Let me know what you think of the idea of expanding this repo to be a full Kijiji API. I understand if It might be too much work or out of the scope of this project, but let me know if you would open to the idea of me writing some functions like methods for posting ads.
This also possibly has the opportunity of turning Kijiji into a platform full of bots. But anyone can write code so why hasn't a private repo already be made to do that? Who knows, just leave it up for consideration and I can start writing methods for stuff like that. If the answer is yes, some documentation or a basic breakdown of how the codebase works would be cool because I personally cannot understand any of it.
It might make the repo better but if there is no need for it then there is no reason. Personally I just wanted to make a function to post ads but saw it was probably out of the scope of this project. Let me know your thoughts.

Currently there is no real way to get all the available listings using MinResult and MaxResult. You'd need to set MinResult to something like 60 and if there are only 59 listings, it will error with this message:
Error parsing Kijiji search results: Result ad has no URL. It is possible that Kijiji changed their markup. If you believe this to be the case, please open an issue at: https://github.com/mwpenny/kijiji-scraper/issues

With the way MinResults works, you specify the minimum and you get no more. While the way it should work is say setting MinResults to 40 and MaxResults to 50 and getting 50. This allows for all the functionality of selecting how many listings you can get and also getting as many as there is.

To summarize, even if you set MaxResults to -1 indicating no limit, you will only receive how many MinResults is rounded every 20. Instead it should get as many listings as it can before reaching the MaxLimit. This way you can set MinResults to 20 and MaxResults to 60 and get 60 listings.

Is anyone else having this issue? It appears the mingle api is no longer being used by the app?

Issue:
Ads aren't retrieved while using the Mobile API scrape method for up to a minute after they are posted.

Details:
I have been playing around with this module and have noticed an odd behavior while testing. Lets say we want to write to the console every time a new ad is posted. To do this, we compare the time of our last scrape against the value of the date stored in each ad object retrieved by the scraper. If any ads were posted after our last scrape time, notify the user about them.

• Last scan was at: 5:10pm
• Ad posted at: 5:12pm
• Ad was posted after last scan, so ad is new. Show ad to user.

The issue here is that, at least when using the Mobile API, certain ads won't be picked up for up to a minute after their post date found in the Ad object. If we change the above example around a little bit:

• Last scan was at 5:10:00pm
• Ad posted at 5:09:30pm

There is a good chance this ad was not actually picked up during the 5:10pm scan. At that point the "last scan" value would have been something earlier, say 5:05pm, and the ad would have been seen as new. As the ad was not actually picked up during that scrape, its corresponding Ad object is not available to be examined at 5:10pm. Our current scrape at, lets say, 5:15pm picks up the ad, but at this point it is considered to be old since it was posted prior to the last time we ran a scan. The user never finds out about this new posting.

Notes:
I have yet to test this using the http scraper, that is next on the list. If the behavior is consistent I believe there would be two possible culprits:

1. Ads just don't show up on the website for up to a minute after a user clicks post. This is the "easy" answer as it's out of our hands and just needs to be worked around.
2. For some reason the module is ignoring or removing posts which are "too new". This feels pretty unlikely.

Of course if using the http scraper fixes the issue, then the problem would either be found in the Mobile API or code specific to its handling within the module.

I will update if I find out more.

I am trying to use the NPM module to make a request. However, the request is hanging up.

Hello, I am having a small issue and can't seem to figure out how to solve it, I follow the setup and such on git readme. but when I run the script, I get undefined. im using it in my angular cli project

let kijiji = require("kijiji-scraper");

let prefs = {
    "locationId": 9004,
    "categoryId": 54,
    "scrapeInnerAd":false
};

let params = {
  keywords: "Web" + "designer" + "developer",
  adType: "OFFER"
};

kijiji.query(prefs, params, function(err, ads) {
  console.log(kijiji.parse(ads));
});

I'm trying to add this library to a laravel project

I ran npm install kijiji-scraper

then I add the example code to my app.js:

var kijiji = require("kijiji-scraper")

var prefs = {
    "locationId": 27,
    "categoryId": 1700185
}

var params = {
    "minPrice": 0,
    "maxPrice": 100000,
    "keywords": "toyota",
    "adType": "OFFER"
}

kijiji.query(prefs, params, function(err, ads) {
    //Use the ads array
    console.log(ads);
});

then when I do npm run watch I get these errors:

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 7 errors                                                                                                                                   21:54:15

These dependencies were not found:

