I built an OLX scraper for 24 countries — the boring version that actually ships

OLX runs classifieds in about two dozen countries. Same brand, different domains, different anti-bot setups. Everyone scraping it does one country at a time.

I got tired of forking.

So I put 24 countries behind one input. country: "id" or country: "pl" or country: "br" — same schema out. It's live on Apify as primesieve/olx-global-scraper. One file. No browser. Here is the boring part that matters.

What it does

I built an OLX scraper for 24 countries — the boring version that actually ships

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