# Facebook Marketplace Scraper (`thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-scraper`) Actor

Browse public Facebook Marketplace listings, optionally by category, with titles, prices, locations, images and links. Optionally attach each listing's full detail record.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Netaji](https://apify.com/thenetaji) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.48 / 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Facebook Marketplace Scraper — Browse Listings

The Actor reads public Facebook Marketplace listings exactly as a logged-out visitor browsing Marketplace's own feed sees them. No Facebook account, login, or session cookie is used at any point.

### Accepted input

`category` is an optional category slug, such as `vehicles` or `electronics`; left empty, the Actor reads the general Marketplace feed. `maxItems` trims how many of the returned listings are saved.

```json
{
  "category": "electronics",
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

### Result fields

Each row carries `id`, `title`, `price`, `location`, `url`, `imageUrl`, and `raw`. The example below illustrates field shapes; it is not captured from a live run.

```json
{
  "id": "1234567890123456",
  "title": "iPhone 13 Pro, 256GB, unlocked",
  "price": "$450",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "url": "https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1234567890123456/",
  "imageUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/..."
}
```

`price` is the formatted string Facebook displays on the card, currency symbol included, rather than a parsed number and currency code.

**Marketplace browsing returns roughly 20 listings per request, and there is no logged-out pagination beyond that batch.** Facebook serves an anonymous visitor a single flat page of listings rather than a connection with a next-page cursor, so a `maxItems` value above the returned count does not produce more rows — it can only trim the batch down. Results are also regional: what the feed serves depends on where the request is understood to be browsing from, so the same category can return a different set of listings between runs.

### Fetching each listing's full detail

`addonListingDetails` (default `false`) is opt-in. When set, each browsed listing's full detail record — the same record a targeted lookup returns — is attached under `listingDetails` on that row.

This costs one extra request per row, billed as an additional event at $0.0008 per row, on top of the Actor's usual per-result price. It is charged only for a row that is actually enriched; a lookup that fails is not billed. It defaults to off, so a plain browse run is not charged for it.

```json
{
  "category": "electronics",
  "addonListingDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

### Behaviour on empty results

A browse request that returns no listings for the category or region is logged as a warning, and the run ends with no records rather than an error. This is a normal outcome for a narrow or unpopulated category in a given region, not a failure to be retried.

### Public, logged-out data only

Everything returned here is visible to a Marketplace visitor who is not signed in. There is no logged-out Marketplace search: this Actor covers the browse feed, not a keyword search across listings.

### Frequently asked questions

**Why did a run return fewer than `maxItems` listings?**
Facebook serves a fixed batch — around 20 — to a single anonymous browse request, with no further page available without a login. `maxItems` can only trim that batch down; it cannot request more of it.

**Why do two runs in the same category return different listings?**
Marketplace's browse feed is regional. It reflects the location the request is understood to be browsing from, so results vary between runs rather than representing one fixed, stable feed.

**Is Marketplace search supported?**
No. Facebook does not serve Marketplace search results to an anonymous visitor; only the browse feed is available without a login.

**Can a listing found while browsing be looked up for full detail?**
Yes, two ways: turn on `addonListingDetails` to attach each row's full detail record directly in this run, or feed the row's `id` into the [Facebook Marketplace Item Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-item-scraper)'s `itemId` input for a standalone lookup.

**Is a Facebook account or login required?**
No. Only the Marketplace browse feed that Facebook already shows to a logged-out visitor is read.

### What this is useful for

Price research and comparison shopping across a Marketplace category; sampling what a region's Marketplace feed is currently showing for a category of interest; and a first, cheap pass over a category before looking up specific listings in full detail.

### Related Actors

| Actor | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| [Facebook Marketplace Item Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-item-scraper) | Full detail for specific listings by ID or URL |
| [Facebook Page Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/facebook-page-scraper) | Profile, About and Transparency details for a Page |
| [Facebook Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/facebook-posts-scraper) | Timeline posts for a Page |

# Actor input Schema

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

Optional Marketplace category slug, for example `vehicles` or `electronics`. Leave empty to browse everything.

## `addonListingDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Attach each browsed Marketplace listing's full detail record. Adds one request and a billable event per listing.

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

Maximum listings to save. Facebook returns roughly twenty per browse request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "addonListingDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

All records scraped by this run

# 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 = {
    "category": "",
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-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 = {
    "category": "",
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-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 '{
  "category": "",
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thenetaji/facebook-marketplace-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/CxuSCDOWnX5IdtHva/builds/0XpDj2yU26byHGzXd/openapi.json