Craigslist Market Report: Prices, Deals & New Listings

Find the going price for anything on Craigslist in any US city: used cars, apartments, furniture, phones, tools. Each search gets one market report: the median price and typical range, prices by area, owner vs dealer, by model year and mileage for cars and by bedrooms and price per square foot for rentals, the listings priced below market, and how many new listings appeared in the last day and week. Every listing also comes as a CSV with a link and its price against similar listings.

No login, no API key, no proxy.

What does this Craigslist scraper do?

SF bay area · "honda civic" · 377 Civics for sale

 median        $19,985      typical range  $10,966 - $22,985
 dealers       $21,992 (288 listings)     owners  $6,950 (85)
 new           124 in 7 days, 6 in the last 24 hours
 below market  10 listings, e.g. 2023 Civic Hatchback EX-L $17,985

1. Enter areas ("houston", "SF bay area", "Portland, OR", or any US town) and search terms ("honda civic", "sofa").
2. Pick a category (all for sale, cars & trucks, apartments, furniture, electronics...) or paste your own Craigslist search links with their filters.
3. The Actor reads every listing of each search (splitting big searches by price, so it is not limited to the first page) and returns one report per search, plus the listings.

Who is it for?

• Car dealers and flippers: what a model really sells for in each city, owner vs dealer, and the underpriced ones
• Landlords and property managers: the going rent by bedrooms and area, and how fast new rentals appear
• Resellers: what furniture, phones, tools or collectibles fetch before you buy or list
• Buyers and renters: know the fair price and spot the deals
• Analysts and journalists: compare local second-hand and rental markets across cities

What data do you get?

One report per search (the dataset):

Field	What it tells you
medianPrice, lowPrice25, highPrice75, averagePrice, lowestPrice, highestPrice	The going price and the typical range
belowMarket, belowMarketCount	Cars and rentals priced under 75% of comparable listings, with how far under
lowestPriced	The ten cheapest listings
bySellerType	Owner vs dealer: count and median price
byArea, byNeighborhood	Prices by part of the metro (e.g. peninsula, east bay) and by neighbourhood where Craigslist gives one
byYear, medianOdometer	Cars: count and median price per model year, and typical mileage
byBedrooms, medianPricePerSqft	Rentals: median rent per bedroom count, and rent per square foot
postedLast24h, postedLast7Days, newestListings	New supply
totalListings, listingsAnalysed, offTopicListingsSkipped, repostsRemoved, priceLooksWrongCount	How many listings Craigslist has, how many the report uses, and what was left out

Every listing (LISTINGS_CSV): title, price, posting date, area, neighbourhood, coordinates, owner or dealer, model year and mileage (cars), bedrooms and square feet (housing), number of photos, link, and its price against the median of similar listings. Below-market listings come first, then the newest.

Example: five cities, 29 September 2026

One run, 8 reports from 6,612 listings in 22 seconds:

Search	Listings	Median	Typical range	Owner vs dealer
SF bay area · Honda Civic	377	$19,985	$10,966 - $22,985	$6,950 vs $21,992
Houston · Honda Civic	42	$14,995	$7,898 - $18,396	$7,998 vs $16,495
Boise · Honda Civic	11	$12,995	$8,748 - $15,998	$4,000 vs $13,995
Denver · 2-bedroom rentals	2,515	$1,799	$1,500 - $2,037
Chicago · all rentals	2,173	$1,900	$1,596 - $2,495
SF bay area · sofa	1,172	$393	$150 - $800	$350 vs $1,369
Boise · sofa	52	$400	$200 - $600	$400 vs $899
Houston · sofa	270	$380	$171 - $683	$363 vs $2,951

Owners asked about a third of what dealers did for a Civic in the Bay Area. Denver added 1,225 new 2-bedroom rentals in a week.

Pricing

$0.02 per market report and $0.001 per listing saved.

A report with 200 listings costs $0.22; set "Listings to save per search" to 0 and it is $0.02 per search, however many listings the report reads. The run above cost $0.77 with 605 listings saved.

How "below market" works

• Cars are compared with the same model year in the same search; rentals with the same number of bedrooms. A listing is below market under 75% of that median, with at least 5 comparable listings.
• A car whose mileage is 30% above its year's typical mileage is not flagged: the mileage explains the price. Each listing shows its mileage next to the typical one.
• Prices far below the median (under 30% for cars, 45% for rentals) are usually a deposit, a monthly payment, a placeholder or a fake listing. They are flagged as priceLooksWrong and left out of the statistics, and so are $1 "make an offer" prices.
• Other items (sofas, phones, tools...) vary too much within one search for a fair "below market" call, so they get the lowest-priced listings and each listing's gap to the median instead.
• Trims and conditions are not known. A 2023 Civic Type R and a 2023 Civic LX share a model year. Narrow searches ("civic type r") give sharper comparisons.
• Check before you pay. Rentals well below the going rent are a common Craigslist scam.

Good to know

• Titles must match the search. Craigslist also matches words in descriptions ("fits Honda Civic"), so listings whose title is not about the search are skipped and counted in offTopicListingsSkipped. Car reports also skip parts and accessories.
• Reposts count once. Dealers and property managers post the same ad many times; listings with the same title, price, mileage or bedrooms and place are counted once (the newest), in repostsRemoved.
• Only the area searched. Craigslist adds listings from neighbouring areas; they are skipped unless you turn on "Include nearby areas".
• Big searches: up to 10,000 listings are read per search. Whole-city "all for sale" searches are bigger; the report then says so. Add search terms or a price range.
• No personal data. Listing pages are not opened, so there are no poster names, emails or phone numbers. Any phone number or email typed into a title or location is removed.
• US areas. Town names without their own Craigslist site use the nearest one (looked up on OpenStreetMap).

Input

Field	Meaning
Areas	Craigslist areas or US towns
Search terms	One report per area and term; empty for the whole category
Category	All for sale, cars & trucks (all, owner, dealer), motorcycles, RVs, boats, auto parts, furniture, electronics, cell phones, computers, video gaming, appliances, bicycles, tools, heavy equipment, tickets, jewelry, musical instruments, apartments, rooms, real estate for sale, sublets
Craigslist search links	Your own searches with any Craigslist filter
Minimum / maximum price, Posted within (days)	Optional filters
Listings to save per search	0 to 5,000; the report always uses every listing
Include nearby areas	Off by default

Integrations

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or connect through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier and n8n. Schedule it daily with "Posted within 1 day" to get each day's new below-market cars or rentals.