Craigslist Scraper: Listings, Phones, Leads and Prices

From The Mine Works, makers of Thomasnet Supplier Scraper and B2B Leads Finder, with over 245,000 runs across 280+ public actors.

Updated 27 Oct 2026: first release. Services, gigs, jobs, housing, for sale, community, resumes and events on all 707 Craigslist sites in the US, Canada and abroad; keyword, price, posted today, image, postal code and any Craigslist filter; search links and listing links; monitor mode for new listings only; one flat row per listing with price, neighbourhood, coordinates, posted and updated dates, full text, attributes, images and the phones, emails and websites the listing writes. Bookmark this Actor on its Store page so it is one click away next time.

Why choose this actor?

• Leads you can call. Every row carries phone and phones (as +1XXXXXXXXXX for US and Canadian numbers), emails and websites, read from the title, the location line and the full text of the listing. In our services test, 423 of 450 plumber listings across San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago had a phone (94%). When Craigslist hides a number behind its "show contact info" button, contact_hidden_in_text says so; that button and the reply email sit behind a CAPTCHA, which this actor does not open (see the FAQ).
• Every listing in full, at one price. Full description, all attributes as a clean object (bedrooms, bathrooms, condition, sale_manufacturer, odometer, remuneration, employment_type and the rest), up to 24 images, street address when the poster gave one, coordinates, and three dates: first posted, last edited and last renewed. No extra fee for the details.
• Built for market tracking. listing_id, repost_of, renewed_at and price are columns, so a scheduled run shows new stock, price cuts and reposts. Monitor mode skips listings an earlier run already delivered, before they are read, and does not charge for them.
• Pay per listing, nothing for errors. Links that are not Craigslist links, deleted listings, a listing that two of your searches find, listings skipped by monitor mode and the summary row are never charged. No Craigslist account, no browser.

Part of The Mine Works E-commerce and marketplaces family: Ozon.ru Scraper, ⭐ Amazon Reviews Scraper, Amazon Product Scraper, Etsy Listings Scraper, AliExpress Scraper, Kleinanzeigen.de Scraper.

Guide and FAQs: Craigslist Scraper on themineworks.com.

Try it in one minute

Paste this into the input (JSON view) and press Start. It returns the 20 newest plumber listings in the San Francisco Bay Area services section, each with its full text and the phone it shows. It took 12 seconds in our test run:

{
  "sites": ["sfbay"],
  "categories": ["services"],
  "searchQueries": ["plumber"],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Put several sites, categories or keywords on separate lines to run every combination at once, or paste a Craigslist search or listing link into startUrls. A listing that two of your searches find is delivered once.

Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit every month, which covers about 3,000 listings at this actor's price.

Copy to your AI assistant

themineworks/craigslist-scraper on Apify. Reads Craigslist (craigslist.org) by site, category and keyword, or by search and listing links, and returns one flat row per listing with title, price, neighbourhood, coordinates, posted and updated dates, full description, attributes, images and any phone, email or website the listing writes, with no login. Call ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("themineworks/craigslist-scraper").call(run_input={"sites": ["sfbay"], "categories": ["services"], "searchQueries": ["plumber"], "maxItems": 100}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items. Give sites (list: sfbay, newyork, toronto, london, or newyork/brk with a sub area), categories (list: services, gigs, jobs, housing, for sale, community, resumes, events, or a code such as apa, cto, sks), searchQueries (list of keywords) and/or startUrls (list of Craigslist search links and listing links). Optional: countries (list of country codes, every site of the country), maxItems (default 100, 1 to 10,000 per search), sort (newest, relevance, price_low, price_high, oldest, distance; default newest), minPrice, maxPrice, postedToday, hasImage, titlesOnly, hideDuplicates, postalCode with searchDistance (miles), searchParams (object of any other Craigslist filter, e.g. {"min_bedrooms": 2}), includeDetails (default true), monitorMode (default false) with monitorName, includeNearbyAreas (default false). Listing rows have no _type field and carry listing_id, posting_uuid, title, url, price, price_text, currency, section, category, category_code, site, site_name, country, region, subarea, subarea_code, neighbourhood, location_text, street_address, latitude, longitude, location_precision, posted_at, updated_at, renewed_at, description, attributes, bedrooms, bathrooms, area_sqft, compensation, employment_type, job_title, company_name, images, image_count, thumbnail_url, phone, phones, emails, websites, has_contact_in_text, contact_hidden_in_text, reply_contact_behind_captcha, repost_of, notices, is_nearby_area, details_scraped, found_by, search_label, search_site, search_category, search_keyword, search_url, results_in_search, position, input_url, scraped_at. Each run also writes one row with _type "summary", one with _type "info" when listings were delivered, and a row with _type "error" for each input that could not be read; none of these is charged. Full spec: GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/themineworks~craigslist-scraper/builds/default (Bearer TOKEN), which returns inputSchema and readme. Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations?fpr=ymnoit&utm_source=apify-readme&utm_medium=referral

