{
  "id": 18919320,
  "title": "How to keep track of a Xianyu (Goofish) seller's shop and prices",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/how-to-keep-track-of-a-xianyu-goofish-sellers-shop-and-prices",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-08T11:01:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/maksim_lazouski/how-to-keep-track-of-a-xianyu-goofish-sellers-shop-and-prices-4odc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Xianyu, also known as Goofish or Idle Fish, is China's largest marketplace for second-hand goods. It sells various items such as cameras, phones, designer clothes, and collectibles, often at lower prices than other platforms. Resellers, buying agents, and collectors closely monitor specific sellers due to the fast-moving nature of good items. Manually tracking sellers on Xianyu can be challenging, as the site is in Chinese, designed for mobile use, and features hundreds of items that change daily for each busy shop. This guide explains how to transform a Xianyu seller's shop and prices into a table format and retrieve a daily list of items that have changed, such as new items, price changes, or removed items. The benefits include obtaining a seller's card with details like name, province, introduction, follower count, number of items, review quality, credit, and verification, along with 240 items' titles, prices, categories, popularity, and photos. For individual items, there are approximately 45 fields of data, including price, shipping fee, full description, photos, attributes, listing date, and seller information. The steps to use this scraper are: 1. Obtain the seller's link, which can be found by opening any item from the seller on goofish.com, copying the link of one of the seller's items, or using the ready-made task \"Track a Xianyu seller's shop and prices.\" 2. Input the seller links into the task, with one link per line, and press \"Start.\" A shop with 240 items typically takes half a minute to process. The output can be exported as CSV, Excel, or opened directly in Google Sheets, where titles can be translated using the =GOOGLETRANSLATE function. 3. Schedule the same input on a regular basis (e.g., daily) and assign a watch list name. The initial run will provide the entire shop, while subsequent runs with the same watch list name will only return new items, price or title changes, and removed items. These changed rows are free, while unchanged rows are not stored and incur no additional costs. 4. Discover additional sellers by examining each item's row, which includes the seller's name and ten other items from the same seller, as well as any similar items displayed under an item (up to 30). This method allows for building a niche-specific seller list without using Xianyu's search function. The costs associated with using the scraper are based on the number of rows stored: $3.00 per 1,000 full items, $1.00 per seller card, and $0.50 per listed item. A run costs $0.005 to start (as of November 19, 2026). One seller with 240 items costs $0.12 to track. Users only pay for the changes made, plus the initial run, with free items being removed if they are no longer in the shop. Apify's free plan provides $5 of usage per month, while paid plans offer lower per-row prices. Some important limitations include the inability to search by keyword (as logged-in users are required to perform searches), the scraper not logging in to Xianyu, and processing no more than 240 items per seller at a time. All text presented is in Chinese with prices in CNY, and many photos are in HEIC format. Many sellers are private individuals, and collecting their public profiles should only be done if it complies with applicable rules and without attempting to contact or profile individuals. To try the scraper, visit the \"Xianyu (Goofish) Item & Seller Scraper\" on Apify. Questions and requests can be submitted on the Issues tab of the scraper's page. Xianyu and Goofish are trademarks of their respective owners, and this scraper is not affiliated with or endorsed by Xianyu, Goofish, or Alibaba Group.",
  "summary": "Xianyu (闲鱼), also called Goofish or Idle Fish, is China's largest marketplace for second-hand goods. Cameras, phones, designer clothes, collectibles: a lot of it shows up there first, often cheaper than anywhere else. Resellers, buying agents and collectors watch certain sellers closely, because good items go fast. Watching by hand is hard. The site is in Chinese, it is built for the phone app,…",
  "key_points": [
    "Xianyu is China's largest marketplace for second-hand goods.",
    "Scraper transforms seller's shop and prices into table format.",
    "Costs are based on rows stored, with free items removed after changes."
  ],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}