/craigslist/postings/counts

POST /api/craigslist/postings/counts

Price: 1 credit

Count how many Craigslist postings match a query in each category of a regional site, without downloading the postings themselves.

How to use it

Get posting counts for one Craigslist area without downloading postings. Without a keyword it returns one row per top-level section (for sale, housing, services, jobs, community, gigs, resumes, events); with a keyword it returns the matches broken down by the categories inside `category`. Each row has alias, label and posting_count. Use it to size a market or pick the right category before calling craigslist/postings/search.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• area string required — Area alias of the regional Craigslist site to count in, from craigslist/areas (examples: "sfbay", "newyork"; minLength: 1)
• keyword string nullable — Free-text search query to count matches for
• category string — Category alias to scope the counts to, from craigslist/categories (default: "sss"; examples: "sss")

Response

• @type string (default: "CraigslistPostingCount")
• alias string required
• label string nullable
• posting_count integer (default: 0)

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.