Anti-Bot Registry / Category

Classifieds anti-bot protection

Classifieds sites block unfamiliar IP ranges aggressively, the category has a long litigation history against automated access, and per-country sites expect local-looking traffic. Legitimate listing research calls for geo-local mobile or residential exits, modest volumes, and strict attention to terms and applicable law. We index 2 classifieds sites; the most common protection is DataDome, and 1 are rated hard. Reviewed July 2026.

2
Sites
2
Technologies
1
Hard
#SiteProtection observedDifficulty
1Leboncoin
leboncoin.fr
DataDome
Hard target
2Craigslist
craigslist.org
hCaptcha
Moderate

Protection used across classifieds sites

Classifieds scraping: FAQ

What bot protection do classifieds sites use?

Across 2 classifieds sites in the registry, the most common protection is DataDome, followed by hCaptcha. Each site's observed stack is listed below and on its own page.

How hard is it to scrape classifieds sites?

1 of 2 are rated Hard - large-scale public-data collection there tends to need real mobile carrier IPs and careful session handling. The rest are Light or Moderate. Difficulty reflects the network layer, not a bypass method.

How is this measured?

Each entry is derived from public HTTP response signatures observed on the site's landing response, reviewed July 2026. A technology is listed only when a canonical signal was present.

Collecting classifieds data at scale?

Hand a hard target to Data Works for clean, QA-checked data, or run it yourself on real 4G/5G carrier IPs from $4/GB.