🏠 Rightmove Scraper

Scrape sale and rent property listings from Rightmove.co.uk at scale. Paste one or more search-result URLs and/or direct property URLs, and the actor returns clean, structured records — with optional monitoring mode, a delisting tracker, full property details, price history, and nearest schools.

It ships with a smart connection ladder: it starts on a direct connection and only escalates to datacenter, then residential proxies if Rightmove pushes back — so you pay for heavy proxies only when you actually need them.

⭐ Why Choose This Scraper?

• 🚀 Fast by default — basic listing data comes straight from Rightmove's search results; only opt into per-property detail when you need it.
• 🛡️ Self-healing networking — automatic direct → datacenter → residential fallback, with clear log messages for every switch.
• 🔁 Monitoring & delisting — scrape only new listings since the last run, and track which properties disappear.
• 🧱 Robust — live saving (a crash never loses scraped rows), retries with backoff, and graceful handling of restricted-permission runs.
• 📊 Organised output — results are split across themed dataset views (Overview, Agent, Location, Costs, Media, Status).

✨ Key Features

Feature	What it does
🔗 Search URL input	Paginates any Rightmove sale/rent search-result URL
🏡 Direct property URLs	Scrape individual properties by URL
🔬 Full property details	Council tax, lease, floorplans, stations, EPC, tags, agent profile
📈 Price history	Sold-price history per property
🏫 Nearest schools	Nearby schools with distance and ratings
🆕 Monitoring mode	Only scrape listings unseen in previous runs
🗂️ Delisting tracker	Stamp every property's lastSeen in a key-value store
📧 Email notifications	Optional run report / error email

📥 Input

Field	Type	Description
listUrls	array	Rightmove search-result URLs (sale or rent)
propertyUrls	array	Direct property page URLs
fullScrape	boolean	Scrape everything every run (default true)
monitoringMode	boolean	Only scrape new listings since last run
deduplicateAtTaskLevel	boolean	Scope dedup/monitoring per task instead of account
fullPropertyDetails	boolean	Visit each property page for the rich record
includePriceHistory	boolean	Add sold-price history (enables full details)
includeNearestSchools	boolean	Add nearby schools (enables full details)
enableDelistingTracker	boolean	Track lastSeen per property in a KV store
addEmptyTrackerRecord	boolean	Push id-only records for still-listed props in monitoring
email	string	Address for run/error notifications
maxProperties	integer	Max properties per search URL (default 1000)
concurrency	integer	Simultaneous requests (default 8)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings (residential GB recommended)

{
  "listUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E2445" }
  ],
  "fullPropertyDetails": false,
  "maxProperties": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "GB" }
}

📤 Output

Each property is one dataset record. Basic example:

{
  "id": "89145879",
  "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/89145879#/?channel=RES_BUY",
  "title": "2 bedroom flat for sale",
  "channel": "BUY",
  "displayAddress": "Sidbury Circular Road, Tidworth, SP9 7HT",
  "price": "£120,000",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "propertyType": "Flat",
  "type": "sale",
  "tenure": "LEASEHOLD",
  "agent": "Brockenhurst Estate Agents, Andover",
  "agentPhone": "01264 312461",
  "coordinates": { "latitude": 51.244835, "longitude": -1.668411 },
  "images": ["https://media.rightmove.co.uk/..."],
  "listingUpdateReason": "new"
}

With full property details the record additionally includes descriptionHtml, floorplans, brochures, nearestStations, epc, councilTaxBand, yearsRemainingOnLease, tags, agentProfileUrl, and (when enabled) priceHistory and nearestSchools.

Results are organised into themed dataset views in the Output tab: 🏘️ Overview, 🧑‍💼 Agent & contact, 📍 Location, 💷 Costs & tenure, 🖼️ Media & documents, and 🔔 Listing status & tracking.

🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open Rightmove Scraper.
3. Paste your search URLs and/or property URLs.
4. Pick your depth (full details, price history, schools) and mode (full / monitoring).
5. Click Start and watch the live log.
6. Open the Output tab and export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"listUrls":[{"url":"https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=OUTCODE%5E2445"}],"maxProperties":50}'

💡 Best Use Cases

• Building a property dataset for a region or postcode
• Monitoring new listings and price changes daily
• Detecting delisted / sold-STC properties over time
• Enriching leads with agent contact details

💷 Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model. You are billed per property scraped, plus standard platform usage. Enabling the delisting tracker and full property details increases compute and proxy usage.

❓ FAQ

Do I need residential proxies? Not always. The actor starts direct and only escalates when blocked. Residential (GB) gives the most reliable results for larger jobs.

How does monitoring mode work? It remembers every property id it has seen (in a key-value store) and, on the next run, scrapes only ids it hasn't seen before.

Can I scrape both sale and rent? Yes — just include both kinds of search URLs.

⚖️ Legal & Compliance

Data is collected only from publicly available pages. You are responsible for complying with Rightmove's Terms of Service and applicable laws (GDPR, etc.).

🛟 Support

Found a bug or have a request? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab.