Rightmove Property Discovery Scraper

Discover public Rightmove real estate listings from buyer-facing inputs: location, operation, property type, and result limit. The Actor searches Rightmove for you, then returns structured listing rows with prices, areas, rooms, descriptions, images, agents, and listing URLs.

This is a discovery Actor. You do not need to provide search result URLs.

Why Use This Actor

Use this Actor when you need a clean UK real estate dataset from Rightmove without manually building search URLs or copying listings from the website.

It is useful for:

• UK property lead discovery by city
• sale and rental inventory research
• price and area comparison across Rightmove listings
• proptech, agency, investor, and market-monitoring workflows
• TroveVault pipelines that combine several property portals into one dataset

What It Extracts

Each dataset row can include:

• platform, listingId, title, and url
• operation and propertyType
• price, currency, priceText, and pricePerM2
• areaM2, bedrooms, and bathrooms
• address, city, and country
• description
• features
• sellerName
• mainImage and images
• listedAtText
• scrapedAt
• runId when supplied in the input

Fields are only populated when they are publicly visible in Rightmove search results.

Input

{
  "location": "London",
  "operation": "sale",
  "propertyType": "any",
  "maxItems": 3,
  "datasetId": "",
  "runId": ""
}

Input Fields

• location - Major UK city to search, for example London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol, Edinburgh, or Glasgow.
• operation - Dropdown. Use sale for properties for sale or rent for rental listings.
• propertyType - Dropdown. Use any, apartment, house, land, or commercial.
• maxItems - Maximum number of listings to save.
• datasetId - Optional Apify dataset ID. When provided, each saved listing is also appended to that dataset.
• runId - Optional workflow run ID. When provided, it is copied into each output row and the RUN_SUMMARY key-value record.

API Usage

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/trovevault~rightmove-property-discovery-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"location":"London","operation":"sale","propertyType":"any","maxItems":3}'

Notes And Limitations

• City-level locations are more stable than broad regional searches.
• This version supports a curated set of major UK cities with stable Rightmove location identifiers.
• Search-result JSON is used directly, which keeps runs lightweight and avoids detail-page traffic for default tests.
• Prices, availability, and listing details can change after scraping. Use scrapedAt to judge freshness.
• The Actor does not read search URLs from input and does not require an upstream dataset for discovery.