Craigslist Ad Pages, Scraped to Structured Data
Pass an individual Craigslist posting URL and our API renders the page, runs your extract_rules, and returns the full listing object. Title, asking price, description body, photo URLs, location, posting timestamp, and category-specific attributes all come back in one response.
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What Developers Pull From Craigslist Ads
Craigslist ad scraping covers rental listings, for-sale asking prices, and jobs and gigs postings, all pulled across cities and categories in structured form.
Find rental listings
Utilize our API to extract rental listings for competitor analysis or lead generation, enabling decisions and strategic insights.
Gather product prices
Pull asking prices across Craigslist for-sale categories to track regional pricing variance and spot underpriced listings for resale research.
Monitor jobs and gigs
Pull Craigslist jobs and gigs postings across cities and categories. Useful for labor-market research, freelance-rate benchmarking, or job-aggregator feeds.
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How Craigslist Ad API works
Manually collecting data from Craigslist Ad is slow, limited and hard to scale. That's why more and more teams choose our API.
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Install our Python SDK (or Node, Go, PHP, Ruby - pick your stack). Pulling Craigslist ads becomes a single function call per page. No proxy rotation, no headless Chrome to manage.
Send the Craigslist URL with your API key as a parameter. Our renderer executes the page in a real browser, rotates the IP, and returns the response your scraper can act on.
When scraping Craigslist ads needs more, gain advanced parameters. render_js for JavaScript, stealth_proxy for CAPTCHAs, country_code for geo-targeting, ai_extract_rules for natural-language data extraction.
Craigslist Ad Scraper API - Built for Listing Detail
Pull Craigslist ad pages at scale. Title, price, description, photos, location, posting date, and category-specific attributes all parse in one call.
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Use our API to capture screenshots of Craigslist ads, enabling you to efficiently monitor and analyze your advertising strategies.
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What Each Craigslist Ad Returns
Every Craigslist ad page returns title, asking price, description body, posting date, location, photo URLs, and the category-specific attribute set (mileage for cars, beds/baths for housing, etc.).
Setup in Under Five Minutes
Clear examples in Python, Node.js, cURL, and the request builder. Copy the snippet, swap in your API key, send the request.
DocumentationFrom Ad URL to Listing JSON
Send the ad URL to our endpoint. The API renders the page, extracts title, price, description body, posting date, location, photos, and category-specific attributes, and returns a single structured object per posting.
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Why ScrapingBee?
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ScrapingBee does not collect or store personal data from scraped sites unless their user explicitly requests it.
CAPTCHA bypass capacity
We handle proxy rotation to avoid IP-based blocking. With headless browser rendering, we mimic real user browsing behaviour and reduce the blocking risk.
Scalable
The platform scales smoothly with thousands of headless browsers and rotating proxies, ensuring fast, reliable performance even during traffic spikes.
Speed and accuracy
We deliver fast, reliable results in 1-5 seconds with high accuracy across most sites, even JavaScript-heavy ones.
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