🌐 Craigslist Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect structured listings from Craigslist across any city, category, and keyword. Extract job postings, housing rentals, items for sale, gigs, events, and more, including contact emails, compensation details, location coordinates, and post body. No coding required. Works across all major Craigslist markets. Search for terms like "Craigslist data export tool," "scrape Craigslist listings," "Craigslist job scraper no code," and "download Craigslist posts CSV", this actor handles it all automatically.

The Craigslist Scraper collects complete listing data from any Craigslist market and category, with up to 30 data fields per post, real contact emails, and support for keyword search and date filtering.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📬 Contact Emails - extract real email addresses from posts to reach sellers, landlords, and employers directly without navigating manually
• 💼 Job Details - collect compensation, employment type, experience level, and job title for every job posting to power salary research and lead generation
• 🏠 Housing Data - gather rent prices, bedroom counts, square footage, amenities, and availability dates to track rental markets across cities
• 🛒 For Sale Listings - capture item condition, price, photos, and seller contact info from any for-sale category
• 📍 Precise Location - extract GPS coordinates, postal code, city, and state from each post for mapping and geo-analysis
• 🗓️ Date Filtering - limit results to posts from the last N hours to monitor fresh listings as they appear
• 🔑 Keyword Search - filter listings by keyword within any category to target exactly what you need

🔧 Input

• Start URLs - Paste one or more Craigslist search or post URLs to collect directly (optional, overrides city + category filters)
• City - Enter the Craigslist subdomain for your target market (e.g., newyork, losangeles, chicago, sfbay, seattle)
• Category - Choose from jobs, housing, for-sale, gigs, services, community, resumes, or events
• Keyword - Narrow results within the category using any search term (e.g., plumber, 2 bedroom, iphone 14)
• Posted After Hours - Only collect posts from the last N hours (e.g., 24 for posts in the last day)
• Max Items - Set how many posts to collect per run. Free users: up to 100. Paid users: up to 1,000,000

Example input:

{
  "city": "newyork",
  "category": "jobs",
  "keyword": "nurse",
  "postedAfterHours": 48,
  "maxItems": 500
}

📊 Output

Each post includes up to 30 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📬 Email	📞 Phone Numbers	💼 Job Title
💰 Compensation	🕐 Employment Type	📈 Experience Level
🏢 Organization	⏳ Expires At	🏠 Bedrooms
📐 Square Footage	🛁 Bathrooms	🛋️ Amenities
📅 Available From	📦 Condition	🏭 Manufacturer
🔖 Model	🏷️ Attributes	🌆 City
🗺️ State	📮 Postal Code	📍 Latitude
📍 Longitude	🔢 Map Accuracy	📝 Post Body
📸 Photos	🏷️ Category	📅 Date Posted
🔗 URL	🆔 Post ID	✅ Scraped Timestamp

💎 Why Choose the Craigslist Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	ivanvs/craigslist-scraper
Real contact emails from post body	✔️	❌
Compensation, employment type, experience level	✔️	❌
Organization / hiring company name	✔️	❌
Post expiration date	✔️	❌
Keyword search filter	✔️	❌
Posted-after-hours date filter	✔️	❌
City + category input (no URL needed)	✔️	❌
GPS coordinates + postal code	✔️	✔️
Post body text	✔️	✔️
Photos	✔️	✔️
Free tier: up to 100 results per run	✔️	✔️
Paid tier: up to 1,000,000 results per run	✔️	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Craigslist Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🏢 Recruiter - monitor new job postings in your city every day to find candidates and track which companies are actively hiring in your market
• 🏠 Real Estate Analyst - pull housing listings across multiple cities and categories to compare rental prices, unit sizes, and availability by neighborhood
• 🛍️ Resale Business - scan for-sale listings by keyword and price range to find undervalued items before they sell

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Craigslist Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Craigslist Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔗 Integrate Craigslist Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

🔌 Integrate with any app

Craigslist Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Craigslist or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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