# Rightmove Scraper - UK Property For Sale & To Rent (`s-r/rightmove-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Rightmove listings from any search URL. Price, bedrooms, bathrooms, floor area, coordinates, key features, photos and the estate agent's name and phone number.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/s-r/rightmove-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SR](https://apify.com/s-r) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

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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 Scraper

UK property listings as a clean table. Search on rightmove.co.uk the way you
normally would, apply whatever filters you want, copy the address bar into this
actor, and get one row per property with the price, the size, the location and
the estate agent's phone number.

It works for both sides of the market. A **property for sale** search returns
asking prices; a **property to rent** search returns rents with the period they
cover, plus the availability date and any fee note. Several searches at once,
one per line.

### The URL has to name a location

This is worth getting right first time, because the failure is quiet. A
Rightmove URL must carry a `locationIdentifier`, which is the code the site
uses internally for a town, borough or postcode area. You get one by searching
on the site and copying the address bar; it looks like
`locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490`.

A URL with only a place name in it, such as `find.html?searchLocation=London`,
returns a perfectly valid page that contains **no listings at all**, because it
is the search form rather than a result set. This actor refuses such a URL up
front and says why, rather than running it and reporting that London has no
properties for sale.

### What you get per property

- `address`, `summary`, `property_type`, `transaction_type`
- `bedrooms`, `bathrooms`, `size`
- `price`, `currency`, `price_frequency` for rentals
- `latitude`, `longitude`
- `added_or_reduced`, `first_visible_date`, `update_reason`, `update_date`
- `let_available_date` and `fees_apply` on rentals
- `agent_name`, `agent_phone`, `agent_branch_id`, `agent_url`
- `key_features`, `photos`, `photo_count`
- `is_featured`, `is_auction`, `is_commercial`, `is_development`
- `result_count`, how many properties the whole search matched

`added_or_reduced` is more useful than it looks. A listing that says "Reduced
on 24/03" has been sitting, and that is the signal most people are actually
looking for when they scrape a property market.

### Run sizes and Rightmove's own ceiling

Results come 25 to a page. **Maximum properties** caps the run overall and
**Maximum pages per URL** caps each search.

One limit is Rightmove's, not ours: **the site stops paging after 42 pages**,
about 1,000 properties, no matter how many results a search matched. A search
for all of London reports around 60,000 properties and will still only serve
you the first thousand. The way around it is more searches rather than deeper
paging: split by borough, by postcode area, or by price band, and the union
covers the market.

Every row carries `result_count`, the total the search itself reported, so you
can always see the gap between what matched and what was served.

### Errors

| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `bad_input` | Not a Rightmove search URL, or no `locationIdentifier` in it |
| `no_results` | The search ran and matched nothing |
| `fetch_failed` | A page could not be read after several attempts |

### Related actors

For US homes for sale, use **Redfin Scraper**. For US rentals, use
**Apartments.com Scraper**.

# Actor input Schema

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

One per line. Search on rightmove.co.uk, apply your filters, and copy the address bar. The URL must contain a locationIdentifier; a plain place name returns the search form rather than results.

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

Across all URLs. Rightmove returns 25 per page.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Rightmove stops paging after 42 pages regardless of how many results a search matched.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490&minBedrooms=2"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `properties` (type: `string`):

One row per property.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Searches walked and properties returned.

## `errors` (type: `string`):

URLs that could not be used.

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("s-r/rightmove-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 = { "startUrls": ["https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("s-r/rightmove-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490"
  ]
}' |
apify call s-r/rightmove-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,s-r/rightmove-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/1He8leNPFFdOVnPcW/builds/j4FeafJKuSlISzTNp/openapi.json