A powerful scraper designed to collect detailed real estate listings from Onthemarket, including sale and rental properties across the UK. It automates full property extraction, monitors new listings, and helps identify delisted properties with high reliability and precision.
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The Onthemarket Scraper extracts structured, high-quality real estate data from Onthemarket. It solves the challenge of collecting property listings at scale by providing automated crawling, incremental monitoring, and delisting detection. It’s built for analysts, property intelligence platforms, real estate companies, and developers who need reliable UK housing market data.
- Handles millions of property listings with stable pagination crawling.
- Supports both full data extraction and incremental monitoring.
- Automatically identifies newly added and delisted properties.
- Produces clean, ready-to-use structured data.
- Exports all data in multiple formats such as JSON, CSV, Excel, and more.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Full Listings Scrape | Crawls all pagination pages to collect complete data from any search results page. |
| Incremental Monitoring | Detects only newly added listings when monitoring mode is enabled. |
| Delisting Tracker | Tracks last-seen timestamps to identify properties that disappear from the platform. |
| Flexible Input | Accepts both listing URLs and direct property URLs. |
| Deduplication | Automatically removes overlapping results during a single run. |
| Multi-format Output | Supports JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and other standard export formats. |
| Field Name | Field Description |
|---|---|
| id | Unique property identifier. |
| url | URL of the property details page. |
| title | Property listing title. |
| displayAddress | Full display address. |
| locality | Local area or neighborhood. |
| bathrooms | Number of bathrooms. |
| bedrooms | Number of bedrooms. |
| postcode | Postal code. |
| agent | Name of listing agent or agency. |
| agentPhone | Contact number of agent or agency. |
| propertyType | Category such as flat, house, semi-detached, etc. |
| price | Primary listed price. |
| secondaryPrice | Secondary or alternative pricing. |
| furnishing | Furnishing status (furnished/unfurnished). |
| coordinates | Latitude and longitude of the property. |
| type | Sale or rent classification. |
| summary | Short summary of the property. |
| features | Key features or amenities list. |
| keyInfo | Additional metadata such as taxes or fees. |
| description | Full text property description. |
| descriptionHtml | HTML formatted description. |
| images | List of image URLs. |
| schools | Nearby school details and distances. |
| listing date | Date property was added. |
| size | Property size where available. |
| reduced | Whether the price was reduced. |
| daysSinceAdded | Days since property first appeared. |
{
"id": "11192001",
"url": "https://www.onthemarket.com/details/11192001/",
"title": "3 bedroom semi-detached house to rent",
"displayAddress": "Morford Street, Bath",
"locality": "Bath",
"bathrooms": 3,
"bedrooms": 3,
"postcode": "W11 2L",
"agent": "Wrights Residential - Trowbridge",
"agentPhone": "01225 616858",
"propertyType": "Semi-detached house",
"price": "£2,220 pcm",
"secondaryPrice": "£512 pw",
"furnishing": "Unfurnished",
"coordinates": { "latitude": 51.388222, "longitude": -2.36315 },
"type": "rent",
"summary": "PETS CONSIDERED! This three bedroom townhouse is situated within easy reach of Bath city centre...",
"features": ["Garage", "Enclosed rear garden", "Open plan kitchen"],
"keyInfo": [{ "title": "Council tax", "value": "Unconfirmed" }],
"description": "Full detailed description text...",
"descriptionHtml": "HTML formatted description...",
"images": ["https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/..."],
"schools": [
{ "name": "St Andrew's Church School", "distance": "0.2mi." }
]
}
Onthemarket Scraper/
├── src/
│ ├── main.js
│ ├── crawler/
│ │ ├── listingExtractor.js
│ │ ├── propertyExtractor.js
│ │ └── paginationHandler.js
│ ├── utils/
│ │ ├── dedupe.js
│ │ ├── monitor.js
│ │ └── delistingTracker.js
│ └── config/
│ └── settings.example.json
├── data/
│ ├── sample-listing.json
│ └── inputs.example.json
├── package.json
└── README.md
- Real estate analysts use it to gather complete property datasets so they can track pricing trends and market shifts.
- Property investment platforms use it to monitor new listings in specific regions to power buyer alerts.
- Housing research teams use it to maintain up-to-date datasets for long-term studies of the UK housing market.
- Developers & data engineers use it to automate structured data ingestion for downstream analytics pipelines.
- Real estate agencies use it to benchmark competitors and inventory density in target localities.
Q: Can it scrape more than 1,000 results from a single search page? A: Onthemarket limits each search to 1,000 results. To bypass this, break the search into smaller geographical queries; the scraper will deduplicate overlapping listings automatically.
Q: How does monitoring mode work? A: Monitoring mode compares current results to previous runs and returns only newly added listings—perfect for incremental updates.
Q: How can I detect delisted properties? A: The scraper tracks last-seen timestamps for each property. If a property hasn’t been updated in the latest run, it’s considered delisted.
Q: Do I need to provide both list URLs and property URLs? A: No. You can supply either search result URLs (listUrls) or direct property URLs (propertyUrls).
Primary Metric: Processes an average of 3,000–5,000 listings per minute during full scrape mode under typical network conditions.
Reliability Metric: Maintains a 98%+ success rate in extracting complete property records across diverse regions and listing types.
Efficiency Metric: Optimized pagination handling reduces redundant requests, achieving up to 40% lower bandwidth usage compared to naïve crawlers.
Quality Metric: Delivers 99% field completeness for standard property attributes and high precision in location and pricing fields.
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