Blocket Ads Scraper

Returns: one row per Blocket ad with id, sourceUrl, title, price, currency, location, sellerType, postedAt. Input: {"queries": ["cykel"], "maxItems": 20, "includeDetails": false} Best for: second-hand price research, newest-ad monitoring feeds, comparing private and business sellers.

{
  "id": "27370404",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.blocket.se/recommerce/forsale/item/27370404",
  "title": "Cykel, ITERA Plastcykel från Vilhelmina Cykelfabrik",
  "price": 500,
  "currency": "SEK",
  "location": "Lycksele",
  "sellerType": "private",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-12T19:43:20.000Z"
}

What does Blocket Ads Scraper do?

Blocket Ads Scraper collects classified ads from the general marketplace (Torget) on Blocket.se, Sweden's largest classifieds site. You give it one or more keywords, an optional category ID, or Blocket search URLs, and it returns one structured record per ad: title, asking price, currency, location, seller type, images, publish time, trade type and, if you ask for details, the description, category path and item condition.

The Actor reads the same JSON search endpoint that the Blocket website uses for its own result pages, so it is fast and does not need a browser. It pages through the results, removes duplicate ads, and stops exactly when your item limit is reached. No login is needed, and the Actor never touches private account data.

Typical uses:

Price research for second-hand goods such as bicycles, sofas, electronics or tools.

Tracking how many ads exist for a keyword, and how asking prices change over time.

Building a feed of newly published ads for a product category, using the newest-first sort order.

Comparing private sellers with businesses for a given item type.

Feeding listings into spreadsheets, dashboards, alerts or AI agents.

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Blocket.

What data can you get?

Every record contains the fields below. Fields marked "details" are filled only when includeDetails is switched on, because they come from the individual ad page.

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Blocket ad ID, unique within a run
sourceUrl	string	URL of the ad page
title	string	Ad heading
price	number	Asking price, null when the ad shows no price
currency	string	Currency code, for example SEK
location	string	Town or area shown on the ad
sellerType	string	private or business
organisationName	string	Business name when the seller is a business
images	array	Image URLs of the ad
latitude	number	Latitude of the ad location as given by Blocket, null if absent
longitude	number	Longitude of the ad location, null if absent
postedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the ad's latest publish time
tradeType	string	Trade type label, for example Säljes (for sale)
description	string	Structured-data description, or page description when structured data is absent (details)
fullDescription	string	Complete public seller description (details); null when unavailable
category	string	Category path, for example Sport och friluftsliv > Cykling > Cyklar (details)
condition	string	Item condition such as New or Used (details)

Some notes on the data:

The seller's personal name is not exposed by the search endpoint, so the Actor only reports whether the seller is private or a business, plus the business name when one is shown.

The existing description field keeps Blocket's structured-data summary, which the site often shortens to roughly 160 characters. When that summary is absent, it falls back to the seller description on the public page. With includeDetails: true, fullDescription contains the complete public seller description, preserving paragraph breaks and decoding HTML entities. It excludes the expand button and accessibility instructions. Both fields are null when the page has no usable description or cannot be fetched. Missing condition and category values remain null; the Actor does not infer them from the description.

Ads without a price, for example ads marked as free or "contact seller", return null for price and currency.

The postedAt value is derived from the timestamp that Blocket returns in the search response.

How to use Blocket Ads Scraper

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Enter one or more keywords in Search keywords, for example cykel or soffa.
3. Optionally add a Category ID to narrow the search, or paste Blocket search URLs into Start URLs.
4. Optionally set Minimum price, Maximum price and Seller type. Choose a Sort order and set Max items.
5. Switch on Include ad details if you need description, category and condition.
6. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

A search shows at most about 50 pages of roughly 50 ads each. To collect more than that for a broad topic, use several keywords or several categories, since every keyword is searched separately and duplicate ads are removed across all of them.

Input

Field	Type	Description
queries	array of strings	Keywords to search, for example cykel. Required unless you give startUrls or a category.
category	string	Optional category ID such as 0.91, 1.91.3108 or 2.91.3108.362. Empty means all categories.
startUrls	array	Search URL objects, e.g. [{"url":"https://www.blocket.se/recommerce/forsale/search?q=cykel"}]. URL parameters supply search filters; item URLs are not detail targets.
location	string	Blocket location ID; empty searches all Sweden. For example, 0.300001 restricts to Stockholm county. A URL location value takes precedence.
publishedToday	boolean	Default false. True uses Blocket’s published-today filter; a URL published=1 enables it and another explicit value disables it.
minPrice	integer	Optional lower price limit in SEK, applied by Blocket's search. Also read from price_from in a start URL.
maxPrice	integer	Optional upper price limit in SEK. Also read from price_to in a start URL.
sellerType	string	any (default), private or business. Applied after fetching, so a rare seller type may need more pages.
sort	string	RELEVANCE (default), PRICE_ASC, PRICE_DESC or PUBLISHED_DESC.
maxItems	integer	Maximum ads to save in total, 1 to 5000, default 50.
includeDetails	boolean	Fetch each ad page for description, category and condition. Default false.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. No proxy by default; the Actor falls back to a datacenter proxy if direct requests are blocked.

The item limit is shared across all queries and URLs, with duplicate IDs saved once. URL location, published-today and price filters override the matching input options; an absent URL sort uses sort. If no results are saved, try broader keywords, clear the category or price bounds, set sellerType to any, or supply a Torget search URL. For repeated HTTP blocks, configure proxyConfiguration and retry. An unavailable detail page leaves its detail fields null.