Key features

• Any site, any section. All 707 Craigslist sites: 413 in the US, 55 in Canada, 27 in the UK and the rest abroad, by the first part of the address (sfbay, newyork, london) or the name Craigslist gives the site. A sub area after a slash (newyork/brk, sfbay/sfc) narrows the search. countries searches every site of a country.
• Sections and categories. services, gigs, jobs, housing, for sale, community, resumes and events, or any category by its code from Craigslist links (apa apartments, cto cars by owner, sks skilled trade services, cpg computer gigs) or by its name.
• Craigslist's own filters. Keyword, titles only, min and max price, posted today, with images, hide duplicates, ZIP or postal code with a distance in miles, and any other filter from a Craigslist search link through searchParams (bedrooms, pets, make and model, odometer, employment type). The sort is Craigslist's own: newest, relevance, price either way, oldest or distance.
• Search links and listing links. Paste a search link and it runs with every filter in it. Paste listing links and each returns its row: built for one record per run from Clay, n8n or an AI agent.
• Monitor mode. With monitorMode on, listings an earlier run with the same monitorName delivered are skipped before they are read and never charged. Schedule it hourly or daily and each run returns only new listings.
• Up to 10,000 per search. Craigslist serves at most 10,000 results per search; the actor reads them in its own order, 1,080 at a time, and stops at your maxItems.
• Stops cleanly. Eight failed or blocked requests in a row end the run; the run stops before its time limit and keeps every row it read. The summary row says what was read, what was skipped and why.

How to use it

Lead list: tradespeople who post their phone

{
  "sites": ["sfbay", "losangeles", "sandiego"],
  "categories": ["services"],
  "searchQueries": ["roofing", "hvac"],
  "maxItems": 300
}

Six searches, newest first. Filter the dataset on has_contact_in_text to keep the listings that write a phone or email, and use the "Contacts" view for a ready table.

Rentals for a market report

{
  "sites": ["austin"],
  "categories": ["apa"],
  "minPrice": 800,
  "maxPrice": 4000,
  "searchParams": { "min_bedrooms": 2 },
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Each row has price, bedrooms, bathrooms, area_sqft, neighbourhood, latitude and longitude, and the full attributes (laundry, parking, pets, housing type) in attributes.

Monitor: only new listings, every hour

{
  "sites": ["newyork"],
  "categories": ["cpg"],
  "monitorMode": true,
  "monitorName": "nyc-computer-gigs",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Save it as a task and schedule it. The first run returns up to 100 listings; each later run returns only the listings posted since. Listings skipped as seen are not charged.

Search links and listing links

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://chicago.craigslist.org/search/cto?auto_make_model=toyota&max_price=15000",
    "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/apa/d/walnut-creek-make-yourself-at-home/7988118918.html"
  ]
}

The search link runs with its filters; the listing link returns that listing. A listing that was deleted or expired gets an error row and is not charged.

