Kijiji.ca Scraper

Kijiji.ca Scraper — Canada Classifieds Data Extractor for Cars, Apartments, Jobs, Services & Marketplace Listings

The most complete Kijiji.ca classifieds extraction tool on Apify. Pull live listings from Canada's #1 marketplace — Kijiji — across all five verticals (Autos, Real Estate, Jobs, Services, Buy & Sell) with a vertical-aware structured schema, FSBO vs dealer detection, bilingual EN/FR handling, and pure HTTP performance. Built for resellers, car flippers, rental researchers, recruiters, and brand-monitoring teams across Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and every Canadian metro.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Details
🍁 Marketplace Scope	All 10 Canadian provinces & 3 territories across 5 verticals: Autos, Real Estate, Jobs, Services, and Buy & Sell
🚗 Vertical-Aware Schema	70+ structured fields: VIN, Carfax link, make/model/year/mileage (Autos); bedrooms, bathrooms, rent, utilities, pets (Real Estate); salary & jobType (Jobs)
🏷️ Seller & Price Signals	Automatic adSource detection (fsbo private seller vs dealer vs professional), priceDropped flag, priceOriginal, priceClassification, and motivatedSeller
🔢 1,000+ Deep Pagination	maxPages: 0 (unlimited default) walks page-1 → page-2 → page-3… automatically until your maxItems target is reached
🛡️ Deduplication	100% deduplicated within every run by canonical listingId
📤 Bulk Export	JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), HTML, XML, RSS, and live Apify API / Webhooks

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✨ What This Kijiji Scraper Does

The Kijiji.ca Scraper is a production-ready Apify Actor that extracts live classified listings from Kijiji.ca — the dominant general-purpose marketplace in Canada, owned by Adevinta, with tens of millions of monthly visits across English Canada and Quebec. Kijiji is the country's go-to destination for used cars, apartment rentals, household items, freelance services, garage sales, side-hustle jobs, and second-hand everything in every province from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

This actor turns any Kijiji search URL or keyword query into a clean, structured JSON dataset — no headless browser, no CAPTCHA solving, no fragile DOM scraping. It uses pure HTTP fetching with intelligent JSON hydration parsing (__NEXT_DATA__), automatic vertical detection, and per-vertical schema enrichment so cars come with VIN/mileage/transmission, apartments come with bedrooms/rent/utilities, and services come with hourly-rate and licensed flags — all from the same actor.

In one run you can pull:

• Autos — used cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, RVs, boats, snowmobiles, classic cars, heavy equipment
• Real Estate — apartments for rent, condos for sale, houses, rooms for rent, vacation rentals, parking spots, land, commercial
• Jobs — full-time, part-time, casual, contract, internship, restaurant, healthcare, trades, IT, sales, customer service
• Services — moving, cleaning, tutoring, contractors, beauty, automotive repair, pet care, financial, legal
• Marketplace (Buy & Sell) — furniture, electronics, baby gear, clothing, sporting goods, tools, musical instruments, free stuff, collectibles

Every listing record includes a normalized price (CAD), location with city + province + lat/long, poster type (FSBO vs dealer/professional), top-ad/showcase flags, full image gallery URLs, and the original Kijiji URL — plus dozens of vertical-specific fields when applicable.

🔎 Why scrape Kijiji.ca yourself when this exists?

Kijiji looks like a "simple" classifieds site, but engineering a stable scraper from scratch surfaces nine annoying problems within the first day:

• Kijiji.ca is a React/Next.js SPA — no clean HTML; data is buried inside <script id="__NEXT_DATA__"> JSON blobs that change shape periodically (results → listings → mainListings)
• Non-standard pagination — page-{N} URL segment inserted in the middle of the path, not a ?page=N query
• FSBO vs dealer distinction lives in the image-CDN URL pattern (ca-prod-fsbo-ads vs ca-prod-dealer-ads), not an obvious flag — most scrapers miss it entirely
• Bilingual content — Quebec listings in French; auto vertical mixes "Berline"/"Sedan", "Manuelle"/"Manual" — requires language detection + normalization
• Vertical-specific fields aren't flat: cars have VIN/mileage/Carfax, apartments have bedrooms/utilities/pets, jobs have salary/remote — a generic scraper produces useless lowest-common-denominator rows
• Moderate anti-bot — datacenter IPs work intermittently; sustained scraping triggers 403/503 from Akamai. Canadian residential proxies are strongly recommended
• Top-ads, showcase, highlighted, repost flags pollute results — without filtering you double-count sponsored items
• VIP (View Item Page) detail enrichment requires a second HTTP request per listing with the right Referer header and respectful pacing — or you get throttled

This actor solves all of that: tolerant deep-search JSON parser, vertical-aware extraction, FSBO/dealer CDN detection, EN/FR language handling, page-based pagination, optional VIP enrichment, pacing controls, and full Apify proxy integration with CA residential defaults.

