🏘️ 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

On success

{
  "url": "https://binghamton.craigslist.org/swp/d/binghamton-beautiful-small-bedroom/7896197286.html",
  "search": "https://philadelphia.craigslist.org/search/swp?pets_cat=1&pets_dog=1&lang=en&cc=gb#search=2~thumb~0",
  "post_id": 7896197286,
  "params": {
    "lang": "en",
    "cc": "gb"
  },
  "post_date": "2025-11-16T09:10:51-0500",
  "is_live": true,
  "price": "",
  "title_only": "Beautiful small 4 bedroom apartment for rent_$1250, ready for move in.",
  "title": "4br - Beautiful small 4 bedroom apartment for rent_$1250, ready for move in. (Binghamton)",
  "descriptions": [
    "Beautiful small apartment for rent, ready for move in.",
    "Include stackable washer and dryer.",
    "The apartment located on 3rd floor walk-up penthouse with private porch.",
    "Tenant pays utilities, owner pays water & sewer.",
    "$20 application fee, first month rent + security deposit for move in",
    "Pets Upon Approval"
  ],
  "attributes_important": [
    "4BR / 1Ba"
  ],
  "attributes": [
    "cats are OK - purrr",
    "apartment",
    "dogs are OK - wooof",
    "w/d in unit",
    "off-street parking"
  ],
  "latitude": "42.106138",
  "longitude": "-75.904899",
  "street_address": "20 Doubleday St, Binghamton, NY 13901",
  "map_address": "20 Doubleday St",
  "map_link": "https://www.google.com/maps/search/42.106138,-75.904899",
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01212_8OJdOkb2nRZ_0qv0t2_600x450.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/01212_8OJdOkb2nRZ_0qv0t2_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00303_b3EwKulmbKp_0ji0pO_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00v0v_gyh181uSMZM_0hw0pO_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00Y0Y_iJgCDBKIU52_0mg0pO_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00V0V_jHJmTILBwZe_0m80pO_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00Z0Z_4YMlRgpPEum_07h06i_50x50c.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00303_lvJvkmOxuCO_0zN0t2_50x50c.jpg"
  ],
  "breadcrumbs": [
    "Binghamton",
    "housing",
    "housing swap"
  ],
  "notices": []
}

On Error (post flagged for review, removal or not found)

{
  "post_id":"",
  "url":"",
  "error":""
}

🚀 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

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