Mobile.de Car Scraper

Extract used and new car listings from mobile.de — Germany's largest vehicle marketplace with 1.5+ million listings. Returns 38 structured fields per vehicle including make, model, year, price, mileage, power, fuel type, transmission, CO2 class, dealer contact, and preview image.

💡 Stealth Browser Technology

Mobile.de protects its listings with Akamai Bot Manager. This actor uses a stealth browser session (Camoufox, with Patchright Chromium fallback) to pass Akamai's checks and fetch data through the same endpoint the website itself uses. It works on the Apify Free plan — no residential proxy is required, though configuring one (RESIDENTIAL, country DE) is supported and helps when Akamai flags a datacenter IP.

Features

• 38 output fields per vehicle — complete flat schema with typed defaults (zero nulls)
• 1.5M+ listings indexed — cars, vans, estate cars, sedans, SUVs, and more
• Full filter pass-through — make, model, price, mileage, year, fuel type, transmission, postal-code radius
• Pagination — walks pages automatically (up to 500 vehicles per run)
• Price ratings — each car has an "is this a good price?" rating from mobile.de's pricing engine
• Dealer details — name, postcode, city, country, phone, seller type
• Preview image per listing
• Resilient session rotation — automatically retries with fresh browser sessions and proxy configurations if mobile.de blocks an IP
• No login, no cookies — works out of the box

Requirements

Requirement	Details
Apify Platform	Runs on the Apify platform (browser automation).
Residential Proxy (optional)	Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy, country DE — recommended but not required; the actor also works from datacenter IPs and rotates automatically.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	Array	No	Mobile.de spec page URLs (suchen.mobile.de/auto/*.html) or search URLs (suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?...). Defaults to VW Golf listings.
maxItems	Integer	No	Maximum vehicles to return (default 50, max 500).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Optional proxy settings. Defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL (DE) when provided; the actor tries a direct connection first and falls back to the proxy automatically.

Example Input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://suchen.mobile.de/auto/volkswagen-golf.html"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
    }
}

With legacy search URL and filters:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?isSearchRequest=true&s=Car&vc=Car&ms=1900;17;;;&fr=2020&ft=DIESEL&mnp=30000"
    ],
    "maxItems": 200,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "DE"
    }
}

Output

Each vehicle has 38 fields. All fields are always present with typed defaults — never null.

Identity

Field	Type	Description
id	Integer	Mobile.de listing ID
url	String	Full listing URL (suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/...)
title	String	Full title (make + model + variant)
shortTitle	String	Short title (make + model only)
subTitle	String	Variant / trim level
make	String	Manufacturer (BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, etc.)
model	String	Model name
category	String	Body category (Estate car, Sedan, SUV, etc.)
vehicleClass	String	Vehicle class code (Car)

Price

Field	Type	Description
price	Integer	Gross price (native currency, integer)
currency	String	Currency code (typically EUR)
priceFormatted	String	Formatted price (e.g., €41,390)
priceRating	String	VERY_GOOD_PRICE, GOOD_PRICE, FAIR_PRICE, INCREASED_PRICE, HIGH_PRICE

Specifications

Field	Type	Description
mileageKm	Integer	Mileage in kilometers
powerKw	Integer	Engine power in kW
powerHp	Integer	Engine power in HP
firstRegistration	String	First registration date (MM/YYYY)
yearConstructed	Integer	Year of first registration
fuelType	String	Petrol, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid, LPG, etc.
transmission	String	Manual gearbox, Automatic, Semiautomatic
bodyType	String	Body category (duplicate of category)
exteriorColor	String	Exterior color
doors	String	Door configuration (e.g., 4/5)
seats	Integer	Seat count
previousOwners	Integer	Number of previous owners
emissionClass	String	German emission class (Euro 6e, Euro 5, etc.)
co2Class	String	CO₂ class (A-G)
consumption	String	Combined consumption (5.7 l/100km (comb.), etc.)
displacementCcm	Integer	Engine displacement in ccm

Media & Dealer

Field	Type	Description
numImages	Integer	Number of photos on listing
previewImage	String	Preview image URL
location	String	Dealer town
postalCode	String	Dealer postal code
country	String	Country code (DE, AT, etc.)
dealerName	String	Dealer name
dealerType	String	DEALER or PRIVATE
dealerPhone	String	Dealer phone number

