Gumtree UK Scraper

Scrape Gumtree UK (gumtree.com) classified ads from any results page: price, title, area, town and postcode district, map coordinates, category attributes (make, model, year, mileage, fuel, gearbox, body type for vehicles; bedrooms, property type, availability for property; job type, contract, salary for jobs; condition for goods), photos, posting date, seller type and featured / urgent flags. Works for cars, vans and motorbikes, property to rent and for sale, jobs, services, pets, community and every for-sale category.

Paste the Gumtree URL you see in your browser (with whatever filters and sort you picked) or pick a category, a location and a keyword, and get every ad as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into your app through the API. Built for reliability: it reads the structured data Gumtree embeds in every page instead of scraping the visual layout, avoids the bot-protected /search route by rewriting your URL to Gumtree's canonical browse path, uses browser-grade TLS fingerprints, throttles itself and retries on a fresh proxy session when challenged, so runs finish instead of failing halfway. You pay only for the listings you get.

What data does Gumtree UK Scraper extract?

Every ad from the results page gives you:

Field	Description
id, url	Gumtree ad id and the ad URL
title	Ad title
price, priceCurrency, priceText, priceFrequency	Numeric price in GBP, the text as shown ("£3,250.00", "£900.00pm") and the rent period (pm, pw) when there is one. Jobs have no price.
category, categoryId	Top-level category: Motors, Property, Jobs, For Sale, Services, Pets, Community
subcategory, subcategoryId	Second level, e.g. Cars, Vans, To Rent, Housekeeping & Cleaning, Phones, Mobile Phones & Telecoms
leafCategory, leafCategoryId	The ad's own category, e.g. Honda, Apple iPhone, Domestic
location	{area, town, postcodeDistrict, postcode}, e.g. {"area": "Barking", "town": "London", "postcodeDistrict": "RM8"}. The full postcode is included for trade / business sellers only.
latitude, longitude	Map coordinates when the ad shows a map
make, model, year, mileage, fuel, gearbox, bodyType, engineSize, colour, doors, seats	Vehicle columns (mileage in miles, engine size in cc)
propertyType, bedrooms, bathrooms, roomType, furnished, availableFrom	Property columns
jobType, contractType, jobLevel, salary, salaryPeriod, salaryMin, salaryMax, recruiter, recruiterType, closesAt, workingFromHome, immediateStart	Job columns (salaryMin / salaryMax is Gumtree's salary band in GBP, e.g. 20000 - 24999 per annum or 12.00 - 14.99 per hour)
condition	Goods: "As good as new", "Used", ...
attributes	Every attribute Gumtree shows for the ad, as {key: value} (e.g. vehicle_registration_year, vehicle_insurance_group, vrn, property_number_beds, mobile_storage_capacity, common_for_sale_colour)
images, imageCount, hasVideo	Photo URLs
publishedAt, postedText	Posting time (ISO 8601, UTC) and the relative text ("11 days ago")
sellerType, sellerBusinessName, isProAccount, sellerId	trade or private (null for jobs); the recruiter name for jobs; whether the account is a Gumtree Pro business account; the numeric seller account id. Private sellers' names are never exported.
isFeatured, isUrgent, isPremium, favouritesCount, deliveryAvailable, vat	Ad flags and stats
shortDescription, status	The first 250 characters of the description; LIVE
sourceUrl, scrapedAt	The results URL the ad came from and the scrape timestamp

Turn on Include listing details to also open each ad page and add:

Field	Description
description	Full ad text (plain text, line breaks kept)
attributes, attributesDetailed	The complete attribute table (cars: running costs, performance, safety and comfort features, insurance group; every category: everything Gumtree shows), plus the list form with display names and units
categoryPath	Breadcrumb path, e.g. ["Motors", "Cars", "Honda", "Honda JAZZ"]
latitude, longitude, location	Map coordinates and the exact area / town from the ad page
sellerBusinessName	Trade seller / business contact name (private sellers' names are not exported)
sellerAdsCount, sellerAdsLastYear, sellerMemberSince, sellerLastActiveAt, sellerRating	Seller stats as shown on the ad: live ads, ads posted in the last year, "8+ months", last active time, {average, total} rating
phoneAvailable	Whether the ad shows a "reveal phone number" button (the number itself is never collected)
videos, images	Video URLs and the full photo set
createdAt, updatedAt, expiresAt	Ad lifecycle dates
employmentType, salaryMin, salaryMax	Jobs: Google-for-Jobs employment type (FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, ...) and the salary band
vehicleHistoryChecked	Cars: whether Gumtree ran its vehicle history check

How to scrape Gumtree listings

1. Open gumtree.com, run the search you want (category, location, distance, price range, make, fuel, bedrooms, sort) and copy the URL from the address bar into Start URLs. Both URL styles work: https://www.gumtree.com/search?search_category=cars&search_location=london&q=bmw&sort=date and https://www.gumtree.com/cars-vans-motorbikes/cars/uk/london?min_price=1000. Or fill Category (cars, vans, property-to-rent, property-for-sale, jobs, for-sale, phones, dogs, ...), Location (london, manchester, west-midlands, scotland, uk, ...) and an optional Search query, price range, distance and sort.
2. Set Max items (cost cap). Optionally turn on Include listing details.
3. Click Start. Results appear in the Dataset tab; export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

