How to Scrape Craigslist — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Craigslist data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Craigslist Scraper - Listings, Prices & Images, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Craigslist login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

title
price
location
category
postedDate
imageCount
url

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/craigslist-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install craigslist-scraper

const scrape = require("craigslist-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install apify-craigslist-scraper

from craigslist_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`city`	string	City
`category`	string	Category
`query`	string	Search keyword (optional)
`searchUrls`	array	Craigslist search URLs (advanced)
`builder`	object	Search builder (advanced)
`maxResults`	integer	Max results
`includeDetails`	boolean	Fetch listing details
`proxyConfiguration`	object	Proxy

Common use cases

Build a fresh Craigslist dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Craigslist records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Craigslist data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.