Craigslist Scraper

Extract classified listings, pricing, location data, and seller contact info from Craigslist across all categories and regions. Built on spider-browser .

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target
craigslist.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/craigslist.org/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/craigslist.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://craigslist.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "listing_title": "string",
    "price": "string",
    "location": "string",
    "post_date": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "images": "string"
  }
}

# Craigslist Scraper

**Listing title**: string
**Price**: string
**Location**: string
**Post date**: string
**Description**: string
**Images**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from craigslist.org with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

craigslist-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=bicycle");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const items = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".cl-static-search-result").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const price = el.querySelector(".price")?.textContent?.trim();
    const location = el.querySelector(".location")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) items.push({ title, price, location });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: items.length, items: items.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/craigslist.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/craigslist.org/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/craigslist.org/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);