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OLX classifieds data,
at market-research scale.

We extract classified listings, asking prices, seller intelligence, location signals, and ad metadata from OLX. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Listings extracted
1.8M /day
Price snapshots
2.6M /24h
New ads tracked
380K /run
Active pipelines
96
Uptime
99.93%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from olx.in

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Classified Listings objects from olx.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

ad_idtitlecategorysub_categoryconditionasking_pricecurrencynegotiabledescriptionseller_idseller_typelocation_citylocation_statelocation_pinlatitudelongitudeimage_urlsimage_countad_posted_datead_last_refreshedad_statusviews_countpage_url
classified_listings
● 200 OK
"ad_id": "OLX-IN-1847291034",
"title": "Honda City 2019 Petrol Automatic",
"category": "Cars",
"asking_price": 750000,
"currency": "INR",
"negotiable": true,
"location_city": "Bengaluru",
"ad_posted_date": "2026-05-10",
"condition": "used"
# ad_idtitlecategorysub_categoryconditionasking_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Vehicles objects from olx.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

ad_idtitlemakemodelyearfuel_typetransmissionkm_drivenownership_countinsurance_valid_untilasking_pricecurrencynegotiablelocation_citylocation_stateseller_typerto_codecolor
vehicles
● 200 OK
"ad_id": "OLX-IN-1847291034",
"make": "Honda",
"model": "City",
"year": 2019,
"fuel_type": "Petrol",
"km_driven": 42000,
"ownership_count": 1,
"asking_price": 750000,
"rto_code": "KA-05"
# ad_idtitlemakemodelyearfuel_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Real Estate objects from olx.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

ad_idtitleproperty_typetransaction_typeasking_priceprice_per_sqftcurrencyarea_sqftbedroomsbathroomsfurnishing_statusfacingfloor_numbertotal_floorssociety_namelocation_citylocation_localitylocation_pinlatitudelongitude
real_estate
● 200 OK
"ad_id": "OLX-IN-9382741028",
"property_type": "Apartment",
"transaction_type": "Sale",
"asking_price": 8500000,
"area_sqft": 1200,
"bedrooms": 3,
"furnishing_status": "Semi-Furnished",
"location_locality": "Whitefield"
# ad_idtitleproperty_typetransaction_typeasking_priceprice_per_sqft
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seller Profiles objects from olx.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

seller_idseller_nameseller_typeverifiedmember_sinceactive_ad_counttotal_ads_postedresponse_rateavg_response_timelocation_citylocation_stateprofile_url
seller_profiles
● 200 OK
"seller_id": "OLX-USR-28401923",
"seller_name": "Ravi Auto Sales",
"seller_type": "dealer",
"verified": true,
"active_ad_count": 84,
"response_rate": 94,
"member_since": "2019-03-14"
# seller_idseller_nameseller_typeverifiedmember_sinceactive_ad_count
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Capabilities

Everything you need from OLX — nothing you don't

Our OLX scraper handles every layer of the classifieds platform: vehicle listings, real estate ads, electronics, seller profiles, geo-coordinates, and ad freshness signals — with full JavaScript rendering built in.

Full Classified Listing Extraction

Title, category, condition, asking price, description, image count, negotiable flag, ad age, and every metadata field OLX surfaces — at ad level.

Vehicle-Specific Data

Make, model, year, fuel type, transmission, kilometres driven, ownership count, RTO code, insurance validity, and colour — for every vehicle listing.

Real Estate Listing Data

Property type, transaction type, price per sqft, area, bedrooms, furnishing status, floor, facing, society name, and locality — for all property ads.

Location & Geo Intelligence

City, state, PIN code, locality name, latitude, and longitude for every listing — enabling geo-clustered market analysis and hyperlocal price mapping.

Seller Profile Scraping

Seller name, type (private vs dealer), verified flag, active ad count, historical listings, response rate, and member-since date.

Ad Age & Freshness Tracking

Capture ad posted date, last refreshed date, and derived ad age — critical for demand-side analysis and de-listing lag modelling.

Category & Search Scraping

Scrape any category feed, keyword search result, or location-filtered listing page — with pagination across all result pages.

