Craigslist Scraper — Listings, Prices & New Post Alerts

Scrape Craigslist listings from any city, category or search URL: title, price, location and neighbourhood, map coordinates, posted date, category, post id and URL, every photo, bedrooms and square feet for housing, compensation, job title and company for jobs and gigs, odometer for cars. Turn on posting details for the full description and every attribute (condition, make / model, VIN, employment type, rent period, bathrooms, laundry, parking...). Works for for sale, housing, jobs, gigs, services, community and events, on every Craigslist site worldwide, one city or all US at once.

Paste the Craigslist search URL you see in your browser, or pick sites, a category, keywords and filters, and get clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or the data straight into your app through the API. Schedule it with Only new or changed items and it becomes a Craigslist alert: each run returns only postings that are new since the last run (or whose price dropped), and you pay nothing for the ones you already have.

It reads the same JSON search API the Craigslist website itself uses, so one request returns up to 10,000 postings with coordinates and photos, runs take seconds, and nothing breaks when the page layout changes. You pay only for the listings you get.

What data does Craigslist Scraper extract?

Field	Description
id, uuid, url	Craigslist post id (as shown at the bottom of a posting), the permanent posting key and the posting URL
title	Posting title
price, priceText, currency	Numeric price, the text as shown ("$2,750") and the site's currency (USD, CAD, GBP, ...). Jobs, gigs, services and community posts usually have no price.
postedAt	Date shown in search results (ISO 8601, UTC). Craigslist sorts by it; a renewed posting gets a new date.
category, categoryName, section	Category code and name (apa = "apartments / housing for rent", cto = "cars & trucks - by owner") and the section: for sale, housing, jobs, gigs, services, community, events
site, subarea, location, neighborhood	Craigslist site (sfbay, newyork), subarea (eby, brk), the location text the poster gave ("sunset / parkside", "Bronx") and the mapped neighbourhood
latitude, longitude	Map coordinates (present on nearly every posting)
images, imageCount	All photo URLs in 1200x900
bedrooms, sqft, openHouseDates	Housing
compensation, jobTitle, company	Jobs and gigs
odometer, monthlyPayment	Cars and trucks (miles; dealer financing text)
eventStartDate, eventEndDate, eventDates	Events and classes
searchUrl, scrapedAt	The search the posting came from and the scrape time

Turn on Include posting details to also open every posting page and add:

Field	Description
description	Full posting text (plain text, line breaks kept)
attributes	Every labelled attribute as {label: value}, e.g. {"condition": "excellent", "odometer": "112,000", "VIN": "2T3RFREV3JW822836", "transmission": "automatic"} or {"employment type": "full-time", "compensation": "Starting $17.27/hr + tips"}
attributeTags	Unlabelled attributes, e.g. ["2BR / 1.5Ba", "available now", "cats are OK - purrr", "w/d in unit", "carport"]
bathrooms, availableFrom, rentPeriod, sqft	Housing
employmentType, compensation, jobTitle	Jobs
year, makeModel, make, model, condition, odometer, vin	Cars and goods
firstPostedAt, updatedAt	When the posting was first published and last edited
city, region, postalCode, country	Locality from the posting's map
streetAddress	Apartments for rent, office / commercial, parking, broker real estate and job posts only: the advertised property or workplace as published (often cross streets)
notices	Poster notices such as "Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster."
isRemoved	true if the posting was deleted or expired between search and detail fetch

How to scrape Craigslist listings

1. By URL: open Craigslist, run your search with any filters (price, bedrooms, make, "has image", "posted today", miles from ZIP) and copy the URL from the address bar into Start URLs, e.g. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=road+bike&min_price=100&max_price=900. Subarea URLs (/search/eby/apa), city URLs and https://www.craigslist.org/search/area/sfbay?cat=sss work too.
2. Or by site + category: put one or more sites in Sites (sfbay, newyork, losangeles, chicago, seattle, sfbay/eby for a subarea, or all US), pick a Category (for sale, housing, jobs, cars & trucks, apartments, gigs, services, free stuff, ...) and optionally a Search query and filters.
3. Set Max items (cost cap) and, for multi-city runs, Max items per search / site. Optionally turn on Include posting details.
4. Click Start. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the API.

A posting URL (https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/… or the classic https://sfbay.craigslist.org/…/7976426511.html) returns that one posting with full details.

Input examples

2-bedroom apartments under $4,000 with photos in Brooklyn, newest first:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/brk/apa?min_bedrooms=2&max_price=4000&hasPic=1&sort=date" }],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Kayaks for sale in every US city, at most 20 per city:

{
  "sites": ["all US"],
  "category": "sss",
  "searchQuery": "kayak",
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 20,
  "maxItems": 5000
}

Food & hospitality jobs in three cities with the full job description:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://losangeles.craigslist.org/search/fbh" },
    { "url": "https://sandiego.craigslist.org/search/fbh" },
    { "url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/fbh" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 300,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output example

