**How AI Makes Facebook Marketplace a Gold Mine — Transcript & Summary | SozAI**
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Chris Koerner shows how to use AI-powered scraping of Facebook Marketplace to find underpriced deals, build deal feeds for resellers, and offer scraping as a service, with no coding required.

## Key Takeaways

- Scraping Facebook Marketplace with AI tools can uncover underpriced items faster than manual searching.
- Monetization routes include reselling, selling scraping services, and building deal feeds for local resellers or businesses.
- Speed and personalized outreach are critical for winning underpriced deals.
- No coding knowledge is needed thanks to AI scrapers and no-code or vibe-coding platforms.

## What the video covers

- Starting small with Facebook Marketplace is presented as the best way to begin a side hustle or business.
- Two angles are covered: buying and reselling items on Marketplace, and offering Marketplace scraping as a service or software product.
- Scraping Marketplace listings lets you catch underpriced or free items the moment they are posted, instead of manually refreshing.
- Search terms like 'free', 'must go', 'cheap', and 'damaged' can surface deals, and scraping can run every 1, 30, or 60 minutes.
- Serial sellers and businesses posting many listings (e.g., shed or solar panel sellers) can be identified and tracked for repeat opportunities.
- Speed matters: being first to contact a seller with a specific, local, ready-to-pick-up offer beats generic 'Is this still available?' messages.
- Automated deal feeds can be delivered to local flippers and resellers via spreadsheets, email, or simple apps, often at $30-$150 per month.
- Local businesses such as tree trimmers or contractors can use scraped leads from Marketplace for cold outreach.
- The video demonstrates an AI scraper tool (Oxyabs) with a robust API that can connect to vibe-coding platforms to build custom apps.
- The speaker emphasizes that you don't need to be a coder, and that standing out with tailored messages is key in competitive markets.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction: Starting Small on Facebook Marketplace
2. 00:52 Two Ways to Profit from Marketplace
3. 02:34 Why Scraping Marketplace Matters
4. 03:34 Finding Serial Sellers and Niche Items
5. 05:34 Searching for Free and Underpriced Deals
6. 07:08 Selling Scraping as a Service to Local Businesses
7. 09:18 Building a Deal Feed for Local Resellers
8. 12:58 Setting Up the AI Scraper and Final Tips

Answers

## Questions about this video

What is the main strategy the video recommends for making money on Facebook Marketplace?

The video recommends using automated scraping to find underpriced or free listings quickly, then either reselling those items or selling the scraping data and alerts as a service. Speed and personalized outreach are emphasized as key to winning deals.

Does the presenter claim you need coding skills to scrape Marketplace?

No. The presenter states that he doesn't know how to code either, and shows how an AI scraper tool can set up scraping with simple configuration steps.

How should you contact sellers to stand out from other buyers?

Instead of generic messages like 'Is this still available?', the presenter suggests stating that you are nearby, can pick the item up immediately, and asking for the address. This specific, ready-to-act approach differentiates you from the crowd of other buyers.

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The best way to start a side hustle or a full-fledged business is to start small.

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And there's no better way to start small than on Facebook Marketplace. Now, before you click away, realize that I'm talking about Facebook Marketplace in a couple different ways. Number one is to buy and sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace or to buy stuff elsewhere

00:18

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And there's no better way to start small than on Facebook Marketplace.

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simple tools. But you can't do either of these things until you know how to scrape Facebook Marketplace. You don't know how to code. I don't know how to code, but that doesn't matter cuz today I'm going to show you how to do exactly

00:41

Speaker A

Now, before you click away, realize that I'm talking about Facebook Marketplace in a couple different ways.

00:52

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Marketplace. And then I'm going to show you exactly how to scrape Facebook Marketplace listings in ways that you probably hadn't even thought of because at the end of the day, it's just too tedious and timeconuming to always click

01:04

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Number one is to buy and sell stuff on Facebook Marketplace, or to buy stuff elsewhere and sell it on Facebook Marketplace, or vice versa.

01:18

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So, first let's talk about all the different kind of random ways you can make money on Facebook Marketplace. What search terms to look for, how often you should scrape, what types of items, on and on. Let's start by talking about a

01:31

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And number two is to offer Facebook Marketplace scraping, either as a service or as a piece of software that anyone with no coding knowledge or experience can build with a couple simple tools.

01:48

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damaged. You can scrape all the results from these listings every 1 minute, 60 minute, 30 minutes, whatever you want.

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But you can't do either of these things until you know how to scrape Facebook Marketplace.