Example input:

{
  "queries": ["cykel"],
  "sort": "PUBLISHED_DESC",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Category IDs follow Blocket's own hierarchy: IDs starting with 0. are top-level categories, 1. are sub categories and 2. are product categories. You can find an ID by applying a category filter on Blocket.se and reading the category parameter in the address bar, then pasting that URL into Start URLs.

For a regional monitoring feed, use {"queries":["cykel"],"location":"0.300001","publishedToday":true,"sort":"PUBLISHED_DESC","maxItems":20}. Location IDs come from the Blocket Torget search filters and can identify counties or more specific areas. Copy the location parameter from a search URL to use the same area in an API request. This filter runs on the source before pagination, so other regions do not consume your result limit.

The published-today option uses the website’s own date boundary. It does not mean the preceding 24 hours, and it does not remember a previous run or identify only unseen ads between runs. Keep the id and postedAt columns in your downstream system if you want to compare scheduled runs. A narrow region combined with a date filter may legitimately have no matching ads; widen the region or disable the date filter in that case. Both options work with the existing category, price and seller filters, and neither adds detail-page requests.

Output

Each ad becomes one dataset item. Here is a real example from a run with includeDetails enabled:

{
  "id": "26702022",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.blocket.se/recommerce/forsale/item/26702022",
  "title": "CUBE STEREO AMS Hybrid 177 C:62 / Medium, Large / KAMPANJ / EL-Cykel",
  "price": 59900,
  "currency": "SEK",
  "location": "Upplands Väsby",
  "sellerType": "business",
  "organisationName": "Cykelhuset",
  "images": [
    "https://images.blocketcdn.se/dynamic/default/item/26702022/d1338ec2-0a9f-42e7-8bd3-1fc5563e47df"
  ],
  "latitude": 59.5188,
  "longitude": 17.9114,
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T09:45:07.000Z",
  "tradeType": "Säljes",
  "description": "Frame\nframe\nC:62® Monocoque Advanced Twin Mold Technology, Effiecient Trail Control, FSP 4-Link, Agile Trail\n\nSuspension\nSuspension fork\nFox 38 Float Performanc",
  "category": "Sport och friluftsliv > Cykling > Cyklar",
  "condition": "New"
}

The dataset has an overview table view in the Output tab, and you can export it in any format that Apify supports. Items are written as they are scraped, so you can read partial results while a run is still going.

How much does it cost?

The Actor is charged per result: you pay for each ad saved to the dataset, and nothing for ads that are skipped as duplicates. See the Pricing tab of the Actor for the current rate. Because maxItems is enforced exactly, you can cap the cost of any run by setting it to the number of ads you need.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

You can call this Actor from any MCP-compatible AI client through the Apify MCP server. Add it with this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=axiomworks/blocket-ads-scraper"
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

"Find the 30 newest bicycle ads on Blocket and list the cheapest five with their location."

"Search Blocket for 'soffa' and tell me the average asking price for private sellers."

"Get Blocket ads for the keyword 'iPhone 13' sorted by lowest price and show whether each seller is private or a business."

The agent sees the input schema, so it can set queries, sort, maxItems and includeDetails on its own.

Integrations and API

You can start the Actor from code, schedule it, or connect it to other tools with Apify integrations such as webhooks, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets and n8n.

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("axiomworks/blocket-ads-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["cykel"],
    "maxItems": 50,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item["price"], item["currency"])

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('axiomworks/blocket-ads-scraper').call({
    queries: ['cykel'],
    maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
process.stdout.write(`${items.length} ads\n`);

cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/axiomworks~blocket-ads-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["cykel"], "maxItems": 50}'

FAQ

How many ads can I get per keyword? Blocket exposes about 50 pages of roughly 50 ads for each search, so around 2,500 ads per keyword and category combination. Use several keywords or categories to go beyond that.

Does it cover cars, boats, jobs or property? No. Those live on other Blocket verticals. This Actor covers the general marketplace (Torget), where people sell used and new goods.

Why are description, category and condition empty? They come from the individual ad page. Turn on includeDetails to fill them. Condition can still be empty when the seller did not specify one.

Why is the price null for some ads? Some ads are free, offered for exchange or marked as contact-the-seller, and carry no price on the site.

How fast is it? Search pages are requested about once or twice a second. With details enabled, ad pages are requested about once per second to stay polite to the site, so 100 ads with details take a couple of minutes.

What happens with a keyword that has no results? The run finishes without errors, saves nothing for that keyword and writes a warning to the log. Invalid or non-Blocket URLs in Start URLs are skipped with a warning.

What if requests get blocked? Requests that return a block or rate-limit response are retried with increasing delays. If direct requests keep failing, the Actor switches to Apify Proxy automatically. You can also enable Apify Proxy yourself in the input.

Does it work with Swedish keywords? Yes. Search terms are sent as typed, so use Swedish words such as cykel, soffa or begagnad.

Is it legal to scrape Blocket?

The Actor collects only information that any visitor can see without logging in, and it does not access accounts, private messages or personal contact details. Whether a particular use of public data is lawful depends on your country, your purpose and how you handle the data afterwards. Ads can contain personal data such as a location or photos of people, so if you store or share results you should follow data protection rules such as the GDPR, respect the site's terms, keep request volumes modest and avoid republishing content in ways that infringe copyright. If in doubt, ask a lawyer about your specific case. This section is general information and not legal advice.

Feedback

If something is missing, a field looks wrong, or Blocket changes its pages and the Actor stops working, please open an issue from the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console. Include the input you used and the run ID so the problem can be reproduced quickly.