{
  "id": "7980953976",
  "uuid": "tBDvuCQRZG3J2TwxuA5JNz",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/bronx-apartment-for-rent/tBDvuCQRZG3J2TwxuA5JNz",
  "title": "Apartment for rent",
  "price": 2750,
  "priceText": "$2,750",
  "currency": "USD",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-09T23:14:39Z",
  "category": "apa",
  "categoryName": "apartments / housing for rent",
  "section": "housing",
  "site": "newyork",
  "subarea": "brx",
  "location": "Bronx",
  "neighborhood": null,
  "latitude": 40.8713,
  "longitude": -73.8435,
  "images": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00V0V_9BJRRMqDura_0rw0kD_1200x900.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00W0W_7P7NYatL1L1_0kE0fu_1200x900.jpg",
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00h0h_pXDD7Bw8rh_0rw0kD_1200x900.jpg"
  ],
  "imageCount": 3,
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "searchUrl": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/apa?hasPic=1&max_price=4000&min_bedrooms=2&sort=date",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T00:20:31+00:00",
  "description": "3 BR apartment, recent renovated, close to Supermarket and No 5 Subway Station, $2750 per month plus charges for electricity and cooking gas. No fees.",
  "attributes": { "rent period": "monthly" },
  "attributeTags": ["3BR / 1Ba", "apartment", "no laundry on site", "no parking"],
  "rentPeriod": "monthly",
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "firstPostedAt": "2026-10-09T23:14:39Z",
  "city": "Bronx",
  "region": "NY",
  "postalCode": "10469",
  "country": "US",
  "streetAddress": "Hammersley Ave, Bronx, NY 10469"
}

The fields from description on come from Include posting details. A job posting has compensation, jobTitle, company (and with details employmentType); a car has odometer (and with details year, makeModel, vin, condition, attributes).

Monitor changes on a schedule (Craigslist alerts)

Turn on Only new or changed items and run the same search on a schedule: each run remembers what earlier runs returned and outputs only postings that are new, plus postings whose price (or job pay) changed. Unchanged postings are dropped before any posting page is opened, so they are not charged — a quiet hour costs next to nothing. Max items becomes the number of newest postings checked per run (keep Sort on Newest first). Save the input as a task, add a Schedule in Apify (every 15 minutes, hourly or daily) and connect an integration (email, Slack, Zapier, Make, a webhook) to get every new apartment, free couch or underpriced bike the moment it is posted; give each watch its own Monitoring key if several schedules use the same search.

Every output item has changeType (new or changed); changed items have previousValues with the old values, e.g. {"price": 3000} when the rent dropped to $2,750. Craigslist lets posters renew a listing, which moves an older posting back to the top; the Actor recognises those from the post id (isRenewal: true), and Skip renewed older posts leaves them out entirely, so your alerts carry brand-new posts only (skipped renewals are not charged either). A posting you were already alerted about is never reported again just because it was renewed. Monitoring runs always ask Craigslist for a fresh answer (normal searches may be served from Craigslist's own cache, up to 15 minutes old, exactly as the website shows them).

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://seattle.craigslist.org/search/zip?sort=date" }],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "onlyNewOrChanged": true,
  "skipRenewals": true
}

How many listings can I get per search?

Craigslist returns at most 10,000 postings per search (the site itself shows no more). The Actor fetches them in one request. For bigger result sets, split the search: by subarea (/search/brk/apa, /search/que/apa), by category (cto and ctd instead of cta), or by price range. Several searches and sites run in one run and are de-duplicated by post id. When a small site has few results, Craigslist appends postings from nearby sites; those are left out (search those sites directly or use all US).

Can I search all of Craigslist (all US cities)?

Yes. Put all US in Sites (413 US sites; all CA, all GB etc. work for other countries) or list the cities you need. Use Max items per search / site so Max items is spread across cities, e.g. 20 per city. An all US sweep makes one request per site and takes a few minutes. Alternatively, set ZIP / postal code and Distance up to 1,000 miles to search a whole region in a single request.

Does it collect phone numbers or email addresses?

No. Craigslist hides contact details behind its "reply" button (anonymised relay e-mail, phone on request); the Actor never opens it. It exports the public posting only: text, price, photos, attributes, coordinates and the location the poster chose to show. Street addresses are exported only where they are the advertised rental, commercial property or workplace (apartments for rent, office / commercial, parking, broker listings, jobs); rooms, sublets and by-owner home sales, which are usually the poster's own home, never carry one.

Do I need a proxy?

Apify Proxy (datacenter) is on by default and is enough: every request goes out through a fresh IP, the Actor keeps a modest pace and retries on another IP if Craigslist refuses one. If a run logs many blocked (403) requests, switch to the RESIDENTIAL group. If the search API ever fails, the Actor falls back to Craigslist's plain HTML search page (first ~350 results, without post ids and dates).

Pricing

Pay per result: a small fee for every listing saved, plus a small fee per posting page opened when Include posting details is on (see the Pricing tab). No subscription, no start fee; Apify's free plan is enough to try it. Platform usage is tiny: about $0.0002 per 1,000 listings from search results and about $0.02 per 1,000 posting pages.

Integrations and API

Use the runs in Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets or Slack, or call the Actor from Python / Node with the Apify client. See the API tab for ready-made snippets.

Is it legal to scrape Craigslist?

This Actor collects publicly visible posting data only: no logins, no hidden contact details. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Craigslist's terms of use, privacy law (GDPR, CCPA) and other applicable law; do not use it to spam posters.

Support

Found a bug or need a field added? Open an issue in the Issues tab; it is usually answered within a day.