facebook-marketplace-scraper

An open-source Python program to scrape Facebook Marketplace using Playwright, BeautifulSoup, and FastAPI with a Streamlit GUI.

You use the software provided at your own risk. I cannot be held responsible for any potential consequences, including potential bans from Meta.

Overview

This open-source program uses Python to scrape data from Facebook Marketplace. The program uses Playwright to navigate the Facebook Marketplace website and BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML and extract relevant data. It then displays the results in a Streamlit GUI.

Customization

This program can be customized to your personal/organizational needs. For more information, please get in touch with me at harmindernijjar1996@gmail.com

Streamlit
Playwright
BeautifulSoup

Language:

Python

Flow diagrams:

Requirements:

Python 3.x
Playwright
Streamlit
BeautifulSoup

Modules:

Playwright for web crawling
BeautifulSoup for HTML parsing
FastAPI for API creation
JSON for data formatting
Uvicorn for running the server

API:

Root: Displays a welcome message
Data scraping: Parameters include city, query, and max price
IP information retrieval

Implementation

Browser automation and data scraping using Playwright
HTML content parsing with BeautifulSoup
Data returned in JSON format
Application server run using Uvicorn

Features:

List of supported cities for scraping.
User inputs for city, search query, and maximum price.
Submission button to start scraping.
Display of scraping results including number of results, images, prices, locations, and item URLs.

mark5280/fbmarket