* fs in ./~/kijiji-scraper/~/request/lib/har.js
* net in ./~/forever-agent/index.js, ./~/tough-cookie/lib/cookie.js and 1 other
* tls in ./~/forever-agent/index.js, ./~/kijiji-scraper/~/tunnel-agent/index.js

To install them, you can run: npm install --save fs net tls


This relative module was not found:

* ./package in ./~/cheerio/index.js

I did try installing all these dependencies manually although I don't think I should need to since they are dependencies of the kijiji-scraper itself

but even after adding these I still get these errors:

 ERROR  Failed to compile with 2 errors                                                                                                                                   21:49:11

This dependency was not found:

* fs in ./~/kijiji-scraper/~/request/lib/har.js

To install it, you can run: npm install --save fs


This relative module was not found:

* ./package in ./~/kijiji-scraper/~/cheerio/index.js

any help would be appreciated

Doesnt seem to be working. Has Kijiji changed something?

unlike when scrapeResultDetails is set to true/default

Hello,

I noticed that when you fetch apartment ads, the attributes numberbathrooms value is always equal to 10.

Have nice day

Would you be open to updating the js syntax to es6+? I could help with this.

Hello,

I am having issue of scrapping kijiji job ads with kijiji-scraper. it works well with other type of ads but if there are partner's ads between kijiji ads, it throws exception.

Here is code that I tried:

const kijiji = require("kijiji-scraper");

let options = {
    minResults: 40,
    maxResults: -1,
    keywords: "part time"
};

// https://www.kijiji.ca/b-part-time-student-jobs/calgary/c59l1700199
let params = {
    locationId: kijiji.locations.ALBERTA.CALGARY,
    categoryId: kijiji.categories.JOBS,
    sortByName: "dateAsc"
};

kijiji.search(params, options).then(function(ads) {
    // Use the ads array
    for (let i = 0; i < ads.length; ++i) {
        console.log('*Ad# ' + (i+1).toString());
        console.log(ads[i].toString());
        console.log('==========================================================================')
    }
}).catch(console.error);

And here is error for above code:

{ FetchError: request to https://www.kijiji.cahttps//www.ziprecruiter.com/clk/randstad-quebec-00000000-dual-ticket-millwright-electrician-7914_022695699?clk=J8r4wWhuP1tKESKoqRxo7xs8qGgqL7HPWR5y2wvYRChGoq_3bMoe83zQfitL_n7cts9PdPbKc2yKLleLEh4vRo1ggbhdJmtKbKYUKLpaKDlgUGLrCblfhk1UPvWJLKlw_h8rSEvPTTJIQ7VAMjpETPY_x0p-8H24nGUuGR7snq_GJcZ84Fhz6RiRxzbxItrlkeznWa4quL7aL9ZlB7myV2Q5DoUVtbf8JlTcTX-WWbSrfz1_d30bsPVwuPbhMY2_NS9aOq-4VodTlcWCF33VisQ1H8dRRDyryQSmZchrhxENiNpMHsmVtOrg8Ikb7-XutxioKDoyfiokIwirFnct9az8GOEAQwUCBe8X0VjXjX8GEB5RLcHVvSNJhzg7ZM4kj7FyRurgBUb6BZTCXzjmcUxU4EAw-Me_2eIpToOwO9GQRoMgZUcpFD8JQSxw2h9zKrpoT6I0r4AEA_43588plfsLwTcY453Rpyk5Is60pKkL_KKssmKDdrCYBhuzHz1naG4PfLrz-jRT-jXHBUAnrCV1czx5CsEWtoi3DuVybV4.9e5d32cbf3aaf685c73bb89c76eb0f30 failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND www.kijiji.cahttps www.kijiji.cahttps:443
    at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/Users/wojung/partimer/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/index.js:1358:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (_http_client.js:387:9)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:64:8)
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:138:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)
  message: 'request to https://www.kijiji.cahttps//www.ziprecruiter.com/clk/randstad-quebec-00000000-dual-ticket-millwright-electrician-7914_022695699?clk=J8r4wWhuP1tKESKoqRxo7xs8qGgqL7HPWR5y2wvYRChGoq_3bMoe83zQfitL_n7cts9PdPbKc2yKLleLEh4vRo1ggbhdJmtKbKYUKLpaKDlgUGLrCblfhk1UPvWJLKlw_h8rSEvPTTJIQ7VAMjpETPY_x0p-8H24nGUuGR7snq_GJcZ84Fhz6RiRxzbxItrlkeznWa4quL7aL9ZlB7myV2Q5DoUVtbf8JlTcTX-WWbSrfz1_d30bsPVwuPbhMY2_NS9aOq-4VodTlcWCF33VisQ1H8dRRDyryQSmZchrhxENiNpMHsmVtOrg8Ikb7-XutxioKDoyfiokIwirFnct9az8GOEAQwUCBe8X0VjXjX8GEB5RLcHVvSNJhzg7ZM4kj7FyRurgBUb6BZTCXzjmcUxU4EAw-Me_2eIpToOwO9GQRoMgZUcpFD8JQSxw2h9zKrpoT6I0r4AEA_43588plfsLwTcY453Rpyk5Is60pKkL_KKssmKDdrCYBhuzHz1naG4PfLrz-jRT-jXHBUAnrCV1czx5CsEWtoi3DuVybV4.9e5d32cbf3aaf685c73bb89c76eb0f30 failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND www.kijiji.cahttps www.kijiji.cahttps:443',
  type: 'system',
  errno: 'ENOTFOUND',
  code: 'ENOTFOUND' }

