Facebook Marketplace Scraper — Local Listings & Prices

What's for sale near you, as a table you can sort — every Facebook Marketplace listing for a search term in a city, with the price as a number.

Marketplace is the biggest local classifieds board in the world and the worst one to work from. It is an endless scroll, it forgets where you were, and there is no way to line two hundred listings up next to each other and see which one is mispriced. This Actor turns a search into rows: title, price, where the seller is, the photo, the link, and whether the item has already gone.

Type what you want and the city you want it in. Or paste a Marketplace search link you already have open.

You pay per listing returned. Searches that come back empty and searches that fail cost you nothing.

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Try it in 30 seconds

Put this in Searches, set City to dallas, hit Start:

iphone

About fifty live listings with real prices, from Dallas and the towns around it. That exact run was made today and came back full.

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Two ways in

A search term — iphone 15, dining table, snowblower, 2015 civic. Set City once and every term runs there.

A full Marketplace search link — open the board you want in your browser, get the filters right, and copy the URL from the address bar:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/austin/search?query=mountain%20bike

Links carry their own city and their own filters, so City is ignored for those lines. Anything you set in the Actor that the link doesn't already say is added on top.

Finding the city slug. Open Marketplace, set your location, and look at the address bar: facebook.com/marketplace/dallas/search. That word is the slug — the city name lowercased with the spaces taken out. nyc, la, chicago, sanantonio, fortworth.

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What you get per listing

{
  "listingId": "1042073261987193",       // stable — diff on this between runs
  "title": "iphone 17 pro",
  "price": 850,                          // a number, ready to sort and compare
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceText": "$850",                   // exactly as the board shows it
  "location": "Dallas, TX",              // the seller's town, not yours
  "imageUrl": "https://scontent-….fbcdn.net/…jpg",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1042073261987193/",
  "isSold": false,                       // true once it's sold or pending
  "isFree": false,                       // free-to-collect listings
  "searchTerm": "iphone",                // which of your searches produced this
  "city": "dallas",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-17T19:33:17+00:00",
  "status": "ok"
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull it straight from the API.

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Who uses this

Resellers and flippers sourcing inventory. Run your buy list — airpods, dyson, peloton, lawn mower — across the cities you can drive to, sort by price ascending, and the underpriced end of every board is at the top of one spreadsheet. The scroll is where the margin dies; this removes the scroll.

Local-deal arbitrage. The same item is worth different money forty miles away. Run one term across six city slugs in a single job and the spread is a column, not a hunch.

Price research before you buy or list. Twenty comparable listings with numeric prices gives you a median in seconds. Price your own listing against what is actually on the board today, not what sold last year.

Dealerships and inventory monitors. Schedule a run with Listed in the last 24 hours and Sort by newest, diff on listingId, and you have a feed of everything new in your category in your market — with isSold telling you what moved since the last run.

Market researchers and analysts. Same searches, same cities, on a schedule. The change in median price, in listing count and in how fast items flip to sold is a dataset nobody publishes.

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What makes it different

Price is a number. price: 850, not "$850". You get both — the numeric field for maths and priceText for what the board actually printed — so sorting, medians and price bands work the moment the run finishes.

Several searches, several cities, one table. Every row is tagged with the searchTerm and city that produced it, so a fifteen-term, six-city job comes back as one dataset you can pivot rather than ninety exports to stitch together.

Sold and free are flags, not guesswork. isSold covers sold and pending. isFree catches free-to-collect items, which otherwise read as a price of zero and poison your averages.

No account, no login, no cookies to paste. this Actor reads the same public boards a shopper browsing without an account sees. There is nothing to configure and no session to keep alive.

Filters are applied before you're billed. A run with a £50–£400 band bills you for the listings in that band, not for the whole board.

Honest about the ceiling. The public board stops at roughly 50–60 listings per search. That's in the FAQ, not buried — and the way around it is there too.

