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Pull flatshare and room-rental listings from SpareRoom across the UK and US — rent and deposit, move-in dates, room and property details, neighbourhood and map coordinates, amenities, advertiser profiles, and full photo galleries. Covers all three SpareRoom ad types: rooms for rent, room-wanted, and buddy-up. Built for renters, relocation teams, lettings agents, and property-market researchers who need structured SpareRoom data without copy-pasting listings one ad at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• All three SpareRoom ad types — rooms for rent (offered), room-wanted, and buddy-up, each with the right fields: property attributes for landlords' ads, seeker attributes for people-looking ads.
• Dual UK + US coverage in one actor — spareroom.co.uk and spareroom.com from a single run, with prices returned in the listing's own currency (GBP or USD) and a region selector for ambiguous locations.
• Just paste a postcode, ZIP, or city — start from a plain location like E1, SW1, 90210, or Los Angeles; no need to hand-build a search URL. Full SpareRoom search and listing URLs are accepted too.
• Five room-type filters — single, double, en-suite, studio, and whole-property, applied at the source so you only pay for the rooms you want.
• Rent banding and move-in date filters — set a minimum and maximum monthly rent (pcm) and an "available from" date to narrow to rooms that fit a real tenancy window.
• Full per-listing detail by default — every row comes with the complete description, deposit, amenities, move-in date, and tenant preferences, not just the search-card summary. No toggle to flip.
• Map-ready geocoordinates on every listing — exact latitude and longitude, plus neighbourhood, postcode/ZIP, and nearest-station walk times for mapping and commute analysis.
• Full photo galleries on demand — flip one switch to pull every gallery image per listing instead of just the cover photo.
• Advertiser and seeker intelligence — advertiser name, type (private / agent / live-in landlord) and verified badge on offered ads; gender-and-occupation seeker profiles and rooms-sought counts on room-wanted and buddy-up ads.
• Tenancy preference details — couples-OK, pets, smoking, DSS/benefits accepted, minimum term, and age preferences captured straight from each listing.

Use Cases

Renter & Flatmate Search

• Sweep every room in a postcode area or city under your monthly budget
• Filter to en-suite or studio rooms available from your move-in date
• Build a shortlist of verified advertisers before sending a single enquiry
• Compare cover photos and rent across neighbourhoods at a glance

Relocation Research

• Map available rooms by latitude/longitude around a new office or campus
• Compare typical rents across UK postcode areas or US cities before a move
• Surface rooms with short nearest-station walk times for an easy commute
• Pull US and UK markets side by side for cross-border relocation

Lettings & Property Market Research

• Track room supply and asking rents by area over time
• Benchmark rents by room type — single vs double vs en-suite vs studio
• Measure agent vs private-landlord share of listings in a market
• Monitor deposit levels and bills-included offers across a city

Lead Generation

• Build advertiser contact lists from offered ads in target areas
• Identify room-wanted and buddy-up seekers for matchmaking services
• Find live-in landlords and lettings agents actively posting rooms
• Spot newly posted and featured listings the moment they appear

Price & Demand Analysis

• Analyse rent distribution per area, room type, and rental period
• Compare advertised rents against deposit and bills-included terms
• Track how move-in dates cluster across a season
• Feed pricing dashboards with fresh per-listing rent data

Getting Started

Search by Location

The simplest run — a single UK postcode area, default filters:

{
"searchUrls":["E1"]
}

Filtered Search

A budget-bounded search for double or en-suite rooms with a move-in date:

{
"searchUrls":["SW1"],
"adType":"offered",
"roomTypes":["double","ensuite"],
"rentMin":800,
"rentMax":1500,
"availableFrom":"2026-09-01",
"maxResults":200
}

Full Galleries, US Region, and Pasted URLs

A US search with full photo galleries plus a pasted SpareRoom listing URL:

{
"searchUrls":[
"Los Angeles",
"https://www.spareroom.com/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=18234567"
],
"region":"us",
"includePhotos":true,
"maxResults":100
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Build a Search

These filters apply when you provide a plain location. They are ignored when you paste full SpareRoom URLs.

