Vinted And CLI Server

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The idea

Vinted has no public API. This package bridges that gap — it lets AI assistants talk directly to Vinted via the Model Context Protocol.

Connect it to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant and just ask:

"Find me a North Face jacket under €60 in Germany, good condition or better"

"Compare prices for Air Jordan 1s across France, Italy and the UK"

"What is seller #123456 currently selling? Anything under €20?"

The AI figures out which filters to use, calls Vinted, and gives you a real answer — no searching, no filtering, no tabs.

Also ships as a CLI tool and TypeScript library for direct use.

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What is this?

An MCP server, CLI tool, and TypeScript library for the Vinted secondhand marketplace. No official API — it bootstraps a session cookie from the public catalog page and calls the private JSON API the Vinted web app uses internally.

• 🤖 MCP server — plug into Claude, Cursor, or any AI assistant with MCP support
• 🖥️ CLI tool — pipe results, watch for new listings, compare prices from your terminal
• 📦 TypeScript library — import opSearch, opCompare, etc. directly in your code

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Install

npm install -g @googlarz/vinted-client

Or run without installing:

npx -y -p @googlarz/vinted-client vinted search "levis 501"

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CLI Quick Start

# Search (JSON by default)
vinted search "levi's 501" --country fr

# Pretty table
vinted search "levi's 501" --country de --output table

# Filter by price, brand, condition
vinted search "adidas samba" \
  --price-min 20 --price-max 80 \
  --brand adidas \
  --condition new_with_tags,very_good \
  --output table

# Watch for new listings every 30s (minimum 5)
vinted search "air jordan 1" --watch 30

# Walk all pages and collect up to 500 results
vinted search "vintage denim" --all --max-items 500

# Get a specific item (ID or URL)
vinted item 1234567
vinted item https://www.vinted.fr/items/1234567

# Seller profile + active listings
vinted seller 987654
vinted seller-items 987654 --output table

# Cross-country price comparison (6 countries by default)
vinted compare "north face jacket" --output table

# Browse category tree
vinted categories --query shoes --output table

# Look up brand IDs
vinted brands "stone island"

# What's trending right now
vinted trending --country fr --output table

# Resolve size labels to IDs, or let search do it for you
vinted sizes M L XL --country de
vinted search "levi 501" --size M,L
vinted search "levi 501" --size-ids 206,207,208

# Filter by color (name auto-resolved)
vinted search "north face jacket" --color black --country fr

# Cross-country compare with filters (size M only)
vinted compare "adidas samba" --size-ids 103 --all-countries --output table

# Seller due-diligence
vinted feedback 987654 --country fr --output table

# Browse colors and size groups
vinted colors --output table
vinted size-groups --output table

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Commands

Command	Description
search <query>	Search listings with full filter support
item <id|url>	Get full item detail
seller <id>	Seller profile
seller-items <id>	Items a seller has for sale
feedback <id>	Seller/buyer reviews (paginated)
compare <query>	Price comparison across countries with optional filters
brands <query>	Look up brand IDs by name
categories	Browse the category tree
colors	List all color options with IDs
size-groups	List all size groups with IDs
sizes <labels...>	Resolve size labels ("M", "42") to numeric IDs
trending	Newest / trending listings
debug	Inspect session cookie names (--show-cookie to print values)

Global flags

Flag	Description
--output json|table	Output format (default: json)
--country <cc>	Country code (see below)
--proxy <url>	HTTP/HTTPS proxy (also: VINTED_PROXY_URL)
--no-cache	Disable response cache