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Settings that matter

Setting	What it does
Searches	One per line — a search term, or a full Marketplace search link
City	The city slug your search terms run in. Ignored for link lines
Maximum listings per search	Default 50. One board runs out around 50–60 — see the FAQ
Minimum / maximum price	Whole units, no commas. Listings with no price are dropped when set
Item condition	New, like new, good, fair — sellers set this themselves and many skip it
Listed in the last	24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, any time
Search radius	Passed to the board, which decides its own area — read the FAQ before relying on it
Sort by	Best match, newest, price low to high, price high to low

Automate it

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~facebook-marketplace-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "searches": ["iphone 15", "airpods pro", "https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/austin/search?query=mountain%20bike"],
        "city": "dallas",
        "maxResultsPerSearch": 50,
        "minPrice": 50,
        "maxPrice": 600,
        "condition": "used_good",
        "daysSinceListed": "7",
        "sortBy": "newest" }'

Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets and the Apify API, and as an MCP tool for AI agents. Schedule it hourly on a short term list and you have a deal alarm.

Results you can trust

Every search reports what happened, so nothing fails silently:

status	Meaning
ok	A listing was returned — charged
no_results	The board was read fine, but nothing matched — not charged
error	The search couldn't be read, or the line was unusable — retry it; not charged

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FAQ

How many listings can one search return? Around 50 to 60. The public board hands out its first screens freely and then stops, and no amount of scrolling gets past that without signing in — which this Actor does not do. Raising Maximum listings per search above that will not conjure more listings out of one board.

The fix is more searches, not a bigger number. Each of these is a fresh board with its own 50–60:

• Split the price range. sofa at $0–200, $200–500, $500+ is three runs of the same term and three different sets of listings.
• Be more specific. iphone 15 pro, iphone 14, iphone se beats iphone and gives you rows you actually want.
• Add cities. One term across eight city slugs is eight boards.
• Flip the sort. Price ascending and price descending on the same search reach opposite ends of the same board.

A twelve-term, four-city job is forty-eight boards — two thousand or so listings in one run.

Why do some listings have no price? Because the seller didn't put one. Marketplace lets people list with no price, with "Free", or with a price that is really a placeholder, and this Actor reports what's there rather than inventing a number: price is absent, priceText shows whatever the board printed, and isFree is true for free-to-collect items. Set a Minimum price of 1 and priceless listings drop out of the run — and you are not charged for them.

Does the search radius actually work? Partly, and we'd rather say so. The public board serves the metro area around a city slug and treats a tight radius as a suggestion, so a 5-mile search on a big city will still return listings from towns 40 miles out. Your choice is passed through, but the reliable way to control distance is to filter on the location field after the run, or to search a smaller city slug.

Do I need a Facebook account, a login or cookies? No. This Actor reads public search boards, the same ones a visitor with no account sees. Nothing to paste, nothing to keep alive, nothing of yours at risk.

Does it return the seller's name, profile or phone number? No. Public search boards don't carry them, and this Actor doesn't go looking. What you get is the item: title, price, location, photo and link.

Is location where the seller is or where I searched? Where the seller is — the town the board shows on the listing. city is the slug you searched. On a big-metro run they routinely differ, and that difference is exactly what tells you how far you'd have to drive.

How do I track price drops or what's sold? Schedule the same searches and diff on listingId. A changed price is a price cut, isSold flipping to true means it went, and a row that stops appearing has been taken down.

How fresh is it? Read live at the moment of your run. scrapedAt records exactly when, to the second.

What about cars, real estate or rentals? Vehicle and property searches return as ordinary listings with title, price, location and link. The category-specific fields — mileage, bedrooms, transmission — are not in this version.

Why is this slower than other scrapers? Because these boards only exist once the page has been rendered and scrolled. This Actor does that properly rather than returning the empty shell the quick approach gets. Budget roughly a minute per search.

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Terms of Use

This Actor collects publicly available listing information from Facebook Marketplace search results — the same listings a visitor browsing without an account can see. It does not sign in, does not use anyone's credentials, and does not collect seller names, profiles or contact details.

This Actor is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to Facebook, Meta Platforms, or any of their products or services, and all trademarks belong to their owners.

You are responsible for how you use the results, and for doing so lawfully and in line with the terms and regulations that apply to you — including Facebook's own terms of service, marketing and consumer-protection rules, and any data-protection law in your jurisdiction. If your plans involve republishing listing content, contacting sellers or building a competing product, check those terms before you start. Listing content belongs to the people who posted it.

Listings are returned as the source published them and may be inaccurate, stale or already gone by the time you read them — verify before you send money or drive anywhere. This Actor is provided "as is", without warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose.

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