Craigslist Scraper — Apartments, Classifieds & Gigs with Phone & Email Extraction

A high-performance, production-grade Apify Actor to search, extract, and monitor listings from Craigslist across all categories, locations, and subareas. Built with Crawlee (CheerioCrawler) and got-scraping using a pure HTTP-first architecture—achieving blazing-fast extraction speeds without the overhead of heavy headless browsers.

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🚀 Key Features & Why It Beats Alternatives

• ⚡ Blazing Fast Pure HTTP Execution: Avoids sluggish Chromium/Playwright browsers. It extracts full HTML SSR data directly, reducing execution time and proxy bandwidth costs by up to 90%.
• 📧 Direct Email & Phone Number Extraction: Proactively checks listing bodies and parses response headers/endpoints to capture contact details, emails, and phone numbers.
• 📍 Rich Structured Data: Extracts bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, pricing, geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude), and full descriptions.
• 📸 High-Resolution Image Galleries: Pulls complete sets of original high-resolution photo URLs directly from image manifests.
• 🛡️ Anti-Bot Circumvention: Pre-configured for rotating Residential Proxies with modern Chrome TLS fingerprinting and header emulation.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Pay only for what you extract! Minimal actor startup cost and per-item pricing.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This actor operates on a pay-as-you-go Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for what you extract:

Event Name	Purpose	Price (USD)	Description
apify-default-dataset-item	result	$0.0015	Single result in the default dataset.
email-event	Email event	$0.05	Charged for each email extracted
apify-actor-start	Actor Start	$0.007	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
additional-data	Additional Data	$0.001	Charged for additional data

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📥 Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	Yes	[{"url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/apa"}]	List of Craigslist search, category, or listing URLs to scrape.
searchQuery	String	No	"New York Apartments"	Free-text search keyword to filter listings.
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of listings to extract (1 to 50,000).
proxy	Object	No	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Apify Proxy configuration. Residential proxies recommended.

Sample Input JSON

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/apa"
    }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "New York Apartments",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

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📤 Output Dataset Format

Each extracted listing record includes the following structured fields:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique Craigslist listing identifier (post ID).
title	String	Title of the posting.
price	String | null	Listed price (e.g., "$1,700").
location	String | null	Neighborhood, borough, or city location.
postingUrl	String	Direct URL to the live Craigslist posting.
email	String | null	Contact email address if provided by poster.
phone	String | null	Contact telephone/SMS number if provided.
postedDate	String | null	ISO timestamp when the listing was posted.
description	String | null	Cleaned description text without markup.
bedrooms	Number | null	Number of bedrooms (e.g., 1, 2, 3).
bathrooms	Number | null	Number of bathrooms (e.g., 1, 1.5, 2).
sqft	Number | null	Square footage of the rental/property.
latitude	Number | null	Latitude coordinate for map positioning.
longitude	Number | null	Longitude coordinate for map positioning.
images	Array[String]	URLs of all uploaded high-resolution photos.
category	String | null	Category code (e.g., apa for apartments).
attributes	Object	Key-value pairs of all posting attributes (laundry, parking, etc.).
email_event	Boolean	True if a direct email was extracted.
additional_data	Boolean	True if enriched attributes or coordinates were captured.
scrapedAt	String	ISO timestamp of when the record was extracted.

Sample Output Record

{
  "id": "7974039939",
  "title": "Clinton Hill 1-Bedroom Apartment!",
  "price": "$1,700",
  "location": "Clinton Hill",
  "postingUrl": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/bronx-clinton-hill-bedroom-apartment/eQ1wsMFMF38AzaVHGVmawz",
  "email": "agent@example.com",
  "phone": "(917) 555-0199",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-27T20:11:51-0400",
  "description": "Spacious and sunny 1BR apartment with renovated kitchen and hardwood floors. Steps away from transit and local shops.",
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "sqft": 650,
  "latitude": 40.8085,
  "longitude": -73.9198,
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00Z0Z_hcOLOa5mtjA_06c04E_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01414_40ltIQrOZ3Z_06c04E_600x450.jpg"
  ],
  "category": "apa",
  "attributes": {
    "cats are OK - purrr": "true",
    "dogs are OK - wooof": "true",
    "laundry": "w/d in unit"
  },
  "email_event": true,
  "additional_data": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T00:56:00.000Z"
}

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🏷️ Tags & SEO

craigslist, craigslist-scraper, real-estate, apartments-for-rent, housing, lead-generation, contact-scraper, email-extractor, phone-extractor, crawlee, apify-actor