Kijiji Listings Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Kijiji is Canada's #1 classifieds marketplace, eBay-family, with no public API. This Actor runs a search-term search, walks every result page, and pulls each listing's title, price (CAD, or a placeholder for service ads with no fixed price), location, image, and URL out of the page's embedded Apollo/NEXT_DATA JSON payload — not scraped HTML tags. Search as many terms as you like in one run — results are merged and deduped by listing ID across pages and terms.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Resale arbitrage — track underpriced secondhand listings by search term across Canada.
• Market research — benchmark asking prices for a product category over time.
• Lead generation — build a directory of active listings for a keyword niche.
• Price-drop alerts — diff successive runs to catch reductions on watched searches.

⚙️ 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
searchTerms	array	yes	['laptop', 'bicycle']	One or more search terms, e.g. ["laptop", "bicycle"]. The Actor runs one search per entry and merges the…
maxItems	integer	no	5	Hard cap on dataset rows across all search terms combined.
maxPagesPerTerm	integer	no	3	Safety cap on pages fetched per search term (40 listings/page on Kijiji), regardless of max results.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True, 'apifyProxyGroups': [], 'apifyProxyCountry': 'CA'}	Apify Proxy spec. No anti-bot signature has been observed on Kijiji's search pages, so a datacenter group works — but…

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": [
    "laptop",
    "bicycle"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPagesPerTerm": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "CA"
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
listing_id	string	Kijiji StandardListing Apollo cache key, id part.
title	string	Listing headline.
price_amount	['number', 'null']	Parsed CAD amount. null for service ads with no fixed price — see price_raw.
price_raw	string	Human-readable price text as rendered, or a fixed placeholder when no amount (always populated).
currency	string	Always CAD.
location	['string', 'null']	Listing location/area text.
image_url	['string', 'null']	First image URL from the listing record, when present.
url	string	Absolute URL to the listing detail page.
search_term	string	The input search term that produced this row.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "listing_id": "1731050620",
  "title": "Laptops, Gaming Laptop, Official Laptop",
  "price_amount": 450.0,
  "price_raw": "$450.00",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "location": "City of Toronto",
  "image_url": "https://i.ebayimg.com/...",
  "url": "https://www.kijiji.ca/v-laptops/city-of-toronto/apple-macbook-air-m2-with-full-applecare-plus/1743623497",
  "search_term": "laptop",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💰 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	$0.0025	Per dataset item

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.70. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

• v1 supports the national /b-canada/ search-term browse only — province-scoped browse is not implemented.
• No category-ID browse — free-text search-term browse only.
• Only list-card fields are scraped — no item-detail-page enrichment (full description, seller profile, phone).
• Data comes from Kijiji's own embedded Apollo/NEXT_DATA JSON payload, not a published public API.

❓ FAQ

Do I need to log in or provide cookies?

No. Kijiji's search-term browse pages and listing cards are public — the Actor needs no account, cookies, or login.

What happens if a search term has no results?

The run finishes successfully with zero rows for that term and moves to the next one — an empty search is not an error.

Can I search multiple terms in one run?

Yes — add as many entries to searchTerms as you like; results are merged and deduped by listing ID across the whole run.

💬 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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