Craigslist Scraper — Listings, Prices & Location by City

Pull Craigslist listings from any city in seconds: title, price, category, neighbourhood, GPS coordinates, every photo and the direct listing URL. Search any keyword across for-sale, housing, cars, jobs and gigs. 360 listings per request, no API key.

Most Craigslist scrapers open one page per listing, which makes a 360-result search 361 HTTP requests and slow enough that you notice. This one reads the same structured feed the Craigslist site itself uses, so a full page of 360 listings arrives in a single request in about four seconds — and you pay a third of what the usual per-result price comes to.

What you get per listing

Field	What it tells you
title	The listing headline
price	Price as a number, ready to sort and filter (null where the posting has no price)
price_text	Price exactly as Craigslist displays it, e.g. $8,995
url	Direct link to the listing — canonical form, resolves with no redirect
posting_id	Craigslist's numeric posting id, stable for de-duplication
category / category_code	Resolved section, e.g. bicycles - by owner / bik
city / area_id	The Craigslist city the listing belongs to
subarea	Metro sub-region, e.g. brk for Brooklyn
neighborhood	Neighbourhood — Craigslist's own where it has one, otherwise the seller's own wording
latitude / longitude	Map coordinates for the listing
image_count / image_urls	Every photo on the posting, as direct full-size image links
posted_at	When the listing was posted or last refreshed
bedrooms / sqft	Housing listings
odometer	Vehicle listings
compensation / employer / job_title	Job listings
search_term	Which of your search terms produced this row

A run summary row is also written, with searches run, postings returned, how many exist in total, errors and the billing breakdown.

Use cases

• Resale and arbitrage — watch a category across several cities and catch underpriced items the moment they appear.
• Local market pricing — pull hundreds of comparable listings and get a real price distribution instead of a guess.
• Real-estate research — rents by neighbourhood with bedrooms, square footage and coordinates attached.
• Vehicle sourcing — price against odometer across a whole metro in one run.
• Lead generation — find people actively selling, hiring or advertising services in a specific area.
• Recruitment intel — who is hiring in a market, for what role, at what advertised pay.

Pricing

Pay per event. No monthly fee, no setup fee, no minimum.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per run
Posting	$0.0005 per listing — $0.50 per 1,000

You are charged only for listings actually returned. A search that finds nothing, or fails, costs you nothing beyond the start event.

Worked example: a full 360-listing search costs $0.001 + 360 × $0.0005 = $0.181. Three cities at 360 listings each = $0.541. Ten thousand listings = $5.00.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["bike", "road bike"],
  "city": "newyork",
  "category": "sss",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 360
}

city takes the subdomain from the site's address — newyork, sfbay, losangeles, chicago. Plain names like new york and pasted Craigslist URLs work too.

Output example

{
  "record_type": "posting",
  "posting_id": 7949427273,
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/brooklyn-tony-hawk-20bmx-20wheels/1Z6ehVThLqLQmKFRpAdj8m",
  "title": "Tony Hawk 20”BMX 20”wheels",
  "price": 50,
  "price_text": "$50",
  "category": "bicycles - by owner",
  "category_code": "bik",
  "city": "newyork",
  "area_id": 3,
  "subarea": "brk",
  "neighborhood": "Brooklyn",
  "latitude": 40.5927,
  "longitude": -73.9269,
  "image_count": 5,
  "image_urls": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00B0B_lLO1Bb4FVuv_0t20CI_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00w0w_jWJuinNJrs5_0t20CI_600x450.jpg"
  ],
  "posted_at": "2026-08-29T10:05:10.000Z",
  "search_term": "bike",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-29T10:19:14.706Z"
}

FAQ

Do I need an API key or a proxy? Neither. The Actor reaches the source directly, which is why it is fast and cheap to run. A proxy option is there if you specifically need traffic to originate from a given country, but it is off by default and you do not need it.

How many listings can I get? One search request returns up to 360. Ask for more and the Actor automatically splits the search across the city's neighbourhoods and across price bands to collect additional unique listings — up to 3,000 per search term. Every listing is de-duplicated by posting id, so you never pay for the same row twice.

Why did I get fewer than I asked for? Because that is all Craigslist has. The total_available figure in the run summary tells you how many exist for your search, and you are only charged for rows actually delivered.

Which cities are supported? All of them — every Craigslist city worldwide is resolved automatically from the site's own directory, so paris, tokyo and berlin work exactly like newyork.

What categories can I search? All for sale, cars & trucks, apartments & housing, jobs, gigs, electronics, furniture and garage sales. Leave the search term empty to browse a whole category.

What exactly is posted_at? The time the listing was posted or last refreshed. Craigslist bumps a listing's timestamp when a seller renews it, and that renewed time is what the search feed carries.

Can I export it? JSON, CSV, Excel, or straight into n8n, Make or Zapier via the Apify API.

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• Similarweb Scraper — traffic, rank and AI-referral data for any website.
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