🇬🇧 SpareRoom UK Scraper | Rooms & Flatshares

What does SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper do?

SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts room rentals, flatshares, and sublets from SpareRoom (spareroom.co.uk)—the UK's number one flatshare and room rental marketplace. It captures monthly and weekly rent rates (price), room descriptions and listing headlines (title), currency (currency), primary room images (image_url), portal source (portal), country (country), and direct listing links (url).

Whether you are analyzing co-living market pricing across Greater London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Oxford, or Cambridge, tracking student housing rental trends, benchmarking rent-to-income affordability, or aggregating room availability feeds, this Actor delivers 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 — just paste your SpareRoom search URLs and click Start.

What data can you extract with SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper?

💶 Rent & Payment Frequency — formatted price (e.g., £799 pcm - bills inc., £185 pw), numeric value, and currency (GBP)
🏠 Room Title & Headline — room or flatshare title, unique listing id, listing_id, and property_id
📍 Portal & Country Identification — source portal (spareroom.co.uk) and country identifier (GB)
🖼️ Photos & Media — primary room photo link in image_url
🔗 Direct Links — canonical listing link url directly to spareroom.co.uk

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Why scrape room rentals from SpareRoom UK?

💪 Track UK Room Rental Inflation by City — monitor per-room rental trends and bill-inclusive dynamics across major UK university and employment centers
🕵️ Spot High-Yield HMO & Co-Living Opportunities — benchmark individual room rents against entire-property buy-to-let mortgage costs to calculate gross HMO yields
✨ Standardized UK Rental Data Feed — combine SpareRoom data directly with Rightmove and European property datasets using standardized schemas
👍 Seamless Search Filter Compatibility — apply SpareRoom filters for rooms for rent, flatshares, short lets, or student-friendly properties and paste the URL directly
📩 Real-Time Dataset Streaming — every room listing streams immediately 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 SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper?

SpareRoom UK Flatshares 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 spareroom.co.uk, apply any filters (location, room type, bills included, max rent), and copy the search result URL from your browser.
3. Paste one or more search URLs into Start URLs (startUrls) (for example: https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/london).
4. Set Max Results (maxItems) to specify the maximum number of room listings to collect.
5. Click Start and watch structured room 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

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

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/london"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

📍 location — search city or region in UK (e.g. London). Optional when startUrls is provided
🌐 Start URLs (startUrls) — one or more spareroom.co.uk search result URLs or room listing URLs
🔢 Max Results (maxItems) — maximum number of room 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 spareroom.co.uk:

[
  {
    "id": "spareroom-uk-scraper-1",
    "listing_id": "spareroom-uk-scraper-1",
    "property_id": "spareroom-uk-scraper-1",
    "title": "Double Room | All Bills | No Deposit",
    "price": "£799 pcm - bills inc.",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "image_url": "https://photos2.spareroom.co.uk/images/flatshare/listings/unmodified/10/18/101842652.jpg?width=400&fit=bounds&auto=webp&optimize=medium",
    "portal": "spareroom.co.uk",
    "country": "GB",
    "url": "https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=101842652"
  }
]

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How much does it cost to scrape SpareRoom UK?

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 SpareRoom UK room 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 SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper?

SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper supports city-wide, borough-wide, and regional harvesting across the UK:

• Partition Metropolitan Areas by Tube Zone or Borough: For large cities like London with thousands of rooms, pass multiple borough or postcode search URLs (such as Camden, Hackney, Clapham, Islington) into startUrls.
• Target Specific Rental Profiles: Use SpareRoom's search filters to specify en-suite rooms, double rooms, pet-friendly flats, or furnished spaces, and paste the resulting URL into startUrls.
• Exact Volume Limits: Use maxItems to cap each run to the exact volume needed for your rental analysis or lead feed.

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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 SpareRoom UK Flatshares Scraper

SpareRoom UK Flatshares 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 the moment newly added flatshares appear in your target postcode.

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Using SpareRoom UK Flatshares 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/spareroom-uk-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 SpareRoom UK Flatshares 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 flatshares and entire properties on spareroom.co.uk?
Yes. Paste any search result URL for rooms for rent, flatshares, or whole properties to let from spareroom.co.uk into startUrls.

🇬🇧 Which locations are covered?
All UK cities, towns, and postal areas covered by SpareRoom are supported, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

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Is it legal to scrape SpareRoom UK data?

Our scrapers extract publicly available real estate listing metadata displayed on spareroom.co.uk. 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.
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