Craigslist Scraper

🏘️ Craigslist Scraper

A fast and flexible Craigslist data scraper supporting all subdomains, all cities, and all categories.

Extract structured data from Craigslist listings and search result pages for analysis, monitoring, or automation.

✨ Runtime

Handles 1000 results in 2min

✨ Features

🌍 Full Craigslist Coverage

Supports all Craigslist subdomains (America, Europe, Asia and all other sub domains)

Works across all categories (housing, jobs, services, for sale, community, gigs, etc.)

Compatible with search result URLs and direct post URLs

📄 Listing Data Extraction

Extract detailed information from each listing:

• Post ID & listing URL

• Title (short & full versions)

• Post publication date

• Listing status (live / removed)

• Price (when available)

• Full description (cleaned & structured)

🏠 Property & Attribute Detection

Automatically extracts structured attributes:

• Bedrooms / bathrooms

• Pet policies (cats / dogs)

• Property type

• Amenities (parking, washer/dryer, etc.)

• Custom listing attributes

📍 Location & Map Data

• Latitude & longitude

• Street address (when available)

• Google Maps link

• City-level breadcrumb hierarchy

🖼️ Media Extraction

Full-resolution images

Thumbnails

🌐 Search Context Awareness

Keeps track of the origin search URL

Extracts applied filters (language, country code, pets, etc.)

Useful for search analytics and result reproducibility

Output

From Direct Url

{
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/new-berlinville-golf-cart-wheel-tire/smmPzPFNhWhpfnv8XLsnwP?lang=en&cc=gb",
  "post_date": "2026-08-13T14:53:51-0400",
  "is_live": true,
  "price": "$40",
  "title_only": "GOLF CART WHEEL TIRE",
  "title": "GOLF CART WHEEL TIRE - $40 (Boyertown 19512)",
  "descriptions": [
    "Golf Cart Rim with Tire in good condition $40",
    "Spare Tire $20"
  ],
  "attributes_important": [],
  "attributes": [
    "vehicle type: golf cart",
    "condition: good"
  ],
  "latitude": "40.355016",
  "longitude": "-75.638294",
  "street_address": "",
  "map_address": "Rt 100",
  "map_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/40.355016,-75.638294",
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00i0i_aPMCKGEzOf2_0CI0t2_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00i0i_aPMCKGEzOf2_0CI0t2_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00t0t_lLBDU5rDenW_0t20CI_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01212_5YhscXATd2R_0t20CI_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00n0n_eVHJQuAi8JE_0t20CI_50x50c.jpg"
  ],
  "image": "https://images.craigslist.org/00i0i_aPMCKGEzOf2_0CI0t2_600x450.jpg",
  "breadcrumbs": [
    "Philadelphia",
    "for sale by owner",
    "atvs, utvs, snowmobiles"
  ],
  "notices": []
}

From Search Url

{
  "title": "Clean & Peaceful Private Room",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/philadelphia-clean-peaceful-private-room/eFKqwZGwrNTaH2wCVocNjS",
  "location": "Kensington",
  "price": "$800"
}

🚀 Use Cases

🏠 Real estate listing aggregation

📊 Market & rent price analysis

🔍 Housing availability monitoring by city

🐕 Pet-friendly rental discovery

🧠 Data science & NLP analysis on listing descriptions

📈 Trend tracking across regions or categories

🔔 Alert systems for new or removed listings

🗺️ Geo-based housing or service mapping

💡 Notes

Scrapes publicly available data only

Some fields may be missing depending on the listing (price, address, map)

Deleted or expired posts are detected via is_live

Craigslist layouts may vary slightly by region and category

High-volume scraping should respect rate limits

🛟 SUPPORT

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