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.

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.

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",
    "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
  }
}