Every site in a country

{
  "countries": ["CA"],
  "categories": ["ggg"],
  "postedToday": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

All 55 Canadian sites, gigs posted today. Up to 200 searches per run: with countries, keep to one category and one keyword.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	What it does
sites	array of strings	sfbay when only keywords are given	City sites by address part, address or name; site/subarea narrows to a sub area.
categories	array of strings	for sale	Sections (services, gigs, jobs, housing, for sale, community, resumes, events) or category codes and names.
searchQueries	array of strings	empty	Keywords; each runs in every site and category. Empty reads the whole category.
startUrls	array of strings	empty	Craigslist search links and listing links.
countries	array of strings	empty	Two letter country codes; every site of each country.
maxItems	integer	100	Most listings per search, 1 to 10,000. Listing links are not limited by it.
sort	string	newest	newest, relevance, price_low, price_high, oldest, distance.
minPrice, maxPrice	integer	none	Price range in the site's currency.
postedToday	boolean	false	Only listings posted or renewed in the last 24 hours.
hasImage	boolean	false	Only listings with images.
titlesOnly	boolean	false	Match keywords in titles only.
hideDuplicates	boolean	false	Craigslist's hide duplicates filter.
postalCode, searchDistance	string, integer	none, 25	Listings within this many miles of a US ZIP or Canadian postal code.
searchParams	object	none	Any other filter from a Craigslist search link, e.g. {"min_bedrooms": 2}.
includeDetails	boolean	true	Read each listing in full. Off returns the result list fields only.
monitorMode, monitorName	boolean, string	false, default	Skip listings an earlier run with the same name delivered.
includeNearbyAreas	boolean	false	Keep the nearby site listings Craigslist adds under small result lists.

Give sites with categories or searchQueries, startUrls, or both. Up to 200 searches and 5,000 listing links per run.

What data do you get?

One row per listing. Listing rows have no _type field; the summary, info and error rows do, so a filter on _type separates them.

Field	What it is
listing_id	Craigslist posting ID, e.g. 7990580793
posting_uuid	The posting key Craigslist's own pages use
title	Listing title
url	Listing link on the city site
price, price_text, currency	Price as a number, as shown ($2,539) and the site's currency
section, category, category_code	housing, apartments / housing for rent, apa
site, site_name, country, region	sfbay, SF bay area, US, CA
subarea, subarea_code, neighbourhood	east bay, eby, walnut creek
location_text, street_address	The location line the poster wrote, and the street address when given
latitude, longitude, location_precision	Coordinates; exact_pin when the poster placed a map pin, area otherwise
posted_at, updated_at, renewed_at	First posted, last edited, last renewed (Craigslist sorts by renewed)
description	Full listing text
attributes	Every attribute by key: bedrooms, laundry, parking, condition, make, odometer, compensation, employment type and so on
bedrooms, bathrooms, area_sqft	Housing basics as numbers
compensation, employment_type, job_title, company_name	Jobs and gigs basics
images, image_count, thumbnail_url	Image links (1200x900) and a 300x300 thumbnail
phone, phones	Phone numbers written in the listing, +1XXXXXXXXXX for US and Canada
emails, websites	Emails and website links written in the listing
has_contact_in_text	True when the listing writes a phone or email itself
contact_hidden_in_text	True when Craigslist replaced a phone in the text with its "show contact info" button (not read)
reply_contact_behind_captcha	True when the reply button holds contact details (not read)
repost_of	The posting ID this listing reposts, when Craigslist links them
notices	Notices Craigslist shows on the listing
is_nearby_area	True for nearby site listings (only with includeNearbyAreas)
details_scraped	True when the listing was read in full
found_by, search_label, search_site, search_category, search_keyword, search_url, results_in_search, position	How it was found
input_url	The listing link you gave
scraped_at	When the row was read

Stable fields for automations

These were present in every listing row of our test runs (1,470 rows), and their names will not change:

Field	What it is
listing_id	The key to store and join on
title, url	Title and link
category, category_code, section	What kind of listing
site, country	Where
latitude, longitude	Coordinates
posted_at, renewed_at	When
description	Full text
found_by, position	How it was found

Optional, present only when the listing has a value: price (100% of apartment rows, rare on services), phone (94% of services rows, few housing rows), websites (84% of apartment rows, 23% of services rows), images (87% to 98%), street_address (35% to 95%), neighbourhood, attributes, emails, repost_of.