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Quick Start

One-Click Run

1. Open the Kijiji.ca Scraper on the Apify Store and click "Try for free"
2. Paste a Kijiji search URL — for example https://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/c174l1700272
3. Hit Start — listings stream into the dataset within seconds
4. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS directly from the dataset view

API Run (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/kijiji-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/c174l1700272",
        "https://www.kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-toronto/c37l1700273"
    ],
    "adSourceFilter": "fsbo-only",
    "fetchDetails": True,
    "maxItems": 200,
    "maxPages": 5
})

for listing in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(listing["title"], "—", listing["priceAmount"], "CAD —", listing["locationCity"])

API Run (Node.js / TypeScript)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/kijiji-scraper').call({
    keyword: 'toyota corolla',
    categoryCode: 'c174',
    provinces: ['ON', 'QC'],
    minPrice: 5000,
    maxPrice: 15000,
    sortBy: 'priceAsc',
    adSourceFilter: 'fsbo-only',
    maxItems: 500,
    fetchDetails: true
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} private-seller Corollas across ON + QC`);

API Run (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/haketa~kijiji-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-montreal/c37l1700281"],
    "fetchDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxPages": 3
  }'

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🔁 How It Works & Pagination

Kijiji.ca is a React/Next.js application that hydrates its full listing payload into the page HTML inside a <script id="__NEXT_DATA__"> JSON blob. This actor exploits that fact instead of fighting it:

1. HTTP fetch the search/category URL with got-scraping (browser-like headers, TLS fingerprint, automatic redirect handling)
2. Extract the hydration JSON — primarily from __NEXT_DATA__, with fallbacks to Apollo state and JSON-LD blocks
3. Deep-search the JSON tree with tolerant field discovery (handles results, listings, mainListings, ads, etc. as Kijiji rotates names)
4. Detect the vertical from the category code (c174 → autos, c37 → real-estate, c45 → jobs) or fall back to URL pattern inference
5. Parse with a vertical-aware extractor — cars get make/model/year/mileage/VIN/transmission; rentals get bedrooms/rent/utilities/pets; jobs get salary/employment type
6. Detect FSBO vs dealer by inspecting image CDN URLs (ca-prod-fsbo-ads/ = private seller, ca-prod-dealer-ads/ = professional)
7. Optionally visit each VIP (View Item Page) for full description, complete image gallery, VIN, Carfax link, amenities, features
8. Follow pagination by injecting page-{N} into the URL path (Kijiji's idiosyncratic structure) up to your maxPages limit

Source URL structure

Page Type	URL Pattern	Example
Category search	kijiji.ca/b-{category}/{location}/c{X}l{Y}	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/c174l1700272
Paginated	kijiji.ca/b-{category}/{location}/page-{N}/c{X}l{Y}	kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-toronto/page-3/c37l1700273
Listing detail (VIP)	kijiji.ca/v-{category}/{city}/{slug}/{listingId}	kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/toronto/2018-honda-civic-touring/1234567890

Engineering details

• Pure HTTP — no Puppeteer, Playwright, Chromium, or xvfb. Single Node process; tiny memory footprint
• Tolerant JSON parser survives Kijiji's quarterly schema rotations via deep recursive field discovery
• Vertical inference — explicit category-code map + URL-pattern fallback (/b-cars-trucks/, /b-apartments-condos/, /b-services/)
• FSBO/dealer detection via image-CDN URL pattern matching (ca-prod-fsbo-ads vs ca-prod-dealer-ads vs ca-prod-pro-ads)
• Bilingual EN/FR language detection on description; province-aware (QC defaults to FR scoring boost)
• Price normalization — handles $1,200/mo, $15 000, Gratuit, Please contact, Swap/Trade, Free into a clean numeric CAD value
• Anti-bot pacing — configurable requestDelay + maxConcurrency (default 500 ms / 3 parallel); Canadian residential proxy default
• Price-drop signal — priceDropped: true is emitted when Kijiji flags a reduced price (42% of listings on the verified run). Fields isRepost, underpricedFlag and categoryMedian are reserved placeholders (always null today) for a planned cross-run intelligence layer — they are safe to ignore for now.

🔁 Pagination & scale

Kijiji paginates with a page-{N} segment injected into the middle of the URL path (not a ?page=N query), so the actor rewrites each result URL as it walks forward: page-1 → page-2 → page-3 … up to your maxPages limit, stopping early when a page returns no new listings or the maxItems budget is reached. Every record is de-duplicated on listingId within the run.

• Verified behaviour: a single Cars & Trucks / Ontario run returned 400 unique listings across 9 result pages in ~53 seconds with 0 duplicates before hitting the maxItems: 400 cap — roughly 34-46 listings per page.
• Controls: maxItems caps the total listings across all searches (0 = unlimited); maxPages caps pages per search. Combine with multiple provinces or multiple searchUrls to fan out — each search is paginated independently, then merged and de-duplicated.
• Scale: heavy configurations comfortably pull thousands of listings per run; raise maxConcurrency (sweet-spot 5-8 on residential) and maxPages to go bigger, or schedule tight filtered runs for near-real-time monitoring.

