Craigslist Scrapper - How to Use - Input Parameters - Usage Costs - Proxies - Contact ## How to Use Simply provide the search URL you want to watch and the scraper will check for any new posts since the last run. New posts will be sent to the email specified and contain the Image, Price, City, Date posted, and a Link to the post. Schedule the actor to run as often as you need, every hour or even every minute! ## Input Parameters The input of this scraper should be JSON with the following fields: | Field | Type | Description | | ----- | ---- | ----------- | | search_url | String | (required) Search URL to scrape for new posts. Posts will be compared with the previous run and only new items will be emailed. | email_addr | String | (required) Email to send the new posts | email_subj | String | (required) Email Subject | proxy | object | (optional) Select an Apify proxy ### Example json { "search_url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/apartments-housing-for-rent/search/apa", "email_addr": "xxx@xxx.com", "email_subj": "New Apartments Search" } #### Example with proxy json { "search_url": "https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/apartments-housing-for-rent/search/apa", "email_addr": "xxx@xxx.com", "email_subj": "New Apartments Search", "proxy": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } } ## Usage Costs Usage costs will depend on how often you run the scraper. Running every minute for example will use about 23 compute units and about 6 units for send mail. Running every hour results in compute units as low as 3/month. Data storage costs to store results is also minimal (about $0.50/month). ### Example Running one search every hour works out to about $2/month The Free plan ($5 platform usage credits) is enough to run this. Running one search every minute works out to about $5/month The Personal plan ($49) is more than enough and would allow you to scrape about 10 searches every minute. ## Proxies It is recommended to use Apify residential proxies with this actor. Shared proxies can get their IP's blacklisted. Contact support@apify.com via email or in-app chat to get the proxies enabled or ask for a free trial. ## Contact For any bugs or feature requests, you can create an issue here.