Getting closer to getting this to work.. very easy and useful so far!

I'm parsing my ads and then returning the output to php so it can store it in a database.

But I'm running into a problem because the json that is returned in invalid. Below is an example of the json returned for 1 ad

{ title: 'EVGA GTX 1070 Founder's Edition',
  link: 'https://www.kijiji.ca/v-ordinateurs-de-bureau/ville-de-montreal/evga-gtx-1070-founders-edition/1276760658',
  description: 'Like-New condition EVGA GTX 1070 Founder's Edition for sale. The price is firm. Contact me if you are interested.',
  enclosure: '',
  pubDate: 'Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:41:02 GMT',
  guid: 'https://www.kijiji.ca/v-ordinateurs-de-bureau/ville-de-montreal/evga-gtx-1070-founders-edition/1276760658',
  'dc:date': '2017-06-27T01:41:02Z',
  'geo:lat': '45.5029532',
  'geo:long': '-73.57979089999999',
  'g-core:price': '600.0',
  innerAd:
   { title: 'EVGA GTX 1070 Founder\'s Edition',
     image: 'https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA==/z/qysAAOSwbtVZUbef/$_35.JPG',
     images: [ 'https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODAwWDgwMA==/z/qysAAOSwbtVZUbef/$_57.JPG' ],
     info:
      { Brand: 'Other',
        'For Sale By': 'Owner',
        'Date Listed': 2017-06-27T01:41:02.000Z,
        Price: '$600.00',
        Address: 'Montreal, QC H3A1A8',
        Type: 'OFFER',
        Visits: 144 },
     desc: 'Like-New condition EVGA GTX 1070 Founder\'s Edition for sale. The price is firm. Contact me if you are interested.' } }

There's many things wrong here and it fails json validators (such as https://jsonlint.com/). The use of single quotes everywhere should be double quotes. And strings (such as title:, link:, description:, etc should all be enclosed within double quotes

I tried to fix this by using "json fixers" both in JS and PHP and I've come close, I could probably do it but it would be better if the json output was fixed at the source

Thanks for this script BTW, it's great

Thanks for this great tool!

The kijiji url appears to pack the kilometer radius parameter before the query string, e.g. for 3 km radius:

https://www.kijiji.ca/b-appartement-condo/ville-de-montreal/1+salle+de+bains-3+1+2/c37l1700281a120a27949001r3.0?...

Is there a way to query with a radius currently? Or would the library need to be updated?

Hi,

I'm trying to make this work with in a basic Vue project build with Vue CLI 3 and using webpack. Since I can't directly fetch https://www.kijiji.ca using fetch() (it's returning a CORS error), i changed in the source code the KIJIJI_BASE_URL variable to "/kijiji" and set a proxy in my webpack config:

"devServer": {
    proxy: {
      "/kijiji":  {
        target: "https://www.kijiji.ca",
        pathRewrite: { '^/kijiji': '' }
      }
    }
  }

Using this configuration, im getting a response.status = 200 in the fetch of function initFirstResultPagePath() but it seems there is a problem after that when trying to parse the body.
If I set a breakpoint on let results = parseResultsHTML(body);, what I have in body is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">
    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico">
    <title>ad_scraper</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:100,300,400,500,700,900">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mdi/font@latest/css/materialdesignicons.min.css">
  <link href="/js/app.js" rel="preload" as="script"><link href="/js/chunk-vendors.js" rel="preload" as="script"></head>
  <body>
    <noscript>
      <strong>We're sorry but ad_scraper doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.</strong>
    </noscript>
    <div id="app"></div>
    <!-- built files will be auto injected -->
  <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/chunk-vendors.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/js/app.js"></script></body>
</html>

Any idea it's not working using a proxy for kijiji website?

