# Craigslist Scraper - Listings, Prices & Locations (`swerve/craigslist-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Craigslist across any city and section: for sale, housing, jobs, gigs, services and cars. Get title, price, location, coordinates, images and links. No login or API key. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/swerve/craigslist-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Swerve](https://apify.com/swerve) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Real estate
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Craigslist Scraper - Listings, Prices & Locations

Scrape **Craigslist** across any city and section: **for sale, housing, jobs, gigs, services, and cars**. Get every posting with title, price, location, coordinates, images and a clean link. **No login and no API key.**

### What you can do with it

- Pull for-sale listings for a keyword and city (price, location, images)
- Collect housing or rental posts with prices and map coordinates
- Gather job, gig or service posts for a market
- Track cars and trucks for sale, or any category, across multiple cities

### Input

| Field | What it does | Example |
|-------|--------------|---------|
| **Cities** | Craigslist cities to search, as they appear in the site address. | `austin`, `newyork`, `losangeles`, `sfbay` |
| **Category** | Which section: for sale, housing, jobs, gigs, services, cars & trucks. | For sale |
| **Search keyword** | Optional keyword within the category. | `bike`, `sofa`, `toyota` |
| **Craigslist search URLs** | Optional. Paste Craigslist search URLs directly. | `https://austin.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=bike` |

### Output

One row per posting:

```json
{
  "id": "74qk39d33aJQ97raAPtERj",
  "url": "https://www.craigslist.org/view/d/austin-schwinn-230-recumbent-bike/...",
  "title": "schwinn 230 recumbent bike",
  "price": 300,
  "currency": "USD",
  "location": "Duval Rd & West Cow Path",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "latitude": 30.4224,
  "longitude": -97.7967,
  "images": ["https://images.craigslist.org/..._600x450.jpg"],
  "imageCount": 5,
  "category": "sss",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-18T14:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Fill rates on the core fields (id, title, url, price) are ~100%. City, coordinates and images are filled for the great majority of postings.

### How it works

This actor reads Craigslist's own search pages and combines the two data sets they contain: the result list (title, price, link) and a structured data block (price, city, coordinates, images). It works over plain HTTP with no login and no browser.

### Limits

- Each city search returns Craigslist's first batch of results (a few hundred). Search several cities to cover more ground.
- Some postings omit a neighborhood, coordinates or images; those fields come back empty for them.
- Cities must be spelled as they appear in the Craigslist address (for example `newyork`, `losangeles`, `sfbay`).

### Pricing

Pay per result. You only pay for the listings you actually get.

# Actor input Schema

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Craigslist cities to search (as they appear in the site address). Examples: austin, newyork, losangeles, sfbay, chicago, seattle.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Which section to search.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional keyword to search within the category. Example: bike, sofa, iphone. Leave blank for everything in the category.

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

Optional. Paste Craigslist search URLs directly (a filtered search).

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Cap listings per city search. Leave blank for all.

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

Optional overall cap. Leave blank for everything.

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

Optional. Craigslist answers without a proxy; add one only for very large, multi-city runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cities": [
    "austin"
  ],
  "category": "for-sale",
  "startUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "cities": [
        "austin"
    ],
    "startUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swerve/craigslist-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 = {
    "cities": ["austin"],
    "startUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swerve/craigslist-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "cities": [
    "austin"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call swerve/craigslist-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=swerve/craigslist-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/U59hk5GAefhHpFQAk/builds/AY1aVql2hxWjZDLvh/openapi.json