Any example of Location Id and Category Id? about kijiji-scraper HOT 7 CLOSED

@thierryskoda Can you provide the values you tried?

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@mwpenny I tried :

{
    "locationId": "ontario",
    "categoryId": "cars"
}

But I'm not sure where to get those info. In the tutorial it says :

You can find them by using your browser's developer tools and performing a custom search on Kijiji.

But I'm not really sure to understand this part.

Thank you !

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@thierryskoda locationId and categoryId are integers, not strings. Kijiji uses them internally when you select your location and category on the website. You can find the locationId/categoryId values you want by performing a search and looking at the POST request parameters or the URL you are redirected to.

For example, after setting my location to Ottawa and selecting the "cars & vehicles" category, Kijiji redirects me to http://www.kijiji.ca/b-cars-vehicles/ottawa/c27l1700185. The last part of the URL (c27l1700185) is formatted as c[categoryId]l[locationId]. So in this case, categoryId is 27 and locationId is 1700185.

Perform your custom search on Kijiji and then check the URL for the corresponding Id values.

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@mwpenny Oh thanks! I tried this and this still returning me empty array. Am I missing something else?

var kijiji = require("kijiji-scraper")

var prefs = {
    "locationId": 27,
    "categoryId": 1700185
}

var params = {
    "minPrice": 0,
    "maxPrice": 100000,
    "keywords": "toyota",
    "adType": "OFFER"
}

kijiji.query(prefs, params, function(err, ads) {
    //Use the ads array
    console.log(ads);
});

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@thierryskoda It looks like you have your locationId and categoryId values switched.

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@mwpenny Wow sorry for this mistake.. Now it works! Thank you very much!!!

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@thierryskoda Glad to help!

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