SCRAPE / leboncoin.fr

How to scrape Leboncoin without getting blocked

Leboncoin is France's largest classifieds platform and one of DataDome's most aggressive deployments. Sessemi solves the device check and CAPTCHA chain so your scraper hits the listing API directly.

Start scraping Leboncoin → Identify the vendor

What protects Leboncoin?

DataDome

Leboncoin sits on DataDome with the strictest sensitivity tier — challenges fire within the first request from any datacenter IP. Even residential IPs without a clean TLS profile trip the slider CAPTCHA immediately.

The challenge: Leboncoin uses DataDome with no static device fingerprint. Each session must mint its own datadome cookie via a successful first-page load. Sessemi maintains a warm pool of validated sessions per region so your first request lands clean.

Scrape Leboncoin with one API call

Send the URL, get clean HTML back. Sessemi handles DataDome, IP rotation, and session management automatically — no per-solve fees.

curl -X POST https://api.sessemi.com/scrape \
  -H "X-API-Key: $SESSEMI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://www.leboncoin.fr/recherche?category=2&locations=Paris",
    "pool": "residential",
    "country": "fr"
  }'

Read the full API docs → · Working code: leboncoin_scrape.py →

What people scrape from Leboncoin

Real-estate price aggregation for Paris, Lyon, and Marseille rental analytics
Used-car price discovery — pulls listings across 100+ subcategories per region
Job-board mirroring for recruitment SaaS tools
Local-business directory builds across French departments

Want the full walkthrough?

The blog has a longer post on scraping Leboncoin with named sessions, pagination, and tips that didn't fit here.

Deep dive: Scraping Leboncoin classifieds →

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