# OpenSooq Scraper — Middle East cars, property & classifieds (`boliveira/opensooq-listings`) Actor

Scrape OpenSooq classifieds — used cars, apartments and villas for sale or rent, jobs and more — in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq and more, with price, city, attributes and only-new alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/boliveira/opensooq-listings.md
- **Developed by:** [Bruno Scherer Oliveira](https://apify.com/boliveira) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Automation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 85.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.85 / 1,000 listing delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## OpenSooq Scraper — Middle East cars, property & classifieds

Scrape **OpenSooq**, the largest classifieds marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa, across **Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Yemen and Sudan**: **used cars,
apartments and villas for sale or rent, jobs, phones and any other category**. Each listing comes with **price and
currency, city and neighbourhood, structured attributes (year, make/model, kilometres, bedrooms, area, furnished,
rent period…), seller type and verification, posting and expiry dates**. Turn on **"Only new listings"** and
schedule it to get just the ads posted since the previous run.

### Use cases

- **Car dealers and importers**: daily feed of new used-car listings with price, year and kilometres.
- **Property investors and agencies**: rental and sale prices by city and neighbourhood.
- **Price monitoring and market research** across Gulf and Levant countries.
- **Alerts** for a specific category, city and price range.

### Input

```json
{
  "country": "jo",
  "category": "cars/cars-for-sale",
  "cities": ["amman"],
  "maxPrice": 15000,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

Or paste OpenSooq search pages from any country site in `startUrls`, e.g.
`https://kw.opensooq.com/en/property/apartments-for-rent`. Unknown categories or cities are reported in the log.

### Output (example)

```json
{
  "id": "286631148",
  "countryCode": "KW",
  "title": "Apartment for rent in Salmiya",
  "category": "Property",
  "subcategory": "Apartments for Rent",
  "price": 250,
  "currency": "KWD",
  "city": "Hawally",
  "neighbourhood": "Salmiya",
  "attributes": ["1 Bedroom", "One Bathroom", "Unfurnished", "Monthly", "Area: 55 m2", "Fourth Floor"],
  "sellerType": "free",
  "sellerVerified": true,
  "postedDate": "2026-09-04",
  "expiresDate": "24-11-2026",
  "url": "https://kw.opensooq.com/en/search/286631148"
}
```

### Privacy

Most OpenSooq sellers are private individuals, so **seller names, user names, avatars and phone numbers are never
returned** — only the listing itself.

### Pricing

Pay per event: you pay per listing delivered. Filtered or already-delivered listings are never charged.

### Fair use

Uses only OpenSooq's public search pages allowed by its `robots.txt` (no sort, contact, member or gallery endpoints),
with an honest bot user agent and about one request per second. Not affiliated with OpenSooq.

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

OpenSooq country site.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Category/subcategory as in OpenSooq URLs, e.g. cars/cars-for-sale, property/apartments-for-rent, property/apartments-for-sale, real-estate-for-sale/villas-and-palaces-for-sale, jobs/job-vacancies, mobile-phones-tablets/mobile-phones.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City slugs as in OpenSooq URLs, e.g. amman, irbid, riyadh, jeddah, dubai, kuwait-city, hawally, cairo. Empty = whole country.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

OpenSooq search pages copied from your browser (any country site).

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

In the listing currency.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

In the listing currency.

## `listedWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Leave empty for any date.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers listings delivered by previous runs with the same search and returns only new ones. Ideal for a daily schedule.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Limit per city or start URL.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Include the (shortened) listing description.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "jo",
  "category": "cars/cars-for-sale",
  "onlyNew": false,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with one OpenSooq classified per item (price, currency, city, area, attributes such as year/km/bedrooms, dates).

## `summary` (type: `string`):

RUN_SUMMARY record: counts, searched URLs, failures.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "category": "cars/cars-for-sale"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("boliveira/opensooq-listings").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "category": "cars/cars-for-sale" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("boliveira/opensooq-listings").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "cars/cars-for-sale"
}' |
apify call boliveira/opensooq-listings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,boliveira/opensooq-listings"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/MvRcAxKarUAtNbM0c/builds/pB5ObkdWuowJ5H3V3/openapi.json