# Rightmove Scraper & New Property Alerts - UK Sale & Rent (`lukehunter/rightmove-scraper`) Actor

Scrape UK property listings straight from Rightmove search results: price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, property type, agent details and images, for sale or to rent. Turn on property alerts and run on a schedule to get only newly listed UK properties matching your search.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lukehunter/rightmove-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Luke Hunter](https://apify.com/lukehunter) (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

$0.80 / 1,000 properties

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Rightmove Scraper & New Property Alerts - UK Sale & Rent

**For property investors, letting agents, researchers and anyone tracking UK housing prices who needs clean, structured Rightmove listing data.** Give it a Rightmove search URL and it returns one row per property — price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, property type, agent details and images — read straight from Rightmove's own search results. No login, no browser, no proxy. Turn on **property alerts** mode (`onlyNewSinceLastRun`) and run it on a schedule to get only newly listed UK properties matching your saved search.

Pay-per-result: **$0.0008 per delivered property — 1,000 properties = $0.80.**

### Quick start (1 minute)

1. On [rightmove.co.uk](https://www.rightmove.co.uk), set up your search (location, price, bedrooms, radius — whatever you need) under **For Sale** or **To Rent**, then copy the URL from your browser.
2. Paste it into the **Rightmove search URLs** field and click **Start**.

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"],
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

That prefilled example (London, for sale) finishes in well under a minute and costs $0.03.

### How it works

Every Rightmove search results page embeds its own results as structured JSON (`__NEXT_DATA__`) inside the page it serves to any visitor — no separate API, no login. This Actor:

1. Checks the request path against rightmove.co.uk's `robots.txt` before ever fetching it (only `property-for-sale/find.html` and `property-to-rent/find.html` are ever requested).
2. Fetches the search page and reads its embedded `__NEXT_DATA__`, at one request every 2 seconds.
3. Pages through results (24 per page) via Rightmove's own `index` parameter, up to `maxPagesPerSearch`, stopping at the real end of results.
4. Normalises every property into one flat dataset row, and skips Rightmove's own sponsored "featured" listing by default (see `includeFeatured`).
5. Reports — never disguises — a block, an empty result set, or a page it can no longer parse.

### Use cases

- **Property investors & analysts**: pull a location's current listings on a schedule and track price, bedrooms and days-on-market over time.
- **Letting/estate agents**: monitor competing listings in your patch — price, agent, property type.
- **Researchers**: build a dataset of asking prices/rents by area for market analysis.

### Property alerts: get only new properties

Turn on `onlyNewSinceLastRun` and put this Actor on a **schedule** to get a genuine **Rightmove new-property alert**: every run after the first delivers (and charges for) only properties it hasn't delivered before for that exact search URL. It's the same wedge as [Wellfound Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/lukehunter/wellfound-jobs-scraper)'s job-alerts mode, applied to UK property search.

1. Set up your search on rightmove.co.uk as usual (location, price, bedrooms, radius) and copy its URL, plus:

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"],
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

2. Click **Schedule** on the run page (or create one under **Schedules** in the Apify Console) — daily or a few times a day works well for a popular search area.
3. **The first scheduled run is a baseline**: it delivers every property currently listed (it's all new to you) and remembers it — you're charged normally for that run. Every run after that only delivers properties it hasn't seen before for this exact search.
4. Add a **Webhook** under the schedule's **Integrations** for `ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED`, pointing at Apify's own Slack/email integration (or a Zapier/Make webhook step) so you see new matching listings the moment a run finds them.

The run's status message tells you what happened: `"First run for 1 search: 24 properties delivered and remembered; next runs return only new ones."` on the baseline, then `"3 new properties since last run across 1 search (21 already seen)."` on later runs. A run that finds nothing new still **succeeds** with an empty dataset — that's the point of the mode, not a failure.

Each `startUrls` entry is tracked as its **own, independent watch** (not one watch for the whole run), keyed on that exact search URL — so you can run several saved searches (sale vs rent, different areas, different price bands) in one Actor task without their seen-history mixing. `stateStoreName` only needs changing if you want to isolate or reset a watch's memory, or run several Actor tasks without them sharing state.