Output examples

A services listing (text shortened):

{
  "listing_id": "7990820508",
  "title": "SL Plumbing AND Remodeling Services",
  "url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sks/d/pittsburg-sl-plumbing-and-remodeling/7990820508.html",
  "section": "services",
  "category": "skilled trade services",
  "category_code": "sks",
  "site": "sfbay",
  "country": "US",
  "subarea": "east bay",
  "neighbourhood": "hercules, pinole, san pablo, el sob",
  "latitude": 38.0031,
  "longitude": -121.9172,
  "location_precision": "area",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-27T18:05:09.000Z",
  "description": "INSTALLATION OF:\n\nWATER, GAS, SEWER LINES, ROOTERS\n\nFAUCETS*DISPOSALS*DISHWASHERS ...",
  "attributes": { "license_info": "Lic.833075 - B   C- 36  Bonded and insured" },
  "image_count": 24,
  "phone": "+19255655839",
  "phones": ["+19255655839"],
  "has_contact_in_text": true,
  "reply_contact_behind_captcha": true,
  "repost_of": "6894407958",
  "found_by": "search",
  "search_keyword": "plumber",
  "position": 2
}

An apartment listing (attributes shortened):

{
  "listing_id": "7988118918",
  "title": "Make Yourself at Home!",
  "url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/apa/d/walnut-creek-make-yourself-at-home/7988118918.html",
  "price": 2539,
  "price_text": "$2,539",
  "currency": "USD",
  "category_code": "apa",
  "neighbourhood": "walnut creek",
  "street_address": "1755 Trinity Ave",
  "latitude": 37.90102,
  "longitude": -122.065346,
  "location_precision": "exact_pin",
  "posted_at": "2026-10-22T20:05:10.000Z",
  "renewed_at": "2026-10-27T14:06:46.000Z",
  "bedrooms": 1,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "area_sqft": 625,
  "attributes": { "bedrooms": "1", "bathrooms": "1", "area": "625 ft²", "movein_date": "2026-11-12", "laundry": "laundry on site", "parking": "carport", "pets_cat": true, "pets_dog": true, "ev_charging": true },
  "image_count": 8
}

An error row for a listing that is gone (nothing charged):

{ "_type": "error", "error_type": "not_found", "identifier": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/old-listing/7900000000.html", "reason": "Craigslist has no live listing with this id on that site: it was deleted, expired or flagged." }

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay for the listings you receive, plus a flat $0.002 per run, whatever memory you choose. The full text, attributes, images and contact fields cost nothing extra.

Event	When it is charged	Free plan	Bronze (Starter)	Silver (Scale)	Gold (Business)
listing-scraped	Once per listing row stored in your dataset	$1.62 per 1,000	$1.35 per 1,000	$1.26 per 1,000	$1.17 per 1,000
run-start	Once per run, after the first listing row is stored	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002	$0.002

The price of one listing is the price per 1,000 divided by 1,000.

Never charged:

• inputs that are not Craigslist sites, categories or links (each gets an error row);
• listings that were deleted, expired or flagged;
• a listing that a second search of the same run finds again;
• listings monitor mode skips because an earlier run delivered them;
• listings past your maxItems;
• the summary, info and error rows;
• a run that delivers no listing: the start fee is charged only after the first listing row is stored;
• anything past your "Max cost per run". The actor checks the budget before each batch of rows and stops while the total is still below your limit, so the run ends SUCCEEDED with a partial result and a status message saying so.

Run it on a schedule

1. Open the actor in Apify Console, set your input, turn on monitorMode with a monitorName, and click Save as a new task.
2. In the task, open Schedules, click Add schedule and pick how often (every hour, every morning at 08:00 and so on).
3. Each run then returns only listings posted since the run before. Without monitor mode, compare runs on listing_id and price to see price cuts, and on repost_of to see reposts.
4. Optional: add an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook) so each run lands where your team works.

FAQ

What does this actor read?

The same data craigslist.org shows to any visitor, read from the JSON service its own search and listing pages call: the result list of each search, then each listing in full. Nothing is rendered in a browser and nothing is posted, flagged or replied to.

Does it get the hidden reply email or phone?

No. Craigslist keeps the reply email, and any phone it replaces with a "show contact info" button, on its /reply page, which it shows only after a CAPTCHA. This actor does not solve CAPTCHAs or open that page (Craigslist's robots.txt also asks crawlers to keep away from /reply). contact_hidden_in_text is true when a number in the text was replaced that way, so you can open those listings yourself. What you do get is every phone, email and website the poster wrote in the title, the location line or the text. That is most services listings (423 of 450 plumber listings in our test had a phone) and few housing listings: property managers mostly use the hidden button, and the row then carries their website instead (84% of 1,000 Bay Area apartment rows).

