La Centrale Scraper: French used cars with dealer phone numbers

Export used-car listings from La Centrale (lacentrale.fr, a large French used-vehicle marketplace) as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Search by make, model, fuel, price, year and mileage, no search URL to build, no login. Every row has the full specs, the asking price, the good-deal badge, the seller name and phone number, the department and the main photo.

It reads the same mobile API the La Centrale app uses, so the data matches what the app shows. Runs work without a proxy. If La Centrale blocks the server address, the actor retries through an Apify Residential (France) exit on its own.

What you can do with it

• Price benchmarking: pull every PEUGEOT 208 under 12,000 EUR and chart price against mileage and year.
• Dealer lead lists: collect dealer names, phone numbers and departments for a make or segment (sellerType tells dealers PRO from private sellers PART).
• Inventory monitoring: schedule a daily run sorted by newest listings and diff the reference field to catch new stock.
• Deal sourcing: sort by price and filter on goodDealBadge to surface underpriced cars.
• Market datasets: feed a French used-car price model, a valuation tool or a BI dashboard.

Output fields

Field	Description
reference, url	La Centrale listing id and the public listing URL
price, currency	Asking price in EUR
make, model, commercialName, version, detailedModel, trimLevel	Brand, model and trim naming
year, mileageKm	Registration year and mileage
energy, gearbox, doors, motorization	Powertrain details
category, family, externalColor	Body category, vehicle family, colour
sellerType, sellerName, sellerPhone	PRO or PART, the seller display name and the decoded phone number
sellerReference, sellerFamilyCode	Dealer id and dealer type
department, country	French department code and country
goodDealBadge	La Centrale deal rating (for example GOOD_DEAL), empty when unrated
isNew, deliveryAvailable, deliveryPrices	New-vehicle flag and delivery options
publicationOptions, picturesCount, photoUrl	Listing options, photo count, main photo URL
firstOnlineDate, lastUpdate	First publication date and last update (epoch seconds)

Fields that La Centrale does not provide for a listing are null (for example sellerPhone on some private ads, or energy on many motorbikes).

Input

Parameter	Description
make	Brand in capitals, e.g. PEUGEOT, RENAULT, BMW. Empty searches every make.
model	Model, e.g. 208, CLIO, SERIE 3. Needs a make.
makesModels	Advanced filter that replaces make and model: MAKE or MAKE:MODEL, several separated by ; (PEUGEOT:208;RENAULT:CLIO).
families	Cars + utility (default), cars, utility vehicles or motorbikes.
energies	Petrol, diesel, electric, hybrid kinds or hydrogen.
priceMin, priceMax	Price range in EUR.
yearMin, yearMax	Registration year range.
mileageMax	Maximum mileage in km.
sort	Relevance, price, year, mileage, or newest listings.
maxItems	Stop after this many vehicles.
proxyConfiguration	Optional. Not needed normally.

Example input

{
    "make": "PEUGEOT",
    "model": "208",
    "families": "AUTO,UTILITY",
    "priceMax": 12000,
    "sort": "priceAsc",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example output row

{
    "reference": "E120048188",
    "url": "https://www.lacentrale.fr/auto-occasion-annonce-E120048188.html",
    "price": 9590,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "make": "PEUGEOT",
    "model": "208",
    "commercialName": "208 (2E GENERATION)",
    "version": "II 1.2 PURETECH 100 S&S ALLURE",
    "detailedModel": "PEUGEOT 208 II",
    "trimLevel": "ALLURE",
    "year": 2020,
    "mileageKm": 90884,
    "energy": "ESSENCE",
    "gearbox": "MANUAL",
    "doors": 5,
    "category": "CITADINE",
    "family": "AUTO",
    "externalColor": "Yellow",
    "motorization": "1.2 PURETECH 100",
    "sellerType": "PRO",
    "sellerName": "Peugeot Citroën DS Opel Montpellier",
    "sellerPhone": "0451259324",
    "sellerReference": "C044801",
    "sellerFamilyCode": "CONCESSIONNAIRE",
    "department": "34",
    "country": "FR",
    "goodDealBadge": "GOOD_DEAL",
    "isNew": false,
    "deliveryAvailable": false,
    "deliveryPrices": null,
    "picturesCount": 31,
    "photoUrl": "https://pictures.lacentrale.fr/classifieds/E120048188_STANDARD_0.jpg?format=webp&size=352x264",
    "firstOnlineDate": "2026-10-02",
    "lastUpdate": 1791376187
}

How many results can I get?

La Centrale serves roughly the first 8,000 results of any single search (a full-catalog run returned 7,970 unique cars before the site stopped paging). To go further, split the search with filters: one run per make, per price band or per year. Each run reports the number of matching listings in its SUMMARY record.

Scheduling and automation

Use Apify Schedules to run the actor daily or hourly, sort by newest listings and compare reference values with the previous run. Connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or a webhook, or fetch them with the Apify API and client libraries.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy or a La Centrale account? No. The actor needs no login and normally runs without a proxy.

Does it work for utility vehicles and motorbikes? Yes, pick the vehicle family in the input. Motorbike rows carry fewer fields, for example no fuel type on many bikes.

Why do some runs return fewer cars than maxItems? The search matched fewer listings, or hit the per-search limit described above. The run status shows how many listings matched.

Is the phone number real? It is the contact number the seller published on the listing, decoded from the API. Use contact data in line with GDPR and French rules on cold calling (Bloctel).

Can I ask for another field? Open an issue on the Actor page.