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Does the "new" Facebook Marketplace have a listing API?

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Facebook recently launched a slightly better, and certainly more prominent, Marketplace to sell goods locally. Is there an API for adding listings or does anyone know if there will be an API?

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Jay Jee Avatar asked Oct 03 '16 19:10

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I doubt they will have an API for the Marketplace as it is designed as a person to person local marketplace, rather than a business to person marketplace. However, it would not be hard to build your own bot to post ads using something like nightmare.js. I looked into this a few months back and it took me about 2 hours to create a minimal bot that could post a basic ad. Could share the code with you if you want.

If you're not familiar with Javascript/Node.js, you could build it using any web scraper but Nightmare.js makes it really easy.

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John Walz Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 18:09

John Walz