# Drive.com.au Car Listings Scraper (Carsales-compatible) (`crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper`) Actor Scrape Australian car listings from Drive.com.au. Extracts title, year, make, model, price, odometer, colour, fuel, city, state, images. Carsales.com.au URLs partially supported. HTTP-only, no proxy. - **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, E-commerce - **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 11 bookmarks - **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars ## Pricing from $1.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Carsales.com.au Scraper Scrape Australian car listings from [carsales.com.au](https://www.carsales.com.au/). ### What this actor extracts Per listing (when DataDome permits): - `type`, `url`, `listingId`, `title` - `priceText`, `priceNumeric`, `year` - `odometerKm`, `transmission`, `fuelType`, `bodyType`, `colour` - `sellerType`, `location`, `imageUrl`, `specs` - `scrapedAt` ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `startUrls` | string[] | Carsales URLs (search, brand, detail). | | `make` | string | Build search URL from make if no startUrls. | | `model` | string | Model filter combined with make. | | `maxItems` | integer | Max listings per run. | ### ⚠️ Important: DataDome protection Carsales.com.au is protected by **DataDome**, which challenges every fetch with a JavaScript proof-of-work that must be solved in a real browser. This actor uses `curl_cffi` (Chrome TLS fingerprint) with a rotating Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy pool — but even residential AU/NZ/US sessions frequently hit 403 responses. **When the actor cannot retrieve listings**, it emits a single `carsales_datadome_blocked` sentinel record with the attempted URLs and a description, so you can detect block events and trigger a retry on your end. **For guaranteed scraping**, route this actor through a paid anti-bot service (ZenRows, ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI) by providing its proxy URL as the RESIDENTIAL proxy. The actor code will continue to work unchanged. ### How it works 1. Rotate through 5 residential proxy configurations (AU → NZ → US → any → direct). 2. `curl_cffi` chrome131 impersonation + organic-traffic-style headers (Google referer, sec-fetch-\* cookie set). 3. Parse listing cards by finding every `a[href*="/cars/details/"]` anchor and walking up to the nearest sensible container for title, price, image, location. 4. Detail pages parse `

`, page text for price / year / odometer / specs. ### Limitations - **403 rates are high**. Expect sub-50% success against DataDome. - **Advanced filter-to-URL** (year range, price range, body type, fuel type) not implemented — user must supply pre-filtered search URLs. - **No pagination beyond the first page of a startUrl** — append `?offset=20` etc. manually. ### FAQ **Do I need a proxy?** No — RESIDENTIAL is baked in, but it may not bypass DataDome on every run. **Why does my daily test return 0 records?** Because DataDome blocked every retry. The actor emits a `carsales_datadome_blocked` sentinel so the run has non-zero items. # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Drive.com.au URLs (search / detail). Carsales.com.au URLs are supported via Wayback Machine snapshot fallback. ## `make` (type: `string`): Car make (e.g. 'Toyota'). Used when building search URL. ## `model` (type: `string`): Model filter combined with make. ## `location` (type: `string`): Optional AU state filter. ## `priceMin` (type: `integer`): Client-side price floor. 0 = no minimum. ## `priceMax` (type: `integer`): Client-side price ceiling. 0 = no maximum. ## `yearMin` (type: `integer`): Client-side oldest allowed model year. ## `yearMax` (type: `integer`): Client-side newest allowed model year. ## `fuelType` (type: `string`): Client-side fuel-type filter. ## `odometerMaxKm` (type: `integer`): Client-side odometer ceiling. 0 = no maximum. ## `condition` (type: `string`): Filter by whether the listing appears in 'Demo/New' or 'Used' Drive.com.au segments. ## `includeListingDetails` (type: `boolean`): Follow each card URL to fetch the listing detail page for the richest record (title, description, price, spec fields). ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum listings per run. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ "https://www.drive.com.au/cars-for-sale/" ], "location": "", "priceMin": 0, "priceMax": 0, "yearMin": 0, "yearMax": 0, "fuelType": "any", "odometerMaxKm": 0, "condition": "any", "includeListingDetails": true, "maxItems": 3 } ```` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ "https://www.drive.com.au/cars-for-sale/" ], "maxItems": 3 }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://www.drive.com.au/cars-for-sale/"], "maxItems": 3, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "startUrls": [ "https://www.drive.com.au/cars-for-sale/" ], "maxItems": 3 }' | apify call crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/drive-au-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Drive.com.au Car Listings Scraper (Carsales-compatible)", "description": "Scrape Australian car listings from Drive.com.au. Extracts title, year, make, model, price, odometer, colour, fuel, city, state, images. Carsales.com.au URLs partially supported. HTTP-only, no proxy.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "4eM0YIY5jZSmtRpwT" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/crawlerbros~drive-au-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-crawlerbros-drive-au-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/crawlerbros~drive-au-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-crawlerbros-drive-au-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/crawlerbros~drive-au-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-crawlerbros-drive-au-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Drive.com.au URLs (search / detail). Carsales.com.au URLs are supported via Wayback Machine snapshot fallback.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "make": { "title": "Make", "type": "string", "description": "Car make (e.g. 'Toyota'). Used when building search URL." }, "model": { "title": "Model", "type": "string", "description": "Model filter combined with make." }, "location": { "title": "Location (State)", "enum": [ "", "qld", "nsw", "vic", "wa", "sa", "tas", "act", "nt" ], "type": "string", "description": "Optional AU state filter.", "default": "" }, "priceMin": { "title": "Price Min (AUD)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Client-side price floor. 0 = no minimum.", "default": 0 }, "priceMax": { "title": "Price Max (AUD)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Client-side price ceiling. 0 = no maximum.", "default": 0 }, "yearMin": { "title": "Year Min", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 2100, "type": "integer", "description": "Client-side oldest allowed model year.", "default": 0 }, "yearMax": { "title": "Year Max", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 2100, "type": "integer", "description": "Client-side newest allowed model year.", "default": 0 }, "fuelType": { "title": "Fuel Type", "enum": [ "any", "Petrol", "Diesel", "Hybrid", "Electric", "LPG" ], "type": "string", "description": "Client-side fuel-type filter.", "default": "any" }, "odometerMaxKm": { "title": "Max Odometer (km)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Client-side odometer ceiling. 0 = no maximum.", "default": 0 }, "condition": { "title": "Listing Condition", "enum": [ "any", "used", "demo", "new" ], "type": "string", "description": "Filter by whether the listing appears in 'Demo/New' or 'Used' Drive.com.au segments.", "default": "any" }, "includeListingDetails": { "title": "Include Listing Details", "type": "boolean", "description": "Follow each card URL to fetch the listing detail page for the richest record (title, description, price, spec fields).", "default": true }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum listings per run.", "default": 25 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```