⚡ Hiyacar Scraper

Want UK peer-to-peer car rentals from Hiyacar.co.uk without clicking through the map? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters (city, dates, make, body type, fuel, QuickStart) — structured filters work better for AI agents — or paste an input_url from your browser once you've already filtered on Hiyacar. When input_url is set it overrides the filters below. Either way, you get clean CSV/JSON with hourly and daily prices, locations, and photos.

💡 Perfect for...

• Travel & mobility apps: Track private rental supply in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and other UK cities.
• Marketplaces: Monitor competitor P2P pricing and instant-booking / QuickStart mix.
• Market research: Analyze GBP hourly and daily rates by city, make, and fuel.
• Data analysts: Export structured Hiyacar listings for dashboards and valuation models.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power bots and workflows with live Hiyacar search results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed titles, specs, and prices into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a Hiyacar /search?q=… or /rent-a-car-in/… URL if you already filtered in the browser, or use structured filters (better for AI agents). input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-matched filters: City, town/postcode, pickup/return dates, make, body type, fuel, transmission, seats, price, instant booking, QuickStart, pets, ULEZ, and sort.
• 🇬🇧 Built for Hiyacar UK: Uses the same public search API as the website — fast, structured, and up to date.
• ✅ Empty searches finish cleanly with 0 items instead of failing.

Hiyacar search is limited to 10 miles from the chosen place (that is the site maximum). There is no nationwide dump from one query.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every rental listing, you will get:

• Core details: id, url, title, year, make, model, colour, car_type, body_type, seats
• Pricing: price_per_hour, price_per_day, price_per_week, quoted_price, price_currency (GBP)
• Location: location, city, postcode_prefix, latitude, longitude, country, distance_miles
• Booking: instant_booking, quickstart, pets_allowed, ulez_compliant, miles_per_day, features
• Owner / ratings: owner_name, rating, review_count
• Media: image_url, image_urls

Street addresses and number plates from the raw API are not stored.

🛠️ Sort options

Use sort_by with these values:

• relevancy – Site default
• distance – Nearest first
• price-low-to-high – Cheapest first
• price-high-to-low – Most expensive first
• highest-rated – Best rated first
• number-of-ratings – Most reviews first

🚀 Quick start

Option A — Input URL

1. Open Hiyacar search, pick a place if you want, copy the URL.
2. Paste it into input_url.
3. Set max_listings and click Start.

Option B — Structured filters (better for AI agents)

1. Leave input_url empty.
2. Set location (dropdown, default London) or a town/postcode query.
3. Optionally set make, dates, fuel, seats, and flags.
4. Set max_listings (up to 1000) and click Start.

Export CSV, Excel, or JSON when done.

📥 Inputs

Field	Description
input_url	Optional Hiyacar search/city URL (overrides filters)
location	Dropdown of UK cities and London areas. Default london
query	Town or postcode as on Hiyacar (overrides location)
make	Brand slug as on Hiyacar (bmw, vauxhall, tesla, …)
pickup_date / return_date	YYYY-MM-DD availability window (set both)
distance_miles	1–10 (default 10)
price_max	Daily rate cap in GBP
car_type	Hiyacar type id: 1 saloon, 2 convertible, 3 estate, 4 hatchback, 5 4x4, 6 MPV, 7 van, 8 sports
fuel_type	Petrol, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid
transmission	automatic or manual
min_seats	Minimum seats
instant_booking / quickstart / pets_welcome / ulez_compliant	Boolean filters
sort_by	relevancy, distance, price-low-to-high, price-high-to-low, highest-rated, number-of-ratings
max_listings	Cap results (1–1000, default 50)

Example (filters):

{
  "location": "london",
  "fuel_type": "Electric",
  "sort_by": "price-low-to-high",
  "max_listings": 50
}

Example (dates):

{
  "location": "bristol",
  "pickup_date": "2026-09-01",
  "return_date": "2026-09-03",
  "max_listings": 25
}

Example (URL override):

{
  "input_url": "https://www.hiyacar.co.uk/search?q=London&ib=Y",
  "max_listings": 50
}

📤 Output example

{
  "id": "14462",
  "url": "https://www.hiyacar.co.uk/rent-a-car/14462-79928-vauxhall-corsa-in-london-sw8",
  "title": "Vauxhall Corsa",
  "year": 2011,
  "make": "Vauxhall",
  "model": "Corsa S Ecoflex",
  "car_type": "City / Hatchback",
  "price_per_hour": 6.0,
  "price_per_day": 33.0,
  "price_currency": "GBP",
  "location": "London SW8",
  "city": "London",
  "postcode_prefix": "SW8",
  "country": "GB",
  "instant_booking": true,
  "quickstart": true,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "image_url": "https://..."
}