AutoTrader Canada — used car listings

What does AutoTrader Canada do?

AutoTrader Canada extracts structured listing data from autotrader.ca — including contact details, full descriptions, prices, and location data. It supports location filters and controllable result limits, so you can run the same query consistently over time. The actor also offers detail enrichment (full descriptions and contact information) where the source provides them.

How to use this actor

• 👉 Register for a free Apify account — no credit card required.
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• 💰 A free Apify account includes $5 in monthly credits — enough to test this actor.
• ⏳ Scrape during the free trial, with no commitment or upfront payment required.

Key features

• 🍁 Complete national inventory — pull the full set of matching listings for a make or model across every Canadian province (ON, QC, BC, AB, …) — not just the first page of results. Run a single make, a specific model, or filtered searches and get the complete inventory back as clean structured records.
• 🚗 Structured vehicle data with dealer contacts — every listing returns make, model, model year, price (CAD), mileage, fuel, transmission, body type, drivetrain, colour, province/city and the selling dealer's name and phone — already parsed into clean fields, no HTML to scrape.
• ♻️ Incremental mode — daily runs emit only listings that are new or whose price/condition changed since last run. Perfect for inventory-diff dashboards and competitive pricing alerts. Saves 80–95% on recurring monitoring.
• 🔔 Notifications — telegram / Slack / Discord / WhatsApp / webhook alerts on each run. Combine with incremental to ping only when prices or inventory actually move.
• 📋 Detail enrichment — two-stage scraping — list first, then enrich each listing with the full detail-page payload. One input toggle controls the depth.
• 💵 Structured pricing — listing price parsed into a numeric price field plus filter inputs (priceFrom / priceTo) so you can target a budget band. Use priceType (where supported) to exclude leasing or wholesale listings.
• 📦 Compact mode — light payload with core fields only — comparable rows across listings without HTML or metadata overhead. Perfect for pricing dashboards.
• ✂️ Description truncation — cap description length with descriptionMaxLength to control LLM prompt cost and dataset size — set 0 for full descriptions, or any char-limit to trim.
• 📌 Change classification — each record carries a changeType of NEW / UPDATED / UNCHANGED / REAPPEARED / EXPIRED. Default emits NEW + UPDATED + REAPPEARED; opt into the others with emitUnchanged / emitExpired. Repost detection flags previously-expired listings that come back.
• 📤 Export anywhere — Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console, or stream live via the Apify API and integrations (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, n8n, …).
• 🔌 MCP connectors — export your results into Notion via Apify's MCP connectors — a clean run-summary page, no glue code. Opt-in via the App connector field; deterministic field-mapping, no AI. Built on Apify's connector framework, so more destinations open up as their catalog grows.

What data can you extract from autotrader.ca?

Each result includes Core listing fields (listingId, title, url, portalUrl, make, model, modelGroup, and variant, and more), detail fields when enrichment is enabled (description, descriptionHtml, and descriptionMarkdown), and contact information (sellerContact and sellerPhone). In standard mode, all fields are always present — unavailable data points are returned as null, never omitted. In compact mode, only core fields are returned.

Enable detail enrichment in the input to get richer fields such as full descriptions and contact information where the source provides them.

Input

The main inputs are an optional location filter and a result limit. Additional filters and options are available in the input schema.

Key parameters:

• make — Car manufacturer (e.g. bmw, honda, toyota, ford). Use URL-style slug.
• makes — Optional: scrape several makes in one run (e.g. ["bmw", "audi"]). Each make is searched and its full inventory collected independently. Overrides the single Make field.
• model — Car model (e.g. x3, civic, corolla). Use URL-style slug. Requires make.
• priceFrom — Minimum price in CAD.
• priceTo — Maximum price in CAD.
• yearFrom — Model year from (e.g. 2018).
• yearTo — Model year to (e.g. 2024).
• mileageTo — Maximum mileage in kilometers.
• fuelType — Filter by fuel type.
• transmission — Filter by transmission type.
• bodyType — Filter by body type.
• condition — Limit results by vehicle condition. all (default) includes both new and used listings. new returns only manufacturer-new vehicles. used returns only pre-owned listings.
• ...and 29 more parameters

Input examples

By make & model with full detail — Scrape a specific make and model, enriching every listing with the full description, equipment, drivetrain, colour, and GPS coordinates.

→ Up to 50 BMW X3 listings, each with full detail fields.

{
  "make": "bmw",
  "model": "x3",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Filter by price, model year & fuel — Combine structured filters to narrow the search — price ceiling, minimum model year, and fuel type all apply to every result.

