Marktplaats Car Scraper — Dutch car listings, prices and dealers

Extract used-car listings from Marktplaats.nl (Netherlands) by make or search term: price, mileage, year, fuel, dealer, listing date, URL.

Three rows from a real run

Title	Price	Year	Mileage	Location
Audi Q5 2.0 Tfsi Quattro S-tronic	6950 EUR	2009	258000 km	Castricum
Chrysler 300c hemi v8 5,7	6750 EUR	2005		Buren
Land Rover Range Rover Sport 5.0 V8 SC Autobiography Dynamic	59990 EUR	2018	85000 km	Doetinchem

A run with maxItems: 10 on 2026-10-13 returned 10 ads in 5 seconds and would cost about $0.01 at the current price. Full fields for every row are shown below.

Marktplaats is the largest classifieds site in the Netherlands, and its car section is where most Dutch used cars are listed, by dealers and by private sellers alike. This Actor turns the car listings into a clean table: what the car is, what it costs, who is selling it — and, since September 2026, whether the price is fixed or a bid, the body type, the colour, the energy label and, for dealers, the location coordinates. All of it comes from the search-results page, so no extra requests are made and nothing is charged beyond the rows you receive.

Press Start. The defaults return listings with no configuration needed.

What a row looks like

{
  "title": "Mercedes-Benz C-klasse 180 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY Business Class",
  "make": "Mercedes-Benz",
  "model": "C-Klasse",
  "year": 2011,
  "mileage_km": 91317,
  "fuel_type": "Benzine",
  "gearbox": "Automaat",
  "engine_capacity_ccm": 1796,
  "price": 11995,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "price_type": "fixed",
  "city": "Almere",
  "seller_name": "LDK automotive",
  "seller_type": "professional",
  "dealer_id": "10448340",
  "posted_at": "2026-09-17",
  "source_url": "https://www.marktplaats.nl/v/auto-s/mercedes-benz/m2437728568-mercedes-benz-c-klasse-180-cgi-blueefficiency-business-class",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://images.marktplaats.com/api/v1/hz-mp-pro-listing/images/6febfbf9-5fd2-4911-8bac-ce6b9cc93e8f?rule=ecg_mp_eps$_82.jpg",
  "external_id": "m2437728568"
}

Every row also has source_site and scraped_at. Where a dealer is identified, the identity comes with the row — no second request and no extra charge.

Field	What it holds	How often it is filled (100-row sample, 6 October 2026)
title, make, model, price, currency, city, posted_at, source_url, thumbnail_url	The listing as Marktplaats shows it	Always
price_type	fixed, bid (minimum bid or "bieden") or see_description — Marktplaats' own label	Always
year, mileage_km, fuel_type, gearbox	From the listing's attribute strip	Nearly always
body_type	Hatchback, Stationwagon, SUV … as Marktplaats classifies it	About 8 in 10
color, energy_label	As given by the seller	Colour about 1 in 3 (33), energy label about 6 in 10 (64)
engine_capacity_ccm, engine_power_hp	Only when the seller filled them in	Engine size 17, power 19
seller_name, seller_type, seller_url, dealer_id	Filled only for listings Marktplaats labels as a business (see below)	About 15 in 100
latitude, longitude	The dealer's location, for business listings only; empty for private sellers	Business listings only
condition, warranty, previous_price, price_reduced_at, postal_code, features	Catalogue-wide car columns that Marktplaats does not show on the results page	Always empty here

Read this part before you buy: a seller is named only when Marktplaats itself labels the listing as a business. That is about 13 in 100 rows on a default run. Marktplaats leaves most sellers unlabelled, and an unlabelled seller is treated as a private person: seller_name, seller_url, dealer_id and seller_type all come back empty. seller_url needs a labelled dealer who also lists a website, which no row in that sample had. Some of those unlabelled sellers really are dealers, and this Actor will not guess — a profile picture or a website in a profile is not proof of a business, and guessing would mean publishing private people's names. You still get the car, the price and the city on every row. Business names only: where the site marks the advertiser as a private person, or the name on the card is or contains a person's name (a sole trader's trade name), the field is left empty. Phone numbers, email addresses and sellers' descriptions are never collected, for anyone.

