# Haraj Classifieds Scraper (`scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-scraper`) Actor

Saudi classifieds from Haraj: cars, real estate, jobs and general goods by category tag, city or seller. Every row is fully detailed — description, all images, precise location, and category-specific fields (price, car/property/job info).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ibnu Adzim](https://apify.com/scrapyx) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.56 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Haraj Classifieds Scraper

Scrapes classified ads from [Haraj](https://haraj.com.sa), Saudi Arabia's
largest general classifieds marketplace: cars, real estate, jobs and
general goods. Search by category tag, region or seller — or fetch
specific ads directly by id.

***

### What you get

One `POST` row per ad, plus a `SEARCH_SUMMARY` row per query.

**Every row is already complete** — unlike almost every other actor in
this portfolio, there is no separate "detail pass": the same fields
(full description, every image, exact location, category-specific data)
come back whether the ad was found via a tag/city search or fetched
directly by id.

`id` · `title` · `bodyTEXT` (full ad text) · `imagesList` (every photo,
full-resolution CDN URLs) · `city` / `geoCity` / `geoNeighborhood` ·
`tags` (the ad's full category/brand/model breadcrumb) · `authorUsername`
· `postDateISO` / `updateDateISO` · `URL` · `carInfo` (model year,
mileage, fuel, gear, condition — for vehicle ads) · `realEstateInfo` ·
`jobsInfo` · `price` (often null — see below) · `commentCount` ·
`isPromoted` · and more, passed through verbatim from the site's own API.

***

### Input

```jsonc
{
  "queries": [
    { "tag": "تويوتا", "city": "الرياض" }
  ],
  "postIds": [186515219],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 40
}
```

Each `queries` entry needs at least one of `tag`, `city`, `cities`, or
`authorUsername`. `postIds` fetches specific ads directly, no search
needed.

#### `tag` is Haraj's own taxonomy, free text, no enum

Examples: `حراج السيارات` (cars), `تويوتا` (Toyota), `كامري` (Camry),
`شقق للايجار` (apartments for rent). There are many thousands of tags
(every brand/model/year combination, every product category) and no
lookup endpoint to enumerate them from — but an unrecognised tag is
**honest**: it returns a genuinely empty result, never a silent fallback
to the whole site.

#### `city` filters by REGION, not the city you'd expect — read this first

This is the one thing on this target that will surprise you. Despite the
name, `city`/`cities` filter by Saudi Arabia's **13 administrative
regions**, not individual municipalities:

```
city: "جدة"          (Jeddah, a city)   -> 0 results
city: "مكة المكرمة"   (Makkah, the region Jeddah belongs to) -> real results
```

All 13 verified working region names: `الرياض` (Riyadh), `مكة المكرمة`
(Makkah), `المدينة المنورة` (Madinah), `الشرقية` (Eastern Province),
`القصيم` (Qassim), `عسير` (Asir), `تبوك` (Tabuk), `حائل` (Hail), `جازان`
(Jazan), `نجران` (Najran), `الباحة` (Al-Bahah), `الجوف` (Al-Jouf),
`الحدود الشمالية` (Northern Borders). The output row's own `city` field
carries the same region-level granularity; `geoCity` and
`geoNeighborhood` on each row are the actual municipality/district — real
per-ad location detail, just not something you can filter a query by.

***

### Known limits

**1. `price` is often null even on formally-licensed listings.** One
REGA-registered real-estate agency's listing had `price: null` and
`realEstateInfo: null` while spelling out the exact rent price and every
property attribute as plain text inside `bodyTEXT` (a standard Saudi
real-estate disclosure block). Normal seller behaviour on this
marketplace, not missing data — the actual figures are usually in
`bodyTEXT` when the structured fields are empty.

**2. No total-count field exists anywhere in this API.** `SEARCH_SUMMARY`
reports `postsReturned` and `hasMoreAvailable` (a genuine boolean the API
provides), never a `totalMatches` — there is nothing upstream to report
one from.

**3. `limit` silently clamps above 60.** Values 1-60 behave linearly;
61 and above drop to a fixed ~20 items with no error. This actor never
sends more than 60, so it isn't something you'll hit through normal use.

***

### Anti-bot posture

**None observed.** 8/8 TLS profiles clean on the GraphQL endpoint; ten
rapid sequential requests all answered 200 with no rate-limit response.
The actor still ships a rotating profile pool, a retry ladder and
challenge-marker detection, and paces requests by default.

### Policy

`haraj.com.sa/robots.txt` (`User-agent: *`) names no
`ClaudeBot`/`anthropic-ai`/`GPTBot` group and does not disallow anything
this actor touches. `graphql.haraj.com.sa` (the API host) serves no
`robots.txt` at all.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One crawl per entry, each with its own SEARCH\_SUMMARY row. Each item: {"tag": "تويوتا", "city": "الرياض", "notTag": "كامري", "authorUsername": null, "onlyWithImage": true, "onlyWithVideo": false} -- at least one of 'tag', 'city', 'cities', or 'authorUsername' is required. 'tag' is Haraj's own category/brand/model taxonomy (e.g. 'حراج السيارات' for cars, 'تويوتا' for Toyota, 'شقق للايجار' for apartments for rent) -- there are many thousands of tags and no lookup endpoint to enumerate them from, but an unrecognised value is honest (an empty result), never a silent fallback to the whole site. IMPORTANT: despite the name, 'city'/'cities' filter by Saudi Arabia's 13 ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS, not individual municipalities — 'جدة' (Jeddah, a city) returns nothing, 'مكة المكرمة' (Makkah, the region Jeddah belongs to) does. All 13 region names verified working: الرياض (Riyadh), مكة المكرمة (Makkah), المدينة المنورة (Madinah), الشرقية (Eastern Province), القصيم (Qassim), عسير (Asir), تبوك (Tabuk), حائل (Hail), جازان (Jazan), نجران (Najran), الباحة (Al-Bahah), الجوف (Al-Jouf), الحدود الشمالية (Northern Borders).

## `postIds` (type: `array`):

Fetch specific classified ads directly by their numeric post id (found in a post's URL, e.g. the '186515219' in '/11186515219/...'). Each one becomes its own row -- exactly as complete as a row found via 'queries', since this site's API answers both the same way.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Stop each query after this many posts. Set to 0 for unlimited -- pagination on this target is genuinely honest, with an explicit 'hasMoreAvailable' signal upstream provides directly rather than this actor having to infer it.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many requests may be in flight at once. This absorbs latency variance; it is NOT the throttle -- the crawl rate is set by 'Minimum interval between requests' below.

## `minRequestInterval` (type: `number`):

The actual speed control: the shortest gap between two requests, across all workers. No bot mitigation was observed during recon (8/8 TLS profiles clean, ten rapid sequential requests all succeeded with no rate-limit response).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential with no country pin is the cloud default. No WAF was observed anywhere during recon, so there's no known reason to narrow the exit-IP pool.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    {
      "tag": "تويوتا",
      "city": "الرياض"
    }
  ],
  "postIds": [],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 40,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "minRequestInterval": 0.4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

One row per scraped record. See the dataset's default view for field definitions.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        {
            "tag": "تويوتا",
            "city": "الرياض"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-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 = { "queries": [{
            "tag": "تويوتا",
            "city": "الرياض",
        }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-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 '{
  "queries": [
    {
      "tag": "تويوتا",
      "city": "الرياض"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapyx/haraj-classifieds-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/Qr7nz9IDT6L5bAm8d/builds/uvfY0ilWTd4cBnMs6/openapi.json