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minutes from you. I can come get this right now. What's your address?" Because if something truly is underpriced, they're going to be hit up by so many people in your area. So, you need to stand out. And it's actually quite easy

02:17

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You don't know how to code? I don't know how to code either, but that doesn't matter, because today I'm going to show you how to do exactly that.

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make money with Facebook Marketplace scraping is setting up what I call a deal feed for local flippers or local resellers. There are millions of Americans that resell on a daily or weekly basis. Some of them do this full-time. Some of them do it just for

02:44

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How to get the edge over the other billion people on Facebook Marketplace who don't know how to scrape, who don't even think to scrape.

02:54

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more of a manual way where you just send them a spreadsheet every week with a scrape or every day. Believe it or not, a lot of people prefer working with data in a Google sheet or a spreadsheet. and

03:03

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So, in this video today, I'm going to give you a ton of ideas of how to make money on Facebook Marketplace.

03:11

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Facebook freaking marketplace. They're right there. In fact, I'll share my screen and show you how to find them.

03:17

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And then I'm going to show you exactly how to scrape Facebook Marketplace listings in ways that you probably hadn't even thought of, because at the end of the day, it's just too tedious and time-consuming to always click refresh, always check in, or be stuck to our phones all day looking, refreshing, searching.

03:28

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search for multiple terms in the same search, commas. And look, you can see right here, this one says free. This one says must go. And these ones say cheap, so it's working. Now, how can we sort the individuals that just sell once a

03:41

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We want to automate all that stuff, and we will save time and make more money as we do so.

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click. This seems tedious, but I promise you it's worth it. Once we go into the items, we're just going to click on the seller information. Look, there's his listings. So JB Bueno, he's just selling two different things. James, look at

04:05

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So, first let's talk about all the different random ways you can make money on Facebook Marketplace.

04:16

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sell a lot of stuff. Bingo, jackpot. All right, this is very interesting. Also, side note, I love using Facebook Marketplace just to learn, just to kind of put my feelers out there and see what kind of schemes people are coming up

04:27

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What search terms to look for, how often you should scrape, what types of items, and on and on.

04:34

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And this tells me that this is probably a business owner with a fake Facebook account that's installing solar. There's something to learn from that. Once you find these sellers in whatever niche you're in, maybe it's appliances, couches, furniture, whatever, just start

04:47

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Let's start by talking about a local Facebook Marketplace arbitrage sniper.

05:00

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multiple hundreds or thousands of dollars, not t-shirts and stuff. Because if you sell a couple t-shirts a week as a side hustle, you might be making $30 a week and you're not willing to pay $30 a month for software cuz that eats into

05:12

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A lot of words going on there.

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helps him find more deals or better deals. Also, there are Facebook groups in every market of flippers, of resellers, of liquidation guys or gals.

05:33

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What I mean is finding items that are incorrectly priced, underpriced, and finding them as soon as they hit the market.

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yours? What features would you add or remove? So, you're just talking about what you're building, but what you're really doing is selling because people are seeing that and they're thinking, "Oo, I want that. How can I use that?" I

05:53

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You can do this by searching terms like "must go," "free stuff," "cheap," "damaged."

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money." But if you go at it directly through the front door and say, "I just built this tool. It is so good. It's only $29.99 per month. Here's what it does. People are like, "Yan, block, mute." So, sell your story as opposed to

06:16

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You can scrape all the results from these listings every one minute, every 60 minutes, every 30 minutes, whatever you want.

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Buffalo, New York. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be local. But if you are, it makes it a little easier to close this deal because they feel like you're one of them. All right. Now, what about local business owners? hot tub

06:38

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This will ensure you are the first buyer for underpriced stuff.

06:51

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Facebook Marketplace. Even service businesses, our tree trimming business relies on Facebook Marketplace. So, go to them, use Oxyabs to scrape all those businesses, and then start doing cold outreach. I'm going to give you a full Oxyabs tutorial here in a minute, by the

07:03

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And please, please, please don't just click the button and say, "Is this still available?" Because that's what they're getting from everyone.

07:15

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do this. I mean, look at this. This is the notify me settings on Facebook.

07:18

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You need to stand out, and you need to say, "Hey, I'm five minutes from you. I can come get this right now. What's your address?"

07:30

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terms are listed, but I want to automatically reach out to them and send them a custom message as soon as it's listed. We can do that. Facebook won't do it for us. What about this? What if you're a local business? You have a tree

07:41

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Because if something truly is underpriced, they're going to be hit up by so many people in your area.

07:55

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happens? Maybe it's only once a week, maybe once a day, once a month, doesn't matter. It's automated and it's free.

