# Zoopla Scraper - UK Property Prices & Listings, No API Key (`cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Zoopla for-sale listings without an API key: asking price, beds, baths and address as structured JSON. Pay per result, no monthly fee.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Web Data Labs](https://apify.com/cryptosignals) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 7 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.6% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 result scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Zoopla UK Property Scraper

Scrape **Zoopla.co.uk** — one of the UK's largest property portals — for properties **for sale** or **to rent** in any UK location.

Get clean, structured listing data: price, address, bedrooms, property type, agent name, and more. Useful for property analytics, lead generation, market research, mortgage/letting tools, and AI agents that need real UK property data.

### What you get

For every listing in your search:

- `listing_id` — Zoopla unique identifier
- `title` — property headline
- `price` — sale price or rent (per month / per week)
- `property_type` — flat, terraced house, detached, studio, etc.
- `bedrooms` / `bathrooms`
- `address` + `outcode` — UK outward postcode (district) as shown on Zoopla, e.g. `SW2`
- `listing_type` — `for_sale` or `to_rent`
- `listing_url` — direct link to the Zoopla listing page
- `thumbnail_url`
- `agent_name` — listing branch/agent
- `description` — short blurb
- `scraped_at` — ISO timestamp

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `location` | string | `london` | UK location slug (e.g. `london`, `manchester`, `edinburgh`, `bristol`) |
| `listing_type` | enum | `for_sale` | `for_sale` or `to_rent` |
| `max_results` | integer | `50` | How many listings to return |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify RESIDENTIAL group | Optional — Zoopla Cloudflare-challenges datacenter IPs, so residential is the default. Override with another group or your own proxies. |

Example input:

```json
{
  "location": "manchester",
  "listing_type": "to_rent",
  "max_results": 100
}
```

### Sample output

```json
{
  "listing_id": "65432109",
  "title": "2 bed flat for sale",
  "price": "£425,000",
  "property_type": "Flat",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "address": "Canary Wharf, London E14",
  "outcode": "E14",
  "listing_type": "for_sale",
  "listing_url": "https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/65432109/",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://lid.zoocdn.com/u/645/430/65432109_full.jpg",
  "agent_name": "Foxtons",
  "description": "Stunning 2-bedroom apartment with river views...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-01T10:15:30.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

**Pay per result** — only pay for listings you actually receive.

- **5 free results** per run on the free Apify plan — try it before you buy.
- After that, **$0.005 per listing** (activates 2026-05-17).

Run a 1,000-listing scrape for around **$5** of compute charges.

### Why Zoopla?

Zoopla is the UK's #2 property portal, used by millions of buyers, renters, and agents. It covers nearly every UK postcode and updates listings continuously. If you're building anything UK-property-related, you need this data.

### Tips

- Use UK city or town names as the `location` slug (lowercase, hyphenated for multi-word locations like `milton-keynes`).
- For best results on rent searches, set `listing_type: "to_rent"`.
- Need broader coverage? Combine multiple runs by location.
- Default proxy is the Apify RESIDENTIAL group — Zoopla Cloudflare-challenges datacenter IPs. Set `proxyConfiguration` to override.

### Other UK property scrapers

Need broader UK property coverage? Try our [Rightmove Scraper](https://apify.com/cryptosignals/rightmove-scraper) too.

### Notes

- We respect Zoopla's rate limits — runs are paced conservatively.
- Use the data responsibly and in line with applicable laws (GDPR / data-protection rules, terms of use of the source site, etc.).

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `location` (type: `string`):

UK location slug (e.g. 'london', 'manchester', 'edinburgh').

## `listing_type` (type: `string`):

Properties for sale or to rent.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to scrape.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Defaults to the Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy group (Zoopla Cloudflare-challenges datacenter IPs). Choose another group or your own proxies to override.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "london",
  "listing_type": "for_sale",
  "max_results": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cryptosignals/zoopla-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/EaVh1KKoZ92cbEjMn/builds/VhdOaeSRteHPamfZU/openapi.json