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📥 Input Parameters

You don't need any URLs or codes to start — just pick a Category and Province and click Start. Power users can paste exact Kijiji result-page URLs into searchUrls instead. There is no mode switch anymore: the actor auto-detects the path (Start URLs if you provide them, otherwise it builds search URLs from your Category/Province pickers), and it auto-detects the vertical from the category code / URL slug.

{
  "keyword": "",
  "categoryCode": "c174",
  "provinces": ["ON"],
  "sortBy": "dateDesc",
  "adSourceFilter": "all",
  "language": "both",
  "minPrice": 0,
  "maxPrice": 0,
  "fetchDetails": false,
  "maxItems": 400,
  "maxPages": 25,
  "searchUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "CA"
  },
  "requestDelay": 500, "maxConcurrency": 3, "maxRetries": 3, "debugMode": false
}

Parameter reference

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keyword	string	""	Free-text search term (e.g. macbook pro, 2 bedroom apartment, toyota camry). Leave empty to browse a whole category. Combined with the Category + Province below.
categoryCode	string	""	Kijiji category to search (e.g. c174 cars-trucks, c37 apartments-condos, c35 houses-for-sale, c10 buy-and-sell, c30 motorcycles, c45 jobs, c72 services, c111 pets). Empty = all categories.
provinces	array<string>	[]	One or more Canadian province codes: ON, QC, BC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU. Empty = all of Canada.
sortBy	string	dateDesc	Result ordering: relevance, dateDesc (newest), priceAsc (cheapest), priceDesc (most expensive).
adSourceFilter	string	all	all keeps everything. fsbo-only = For Sale By Owner (private sellers, ideal for flippers/bargain-hunting). dealer-only = professional/dealer listings. exclude-ebay = drop eBay cross-listings.
language	string	both	Filter by detected description language: both, en (English only), fr (French only). Quebec listings are typically French.
minPrice	integer	0	Minimum price in CAD. 0 = no minimum.
maxPrice	integer	0	Maximum price in CAD. 0 = no maximum.
fetchDetails	boolean	false	Visit each listing's detail page (VIP) for full description, all images, VIN, features, amenities. Slower but much richer.
maxItems	integer	0	Max total listings to scrape across all searches. 0 = unlimited (the Console prefills 100 as a fast starting value; set 1000+ for deep harvests).
maxPages	integer	0	Max result pages per search (0 = unlimited, governed by maxItems). Each page returns ~20-40 listings.
searchUrls	array<string>	[]	Advanced: paste exact Kijiji.ca result-page URLs to scrape them directly. Overrides the Category/Province pickers above. Example: https://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/c174l1700272.
proxyConfiguration	object	CA residential	Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL group, country CA. Strongly recommended for the best coverage and reliability.
requestDelay / maxConcurrency / maxRetries	integer	500 / 3 / 3	Pacing knobs. Kijiji tolerates 3-8 parallel; 500 ms delay; retries on 403/503/429/5xx with backoff.
debugMode	boolean	false	Verbose parser logging — dumps hydration JSON for the first page of each search. Useful when Kijiji changes page structure.

Legacy note: older saved inputs may still contain mode and vertical — these are ignored and kept only for backwards compatibility. The actor now auto-detects the run path (Start URLs vs pickers) and the vertical (from the category code / URL slug).

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📤 Output Schema

Every listing returns the same flat JSON shape, with vertical-specific fields populated only when relevant. Generic fields apply to every listing; vertical fields populate only for that vertical (e.g. bedrooms is null for car listings).

Common fields (every listing)

Field	Type	Description
listingId	string	Kijiji-internal listing identifier (numeric ID in the URL)
vertical	string	One of autos, real-estate, jobs, services, marketplace
category / categoryCode / subCategory	string	Human-readable category, Kijiji code (c174, c37), and sub-category
title / description / descriptionLang	string	Title, body (full when fetchDetails: true), detected language en or fr
url / searchUrl	string	Canonical listing URL + source search URL it was found through
priceRaw / priceAmount / priceCurrency / priceType / isNegotiable	mixed	Original string, numeric CAD value (null for "Please contact"/"Swap"), currency (CAD), type (fixed, contact, swap, free), OBO/firm flag
priceOriginal / priceClassification	mixed	Original (pre-drop) price in CAD when the listing was reduced, and Kijiji's own price-rating badge (GREAT, GOOD, FAIR). Present mainly on autos listings that carry a reduced price or a price rating.
locationRaw / locationCity / locationProvince / locationId	string	Raw, parsed city, two-letter province (ON, QC, BC...), Kijiji location code (l9004...)
latitude / longitude	number	Geo coordinates when published (100% on the verified autos run)
adSource	string	fsbo (private seller), dealer, professional, or ebay — derived from the image CDN path; null if undetermined
posterId / posterName / posterType	string	posterId is always present (e.g. COMMERCIAL_8040 for dealers); posterType is Verified when the seller is a verified account. posterName and phoneNumber are only published on the detail (VIP) page, not search results.
isTopAd / isShowcase / isHighlighted	boolean	Paid placement flags (top-ad, showcase, highlighted)
activationDate / sortingDate / scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamps for first-posted, sort/bump order, and extraction time
imageCount / thumbnailUrl / imageUrls	mixed	Photo count, primary thumbnail, and full gallery URLs (resolved to the kijijica-960-jpg CDN size)
hasPhone / phoneNumber	mixed	Phone availability flag + value when the poster published it (value on VIP pages)
isRepost / priceDropped	boolean	Re-post flag; priceDropped is true when Kijiji flags a price reduction (42% of the verified run)

