Facebook recently launched a slightly better, and certainly more prominent, Marketplace to sell goods locally. Is there an API for adding listings or does anyone know if there will be an API?
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I doubt they will have an API for the Marketplace as it is designed as a person to person local marketplace, rather than a business to person marketplace. However, it would not be hard to build your own bot to post ads using something like nightmare.js. I looked into this a few months back and it took me about 2 hours to create a minimal bot that could post a basic ad. Could share the code with you if you want.
If you’re not familiar with Javascript/Node.js, you could build it using any web scraper but Nightmare.js makes it really easy.
Update : You can now request your business to get listed on facebook marketplace.
Documentation : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/shops-api.
Form for Application : https://www.facebook.com/shops-api-alpha/.
Please note, this is a limited alpha so only select partners will be eligible for access to the API.
Yes they do and it’s called the Commerce Platform.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/commerce-platform
Just click on that link to see they have an on boarding process that ultimately leads to listing items on Facebook marketplace.
More specifically, you will want to use the Catalog Batch API to add products via API calls.