CarGurus Reviews Scraper

What is CarGurus Reviews Scraper?

CarGurus Reviews Scraper extracts all reviews of any car dealer on CarGurus: star rating, review text, date, reviewer name and the car dealer's reply. Paste a CarGurus URL, click Start, and download the reviews as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

CarGurus is one of the largest car marketplaces in the US, Canada and the UK, with dealer reviews from car buyers. With this scraper you can:

• ⭐ Scrape every review of a car dealer, or only the newest ones
• 💬 Get the review text and the car dealer's reply
• 📅 Fetch only new reviews since a given date, ideal for daily monitoring
• ⚡ Run fast and cheap: no browser and no proxy needed
• 🔌 Connect the data to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or your own app via the API

What data can I extract from CarGurus?

⭐ Star rating (1-5)	💬 Review text
👤 Reviewer name	📅 Publication date
↩️ Reply	🆔 Stable review ID
📝 Review title (if any)	🔗 Source URL

Why scrape CarGurus reviews?

• 🚗 Car dealers and dealer groups: monitor reviews for all your rooftops
• 📈 Automotive agencies: report on reputation for your dealer clients
• 🔍 Competitor research: see how competing dealers are rated
• 🤖 Sentiment analysis and AI: feed real customer feedback into your own analysis or LLM pipeline.

How do I use CarGurus Reviews Scraper?

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Open the car dealer on CarGurus and copy the URL of its dealer page (/Cars/m-...-sp
3. Paste it into the CarGurus car dealer URL field.
4. Optionally set Max reviews, or Only reviews after to fetch only reviews since a given date.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Download your data from the Output tab in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

How much does scraping CarGurus cost?

You pay per review that ends up in your dataset: $2.00 per 1,000 reviews. No subscription, no rental fee. The monthly credits in Apify's free plan cover a couple of thousand reviews.

💡 Tip: for monitoring, schedule a daily run with Only reviews after set to the date of your last run. You only pay for new reviews.

You can set a maximum cost per run in the run options; the scraper stops when it is reached.

⬇️ Input

The only required field is the car dealer URL. See the Input tab for all options.

Field	Description
CarGurus car dealer URL (url)	The dealer page (/Cars/m-...-sp
Max reviews (limit)	Stop after this many reviews, newest first. Empty = all reviews
Only reviews after (cutoff_date)	Skip reviews published before this date
Proxy (proxyConfiguration)	Not needed for CarGurus. Only enable it if your runs get blocked

{
    "url": "https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/m-Right-Toyota-sp339876",
    "limit": 100,
    "cutoff_date": "2026-01-01"
}

⬆️ Output sample

Each review is one item in the dataset. View it as a table in the Output tab or download it in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

📘 Scraped CarGurus review sample (illustrative)

{
    "id": "123456789",
    "author": "Jessica M.",
    "rating": 5,
    "title": null,
    "text": "Great experience from start to finish, would recommend!",
    "published_at": "2026-09-14T00:00:00+00:00",
    "reply": "Thank you so much, Jessica!",
    "replied_at": null,
    "source_url": "https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/m-Right-Toyota-sp339876"
}

Field	Description
id	CarGurus's review ID; stable across runs, so you can deduplicate on it
rating	Star rating (1-5), or null if the review has no score
title	Review title, or null when CarGurus has none
text	Review text
published_at	Publication date in ISO 8601 (UTC)
reply	The car dealer's public reply, or null
replied_at	Reply date, or null when CarGurus doesn't publish it
source_url	The CarGurus URL you scraped

All our review scrapers use this same format, so you can combine datasets from different sites directly. See for example our Kiyoh Reviews Scraper.

🔌 Integrations

Connect CarGurus Reviews Scraper to almost any cloud service or web app with Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub and more. Or use webhooks to trigger an action when a run finishes, for example to post new reviews to Slack.

💻 Using CarGurus Reviews Scraper with the Apify API

The Apify API lets you start runs, schedule them and fetch results from your own code. Use the Python or JavaScript client, or call the scraper from AI agents through the Apify MCP server. The API tab has ready-to-use code.

❓ FAQ

Can I scrape multiple car dealers at once?

Run the scraper once per car dealer. To monitor several, create a task per car dealer and schedule them, or start runs from the API.

Do I need a CarGurus account?

No. The scraper only reads publicly visible reviews.

Do I need proxies to scrape CarGurus?

No. CarGurus works without a proxy, which keeps runs fast and cheap. If your runs ever get blocked, enable Apify Proxy in the Proxy field; the scraper then retries once on a fresh IP automatically.

My run failed. What now?

Check the status message of the run. "Invalid input" or "not found" means the URL doesn't point to a CarGurus car dealer page: open it in your browser and copy it again. "Blocked" means CarGurus refused the request; run it again, and keep the proxy on.

Is it legal to scrape CarGurus reviews?

This scraper only collects publicly visible reviews. Reviews can contain personal data, such as reviewer names, which is protected by the GDPR in the EU and by other regulations elsewhere. Only scrape and store personal data when you have a legitimate reason, and consult your lawyer if you are unsure. Read more in Apify's post on the legality of web scraping.

Your feedback

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