Vertical-specific fields

Autos (make, model, trim, year, mileageKm, transmission, fuelType, drivetrain, bodyType, color, condition, seats, doors, vin, carfaxLink, forSaleBy, dealerName, features[], motivatedSeller) — covers Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, RVs, Boats, ATVs. On the verified run: make/model/year/mileageKm/bodyType/forSaleBy 100%, fuelType 88%, drivetrain 87%, color 86%, trim 84%, vin 74%, carfaxLink present on dealer autos that attached a report. motivatedSeller matches phrases like "must sell", "moving", "quick sale", "déménagement". dealerName is populated only on detail (VIP) pages. (underpricedFlag/categoryMedian are reserved placeholders — always null today.)

Real Estate (listingType, propertyType, bedrooms, bathrooms, rentMonthly, utilitiesIncluded[], furnished, petsAllowed, parkingType, sizeText, availableDate, agreementType, buildingAmenities[], managementCompany) — covers apartments, condos, houses, rooms, sublets, short-term, parking, commercial. bedrooms enum: Bachelor/Studio, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+.

Jobs (jobTitle, company, jobType, salaryRaw, salaryMin, salaryMax, remote) — jobType enum: Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Casual, Internship, Seasonal. remote enum: On-site, Hybrid, Remote.

Services (serviceType, serviceProvider, serviceArea, hourlyRate, isLicensed) — covers moving, cleaning, tutoring, beauty, automotive, pet care, financial, legal.

Marketplace / Buy & Sell (itemCondition, brand, isFirmPrice, swapAvailable, deliveryAvailable) — itemCondition enum: New, Used, Used - Like New, Refurbished, For Parts.

Example records

Car listing (dealer, Markham ON — real fields from the verification run):

{
  "listingId": "1738554114", "categoryCode": "c174",
  "title": "2018 Nissan Qashqai FWD S -NO ACCIDENT-LOW KM-KEYLESS ENTRY-", "descriptionLang": "en",
  "url": "https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/markham-york-region/2018-nissan-qashqai-fwd-s/1738554114",
  "priceRaw": "$11,998", "priceAmount": 11998, "priceCurrency": "CAD", "priceType": "fixed",
  "priceOriginal": null, "priceClassification": "GREAT", "isNegotiable": null,
  "locationCity": "Markham", "locationProvince": "ON", "latitude": 43.8082102, "longitude": -79.4904253,
  "adSource": "dealer", "posterId": "COMMERCIAL_24687", "forSaleBy": "Dealer",
  "make": "nissan", "model": "qashqai", "trim": "FWD S", "year": 2018, "mileageKm": 63360,
  "transmission": "Automatic", "fuelType": "Gasoline", "drivetrain": "FWD", "bodyType": "SUV / Crossover",
  "color": "black", "vin": "JN1BJ1CP1JW156036",
  "carfaxLink": "https://vhr.carfax.ca/?id=OxPxawpypqjOsc50gYgRRp8g11Mjpcv6",
  "features": ["Bluetooth", "Navigation", "Alloy Wheels", "Parking Assist"],
  "isTopAd": true, "isShowcase": true, "priceDropped": false,
  "imageCount": 28, "thumbnailUrl": "https://media.kijiji.ca/api/v1/ca-prod-dealer-ads/images/83/838e...?rule=kijijica-960-jpg",
  "sortingDate": "2026-11-01T00:09:51.000Z", "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T23:30:19.618Z"
}

Values like make/model/color come straight from Kijiji's canonical attribute values and are lower-cased (e.g. nissan, qashqai, black). carfaxLink populates directly from the search results when the seller attached a CARFAX report (26 of 46 dealer autos on page 1 of the verification run). posterName and phoneNumber only appear when you enable fetchDetails: true.