Search flags

Flag	Description
--price-min / --price-max	Price range
--brand <names>	Brand names (auto-resolved to IDs)
--brand-ids <ids>	Comma-separated brand IDs
--category-id <n>	Category ID (vinted categories to browse)
--size <labels>	Size labels (auto-resolved to IDs, e.g. --size M,L or --size 42,43)
--size-ids <ids>	Comma-separated size IDs (vinted sizes M L to resolve)
--color-ids <ids>	Comma-separated color IDs (vinted colors to browse)
--color <names>	Color names (auto-resolved to IDs, e.g. --color black,white)
--condition <list>	new_with_tags, new_without_tags, very_good, good, satisfactory
--sort <s>	relevance, price_low_to_high, price_high_to_low, newest_first
--all	Walk pages and collect all results
--max-items <n>	Cap for --all (default 1000)
--watch [interval]	Poll every N seconds for new listings (default 60s, minimum 5s)

Result limits. Vinted serves search results in fixed pages of 96, so --limit only truncates a page, and at most 960 results are reachable per query. Search results carry the listing's brand, size and condition as Vinted displays them (localised to the country site, e.g. "Très bon état") and the seller's numeric ID but not the username — use vinted item <id> or vinted seller <id> for that. Vinted's catalog has no date filter, so there is no --date-from/--date-to; use --sort newest_first.

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Supported Countries

fr de uk it es nl pl pt be at lt cz sk hu ro hr fi dk se

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MCP Server

Drop Vinted into any MCP-compatible AI assistant (Claude, Cursor, etc.).

Setup — Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vinted": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "-p", "@googlarz/vinted-client", "vinted-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Setup — Claude Code

claude mcp add vinted -- npx -y -p @googlarz/vinted-client vinted-mcp

MCP Tools

Tool	Description
search_items	Search with full filter support (brand, size, color, condition, price)
search_all_items	Like search_items but auto-paginates and returns all results
get_new_items	Newest listings for a query; pass the previous latestId as afterId to get only what is new
get_item	Item detail by ID or URL
get_seller	Seller profile
get_seller_items	Active listings for a seller
get_seller_feedback	Paginated buyer/seller reviews with star ratings
compare_prices	Multi-country price stats (median, mean, stdDev, min, max) with filters
get_trending	Trending / newest listings
search_brands	Brand lookup — returns IDs for use in filters
get_categories	Category tree — returns IDs for use in filters
get_colors	All color options with hex codes and IDs
get_size_groups	All size groups with IDs (Women's, Men's, Shoes, Kids…)
resolve_size_ids	Resolve size labels ("M", "42", "XL") to numeric filter IDs
resolve_color_ids	Resolve color names ("black", "navy blue") to numeric filter IDs

Brand, size and color names passed to search_items, search_all_items, get_new_items and compare_prices are resolved automatically. If none of the names resolve the call fails (rather than silently searching unfiltered); if only some do, the result includes a warnings array. Browser mode for get_item is not available to MCP callers — the server operator enables it with VINTED_BROWSER=1.

MCP over HTTP

By default the server speaks stdio. For a network transport:

VINTED_MCP_TRANSPORT=http VINTED_MCP_TOKEN=choose-a-long-random-secret npx -y -p @googlarz/vinted-client vinted-mcp
# listens on http://127.0.0.1:3001/mcp — send `Authorization: Bearer <token>`

Without VINTED_MCP_TOKEN the server only accepts loopback Host headers and rejects browser (Origin) requests, and it refuses to bind to a non-loopback VINTED_MCP_HOST. Set a token whenever the port is reachable by anything you don't fully trust.

MCP Prompts

Built-in prompt templates for common workflows — use them from any MCP-compatible client:

Prompt	Arguments	Description
find-bargains	query, country?, maxPrice?	Find items priced below the median — highlights potential deals
seller-check	sellerId, country?	Due-diligence check — profile, reviews, listings
price-comparison	query	Rank all countries by median price, recommend cheapest market
wardrobe-hunt	brand, size?, color?, country?	Brand + size + color search with auto-resolved IDs

Example prompts once connected:

"Find me Nike Air Max 95s under €70 in Germany, size 43, very good condition"

"Compare prices for a North Face puffer jacket across France, Germany and Italy"

"Is seller #987654 trustworthy? Check their reviews and listings."

