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Scrape Vinted by building a "cookie factory" with Playwright and FastAPI to generate auth tokens for its unprotected mobile API endpoints, bypassing Datadome.

Marketplaces like eBay or Vinted are always an interesting target for a variety of actors: from brands willing to monitor the second-hand market to scalpers willing to get something on sale and resell it for profit.

Given all this interest in them, these marketplaces needed to protect themselves from bots and fraudulent activity, becoming a hard target to scrape.

In this episode of The Lab, our series of in-depth articles, we’ll focus on Vinted, and we’ll see how we can ethically scrape it after studying its backend.

What is Vinted?

Vinted is a second-hand marketplace born in 2008 in Lithuania, where people can buy and sell used stuff from 21 different countries. According to Similarweb, the website has almost ...