Goofish Xianyu Scraper (闲鱼 Idlefish)

Goofish Scraper: Xianyu (闲鱼) listings from item and seller links, no keyword search

Paste Goofish item links, or a seller's profile link, and every listing comes back as a row. Each row has the title, asking price in yuan, Goofish's 10-point condition, want and view counts, location, the seller's masked nickname and good-review rate, every photo and the description. There is no keyword search, because Goofish only offers search to signed-in accounts, so this works from links you already have.

🔍 What Goofish Scraper does

Goofish (闲鱼, Xianyu, sometimes written Idlefish) is Alibaba's second-hand marketplace. This takes listings you can already see, from the app, from a shared link or from a seller you follow, and turns them into a table.

An item link can be the full goofish.com/item?id= address, the mobile h5.m.goofish.com version or just the number. A seller link is a goofish.com/personal?userId= address or its number, and every listing on that profile is walked and returned in the same shape as an item link. Item links are done first, then sellers.

Before any of a seller's listings are kept, the first one is read back to check it really belongs to that seller. If it does not, you get a free note and nothing from that profile. Rows that did come from a profile you asked for carry foundViaSeller.

Each row is put together from two parts of Goofish, and sourceItemRecord and sourceDetailPage say which answered. When one is missing, its fields are null rather than guessed. Old listings are the usual case: on a 150-listing seller walk, 140 rows were complete and 10 came back thinner, all of them listings from earlier years.

That 150-listing walk took 87 seconds on a test run, and a run of 13 item links took 11.

📥 What you give it

{
  "itemUrls": ["https://www.goofish.com/item?id=1080166744321", "1081033347338"],
  "sellerUrls": ["https://www.goofish.com/personal?userId=605970805"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDescription": true
}

With neither links nor seller links, you get one free example row telling you what to put where. The form opens with one item link filled in, as an example.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run, with the photo list cut to one:

{
  "itemId": "1080166744321",
  "url": "https://www.goofish.com/item?id=1080166744321",
  "title": "全新正版《我住长江尾》，段志强著，中华书局出版！未拆封，正品",
  "price": 35,
  "originalPrice": 68,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "shippingFee": 0,
  "conditionLevel": 10,
  "conditionText": "Brand new",
  "wantCount": 14,
  "viewCount": 244,
  "collectCount": 7,
  "soldCount": 0,
  "quantity": 4,
  "city": "上海",
  "province": "上海",
  "district": "闵行区",
  "sellerId": "2208434265414",
  "sellerNick": "正***店",
  "sellerGoodReviewRate": "99%",
  "sellerItemCount": 241,
  "sellerSoldCount": 2588,
  "sellerReplyRate24h": "97%",
  "sellerLastSeen": "6分钟前来过",
  "sellerUrl": "https://www.goofish.com/personal?userId=2208434265414",
  "categoryId": 50023914,
  "status": "在线",
  "listedAt": "2026-08-28T20:51:10.000Z",
  "images": ["https://img.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/i2/2208434265414/O1CN01fTSS3lERTGG1chua_!!4611686018427387206-0-xy_item.jpg"],
  "imageCount": 4,
  "description": "保证，印刷清晰，纸张手感好～\n\n内容讲复旦教授回归土地的田园生活，真实生动，适合喜欢历史、乡村、治愈系文学的朋友阅读收藏，也适合送礼～\n\n全国包邮（偏远地区除外），喜欢直接拍，细节随时问我～",
  "sourceItemRecord": true,
  "sourceDetailPage": true
}

🧾 Reading the output

Real rows have no charged field. Every free row carries charged: false, so dropping those leaves only listings.

Notes use reason, not an error code:

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Goofish Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Paste listing links into Item links, or profile links into Seller links, one per line. 3. Set Maximum listings. 4. Untick Include the seller's description if you only want prices and counts. 5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

💰 How much does it cost?

$3.50 per 1,000 listings, flat on every Apify plan.

Not charged: the example row, every note above, and a listing that turns up twice, which is delivered once. If you set a maximum cost for the run, it stops when that is reached and says so in the log; if the limit is too low for a single listing, nothing is fetched at all.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching the asking price and the want and view counts on listings you already follow, on a

schedule.

• Reading a seller's whole shelf before buying from them: good-review rate, reply rate and what else

they sell.

• Comparing interest across listings of the same kind. A ¥3 listing with 2,119 wants and 10,356 views

is a very different thing from a ¥2,569 camera with none.

• Keeping a record of listings, with their photo links and descriptions, before they sell and

disappear.

🚧 What it does not do

• No keyword search. Goofish keeps search for signed-in accounts, and this uses none. If you

need "every listing for X", this is the wrong tool.

• No sold history. A seller profile shows the current shelf. Sold and delisted items are not on

it.

• soldCount is 0 on most listings, and a 0 does not mean nothing sold. Goofish fills it in

unevenly. The want and view counts are the reliable ones.

• No translation. Titles, cities, conditions and "last seen" stay in Chinese, as listed.
• No currency conversion. Prices are in yuan.
• No unmasked nicknames. Goofish masks them for anyone who is not signed in.
• A row is a snapshot. Sellers change prices and relist the same thing often.

🧭 Which China marketplace scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Can it search Goofish by keyword? No. Goofish only offers search to signed-in accounts, and this works from listing and seller links.

Do I need a Goofish account, a cookie or a token? No. You paste links, and nothing else is asked for.

Is Xianyu the same as Goofish? Yes. 闲鱼 (Xianyu) is the Chinese name, Goofish the name on the international site, and Idlefish a common translation.

How many listings can I pull from one seller? As many as their profile shows, up to your Maximum listings.

Why are some fields null on an old listing? Goofish keeps less for long-archived listings. sourceItemRecord: false marks those rows, and the missing fields are left empty rather than filled with a guess.

Is this legal? It reads listings anyone can open without signing in. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a good starting point. We are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page and send the links you used and the run ID. The note rows in the dataset usually name the reason already.