A single ad URL (https://www.gumtree.com/p/…/1802087355) returns that one listing with full details.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/search?search_category=cars&search_location=london&min_price=1000&max_price=5000&sort=date" }],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "includeDetails": false
}

or, by category:

{
  "category": "property-to-rent",
  "location": "manchester",
  "searchQuery": "2 bedroom",
  "minPrice": 500,
  "maxPrice": 1500,
  "sort": "date",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output example

{
  "id": "1802087355",
  "url": "https://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/honda-jazz-hatchback-2006-semi-auto-1339-cc-5-doors/1802087355",
  "title": "Honda, JAZZ, Hatchback, 2006, Semi-Auto, 1339 (cc), 5 doors",
  "price": 3250,
  "priceCurrency": "GBP",
  "priceText": "£3,250.00",
  "priceFrequency": null,
  "category": "Motors",
  "categoryId": 2551,
  "subcategory": "Cars",
  "subcategoryId": 9311,
  "leafCategory": "Honda",
  "leafCategoryId": 10307,
  "location": { "area": "Barking", "town": "London", "postcodeDistrict": "RM8", "postcode": "RM82JR" },
  "latitude": 51.5454,
  "longitude": 0.112972,
  "make": "Honda",
  "model": "JAZZ",
  "year": 2006,
  "mileage": 74095,
  "fuel": "Petrol",
  "gearbox": "Semi-Auto",
  "bodyType": "Hatchback",
  "engineSize": 1339,
  "colour": "Silver",
  "doors": 5,
  "seats": 5,
  "attributes": { "vehicle_make": "Honda", "vehicle_model": "JAZZ", "vehicle_registration_year": "2006", "vehicle_mileage": "74095", "seller_type": "Trade", "vehicle_body_type": "Hatchback", "vehicle_transmission": "Semi-Auto", "vehicle_fuel_type": "Petrol", "vehicle_engine_size": "1339", "vehicle_colour": "Silver", "vehicle_doors": "5", "vehicle_emission": "139", "vehicle_euro_emission": "Euro 4", "vrn": "YG56DVZ" },
  "images": ["https://img.gumtree.com/ePR8PyKf84wPHx7_RYmEag/b31d96a195dd456ab9_5cf841d24c61/86"],
  "imageCount": 12,
  "hasVideo": false,
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-28T17:11:36+00:00",
  "postedText": "11 days ago",
  "sellerType": "trade",
  "sellerBusinessName": null,
  "isProAccount": false,
  "sellerId": "100694765",
  "isFeatured": true,
  "isUrgent": false,
  "isPremium": false,
  "favouritesCount": 2,
  "deliveryAvailable": false,
  "vat": "No VAT",
  "shortDescription": "2007 Honda Jazz 1.4 Petrol Automatic\nA reliable and economical Honda Jazz Automatic, presented in good condition with 74,000 miles.",
  "status": "LIVE",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.gumtree.com/cars-vans-motorbikes/cars/uk/london?sort=date",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-09T18:02:11+00:00"
}

A property ad has propertyType, bedrooms, availableFrom and priceFrequency instead of the vehicle columns; a job has jobType, contractType, salary, salaryMin, salaryMax, recruiter, closesAt; a for-sale item has condition.

How many listings can I get per search?

Gumtree shows about 30 ads per page and serves at most 50 pages, so one results URL yields up to about 1,500 listings. To go beyond that, split the search: by location (london, manchester, west-midlands, scotland), by subcategory (cars instead of cars-vans-motorbikes, property-to-rent instead of flats-houses), by make / fuel / bedrooms filters, or by price band (min_price / max_price). Run several URLs in one run; results are de-duplicated by ad id. Sorting by newest (sort=date, or Sort: Most recent first) is the best way to collect fresh ads on a schedule; relevance order shifts between page loads and repeats featured ads.

Does it work for property, jobs and services, not just cars?

Yes. Every Gumtree UK category is supported: paste the results URL, or set Category to its slug (the value of search_category= in the browser URL, e.g. property-to-rent, property-for-sale, property-to-share, jobs, computing-it-jobs, business-services, dogs, iphone). The attributes object always carries every attribute Gumtree shows for that category; the vehicle, property and job columns are filled in whenever the attributes exist.

Does it collect seller phone numbers or names?

No. This Actor collects public listing data only. Business / trade seller names and recruiter names are exported as sellerBusinessName; names of private sellers and all phone numbers are never collected. phoneAvailable (details only) just tells you whether the ad shows a phone button. Full postcodes are exported for trade sellers only; private ads carry the postcode district (e.g. RM8).

Do I need a proxy?

Apify Proxy is enabled by default. Gumtree sits behind a bot manager that challenges the /search route and rate-limits bursts; the Actor uses Gumtree's canonical browse pages, throttles to a few requests per second and retries on a fresh proxy session whenever it is challenged. If a run logs many "bot challenge" warnings, switch the proxy to the RESIDENTIAL group.

Pricing

Pay per result: a small fee for every listing saved from a results page, plus a small fee per ad page opened when Include listing details is on (see the Pricing tab). There is no subscription and no start fee; Apify's free plan is enough to try it.

Integrations and API

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

Is it legal to scrape Gumtree?

This Actor collects only publicly available, non-personal listing data (no phone numbers, no names of private sellers). You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with Gumtree's terms, UK GDPR and other applicable law.

Support

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