🍁 Craigslist All Products Scraper Canada

Search everything for sale on Canadian Craigslist — every category, every major city, one keyword.

Give it a search term (or none at all) and this actor searches Canadian Craigslist across every major city at once — Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, and 40+ more — pulling real for-sale listings: electronics, furniture, cars, tools, bikes, collectibles, and everything else people are selling. Narrow it to one category if you only need furniture or electronics, or leave it wide open to search the entire for-sale marketplace in one run.

✨ Why use this instead of searching city by city

• 🇨🇦 Every major Canadian city, one run — no need to know which city a seller is in; this searches ~46 cities at once and merges the results.
• 🛒 Not just cars — covers all 45 of Craigslist's own for-sale categories (electronics, furniture, tools, collectibles, sporting goods, and more), or search across every category at once.
• 🔎 Keyword or category browsing — search for something specific ("IKEA couch", "iPhone 14"), browse a whole category's newest listings, or both together.
• 🧩 Full listing detail, not just search-result snippets — every result is the actual listing page: full description, every photo, seller location, and every attribute the seller filled in (condition, brand, size, material - whatever that category exposes).
• 💾 Skips what you've already seen — turn on caching and a repeat run only returns listings you haven't been given yet.
• 🛡️ Built to survive Craigslist's blocking — proxy rotation and retries are handled for you.

🗺️ Categories covered

Every real Craigslist "for sale" category - not jobs, housing, or services, which aren't products and have a completely different set of fields:

antiques · appliances · arts+crafts · atv/utv/snowmobile · auto parts · aviation · baby+kid stuff · barter · beauty+health · bike parts · bicycles · boat parts · boats · books+magazines · business/commercial · cars+trucks · cds/dvds/vhs · cell phones · clothing+accessories · collectibles · computer parts · computers · electronics · farm+garden · free stuff · furniture · garage/moving sales · general for sale · heavy equipment · household items · jewelry · materials · motorcycle parts · motorcycles · musical instruments · photo+video · rvs+campers · sporting goods · tickets · tools · toys+games · trailers · video gaming · wanted · wheels+tires

Leave the category as "all for-sale categories" (the default) to search every one of these at once.

⚙️ Input

Nothing is required except a proxy - every field has a sensible default.

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	Optional. e.g. "iphone", "mountain bike". Leave blank to browse a category's newest listings instead of searching a term.
category	string	Which for-sale category to search. Defaults to all of them at once.
cities	array	Optional. Specific Craigslist city subdomains (e.g. "toronto", "vancouver") to narrow the search to. Leave empty to search every major Canadian city automatically - the default and recommended behaviour.
maxItemsPerCity	integer	Stop each city once this many listings are collected. Default 5. With ~46 cities searched by default, even a small number adds up fast nationwide.
useCache	boolean	Default true. Listings already delivered in a previous run are skipped, so repeat runs only return what's new.
proxyConfiguration	object	Required. Craigslist blocks non-proxied traffic aggressively at this scale.

📦 Output

One row per listing, with the full detail-page content:

{
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/edmonton-cannondale-topstone/3ugfk1h4EZ1emTrcZwttQn",
  "postId": "7951928960",
  "title": "Cannondale Topstone 2",
  "price": 1350,
  "priceCurrency": "CAD",
  "category": "sss",
  "categoryLabel": "all for-sale categories",
  "condition": "like new",
  "attributes": {
    "bicycle_type": "road",
    "bicycle_frame_size_freeform": "Medium",
    "bicycle_frame_material": "alloy",
    "sale_manufacturer": "Cannondale",
    "sale_model": "Topstone 2"
  },
  "features": [],
  "description": "Cannondale Topstone 2. 20 speedy bike. Rigid frame, Hydraulic disk breaks front and real...",
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01717_6DRr4aHqKyu_0t20CI_600x450.jpg"
  ],
  "location": {
    "city": "Edmonton",
    "neighborhood": "Edmonton",
    "region": "for sale",
    "state": "AB",
    "postalCode": "T6B0M8",
    "country": "CA",
    "latitude": 53.5223,
    "longitude": -113.4247
  },
  "craigslistCity": "edmonton",
  "postedAt": "2026-08-06",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-08"
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or several other formats from the Console, or pull it via the API.

attributes is intentionally flexible rather than a fixed field list - a bike listing has bicycle_frame_size, a phone has mobile_os, a car has auto_transmission. Whatever the seller filled in for that category shows up here, under Craigslist's own field names.

📝 Notes

• A residential proxy is required, not optional - Craigslist blocks non-proxied traffic aggressively once you're searching dozens of cities per run.
• condition, attributes, and features all depend on what the individual seller filled in - Craigslist doesn't require every field, so null or an empty object means that particular seller didn't provide it, not a scraping error.
• A sibling actor covering the American Craigslist network the same way is also available - search the Apify Store for "Craigslist All Products Scraper US".

🐞 Found an issue?

If a category's page structure changed or you spotted missing/incorrect fields, please report it on the Actor's Issues tab so it can be looked into.