AutoTempest Car Listings Scraper

Scrape used-car listings aggregated by AutoTempest.com — a search engine that pulls inventory from Cars.com, Carvana, eBay Motors, TrueCar, AutoWeb, CarGurus, Cars & Bids, Hemmings, PrivateAuto, and regional dealer networks into one results page. Filter by make, model, year, price, ZIP/radius, body style, drivetrain, fuel type, title status, doors, cylinders, and color. No login, no API key, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Searches AutoTempest's aggregated used-car inventory with the same filters available on the website
• Returns each individual listing with price, mileage, year/make/model/trim, location, posted date, source site, and a direct outbound link
• Automatically retries with a free datacenter proxy if the first attempt is blocked or empty
• Omits any field it cannot populate — no placeholder or fabricated values

Output per listing

• listingId, sitecode — AutoTempest's internal listing/source identifiers
• title — full listing title as posted (e.g. 2023 Toyota Camry SE)
• year, make, model, trim — parsed from the title
• price (USD), mileage (miles)
• sourceSite — human-readable source (Cars.com, Carvana, eBay Motors, TrueCar, AutoWeb, CarGurus, Cars & Bids, Hemmings, PrivateAuto, dealer network name, etc.)
• city, distanceMiles — listing location relative to your search ZIP (when the source publishes a physical location; nationwide-shipping sources like Carvana may omit distance)
• dealerName — when the seller is a dealership
• postedDate — AutoTempest's own relative/absolute date text (Today, Jun 10th, etc.)
• description — snippet of the listing's ad copy
• thumbnailUrl — listing photo
• listingUrl — outbound link to the source site or AutoTempest's own redirect page
• searchZip, searchRadius — the search parameters that produced this record
• recordType: "carListing", scrapedAt

Note on listingUrl: most listings link directly to the source marketplace (cars.com, carvana.com, ebay.com, ...). A minority (AutoByTel/dealer-network listings) route through AutoTempest's own /details/... redirect page, which then forwards to the dealer. Both are valid, resolvable URLs.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
make	select	toyota	Vehicle manufacturer (64 makes) or blank for any
makeCustom	string	–	Free-text make override
model	string	–	Free-text model (e.g. camry, f-150)
zip	string	10001	5-digit US ZIP to search around
radius	select	50	25/50/100/300/500/1000 miles, state, country, or any
minYear / maxYear	integer	–	Model year range (1980-2027)
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	–	Price range (USD)
minMileage / maxMileage	integer	–	Mileage range (miles)
postedWithinDays	select	–	Only listings posted in the last 1/3/7/10 days, or any age
keywords	string	–	Free-text keyword search against listing title/description (e.g. hybrid, one owner)
sort	select	best_match	Best match, newest/oldest posted, nearest, year, price, mileage
bodyStyles	array	–	Convertible, coupe, hatchback, minivan, sedan, SUV, truck, van, wagon
driveTypes	array	–	4WD, AWD, FWD, RWD
fuelTypes	array	–	Diesel, electric, flex, gas, hybrid, hydrogen, natural gas
titleStatus	array	–	Clean, branded, salvage, rebuilt, lemon
cylinders	array	–	2-12, or not specified
doors	array	–	2-3 doors, 4+ doors, or not specified
exteriorColors / interiorColors	array	–	Standard color palette
maxItems	integer	50	Hard cap on emitted records (1-300)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO group	Only used as a fallback if the direct render is blocked

Example: Toyota Camry near NYC, $10k-$30k, 2018-2023

{
  "make": "toyota",
  "model": "camry",
  "zip": "10001",
  "radius": "50",
  "minYear": 2018,
  "maxYear": 2023,
  "minPrice": 10000,
  "maxPrice": 30000,
  "sort": "price_asc",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: Any AWD SUVs, hybrid or electric, clean title only

{
  "zip": "90210",
  "radius": "100",
  "bodyStyles": ["suv"],
  "driveTypes": ["awd"],
  "fuelTypes": ["hybrid", "electric"],
  "titleStatus": ["clean"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Use cases

• Car shopping — compare listings across Cars.com, Carvana, eBay Motors, and dealer networks in one export
• Market research — track pricing and mileage distributions for a make/model in a region
• Dealer intelligence — monitor competing inventory near a specific ZIP code
• Price-drop alerts — run on a schedule and diff against previous results

FAQ

How many listings can I get per search? AutoTempest renders a finite set of cards per page load (no infinite scroll/pagination on the base results page). Broad searches (popular make, no filters, 50mi radius) typically render 100-250 combined listings across all embedded sources; narrow searches return fewer. The actor delivers every listing it can render up to your maxItems cap — this is a genuine upstream ceiling, not an actor limitation.

Which sources are included? AutoTempest embeds listing data directly for Cars.com, Carvana, eBay Motors, TrueCar, CarGurus, AutoWeb, Cars & Bids, Hemmings, PrivateAuto, and several regional dealer networks. AutoTrader.com, Facebook Marketplace, and Craigslist appear on the AutoTempest website as "compare on this site" outbound links only (no listing data is embedded for them), so they are not included in the dataset.

Do I need a proxy or login? No. The actor renders the public search page directly. A free Apify datacenter proxy is used automatically only if a request gets blocked.

Why do some listings lack distanceMiles or dealerName? Nationwide-shipping sources (e.g. Carvana) don't always publish a fixed dealer location, so no distance-from-ZIP is available. Private-seller listings have no dealerName.

Can I search without a ZIP code? Yes — set radius to any and leave the location-specific filtering to your make/model/price criteria; AutoTempest will still default to a broad regional view.