Apartment rental (Montreal, French):

{
  "listingId": "1700987654", "categoryCode": "c37",
  "title": "Beau 4½ rénové — Plateau Mont-Royal — Disponible 1er juillet", "descriptionLang": "fr",
  "url": "https://www.kijiji.ca/v-apartments-condos/ville-de-montreal/4-renove-plateau/1700987654",
  "priceRaw": "1 850 $", "priceAmount": 1850, "priceCurrency": "CAD",
  "locationCity": "Montreal", "locationProvince": "QC",
  "adSource": "fsbo", "listingType": "For Rent", "propertyType": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": "2", "bathrooms": "1", "rentMonthly": 1850,
  "utilitiesIncluded": ["Heat", "Hot water"], "furnished": "No", "petsAllowed": "Limited",
  "sizeText": "750 sqft", "availableDate": "2026-07-01", "buildingAmenities": ["Laundry"],
  "imageCount": 9, "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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Category & Vertical Reference

Top Kijiji vertical → category code map

Vertical	Category Codes	Coverage
Autos	c27 (root), c174 cars/trucks, c30 motorcycles, c171 RVs, c172 ATVs/snowmobiles, c173 boats, c175 parts	Cars, trucks, SUVs, bikes, powersports, marine, parts
Real Estate	c34 (root), c37 apartments-rent, c35 houses-sale, c643 rooms/roommates, c785 short-term	Rentals, sales, rooms, vacation rentals
Marketplace	c10 Buy & Sell (root)	Furniture, electronics, baby gear, clothing, tools, free stuff
Jobs	c45 Jobs (root)	Full-time, part-time, casual, contract, internship
Services	c72 Services (root)	Moving, cleaning, tutoring, beauty, automotive

Ad source values and price types

Enum	Values	Notes
adSource	fsbo (private seller via ca-prod-fsbo-ads CDN), dealer (licensed auto dealer), professional (other professional), ebay (cross-posted from eBay Canada), or null (undetermined)	Best filter for flippers (fsbo-only) vs B2B (dealer-only). On the verified run the split was 128 FSBO / 272 dealer.
priceType	fixed (numeric), contact (no number disclosed — "Please Contact"), swap (swap/trade only), free (À donner / "Free")	When priceType != "fixed", priceAmount will be null. Separate isNegotiable boolean captures OBO (true) vs firm (false).

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🎯 Use Cases

Reseller Arbitrage & Flipping

Power-resellers and side-hustle flippers use Kijiji data to spot mispriced items every morning before competitors:

• Pull all FSBO furniture/electronics under $200 in your metro with adSourceFilter: "fsbo-only" and maxPrice: 200
• Spot price drops instantly via priceDropped: true and compare priceAmount against priceOriginal for reduced listings
• Watch for motivatedSeller language (must sell, moving, quick sale, déménagement) to time low-ball offers
• Diff today vs yesterday to catch newly-listed items in the first hour, when private-seller deals still exist
• Cross-reference with eBay, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp to identify items priced 30%+ below comparable platforms

Used-Car Dealers & Auto Flippers

Independent dealers, wholesalers, and auction buyers use the autos vertical for live market intelligence:

• Aggregate every FSBO Civic/Camry/F-150 across Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, Ottawa — the daily wholesale acquisition pool
• Track dealer competitor inventory with adSourceFilter: "dealer-only" — see who is listing what, at what price
• Monitor mileage/price distributions by make/model/year for accurate appraisal benchmarks
• Pipe Carfax links and flag salvage/rebuilt titles via the carfaxLink and condition fields for risk-aware sourcing

Real Estate, Rental & Property Research

Renters, landlords, PropTech analysts, and immigration relocation consultants use Kijiji for ground-truth rental data:

• Build a live rent index for Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary by bedrooms and propertyType
• Map utilities-included rentals vs hydro-extra (huge cost difference in Ontario apartments)
• Track pets-allowed inventory for relocators with pets — a chronic Canadian rental pain point
• Spot new-build supply by tracking managementCompany and buildingAmenities arrays
• Cross-promote with our Realtor.ca scraper for the for-sale side of the Canadian market

Brand & Counterfeit Monitoring

Brand-protection teams at consumer-electronics, fashion, sporting-goods, and beauty companies monitor Kijiji for unauthorised resale:

• Track listings mentioning your brand across all five verticals daily
• Detect unauthorized refurbishers, grey-market dealers, suspiciously-priced "new in box" inventory
• Capture poster IDs to identify repeat offenders (one posterId listing 200+ of your products is a red flag)
• Document evidence with full image galleries for takedown notices

Immigration & Relocation Services

Newcomer-services agencies, settlement workers, and relocation consultants advise on Canadian living costs using fresh Kijiji data:

• Generate up-to-date "cost of living" briefings with median rents, used-car prices, furniture costs by metro
• Build neighbourhood comparison reports (Plateau vs Verdun, Yorkville vs Liberty Village, Kitsilano vs Mount Pleasant)
• Help newcomers source affordable household setup — from beds and dishes to bicycles and winter tires
• Identify French-only listings in Quebec for francophone newcomers (language: "fr")
• Monitor sublet & roommate listings (categoryCode: "c643") for short-term arrivals

Market Research & Retail Strategy

Retailers, CPG brands, and market researchers use second-hand pricing as a leading indicator:

