Marketplace Magpie

Setup email alerts for new items on Facebook Marketplace. Expensive due to level of proxies required to scrape.

Accounts

You will need to setup the following accounts.

ScrapingBee - Proxy API

Start with free trial credits to test. For production upgrade to 'Startup' Plan at $100/month for ~35 search terms scraped every 15 minutes.

SendGrid - Email API

Free account supports 100 emails / day which is plenty.

Setup

In SendGrid under Email API, create a Dynamic Template with an arbitrary name. Add a new version and paste in code from config/template.html.

Create .env file with the following format.

scrapingbee_api_key = 
sendgrid_api_key = 
sendgrid_template_id = 
sender = 
recipient = 

Configure searches in default.json. Location must be copied from Marketplace URL (facebook.com/marketplace/COPY_LOCATION/search?query=bicycle).

{
    "term": "bicycle",
    "location": "nyc"
},