Thanks

I am trying to search for ads and sometimes I get:

Error: Kijiji returned error: Ad #1553278802 does not exist
    at parseResponseXML (node_modules/kijiji-scraper/dist/lib/backends/api-scraper.js:49:15)
    at node_modules/kijiji-scraper/dist/lib/backends/api-scraper.js:124:16

How to skip it?

Hey!

I noticed that some category IDs are either broken or have changed (one example is id 214 -- supposed to be two-bedroom apartments but gives out listings of cars, etc.)

In any case, I'm having trouble with the filtering params. I'd appreciate if you could point me in the right direction with them. For instance:

searchParams["attributeMap[numberbedrooms_s]"] = "[2]"

I can see that will help me set the attribute called numberbedrooms to 2 but I have no idea how the template works here. What's the _s for, why are we passing an array-like structure in the value? Also, how would this work with more than one value, ex. if I had to filter results to 2 or 3 bedrooms, or "at least 2" bedrooms, how would I do that?

I was trying to filter real-estate ads based on "offer" or "wanted" but that doesn't seem to be working. Here's how I've been trying to do it:

searchParams["attributeMap[type_s"] = "[OFFER]"

Based on this KijijiAd object:

{
    title: 'Grande Chambre',
    description: '...',
date: 2019 - 07 - 29 T13: 45: 54.000 Z,
    image: 'https://...$_35.JPG',
    images: ['https://...$_57.JPG',
    ],
    attributes: {
         forrentbyhousing: 'ownr',
         unittype: 'apartment',
         numberbedrooms: 1,
         numberbathrooms: 10,
         petsallowed: 0,
         dateavailable: 2019-08-05T00:00:00.000Z,
         areainfeet: 625,
         yard: 1,
         balcony: 1,
         smokingpermitted: 2,
         elevator: 0,
         hydro: 0,
         heat: 0,
         water: 0,
         cabletv: 1,
         internet: 1,
         landline: 0,
        numberparkingspots: 0,
        furnished: 1,
        price: 600,
        location: {
            latitude: ...,
            longitude: ...,
            mapAddress: '...QC, Canada',
            province: 'quebec',
            mapRadius: 0
        },
        type: 'OFFER',
        visits: 139
    },
    url: 'https://www.kijiji.ca/...',
    scrape: [Function],
    isScraped: [Function]
}

Also -- sorting by relevancy doesn't seem to be an option. If I were to set the results to sort by priceAsc a lot of strange (irrelevant) results show up.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi there,

I really like the module! I have been using it to collect data on motorcycles. I ran into a situation where one of my searches returned duplicate results. I looked further and the array size returned from search() is 68 ads but there is only 34 ads in the true results. Below are the parameters i'm using. Is this normal function? Or maybe i'm doing something weird. Thanks!

let options = {
minResults: 40
};
let params = {
locationId: 9003,
categoryId: 30,
sortByName: "priceAsc",
keywords: 'GSXR750'
};

Is there an issue building this? I have not used npm before. I've tried npm rebuild followed by npm install.

$ npm install

[email protected] prepare D:\data\Dropbox\work\kijiji\kijiji-scraper
npm run build

[email protected] build D:\data\Dropbox\work\kijiji\kijiji-scraper
tsc

lib/backends/api-scraper.ts:16:24 - error TS2339: Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'Element'.
Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'TextElement'.

16 const type = (item.attribs.type || "").toLowerCase();
~~~~~~~

lib/backends/api-scraper.ts:17:34 - error TS2339: Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'Element'.
Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'TextElement'.

17 const localizedLabel = (item.attribs["localized-label"] || "").toLowerCase();
~~~~~~~

lib/backends/api-scraper.ts:60:26 - error TS2339: Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'Element'.
Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'TextElement'.

