Craigslist Scraper

What Craigslist Scraper can do

• A whole search in one read. Craigslist answers an entire search's result set in a single read, so a search with several thousand matches comes back complete and you are never charged twice for the same posting.
• Coordinates, neighbourhood and posted time on every row, not only on postings read in full. You are not charged extra to know where a posting is or when it went up.
• The section's real attributes, once you read a posting in full. Cars come back with make and model, year, odometer, title status, fuel, transmission, drivetrain, paint and body type. Housing comes back with bedrooms, bathrooms, move-in date, laundry, parking and pet rules. Jobs come back with compensation, employment type and job title.
• Every city, not just the US. Name a city as sfbay, as SF bay area, or by pasting any link from it. London, Toronto, Berlin, Sydney, Tokyo and 700 more resolve the same way.
• Change monitoring across scheduled runs. Classify every posting as NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED or EXPIRED, with state kept separately per search so two monitoring campaigns never collide.
• MCP connector export. Pipe a copy of every posting into Notion or another connector you already use, without changing the dataset output.

Choose what to collect

These inputs let you configure Craigslist Scraper - Cars, Housing, Jobs & For Sale. Open the actor on Apify to enter your values and review the current options.

Fields in the output

The documented dataset includes the fields below. Availability can depend on the source page and selected mode.

Example output

An example from this actor’s documentation. Values are illustrative; this is not a fresh live result.

{
  "kind": "posting",
  "recordId": "7900000000",
  "postingId": "7900000000",
  "postingUuid": "AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrStUv",
  "title": "Example road bicycle, lightly used",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/example-city-bicycle/AbCdEfGhIjKlMnOpQrStUv",
  "price": 625,
  "priceString": "$625",
  "currency": "USD",
  "categoryId": 68,
  "categoryAbbr": "bik",
  "categoryName": "bicycles - by owner",
  "section": "for sale",
  "postedDate": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+00:00",
  "updatedDate": "2026-09-05T00:00:00+00:00",
  "createdDate": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+00:00",
  "cityHost": "sfbay",
  "cityName": "SF bay area",
  "areaId": 1,
  "subareaAbbr": "eby",
  "subareaName": "east bay",
  "neighborhood": "example neighbourhood",
  "locationDescription": "example town",
  "displayAddress": "100 Example Street",
  "latitude": 37.7749,
  "longitude": -122.4194,
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://images.craigslist.org/00d0d_example_1200x900.jpg"
  ],
  "imageCount": 1,
  "detailLoaded": true,
  "description": "Bought new in 2012. Lightly used, excellent condition.",
  "bodyHtml": "Bought new in 2012.<br>Lightly used, excellent condition.",
  "attributes": [
    {
      "key": "condition",
      "label": "condition",
      "value": "good",
      "type": "key_value"
    }
  ],
  "attributesByKey": {
    "condition": "good"
  },
  "rawDetail": {},
  "hasContactInfo": true,
  "notices": null,
  "repostOf": null,
  "seeMyOther": null,
  "changeType": "NEW",
  "changedFields": [],
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+00:00",
  "lastSeenAt": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Ways to use this data

• Marketplace and resale price research: track asking prices on a make, model, category or neighbourhood over time to spot underpriced listings.
• Housing search automation: watch new apartment or room listings in a metro area on a schedule and get only what is new since the last check.
• Local lead generation: monitor gigs, services or job postings in a city and export the leads straight into Notion or another connector.
• Sourcing across cities: run the same category search over several cities in one job to compare what is available and at what price.
• Market and academic research: build a dataset of classified-ad volume, pricing and category mix for a city or region.

Before you run

Start with a small input and check the resulting records against your expected fields. Source content and actor options can change; the current Apify listing is the reference for availability and pricing.

Questions about this actor