What people use it for

Price monitoring, where you re-run a saved search on a schedule and watch a segment of the Dutch market move. Dealer and inventory research, where the seller fields matter as much as the cars. And feeding a comparison or valuation tool that needs Dutch market data it cannot get from an official API.

Input

Field	What it does
searchTerms	Makes to filter by. Leave empty for everything.
postedAfter	Only keep listings posted on or after this date (ISO 8601). Marktplaats shows dates by day, so this filter works by day. Handy for daily runs that should return just what is new.
sinceDays	The same, as a rolling window: 1 keeps yesterday and today, 7 the last week. Set it once on a scheduled task and never edit the date again.
maxItems	Hard stop, so your bill is predictable.
proxyConfiguration	Off by default. Most runs do not need one.

There is no location input. Marktplaats only offers distance filtering through an internal endpoint that its robots.txt asks crawlers not to use, and this Actor respects that. If you pass a location anyway, the run stops and tells you, rather than quietly returning the whole country and charging you for it. Filter by city in your own pipeline instead.

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 listings, dropping to $0.50 per 1,000 on higher Apify plans, plus $0.005 each time a run starts. There is no separate charge for dealer details, and platform usage is not passed on to you.

You are charged for rows you actually receive. If you set a maximum charge for the run, it stops cleanly at that limit instead of overshooting it.

Worked example: 1,000 listings cost $1.005 including the start fee ($0.505 on the higher plans). A daily task with sinceDays: 1 on three makes typically returns 50–200 new listings — five to twenty cents a day.

Daily new listings

Make a task from this Actor, set sinceDays to 1 and the makes you follow, and schedule it each morning. Every run then returns only what was posted since the previous day, in the same columns as a full run. Because the price type, body type and dealer identity are on every row, the feed can go straight into a price tracker without a second lookup.

How this compares

Other Marktplaats Actors on the Store exist; the differences that matter are these. This one is cars only, and says so, rather than a general scraper pointed at a car URL. It names a seller only when Marktplaats labels the listing as a business, and never publishes private sellers' names, IDs or descriptions. It uses only the pages Marktplaats' robots.txt allows — no distance filtering through the internal search endpoint, which the same file disallows — and says so here instead of leaving you to find out. The price type, body type, colour, energy label and dealer coordinates are in every row without a "details" mode or an extra charge. A run that is blocked or comes back short fails visibly instead of reporting success with fewer rows. The price in the title is the price on the FREE tier, not the discounted one.

Scope and limits

Public listings only. Nothing behind a login.

Marktplaats' listing pages are not strictly sorted by date, so postedAfter checks two full pages of older listings before it stops, to avoid missing new ones that sit behind promoted ads.

If Marktplaats changes its page structure, the run goes red. It does not return zero rows and report success — a silent scraper is worse than a broken one, because you find out weeks later.

A run that is blocked or cut short partway also goes red, even though the rows it did collect are in the dataset and yours to keep. Red here means "this is not the complete answer", not "you lost the data" — on a schedule, a run that quietly came back short is the thing you most need to hear about.

Every run also publishes the site's own result count next to the rows it delivered, so you can see "60 rows of 9,969 the site reports" without going back to the site to check. That number is what the site says, not a promise about what one run returns.

Same data, other countries

This Actor shares its output shape with the 2dehands Car Scraper (Belgium), the Willhaben Auto Scraper (Austria), the Bazos.sk Cars Scraper (Slovakia) and the Wayke Scraper (Sweden). A parser you write for one keeps working on the others, and on the countries added next.

Support

Open an issue on this Actor with the run ID and your input. Answered within one business day.