API Broken - mingle.kijiji.ca is a Bad Gateway (502)

[veep550]

Error:
Unable to parse text: mismatched tag - Unparsable

mingle.kijiji.ca shows:
Backend Server Error.
The server you are looking for is currently not available.
Ref: 64.229.66.104 2024-05-03T17:41:22.756Z

[jackm]

Confirmed that it appears as though Kijiji has changed their API url endpoint.

Once I have the time I can work on reverse engineering mobile app again.

[IH3lios]

@jackm Any progress on this issue?

[dudududodododedede]

This guy claims to have switched from mingle and allows reposting of kijiji ads
https://github.com/AminDhouib/kijiji_repost_headless_working

I haven't tested it myself however

[jeffreyouni]

This guy claims to have switched from mingle and allows reposting of kijiji ads

https://github.com/AminDhouib/kijiji_repost_headless_working

I haven't tested it myself however

This is not working for me, dig in to the code there is no username and password parameters parser; the headless that this one fork isn't working either, because can't get the token from kijiji anymore.

[jackm]

I spent a few hours on this yesterday trying to determine the new API endpoints being used by the app, but no luck. I'm getting a lot of HTTP 502 responses on the proxy server I'm using to intercept traffic from the app. I may have to look at using a newer Android version to do my testing on.

Update: At some point they changed their app to use certificate pinning, making it harder to use a MITM proxy. To get around this would require a lot more set up and possibly patching the app.

[amrit-moomie]

any update guys?

[Blazenew]

Any update on this?. Would definitely appreciate if someone could fix this

[jackm]

I doubt I will have the motivation to update this app to overcome certificate pinning and other API changes that Kijiji has implemented earlier this year. Unfortunately that probably means that this app is dead until then.

I personally hardly even use Kijiji that much anymore, as it has fallen out of favour by most for posting classified ads.

[ssinfod]

thanks for the update.
It's sad that Kijiji does not have a public API for posting ads.

Greetings,

[adm-gis]

It was good while it lasted. Thanks for all of your efforts @jackm