Facebook Marketplace Scraper

Yes — scraping public Marketplace listings is legal. Listings, prices, photos and seller names visible without special access are public information. For the full breakdown, read our legal guide.

Yes — a Facebook account is required. Marketplace pages aren't visible to logged-out visitors, so you'll need to sync a Facebook account via the lobstr.io Chrome extension before running. Use a secondary account to keep your main one safe.

27 data points per listing. You get title, price, currency, formatted price, strikethrough price, all photo URLs, description, condition, category, delivery type, sold/live status, exact location with city, latitude and longitude, seller name and ID, listing creation time, listing-specific attributes (e.g. vehicle make, model, mileage, fuel type for cars) and whether Facebook shows the listing under "Results from outside your search".

Up to 10 listings per minute per account. Run multiple accounts in parallel to scale up. Going slow is intentional — it keeps your synced account safe from rate-limiting and bans.

All categories. Vehicles, electronics, furniture, clothing, real estate, tools, hobbies — anything listed on Facebook Marketplace works. Just paste the search URL with whatever category and filters you want.

Yes — any filter Facebook supports. Build the search on Marketplace itself with the city, category, price range, condition or keyword filters you want, then paste that URL. The scraper respects every filter in the URL. Two settings go further: Newer than keeps only listings published after a date or within a duration (it adds Facebook's Date listed filter for you), and Exclude Results Outside Your Search drops the listings Facebook shows under "Results from outside your search". Skipped listings are not billed.

Yes — all photos and seller details. You get the full array of high-resolution image URLs for each listing plus the seller's name and Facebook ID, so you can identify duplicate listings or repeat sellers across runs.

Use a secondary account and stick to safe limits. Don't run multiple scrapers from the same account at once, avoid scraping 24/7, and read our account safety guide for the full set of best practices.

Yes — schedule runs hourly, daily or weekly. Ideal for tracking new listings on specific keywords, monitoring price changes or building a continuously refreshed dataset of deals. Set Newer than to your schedule interval (24h for a daily run, 7d for a weekly one) and each run only collects, and bills, the listings published since the last one.

CSV, JSON and direct push to Google Sheets — plus the lobstr.io API for piping data into your own stack. Connect Google Sheets once and every run lands in your spreadsheet automatically.

URL, such as https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/london/search/?category_id=546583916084032&query=Vehicles&referral_ui_component=category_menu_item. Paste thousands at once or upload a CSV; duplicate inputs are skipped. 5 settings shape the run: see them in the playground.

27 data attributes per listing, each with its description and an example: see the full list.

No. Duplicates are removed, and you only pay for unique results.

As fresh as your run: each run collects the data from the site at the moment it runs, nothing comes from a stored database.

CSV, Excel or JSON from the dashboard, through the API, or sent after every run to Google Sheets, Amazon S3, an SFTP server, a webhook or by email.

7 days on the free plan, 45 days on Starter and Pro, 90 days on Team and Business. Then they can no longer be downloaded. Download or deliver what you want to keep.

Around 10 listings a minute for one squid. Your plan's slots run several squids at the same time.

99.77% of its runs had no incident over the last 90 days (1 incident, 100% fixed). Every day is on this page.

Our team fixes the scraper: every scraper on lobstr.io is built and maintained by us. Over the last 90 days, the median time to fix this one was 12h 4min. How we measure.

Yes, on paid plans: every hour, every day, every weekday or on a custom schedule, in your time zone.

Yes: set the most results per task and per run in the settings. The run stops there and so does the bill.

1 credit per result. Options add to it: Get Listing Details +4. The playground shows the price as you pick them.

Yes. The free plan gives 100 credits every month, 100 results with this scraper, exported in full.

Every month a plan gives credits, which pay for results, and slots, which set how many squids run at the same time. Starter: $20 for 10,000 credits; Pro: $100 for 100,000 credits; Team: $500 for 1,000,000 credits. Upgrades start right away and are prorated; downgrades and cancellations take effect at the end of the cycle.

No. Your credits refresh every month with your plan.

You choose, per squid: pause and pick up where it stopped, or end the run. To keep going, upgrade or reset your billing cycle: your plan renews right away and your credits come back. Auto Billing Reset does it for you when your usage crosses a threshold you set.

Yes: paying yearly takes 20% off every plan.

A monthly plan: within 10 days of the charge, if no credit was used in that period. A yearly plan: within 30 days, in full if no credit was used, otherwise minus one month. Cancel from your billing page, then write to contact@lobstr.io. The details are in the terms of use.

Collecting publicly available data is generally allowed, but you choose what you collect and you are responsible for how you use it. Our terms of use (article 6) ask every user to respect the rights of the sites, not to extract substantial parts of a database, not to access confidential data and to follow personal data law such as the GDPR. This is not legal advice.

When results contain personal data, you are the data controller and lobstr.io, a French company, processes them on your behalf, under our personal data agreement. You need a lawful basis for what you collect, must inform the people concerned and honor their requests.

Results: 7 days on the free plan, 45 days on Starter and Pro, 90 days on Team and Business, then they can no longer be downloaded; you can delete them sooner. Your account data: see the privacy notice.

Yes, through the REST API at https://api.lobstr.io/v1, with your key from the dashboard. The playground’s Code tab writes the calls for your settings, in cURL and Python. The documentation has the full reference.

Yes. Add our MCP server, https://mcp.lobstr.io/mcp, to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and sign in with lobstr.io. Your agent shows the cost and asks you before a run spends credits. The playground’s Agent tab gives you a prompt.

No. Credits pay for results, not for requests.

Yes. Point a webhook at your server and lobstr.io calls it when a run succeeds or fails.

Yes, per endpoint: 120 requests a minute on squids and runs, 90 on tasks, 2 a second on results. Above that the API answers 429 with a Retry-After header.