# Rightmove UK Real Estate & Property Scraper (`plastic_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper`) Actor

Fast, high-performance scraper for Rightmove.co.uk. Extracts property listings for sale and rent by UK postal outcodes with prices, geocodes, floor area, and agent details without browser overhead.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/plastic\_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Le Hung](https://apify.com/plastic_bisque) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🏠 Rightmove UK Real Estate & Property Scraper

> **High-speed, institutional-grade scraper for Rightmove.co.uk**. Extracts real estate properties for sale and to rent across the United Kingdom with prices, coordinates, floor areas, bedroom counts, and estate agent contacts.

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### ⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

- **Blazing Fast & Cost Efficient**: Unlike heavy browser-based scrapers (Puppeteer/Playwright) that waste huge Compute Units (CU) and take hours, this actor directly extracts structured JSON data from Rightmove's Next.js application layer via fast HTTP requests.
- **Zero Headless Overhead**: Consumes minimal memory (~128MB RAM), reducing your Apify cloud execution costs by up to **80%**.
- **Institutional Quality Schema**: Outputs clean, standardized data matching the institutional `REAL-ESTATE-BASIC` 32-attribute specification.
- **No API Keys or Login Required**: Works out of the box with optional proxy support for high-volume jobs.

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### 📋 What Data Does It Extract?

Every scraped property listing includes:

- **Listing Details**: Unique Listing ID, Title, Property Type (Detached, Semi-detached, Terraced, Flat, Bungalow, etc.).
- **Pricing**: Current Price (£ GBP), Original Price, and calculated **Price per m²** (`price_per_sqm`).
- **Property Specs**: Number of bedrooms/rooms, bathrooms, estimated/extracted floor area in square meters (`area_sqm`).
- **Amenities Detected**: Indicators for parking/garage (`has_parking`), terrace/balcony (`has_terrace`), garden (`has_garden`), and swimming pool (`has_pool`).
- **Location & Geocodes**: Full address, postal outcode, district, exact **Latitude** & **Longitude** for GIS mapping.
- **Estate Agency**: Agency brand name, branch name.
- **Media & URLs**: Direct listing URL on Rightmove and high-resolution main photo URL.

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### 🛠️ Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :--- |
| `outcodes` | Array | No | `["SW1A", "W1K"]` | List of UK postal districts / outcodes to scrape (e.g. `SW1A`, `W1K`, `E1`, `M1`, `BS1`). |
| `operationType` | String | **Yes** | `"for-sale"` | Choose `"for-sale"` (properties for sale) or `"to-rent"` (properties to rent). |
| `minPrice` | Integer | No | `null` | Optional minimum price in GBP (£). |
| `maxPrice` | Integer | No | `null` | Optional maximum price in GBP (£). |
| `maxItems` | Integer | No | `100` | Maximum total records to scrape across all outcodes (`0` for unlimited). |
| `proxyConfiguration`| Object | No | `null` | Apify Proxy configuration (Apify Datacenter or Residential proxy). |

#### Example Input (JSON)

```json
{
  "outcodes": ["SW1A", "W1K", "NW1"],
  "operationType": "for-sale",
  "minPrice": 250000,
  "maxPrice": 1500000,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

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### 📦 Sample Output Record (JSON)

```json
{
  "website_name": "rightmove.co.uk",
  "competence_date": "2026-09-21",
  "country_code": "GBR",
  "currency_code": "GBP",
  "listing_id": "148920194",
  "operation_type": "sale",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "title": "Apartment in Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "price": 850000.0,
  "price_original": 850000.0,
  "price_per_sqm": 12500.0,
  "area_sqm": 68.0,
  "rooms": "2",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "has_parking": "1",
  "has_terrace": "1",
  "has_garden": "",
  "has_pool": "",
  "region": "UK",
  "city": "London",
  "neighborhood": "Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "address_raw": "Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "latitude": "51.5112",
  "longitude": "-0.1492",
  "agency_name": "Dexters Mayfair",
  "contact_phone": "",
  "description": "A stunning 2 bedroom apartment situated in the heart of Mayfair...",
  "itemurl": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148920194",
  "imageurl": "https://media.rightmove.co.uk/dir/crop/10:9-16:9/property/148920194_IMG_00.jpg",
  "outcode": "W1K"
}
```

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### 💼 Ideal Use Cases

1. **Real Estate Investors & Buy-to-Let Analysts**: Track rental yields and price-per-sqm trends across UK metro areas.
2. **Proptech Startups**: Power automated valuation models (AVMs), property search portals, and alert bots.
3. **Estate Agencies**: Monitor competitor inventory, newly added listings, and local market price movements.
4. **Academic & Demographic Research**: Urban housing supply studies and regional UK price disparities.

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### 🔒 Proxy & Anti-Scraping Guidance

Rightmove serves lightweight Next.js pages. For regular batches (< 500 listings), standard connections or default Apify Proxy work seamlessly. For large-scale national sweeps (> 10,000 listings), we recommend enabling **Apify Proxy (Automatic or Residential)** with slight request delays.

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### 📞 Support & Custom Orders

Need custom fields, full UK historical census dumps (> 500,000 listings), or specific cadence feeds? Feel free to reach out via Apify Actor issues or contact the developer directly.

# Actor input Schema

## `outcodes` (type: `array`):

List of UK postal districts / outcodes to scrape (e.g. SW1A, W1K, E1, M1, BS1). Full postcodes like SW1A 1AA are also automatically normalized.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional direct Rightmove search or listing URLs (e.g. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/SW1A.html).

## `operationType` (type: `string`):

Choose whether to scrape properties for sale or to rent (ignored if direct URLs are provided).

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional minimum price filter.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional maximum price filter.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of properties to scrape across all outcodes (set to 0 for unlimited).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional proxy configuration. Standard Apify Proxy or datacenter proxies work well.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "outcodes": [
    "SW1A",
    "W1K"
  ],
  "operationType": "for-sale",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Structured property listings with 32 fields (prices, coordinates, areas, agent info)

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("plastic_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("plastic_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call plastic_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,plastic_bisque/rightmove-uk-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PVvahbDab59oJkcZm/builds/l0yYE1EaPHLcc1yN2/openapi.json