"Find black Levi's 501 jeans size 32 — use the wardrobe-hunt prompt"

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Library Usage

import { VintedClient, opSearch, opCompare, opSearchAll, opGetNewItems } from '@googlarz/vinted-client';

const client = new VintedClient();

// Basic search
const results = await opSearch(client, {
  query: 'levi\'s 501',
  country: 'de',
  priceMax: 50,
  condition: ['very_good', 'good'],
  sortBy: 'price_low_to_high',
});

console.log(results.items);

// Collect all pages concurrently (3-page prefetch window)
const all = await opSearchAll(client, {
  query: 'vintage band tee',
  country: 'uk',
  maxItems: 300,
});

// Multi-country price comparison (report.failed lists countries that errored)
const report = await opCompare(client, {
  query: 'air jordan 1 retro',
  countries: ['fr', 'de', 'uk', 'it'],
});

// Poll for new listings: keep the cursor between calls
let cursor: number | undefined;
const fresh = await opGetNewItems(client, { query: 'air jordan 1', country: 'fr', afterId: cursor });
cursor = fresh.latestId ?? cursor;

Client options

const client = new VintedClient({
  proxyUrl: 'http://proxy:8080',   // or VINTED_PROXY_URL env var
  cacheTtlMs: 60_000,              // response cache TTL (0 = disable)
  rateLimitPerSec: 3,              // requests/sec per country
  rateLimitBurst: 6,               // burst capacity
  timeoutMs: 20_000,               // per-request timeout
});

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How it works

Vinted has no public API. This library:

1. Bootstraps a session by hitting vinted.{cc}/catalog and capturing the auth cookies the Vinted frontend sets (one bootstrap per country, shared by concurrent requests).
2. Reads search results from the catalog page. Vinted removed its JSON catalog endpoint; the server-rendered /catalog page embeds the result list in its Next.js payload, which is parsed here. Sellers, feedback, brands, colors and sizes still come from the private JSON API (/api/v2/...).
3. Re-bootstraps automatically on 401 — tokens expire, the library recovers silently.
4. Rate-limits per country with a token bucket (configurable burst + refill) to avoid 429s.
5. Caches responses with LRU+TTL — 60s for search results, 1h for static data like categories (kept in a separate cache so searches cannot evict it). Identical concurrent requests share one network call.
6. Falls back to HTML scraping for item pages blocked by DataDome (JSON-LD + regex extraction).
7. Prefetches 3 pages concurrently in opSearchAll to maximise throughput within the rate-limit budget.

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Proxy support

If Vinted blocks your IP (common on cloud VMs and CI), set a proxy:

VINTED_PROXY_URL=http://user:pass@proxy:8080 vinted search "nike"
# or
vinted search "nike" --proxy http://user:pass@proxy:8080

Standard HTTPS_PROXY / HTTP_PROXY env vars are also respected.

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Environment variables

Variable	Description
VINTED_PROXY_URL	HTTP/HTTPS proxy URL
VINTED_CACHE_TTL_MS	Cache TTL in ms (default 60000)
VINTED_RATE_LIMIT_PER_SEC	Requests per second per country (default 3)
VINTED_RATE_LIMIT_BURST	Token bucket burst size (default 6)
VINTED_BROWSER	Set to 1 to use stealth browser for item detail (at most 2 browsers run at once)
VINTED_MCP_TRANSPORT	http to serve MCP over HTTP instead of stdio
VINTED_MCP_TOKEN	Bearer token required by the HTTP transport (mandatory for non-loopback hosts)
VINTED_MCP_HOST / VINTED_MCP_PORT / VINTED_MCP_PATH	HTTP bind address (default 127.0.0.1), port (3001) and path (/mcp)

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Requirements

• Node.js ≥ 18
• Optional: playwright + puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth for --browser / VINTED_BROWSER=1 mode

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License

MIT © googlarz

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