Finn.no Scraper

Scrapes listings from Finn.no, Norway's largest classifieds platform. This actor extracts comprehensive data from real estate, car, job, and other listings.

Features

• 🏠 Real Estate Listings - Homes, apartments, cabins, commercial properties
• 🚗 Car Listings - Used and new vehicles with specifications
• 💼 Job Listings - Job postings with company and position details
• 📦 Other Categories - Electronics, furniture, services, and more
• 🖼️ Image Extraction - Captures listing images (up to 10 per listing)
• 📊 Comprehensive Data - Title, price, location, description, seller info, attributes
• 🔄 Pagination Support - Automatically follows next page links
• 🛡️ Anti-Detection - Uses Playwright with stealth techniques
• ⚡ Efficient - Rate-limited and respectful scraping

Input Parameters

Start URL (required)

The URL of the Finn.no search or category page to scrape.

Examples:

• Real estate: https://www.finn.no/realestate/homes/search.html
• Cars: https://www.finn.no/car/used/search.html
• Jobs: https://www.finn.no/job/fulltime/search.html
• Electronics: https://www.finn.no/bap/forsale/search.html?category=0.93

You can also use filtered search URLs with location, price range, etc.

Maximum Pages (optional)

Maximum number of search result pages to scrape. Default: 10

Each page typically contains 20-50 listings depending on the category.

Output Format

The actor outputs a dataset with the following fields:

{
  "url": "https://www.finn.no/ad/...",
  "title": "Beautiful apartment in Oslo",
  "price": "5 000 000 kr",
  "priceNumeric": 5000000,
  "location": "Oslo, Grünerløkka",
  "description": "Spacious 3-bedroom apartment...",
  "category": "real_estate",
  "seller": "Real Estate Agency AS",
  "images": [
    "https://images.finn.no/...",
    "..."
  ],
  "imageCount": 8,
  "attributes": {
    "Property type": "Apartment",
    "Bedrooms": "3",
    "Square meters": "95",
    "Year built": "2015"
  },
  "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Field Descriptions

• url - Direct link to the listing page
• title - Listing title/headline
• price - Price as displayed (with currency and formatting)
• priceNumeric - Price as a number (for sorting/filtering)
• location - Address or location description
• description - Full listing description
• category - Detected category: real_estate, car, job, or other
• seller - Seller/advertiser name
• images - Array of image URLs
• imageCount - Number of images
• attributes - Category-specific attributes (varies by listing type)
• scrapedAt - ISO timestamp of when the data was scraped

Usage Examples

Scrape Real Estate Listings in Oslo

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.finn.no/realestate/homes/search.html?location=0.20061",
  "maxPages": 5
}

Scrape Used Cars

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.finn.no/car/used/search.html",
  "maxPages": 10
}

Scrape Job Listings

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.finn.no/job/fulltime/search.html",
  "maxPages": 3
}

Rate Limiting

The actor includes built-in rate limiting:

• 1 second delay between listings
• 2 seconds delay between pages

This ensures respectful scraping and reduces the chance of being blocked.

robots.txt Compliance

The actor respects Finn.no's robots.txt file. Finn.no generally allows crawling of public listing pages but may have restrictions on certain areas.

Data Quality

The scraper uses multiple fallback selectors to ensure robust data extraction even if Finn.no updates their HTML structure. If a field cannot be extracted, it will be omitted from the output rather than returning null values.

Common Issues

No listings found

• Verify the start URL is a valid Finn.no search/category page
• Some categories may use different URL structures
• Check if the page requires login or has regional restrictions

Incomplete data

• Some listing types have different structures
• Private sellers may have less information than professional advertisers
• Very old listings may use different HTML templates

Technical Details

• Browser: Playwright Chromium with anti-detection
• Language: Python 3.11
• SDK: Apify SDK 2.x
• Concurrency: Sequential processing to avoid overloading the site
• Memory: Recommended 2GB minimum
• Timeout: 30 seconds per page load

Support

For issues, feature requests, or questions, please contact the actor developer.

License

This actor is provided as-is for educational and commercial use. Please ensure you comply with Finn.no's Terms of Service and applicable data protection regulations (GDPR) when using this actor.