxy session. - **Fewer items than requested on a free plan** — the 25-item free sample cap; run on a paid Apify plan for full results. ### Support Found an issue or missing a field you need? Open an issue on the actor's **Issues tab** — reports get fixed, this actor is actively maintained. Working well for you? A **rating on this page** takes ten seconds and helps other buyers find a privacy-clean option among the lookalikes — it is also the clearest signal of what we should build next. # Actor input Schema ## `location` (type: `string`): Place to search, exactly as you would type it in the Rightmove search box: a town ("Manchester"), area ("Camden, London") or outcode ("EN2"). The first suggestion Rightmove offers for it is used. ## `channel` (type: `string`): Search properties for sale (buy) or to rent (rent). ## `priceMinGbp` (type: `integer`): Only include properties priced at least this many pounds. For rentals this is pounds per month. ## `priceMaxGbp` (type: `integer`): Only include properties priced at most this many pounds. For rentals this is pounds per month. ## `bedroomsMin` (type: `integer`): Only include properties with at least this many bedrooms. ## `bedroomsMax` (type: `integer`): Only include properties with at most this many bedrooms. ## `radiusMiles` (type: `integer`): Widen the search this many miles around the location. 0 = the location only. ## `sortBy` (type: `string`): Order of results: date (newest first, best for monitoring), price\_asc, price\_desc, or oldest. ## `postedAfter` (type: `string`): Only include listings posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD or a full ISO timestamp). With newest-first sorting the run stops early once older listings are reached. ## `postedBefore` (type: `string`): Only include listings posted on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD or a full ISO timestamp). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Stop after this many properties. Free-plan runs are capped at 25 items. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. Keep Apify proxy enabled. ## Actor input object example ```json { "location": "Manchester", "channel": "buy", "sortBy": "date", "maxItems": 25, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `properties` (type: `string`): Scraped Rightmove properties, one JSON object per listing. # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "location": "Manchester", "channel": "buy", "sortBy": "date", "maxItems": 25, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "location": "Manchester", "channel": "buy", "sortBy": "date", "maxItems": 25, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "location": "Manchester", "channel": "buy", "sortBy": "date", "maxItems": 25, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lowlanddata/rightmove-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/WPHpTz2DcuTOmCqt0/builds/uq9YTCfJbsUE9idks/openapi.json