Automotive Search URL Scraper

Paste a vehicle marketplace search URL and get every listing on that page as a schema.org Car record — VIN, mileage with its unit, price with its currency, fuel, transmission, drivetrain, engine, body type, colour, condition, trim, seller type, posting date and a location with coordinates. 31 car marketplaces, from Craigslist and CarMax to AutoScout24, Otomoto, Encar and CarDekho, mixable in one run.

What does the Automotive Search URL Scraper do?

• Keeps the filters you already built. Set year, price, mileage, transmission, fuel, title status, body type or colour on the site itself, copy the URL, and each filter is honoured exactly as the site applies it.
• Normalises 31 sites into one shape. A Craigslist ad, a CarMax listing and an Otomoto advert land in the same columns.
• Keeps each market's own units. Prices carry the site's ISO 4217 currency (USD, GBP, EUR, PLN, KRW, JPY, SGD, INR, AUD, CAD, NOK, SEK); odometers carry SMI miles or KMT kilometres. Never silently converted.
• Returns everything the page exposes. Nothing is de-duplicated or relevance-filtered, so your matching rules stay yours. A source column says which site each record came from.

Which sites does it cover?

Region	Marketplaces
United States	Craigslist, CarMax, CarGurus, AutoTrader, cars.com, TrueCar, Carvana, Bring a Trailer, Hemmings
United Kingdom	AutoTrader UK, Motors UK, Cinch
Europe	AutoScout24, Leboncoin, La Centrale, Coches.net, Subito, Marktplaats, Otomoto, Standvirtual, Blocket, Finn.no, Mobile.bg
Asia-Pacific	Carsales, CarsGuide, Encar, Goo-net, SgCarMart, CarDekho
Americas	AutoTrader Canada, MercadoLibre

Why scrape vehicle marketplaces?

• Price a car before you buy or list one. Every comparable within a radius, so you see the real spread instead of one site's estimate.
• Track dealer inventory. Run the same search URL on a schedule and diff the results: what arrived, what sold, what was repriced.
• Build a valuation model. VIN, model year, odometer and price across tens of thousands of listings is the training set.
• Find cross-border arbitrage. The same model in EUR on AutoScout24 and in GBP on AutoTrader UK, in one dataset.
• Feed a lead pipeline. Dealer name, address, postcode and coordinates, where the site publishes them.

Quick start

1. Build the search on the marketplace itself, using its own filters.
2. Copy the URL from the address bar.
3. Paste it into Search page URLs — as many URLs, from as many sites, as you like.
4. Set Maximum vehicles per search URL (default 100) and, optionally, a total cap.
5. Click Start, then export the dataset to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Description
searchUrls	array	Marketplace search or listing URLs, filters included. Paste them, upload a file, or point at a Google Sheet.
maxResultsPerUrl	integer	Stop each URL after this many vehicles. Default 100.
maxResults	integer	Stop the whole run after this many vehicles. Optional.

Example search URLs:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?auto_make_model=toyota%20camry&min_auto_year=2015
https://www.carmax.com/cars/toyota?zip=94086&radius=radius-50
https://www.autoscout24.de/lst/volkswagen/golf

What data do you get?

One record per vehicle, 22 fields, in schema.org Car shape:

Field	Meaning
source	Which marketplace the record came from
name, url, description	Listing title, direct link, seller's own text
brand, model, vehicleModelDate	Make, model, model year (first-registration year in Europe)
vehicleIdentificationNumber	VIN, where the site publishes one
mileageFromOdometer	Value plus unitCode — SMI miles or KMT kilometres
offers	Price plus its ISO 4217 priceCurrency
fuelType, vehicleTransmission, driveWheelConfiguration, vehicleEngine	Powertrain as the site states it
bodyType, color, itemCondition, vehicleConfiguration	Body style, colour, condition, trim
image, datePosted, sellerType	First gallery image, publication date, dealer or private
itemLocation	schema.org Place with postal address and coordinates

{
    "source": "CarMax",
    "@type": "Car",
    "name": "2015 Toyota Camry LE 4dr Sedan",
    "url": "https://www.carmax.com/car/70002037",
    "brand": { "@type": "Brand", "name": "Toyota" },
    "model": "Camry",
    "vehicleModelDate": "2015",
    "vehicleIdentificationNumber": "4T1BF1FK0FU931195",
    "mileageFromOdometer": { "@type": "QuantitativeValue", "value": 145400, "unitCode": "SMI" },
    "offers": { "@type": "Offer", "price": 9995, "priceCurrency": "USD" },
    "fuelType": "Gasoline",
    "vehicleTransmission": "Automatic",
    "sellerType": "dealer",
    "itemLocation": {
        "@type": "Place",
        "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": 37.3492, "longitude": -121.9 }
    }
}

How do you run it from your own code?

Start a run and read the dataset with the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/e-commerce~automotive-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"searchUrls":[{"url":"https://www.carmax.com/cars/toyota?zip=94086"}],"maxResultsPerUrl":50}'

Swap runs for run-sync-get-dataset-items to start the run and get the rows back in the same call.

Schedule a run daily, send new rows to a webhook, or push them straight into Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack or S3 with the platform's integrations.

How much will it cost?

Pay per event, charged once for each vehicle returned to the dataset:

Plan	Per vehicle	Per 1,000 vehicles
Free	$0.0020	$2.00
Bronze	$0.0017	$1.70
Silver	$0.0014	$1.40
Gold	$0.0011	$1.10
Platinum	$0.0008	$0.80
Diamond	$0.0005	$0.50

No compute charge on top: a run that returns nothing costs only the start event.

Troubleshooting

Issue	Solution
A search URL returns 0 vehicles	Open it in a browser. If the site itself shows nothing, the filters are too narrow — widen year, price or radius.
Fewer vehicles than the page claims	The site caps its own result set. Split one broad search into narrower ones, by year or price band.
One site in a multi-site run is empty	Check the run log — each skipped site logs why, by name.
vehicleIdentificationNumber is null	Not every site publishes a VIN. AutoScout24 and AutoTrader UK do not; CarMax, CarGurus, cars.com, TrueCar and Carvana do.
Price looks wrong by a factor of 100	Check priceCurrency. The value is the site's own figure in its own currency and is never converted.
Mileage looks wrong	Check unitCode — SMI is miles, KMT is kilometres. European and Asian sites publish kilometres.
Run stopped early	maxResults caps the whole run, not each URL. Raise it above URLs x maxResultsPerUrl for full coverage.

Is it legal to scrape car listings?

Scraping publicly available listing data is legal in most jurisdictions, and this Actor only reads pages any visitor can open. It collects no personal data beyond what a seller published in a public advert. How you use the data, including under GDPR and CCPA, is your responsibility.

FAQ

Can I search without building a URL? Yes — use the Automotive Keyword Scraper, which takes a make, a model or a keyword and a location, and searches every site for you.

Can I scrape one specific car? Use the Automotive Vehicle Scraper and paste the listing URLs.

Can I mix marketplaces in one run? Yes — paste URLs from any of the 31 sites; the source column tells them apart.

Does it work with agents and MCP? Yes. It runs over the standard Apify API, so any MCP client or agent framework with Apify support can call it and read the dataset.

Can I export to CSV or Excel? The dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML, or streams over the API.

Changelog

• 1.1 — 31 marketplaces; per-market currency and odometer units.
• 1.0 — Search URL scraping with schema.org Car output, pay-per-event pricing.

Feedback

Found a marketplace worth covering, or a field empty where the page shows it? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the URL you used.