Multi-Market Support

OLX India, OLX Poland, OLX Brazil, OLX Portugal, OLX UAE, and other regional OLX sites — unified schema with local currency.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

One-off snapshots or continuous new-ad monitoring pipelines at hourly or daily cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From category URL to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide category URLs, search keywords, location filters, or specific ad IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and anti-bot handling tailored to OLX's regional infrastructure.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, price sanity checks, geo-coordinate validation, and sample review before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our OLX pipeline handles the hard parts

OLX classifieds data is ephemeral — ads expire, get refreshed, and disappear. Here's how we track freshness and stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · olx.in · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Ad lifecycle tracking
Capture new listings, refreshes, and de-listings

OLX data is ephemeral — ads are posted, bumped, refreshed, and removed. Our pipeline tracks ad first-seen, last-seen, and refresh events, building a timeline that reveals true market velocity and demand-side signals not visible from a single snapshot.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + session management

OLX uses session fingerprinting and IP reputation scoring to throttle crawlers. We use residential ISP proxies matched to the relevant country market, with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised timing, to maintain consistent access across high-volume runs.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Seller contact panels, location widgets, and image galleries on OLX are JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright sessions to capture these — including deferred content loads triggered by user interaction events.

Geo-data enrichment
PIN code, locality, and coordinate capture

OLX location data is often imprecise in the raw DOM. We extract city, state, PIN, locality name, and where available latitude/longitude — normalising to a consistent geo schema for downstream spatial analysis.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, price outliers, schema drift, and coverage drops — and respond before you notice. SLA uptime is contractual.

Applications

Who uses OLX data — and how

Teams across industries use olx.in data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Used Car Market Intelligence

Auto dealers, fleet buyers, and financial services firms track asking prices, depreciation curves, make/model demand signals, and regional price differentials for the used vehicle market.

02
Real Estate Price Research

PropTech platforms and analysts track hyperlocal asking prices, supply velocity, and property attribute premiums to build AVM models and market indices.

03
Consumer Electronics Resale

Recommerce platforms and insurers track used device pricing, condition distributions, and demand velocity to power trade-in valuation models.

04
Dealer Network Monitoring

Brands and distributors monitor dealer ad activity, pricing compliance, inventory depth, and listing quality across regional OLX markets.

05
Demand-Side Econometrics

Research teams use classified listing volume, asking price trends, and ad age data as leading indicators for consumer demand and disposable income proxies.

06
Fraud & Risk Detection

Financial institutions and insurers cross-reference OLX listing data against declared asset values for vehicle and property loan origination risk models.

Why DataFlirt

"OLX classifieds data is one of the richest real-world price signal datasets available — but its ephemeral nature means you need a continuous pipeline, not a one-off scrape."

Reliable OLX scraping requires tracking ad lifecycle events, handling location data normalisation, maintaining session continuity for contact panel access, and running daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your research and analytics team can focus on the insights.

Technical Spec

OLX scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our olx.in scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions — required for contact panels, image galleries, and location widgets
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs matched to market country — rotated per request
Supported
Ad lifecycle tracking
First-seen, last-seen, refresh events, and de-listing detection per ad ID
Supported
Geo-coordinate extraction
City, state, PIN, locality, lat/lng where available — normalised to consistent schema
Supported
Vehicle attribute parsing
Make, model, year, fuel, transmission, km driven, ownership count, RTO code
Supported
Real estate attribute parsing
Area, bedrooms, furnishing, floor, facing, society — from structured and unstructured fields
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per new ad or price change — useful for real-time valuation workflows
Supported
Seller contact details
Phone numbers and emails behind contact gating require authenticated sessions
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the OLX pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and dynamic panel interactions. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain country-matched residential ISP proxy pools for OLX India, OLX Poland, OLX Brazil, and other market sites. Rotation is per-request with sticky sessions for multi-page ad traversal.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per new ad or price change for real-time workflows
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
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Common questions.

About olx.in scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping OLX legal?

Scraping publicly available classified listings from OLX is generally permissible under applicable law in India and other markets where OLX operates. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated listing and seller data. We do not extract personal contact details gated behind login walls. We recommend clients review OLX's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

Can you track when an ad is posted, refreshed, and removed?

Yes — ad lifecycle tracking is one of our core capabilities for classifieds. We record first-seen timestamp, all subsequent refresh events, last-seen timestamp, and infer de-listing when an ad disappears from crawls. This timeline is critical for demand velocity and market liquidity analysis.

How granular is the location data?

We extract city, state, PIN code, and locality name from every listing, and capture latitude/longitude where OLX surfaces it. All geo fields are normalised to a consistent schema for spatial analysis.

Can you extract vehicle-specific attributes like km driven and ownership count?

Yes — the vehicle schema captures make, model, year, fuel type, transmission, kilometres driven, ownership count, RTO registration code, insurance validity, and colour from structured listing attributes.

How fresh is the data?

For new-ad monitoring pipelines, we can achieve sub-4-hour latency for new listing detection on a defined category and location set. Full category refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 3–6 hour window.

Can I get a sample dataset before committing?

Yes. We provide a sample run across a defined category and city as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=olx.in ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off classifieds snapshot or a continuous new-listing monitor across categories and cities — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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