Skelbiu.lt Scraper

Extract classified ads from Skelbiu.lt, Lithuania's largest general classifieds portal. Skelbiu covers everything from vehicles and electronics to real estate, jobs, and services, with hundreds of thousands of active listings from private sellers and businesses.

Why use this actor?

Skelbiu.lt is the default place Lithuanians list and search for second-hand goods, vehicles, property, and services. This actor lets you collect structured ad data at scale — titles, prices, categories, locations, images, and descriptions — without manual browsing or a login.

Use cases include:

• Market research: Track asking prices for a product category across Lithuania
• Reseller sourcing: Monitor new listings in a niche (electronics, tools, furniture) for arbitrage
• Vehicle price tracking: Compare used car or motorcycle prices by model
• Real estate scouting: Pull apartment and house listings alongside dedicated property portals
• Lead generation: Find sellers or service providers in a specific city or category
• Academic/market research: Collect structured classifieds data for statistical analysis

How to scrape Skelbiu.lt data

1. Go to the actor's page on the Apify Store
2. Enter a category slug (e.g., "transportas" for vehicles, "elektronika" for electronics) — this is the reliable way to get results
3. Optionally paste specific Skelbiu.lt category or listing detail URLs into Start URLs — these override Category/Search Keyword
4. Set the maximum number of results you want
5. Click "Start" to run the scraper
6. Download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel when complete

Skelbiu.lt runs Cloudflare behavioral rate-limiting that escalates to a Turnstile challenge on every listing and detail page. The actor handles this with a real (non-headless) Chrome browser session and Lithuanian residential proxies, mirroring the approach used on Aruodas.lt (same underlying platform). No login or cookies are needed.

Skelbiu.lt's own keyword search (/paieska/?keywords=...) loads its result list through a client-side call the site restricts to normal browser sessions, so it can return zero results even once the Cloudflare challenge is passed. Category pages are rendered server-side and don't have this limitation — use Category for guaranteed results, and treat Search Keyword as best-effort.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
category	String	No	Category slug to browse, e.g., "transportas" (vehicles), "elektronika" (electronics), "nekilnojamasis-turtas" (real estate), "transportas/automobiliai" (cars sub-category). Defaults to "transportas" if empty and no keyword/start URL is set.
searchQuery	String	No	Keyword to search for, e.g., "dviratis", "telefonas". Only used when Category is empty — best-effort, see limitation above.
startUrls	Array	No	Skelbiu.lt category or listing detail URLs. Overrides Category/Search Keyword if provided.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum ads to return (default: 100, max: 10000)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings. Lithuanian residential proxies are required and configured by default — Skelbiu.lt blocks datacenter IPs with a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge.

Start URLs

You can paste any Skelbiu.lt URL directly:

• Category page: https://www.skelbiu.lt/skelbimai/transportas/
• Sub-category page: https://www.skelbiu.lt/skelbimai/transportas/automobiliai/
• Individual ad: https://www.skelbiu.lt/skelbimai/gt-aggressor-expert-dviratis-86478811.html

Output

Each ad produces a JSON object with the following fields:

Field	Type	Description
adTitle	String	Classified ad title
price	Number	Listing price
currency	String	Always "EUR"
category	String	Category/breadcrumb path the ad is listed under
location	String	City or region where the item/service is offered
imageUrl	String	Primary listing photo URL
adDescription	String	Full listing description text
sellerName	String	Name of the seller/poster, if shown
adId	String	Numeric Skelbiu.lt ad ID extracted from the URL
url	String	Full ad URL on Skelbiu.lt
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the data was collected

Example output

{
  "adTitle": "GT Aggressor Expert dviratis",
  "price": 350,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "category": "Transportas / Dviračiai",
  "location": "Vilnius",
  "imageUrl": "https://skelbiu-img.dgn.lt/1_19_4968145766/gt-aggressor-expert-dviratis.jpg",
  "adDescription": "Parduodamas kalnų dviratis GT Aggressor Expert, geros būklės...",
  "sellerName": "Tomas",
  "adId": "86478811",
  "url": "https://www.skelbiu.lt/skelbimai/gt-aggressor-expert-dviratis-86478811.html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-20T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Cost estimate

This actor requires headful Chrome plus Lithuanian residential proxy traffic to get past Cloudflare — more expensive per result than a plain HTTP scraper. Budget for residential proxy usage on every category/detail page fetched, plus compute for a browser session held open per request. A 100-result run typically stays well within a few dollars of platform usage; heavier runs (thousands of results) scale close to linearly with maxResults. Usage cost only settles after a run reports SUCCEEDED — checking the dataset mid-run will undercount what you'll actually be billed.

Limitations

• Keyword search (searchQuery) is best-effort and can return zero results — Skelbiu.lt's own search UI loads results via a client-side call the site restricts to normal browser sessions. Use category (or a category start URL) for guaranteed results.
• Skelbiu.lt's terms of service (clause 8.2.3) prohibit automated data collection ("duomenų nuskaitymo (scraping)"). This actor is provided for personal research and market-monitoring use; you are responsible for how you use the data.
• Listing pages sit behind a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge that occasionally requires a session retry — the actor retries automatically with a fresh residential IP, but very large runs may see a higher retry rate than sites without this protection.
• Pagination depth and some detail-page fields (seller name, exact category breadcrumb) can vary by listing type; the actor uses resilient fallback selectors but coverage may differ slightly across categories.
• This actor does not create, edit, or manage listings — it only reads publicly visible ad pages.

Related Scrapers

Looking for more Baltic and European classifieds/marketplace data? Check out:

• Aruodas Scraper — Lithuanian real estate portal (same underlying platform)
• KV.ee Scraper — Estonian real estate listings
• OLX Scraper — Pan-European classifieds
• Bazos Scraper — Czech/Slovak classifieds
• Autoplius Scraper — Lithuanian vehicle marketplace

Support

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