🔎 Kijiji Keyword Script · Apify Actor

Extract live listing data from Kijiji based on keywords in clean, structured JSON format. Perfect for marketplace research, pricing analysis, lead generation, and product monitoring.

Built and maintained by DataWizards.

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📌 What Is Kijiji Keyword Script?

Kijiji Keyword Script is a powerful Apify Actor that allows you to scrape public marketplace listings from Kijiji using keyword-based searches.

Instead of manually browsing listings, this actor automatically extracts essential data such as:

• 💰 Price
• 🏷 Title
• 📍 Location
• ⭐ Seller Rating
• 🖼 Image URL
• 📝 Description

It’s optimized for reliability, performance, and structured output — making it ideal for developers, data analysts, resellers, and automation workflows.

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🧠 Key Features

• ✅ Keyword-Based Search Extraction
• ✅ Clean & Structured JSON Output
• ✅ Extracts price, seller rating, image, description, and more
• ✅ Proxy Support via Apify Proxy
• ✅ Supports Residential IPs (Recommended)
• ✅ Lightweight & Fast Execution
• ✅ Marketplace Intelligence Ready

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🛠️ Input Schema

Minimal configuration required.

{
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
}

🔐 Proxy Configuration (Recommended)

Field	Description
useApifyProxy	Must be set to true
apifyProxyGroups	Use "RESIDENTIAL" for higher success rate & reduced blocking

💡 Why Residential Proxies? Marketplace platforms apply anti-bot measures. Residential IPs help maintain stability and minimize request blocking.

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📤 Output Example

[
  {
    "Price ": "$599.00",
    "Title ": "** LAPTOP  **DELL14 PLUS ***DB14250  **INTEL ULTRA 7-258V ***32GB",
    "Location ": "Whitchurch-Stouffville",
    "Seller Rating ": "4.9",
    "Image Url ": "https://media.kijiji.ca/api/v1/ca-prod-fsbo-ads/images/94/9475e151-47e2-47ce-b155-c293eba9d84c?rule=kijijica-400-webp",
    "Description ": "****BRAND NEW ***OEN BOX ****NEVER USED **** LAPTOP  **DELL 14 PLUS - DB14250 ***NOT REFURBISED** ***INTEL (R) CORE (TM) ULTRA 7 - 258V @2200Mhz (8CORE) ***32GB RAM ***1TB SSD DRIVE *** ****WINDOW 11 ..."
  }
]

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🚀 Use Cases

🛒 1. Marketplace Price Monitoring

Track product pricing trends in real-time.

📊 2. Competitive Intelligence

Monitor competitors selling similar products.

🤖 3. Lead Generation

Extract seller listings for outreach or B2B prospecting.

📈 4. Market Research

Analyze demand for laptops, vehicles, furniture, electronics, etc.

🧾 5. Inventory Comparison

Compare listings across locations and sellers.

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⚙️ How It Works

1. The actor performs keyword-based searches on Kijiji.

2. It loads public listing pages.

3. Extracts structured listing data.

4. Returns a clean JSON dataset ready for:

   • APIs
   • Dashboards
   • Databases
   • Automation pipelines

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✅ Best Practices

✔ Always enable Residential proxies for production usage. ✔ Avoid running excessive concurrent executions. ✔ Respect marketplace fair usage guidelines. ✔ Schedule scraping at logical intervals instead of constant polling. ✔ Store results in a database for historical tracking.

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📊 SEO Benefits

This actor is ideal for businesses looking for:

• Kijiji scraper
• Kijiji keyword extractor
• Apify Kijiji Actor
• Marketplace data scraping
• Classified ads data API
• Canadian classifieds scraper
• Real-time listing monitoring

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🔄 Customization Options

Need additional fields like:

• Listing URL
• Seller name
• Posted date
• Category
• Pagination control
• Simplified output format

✨ DataWizards are always ready to customize this actor for you.

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🛡 Reliability & Performance

• Designed for stable execution
• Optimized parsing logic
• Compatible with Apify scheduling
• Scalable for bulk data collection

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🤝 Support

Need help, custom output, or integration assistance?

We’re here for you.

📩 Email: hello.datawizard@gmail.com ✉️ Subject: Kijiji Keyword Script – Custom Support Request

🔗 LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/data-wizards-aa8080342

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🐞 Bug Reports & Feature Requests

For custom/simplified outputs or bug reports:

📧 Email: hello.datawizard@gmail.com ✉️ Subject: Bug Report – Kijiji Keyword Script Actor

Or open an issue directly on Apify.

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🧰 Need Something More Advanced?

Whether you need:

• Advanced filtering
• Data normalization
• Direct API integration
• CSV / Excel export version
• Multi-marketplace scraper

💡 DataWizards deliver smart, scalable, production-ready scraping solutions.

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