→ Up to 50 hybrid Toyota listings under CAD 35,000 from model year 2020 onward.

{
  "make": "toyota",
  "fuelType": "hybrid",
  "priceTo": 35000,
  "yearFrom": 2020,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Paste an autotrader.ca search URL — Build the search you want on autotrader.ca, copy the result-page URL, and paste it in. All filters in the URL are honoured; paste several URLs to run them in one job. Individual listing URLs are also accepted.

→ Listings from the pasted search, paginated and deduplicated across URLs.

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.autotrader.ca/cars/bmw/?priceto=40000&modelyearfrom=2020"
  ],
  "maxResults": 75,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Track new & changed listings (incremental) — Run on a schedule and return only listings that are new or changed since the previous run, keyed by a stable state key.

→ Only new or changed listings since the last run for this state key.

{
  "make": "bmw",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "stateKey": "bmw-ca-tracker"
}

Compact output for AI agents — Return only the core fields for AI-agent and MCP workflows — a small payload ideal for piping into LLMs without token overhead.

→ Up to 50 listings with only the most important fields.

{
  "make": "bmw",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "compact": true
}

Output

Each run produces a dataset of structured listing records. Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Dataset tab in Apify Console.

Example listing record

{
  "listingId": "50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d",
  "title": "Honda Civic No Accident | Manual Transmission | AS-IS",
  "url": "https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/honda-civic-no-accident-manual-transmission-as-is-gasoline-white-cat_ma31gr200622va2411tr11736-50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d",
  "portalUrl": "https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/honda-civic-no-accident-manual-transmission-as-is-gasoline-white-cat_ma31gr200622va2411tr11736-50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d",
  "make": "Honda",
  "model": "Civic",
  "modelGroup": "Civic",
  "variant": "Civic Sedan",
  "modelVersion": "No Accident | Manual Transmission | AS-IS",
  "bodyType": "Sedan",
  "vehicleType": "Car",
  "condition": "Used",
  "year": 2017,
  "mileageKm": 167754,
  "fuelType": "Gasoline",
  "transmission": "Manual",
  "engineDisplacementCcm": 1500,
  "cylinders": 4,
  "driveTrain": "Front Wheel Drive",
  "bodyColor": "White",
  "numberOfSeats": 5,
  "numberOfDoors": 4,
  "price": 13940,
  "priceFormatted": "$ 13,940",
  "currency": "CAD",
  "priceNegotiable": false,
  "priceEvaluation": "top-price",
  "vatDeductible": false,
  "sellerType": "Dealer",
  "sellerName": "MORNINGSIDE NISSAN",
  "sellerPhone": "+18883454880",
  "dealerUrl": "https://www.autotrader.ca/dealerinfo/morningside-nissan?atype=C",
  "country": "CA",
  "province": "ON",
  "city": "Scarborough",
  "zip": "M1B 5V8",
  "latitude": 43.79981,
  "longitude": -79.19236,
  "imageCount": 25,
  "images": [
    "https://prod.pictures.autotrader-ca.net/listing-images/50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d_e026a37b-1bbf-4a91-b754-9766cf882274.jpg/250x188.webp",
    "https://prod.pictures.autotrader-ca.net/listing-images/50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d_715d1282-7e33-474e-b65e-96d05a57c1a1.jpg/250x188.webp",
    "https://prod.pictures.autotrader-ca.net/listing-images/50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d_d4c7f128-cd8c-443e-a908-14fdcae8a041.jpg/250x188.webp",
    "https://prod.pictures.autotrader-ca.net/listing-images/50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d_666166a6-c525-47fc-ab16-865fc71bfde5.jpg/250x188.webp",
    "https://prod.pictures.autotrader-ca.net/listing-images/50ab5090-87ba-49b3-8389-61f98fe1447d_023e4de0-4d9d-4ef9-88c5-430b5fdd4c4d.jpg/250x188.webp",
    "... 20 more items"
  ],
  "description": "2017 Honda Civic Si No Accident | Manual Transmission | AS-IS<br /><strong>MARKET VALUE PRICING</strong>.<br />Welcome to Morningside Nissan, your destination for all things Nissan in Scarborough and...",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "2017 Honda Civic Si No Accident | Manual Transmission | AS-IS<br /><strong>MARKET VALUE PRICING</strong>.<br />Welcome to Morningside Nissan, your destination for all things Nissan in Scarborough and...",
  "contentHash": "6349838791fdcd2a522418fa48cb46bf85b622eb43dfad17b3a7bccc89d9d758",
  "equipment": [
    "Air conditioning",
    "Cruise control",
    "Heated Seats",
    "Navigation system",
    "Panoramic Roof",
    "... 12 more items"
  ],
  "fuelConsumption": "- (l/100 km)",
  "co2Emissions": "- (g/km)",
  "hasServiceHistory": false,
  "hadAccident": false,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-19T11:18:10.718Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-22T17:36:26.848Z",
  "source": "autotrader.ca"
}

