Gumtree Listings Scraper

🚀 Gumtree Listings Scraper

Extract property, vehicle, and classified ad listings from Gumtree.com. The Gumtree Listings Scraper lets you search by keyword, category, and location to gather structured listing data for price tracking, market research, and lead generation.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Flexible Search: Scrape by keyword, category, location, or provide your own start URLs.
• 📄 Two Scraping Modes: Quick search-results mode or full detail mode with descriptions, images, and seller info.
• 🏷️ Rich Listing Data: Title, price, location, age, trade/delivery flags, promotions, category hierarchy, and more.
• 🖼️ Detail Pages: Full description, seller name, image gallery URLs, and JSON-LD category path.
• 🔄 Automatic Pagination: Follows pages up to your configured limit.
• 🛡️ Proxy-Ready: Designed for datacenter proxy rotation to reliably handle Gumtree's bot protection.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Configure your search – Enter keywords, categories, and/or locations (or paste direct Gumtree URLs).
2. Choose a mode – Search-only for fast bulk extraction, or enable detail scraping for full listing data.
3. Run the scraper – Results are saved to a structured dataset ready to export or connect to your workflow.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	[]	Gumtree URLs to scrape directly (search pages, category pages, or individual listings)
keywords	array	[]	Search keywords, e.g. ["laptop", "iphone"]
categories	array	["all"]	Category slugs, e.g. ["laptops", "cars"]. Use "all" for all categories
locations	array	[]	Location slugs, e.g. ["london", "manchester"]
maxPages	integer	5	Max result pages per query (max 50)
scrapeDetails	boolean	true	Follow each listing to scrape its full detail page
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	200	Hard cap on total HTTP requests
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Datacenter	Proxy settings — datacenter rotation strongly recommended

📊 Sample Output Data

Search listing (scrapeDetails: false)

{
    "id": 1511591296,
    "title": "HP ENVY Laptop i7 17inch",
    "price": 450,
    "pricePennies": 45000,
    "location": "Irvine, North Ayrshire",
    "age": "0 days",
    "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/laptops/hp-envy-laptop-i7-17inch/1511591296",
    "isTrade": false,
    "isDelivery": false,
    "isGBGVerified": false,
    "videoLink": false,
    "numberOfImages": 5,
    "numberWordsDescription": 46,
    "promotions": ["FEATURED"],
    "categoryId": 81,
    "subcategory1": 2549,
    "subcategory2": 2515,
    "subcategory3": 2487,
    "subcategory4": 81,
    "source": "search"
}

Detail page (scrapeDetails: true)

{
    "id": 1511506287,
    "title": "Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 1TB ssd 16GB ram 15\" 2-in-1",
    "price": 220,
    "priceFormatted": "£220",
    "description": "Tactile with pencil included, super fast, barely used. Selling for 220 GBP purchased for 2,540 GBP.",
    "location": "London",
    "datePosted": "Just now",
    "sellerName": "Farid",
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://img.gumtree.com/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/26793f9912784a4eb6_33bf6995cffb/86"
    ],
    "categoryPath": "/for-sale/computers-software/computers-pcs-laptops/laptops/uk/london",
    "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/laptops/microsoft-surface-laptop-2-1tb-ssd-16gb-ram-15-2-in-1/1511506287",
    "source": "detail"
}

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you are only charged for data actually extracted.

Event	Price	When charged
product-listing	$1.00 / 1,000	Each listing scraped from a search results page
item-detail	$4.00 / 1,000	Each full detail page scraped (description, images, seller info)

Example costs:

• Scraping 1,000 search listings (scrapeDetails: false) → $1.00
• Scraping 500 full detail pages (scrapeDetails: true) → $2.00
• Combined run — 1,000 search results + 1,000 detail pages → $5.00

Tip: Use scrapeDetails: false when you only need price/location data from search results. Enable it when you need descriptions, images, or seller information.