How many listings can I get?

Up to maxItems per search, and at most 10,000, which is the most Craigslist serves for one search. A big site's housing or for sale section holds more than that: split it by sub area (sfbay/sfc, sfbay/eby), by category code (apa, roo, sub) or by price range.

How long does a run take?

About 12 seconds for 20 listings read in full, 133 seconds for 450 services listings from three cities, and 276 seconds for 1,000 apartment listings, in our test runs (1,455 requests, none retried or refused). With includeDetails off a search of 1,000 takes a few seconds.

Why do some rows have no price, phone or coordinates?

Craigslist shows a price only where the poster gave one (housing and for sale mostly; services rarely). A phone or email is in the row only when the poster wrote it in the listing. Coordinates are an exact pin when the poster placed one, otherwise the centre of the area or neighbourhood they chose. Empty fields are left out of the row rather than sent as blanks.

Do I need a Craigslist account, cookies or a proxy?

No. The actor reads public listings over Apify Proxy, which is included. Nothing to set up.

Can I use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (MCP)?

Yes, through Apify's MCP server. Connector URL: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/craigslist-scraper

• Claude: Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, paste the URL, sign in with Apify.
• ChatGPT: turn on developer mode, add an MCP connector with the URL, sign in with Apify.
• Cursor or VS Code: add it as an HTTP MCP server with that URL.
• Claude Code: claude mcp add -t http craigslist-scraper "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/craigslist-scraper"

Which formats can I download?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS and HTML from the run's Storage tab or through the API. The dataset has four ready views: Listings, Contacts (lead generation), Market tracking, and Full text and attributes. In CSV and Excel, attributes is flattened into columns such as attributes/bedrooms and lists into phones/0, images/0.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Craigslist live, at the time of the run. Rows carry Craigslist's own posted_at and updated_at where Craigslist gives them, and scraped_at, the moment the actor read the listing. Turn on postedToday to keep only listings posted or renewed in the last 24 hours.

Can I get only new listings each day?

Yes. Turn on monitorMode, give the monitor a monitorName such as rentals-austin, and schedule the run. Listings delivered by an earlier run with the same monitor name are skipped before they are read and are not charged, so each run returns only the listings that are new since the one before. Use a separate monitor name for each search you track.

Is it legal to scrape Craigslist?

The actor reads only listings that Craigslist shows to any visitor without logging in. It does not log in, post, reply, flag or solve CAPTCHAs, and it does not request any path that Craigslist's robots.txt disallows (/reply, /flag and the like). Craigslist's terms of use restrict automated access and the commercial use of its content, and listings can hold personal data such as a poster's phone number. You are responsible for how you use the data, including Craigslist's terms, data protection law such as the GDPR and the CCPA, and the rules on calling, texting and emailing people in your country (for example the TCPA and CAN-SPAM in the US). This is general information, not legal advice. Craigslist is a trademark of craigslist, Inc.; this actor is independent and not affiliated with it.

Integrations

• Google Sheets: send each run's listings to a sheet with Apify's Google Sheets integration; one row per listing fits a sheet as is.
• Clay, Make, Zapier and n8n: call the actor once per record with a listing link, or run a monitor search and read its dataset, for example "new roofing listings with a phone every morning to the CRM".
• Webhooks: have Apify call your URL when a run succeeds, then fetch the dataset.
• API and SDKs: run it from Python or JavaScript with the Apify client, or with a plain HTTP call (see "Copy to your AI assistant" above).
• MCP clients: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code can run it as a tool through the connector URL in the FAQ.

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Support

Found a search that returns fewer listings than the site, or a field that comes back empty when the listing has it? Open an issue in the Issues tab with the input and the run ID, and we will look at it. For a field you need or a new source, email dmineworks@gmail.com.

Search Craigslist by city, category and keyword and get every listing back as one row, with price, neighbourhood, coordinates, dates, full text, attributes, images and the phone or email it shows, no login.