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"],
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 2,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeFeatured": false,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "stateStoreName": "rightmove-scraper-seen-properties"
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---:|---|
| `startUrls` | string\[] | required | 1–20 Rightmove search URLs — either `property-for-sale/find.html?...` or `property-to-rent/find.html?...`. Copy them straight from your browser after setting up the search. |
| `maxPagesPerSearch` | integer | 2 | 1–42. Result pages (24 properties each) to fetch per search URL. Rightmove itself never returns more than 42 pages for one search. |
| `maxItems` | integer | 50 | 1–5,000. Hard cap on rows delivered across the whole run — your cost cap. |
| `includeFeatured` | boolean | `false` | Rightmove inserts one sponsored "featured" property at the top of every results page, on top of its 24 organic results. Leave unchecked to skip it. |
| `onlyNewSinceLastRun` | boolean | `false` | Property alerts mode — see above. Delivers and charges only properties not delivered by a previous run of the same search URL. |
| `stateStoreName` | string | `rightmove-scraper-seen-properties` | Name of the store that remembers what every alert-mode search has already delivered. Change it only to isolate or reset a watch. |

### Output fields

| Category | Fields |
|---|---|
| Identity | `propertyId`, `url`, `searchUrl`, `page`, `scrapedAt` |
| Listing | `displayAddress`, `channel`, `propertyType`, `summary`, `bedrooms`, `bathrooms`, `latitude`, `longitude` |
| Price | `price`, `priceText`, `priceQualifier`, `currency`, `rentFrequency` |
| Timing | `firstVisibleDate`, `addedOrReduced`, `listingUpdateReason` |
| Agent | `agentName`, `agentBranch`, `agentPhone` (branch's own public business number) |
| Media | `imageUrls` (first 5), `floorplanCount` |
| Placement | `isFeatured` |

Missing values are returned as `null`. Nothing is invented.

### Output example

```json
{
  "propertyId": 92599569,
  "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/92599569",
  "displayAddress": "Clarendon Drive, London, SW15",
  "price": 2965000,
  "priceText": "£2,965,000",
  "priceQualifier": null,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "channel": "sale",
  "rentFrequency": null,
  "bedrooms": 4,
  "bathrooms": 5,
  "propertyType": "End of Terrace",
  "summary": "SHOW HOME NOW AVAILABLE TO VIEW! A magnificent 2,438 sqft four-bedroom luxury home located in the heart of West Putney. Register with Hamptons!",
  "latitude": 51.464039,
  "longitude": -0.222232,
  "firstVisibleDate": "2026-09-01T14:31:17Z",
  "addedOrReduced": "Added on 01/09/2026",
  "listingUpdateReason": "new",
  "agentName": "Hamptons",
  "agentBranch": "Putney",
  "agentPhone": "020 3869 5957",
  "imageUrls": ["https://media.rightmove.co.uk:443/dir/crop/10:9-16:9/property-photo/3b0a65120/92599569/3b0a65120770da64bcb7256a9df53827_max_476x317.jpeg"],
  "floorplanCount": 1,
  "isFeatured": true,
  "searchUrl": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490",
  "page": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-27T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Use it as an API

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("lukehunter/rightmove-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"],
        "maxItems": 500,
    }
)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["displayAddress"], item["priceText"], item["bedrooms"])
```

### Pricing and cost control

Pay per delivered property listing.

**$0.0008 per property — 1,000 properties = $0.80.**

| Properties delivered | Cost |
|---:|---:|
| 20 | $0.02 |
| 1,000 | $0.80 |
| 10,000 | $8.00 |

There is no charge for starting a run, and no charge for a search that is blocked or produces nothing. `maxItems` gives you a hard upper bound on cost.

