# OnTheMarket Scraper — UK Property for Sale & to Rent (`yugenox/onthemarket-scraper`) Actor

Scrape OnTheMarket.com UK property for sale and to rent by town, area or postcode district: price, beds, baths, address, map coordinates, tenure, labels, agent branch and photos. Optional EPC, floor area, full description, stations and schools. Price and bedroom filters. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/yugenox/onthemarket-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Yugenox Corp](https://apify.com/yugenox) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 listings

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

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## OnTheMarket Scraper: UK property for sale and to rent

Scrape **OnTheMarket.com**, the UK property portal, by **town, city, area or postcode district** — homes for sale or to rent. Every listing comes with the **price and price qualifier** (guide price, offers over…), monthly and weekly rent for lettings, bedrooms, bathrooms, **street and postcode district**, map coordinates, **tenure**, labels such as *reduced* or *only on OnTheMarket*, the **estate agent branch with its phone number**, and photos. Optionally add the full description, **EPC rating, floor area**, council tax, broadband speed, nearest stations and schools, floorplans and virtual tours. Filter by property type, price, bedrooms and how recently a listing was added. No login, no cookies, no OnTheMarket account.

OnTheMarket shows at most 1,000 results per search. When a location has more, this scraper **carries on area by area** (London → East London → Hackney…), so large cities come through complete, with duplicates removed.

### What you get

| | |
|---|---|
| **Listing** | Title, property type (flat, terraced house, detached house…), listing URL, photos, features |
| **Price** | Price in £ and as shown, qualifier (guide price, offers over…), short price; for rentals the monthly rent, period and weekly equivalent |
| **Property** | Bedrooms, bathrooms, tenure (freehold / leasehold with years left) |
| **Location** | Street and town, postcode district (e.g. `SW11`), latitude and longitude |
| **Labels** | Added / reduced (and when), reduced, recently added, only on OnTheMarket, spotlight, premium, virtual tour |
| **Agent** | Branch name, phone, logo and OnTheMarket branch page |
| **Property details** (optional) | Full description, EPC rating, floor area (sq ft and m²), council tax band, broadband, nearest stations and schools with distance, all photos in large size, floorplans, virtual and video tours, agency name and branch address, view count |

### How to use it

1. Enter one or more **locations**: a town or city (`Bristol`, `Manchester`), an area (`East London`, `Central London`) or a postcode district (`SW11`, `BS15`).
2. Choose **For sale** or **To rent**, a **property type** if you like, and set **Max listings** (0 = everything).
3. Add filters — price, bedrooms, added in the last 24 hours or 7 days — and run.

Each location is searched separately; **Max listings** is shared fairly between them.

#### Input examples

Three-bedroom-plus houses for sale in Bristol between £300k and £500k:

```json
{
  "locations": ["Bristol"],
  "searchType": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "houses",
  "minPrice": 300000,
  "maxPrice": 500000,
  "minBedrooms": 3,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

Flats to rent in Battersea (SW11) up to two bedrooms, with EPC, floor area and description:

```json
{
  "locations": ["SW11"],
  "searchType": "to-rent",
  "propertyType": "flats-apartments",
  "maxBedrooms": 2,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

Everything added in Manchester in the last 24 hours (a good daily schedule):

```json
{
  "locations": ["Manchester"],
  "addedWithin": "24-hours",
  "maxItems": 0
}
```

You can also paste OnTheMarket search URLs or property URLs (`https://www.onthemarket.com/details/20437023/`) into **OnTheMarket URLs**.

### Output example

```json
{
  "site": "onthemarket",
  "listingId": "20045726",
  "url": "https://www.onthemarket.com/details/20045726/",
  "title": "3 bedroom terraced house for sale",
  "propertyType": "Terraced house",
  "transactionType": "buy",
  "price": 290000,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "priceText": "£290,000",
  "priceQualifier": "Offers in excess of",
  "shortPrice": "£290k",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "address": "Primrose Lane, Bristol",
  "outcode": "BS15",
  "latitude": 51.464033,
  "longitude": -2.517476,
  "features": ["Tenure: Freehold", "Victorian Terraced House", "Newly Renovated to a high Standard", "Three Bedrooms"],
  "tenure": "Freehold",
  "epcRating": "D",
  "broadband": "Ultra-fast 10000Mbps *",
  "stations": [{ "name": "Lawrence Hill Station", "distance": "2.0mi." }],
  "schools": [{ "name": "Two Mile Hill Primary School", "distance": "0.2mi." }],
  "description": "SUMMARY\nA recently refurbished Victorian House comprising entrance, lounge/diner and three bedrooms. …",
  "images": ["https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/20045726/1633535518/image-0-1024x1024.jpg", "…"],
  "floorplans": ["https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/20045726/1633535518/floor-plan-0-1024x1024.jpg"],
  "virtualTours": ["https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=4Y4mgg45RVU"],
  "addedOrReduced": "Reduced < 7 days",
  "reduced": true,
  "onlyOnOnTheMarket": false,
  "agentName": "Connells - Kingswood, Bristol",
  "agentCompany": "Connells",
  "agentPhone": "0117 295 3066",
  "agentAddress": "1 Regent Street, Bristol, BS15 8JX",
  "agentUrl": "https://www.onthemarket.com/agents/branch/connells-kingswood-bristol/",
  "searchLocation": "Bristol",
  "position": 1,
  "detailsFetched": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T21:33:44.693Z"
}
```

Every row has the same columns; a value the listing doesn't state is `null` (or an empty list). The description, EPC, floor area, council tax, broadband, stations, schools, floorplans and branch address are filled when **Include property details** is on. For rentals, `price` is the monthly rent, `pricePeriod` is `month` and `priceWeekly` the weekly equivalent.

