🇬🇧 OnTheMarket UK Scraper | Property Listings

What does OnTheMarket UK Scraper do?

OnTheMarket UK Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts residential and commercial property listings for sale and rent from OnTheMarket (onthemarket.com)—one of the UK's leading property portals. It captures asking prices in British Pounds (price), short price tags (short-price), price qualifier terms (price-qualifier), property types (humanised-property-type), listing headlines (property-title), bedrooms, bathrooms, full addresses (address), cover photos (cover-image), managing agent details (agent), geographic coordinates (location), canonical detail links (details-url), and listing permalinks (url).

Whether you are tracking UK property market pricing across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, or Glasgow, monitoring new instructions and price reductions, benchmarking local agent activity, or aggregating multi-portal UK real estate data alongside Rightmove, this Actor provides clean, structured records in seconds with zero manual proxy setup.

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🛡️ Zero Proxy Configuration Required: UK residential IP routing and anti-blocking are handled automatically on the backend — simply paste your OnTheMarket search URLs and click Start.

What data can you extract with OnTheMarket UK Scraper?

💶 Price & Currency — formatted asking price price (e.g., £575,000), condensed short-price (e.g., £575k), price-qualifier (e.g., Guide price, Offers in region of), and currency (GBP)
🏠 Property Type & Classification — readable type humanised-property-type (e.g., 2 bedroom apartment), headline property-title, and unique listing id
📍 Address & Geographic Location — full street and postal address, latitude and longitude coordinates in location, country (GB), and portal identifier
🛏️ Rooms & Bathrooms — room counts including bedrooms and bathrooms
🏢 Estate Agency Details — managing branch details in agent including agency name, contact telephone, logo URL, and agent branch URL
🖼️ Photos & Media — primary listing photo in cover-image
🔗 Canonical Links — direct property link in url, relative detail path in details-url, and request source_url

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Why scrape property listings from OnTheMarket?

💪 Capture Early Instruction Advantage — many UK estate agencies publish listings to OnTheMarket first (New & Exclusive) before other portals, giving investors earlier deal visibility
🕵️ Calculate Accurate Gross Rental Yields — combine asking prices with local rental values across UK postal sectors to identify profitable buy-to-let opportunities
✨ Standardized UK Real Estate Schema — combine OnTheMarket data directly with Rightmove and European property datasets using standardized schemas
👍 Seamless Search Filter Compatibility — apply OnTheMarket filters for price min/max, bedroom counts, property types, and radius, and paste the URL directly
📩 Real-Time Dataset Streaming — every property listing streams directly to your Apify dataset as it is discovered, ready for instant export to Google Sheets, BigQuery, Airtable, Make, or n8n

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How do I use OnTheMarket UK Scraper?

OnTheMarket UK Scraper is built for fast, zero-configuration operation in Apify Console:

1. Click Try for free on the Actor page to open Apify Console.
2. Search on onthemarket.com, apply any filters (for sale, to rent, location, price min/max, bedrooms), and copy the search result URL from your browser.
3. Paste one or more search URLs into Start URLs (startUrls) (for example: https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/london/).
4. Set Max Results (maxItems) to specify the maximum number of listings to collect.
5. Click Start and watch structured property records stream into the dataset log in real time.
6. Download your dataset from the Output or Dataset tab in JSON, CSV, Excel (.xlsx), or HTML table format.

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Input

OnTheMarket UK Scraper accepts a clean 2-parameter JSON configuration. Click on the Input tab for the interactive form.

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/london/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

🌐 Start URLs (startUrls) — one or more onthemarket.com search result URLs or property listing URLs
🔢 Max Results (maxItems) — maximum number of property listings to collect per run (default: 40; free accounts can collect up to 40 items per run, while paid Apify plans support unlimited bulk runs)

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Output sample

Results stream in real time into your default Apify Dataset. Below is an excerpt of a real record extracted from onthemarket.com:

[
  {
    "id": 17498708,
    "property-title": "Coral Apartments, 17 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16",
    "humanised-property-type": "2 bedroom apartment",
    "price": "£575,000",
    "short-price": "£575k",
    "price-qualifier": "Guide price",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "bedrooms": 2,
    "bathrooms": 2,
    "address": "Coral Apartments, 17 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16",
    "cover-image": "https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/17498708/1557022138/image-0-480x320.webp",
    "agent": {
      "name": "Chestertons - Royal Docks",
      "telephone": "020 7768 4406",
      "details-url": "/agents/branch/chestertons-royal-docks/",
      "logo-url": "https://media.onthemarket.com/agents/companies/20/150612092121722/logo-190x100.jpg"
    },
    "location": {
      "lat": 51.5085,
      "lon": 0.0215
    },
    "details-url": "/details/17498708/",
    "portal": "onthemarket.com",
    "country": "GB",
    "source_url": "https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/london/",
    "url": "https://www.onthemarket.com/details/17498708/"
  }
]

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How much does it cost to scrape OnTheMarket?

