Nettiauto Scraper — Finnish Used Cars, Prices & Specs

Scrape Nettiauto, Finland's largest car marketplace, in bulk — no login, no API key, no browser. Point the Actor at any category or result page and it walks the pages, parses every card into flat, sortable columns, and saves rows as it goes.

19 columns per row · thousands of rows per run · numeric prices, not strings · JSON, CSV, Excel or API · pay only for the rows you keep.

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Why this Nettiauto scraper

Nettiauto publishes everything a buyer needs on the result page — but as prose, inside a card, behind pagination. Reading it at any useful scale by hand is not realistic, and copy-paste gives you text where you need numbers.

This Actor turns those pages into a table. price is a number, not a formatted string. Location, seller and vehicle specs are their own columns instead of one blob. That is the difference between data you can pivot on and data you have to clean first.

It is built on the same engine as the rest of this fleet, which means three things you only notice when they are missing:

• It respects the clock. Every run carries a time budget and saves rows continuously, so a slow page never costs you the whole run.
• One bad page does not end the crawl. An unreachable page is retried, then skipped and logged — not treated as the end of the listing.
• It says what it did. Row counts, skipped pages and stop reasons all appear in the log, so a short run is always explainable.

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What you get

Market research for the Finnish car market

Nettiauto is where Finns buy and sell cars. price is numeric in EUR, mileage is in kilometres, and make/model are clean strings — enough to compare asking prices across makes and model years without any cleanup.

Fuel-type and powertrain trends in Finland

fuel and transmission are separate columns. Chart them over time to see how quickly the Finnish market is shifting from petrol manuals to electric automatics.

Dealer and inventory monitoring

Track which cars are listed, at what price, and how often inventory turns over. Schedule daily runs and diff the results to spot new listings, price drops, and disappeared ads.

Vehicle identification and history lookup

vin is included when the seller publishes it. Cross-reference VINs with a vehicle history service to add accident and service records to your dataset.

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Input

Field	Type	What it does
startUrl	string	Any Nettiauto category or result URL. The Actor paginates from here.
maxResults	integer	Stop after this many rows (default 200).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Defaults to the UNBLOCKER group — see below.

Note: Nettiauto embeds every filter in the URL. Copy any search or filter result page URL and paste it as the start URL.

Example input

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.nettiauto.com/vaihtoautot",

  "maxResults": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["UNBLOCKER"]
  }
}

Why the UNBLOCKER proxy group

Nettiauto sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge — the block page is "Just a moment…" with a __cf_chl script, not a plain refusal. That is a JavaScript challenge, so no plain HTTP client gets through it no matter how good its fingerprint: a residential Finnish exit IP and a genuine Chrome TLS fingerprint were both measured returning HTTP 403. The UNBLOCKER group solves the challenge upstream, which is why it is the default. It adds roughly ten seconds per page.

If you override the proxy with other groups the run will very likely be refused — and it will fail loudly rather than hand you an empty dataset.

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Output

One row per listing, 19 columns:

Column	Type	Description
listingId	string	Nettiauto listing ID from the URL.
title	string	Make, model and year headline.
listingUrl	string	Canonical listing page on Nettiauto.
make	string	Car manufacturer.
model	string	Car model.
price	number	Asking price in euro.
currency	string	Always EUR.
mileage	number	Odometer reading in kilometres.
year	number	Model year extracted from the title.
fuel	string	Fuel type in Finnish (Bensiini, Diesel, Sähkö, Hybridi).
transmission	string	Transmission type in Finnish (Manuaali, Automaatti).
bodyType	string	Body style in Finnish (Sedan, Farmari, Viistoperä, etc.).
color	string	Exterior color in Finnish.
condition	string	Used or New.
vin	string	Vehicle identification number when available.
imageUrl	string	First listing photo.
country	string	Always Finland.
source	string	Always nettiauto.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection.

