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Cars.com Used Car Listings Scraper

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Cars.com Used Car Listings Scraper

Cars.com Used Car Listings Scraper

Under maintenance

Scrapes used car listings from Cars.com by metro area. Extracts VIN, price, mileage, make, model, year, dealer name, dealer location, and listing URL. Outputs structured JSON. Covers 20 major US metros with configurable page depth.

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from $1.50 / 1,000 car listing results

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Scrapes used car listings from Cars.com across 20 major US metro areas. Extracts structured vehicle data including VIN, price, mileage, make, model, year, trim, dealer name, and dealer location.

What it does

  • Crawls Cars.com search result pages for used/new/CPO vehicles
  • Follows each listing link to extract detailed vehicle data
  • Parses VIN from page source (structured data or HTML)
  • Extracts dealer information from meta descriptions
  • Outputs clean, structured JSON per vehicle

Output fields

FieldTypeDescription
vinstring17-character Vehicle Identification Number
makestringVehicle manufacturer (e.g., Toyota, Honda)
modelstringVehicle model (e.g., Camry, Civic)
yearintegerModel year
priceintegerListed price in USD
mileageintegerOdometer reading in miles
dealer_namestringSelling dealer name
dealer_citystringDealer city
dealer_statestringDealer state (2-letter code)
listing_urlstringDirect link to the Cars.com listing
sourcestringAlways "cars.com"

Input configuration

  • metros: Array of metro area names (e.g., ["Dallas", "Los Angeles"]). Leave empty for all 20.
  • maxPages: Pages per metro (1-10). Each page has ~100 listings. Default: 3.
  • stockType: "used" (default), "new", or "cpo".

Coverage

20 US metro areas: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, Austin, Jacksonville, San Jose, Columbus, Charlotte, Indianapolis, Seattle, Denver, Nashville, Atlanta, Miami.

Rate limiting

The scraper respects Cars.com with 2.5-second delays between requests. A full 20-metro, 3-page scrape takes approximately 2-3 hours and yields 4,000-6,000 listings.

Built by OTDCheck

This scraper powers OTDCheck.com — a free automotive market intelligence platform providing VIN price history, NHTSA recall cross-referencing, and dealer behavior scoring.