Incremental fields

When incremental mode is on, each record also carries:

• changeType — one of NEW, UPDATED, UNCHANGED, REAPPEARED, EXPIRED. Default output covers NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED; set emitUnchanged: true or emitExpired: true to opt into the others.
• isRepost, repostOfId, repostDetectedAt — populated when a new listing matches the tracked content of a previously expired one. Set skipReposts: true to drop detected reposts from the output.

How to scrape autotrader.ca

1. Go to AutoTrader Canada in Apify Console.
2. Configure the input and optional location filter.
3. Set maxResults to control how many results you need.
4. Enable includeDetails if you need full descriptions, contact info, equipment and emissions data.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Use cases

• Extract listing data from autotrader.ca for market research and competitive analysis.
• Track pricing trends across regions and categories over time.
• Monitor new and changed vehicles on scheduled runs without processing the full dataset every time.
• Use structured location data for regional analysis, mapping, and geo-targeting.
• Feed structured data into AI agents, MCP tools, and automated pipelines using compact mode.
• Export clean, structured data to dashboards, spreadsheets, or data warehouses.
• Benchmark seller / dealer reputation using rating fields.

How much does it cost to scrape autotrader.ca?

AutoTrader Canada uses pay-per-event pricing. You pay a small fee when the run starts and then for each result that is actually produced.

• Run start: $0.005 per run
• Per result: $0.0016 per listing record

Example costs:

• 10 results: $0.021
• 25 results: $0.045
• 100 results: $0.17
• 200 results: $0.33
• 500 results: $0.81

Example: recurring monitoring savings

These examples compare full re-scrapes with incremental runs at different churn rates. Churn is the share of vehicles that are new or whose tracked content changed since the previous run. Actual churn depends on your query breadth, source activity, and polling frequency — the scenarios below are examples, not predictions.

Example setup: 250 vehicles per run, daily polling (30 runs/month). Costs scale linearly with the number of vehicles.

Churn rate	Full re-scrape run cost	Incremental run cost	Savings vs full re-scrape	Monthly cost after baseline
5% — stable niche query	$0.41	$0.03	$0.38 (94%)	$0.75
15% — moderate broad query	$0.41	$0.07	$0.34 (84%)	$1.95
30% — high-volume aggregator	$0.41	$0.13	$0.28 (69%)	$3.75

Full re-scrape monthly cost at the same cadence: $12.15. First month with incremental costs $1.13 / $2.29 / $4.03 for the 5% / 15% / 30% scenarios because the first run builds baseline state at full cost before incremental savings apply.

Platform usage (compute and proxies) is billed separately by Apify based on actual consumption. Incremental runs consume less on result processing, though fixed per-run overhead stays the same.

FAQ

How many results can I get from autotrader.ca?

The number of results depends on the search query and available vehicles on autotrader.ca. Use the maxResults parameter to control how many results are returned per run.

Does AutoTrader Canada support recurring monitoring?

Yes. Enable incremental mode to only receive new or changed vehicles on subsequent runs. This is ideal for scheduled monitoring where you want to track changes over time without re-processing the full dataset.

Can I integrate AutoTrader Canada with other apps?

Yes. AutoTrader Canada works with Apify's integrations to connect with tools like Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Slack, and more. You can also use webhooks to trigger actions when a run completes.

Can I use AutoTrader Canada with the Apify API?

Yes. You can start runs, manage inputs, and retrieve results programmatically through the Apify API. Client libraries are available for JavaScript, Python, and other languages.

Can I use AutoTrader Canada through an MCP Server?

Yes. Apify provides an MCP Server that lets AI assistants and agents call this actor directly. Use compact mode, descriptionMaxLength, a single descriptionFormat, and excludeEmptyFields to keep payloads manageable for LLM context windows.

Is it legal to scrape autotrader.ca?

This actor extracts publicly available data from autotrader.ca. Web scraping of public information is generally considered legal, but you should always review the target site's terms of service and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations, including GDPR where relevant.

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Disclaimer

This actor accesses only publicly available data on autotrader.ca. You are responsible for how you use the extracted data — in particular any personal information such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses — and for complying with AutoTrader Canada's terms of use, applicable data-protection law (including the GDPR where it applies), and the anti-spam rules of your jurisdiction.

This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to AutoTrader Canada.

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