This Actor uses transparent Pay-Per-Event (Pay-Per-Result) pricing with a $0.00 Actor run start fee:

🆓 Free Plan — $5.00 / 1,000 listings ($0.00500 per result, up to 40 results per run)
🥉 Starter (Bronze) Plan — $1.35 / 1,000 listings ($0.00135 per result, unlimited results)
🥈 Scale (Silver) Plan — $0.95 / 1,000 listings ($0.00095 per result, unlimited results)
🥇 Business+ (Gold) Plan — $0.75 / 1,000 listings ($0.00075 per result, unlimited results)

With the monthly free credit included on Apify Free plans, you can extract up to 1,000 OnTheMarket property listings every month at zero cost.

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💡 Predictable, All-Inclusive Pay-Per-Event Pricing: There is a $0.00 run start fee and no separate proxy configuration required. You only pay the flat per-result rate above for data successfully delivered to your dataset — works out of the box on both Free and Paid Apify plans.

How many listings can you scrape with OnTheMarket UK Scraper?

OnTheMarket UK Scraper supports city-wide, borough-wide, and national harvesting across the UK:

• Partition Large Metropolitan Areas: When querying major hubs like London, Manchester, or Birmingham, use postcode or borough-level search URLs (such as E14, SW11, NW3) in startUrls.
• Target Specific Criteria: Apply OnTheMarket's property type filters (Houses, Flats, Bungalows) and price filters before copying the URL into startUrls.
• Exact Volume Limits: Use maxItems to cap each run to the exact volume needed for your valuation pipeline or automated alert trigger.

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Want to scrape other European & Global Real Estate Portals?

Combine this Actor with our other published European and global property scrapers:

🇬🇧 Rightmove UK Property Scraper — scrape UK property listings, GBP asking prices, and floor plans across London and Manchester (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇮🇪 Daft.ie Ireland Property Scraper — scrape Irish property listings, EUR asking prices, and bedrooms across Dublin, Cork, and Galway (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇪🇸 Idealista Property Scraper — extract Spanish residential and commercial property listings, EUR prices, m², and rooms (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇫🇷 PAP.fr France FSBO Property Scraper — scrape direct private-owner (Particulier à Particulier) property sales and rentals across France (From $0.75 / 1K)
🇫🇷 MeilleursAgents France Property Scraper — scrape French property listings and price-per-m² valuation benchmarks (From $0.75 / 1K)

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Integrations and OnTheMarket UK Scraper

OnTheMarket UK Scraper connects with any cloud data pipeline or BI tool through Apify integrations:

• No-Code Automation: Trigger runs and route listings via Make, Zapier, n8n, Clay, or Pipedream.
• Spreadsheets & Warehouses: Sync property inventory directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL.
• Instant Webhooks: Configure webhooks to alert your team when new listings match your criteria.

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Using OnTheMarket UK Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API gives you programmatic access to launch runs, monitor execution status, and stream dataset items in JSON, CSV, or Excel format.

• Node.js: Install the apify-client NPM package to call misterkhan/onthemarket-scraper.
• Python: Install the apify-client PyPI package to pull datasets directly into pandas or analytics pipelines.
• AI Agents & MCP: Connect this Actor to Claude, Cursor, or custom AI agents via the Apify MCP Server (https://mcp.apify.com).

Check out the Apify API reference docs or click on the API tab for ready-to-run code snippets.

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Frequently asked questions about OnTheMarket UK Scraper

🛡️ Do I need to configure proxies?
No — everything works out of the box with zero setup. Regional routing, session management, and anti-blocking are handled automatically on the backend so you do not need to configure custom proxy settings.

🏙️ Can I scrape both for-sale and to-rent listings on onthemarket.com?
Yes. Simply paste any search result URL for properties for sale (/for-sale/) or to rent (/to-rent/) from onthemarket.com into startUrls.

🇬🇧 Does it capture agent contact information?
Yes. Each record includes the managing agency's branch name, telephone number, and logo URL inside the agent object.

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Is it legal to scrape OnTheMarket data?

Our scrapers extract publicly available real estate listing metadata displayed on onthemarket.com. They do not bypass authenticated account portals or harvest private personal data. Always ensure your use of extracted data complies with local and international regulations and copyright frameworks. Read Apify's guide on the legality of web scraping to learn more.

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Your feedback

We keep this Actor under active maintenance. If a run finishes successfully but returns fewer results than you expected, hangs, or errors — please open an Issue before posting a public review so we can diagnose and fix it for you.

🛠️ How to report — Use the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console. Include the run ID, your input JSON, and what you expected vs. what you got.
⏱️ Response time — We aim to reply within 24 hours on business days.
⭐ Reviews — Happy with the results? A short positive review helps other users find a reliable scraper. Ran into a problem? Open an Issue first — we’ll work with you to resolve it before you leave a rating.