Encar Used-Car Scraper 🚗

Scrape live used-car listings from Encar — Korea's #1 used-car marketplace (~150k+ active listings) — as clean, structured JSON. Get make, model, trim, year, price (KRW), mileage, fuel type, and region for every vehicle in one run.

Built for used-car export sourcing, price & depreciation analytics, and Korean automotive market research.

Try it free. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit — roughly 2,500 results from this actor, no credit card required. Set your input, click Start, and export JSON/CSV/Excel.

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What it does

This actor pulls listing data directly from Encar's public listing search JSON API (the same one that powers encar.com), so results are fast and complete — no fragile HTML scraping. You can scrape:

• The whole marketplace (domestic, imported, or both), or
• A specific make (e.g. Hyundai, Genesis, Mercedes-Benz), or
• A specific make + model group (e.g. Kia → K5).

Results can be sorted by newest listed, price, mileage, or year.

Why Encar? Korea is one of the largest used-car export markets in the world. International dealers and exporters use Encar as their primary sourcing feed — this actor turns that feed into a structured dataset you can filter, price-model, and pipe into your own tools.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
carType	string	"all", "domestic" (Korean brands), or "imported". Default all.
manufacturer	string	Optional make filter, in Encar's Korean label, e.g. 현대 (Hyundai), 기아 (Kia), 제네시스 (Genesis), 벤츠 (Mercedes-Benz), BMW, 테슬라 (Tesla). Blank = all makes.
modelGroup	string	Optional model-group filter (requires manufacturer), e.g. 그랜저, K5, 아반떼. Blank = all models.
sort	string	newest, price_asc, price_desc, mileage_asc, or year_desc. Default newest.
maxItems	integer	Max listings to collect. Default 100, max 10000.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings (see below).

Input example

{
  "carType": "all",
  "manufacturer": "현대",
  "modelGroup": "그랜저",
  "sort": "price_asc",
  "maxItems": 200
}

{
  "carType": "imported",
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxItems": 500
}

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Output

Each vehicle listing is one dataset record. price_krw is the full price in Korean won (Encar shows prices in 만원 / 10,000-won units — this actor converts them to plain KRW). mileage_km is in kilometres. region is the coarse city/province where the car is listed.

{
  "source": "encar",
  "listing_id": "41635144",
  "make": "쉐보레(GM대우)",
  "make_en": "Chevrolet",
  "model": "올 뉴 말리부",
  "trim": "1.5 터보 LS",
  "year": 2017,
  "price_krw": 5600000,
  "mileage_km": 134086,
  "fuel": "가솔린",
  "sell_type": "일반",
  "region": "경기",
  "url": "https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/41635144",
  "image_url": "https://ci.encar.com/carpicture02/pic4162/41625787_001.jpg",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-09T13:16:52+09:00"
}

A full 36-item sample from a real run is in samples/sample-output.json.

Field	Meaning
source	Always "encar".
listing_id	Encar vehicle listing id.
make	Manufacturer, as Encar labels it (Korean).
make_en	English make name for common brands, else null.
model	Model name.
trim	Trim / badge (e.g. 1.5 터보 LS), else null.
year	Model year (4-digit).
price_krw	Asking price in KRW.
mileage_km	Odometer reading in km.
fuel	Fuel type (가솔린 = petrol, 디젤 = diesel, 전기 = electric, etc.).
sell_type	Listing type (일반 = standard, 리스승계 = lease transfer, etc.).
region	Coarse listing region (province/city).
url	Listing detail page URL.
image_url	Main photo URL.
scraped_at	ISO-8601 timestamp (KST, UTC+9).

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Use cases

• Used-car export sourcing — build a live, filterable catalogue of Korean used cars (with photos, price, mileage, and year) to source vehicles for export to your market.
• Price & depreciation analytics — track price_krw against year, mileage, make, and model to model residual values and spot underpriced listings.
• Market & inventory research — measure supply by brand, fuel type (including the surging EV share), and region across ~150k+ listings.
• AI agents & datasets — feed structured used-car data into pricing models, dashboards, or LLM agents.

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape this data? This actor collects only public, non-personal listing data — the same used-car listings any visitor sees on encar.com without logging in. No personal or dealer data is collected. You are responsible for how you use the data; see the legality note below.

What does it cost in practice? $2.00 per 1,000 results (launch pricing) + a few cents of platform usage. Example: a 500-result daily pull costs about $1.00/day. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers ~2,500 results.

Do I need to configure proxies? No — the default settings work out of the box. For heavy pulls (high maxItems), enabling Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group is recommended as optional scaling advice — see the proxy note below.

How fresh is the data? Every run scrapes the live Encar site at run time. Schedule the actor for recurring snapshots (e.g. daily price tracking).

What is NOT included? Transmission is not included (it only exists on the per-vehicle detail endpoint, which carries dealer PII we deliberately don't fetch). Make/model/fuel/region come as Korean strings, with a make_en convenience field for common brands.

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🇰🇷 More Korean data actors

This actor is part of a suite of Korean-platform scrapers by the same maintainer:

• joongna-scraper — secondhand-goods listings from Joongna, Korea's largest used-goods market.
• bunjang-scraper — live product listings from Bunjang, Korea's top C2C resale app.

Browse all: apify.com/kdatafactory

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Rate limiting & legality

• The actor collects only public, non-authenticated data. It never logs in and never touches private endpoints.
• No personal / dealer data is collected. This actor deliberately does not fetch Encar's per-vehicle detail endpoint, which carries dealer names, user ids, and phone numbers. Only vehicle attributes and a coarse listing region are returned.
• Requests are rate-limited: one page at a time with a ≥ 500 ms delay between requests, to stay gentle on Encar's servers.
• You are responsible for using the data in line with Encar's terms of service and applicable law.

Known limitations (honesty note)

• Transmission is not included. It is only available on the per-vehicle detail endpoint, and that endpoint also exposes dealer PII — so, per our privacy rules, we don't fetch it. Every field listed above is collected from the public list API and populates reliably (verified in a live test: 36/36 records fully populated, trim/year/price/mileage/fuel/region all 100%).
• Make/model/fuel/region are Korean strings (a make_en convenience field is provided for common brands). Model and trim are not translated.

⚠️ Proxy recommendation

Encar may block datacenter IPs or high request volumes. For reliable runs — especially at higher maxItems — enable Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group. The actor automatically uses the proxyConfiguration you provide and runs direct when none is set. If you see repeated API HTTP 403/429 errors in the log, switch on residential proxy.

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