Example row

{
  "listingId": "…",
  "title": "…",
  "listingUrl": "…",
  "make": "…",
  "model": "…",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "…",
  "mileage": 0,
  "year": 0,
  "fuel": "…",
  "transmission": "…",
  "bodyType": "…",
  "color": "…",
  "condition": "…",
  "vin": "…",
  "imageUrl": "…",
  "country": "…",
  "source": "…",
  "scrapedAt": "…"
}

Export from the Apify Console as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or pull it straight from the Dataset API.

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Run outcomes: how to tell an empty market from a blocked crawl

A scraper that is blocked on every page and a search that genuinely has no cars both produce an empty dataset. Treating those as the same thing makes the output unusable for monitoring, so this Actor classifies every run and refuses to report an unverified emptiness as success.

Outcome	Run status	Meaning
COMPLETED	Succeeded	Every requested page was fetched and rows were saved.
PARTIAL	Succeeded	Rows were saved, but some pages were unreachable. The page numbers are listed.
EMPTY_RESULT	Succeeded	Pages were fetched and parsed successfully and this search really has no listings.
BLOCKED	Failed	Every page was refused with HTTP 403/429/503.
INVALID_START_URL	Failed	The start URL is not a nettiauto.com address, or it returned 404.
FETCH_FAILED	Failed	No page could be fetched for transport reasons (timeouts, proxy errors).
INCOMPLETE_NO_ROWS	Failed	Pages were skipped and nothing was saved, so an empty result cannot be trusted.

The rule behind the table: a run that fetched zero pages can never finish as Succeeded. It learned nothing about the market, so it reports a failure you can alert on.

Run summary

Every run writes a SUMMARY record to the key-value store and prints the same figures to the log, so the row count is always reconcilable with what the crawl actually did:

Field	Meaning
outcome, detail	The classification above, and a sentence explaining it
rowsSaved, rowsRequested	Rows written versus rows asked for
pagesRequested, pagesFetched	Pages attempted versus pages that returned HTML
pagesSkipped	The page numbers that could not be fetched
emptyPages, parseFailures	Pages that returned no rows, and pages that failed to parse
httpRequests, httpRetries	Requests issued, and how many were retries
httpStatusCounts	Per-status breakdown, e.g. {"200": 7, "403": 2}
transportErrors	Failures that never reached an HTTP status
proxyGroups	The proxy groups the run actually used
terminationReason	Why the crawl stopped

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How to use it

1. Open the Actor and paste a Nettiauto URL into Category or listing URL.
2. Set Maximum results to how many rows you want.
3. Click Start. Rows appear in the dataset while the run is still going.
4. Export, or schedule the run daily and diff the results to track price moves.

You can also run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript client or the Python client, and wire the output into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or your own warehouse.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a Nettiauto account?

No. All data comes from public result pages — no login, no API key.

How do I filter by make, model or fuel type?

Nettiauto puts every filter in the URL. Use the Nettiauto website to build your search, then paste the result URL as the start URL.

Why are fuel type and body type in Finnish?

Nettiauto serves its data in Finnish. Bensiini = Petrol, Diesel = Diesel, Sähkö = Electric, Hybridi = Hybrid. Manuaali = Manual, Automaatti = Automatic.

Why is vin often null?

Not all sellers publish their vehicle identification number. About 30% of listings include it.

Which currency?

Euro (EUR), stated in the currency column.

How many listings does Nettiauto have?

Over 70,000 used cars at any given time, making it Finland's largest car marketplace.

How much does it cost?

You pay per row kept, plus Apify platform usage. A 1,000-row run is inexpensive; run it on a schedule and you have a continuous price feed for the cost of a coffee.

Is scraping Nettiauto legal?

This Actor reads only publicly available pages — the same ones anyone can open in a browser — and collects no personal data beyond the seller display name that Nettiauto itself publishes next to each listing. You are responsible for how you use the output, including compliance with Nettiauto's terms and with data-protection law such as the GDPR. If in doubt, take legal advice.

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Related Actors

Browse the rest of the fleet for country marketplace, classifieds, property and company-registry scrapers covering more than eighty countries.

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Support

Found a broken column or a site change? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and it will be looked at. This Actor is actively maintained — see the Changelog for its history.

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Nettiauto is a trademark of its respective owner. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nettiauto.