### Limitations

- **Only what Rightmove's own search results page publishes.** No property-detail-page fields beyond what search results already show (this Actor never opens individual listing pages), no sold-price history, no viewing/contact-form data.
- **Approximate coordinates.** `latitude`/`longitude` are exactly what Rightmove publishes on search results, which it deliberately offsets slightly from the true location for privacy — do not treat them as exact.
- **UK only, and Rightmove-specific.** This Actor does not cover Zoopla, OnTheMarket or any other portal (see `zillow-zip-scraper` in this developer's portfolio for the US equivalent on Zillow).
- **`agentPhone` is the branch's own public business contact number as published by Rightmove on the listing — never a private individual's number.**
- This Actor honours `robots.txt` and never bypasses a block, CAPTCHA or anti-bot measure — a blocked search is reported, not evaded.
- This is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Rightmove plc. You are responsible for using the collected data in accordance with Rightmove's terms and applicable law.

### FAQ

#### Where do I get a Rightmove search URL?

Set up your search on rightmove.co.uk (For Sale or To Rent, with whatever location/price/bedroom filters you want) and copy the URL straight from your browser's address bar — no need to construct it by hand.

#### Does this include sold prices or property history?

No — this Actor reads current search results only. It does not fetch Rightmove's separate house-prices/sold-price pages.

#### Why is one row marked `isFeatured: true`?

Rightmove shows one sponsored "featured" listing at the top of most result pages, in addition to its 24 organic results. It's skipped by default; set `includeFeatured: true` to include it.

#### Does it collect any private personal data?

No. Only the listing's own public details and the estate/letting agent branch's public business name and contact number — never a private individual's data.

#### How do I get a property alert instead of the same listings every time?

Set `onlyNewSinceLastRun: true` and put the Actor on a schedule — see "Property alerts" above. The first scheduled run delivers everything (and remembers it); later runs only deliver what's new. Each search URL keeps its own history, so several saved searches (sale vs rent, different areas) never mix up each other's alerts.

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- **[Federal Register Rule Effective-Date Radar](https://apify.com/lukehunter/federal-rule-effective-date-radar)**: final federal rules about to take effect, with citations, dockets and urgency.
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- **[Chicago New Business License Radar](https://apify.com/lukehunter/chicago-new-business-license-radar)**: newly licensed Chicago businesses as opening leads, grouped by category.
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# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more Rightmove search result URLs, either https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?... or .../property-to-rent/find.html?... — copy the URL straight from your browser after setting up the search (location, price, bedrooms, etc.) on rightmove.co.uk. Maximum 20 URLs per run.

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

How many result pages (24 properties each) to fetch per search URL, 1-42, default 2. Rightmove itself never returns more than 42 pages for a single search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on the number of property listings delivered across all search URLs, 1-5000, default 50. You are charged per delivered property, so this is your cost cap.

## `includeFeatured` (type: `boolean`):

Rightmove inserts one extra sponsored "featured" property at the top of every results page, on top of its 24 organic results. Leave unchecked (default) to skip it and deliver only organic search results; check it to also deliver that featured property.

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

Turn this on and run the Actor on a schedule to get only properties you haven't seen before: properties already delivered on a previous run for the same search URL are skipped and never charged again. The first run for a given search delivers everything (it's all new) and remembers it; later runs only deliver what's new since then. Each search URL is tracked as its own watch. Off by default so a one-off run always gets the full current results.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Only used when "Property alerts" is on. Name of the key-value store that remembers which properties each search URL has already delivered, so it persists across scheduled runs. Leave as the default unless you're running several different alert searches that must not share history. Letters, numbers and hyphens only.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 2,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeFeatured": false,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "stateStoreName": "rightmove-scraper-seen-properties"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `properties` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
    ],
    "maxPagesPerSearch": 2,
    "maxItems": 20,
    "includeFeatured": false
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lukehunter/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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"],
    "maxPagesPerSearch": 2,
    "maxItems": 20,
    "includeFeatured": False,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lukehunter/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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
  ],
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 2,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeFeatured": false
}' |
apify call lukehunter/rightmove-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lukehunter/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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/kNEd17h5ngeuhWNqT/builds/aWlexaLbzZUXpRF70/openapi.json