Browse a Marketplace category

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Browse the public listings of one Marketplace category at explicit coordinates, without a keyword, with price, condition, delivery, date, availability and sorting filters.

GET/v1/facebook/marketplace/categoryx-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

latstringrequiredquery

Search latitude, -90 to 90.

max 32 chars

Example51.5072

lngstringrequiredquery

Search longitude, -180 to 180.

max 32 chars

Example-0.1276

radius_kmstringquery

Search radius, 0–500 kilometers; default 50.

max 32 chars

min_pricestringquery

Minimum price in major currency units, at most max_price.

max 32 chars

max_pricestringquery

Maximum price in major currency units.

max 32 chars

countstringquery

Marketplace result count, 1–100.

sort_byenumquery

Native group or Marketplace ordering. See the enumerated request schema.

one of: suggested, distance_ascend, creation_time_descend, price_ascend, price_descend

delivery_methodenumquery

all, local_pickup or shipping.

one of: all, local_pickup, shipping

conditionenumquery

new, used_like_new, used_good or used_fair.

one of: new, used_like_new, used_good, used_fair

date_listedenumquery

all, 1, 7, 30, last_24_hours, last_7_days or last_30_days.

one of: all, 1, 7, 30, last_24_hours, last_7_days, last_30_days

availabilityenumquery

available, sold or all.

one of: available, sold, all

cursorstringquery

Opaque continuation from this service. Preserve it exactly; cursors are source- and route-specific.

min 1 chars · max 16000 chars

slugstringrequiredquery

Category slug from the category list, for example cell-phones: lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, at most 96 characters.

max 96 chars

Examplecell-phones

Response fields

dataobjectoptional

Normalized result with author, post, event or listing data and per-item coverage where applicable.

Optional.

hydration.totalinteger

Always included.

hydration.enrichedinteger

Always included.

hydration.failedinteger

Always included.

successboolean

True when usable public data is returned.

statusenum

success or partial on HTTP 200; failed or challenged on failure.

one of: success, partial

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

sourceUrlstring

Canonical public Facebook page used for retrieval.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

order is newest_first for creation_time_descend, relevance for suggested, else source_order. Completeness of this bounded response. Warnings name restricted, missing, interrupted or unavailable optional data.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

coverage.orderenum

Always included.

one of: newest_first, oldest_first, ranked, relevance, source_order

Optional.

coverage.window.sincestringoptional

Optional.

coverage.window.untilstringoptional

Optional.

Counted upstream requests, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

listingsobject[]

Public listings with id, url, title, price, location, primary photo, category, creation_time, listing_date_text, delivery types and availability flags.

up to 100 items

cursorstringnullable

Opaque continuation from this service. Preserve it exactly; cursors are source- and route-specific.

has_next_pageboolean

Public source has_next_page; null or empty when no value is exposed.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with explicit missing/failed auxiliary coverage.
400	`invalid_request`	Malformed, duplicate, conflicting or unsupported parameters.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service API key.
403	`restricted_page`	The resource is private or restricted.
404	`not_found`	Unknown route or missing resource.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Facebook throttled retrieval.
502	`upstream_challenged` `upstream_error` `unsupported_page`	Source challenge, failure or unsupported/mismatched structure.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex` `request_limit` `unsafe_redirect`	Bounded retrieval or fixed-origin policy failed.
503	`busy`	All Facebook worker slots are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category?slug=cell-phones&lat=51.5072&lng=-0.1276" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category?slug=cell-phones&lat=51.5072&lng=-0.1276",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category?slug=cell-phones&lat=51.5072&lng=-0.1276",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Facebook Marketplace request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "slug": "cell-phones",
        "lat": "51.5072",
        "lng": "-0.1276"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category?slug=cell-phones&lat=51.5072&lng=-0.1276", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/facebook/marketplace/category?slug=cell-phones&lat=51.5072&lng=-0.1276"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "partial",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/synthetic.page/",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_web",
    "order": "relevance",
    "complete": false,
    "warnings": [
      "synthetic_example"
    ]
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 1200,
    "durationMs": 500
  },
  "listings": [],
  "cursor": null,
  "has_next_page": false
}

Malformed, duplicate, conflicting or unsupported parameters.

{
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  }
}