🌐 Craigslist Scraper

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

❓ FAQ

🔍 How does it work? The actor visits Craigslist listings and collects structured data from each post automatically. No technical setup required on your end.

📬 Can I get contact emails? Yes. Many Craigslist posts include real email addresses that the actor captures automatically. Note that some posters use Craigslist's anonymous relay system, which produces a relay address instead of a direct email.

🌍 Which cities does it support? Any city that has a Craigslist subdomain. Use the subdomain as your city input — for example, newyork, losangeles, chicago, miami, seattle, boston, sfbay, denver, atlanta.

📅 Can I filter by date? Yes. Set postedAfterHours to collect only posts from the last N hours. Set it to 24 to get only today's listings, or 1 to monitor posts from the last hour.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape Craigslist? Craigslist displays publicly accessible listings. However, you are responsible for complying with Craigslist's terms of service and local data protection laws. Always check the website's terms before collecting data at scale.

⚠️ Are there any limits? Free users can collect up to 100 results per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

⚡ How long does a run take? A typical run collecting 100 posts takes 1-3 minutes depending on the category and city. Each post requires a separate page load to extract full details including email, compensation, and location.

🔗 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

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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.