# Hiyacar Scraper (`dadhalfdev/hiyacar-scraper`) Actor

Scrape peer-to-peer car rentals from hiyacar.co.uk. Filter by city, dates, make, body type, fuel, and more, or paste a Hiyacar search URL. Returns hourly/daily price, location, QuickStart/instant booking, and photos.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/hiyacar-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## ⚡ Hiyacar Scraper

Want UK peer-to-peer car rentals from [Hiyacar.co.uk](https://www.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](https://www.hiyacar.co.uk/search?q=London), 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):**

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

**Example (dates):**

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

**Example (URL override):**

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

### 📤 Output example

```json
{
  "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://..."
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `input_url` (type: `string`):

Optional. Paste a Hiyacar search or city URL (e.g. https://www.hiyacar.co.uk/search?q=London or https://www.hiyacar.co.uk/rent-a-car-in-bristol) to override the filters below.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Town or London area as on Hiyacar. Search is limited to 10 miles (site maximum). Ignored when input\_url or query is set.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional free-text place as on Hiyacar (e.g. SW1A 1AA or Hackney). Overrides the location dropdown. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `make` (type: `string`):

Car brand as on Hiyacar. Leave empty for all makes. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `pickup_date` (type: `string`):

Optional pickup date (YYYY-MM-DD). Use together with return\_date. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `return_date` (type: `string`):

Optional return date (YYYY-MM-DD). Use together with pickup\_date. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `distance_miles` (type: `integer`):

Max distance from the location. Hiyacar allows 1–10 miles (default 10). Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `price_max` (type: `integer`):

Maximum daily rate in GBP. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `car_type` (type: `string`):

Body type as on Hiyacar. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `fuel_type` (type: `string`):

Fuel filter. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `transmission` (type: `string`):

Gearbox filter. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `min_seats` (type: `integer`):

Minimum number of seats (e.g. 7 for 7-seaters). Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `instant_booking` (type: `boolean`):

Only cars with instant booking. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `quickstart` (type: `boolean`):

Only keyless QuickStart cars. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `pets_welcome` (type: `boolean`):

Only cars marked pet friendly. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `ulez_compliant` (type: `boolean`):

Only ULEZ-compliant cars. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Result order. Ignored when input\_url is set.

## `max_listings` (type: `integer`):

How many rental listings to return (1–1000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "location": "london",
  "make": "",
  "distance_miles": 10,
  "car_type": "",
  "fuel_type": "",
  "transmission": "",
  "instant_booking": false,
  "quickstart": false,
  "pets_welcome": false,
  "ulez_compliant": false,
  "sort_by": "relevancy",
  "max_listings": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view of scraped listings using the dataset 'overview' view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped listings from the default dataset without view transformation.

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dadhalfdev/hiyacar-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dadhalfdev/hiyacar-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call dadhalfdev/hiyacar-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dadhalfdev/hiyacar-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5oaut5iN5gRal0fXY/builds/9Z6WYXx31Hr0ebER6/openapi.json