GoodCarBadCar Sales Scraper

Scrape U.S., Canada, and global automotive sales figures from GoodCarBadCar.net — sales rankings by brand, by model, by manufacturer, by vehicle segment (compact car, SUV, pickup truck, etc.), and total industry sales by year for major world markets. No login, no API key, no paid proxy required.

What this actor does

• Two modes:
  • byReport (default) — 22 report types: brand rankings, model rankings, manufacturer rankings, 9 vehicle-segment rankings (compact car, midsize car, small car, small/midsize/large SUV, all SUVs, pickup truck, commercial van, sports car), and yearly industry totals for the US, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, Asia (regional), Europe (regional), Africa (by country), and Australia/Oceania (by country). Each row includes current-period sales, same-period-last-year sales, % change, and year-to-date figures where available.
  • byModelUrl — full year-by-year (and month-by-month) sales history for one or more specific vehicle model pages, across every market GoodCarBadCar tracks for that model (typically United States + Canada).
• Empty fields are omitted

Output fields

byReport mode:

• recordType — "salesFigure"
• report — the report type requested
• entity — brand / model / year label for the row
• sales, salesLastYear, changePercent — current-period figures
• ytdSales, ytdSalesLastYear, ytdChangePercent — year-to-date figures (segment/brand/model reports only)
• rank — row position in the report
• sourceUrl — the report page scraped

byModelUrl mode:

• recordType — "modelSales"
• model — the vehicle model name (e.g. "Toyota 4Runner")
• market — the sales market this row covers (e.g. "United States", "Canada")
• period — the year (or partial year, e.g. "2026(Jan–Jun)" for the current in-progress year)
• sales — total units sold that year in that market
• yoyChangePercent — year-over-year % change (omitted for a series' first year, which has no prior-year comparison)
• monthlySales — object of the same year's month-by-month unit counts, keyed jan–dec (only months with published data are included)
• sourceUrl — the model page scraped

Input options

Field	Description
mode	byReport (rankings/totals) or byModelUrl (full history for a specific vehicle)
report	Which report to scrape (byReport mode; see enum: us-by-brand, us-by-model, us-by-manufacturer, us-compact-car, us-midsize-car, us-small-car, us-small-suv, us-midsize-suv, us-large-suv, us-suv, us-pickup-truck, us-commercial-van, us-misc-sports-car, us-yearly-totals, canada-yearly-totals, china-yearly-totals, japan-yearly-totals, brazil-yearly-totals, asia-yearly-totals, europe-yearly-totals, africa-yearly-totals, australia-oceania-yearly-totals)
modelUrls	Full GoodCarBadCar.net model page URLs, e.g. https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/toyota-4runner-sales-figures/ (byModelUrl mode). Find these by browsing a brand's page (e.g. /brands/toyota-sales-data-reports/)
maxItems	Max rows to return
proxyConfiguration	Optional Apify proxy (free AUTO datacenter group used only if needed)

Example: rankings report

{
  "mode": "byReport",
  "report": "us-by-brand",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: full model history

{
  "mode": "byModelUrl",
  "modelUrls": ["https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/toyota-4runner-sales-figures/"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

• Automotive market research — track brand/model sales trends over time and across markets
• Investor & analyst research — monitor automaker performance ahead of earnings
• Journalism — source up-to-date sales rankings and YoY comparisons for reporting
• Dealer/OEM competitive intelligence — benchmark segment performance against competitors
• Data science & forecasting — build historical sales datasets for demand modeling

FAQ

How current is the data? GoodCarBadCar updates its rankings monthly as automakers report sales; this actor always scrapes the live page, so results reflect the latest published figures.

Why do some rows lack ytdSales? The yearly-totals reports (us-yearly-totals, canada-yearly-totals, china-yearly-totals, japan-yearly-totals, brazil-yearly-totals, asia-yearly-totals, europe-yearly-totals, africa-yearly-totals, australia-oceania-yearly-totals) show full-year history and don't have a year-to-date column — only the segment/brand/model reports do.

Why do africa-yearly-totals and australia-oceania-yearly-totals use entity for a country instead of a brand/model? Those two source pages report sales per-country per-year (not per-brand), so each record is one country's total for one year — entity holds the country name and period holds the year.

How do I find a modelUrls value? Browse goodcarbadcar.net/brands/<brand>-sales-data-reports/ and copy the link for the specific model you want (e.g. "Toyota 4Runner Sales Figures").

Why does byModelUrl return more history than byReport? The report tables show a current-month snapshot + year-to-date total; individual model pages carry that model's complete published year-by-year (and month-by-month) sales history, often going back 15-20+ years.

Do I need a GoodCarBadCar membership? No — the pages this actor scrapes are publicly available without a paid membership.