60 const url = item.attribs.href;
~~~~~~~

lib/backends/api-scraper.ts:69:27 - error TS2339: Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'Element'.
Property 'attribs' does not exist on type 'TextElement'.

69 const name = item.attribs.name;
~~~~~~~

Found 4 errors.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] build: tsc
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] build script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Peter-laptop\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-12-11T02_19_18_268Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] prepare: npm run build
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] prepare script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Peter-laptop\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2020-12-11T02_19_18_322Z-debug.log

When I call search() using the parameters you provided, I get a error saying "Kijiji failed to redirect to search results". Looking at the code, it only returns that message when its not a redirect (statuscode != 301).

However, looking at the response, the status code received was a 200.

My code:

The size attribute is set as a date instead of a shoe size when scraping data from the Clothing -> Shoe category. I am using the "html" option for Ad.get(). The size attribute seems to work fine when using the default mobile api but doesn't work with the html option.

Here is a picture of the incorrect scraped result for the shoe size.
https://i.gyazo.com/2992bb9d6e5a9ed2f30f4cf2a6fed47b.png

So I was running my script for 24+ hours successfully. Then came home to this error.

Error: Invalid Kijiji HTML on search results page at /home/loze/node_modules/kijiji-scraper/lib/search.js:129:19 at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)

I'm not sure why it ran flawlessly for so long before returning this error. Any clue?

Hey! How do you find location id's and category id's? Thanks!!

Many of the category attributes (at least under real estate listings) return as numerical values as opposed to what you read on the website. For some attributes this is simply Yes/No answers being translated to 1 or 0, but other attributes that have more than two alphanumeric options can return with values 0, 1, 2, etc.. In #55 I believe you referred to these as internal values. This was never an issue with the categories I've scraped in the past, but the real estate listings have a lot of attributes. Have you ever done work to translate these internal values to their human-readable counterparts? I wanted to check before I do it myself by hand.

I'm running into an issue where sometimes minResults will be set to a value like 40, and the ads returned will sometimes be 40 or sometimes be 20. Say I set minResults to 120, the amount of ads returned can be anything between 20 and 120 and it is completely random from the testing I've done. I've included a video below for reproduction steps using version 6.1.0:

This behavior is new so it might have been introduced a few versions ago. Also, I apologize for the bad quality but I couldn't be bothered to find out why OBS is making my screen look blurry. The breakpoints are used to rule out my bad programming as a cause and verify the values as what they should be.

If you want me to write a code sample for you, I could do that.

I'm trying to search for services as oppose to buy and sell, but results empty.
Tried different category Ids and manually typing out the name.
E.g. "categoryId: 84" and "categoryId: SERVICES.WEDDING" both come up empty.

Appreciate any help on this!

There is a vulnerability Prototype Pollution in the version of lodash that your version of cheerio is using. Please update cheerio.

Hi,

I started to use the lib, thanks for the work you made.
I have an error when I try to get an ad or to use search function.
Did I misunderstand or forgot something ?

Code

Error

Have a nice day

Hi! Would you like me to work on migrating the code to Typescript? I think that would help in improving the interface for users and will make it easier to add tests and extend the project in the future. It will be substantial work so I wanted to check with you before working on it and raising a pr.

Hi! I'm doing a recurring scraping of Kijiji which scrapes it every 10 minutes. It works sometimes but sometimes it throws that error in the title.
Search params are the same through each recursion,
keyword used was Harley Davidson.

 console.log("Kijiji parse");
      let options = {
        minResults: 5000,
      };
      let params = {
        locationId: province.id,
        categoryId: 30, 
        keywords: keyword,
      };
      let kijijiRes = await kijiji.search(params, options);
      let listings = [];
      let cleanList = [];
      kijijiRes.forEach((ad) => {
        let price = ad.attributes.price;
        let listingName = ad.title;
        let listingDescription = ad.description;
        let url = ad.url;
        let imgUrl = ad.image;
        let listing = {
          price,
          listingName,
          listingDescription,
          url,
          imgUrl,
        };
        listings.push(listing);
      });
      cleanList = listings.filter(function (el) {
        return el.price != 0;
      });
      console.log("End parse");
      return cleanList;
    } catch (err) {
      console.log(err);
      return cleanList;
    }

A good feature would be making Search() be able to take in a query URL over specifying parameters for more convenience. This also helps with Kijiji's relative location filter which takes your location and applies a radius to search in.

