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How to scrape OfferUp

OfferUp (offerup.com) is a marketplace and classifieds site. This guide is built from our own checks of its public pages: what the pages contain, whether our requests get through right now, and the request settings that worked.

Intermittent

5 of 20 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (25%).

Last check 2026-10-13 17:34 UTC · last pass 2026-10-13 17:34 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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Extraction recipe

Detail pages carry structured data (Product). You can read those fields straight from the HTML, or select any other field with extract rules (CSS selectors). The recipe below is a set of Scrape API extract rules: we ran it through our API on two real OfferUp pages with the settings on this page and kept only the fields that came back on both. It is checked again every week, and hidden if it stops working.

Search and listing pages

Validated 2026-10-13
FieldTypeExample
adslist of 3+ items
ads[].urlURLhttps://offerup.com/item/detail/63dc5854-579b-340c-aeb1-8c636da904a3
ads[].titletextPs5 dualsense edge controller
item_listlist of 3+ items
item_list[].nametextPs5 dualsense edge controller
item_list[].urlURLhttps://offerup.com/item/detail/63dc5854-579b-340c-aeb1-8c636da904a3

Examples from offerup.com/search on 2026-10-13, shortened.

Sample output (real, trimmed)

{
    "ads": [
        {
            "url": "https://offerup.com/item/detail/63dc5854-579b-340c-aeb1-8c636da904a3",
            "title": "Ps5 dualsense edge controller"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://offerup.com/item/detail/4773fdc0-1be8-375f-9ef4-7b024c0b61b4",
            "title": "Lego Batman ps5"
        },
        {
            "url": null,
            "title": null
        }
    ],
    "item_list": [
        {
            "name": "Ps5 dualsense edge controller",
            "url": "https://offerup.com/item/detail/63dc5854-579b-340c-aeb1-8c636da904a3"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lego Batman ps5",
            "url": "https://offerup.com/item/detail/4773fdc0-1be8-375f-9ef4-7b024c0b61b4"
        },
        {
            "name": "PlayStation portal",
            "url": "https://offerup.com/item/detail/a10f2abd-1888-3a48-87bb-fb511ff62f74"
        }
    ]
}
extract_rules (2 rules)
{
    "ads": {
        "selector": "ul > div",
        "type": "obj",
        "multiple": true,
        "children": {
            "url": {
                "selector": "a[data-testid=\"UnifiedListingTile\"]",
                "type": "link"
            },
            "title": {
                "selector": "a[data-testid='UnifiedListingTile']",
                "type": "attr",
                "attribute": "title"
            }
        }
    },
    "item_list": {
        "type": "fn",
        "fn": "const l = [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type=\"application/ld+json\"]')].flatMap(s => { try { return [].concat(JSON.parse(s.textContent)).flatMap(x => x['@graph'] || [x]); } catch (e) { return []; } }).find(x => x && [].concat(x['@type']).includes('ItemList')); return l ? [].concat(l.itemListElement || []).map(e => ({ name: e.name ?? e.item?.name ?? null, url: e.url ?? e.item?.url ?? e.item?.['@id'] ?? null })) : null;"
    }
}

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one sends the settings on this page and the extraction recipe, prints the extracted JSON, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

Search and listing pages

Runs the recipe on the two pages it was validated on, one after the other.

offerup_listing_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Scrape OfferUp search and listing pages with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Settings and extract rules validated on real pages on 2026-10-13 (Ujeebu site guide).
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 offerup_listing_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
URLS = [
    "https://offerup.com/search?q=ps5",
    "https://offerup.com/search?q=bike",
]
SETTINGS = {
    "js": True,
}
EXTRACT_RULES = {
    "ads": {
        "selector": "ul > div",
        "type": "obj",
        "multiple": True,
        "children": {
            "url": {
                "selector": "a[data-testid=\"UnifiedListingTile\"]",
                "type": "link",
            },
            "title": {
                "selector": "a[data-testid='UnifiedListingTile']",
                "type": "attr",
                "attribute": "title",
            },
        },
    },
    "item_list": {
        "type": "fn",
        "fn": "const l = [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type=\"application/ld+json\"]')].flatMap(s => { try { return [].concat(JSON.parse(s.textContent)).flatMap(x => x['@graph'] || [x]); } catch (e) { return []; } }).find(x => x && [].concat(x['@type']).includes('ItemList')); return l ? [].concat(l.itemListElement || []).map(e => ({ name: e.name ?? e.item?.name ?? null, url: e.url ?? e.item?.url ?? e.item?.['@id'] ?? null })) : null;",
    },
}


def scrape(client, url):
    # with extract_rules, client.scrape sends a JSON POST and the API answers {"result": {...}}
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params={**SETTINGS, "extract_rules": EXTRACT_RULES})
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.json()["result"]


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for i, url in enumerate(URLS):
    if i:
        time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time
    print(json.dumps(scrape(client, url), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/offerup.json.

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URL patterns and pagination

What the URLs look like, read from the pages our checks fetched.

Search and listing pages

Search or listing URL
https://offerup.com/search?q={query}
Next pages
We did not see a next-page link on the pages we fetched. Results may load as you scroll: try scroll_down.
Validated on
https://offerup.com/search?q=ps5https://offerup.com/search?q=bike

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
Costup to 5 credits a request (only HTTP 200 and 404 are billed)

For search and listing pages, change the query or the page parameter in the URL to paginate, and fetch the pages one after another rather than in bursts. Collect detail page URLs from listing pages first, then fetch each detail page. Our checks run with JavaScript rendering on (js=true): keep it on.

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Troubleshooting

The failures our own checks of offerup.com ran into over the last 7 days, and what got the page in the same check.

What happenedTimesWhat fixed it
The site blocked the request (HTTP 403 or a block page) 20 None of the settings we tried got past it in 7 days.
The page did not load in time 7 Nothing we tried in the same check. Retry later, one request at a time.

A failed request is not billed: only HTTP 200 and 404 responses cost credits.

What people build with OfferUp data

  • New ads alertsCatch new ads for the searches you care about shortly after they appear.

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • robots.txt of offerup.com (read 2026-10-13): public pages asked to stay away (Disallow: /search); no crawl delay set.
  • Read OfferUp's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape OfferUp with Ujeebu?

Partly. 5 of 20 checks of public OfferUp pages passed in the last 7 days; most failures were the site blocked the request (HTTP 403 or a block page). Retry failed pages later, and use the settings on this page.

Which settings work for OfferUp?

Call /scrape with js=true.

How many credits does a OfferUp request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 5 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Which fields can I extract from OfferUp?

With the extraction recipes on this page, validated on real OfferUp pages through our API: search and listing pages: url, title, name. Pass the recipe as extract_rules in a POST to /scrape and the API returns those fields as JSON.

Is it allowed to scrape OfferUp?

Its robots.txt asks generic crawlers to stay away from public pages (Disallow: /search). Collect public pages only, read OfferUp's terms of service, keep your request rate modest and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of offerup.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-10-13 17:34:34 UTC; last pass: 2026-10-13 17:34:34 UTC.