# Chợ Tốt (Chotot) Vietnam Listings Scraper (`stone_jadex/chotot-listings-scraper`) Actor

Vietnam classifieds from Chợ Tốt public gateway API: property, cars, motorbikes, electronics. Price, location, seller contact, photos. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/stone_jadex/chotot-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Stone Jade](https://apify.com/stone_jadex) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Chợ Tốt Listings Scraper

Chợ Tốt Listings Scraper gives Vietnamese property, vehicle and marketplace researchers structured results from public pages. Start with a category and region, or direct listing IDs and export subject, price, region, category and category-specific attributes.

### What you can do

- Compare Vietnamese asking prices by category and region using published listing titles and locations.
- Keep property details such as area and bedroom count together with the price when the ad supplies them.
- Examine vehicle make, year and mileage without mixing those fields into property comparisons.

### Who uses it

- A property researcher can filter apartments in Hà Nội and compare price, district and published floor area.
- A used-car analyst can review Hồ Chí Minh listings by make and mileage, then inspect enriched descriptions for selected ads.

### Result preview

**Illustrative only:** invented examples show the shape of the data; they are not real results. A dash indicates an unavailable value.

| Subject | Price | Region | Category | Area |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Example apartment | 2,000,000,000 VND | Hà Nội | Property | 65 m² |
| Example car | 500,000,000 VND | Hồ Chí Minh | Cars | — |
| Example apartment | 1,500,000,000 VND | Hà Nội | Property | 50 m² |

Fields may be absent when the source does not publish them.

### Why choose this Actor

- Category and region selectors support discovery, while direct listing IDs or detail URLs target known ads.
- Detail enrichment adds the full description, image gallery and extra specifications; phone information is only returned as published and may be masked.

### Pricing

Prices in **USD**, verified on 4 November 2026. Check the current Pricing tab before running.

| Result type | Event price |
| --- | ---: |
| List listing | $2.5 per 1,000 results |
| Listing with details | $2.5 per 1,000 results |

The detail event replaces the list event for the same result; the two are not added together. For example, 1,000 results at the list listing rate incur $2.5 in result-event charges. This calculation covers Actor event charges. Review Pricing for any separately listed platform usage; later access to stored data follows Apify's applicable storage pricing.

### Try it in three steps

1. Enter a category and region, or direct listing IDs. Set a small result limit for your first run.
2. Turn on **Enrich from detail API (scrapeDetails)** for full descriptions and additional specifications, or leave it off for list results. Run the Actor.
3. Inspect the dataset and export the results in your preferred available format.

### Coverage and FAQ

**What are the limits?** Available fields vary by category. Seller phone information can be masked or absent, including in detail results. Direct IDs skip category and region discovery.

The requested result limit defaults to 50 and can be set up to 20,000 per run.

**Is this a live feed?** Each run is a snapshot of available source information. Listings, prices and other details may change after collection; a requested maximum is a ceiling, not a promise of that many results.

**Can I use the data for ongoing analysis?** Yes, export it to your own workflow. Scheduling repeated runs or acting on the exported results requires your own workflow.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/stone_jadex/chotot-listings-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

Gateway cg code or alias. Live codes (2026-10): property/1000 BĐS, 1010 apartments, 1020 houses, cars/2010 Ô tô, 2020 Xe máy, electronics/5000. 'all' walks without cg filter.

## `region` (type: `string`):

Gateway region_v2. Live probe: 13000 = Tp Hồ Chí Minh, 12000 = Hà Nội, 0 = all Vietnam. (haketa README had these two cities swapped.)

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Calls /v1/public/ad-listing/{list_id} per row for seller phone (as published, often masked), full description, full image gallery and extra specs. Alias: includeDetails. Charged as listing-detail instead of listing.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Same as scrapeDetails. Either flag turns detail enrichment on.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many charged listings. Alias: maxRecords.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Each page is up to 20 ads (offset o=0,20,40…).

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

At least 1 second between request starts (≤1 req/s). Aliases: requestDelay, requestIntervalMs.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many detail API calls may run at once when scrapeDetails is on. List pages stay serial.

## `maxRunSeconds` (type: `integer`):

Stops cleanly and writes the OUTPUT record before this limit.

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

Direct connection by default. Enable only if you see repeated 403/429. Prefer datacenter first; residential download budget is a fixed developer cap (5 MB), not user-tunable.

## `useProxyFallback` (type: `boolean`):

When a proxy is configured, stay on direct connection until repeated HTTP 403 or 429, then switch.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional. Gateway detail URLs or bare numeric list_id values. When set, category/region list crawl is skipped.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "property",
  "region": "13000",
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "requestDelayMs": 1000,
  "concurrency": 1,
  "maxRunSeconds": 3600,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "useProxyFallback": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Chợ Tốt listing rows saved in the default dataset, optionally enriched from the detail API. A trailing run-notice row with recordType, truncatedAfter and reason may be appended when the run stops early; the hard-timeout path exits after writing the summary instead.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run counters, seed results, errors, unavailable-field notes and the stop reason saved to the OUTPUT key-value record.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("stone_jadex/chotot-listings-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("stone_jadex/chotot-listings-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 '{}' |
apify call stone_jadex/chotot-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,stone_jadex/chotot-listings-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/dadLhoQPkjcEKrQMX/builds/eavsdv17ZJSYLeidw/openapi.json