Facebook Marketplace Search

Search nearby Facebook Marketplace listings via a user-provided local Marketplace service.

Design goal

This published skill is intentionally a thin wrapper client.

It does not ship with:

• embedded Facebook scraping logic
• vendored Marketplace scraper code
• built-in background services
• LaunchAgent installers

That design keeps the published package smaller, easier to review, and less sensitive from a security-scanning perspective.

What this skill does

• sends a search request to a local Marketplace-compatible service
• supports:
• query
• location
• radius_km
• min_price
• max_price
• limit
• pickup_only
• sort
• returns normalized JSON with:
• id
• title
• price
• location
• seller_name
• image_url
• listing_url

Expected local service

By default this client calls:

• http://127.0.0.1:8787/search

Override with:

• MARKETPLACE_API_BASE_URL

The local service is expected to accept query parameters such as:

• query
• location
• radius_km
• min_price
• max_price
• limit
• pickup_only
• sort

Setup

Install deps:

python3 -m pip install -r skills/facebook-marketplace-search/requirements.txt

Optionally copy config:

cp skills/facebook-marketplace-search/config.example.json \
   skills/facebook-marketplace-search/config.json

Usage

python3 skills/facebook-marketplace-search/scripts/facebook_marketplace_search.py \
  --query "burrow sofa" \
  --location "Livingston, NJ" \
  --radius-km 48 \
  --limit 10 \
  --sort local_first

Output shape

{
  "query": "burrow sofa",
  "location": "Livingston, NJ",
  "count": 2,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "123",
      "title": "Burrow Sofa",
      "price": 400.0,
      "location": "Livingston, NJ",
      "seller_name": "Jane Doe",
      "image_url": "https://...",
      "listing_url": "https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/123"
    }
  ]
}

Notes

• This skill is a client wrapper, not a bundled scraper.
• It is meant to integrate with a local service you control.
• Some upstream services may not always provide seller names or exact pickup semantics.
• Sorting behavior depends on the local service implementation.