# Marktplaats Car Scraper - Dutch Car Listings, Prices & Dealers (`listingworks/marktplaats-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Marktplaats.nl car listings with prices, mileage, specs and dealer details. 21 fields per car, no proxy needed, one flat price per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/listingworks/marktplaats-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Yusuke Suda](https://apify.com/listingworks) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 result items

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Marktplaats Car Scraper — Dutch car listings, prices and dealers

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, and who is selling it.

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

### What a row looks like

```json
{
  "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",
  "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"
}
```

Each row has 24 columns and most carry 22 of them, because Marktplaats does not
fill in every detail: in a 100-row sample the engine power was there 20 times and
the engine size 8. 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.

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. 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. |
| `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

$3.00 per 1,000 listings, dropping to $1.50 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.

### 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 Otomoto Scraper (Poland) and the
Standvirtual Scraper (Portugal). 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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Makes to filter by, e.g. volkswagen, bmw, mercedes-benz. Leave empty for all car listings.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

Return only listings posted on or after this date. Marktplaats publishes the day, not the time, so this filters by day, e.g. 2026-09-01.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many records. Keeps your cost predictable.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Off by default. Turn on (residential, in the site's country) only if runs start getting blocked with 403/429.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [],
  "postedAfter": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All Dutch car listings from this run: what the car is, what it costs, and where it is.

## `pricing` (type: `string`):

The same listings reduced to the fields used for price analysis and market monitoring.

## `dealers` (type: `string`):

The same listings focused on who is selling them.

## `runReport` (type: `string`):

Pages read, records delivered, errors, and the verdict (ok, degraded or broken).

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("listingworks/marktplaats-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 = {
    "searchTerms": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("listingworks/marktplaats-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 '{
  "searchTerms": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call listingworks/marktplaats-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,listingworks/marktplaats-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/2u3TNzDLEr9iEZoPJ/builds/O52SO0hvPo5llH5VZ/openapi.json