• Resale price index for high-ticket items (mattresses, fridges, sofas, e-bikes) — measures real-world depreciation
• Trend detection — sudden spike in "Peloton for sale" listings predicts retail demand collapse
• Inflation tracking — used-good prices respond faster than retail; great proxy for household discretionary spending
• Geo-pricing analytics — same product, different price in Calgary vs Halifax, reveals regional purchasing power

Recruiting, Services & Workforce Intelligence

Recruiters, home-services aggregators, gig-economy operators, and insurers mine the jobs + services verticals:

• Find side-hustle, casual, weekend, and under-the-table roles that LinkedIn and Indeed never surface
• Map blue-collar and trades demand by metro (electricians, drivers, restaurant staff, caregivers, movers)
• Hourly-rate benchmarking for trades, cleaning, beauty, and tutoring via the hourlyRate field
• Identify licensed vs unlicensed providers via isLicensed for compliance research

Journalism, Public Interest & Academic Research

Journalists at the Globe and Mail, CBC, Toronto Star, Le Devoir, and academic researchers use Kijiji data to report on:

• Housing affordability crises — Vancouver rentals over $3,000, Toronto bachelors over $1,800
• Rental discrimination — pet/income/family-status language patterns across listings
• Used-vehicle market shifts — EV resale, post-pandemic SUV demand
• Cost-of-living comparisons across Canadian regions for explanatory journalism

Insurance & Risk Underwriting

Auto and property insurers correlate Kijiji data with policy risk:

• Detect "for sale" vehicles still appearing on policies (insurance fraud / lapse risk)
• Benchmark replacement values for total-loss claims using live FSBO prices
• Identify rental properties misclassified on homeowner policies
• Monitor stolen-goods aggregation patterns for cargo / commercial property recoveries

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💡 Sample Queries & Recipes

Recipe 1: Every FSBO Honda Civic 2015-2019 under $18K across Ontario

{ "keyword": "honda civic", "categoryCode": "c174",
  "provinces": ["ON"], "minPrice": 5000, "maxPrice": 18000,
  "sortBy": "priceAsc", "adSourceFilter": "fsbo-only", "fetchDetails": true, "maxItems": 500 }

Recipe 2: All 2-bedroom apartments under $2,200 in Montreal

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-montreal/c37l1700281"],
  "maxPrice": 2200, "language": "both",
  "fetchDetails": true, "maxPages": 10 }

Recipe 3: Newest Vancouver Buy & Sell listings under $100

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-buy-sell/city-of-vancouver/c10l1700287"],
  "maxPrice": 100, "sortBy": "dateDesc",
  "maxItems": 200, "maxPages": 5 }

Recipe 4: Dealer truck inventory in GTA (sales prospecting)

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/truck/c174l1700272"],
  "adSourceFilter": "dealer-only",
  "fetchDetails": true, "maxItems": 1000, "maxPages": 25 }

Recipe 5: French-only jobs in Quebec City (immigration / market research)

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-emploi/ville-de-quebec/c45l1700124"], "language": "fr", "fetchDetails": true, "maxItems": 300 }

Recipe 6: Calgary movers — hourly rate benchmarking

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-moving-storage/calgary/c105l1700199"], "fetchDetails": true, "maxItems": 100 }

Recipe 7: Test sample — 25 listings before committing to a full scrape

{ "searchUrls": ["https://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/canada/c174l0"], "maxItems": 25, "maxPages": 1 }

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Integration Examples

Google Sheets

Apify schedule + the "Export to Google Sheets" integration delivers a fresh Kijiji dataset to your Sheet every morning — perfect for reseller daily-scan workflows.

Make.com / Zapier / n8n

Use the Apify connector on any major automation platform. Common triggers: new FSBO listings under $X in your category (alert to Telegram/Slack/SMS), price drops (priceDropped: true), dealer competitor adding inventory (auto-CRM record), French Quebec listing spike in a category.

Power BI / Tableau / Looker

Hook the Apify dataset API as a live data source. Common dashboards: used-car median price heat map by metro and make, rent affordability index across provinces, FSBO vs dealer mix by vertical and city, top-poster leaderboard for brand-monitoring, listing churn rate per category per week.

Postgres / Snowflake / BigQuery

Use Apify's webhook integration to POST run results into your warehouse staging tables — clean upsert keyed on listingId.

CRM Enrichment (Salesforce / HubSpot) and Telegram/Discord Bots

Nightly job pulls every dealer/service-provider listing, dedupes on posterId, and upserts as Lead records — Canadian sales-prospect list refreshed daily. For real-time reseller alerts, schedule the actor every 15 minutes with a tight filter (FSBO + max price + city) and POST new listingIds to a Telegram bot via Apify webhook.

