# Rightmove Property Scraper (`straightforward_hydra/rightmove-property-scraper`) Actor

Scrape UK properties for sale or to rent from Rightmove: price, bedrooms, type, address, coordinates, agent, images and listing dates. Price-window paging gets past Rightmove's 1,000-result cap. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/straightforward\_hydra/rightmove-property-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Dev D](https://apify.com/straightforward_hydra) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Real estate, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 properties

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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Rightmove Property Scraper

Scrape UK property listings from [Rightmove](https://www.rightmove.co.uk) —
for sale, to rent, new homes and student accommodation — with price, bedrooms,
property type, address, coordinates, agent details and images.

Paste the URL from your address bar. No API key, no browser.

### Input

| Field | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `startUrls` | Rightmove search URLs (`find.html` with a `locationIdentifier`) |
| `maxPropertiesPerUrl` | Properties per search (default 200) |
| `deepPaging` | Split large searches into price ranges to pass the ~1,000 cap (default on) |
| `scrapeDetails` | Also open each property page for full description and costs (default off) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional |

Every filter already in the URL keeps working — `minBedrooms=`, `maxPrice=`,
`propertyTypes=`, `radius=`, `mustHave=`, `dontShow=`, `sortType=`,
`furnishTypes=` and the rest are passed straight through.

### Output

One row per property:

```json
{
  "property_id": 88112466,
  "url": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/88112466",
  "transaction_type": "buy",
  "price": 750000,
  "price_display": "£750,000",
  "price_qualifier": "Offers in Region of",
  "currency": "GBP",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "property_type": "House",
  "tenure": "FREEHOLD",
  "display_address": "Central Road, Worcester Park",
  "latitude": 51.37849,
  "longitude": -0.24176,
  "summary": "Investment Opportunity — Mixed-Use Freehold ...",
  "key_features": ["Mixed Used Freehold Investment", "Private rear Terrace"],
  "listing_status": "new",
  "first_listed_at": "2026-05-06T11:42:12Z",
  "agent": "Hunters, Worcester Park",
  "agent_phone": "020 3909 4201",
  "image_count": 5,
  "images": ["https://media.rightmove.co.uk/..."]
}
```

With `scrapeDetails` on, each row also gets `description`, `outcode`,
`council_tax_band`, `tenure_years_remaining`, `annual_service_charge`,
`annual_ground_rent`, `nearest_stations`, `floorplans`, `brochures`,
`sizings` and the agent's registered company name and address.

### The ~1,000-result limit — please read

Rightmove pages a search with `&index=`, and it refuses to serve index 1008 or
beyond. A London search reporting 58,583 matches will still only hand over
about a thousand of them, and no parameter changes that.

What Rightmove *does* respect is `minPrice` / `maxPrice`, and any search whose
own count is under the cap comes back whole. So with `deepPaging` on, a search
that is too big is cut into price bands — a log-spaced ladder from £0 to
£10m+, with any band still over the cap halved again — and the bands are then
drained **a page at a time in rotation**, de-duplicated by property ID.

The rotation is the part that matters. Draining band by band would mean a run
that stops before taking everything holds nothing but the cheapest properties,
which is a badly misleading picture of a market. The bands are also visited
cheapest, dearest, then middle, then quarters, so the spread holds even for a
short run: a 200-row sample of London comes back spanning £97k to £65m with a
median around £320k, which is what London actually looks like.

Three honest limits:

- If your URL already contains a `minPrice` or `maxPrice`, the split is skipped
  — narrowing your own filter further would be the wrong thing to do silently.
- Thousands of properties advertised at exactly the same price cannot be split
  apart, so a very large single-price band still stops at the cap.
- Very large searches are not exhaustible. London lists ~58,000 properties for
  sale; collecting all of them would take thousands of requests. Ask for the
  number you need and you get an even spread, or narrow the search by area,
  bedrooms or price to get everything inside it.

### Pay per event

| Event | When |
| --- | --- |
| `property` | One property from the search results |
| `property-with-details` | One property whose own page was also opened, adding the description, running costs and transport links. Charged instead of `property`, never on top |

Properties returned by more than one of your searches are de-duplicated by
`property_id` and charged once.

# Actor input Schema

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

Any Rightmove search URL. Search on rightmove.co.uk and copy the address, e.g. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490. For sale, to rent, new homes and student accommodation all work, and every filter in the URL is kept.

## `maxPropertiesPerUrl` (type: `integer`):

How many properties to collect per search URL. Rightmove serves about 1,000 per search; more than that is gathered by splitting the search into price ranges.

## `deepPaging` (type: `boolean`):

Rightmove stops serving results after about 1,000 per search. With this on, larger searches are split into price ranges to reach several thousand. Turn it off for the fastest run.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch every property's own page to add the full description, council tax band, lease years remaining, nearest stations, floorplans and brochures. One extra request per property, so runs take noticeably longer and are charged as property-with-details.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Rightmove is readable without a proxy, but a proxy helps on long runs or from busy networks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E87490",
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274"
  ],
  "maxPropertiesPerUrl": 200,
  "deepPaging": true,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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",
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("straightforward_hydra/rightmove-property-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",
        "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("straightforward_hydra/rightmove-property-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",
    "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274"
  ]
}' |
apify call straightforward_hydra/rightmove-property-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,straightforward_hydra/rightmove-property-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/bopIsQ8tvSTGGtlp8/builds/2M0eJnp2z6i0hqVgs/openapi.json