Metadata

Field	Type	Description
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp

Example Output

{
    "id": 444796340,
    "url": "https://www.mobile.de/auto-inserat/bmw-m3-touring/444796340.html",
    "title": "BMW M3 Touring M xDrive Competition LED HUD NAVI H/K",
    "shortTitle": "BMW M3",
    "subTitle": "Touring M xDrive Competition LED HUD NAVI H/K",
    "make": "BMW",
    "model": "M3",
    "category": "Estate car",
    "vehicleClass": "Car",
    "price": 110000,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "priceFormatted": "€110,000",
    "priceRating": "GOOD_PRICE",
    "mileageKm": 11340,
    "powerKw": 390,
    "powerHp": 530,
    "firstRegistration": "03/2025",
    "yearConstructed": 2025,
    "fuelType": "Petrol",
    "transmission": "Automatic",
    "bodyType": "Estate car",
    "exteriorColor": "Grey",
    "doors": "4/5",
    "seats": 5,
    "previousOwners": 1,
    "emissionClass": "Euro 6e",
    "co2Class": "G",
    "consumption": "10.5 l/100km (comb.)",
    "displacementCcm": 2993,
    "numImages": 29,
    "previewImage": "https://img.classistatic.de/api/v1/mo-prod/images/3f/3fbc5257.jpg",
    "location": "Wermelskirchen",
    "postalCode": "42929",
    "country": "DE",
    "dealerName": "Autohaus Kaltenbach GmbH Co.KG BMW und MINI Vertragshändler",
    "dealerType": "DEALER",
    "dealerPhone": "+49 (0)2196 76796970",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-11T12:05:00+00:00"
}

FAQ

Q: Why do I need a stealth browser? Mobile.de uses Akamai Bot Manager to protect its listing data. Plain HTTP requests (even with cookies or TLS impersonation) get blocked with HTTP 403. This actor opens a stealth browser session (Camoufox by default, Patchright Chromium as fallback) that passes Akamai's fingerprint checks, then fetches listings through the same search-results endpoint the mobile.de website itself uses.

Q: Which Apify plan do I need? The Free plan works — the actor runs entirely on Apify's free browser-enabled compute. A residential proxy (Starter plan and above) is optional and only used as an automatic fallback when Akamai flags a datacenter IP.

Q: Can I use my own proxy? Yes. Set proxyConfiguration to point to any residential proxy service you have access to — just make sure to use a German IP (DE) if you need DE results. For example:

{
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false,
        "proxyUrls": ["http://user:pass@your-proxy-host:port"]
    }
}

Q: How do I construct a search URL? Apply filters on the mobile.de website, copy the URL from your browser (suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?isSearchRequest=true&s=Car&vc=Car&...), and paste it into startUrls. All filters (ms= for make/model, fr= for year, ft= for fuel type, mnp=/mxp= for price, mnlm=/mxlm= for mileage, pgn= for postcode radius) pass through verbatim. Alternatively, use a spec page URL like https://suchen.mobile.de/auto/volkswagen-golf.html.

Q: How many cars per page? ~22–26 results per page (mobile.de varies by ad mix). The scraper paginates automatically up to your maxItems (hard cap 500 vehicles per run).

Q: Why is my run returning fewer unique cars than expected? Mobile.de promotes certain "top ads" and "eyecatcher ads" that appear on every page of a given search, so pages 2+ often have ~15–20 duplicates of page 1. The scraper deduplicates by listing ID so you only get unique vehicles.

Q: How fresh is the data? The scraper hits the same data source as the mobile.de website — data is live and reflects the current state of listings at the time of the run.

Use Cases

• Used-car market research — track inventory, prices, and age distribution across makes/models
• Dealer monitoring — watch specific dealers for new inventory
• Investment analysis — find underpriced listings using the priceRating field
• Regional price comparisons — filter by postal code radius to compare local markets
• EV market analysis — filter fuelType=Electric to track the EV market's growth
• Price alerts — daily runs with narrow filters (make + model + max price) for deal hunting
• Data pipelines — feed structured JSON into CRMs, BI tools, or ML models without post-processing