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🌍 Numbeo Cost of Living Scraper

🚀 Collect cost of living data for 500+ cities and 150+ countries. Get price indices, individual item prices, and city-to-city comparisons. Covers rent, groceries, restaurants, transport, and utilities. No coding required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-16 · 📊 6 index types · 🏙️ 500+ cities · 🌐 150+ countries · 🛒 55+ price items per city

The Numbeo Cost of Living Scraper collects living cost indices for 500+ cities and 150+ countries, plus detailed prices for 55+ everyday items in any city worldwide. It supports four scraping modes: city rankings, country rankings, city prices, and city-to-city comparisons.

Whether you are a researcher analyzing global living costs, a digital nomad comparing destinations, or a business benchmarking employee relocation packages, this tool delivers structured cost of living data ready for analysis.

📋 What the Numbeo Scraper does

• 🏙️ City rankings. Compare 500+ cities by cost of living, rent, groceries, restaurants, and purchasing power indices.
• 🌐 Country rankings. Compare 150+ countries using the same six standardized indices.
• 🛒 City prices. Get 55+ individual item prices for any city (meals, groceries, transport, utilities, rent).
• ⚖️ City comparison. Side-by-side price comparison between any two cities worldwide.
• 📊 Six index types. Cost of Living, Rent, CoL+Rent, Groceries, Restaurant Price, Local Purchasing Power.
• 💱 Local currency. Prices returned in local currency with currency symbol included.

Each record includes a scraped-at timestamp for time-series analysis.

💡 Why it matters: manually comparing living costs across dozens of cities and countries means browsing scattered data tables one at a time. This Actor exports structured, indexed cost of living data in seconds.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough.

⚙️ Input

Example: global city cost of living rankings.

{
"mode":"rankings",
"maxItems":50
}

Example: individual prices in Tokyo.

{
"mode":"cityPrices",
"city":"Tokyo",
"maxItems":60
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are limited to 10 items per run. City names use the URL-friendly format (e.g., "New-York", "Buenos-Aires", "Ho-Chi-Minh-City"). Use rankings mode first to see all available city names.

📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Rankings mode:

City Prices mode:

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📊 6 standardized indices using New York City as the baseline (index = 100) for consistent global comparison.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Numbeo Scraper page on Apify.
3. 🎯 Set input. Choose a mode (rankings, country rankings, city prices, or compare).
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and get results in seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 2 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating Numbeo Scraper

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - Automate cost of living tracking
• Zapier - Connect 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• GitHub - Trigger from commits
• Google Drive - Export to Sheets

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with Numbeo.com or any of its subsidiaries. Only publicly available data is collected.