Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper

🔎 What is the Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper?

Ebay-Kleinanzeigen is a classified advertising platform in Germany. It is one of the largest classified advertising websites in Germany, with millions of ads posted daily.

The Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper is a web scraping tool that allows you to scrape Ebay-Kleinanzeigen search results. This actor uses the provided search query to fetch relevant listings and extracts specific fields of interest.

🧾 What data can the Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper extract?

The Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper can extract the following data from Ebay-Kleinanzeigen search results:

• URL
• Price
• Description
• Images
• Location

💼 What use cases does the Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper support?

The Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper is a web scraping tool used for collecting data from classified ads on Germany's largest classified advertising website. It allows users to scrape data like title, price, location, date of posting, condition, mileage, or other details based on the user’s need and according to predefined queries.

Use Cases:

• Market Research: The tool can be used for conducting market research by scraping ad data from Ebay-Kleinanzeigen to understand what's currently trending, where your competitors are focusing their efforts, etc. This information can be useful in making business decisions.
• Price Comparisons: It can help users compare prices of similar items or services across different regions on the website.
• Inventory Management: With data scraped from Ebay-Kleinanzeigen, businesses can keep track of their inventory and manage when to take actions like buying, selling, or delaying based on the information available in the ads.
• Price Optimization: By understanding how certain items or services are priced relative to one another, business owners can optimize their pricing strategy.
• Competitor Analysis: Businesses can use this tool to analyze competitors' advertising activities and price strategies. This includes understanding how they advertise their products/services on Ebay-Kleinanzeigen and what target demographics they are likely focusing on.
• Training & Development: It serves as a great tool for training purposes where one can learn about web scraping, HTML parsing, REST API usage, etc., before applying them in real-life projects.

📖 How to use the Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper?

1. Create a free Apify account
2. Open Ebay-Kleinanzeigen Scraper
3. Add either a search URL or a search query
4. Click Start and wait for the results
5. Download the results in JSON, XML, or CSV format or connect the actor to your backend via API

📥 Input

To run the actor, simply enter either a:

• Search URL: The URL of the search you want to scrape (e.g., https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-berlin/basecap/k0l3331)
• Search Query: The name of the object you want to search for (e.g., Basecap)
• Maximum number of items: The maximum number of items to scrape. The actor will stop when it reaches this limit (e.g., 10)
• Proxy configuration: Choose between default proxy settings, Apify's RESIDENTIAL proxy, or a custom proxy URL

You can customize the search further by using a startURL from a search you did directly on Ebay-Kleinanzeigen. This will also allow you to filter based on location. If you enter both a start URL and a search query, the actor will perform both actions.

📤 Output

The results are stored in the default dataset associated with the actor. Each item is an ad, having the following format:

1{
2  "url": "https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/haibike-allmtn-3-1125-wh-nyon2-29-27-5-zoll-fully-41/2970695438-217-8202",
3  "price": "2.700 € VB",
4  "description": "Ich verkaufe mein 3 Jahre altes Haibike AllMtn 3 in Größe S. Das Bike befindet sich in Top Zustand und ist perfekt für anspruchsvolle Touren und Trails geeignet...",
5  "images": [
6    "https://img.kleinanzeigen.de/api/v1/prod-ads/images/75/75693f47-8cd7-40b2-b9a1-0e0582f25db3?rule=\$_59.AUTO",
7    "https://img.kleinanzeigen.de/api/v1/prod-ads/images/cb/cbcd28ea-747a-4119-9a9e-aeebbf80f2f3?rule=\$_59.AUTO"
8  ],
9  "location": "72793 Baden-Württemberg - Pfullingen"
10}