Craigslist Scraper

Overview

An Apify actor for scraping classified listings from Craigslist. It extracts structured data from search results and individual posts across all major categories, including jobs, housing, gigs, and for-sale items. The actor operates on a pay-per-result basis.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Category Support: Scrapes data from gigs, jobs, housing, events, communities, resumes, services, and for-sale listings.
• Flexible Input: Accepts both search result pages and direct links to individual posts.
• Structured Output: Returns clean, parsed data for each listing.
• Proxy Support: Recommends using Apify Proxy for reliable, frequent scraping to avoid blocks.

How to Use

Provide one or more Craigslist URLs in the actor's input. Only English-language site versions are supported.

Valid URL Examples:
* Search page: https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/ggg
* Individual post: https://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/dmg/7524843421.html

Basic Input Configuration:

{
  "maxConcurrency": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "urls": [
    {
      "url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/ggg"
    }
  ]
}

Set useApifyProxy to true for production or frequent runs.

Input/Output

Input: A JSON object containing an array of Craigslist URLs to scrape.

Output: A dataset of items, where each item contains the scraped fields for a listing. Example output for a gig:

{
  "id": "7536953147",
  "url": "https://newyork.craigslist.org/que/lbg/7536953147.html",
  "title": "Deli grill men",
  "datetime": "2022-09-22T11:13:56-0400",
  "location": "Astoria",
  "category": "gigs",
  "label": "post",
  "price": "$15",
  "longitude": "-73.937645",
  "latitude": "40.759908",
  "mapAccuracy": "5",
  "post": "Full post description text...",
  "notices": ["do NOT contact me with unsolicited services or offers"],
  "phoneNumbers": ["909-9909-3322"]
}

Common output fields include: id, url, title, datetime, location, category, price (if available), post (full description), and geolocation data.