Craigslist Scraper
Spider read craigslist.org in 111 ms without a browser and returned 871 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "craigslist sites worldwide", "Oklahoma" and "Oregon".
# craigslist sites worldwide#### Oklahoma#### Oregon#### Pennsylvania#### Rhode Island#### South Carolina#### South Dakota#### Tennessee#### Texas#### Utah#### Vermont#### Virginia#### Washington#### West Virginia#### Wisconsin#### Wyoming#### Territories## Canada#### Alberta#### British Columbia#### Manitoba#### New Brunswick#### Newfoundland and Labrador#### Northwest Territories#### Nova Scotia#### Ontario* kitchener-waterloo-cambridge#### Prince Edward Island#### Quebec#### Saskatchewan#### Yukon Territory## Europe The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on craigslist.org.
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");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close(); 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(); Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What craigslist.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000154 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
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Start scraping craigslist.org.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.