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Major Canadian Markets at a Glance

Metro Area	Province	Population	Kijiji Significance
Toronto / GTA	ON	6.6M	Highest listing volume nationally — every vertical
Montreal	QC	4.3M	Largest French-language vertical, strong rentals + autos
Vancouver	BC	2.6M	Highest used-car and rental prices in Canada
Calgary	AB	1.6M	Strong auto vertical (trucks, RVs, oilfield equipment)
Edmonton	AB	1.5M	Heavy trades-services demand, strong buy-and-sell
Ottawa	ON	1.5M	Federal-employee rentals; bilingual EN/FR mix
Quebec City	QC	0.85M	French-only rental and jobs market
Winnipeg	MB	0.83M	High-volume buy & sell, low average prices
Hamilton / Mississauga	ON	1.5M combined	GTA spillover rentals, heavy newcomer demand
Kitchener-Waterloo / London	ON	1.1M combined	Tech-driven rentals, affordable used-car markets
Halifax / Victoria / Saskatoon / Regina	NS / BC / SK	1.4M combined	Maritime, Island, Prairies vertical mix

Top Kijiji search-URL locations (location IDs)

Location	Code	Use in URL
All of Canada	l0	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/canada/c174l0
Ontario	l9004	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/ontario/c174l9004
GTA Greater Toronto	l1700272	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/gta-greater-toronto-area/c174l1700272
City of Toronto	l1700273	kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-toronto/c37l1700273
City of Montreal	l1700281	kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/city-of-montreal/c37l1700281
Vancouver	l1700287	kijiji.ca/b-buy-sell/city-of-vancouver/c10l1700287
Calgary	l1700199	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/calgary/c174l1700199
Quebec City	l1700124	kijiji.ca/b-emploi/ville-de-quebec/c45l1700124
Edmonton	l1700203	kijiji.ca/b-cars-trucks/edmonton/c174l1700203
Ottawa	l1700185	kijiji.ca/b-apartments-condos/ottawa/c37l1700185

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⚙️ Cost & Performance

Metric	Value
Engine	Pure HTTP + __NEXT_DATA__ / Apollo JSON hydration parse (no browser)
Runtime (measured)	400 autos listings in ~53 s on CA residential proxy (search-only). ~15-30 s for 50; 2-4 min for 500; add proportional time with fetchDetails: true (one extra HTTP request per listing)
Pricing model	Pay-per-event (transparent per-listing pricing)
Data freshness	Live at run time
Auth required	None
Proxy	Recommended — Apify RESIDENTIAL CA by default; datacenter works partially
Concurrency	1-10 parallel (default 3, sweet-spot 5-8 with residential proxy)
Memory footprint	256-512 MB for most runs; 2048 MB headroom for large multi-vertical jobs

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How fresh is the data?

Live at run time. Every run fetches Kijiji.ca's current listing pages directly — there is no cached intermediate database. A listing that goes up two minutes before your run will appear in the dataset.

How many records will I get per run?

Depends entirely on your inputs. A single search page returns 20-40 listings; pagination scales linearly. Typical configurations: 100-2,000 listings per run. Heavy-duty configurations can pull 10,000+ per run with sufficient maxItems, maxPages, proxy concurrency, and runtime.

Does this scraper require a Kijiji account or API key?

No. Kijiji's public listing pages are scraped without login. You only need an Apify account to run the actor.

Does Kijiji rate-limit or block scraping?

Yes — moderate anti-bot via Akamai. Datacenter IPs work intermittently. The actor's default config uses Apify's Canadian residential proxy group with conservative concurrency (3 parallel) and 500 ms delays — this is sustainable for thousands of listings per run.

How do I get the URL for my search?

Open kijiji.ca in your browser, run the search (category, location, filters), and copy the URL from the address bar. Paste into searchUrls. The actor preserves all of your category, location, and filter parameters.

Does this work for Quebec / French listings?

Yes. The actor handles French listings natively — French price formats (1 200 $), French location names (Ville de Québec, Saguenay), French descriptions. Use language: "fr" to filter to French-only or language: "both" for full coverage.

Can it scrape detail (VIP) pages with full descriptions and image galleries?

Yes — set fetchDetails: true. The actor will visit each listing's VIP page for full description, complete image gallery, VIN/Carfax (autos), full amenities (real estate), and feature lists. Runtime increases proportionally because of the extra HTTP request per listing.

How does FSBO vs dealer detection work?

Kijiji serves listing images from different CDN paths depending on poster type: media.kijiji.ca/api/v1/ca-prod-fsbo-ads/ for private sellers, ca-prod-dealer-ads/ for dealers, ca-prod-pro-ads/ for other professionals. The actor inspects image URLs to set adSource. Use adSourceFilter: "fsbo-only" to keep just private sellers.

Can I scrape only listings posted in the last 24 hours, or apply Kijiji's native filters?

Sort with sortBy: "dateDesc" and cap maxPages low (1-2), then filter downstream on activationDate. For built-in Kijiji filters (price, condition, year, mileage), apply them in the UI and paste the resulting URL into searchUrls — Kijiji's native filter engine is preserved.

How do I export the data and schedule recurring runs?

Standard Apify formats: JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML, RSS, JSON Lines. Apify's built-in Scheduler supports any cron expression — daily 6 AM ET for full inventory, every 15 minutes for hot-deal Telegram alerts, weekly Sunday for market reports.

