# Jiwu Scraper (Chinese resale homes, 吉屋二手房) (`crawlerbros/jiwu-scraper`) Actor

Scrape jiwu.com - Chinese resale-home listings portal. Browse resale listings by city/district, fetch property details. Emits title, price, price per sqm, area, rooms, district, community, images and URLs. No login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/jiwu-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Jiwu Scraper

Scrape [jiwu.com](https://www.jiwu.com/) — Chinese resale-home listings portal (吉屋二手房).

> **Note:** This actor was originally planned for Anjuke (anjuke.com). Anjuke is a 58 Group
> property that serves an IP-reputation captcha challenge to **every** egress tier — plain
> httpx, curl\_cffi chrome131, real headless browser, Apify datacenter IPs, and Apify AUTO
> proxy (verified from multiple networks). Per the replacement policy it was swapped for
> Jiwu, a same-category Chinese resale-home listings portal that serves SSR HTML freely.

### Modes

| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| `byCity` (default) | Browse resale listings for a city (optional Shanghai district filter) |
| `byPropertyUrl` | Fetch one property detail page per URL/ID |

### Filters

`minPrice` / `maxPrice` (CNY), `minArea` (m²), `containsKeyword` (title substring), `maxItems`.

### Output fields

`propertyId`, `title`, `price` (CNY), `pricePerSqm` (CNY/m²), `area` (m²), `rooms`, `halls`, `floorLevel`, `totalFloors`, `buildYear`, `orientation`, `decoration`, `elevator`, `listingDate`, `updatedAt`, `tags[]`, `district`, `community`, `address`, `lng`/`lat`, `imageUrl` (card thumbnail), `images[]` (detail-page photos, when present in SSR), `keywords`, `description`, `url`, `sourceUrl`, `scrapedAt`, `recordType`. Typed `error` records for invalid URLs / fetch failures / anti-bot challenges.

### Data Source

Jiwu listing and detail pages are server-side rendered. No login, no API key.

### Anti-bot

Tier 2: `curl_cffi` chrome131 TLS impersonation, rotating browser user-agents, exponential backoff on 403/429/5xx, lazy Apify AUTO-datacenter proxy escalation. Jiwu intermittently serves a Tencent TCaptcha challenge page (`吉屋网请求验证页面`) to datacenter/foreign IPs — the actor detects it (typed `ANTIBOT_CHALLENGE` records), retries via proxy, and falls back to a mobile-phone UA (which the challenge sometimes lets through).

### Limits

- The `district` filter currently supports Shanghai districts; other cities browse city-wide.
- Listing pages can be captcha-gated during bursts; `byPropertyUrl` (detail pages) is the more robust mode.
- Some city subdomains intermittently return HTTP 500 / reset connections or a 200 page with no cards from non-mainland egress (site-side — e.g. `wh`, `cd`, `nj` were affected in Aug 2026); such runs fail soft with 0 records and a status message. Re-running later usually succeeds.
- Detail-page images load via JS and are not present in the SSR HTML; `imageUrl` on listing cards is the card thumbnail.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch: byCity (resale listings for a city/district) or byPropertyUrl (single property detail).

## `city` (type: `string`):

Jiwu city subdomain, e.g. `sh` (Shanghai), `bj` (Beijing), `sz` (Suzhou).

## `district` (type: `string`):

Optional Shanghai district filter (pudong, xuhui, yangpu, etc.). Leave empty for all.

## `propertyUrls` (type: `array`):

Jiwu property URLs or IDs, e.g. `https://sh.jiwu.com/esf/37036722.html`.

## `minPrice` (type: `number`):

Drop listings priced below this.

## `maxPrice` (type: `number`):

Drop listings priced above this.

## `minArea` (type: `number`):

Drop listings smaller than this.

## `containsKeyword` (type: `string`):

Only emit listings whose title contains this text.

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

Hard cap on emitted records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "byCity",
  "city": "sh",
  "propertyUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `properties` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped Jiwu property records.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "byCity",
    "city": "sh",
    "propertyUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/jiwu-scraper").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 = {
    "mode": "byCity",
    "city": "sh",
    "propertyUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/jiwu-scraper").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 '{
  "mode": "byCity",
  "city": "sh",
  "propertyUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/jiwu-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/Yd91UcTDerk23K3K4/builds/3IibwrgIfrGacfV8L/openapi.json