gumtree

Search Gumtree UK listings

Returns Gumtree UK classifieds matching a keyword, about 22 per page, each with ad id, title, price in GBP, location, category, seller type (private or trade), image, and listing URL. Pass a gumtree.com/search URL as url to replay an existing web search (location slugs default to a 15-mile radius unless the URL carries a distance). Price, seller_type, and attributes filters only apply when category_id is also set. Paginate with page or the universal cursor until hasNextPage is false. Feed a returned ad id into GET /v1/gumtree/product for the full listing.

get/gumtree/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1
  • URL: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/gumtree/search
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

querystring

Free-text listing search, for example iphone or golf mk7 diesel. (one of: query, url; at least one required)

urlstring

A Gumtree web search URL, for example https://www.gumtree.com/search?q=iphone&search_location=london. Keyword, category, location, and price filters on the URL are parsed server-side. (one of: query, url; at least one required)

pageinteger

Page number, starting at 1. Prefer the universal cursor parameter. Native upstream cursor param. Send the universal cursor instead: the API maps it to this name for you.

sort_by'relevance' | 'newest' | 'price_low' | 'price_high'

Result ordering: relevance (default), newest, price_low, or price_high.

category_idstring

Gumtree category id or SEO slug from GET /v1/gumtree/categories or search/suggestions. Required for price, seller_type, and attributes filters to take effect.

location_idstring

Gumtree location id from GET /v1/gumtree/locations or locations/nearest.

distance'0' | '1' | '3' | '5' | '10' | '15' | '30' | '50' | '75' | '100' | '150' | '250' | '500' | 'nationwide'

Search radius in miles around location_id. Ignored without a location_id. nationwide searches the whole UK.

min_pricestring

Lowest asking price in GBP. Requires category_id. Filter on product.price.current if you need a hard bound.

max_pricestring

Highest asking price in GBP. Requires category_id.

seller_type'private' | 'trade'

Restrict to private (individual) or trade (dealer) sellers. Requires category_id.

attributesstring

Category-specific filters as comma-separated name:value pairs from GET /v1/gumtree/filters, for example common_for_sale_condition:new,vehicle_make:audi. Requires category_id.

cursorstring

Universal pagination cursor. Send pagination.next_cursor from the previous response back verbatim: the API maps it to this endpoint's native page (page style). You never construct, decode, or look up a cursor. Omit it for page 1.

Headers

Cache-Controlstring

Send no-cache to bypass the response cache and force a live fetch. Billed at the normal endpoint cost; the fresh result is written back to cache for the next caller. Only the no-cache directive triggers this. See the Response Schema guide for details.

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional UUID that makes the request safely retriable. The key is reserved atomically per account before billing. A concurrent retry receives 409 IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS with a Retry-After of 1 second while the original is young, growing to a quarter of the time it has been running (at most 30); a crashed reservation expires after 5 minutes. A replay keeps the cached payload immutable except for billing metadata: credits_used becomes 0, idempotent_replay becomes true, and credits_remaining is refreshed to the current balance. A known current balance appears in both the body and X-Credits-Remaining header; no balance row resolves to 0. On a transient lookup failure, body credits_remaining is null and X-Credits-Remaining is omitted. Completed outcomes expire after 24 hours. If the claim store is unavailable, the request fails closed before billing. GET endpoints do not combine idempotent replay with Server-Sent Events: use Accept: application/json when sending this header. The unsupported key-plus-SSE combination is rejected before billing.

Response

Successful response

successboolean required

Whether the request succeeded

platformstring required

Platform name

endpointstring required

API endpoint path

credits_usedinteger required

Number of credits consumed

credits_remaininginteger nullable required

Current account balance, or null when this response could not establish one. Free cache hits always return null because they do not establish an authoritative post-request balance. An idempotency replay also returns null when its current-balance lookup fails. It is never a fabricated zero, so a zero here means the account really is empty. The authoritative reading is the one on a billed response, which comes straight from the deduction.

request_idstring required

Unique request identifier for support

cachedboolean required

Whether the response was served from cache

idempotent_replayboolean

True only when this response is an idempotency replay

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "gumtree",
  "endpoint": "/v1/gumtree/search",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "request_id": "req-abc123",
  "idempotent_replay": true,
  "meta": {
    "hint": {
      "code": "search_multi",
      "message": "You searched \"matcha\" on 3 platforms one call at a time; /v1/search/multi returns each platform's own search rows in one call at the same price per platform, and a platform with no rows is not charged.",
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/v1/search/multi?query=matcha&platforms=instagram,tiktok,youtube"
    }
  },
  "pagination": {
    "next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMiIsInAiOiJwYWdlIn0",
    "has_more": true,
    "page_size": 30,
    "stopped_at": "known_id"
  }
}

Changes

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