This page is built to make your Marketplace alerts much easier to set up. You paste the Facebook search you already made, choose your price and radius, enter your home city and phone topic, and the page shows the alert settings you need.
Fill this out once for the item you want the alert system to monitor.
Use these steps exactly if you are setting up a new alert.
Open Facebook Marketplace, search for the thing you want, then apply your Facebook filters there first. For example: max price, last 24 hours, and sort by newest.
Copy the full URL from your browser address bar after you finish filtering Facebook. Paste that full link into the Facebook Marketplace search link box on this page.
Enter your max price, your home city, and your distance radius. The alert system uses your home city and radius to reject listings that are too far away even if Facebook still shows them.
Put the words you do want in the required keywords box. Put things like parts, broken, belts, blades, repair, or accessories in the excluded keywords box.
Use the ntfy topic you want your iPhone to subscribe to. This is the channel name your alerts will be sent to.
Once your form is filled out and your iPhone topic is working, your alert settings are ready to use with the system behind the scenes. You do not need to handle raw code on this page.
After you fill out the form, use this section to set up ntfy on your iPhone and test it.
Your topic is just the private channel name your alert system sends notifications to. It can be anything unique, like:
mcafee-mowers-forestcity-7f3d9a
Good topic names are specific and hard to guess. Do not use something too simple like mowers or alerts.
Type any private topic name you want below. This is the channel your alerts will be sent to. Example: mcafee-golf-carts-orlando-82x7.
On your iPhone, open the App Store, search for ntfy, and install it.
Open ntfy on your iPhone. When it asks for a server, keep the default free server as https://ntfy.sh. You do not need a paid subscription for this setup. Then subscribe to the exact topic shown above.
If iPhone asks to allow notifications, tap Allow. If you missed it, go to Settings > Notifications > ntfy and turn on Allow Notifications, Sounds, and Banners.
Tap Test Scrape after you enter your topic. This is a quick test check so you can confirm your setup and notifications. The live system still runs on the normal 5-minute schedule.
No test scrape has been run from this page yet.