willhaben Austria Car Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

willhaben.at is Austria's largest classifieds marketplace and the default place Austrians buy and sell used cars (Gebrauchtwagen). It publishes no public API. This Actor wraps a polite scrape of the Gebrauchtwagenbörse — paste a filtered willhaben search URL or use the default car listing page, and pull every listing's price, make/model, year, mileage (km), fuel, transmission, power, body type, colour, seller type, and photos. Flip on detail enrichment and we fetch each listing's page for the full German description. Built on curl-cffi with browser TLS impersonation.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Used-car price analytics — track asking prices by make/model/year across the Austrian market.
• Dealer inventory monitoring — diff successive runs to spot new arrivals and price cuts at specific dealers.
• Market research — aggregate fuel-type and transmission mix to gauge EV/hybrid adoption in Austria.
• Lead generation — build a directory of car dealers from seller_name + location.
• Arbitrage / sourcing — find under-priced listings filtered by mileage, year, and power.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
searchUrl	string	no	''	Full willhaben Gebrauchtwagenbörse search/results URL with your filters already applied (e.g. https://www.willhabe
maxResults	integer	no	50	Hard cap on dataset rows. willhaben paginates 30 listings per page; the Actor walks pages until this cap or the last pag
enrichDetails	boolean	no	True	Fetch each listing's detail page for the full German description. The search payload already carries price, specs, selle
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Apify Proxy spec. Austrian residential exits are safest.

Example input

{
  "searchUrl": "",
  "maxResults": 5,
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
listing_id	string	willhaben advert ID.
listing_url	string	Absolute URL to the listing detail page.
title	string	Listing headline (make + model + spec).
make	['string', 'null']	Car manufacturer (e.g. BMW, VW, Mazda).
model	['string', 'null']	Model name (e.g. 1er-Reihe, Polo).
model_spec	['string', 'null']	Model specification / trim line.
year	['integer', 'null']	Year of first registration (Erstzulassung).
price	['integer', 'null']	Asking price as an integer in the listing currency.
currency	['string', 'null']	ISO-4217 currency code — always EUR for willhaben.at.
mileage_km	['integer', 'null']	Odometer reading in kilometres.
fuel_type	['string', 'null']	Fuel type (Benzin, Diesel, Hybrid, Elektro).
transmission	['string', 'null']	Transmission (Schaltgetriebe / Automatik).
engine_power_hp	['integer', 'null']	Engine power in metric horsepower (PS).
engine_power_kw	['integer', 'null']	Engine power in kilowatts.
body_type	['string', 'null']	Body / car type (e.g. Kombi, SUV, Limousine).
color	['string', 'null']	Main exterior colour code (willhaben colour id).
first_registration	['string', 'null']	First-registration year as a string (EZ).
location	['string', 'null']	Town / city of the listing.
region	['string', 'null']	Austrian state (Bundesland).
postcode	['string', 'null']	Postal code (PLZ).
seller_type	['string', 'null']	private or dealer.
seller_name	['string', 'null']	Dealer / organisation name when present.
photo_urls	array	List of listing photo URLs.
description	['string', 'null']	Full German listing description (plain text). Enrichment-only.
posted_date	['string', 'null']	ISO timestamp when the listing was published.
scraped_at	string	ISO timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "listing_id": "1071823967",
  "listing_url": "https://www.willhaben.at/iad/gebrauchtwagen/d/auto/bmw-1er-reihe-118i-advantage-1071823967/",
  "title": "BMW 1er-Reihe 118i Advantage",
  "make": "BMW",
  "model": "1er-Reihe",
  "model_spec": "118i Advantage",
  "year": 2024,
  "price": 24990,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "mileage_km": 56042,
  "fuel_type": "Benzin",
  "transmission": "Schaltgetriebe",
  "engine_power_hp": 136,
  "engine_power_kw": 100,
  "body_type": "Kombi / Family Van",
  "color": "9",
  "first_registration": "2024",
  "location": "Steyr",
  "region": "Ober\u00f6sterreich",
  "postcode": "4400",
  "seller_type": "dealer",
  "seller_name": "Lietz Steyr",
  "photo_urls": [
    "https://cache.willhaben.at/mmo/7/107/182/3967_165797804_hoved.jpg"
  ],
  "description": "12 Monate Gew\u00e4hrleistung inkludiert ...",
  "posted_date": "2026-06-01T23:35:00Z",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.05	One-off warm-up charge per run
result-row	$0.002	PPE event

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.05. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

willhaben paginates 30 listings per page and very deep result sets eventually stop returning new pages — large queries cap out well before tens of thousands of rows. The exterior colour is exposed as willhaben's internal id code, not a colour name. Detail enrichment adds one request per listing and roughly doubles run time. Some private listings hide the seller name.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a willhaben account or API key?

No. willhaben offers no public API. This Actor scrapes the public Gebrauchtwagenbörse politely — see the ToS Notice in the README.

How do I scrape a filtered search?

Apply your filters on willhaben.at, copy the resulting URL from your browser, and paste it into searchUrl. We walk the result pages from there.

Is the detail enrichment worth it?

It adds the full German description per listing at the cost of one extra request each. Price, specs, seller, location, and photos all come from the search payload — set enrichDetails to false to halve requests.

What currency are prices in?

Always EUR. price is an integer in euros; mileage is always in kilometres.

Why is colour a number?

willhaben stores the main exterior colour as an internal id code in the listing payload; we surface it raw in color rather than guessing a label.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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