📍 Craigslist Scraper — Listings, Prices & Geo to CSV/Excel

Fast Craigslist scraper for classifieds data. Pull listings from any Craigslist region and category — titles, prices, locations, GPS coordinates, attributes, photos, and post dates — into clean, spreadsheet-ready rows. No login, no API key.

craigslist scraper · classifieds data · real estate leads · used car listings · apartment data · market research

Built for real-estate analysts, automotive valuation, resale arbitrage, and local market research — with geo coordinates and parsed bed/bath/sqft ready for mapping and filtering.

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👥 Who Is This For?

• Real-Estate & Rental Analysts: Pull apartments/housing with price, neighborhood, lat/long, beds, baths, and sqft — map and filter instantly.
• Automotive & Resale Traders: Track car/for-sale prices across regions to spot under-market deals.
• Market Researchers: Build a structured, multi-region classifieds dataset without wrestling messy HTML.

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⚡ Features

• Geo coordinates — latitude/longitude per listing (enrichment mode) for maps and proximity filtering.
• Parsed real-estate fields — br, ba, sqft pulled out of listing attributes into typed columns.
• Images & attributes — full photo-gallery URLs and the attribute list per post.
• Multi-region × multi-category — scrape many subdomains and categories in one run.
• Smart filters — keyword, min/max price, search radius + ZIP, photos-only.
• De-duplicated — repeat listings and reposts removed by id.
• Cost control — hard maxItems cap so large regions can't run away with your bill.
• Residential anti-block — routes through Apify residential proxy with automatic session rotation, since Craigslist blocks datacenter IPs hard.

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🚀 How to Use

1. Add one or more regions (subdomains) like newyork, sfbay, losangeles.
2. Add one or more category codes (see table below — e.g. hhh housing, sss for sale, jjj jobs).
3. Optionally set filters (keyword, price range, radius+ZIP, photos-only).
4. Keep Visit each post on for geo/attributes/images, set your Maximum Items cap, and click Start.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or HTML — or call it as a tool via Apify's MCP server.

Category Codes

Use either a whole section code or a specific sub-category code.

Section	Code		Common specific codes
Community	ccc		apa apts/housing · hhh all housing
Events	eee		cto cars by owner · cta cars by dealer
For sale	sss		sss all for-sale · ele electronics
Gigs	ggg		ggg all gigs · cpg computer gigs
Housing	hhh		jjj all jobs
Jobs	jjj		bbb all services
Resumes	rrr		rrr resumes · eee events
Services	bbb

Example — scrape every section: "categories": ["ccc","eee","sss","ggg","hhh","jjj","rrr","bbb"]

Sample Input

{
  "subdomains": ["newyork"],
  "categories": ["apa"],
  "minPrice": 1500,
  "maxPrice": 3500,
  "hasPic": true,
  "enrichPosts": true,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 3,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

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📊 Output Data Dictionary

Field	Type	Example
id	string	"7654321"
title	string	"Sunny 2BR Apt"
price	number | null	2500
location	string	"Brooklyn"
subdomain	string	"newyork"
url	string	"https://newyork.craigslist.org/.../7654321.html"
latitude	number | null	40.6782
longitude	number | null	-73.9442
br	number | null	2
ba	number | null	1
sqft	integer | null	950
description	string | null	"Great place near the park..."
attributes	string[]	["2BR / 1Ba","laundry in bldg"]
imageUrls	string[]	["https://images.craigslist.org/a_600x450.jpg"]
postedAt	string (ISO) | null	"2026-06-20T10:00:00-0400"
scrapedAt	string (ISO)	"2026-06-27T10:00:00.000Z"

Geo, br/ba/sqft, attributes, images, and description require Visit each post (enrichment) enabled. With it off, you get the search-page fields only (id, title, price, location, url).

price/br/ba/sqft are null where not applicable — e.g. gigs/jobs have no price; only housing has beds/baths/sqft. Output keeps one consistent schema across all sections.

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💰 Pricing

Charged per delivered dataset row. With enrichment on, one row = one enriched listing.

⚖️ Compliance & Responsible Use

This actor collects publicly visible classifieds data only. It does not extract phone numbers, emails, or other personal contact details. You are responsible for lawful use: respect Craigslist's Terms of Service and robots.txt, applicable data-protection laws, and reasonable request rates.