Ricardo.ch Listings Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Ricardo.ch is Switzerland's #1 auction and classifieds marketplace, and its search-results page (/de/s/<slug>) is the entry point for browsing any category or free-text query — laptops, bikes, watches, whatever buyers are searching for. This Actor drives that same search endpoint and returns every listing it finds as one clean row: title, price in CHF, listing URL, image, and a stable numeric listing ID, deduplicated across pages.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, rotated browser impersonation on every retry.
• 🧩 One search, two wire formats handled — Ricardo.ch ships page 1 and page 2+ differently under the hood; we normalize both into the same clean row shape.
• 🫠 A single unparsable page never fails the run — logged and pagination stops cleanly, the rest of your data still ships.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, deduplicated by listing ID, ISO-8601 timestamps, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for listings actually returned; a zero-match search costs nothing beyond the warm-up fee.

💡 Use cases

• Price monitoring — track how a category's listings and asking prices shift week to week.
• Resale sourcing — scan a category or keyword for underpriced listings worth flipping.
• Market research — build a dataset of live CHF pricing across Ricardo.ch categories.
• Feed a spreadsheet or BI tool with structured Swiss marketplace data, no manual copy-paste.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
search_slug	string	no	'laptop'	The path segment after /de/s/ on Ricardo.ch — a category or free-text search term (e.g. laptop, velo).
max_pages	integer	no	2	Hard cap on pages fetched. Keep at 2 or higher to exercise both of Ricardo.ch's listing formats.
max_results	integer	no	100	Hard cap on dataset rows returned across all pages.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': False}	Ricardo.ch's public search page is keyless with no anti-bot surface observed. Leave this off unless your account…

Example input

{
  "search_slug": "laptop",
  "max_pages": 2,
  "max_results": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
listing_id	string	Numeric id trailing the listing URL (e.g. "1321416530").
title	string	Listing name/title.
price	number	Asking/current price. Null when unparsable (e.g. "Preis auf Anfrage").
currency	string	Always "CHF" for Ricardo.ch.
listing_url	string	Absolute URL to the listing detail page.
image_url	string	Primary listing image, when present.
search_slug	string	The input slug this row was found under.
page	integer	1-based page number this row was scraped from.
source_format	string	Which parser produced this row: json_ld (page 1) or react_flight (page 2+).
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of this fetch.

Example output

{
  "listing_id": "1321416530",
  "title": "POWERHOUSE MacBook Pro 16Zoll/M4 Pro/2 TB SSD/24 GB RAM",
  "price": 2800.0,
  "currency": "CHF",
  "listing_url": "https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/powerhouse-macbook-pro-16zoll-m4-pro-2-tb-ssd-24-gb-ram-1321416530/",
  "image_url": "https://ricardo-images.example/1321416530.jpg",
  "search_slug": "laptop",
  "page": 1,
  "source_format": "json_ld",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-20T00:00:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.2	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.004	Per unique dataset item

Example: 1 000 listings at the rates above ≈ $4.20. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

• Search-results fields only — no detail-page enrichment (seller info, bid history, full description) in this version.
• No auction end-time or bid-count fields — not published on the search-results page.
• German-language /de/s/ search path only; French/Italian locale paths are out of scope.
• Any endpoint requiring login (watchlist, bids, messaging) is out of scope.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Ricardo.ch account or login?

No. This Actor reads only the public search-results page — no login, no auth header, no cookie session required.

What happens if my search slug has no listings?

The run succeeds with zero rows and a status message naming the slug searched — no placeholder rows, no failed run.

Which locale does this cover?

The German-language /de/s/ search path only. French (/fr/s/) and Italian (/it/s/) locales are not covered in this version.

Does this scrape the full listing detail page?

Not in this version — you get everything the search-results page publishes (title, price, URL, image, listing ID). Seller info, bid history, and full descriptions may land in a future version.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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