Price & Availability

Limits

Output

Every listing is one flat row, with the full per-listing detail — description, latitude/longitude, amenities, deposit, advertiser profile, move-in date, and tenant preferences — populated by default on every result. Turn on includePhotos to also include the complete photo gallery. The two ad types return materially different shapes — examples for each follow.

Rooms for Rent (offered)

{
"id":"18234567",
"url":"https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=18234567",
"adType":"offered",
"title":"Bright double room in Shoreditch flatshare",
"description":"Spacious double room in a friendly 3-bed flat, two minutes from the station...",
"status":"active",
"isNew":true,
"isFeatured":false,
"rent":1100,
"rentPeriod":"per month",
"currency":"GBP",
"billsIncluded":true,
"deposit":1100,
"availableFrom":"2026-09-01",
"minTerm":"6 months",
"propertyType":"Flat",
"roomsInProperty":3,
"occupants":2,
"furnishings":"Furnished",
"area":"Shoreditch",
"postcode":"E1",
"latitude":51.5246,
"longitude":-0.0786,
"nearestStation":{"name":"Shoreditch High Street","minutes":3,"mode":"walk"},
"amenities":{"Broadband":"Yes","Living room":"Yes","Parking":"No"},
"couplesAllowed":false,
"petsAllowed":false,
"smokingAllowed":false,
"genderPreference":"No preference",
"advertiserName":"Sarah",
"advertiserType":"Live-in landlord",
"advertiserVerified":true,
"coverImage":"https://photos.spareroom.co.uk/.../large/image1.jpg",
"photoCount":8,
"photos":[{"url":"https://photos.spareroom.co.uk/.../large/image1.jpg","caption":null}],
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-13T09:30:00Z"
}

Room Wanted / Buddy Up (seeker)

{
"id":"9912345",
"url":"https://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatmate/flatmate_detail.pl?flatshare_id=9912345",
"adType":"wanted",
"title":"Young professional looking for a double room in East London",
"rent":900,
"rentPeriod":"per month",
"currency":"GBP",
"area":"East London",
"roomsSought":"Double",
"roomsSoughtCount":1,
"seekerProfile":"Female, professional",
"advertiserVerified":true,
"coverImage":"https://photos.spareroom.co.uk/.../large/image1.jpg",
"photoCount":1,
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-13T09:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields (all listings)

Pricing & Terms (offered)

Property & Location (offered)

Tenant Preferences (offered)

Advertiser & Photos

Seeker Fields (wanted / buddy up)

Tips for Best Results

• Start with a small maxResults — run 25–50 first to confirm the area and filters return what you expect, then scale up.
• Full detail comes by default — description, deposit, amenities, exact latitude/longitude, advertiser, and tenant preferences are on every row. Turn on includePhotos only if you also need the complete photo gallery for each listing.
• Use a plain postcode area, not a wide region — E1 or SW1 scopes tightly to that area; a vague term returns a broader, less relevant set.
• Set the region explicitly for US ZIPs and city names — choose United States so a numeric ZIP or a US city name resolves to spareroom.com rather than being read as UK.
• Match adType to your goal — use offered for room supply and rents, wanted and buddy-up for demand-side and matchmaking research.
• Mix locations and URLs in one run — combine several postcode areas, cities, and pasted listing URLs in a single searchUrls list to gather everything at once.
• Filter rent at the source — set rentMin/rentMax rather than collecting everything and filtering later, so every result already fits your budget band.

Pricing

From $0.85 per 1,000 results — undercuts the typical SpareRoom data tool while covering both UK and US in one run. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

A "result" is one listing row in your output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate room-rental research, relocation planning, and market analysis. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and SpareRoom's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and handle any personal data (such as advertiser names) responsibly and in line with privacy regulations.