How to get Facebook Marketplace alerts in Discord

If your flipping group already lives in Discord, checking Facebook Marketplace in a separate tab means the deals arrive somewhere nobody is looking. Facebook Marketplace Discord alerts fix that by posting new listings straight into a channel. This guide covers the three ways to set them up, how to connect Discord in Crawlbench, and what a useful alert should contain.

What are the ways to get Facebook Marketplace listings into Discord?

There are three: host your own bot, run a scraper that posts to a Discord webhook, or use a hosted alert tool that posts to the webhook for you. Facebook itself does not send Marketplace listings to Discord.

Self-hosted bot

A Discord bot is a program with its own account that can read and post in your server. Open-source Facebook Marketplace bots exist on GitHub, but most of the work is the scraping, not the bot. Outpost Alerts makes the same point in its own guide: "You rarely need a bot. You need a webhook" (Outpost Alerts, page dated 15 Sep 2026).

Scraper + webhook

A webhook is a URL Discord gives you that posts any message sent to it into one channel. A script that searches Marketplace and posts new results to that URL is the simplest DIY setup. Discord documents the format in its webhook developer docs.

The catch is upkeep. Outpost again: "Marketplace pages change their structure without notice," so a script that worked last week can quietly return nothing. Projects like ai-marketplace-monitor on GitHub handle the scraping for you; its README lists PushBullet, PushOver, Telegram and Ntfy, plus more channels through a paid relay, so check that your route to Discord is supported before you build on it. We cover the time cost in why a DIY Marketplace monitor is a part-time job.

Hosted alert tool

A hosted tool runs the searches and posts each new listing to your webhook. Several do this. Pounce, for example, says its Discord alerts put "everything you need to decide in the alert" (Pounce, page dated 5 Oct 2026), a fair standard for any tool. Crawlbench does it too, and you can try it free.

How do you connect Discord in Crawlbench, step by step?

Create a webhook in Discord, then paste it into Crawlbench under Alerts. Crawlbench sends a test message first and refuses a link that fails.

Works on the free Day Pass and on every plan

Discord is not a paid add-on. The free Day Pass includes it for its one search, and every paid plan includes every alert channel: email, Telegram, Slack and Discord. The Day Pass runs 24 hours from when your first search goes live, with no credit card.

Pick the channel, send a test alert

1. In Discord, open the channel's settings (the gear next to its name), go to Integrations, then Webhooks, and press New Webhook. Name it, confirm the channel, and press Copy Webhook URL. You need the Manage Webhooks permission on that server.
2. In Crawlbench, open Alerts in the sidebar and press Connect on Discord.
3. Paste the webhook link and a channel name, such as #deals. The dialog explains how to make the link.
4. Crawlbench sends a test message first and refuses a link that fails it, so a typo never leaves you with a silent channel.
5. Press Send a test under Discord any time. It sends the newest listing that channel would have carried, with "Test:" before the heading.

The full reference is in the alert channels guide.

What does a useful Discord alert contain?

A useful alert lets you decide without opening a tab: how the price compares, what the item is, what it costs and where it is.

Price word, title, price, comparison, place

Each Crawlbench alert starts with the price word (Great, Good, Fair or High price) and the title, then the price, how far it sits from similar listings, and the place. The words are the same on every channel; only the number of listings changes. As the guide puts it, "email carries up to 10, chat up to 5, and the phone the best one." New listings arrive best deals first, in one message for each check.

The price word comes from what similar listings ask nearby. It reflects asking prices, not sold prices, so treat a Great price as a reason to look first, not a guarantee. When you open the listing in Crawlbench, the assistant adds a verdict (Worth a look, Check first or Skip), questions for the seller, a first offer and a drafted opener that you copy and send yourself. Crawlbench never messages sellers and never asks for your Facebook login.

Alerts cover new listings only, at most two days old and within each search's "Listed in the last" setting. A listing already on Marketplace when you turn a search on shows on Home but sends no alert. A price drop on a saved listing also comes through.

How do you run a team Discord channel?

Give the team one Discord channel for every team search, and let each person keep personal alerts for their own searches. Crawlbench supports that split directly.

• One Discord channel per team. It shows as "#deals in Team name" and carries every search on the team.
• Personal channels stay personal. On Alerts, each person picks My searches or All team searches for their own email and Telegram.
• Hand off listings. A listing a teammate gives you arrives as its own alert.

Slack works the same way; see Facebook Marketplace Slack alerts.

Setting up Facebook Marketplace Discord alerts today

For most flipping groups, a webhook plus a hosted tool beats hosting a bot: nothing to keep online and nothing to fix when Facebook changes a page. Crawlbench covers Facebook Marketplace, its one live marketplace, in 52 countries and over 3,500 cities, and is not affiliated with Meta.

To try it in your own channel, start a free Day Pass: free for 24 hours, no credit card, one search, with Discord alerts, the price check and the assistant.