🛏️ SpareRoom UK Scraper

🚀 Export SpareRoom UK roommate and rental listings in seconds. Weekly rent, deposit, postcode, room type, household details, and listing URL in one structured dataset.

The SpareRoom UK Scraper turns any spareroom.co.uk flatshare search into a clean dataset. Give it a town, city, or postcode, pick a room type, optionally clamp weekly rent, and the actor walks every search-result page and flattens each listing into one row.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🏠 Renters and students	Compare rooms across multiple cities at once
🧑‍💼 Letting agents	Monitor the local roommate market
📊 Real-estate analysts	Track weekly rent trends per postcode
📰 Journalists	Quantify the UK rental squeeze
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror SpareRoom listings into your app
🤖 Market researchers	Build training data for rental-price models

📋 What the SpareRoom UK Scraper does

• Builds the SpareRoom flatshare search URL from your location, room type, and rent bounds.
• Walks every result page until your maxItems cap or the end of results.
• Parses each listing card for title, weekly rent, location, room type, and listing URL.
• Detects the postcode from the location text when present.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a clean record rather than crashing.
• Emits records ready for download in tabular and structured formats.

💡 Why it matters: SpareRoom is the dominant UK roommate marketplace, but its data is locked behind a paginated HTML search. This actor flattens the catalog into one tidy dataset.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: available_from, deposit, gender_pref, household_size, location, min_term, postcode, results, room_type, scrapedAt, smoker_pref, title, url, weekly_rent. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: SpareRoom returns the strongest matches first. If a search returns fewer pages than you expect, broaden the area or relax the rent filter.

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Type a city, town, or postcode.
3. Optionally pick a room type and rent bounds.
4. Click Start. The dataset is ready in seconds.

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