07:59

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So you need to stand out, and it's actually quite easy to do so.

08:10

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offer this as a service, you could set it up for any local business. This could be a piece of software that you sell to the business owner so they can receive the leads or the alerts. Or you can just

08:19

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Every single day in any given market, people are giving away stuff for free worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

08:31

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people with 10 to 15,000 subscribers making more than newsletters that are 10 times that size. Here's how. Well, this one designed newsletter with around 15,000 subs doesn't just sell ads. They run two week online cohorts four times a

08:46

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And oftentimes, you can have that stuff sold before you even go pick it up.

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monetizing it correctly. And Beehive gives you exactly the tools to do just that, like surveys to understand exactly who your readers are, or a built-in recommendation network to grow automatically. Paid subscriptions, digital products, sponsorship tools, and you keep 100% of the revenue. You don't

09:18

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All right. Another way you could make money with Facebook Marketplace scraping is setting up what I call a deal feed for local flippers or local resellers.

09:32

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leveraged business that you can build right now. Just go to beehive.com/chris to learn more. That's behiv.com/kris.

09:40

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There are millions of Americans who resell on a daily or weekly basis. Some of them do this full-time. Some of them do it just for some side income.

09:54

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only homes listed beneath $120,000 in a certain zip code? No, but your scraper can do that. And those are very, very high value leads. It's the same amount of work for you, but you can sell these leads for significantly more than

10:08

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You can offer this as a service to them without knowing how to code.

10:19

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post crazy Zillow listings. How do they find them? They have scrapers. That's it. What if you did the same thing? You started a media company, but Facebook Marketplace gone wild. There are so many wild things on Facebook Marketplace. A

10:31

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You could do it in an automated way by turning this into software with some AI tools.

10:41

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Think of a domain name and you've got thousands of entrepreneurs out there that flip appliances.

10:46

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Or you could do this in a more manual way, where you just send them a spreadsheet every week with a scrape, or every day.

11:00

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that, you copy and paste the website into every niche. Exercisee equipmentraar.com, furniture radar, couch radar, on and on and on. Before you know it, you've got a dozen tools, each paying you hundreds to thousands of dollars a month. That's

11:14

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Believe it or not, a lot of people prefer working with data in a Google Sheet or a spreadsheet, and they'd rather just be in their inbox and see that come every morning than have to log into yet another tool or app.

11:27

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say you should probably scrape this stuff without logging in first. So, this should all be publicly available data.

11:34

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Well, how do you find these customers? Facebook freaking Marketplace. They're right there.

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That's oxyabs.io. I've used other scraping tools in the past, but they're just not comprehensive enough. They don't do enough. They're not AI enabled. And almost none of them work with Facebook Marketplace, but Oxyabs does. And remember, I'm not a

11:53

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In fact, I'll share my screen and show you how to find them.

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I signed up for an account. I'm going to go to apps, AI scraper. Now, if you are technical, you might want to do this more manually. But even if you are, I just don't see a need to because the AI

12:11

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All right, you can see here I'm searching within 80 miles of Dallas, Texas. That gets the whole metroplex. There's about 8 million people here. That's where I live.

12:23

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IP address the whole time. It spreads out your location to distribute your visibility and your risk. Oxyabs has all this in-house, so you don't have to use a third party for it. I think they have like almost 200 million residential IP

12:36

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And I'm searching "must go, free, cheap." This is the best way to search for multiple terms in the same search: commas.

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tools. They've got their AI scraper, which enables you to scrape basically anything you need from almost any website. You just describe your needs in plain English, and then it will scrape the data for you. Then they have a

12:58

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And look, you can see right here, this one says free. This one says must go. And these ones say cheap, so it's working.

13:11

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tool. You just describe what you want to search and it will go search the web and find stuff for you. And then they have an AI map where it will go and explore domains intelligently to find the right

13:21

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Now, how can we sort the individuals who just sell once a year from the people who are selling full-time or part-time, or as a business or side hustle?

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exaggerating, $600,000 a year net profit flipping sheds, backyard tool sheds, mostly used. Here's what he does. He goes on Facebook Marketplace. He finds people that are moving in or moving out of a house. The house has a shed. They

13:47

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Well, the only way to do it is just start pulling up random listings in new tabs.

13:54

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So, people will list them very cheaply or for free on Facebook Marketplace because it's heavy. It's thousands of pounds. They don't know what to do with it. So, my friend will go and message all these people with sheds and he'll

14:05

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So, on my MacBook here, I'm just holding command and then clicking. This seems tedious, but I promise you it's worth it.

