Chotot Listings — Vietnam Classifieds Scraper

Chotot is Vietnam's biggest classifieds marketplace — real estate, vehicles, electronics and more, listed by individual sellers across the country, entirely in Vietnamese. This Actor pulls live ads straight from Chotot's own public listing API by region and category, and returns one row per ad: title, price, area, category, seller and a direct link — no browser, no proxies, no login.

What you get

• Live ads, not a stale export. The same feed that powers chotot.com search results — title, price, area, category, seller and direct listing URL for every ad matching your region/category query.
• Any Chotot region or category. Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, or any other of Chotot's location codes, filtered to real estate, vehicles, or left open to all categories in that region.
• No login, no proxies, no browser. One keyless GET per query, straight to Chotot's own public listing API.
• Built for lists. Concurrency up to 20, one query per line, so a portfolio of regions/categories is a single run.
• Runs on Apify: schedule it, monitor it, call it from the API or the MCP server, export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or push results straight into your own pipeline.

How to run it

1. Click Try for free — no card needed on the free plan.
2. Paste your region/category queries into Region / category queries, one per line — e.g. 13000:1000 for Ho Chi Minh City real estate, or 12000 for all of Hanoi.
3. Press Start. Results appear in the dataset — read them in the UI, pull them from the API, or have a webhook push them onward.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.005 per run start + $0.002 per ad found. No monthly seat, no minimum. 100 ads cost about $0.21; 1,000 ads about $2.01.

A query that returns nothing is still logged with found: false and the reason — and it is not charged for. You pay for ads actually delivered, not for attempts.

Input

Field	Required	What it does
items	yes	One entry per query: region_v2 or region_v2:cg. region_v2 is Chotot's location code (13000 = Ho Chi Minh City, 12000 = Hanoi); cg is the category code (1000 = real estate, 2000 = vehicles). Omit cg for all categories in that region. Up to 25 per run.
maxConcurrency	no	How many queries to run in parallel, 1–20 (default 5).

{
    "items": [
        "13000:1000",
        "12000"
    ]
}

Output

One dataset row per ad found. This is a real row from a real run:

{
    "input": "13000:1000",
    "found": true,
    "adId": 133774586,
    "title": "CHÍNH CHỦ BÁN NHÀ GẦN Q1",
    "price": 3950000000,
    "priceStr": "3,95 tỷ",
    "areaName": "Quận Bình Thạnh",
    "category": "Nhà ở",
    "postedAt": "2026-07-26T13:55:52.000Z",
    "image": "https://cdn.chotot.com/__JQpIRzNi-Ql0rrJlvaXEsNoEuUk2u6sGnjkZUWtQQ/preset:listing/plain/10170567e3d06cca404097085c321738-2994852814587351920.jpg",
    "seller": "Quỳnh Bùi Thảo",
    "url": "https://www.chotot.com/133774586.htm",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T13:56:29.273Z"
}

Field	What it means
input	The region/category query you passed
found	Whether the query returned at least one ad
adId	Chotot's internal ad ID
title	Ad title, in Vietnamese as listed
price / priceStr	Numeric price and Chotot's own formatted price string
areaName	District/area name
category	Category name
postedAt	ISO timestamp of when the ad was listed
image	Listing thumbnail image URL
seller	Seller/account display name
url	Direct link to the ad on chotot.com
scrapedAt	When this Actor fetched the row

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FAQ

Does it need an API key / login? No — Chotot's listing API is fully public keyless JSON.

How fresh is the data? Live at request time — the same feed that powers chotot.com search results.

What region/category codes can I use? Any of Chotot's own internal location (region_v2) and category (cg) codes, visible in the query string of any chotot.com search-results URL. 13000 (Ho Chi Minh City), 12000 (Hanoi), 1000 (real estate) and 2000 (vehicles) are common ones to start from.

Can I call it from an AI agent? Yes — standard Apify Actor, callable from the Apify API, the SDK, or the Apify MCP server.

What this is NOT. It does not translate Vietnamese listing text, does not extract seller phone numbers or private contact details beyond the public display name, and caps at 50 ads per query — a live sample of a region/category, not a full historical archive.

Found a wrong result, or need a check we don't run? Open an issue on this Actor's page.

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