📋 Craigslist Classifieds Scraper

🚀 Export Craigslist listings to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. No login required. No API key needed.

Craigslist is the largest classifieds network in the United States, hosting millions of active listings across hundreds of cities. This Actor searches any Craigslist city by keyword and category, fetches listing details including photos and posting dates, and delivers a clean structured dataset ready for export.

Data is scraped live from Craigslist.org in real time. Every run produces fresh results - no cached or stale data.

Coverage: All Craigslist US city subdomains (newyork, chicago, sfbay, losangeles, seattle, miami, etc.), 12 browseable categories including for-sale, furniture, electronics, cars, bikes, and more. Each record includes the listing photo, price, neighborhood, city, category, listing ID, URL, and post date.

🎯 Target Audience / Use Cases

Who uses this	What they do with it
Resellers and flippers	Monitor categories for underpriced items to buy and resell
Market researchers	Track pricing trends for specific goods across cities
Real estate investors	Monitor housing-adjacent categories (furniture, appliances)
Data journalists	Investigate classified ad markets and pricing disparities
Price comparison tools	Aggregate second-hand prices alongside retail benchmarks
Developers	Build deal-alert apps and inventory scrapers

📋 What the Craigslist Scraper does

• Searches any Craigslist US city subdomain by keyword
• Filters results by category (for sale, furniture, electronics, cars, bikes, and more)
• Fetches each listing's detail page to extract the photo and post date
• Parses price, currency, and neighborhood from search results
• Paginates automatically until maxItems is reached or results are exhausted
• Delivers a clean structured dataset: one record per listing

💡 Why it matters: Craigslist has no public API. Manually copying listing data is tedious and error-prone. This Actor automates the entire process - search, paginate, enrich - and gives you a download-ready dataset in minutes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: city, currency, imageUrl, listingUrl, location, price, results, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Craigslist Scraper on Apify Store
3. Enter your search keyword, city subdomain, and category
4. Set maxItems (free users get 10 items automatically)
5. Click Save & Run
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Craigslist. Use of this tool must comply with Craigslist's Terms of Use and applicable laws. The data collected is publicly available. ParseForge is not responsible for how collected data is used.

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