Does the actor deduplicate?

Yes — within a single run, listings are deduped by listingId. Across runs, persist listingId to your warehouse and upsert.

What happens if Kijiji changes its page structure?

The actor uses a tolerant deep-search JSON parser that survives most schema rotations (results → mainListings → listings). For larger changes, enable debugMode: true and the actor dumps the full hydration JSON structure so you (or we) can patch field discovery.

Does it work on the Apify Free Plan?

Yes — full functionality on the free tier. A 50-100 listing test run completes in well under a minute and costs a tiny fraction of free monthly credits.

Does this scrape Kijiji Centrale or Kijiji Autos (the new auto-specific portal)?

This actor focuses on the main kijiji.ca classifieds. The new Kijiji Autos portal at kijiji.ca/autos has overlapping data, but for the cleanest auto-only flow use the standard search URLs under the c174 category code.

Are buyer messages, watchlists, or seller email addresses included?

No. The actor only extracts data Kijiji publishes openly on listing pages. Buyer messages, watchlists, and seller emails are private and never scraped.

How does pay-per-event pricing work?

You're charged a small amount per actor start and per listing delivered. No monthly minimums. A 100-listing scrape costs pennies; a 10,000-listing daily job is still well under the cost of comparable paid classifieds APIs.

How do I report a bug or request a feature?

Open an issue on the Apify Store actor page or contact the developer through the Apify Console. Include the exact searchUrls input that failed plus the run ID — fastest path to a fix.

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🔗 Related Apify Actors by Haketa

If you need classifieds, marketplace, or Canadian property data from other regions, check these companion actors:

• Realtor.ca Scraper (Canada) — Canadian for-sale + for-rent residential properties from Canada's national MLS portal (sibling to Kijiji's real-estate vertical)
• Kleinanzeigen.de Scraper (Germany) — Germany's #1 classifieds (formerly eBay Kleinanzeigen)
• Marktplaats.nl Scraper (Netherlands) — Netherlands' dominant classifieds marketplace
• OfferUp Scraper (US) — US local-marketplace listings, ideal for cross-border arbitrage
• TradeMe Scraper (New Zealand) — New Zealand's largest classifieds + auction site
• Lelong.my Scraper (Malaysia) and Chotot.com Scraper (Vietnam) — Southeast Asian classifieds platforms
• Mourjan Scraper (MENA) — Middle East / North Africa classifieds
• Rent.com Scraper and Apartments.com Scraper — US apartment rentals for cross-border analytics
• BBB Business Scraper — Better Business Bureau profiles for cross-border business verification

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Comparison vs. Alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Maintenance	Vertical-aware	FSBO/dealer detection	Bilingual EN/FR	Proxy mgmt
This actor	< 1 minute	Zero	Built-in (5 verticals)	Built-in via image CDN	Built-in	Built-in (CA residential)
Manual Kijiji browsing	Instant	None	Eyeball only	None	None	N/A
Custom Python + BeautifulSoup	4-12 hours	Breaks weekly	DIY	DIY (most miss)	DIY	DIY
Custom Puppeteer/Playwright	2-4 days	High	DIY	DIY	DIY	DIY
Paid third-party classifieds API	Hours to onboard	Vendor lock-in	Limited	Sometimes	Rarely	Included
Browser-extension scrapers	Minutes	High	None	None	None	None

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Why Pay-Per-Event Pricing?

Most scrapers either lock you into a flat monthly subscription (pay even when idle) or per-Compute-Unit (unpredictable per-run cost). This actor uses pay-per-event:

• You only pay when the actor runs and produces results
• Charges scale linearly with how many listings you actually consume
• Transparent line-item billing inside Apify
• No monthly minimums — perfect for ad-hoc reseller flips or seasonal research
• Free to evaluate — sample with maxItems: 25 for a fraction of a cent
• Combine with Apify's Scheduler to keep daily costs predictable

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If this actor saves you time, a 5-star rating on the Apify Store helps other Canadian resellers, dealers, recruiters, brand teams, and PropTech analysts discover it. Thank you!

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📋 Changelog

Version	Date	Notes
1.2.0	2026-11	Unlocked 1,000+ deep pagination: changed maxPages default from 2 to 0 (unlimited, governed by maxItems), removed the EMPTY_RUN_ITEM_CAP (100) and EMPTY_RUN_PAGE_CAP (2) clamps when users explicitly pass maxItems > 100 on default or category searches, and verified multi-page extraction with 0 duplicates.
1.1.0	2026-11	Fixed CARFAX/CARPROOF link extraction (carprooflink attribute mapped to carfaxLink). Re-verified 400 unique autos listings, 0 duplicates, core fields 93–100%.
1.0.0	2026-05	Initial public release — 5 verticals (autos / real-estate / jobs / services / marketplace), FSBO/dealer detection via image-CDN inspection, bilingual EN/FR handling, vertical-aware schema, and optional VIP detail enrichment.