### Use cases

- **Property investors**: find reduced or newly listed homes in your target postcodes every morning.
- **Estate agents**: watch competitors' stock, pricing and "only on OnTheMarket" listings branch by branch.
- **Rental market analysis**: monthly rents by postcode district, property type and size.
- **Lead generation**: build lists of active agent branches with phone numbers and offices.
- **Data and PropTech products**: feed fresh UK listings with coordinates, tenure and EPC into your models.

### FAQ

**Do I need an OnTheMarket account, cookies or a login?** No. The scraper reads the same public pages any visitor sees. It never logs in and needs nothing from you except a location.

**Which locations can I use?** Towns, cities, areas and postcode districts as OnTheMarket names them: `Bristol`, `Bath`, `East London`, `SW11`. A place OnTheMarket doesn't know is skipped, not charged, and named in the run's status message. For anything unusual, open it on OnTheMarket and paste the search URL.

**How do the price and bedroom filters work?** The scraper applies them itself while it reads the results (OnTheMarket asks crawlers not to use those search parameters, and this scraper respects that). Listings that don't match are dropped and **never charged**. Very narrow filters on a large area can take longer to find matches, so a search stops early, with a note, if almost nothing in it matches — use a smaller area or wider filters.

**How many listings can I get?** All of them. OnTheMarket stops each search at 1,000 results; when a location has more and you ask for more, the run continues through its sub-areas and removes duplicates. Turn off **Split large searches** to keep only the first 1,000 per location.

**How fast is it?** About one page of 30 listings per second, so 1,000 listings take under a minute. **Include property details** opens every property page and adds about a second per listing.

**Which proxy should I use?** Keep the default (Apify Proxy, datacenter). It comes with every Apify plan, including the free one. If OnTheMarket refuses datacenter IPs for a while, the run switches to UK residential proxies when your account has them, and carries on without them when it doesn't.

**What does a run cost?** You pay per listing saved, per location searched, and a small fee per run; property details are a separate, optional charge. See the Pricing tab. Listings that are filtered out are never charged, and neither are locations OnTheMarket doesn't recognise.

**Is it legal to scrape OnTheMarket?** This Actor only collects publicly available data: property listings that anyone can view on OnTheMarket without an account. Collecting publicly available data is generally legal, but you're responsible for how you use it. Results include estate agent branches' business names, phone numbers and office addresses; property addresses are what the agent publishes (usually street and town with the postcode district — the full postcode is never output), and the scraper removes personal e-mail addresses and phone numbers from description text. You must follow privacy laws such as UK GDPR, GDPR, PIPEDA and CCPA, as well as OnTheMarket's terms. If you're unsure, check with a lawyer. More on this: [Is web scraping legal?](https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/)

**Does it access any private data?** No. Everything comes from pages OnTheMarket shows to any visitor without logging in. It never uses a login, never touches saved searches, accounts or contact forms, and follows OnTheMarket's robots.txt.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by OnTheMarket.

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

UK towns, cities, areas or postcode districts, e.g. "Bristol", "Manchester", "East London", "SW11". Each is searched separately. A place OnTheMarket doesn't know is skipped (and not charged).

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

Search listings for sale or for rent.

## `propertyType` (type: `string`):

Kind of property to search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings for the whole run, shared fairly between your locations (a location with fewer listings leaves its share to the others). 0 = everything.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open every property page for the full description, EPC rating, floor area, tenure, council tax, broadband, nearest stations and schools, every photo, floorplans and the branch address. Adds about a second per listing and is charged per listing.

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

Optional: OnTheMarket search URLs (e.g. https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/bath/) or property URLs (…/details/20437023/). Price and bedroom filters in a pasted URL are applied by the scraper itself.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

For rentals: per calendar month.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

For rentals: per calendar month.

## `minBedrooms` (type: `integer`):

Only listings with at least this many bedrooms. Leave empty for no limit.

## `maxBedrooms` (type: `integer`):

Only listings with at most this many bedrooms. Leave empty for no limit.

## `addedWithin` (type: `string`):

Only listings added (or reduced) recently — handy for daily alerts.

## `splitLargeSearches` (type: `boolean`):

OnTheMarket shows at most 1,000 results per search. When a location has more and you asked for more, the search continues area by area (e.g. London → East London → Hackney), duplicates removed.

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

Apify Proxy (datacenter) is the default and comes with every Apify plan. If OnTheMarket refuses datacenter IPs for a while, the run switches to UK residential proxies when your account has them.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    "Bristol"
  ],
  "searchType": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "property",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "addedWithin": "any",
  "splitLargeSearches": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped listings.

## `run` (type: `string`):

Status and statistics for this run.

## `report` (type: `string`):

RUN_REPORT: how the run ended, counts per search, requests and proxy use.

# 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 = {
    "locations": [
        "Bristol"
    ],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("yugenox/onthemarket-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 = {
    "locations": ["Bristol"],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("yugenox/onthemarket-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 '{
  "locations": [
    "Bristol"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call yugenox/onthemarket-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,yugenox/onthemarket-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/yooOe5J7BcMlyiBDD/builds/F2Jsd60WooQ4IMpJK/openapi.json