When running the kijiji-parser library with these params and options:

{
  locationId: 1700273,
  categoryId: 42,
  sortByName: 'dateDesc',
  ll: '43.6629,-79.3957',
  distance: 3
}
{ minResults: 3 }

let listings = await kijiji.search(params, options);

We see there are no results returned. We find the same issue when toggling with various parameters for locationId, ll, distance

we suspect that Kijiji could be preventing these requests, going through. Can you invesitgate this?

const kijiji = require("kijiji-scraper");

//Random ad url i got off kijiji
var url = "https://www.kijiji.ca/v-cell-phone/calgary/iphone-x-64gb/1553098375"

// Scrape using optional callback paramater
kijiji.Ad.Get(url, function(err, ad) {
    if (!err) {
        // Use the ad object
        console.log(ad.title);
    }
});

This code sample was taken straight out of the documentation and the function in the parameter never gets executed. You can see this by putting a breakpoint anywhere inside the function and it will not trigger. Done using version 6.10 of the module.

As a side note, some ad URLs may end with ?undefined which does return this error from the module:
Error: Invalid Kijiji ad URL. Ad URLs must end in /some-ad-id.

However, the return promise version of this code works fine so this isn't a priority.

Better attribute handling would make this library easier to use and avoid the need to guess/experiment as much when using it. Additionally, the meaning of some attribute values is not obvious (see #65).

This issue tracks two related enhancements:

1. Some ad attributes are enums. Currently, kijiji-scraper exposes the internal value. Create helper types (similar to those that exist for location and category IDs) for exposing all possible enums, their entries, and the corresponding internal values.
2. The possible attributes an ad can have depend on its category. Provide a way to determine all possible attributes that may be returned when scraping/searching (ideally at compile time via TypeScript, with a run-time API for JavaScript users).

Error: Error parsing Kijiji search results: Kijiji denied access. You are likely temporarily blocked. This can happen if you scrape too aggressively. Try scraping again later, and more slowly....

how long can I expect this block to occur?

I know this is a bit out of scope but just thought I'd ask to see if maybe you're already aware of something that works well for this purpose

basically i'm going to be doing a lot of queries from a single server with static ip and want to avoid getting blacklisted. Can you recommend a service and a package (node-friendly I imagine) that would wrap your kijiji-scraper well and easily?

thanks!!

It looks like ad-scraper.js stopped working today, presumably due to a change in the ad format.

ad-scraper.js is definitely getting the correct URL for the ad, but the information it is returning (price, image, etc.) is undefined.

I have tried a lot of location Id and Categorie Id and I always have an empty array.. :(

I have a script scraping bicycle ads that I've been using for a few months. It had been working fine until today. Here's the script:

const kij = require("kijiji-scraper")

const bikes = [
   "Marin Hawk Hill",
   "Giant Stance",
   "Vitus Mythique",
   "Canyon Neuron",
   "Calibre Bossnut",
   "Giant Fathom",
   "Salsa Rangefinder",
   "Nukeproof Scout",
   "Kona Mahuna",
   "Nishiki Colorado",
   "Specialized Pitch",
]

const options = {
   minResults: 40
}

const params = {
   locationId: kij.locations.ONTARIO.TORONTO_GTA,
   categoryId: kij.categories.BUY_AND_SELL.BIKES.MOUNTAIN,
   adType: "OFFER"
}

console.log('--------------------------------------------------------------------')
bikes.forEach((bike, index) => {
   params.keywords = bike
   kij.search(params, options).then((ads) => {
      for (let i = 0; i < ads.length; i++) {
         const frame = ads[i].attributes.framesize
         if (frame)
            console.log(`Frame: ${ads[i].attributes.framesize.toUpperCase()}`)
         else
            console.log('Frame: Unknown')
         console.log(`Price: \$${ads[i].attributes.price}`)
         console.log(`Title: ${ads[i].title}`)
         console.log(`URL: ${ads[i].url}`)
         console.log('--------------------------------------------------------------------')
      }
   }).catch(console.error)
})

I get the following output now when I run the script:

Error: Kijiji failed to return search results. It is possible that Kijiji changed their results markup. If you believe this to be the case, please open a bug at: https://github.com/mwpenny/kijiji-scraper/issues
    at /home/abbas/Documents/scripts/kijiji/node_modules/kijiji-scraper/lib/search.js:105:24
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

For some odd reason, this also disables the kijiji website. When I try navigating to kijiji.ca in my browser, it returns the following page:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>CJDTCGAH4X5HAW9W</RequestId>
<HostId>
6QIALNdZ8MKReyXvQraQQl30II/Nm88OrSES3l2hsGgH5TQhnOv7UiNEbkjdt3AdeSa51QCa+CA=
</HostId>
</Error>

Once I clear my cache, and cookies, I'm able to access the website again