14:13

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if he messages that like the first day they're listed or the first week, they'll probably say, "Go pound sand.

14:18

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Once we go into the items, we're just going to click on the seller information.

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inevitably weeks later and says, "Hey, you still have that shed? My offer still stands. I'll come get it for free." Because the thing is, if they don't get rid of it for free, they're going to have to pay money to a junk removal

14:39

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Look, there's his listings. So JB Bueno, he's just selling two different things. James, look at this. James has four different things.

14:46

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So free is a lot better than paid obviously. And then if people have a shed that's listed for free, he'll get them on the first day and say, "Hey, I'll be right there with my flatbed truck." He has a flatbed truck now with

14:56

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Oftentimes, you can tell before even clicking into their name if they're sophisticated or a high-volume seller or not.

15:06

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business more affordably, and he would just have a little route and he'd go pick up all the sheds, drop them off at his lot. Or better yet, what he learned over time is he would go pick up the

15:16

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If it looks like they used AI to generate the listing, then they probably sell a lot of stuff.

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that same shed for $2,000, but I'll deliver it to you for free. You don't have to pick it up. You don't have to drop it off. You don't have to set it up. It's four times as much, but you're

15:35

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Bingo, jackpot.

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that I think other people should do this, too. And we're going to scrape sheds in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

15:50

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All right, this is very interesting. Also, side note, I love using Facebook Marketplace just to learn, just to put my feelers out there and see what kind of schemes people are coming up with on a daily basis.

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and I'm going to paste the URL. Okay. Geoloccation optional. We're not doing really heavy scraping here. doesn't really matter, but I'm just going to choose United States. You don't have to choose anything, but it works for me.

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This guy, Solomon Garcia, he's got dozens, if not hundreds, of solar listings. Free solar panels.

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I'm going to click provide your own schema. Okay. Now, I have to fill this out right here. I'm just going to paste something there. And don't worry, if you look in the description below this episode, I have this linked. So you'll

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And this tells me that this is probably a business owner with a fake Facebook account who's installing solar. There's something to learn from that.

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items. We're going to change that to object. Then we're going to click add property to object items. Then we're going to do title, leave it as string.

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Once you find these sellers in whatever niche you're in, maybe it's appliances, couches, furniture, whatever, just start saving the URLs in a Google Sheet so you can keep track of them.

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then image because we might as well scrape the image URL as well. Click apply changes. Cool. Looks good to me.

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And if you're willing to put in a little manual work finding these high-volume sellers, spend time finding those sellers in niches that have higher-ticket items, multiple hundreds or thousands of dollars, not T-shirts and stuff.

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And each kind of cluster of data right here is a scrape is a listing. So you can see new 16 by12 shed $6,300 Dallas, Texas. There's the URL. There's the image. So it looks like it scraped a bunch. Scraped a bunch. But what do I do

17:43

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Because if you sell a couple T-shirts a week as a side hustle, you might be making $30 a week, and you're not going to be willing to pay $30 a month for software, because that eats into your profit margins too much.

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We're going to click download CSV. And then I'm going to go ahead and paste it into a Google sheet. That way I can share my screen a little more easily.

18:02

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But if you find a guy selling $300 treadmills, multiple a week, making thousands of dollars a month, or couches or appliances or whatever, he'll probably pay $30 to $150 a month for a little tool that helps him find more deals or better deals.

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listing, there it is. Beautiful. Now we can see just in one place what's cheap, where everything's listed. And if we want to go a step further and find out when they listed it, Facebook Marketplace makes this a little tricky,

18:28

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Also, there are Facebook groups in every market of flippers, of resellers, of liquidation guys or gals.

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and you're just going to do timestamp. Boom. And then you just run the scrape again. So once you have this data, this is step one. You can go a million steps further. go into Zapier, zapia.com.

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Go in there and just start talking about what you've built for yourself.

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want to vibe code an app that utilizes this, Oxyabs has a very robust API. You can upload your API key to your app in the vibe coding platform like Replet, Lindy, Lovable, yada yada yada, and they'll talk to each other seamlessly.

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"Hey guys, this is super cool. I just vibe-coded this tool that helps me find underpriced listings on Facebook Marketplace. Here's how it works. What would you change about it if this was yours? What features would you add or remove?"

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But for now, just to get your feet wet, just to get some momentum, build a scrape. Go flip some treadmills. Go sell some software. Go DM some people.

Topics: Facebook Marketplace web scraping side hustle reselling arbitrage deal feed AI scraper Oxyabs lead generation no-code

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