Mobile.de Car Scraper — Europe's Largest Vehicle Marketplace, Prices & Dealer Contacts

A high-speed, production-grade Apify Actor designed to scrape unlimited vehicle listings, technical specifications, seller contact details, and market evaluations from Mobile.de — Germany and Europe's largest automotive marketplace.

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⚡ Key Advantages & Why It Beats Alternatives

• 🚀 Pure HTTP Fast-Path Engine: Powered by Crawlee's CheerioCrawler and got-scraping. Bypasses heavy, memory-intensive headless browsers to deliver lightning-fast response times and minimal memory consumption.
• 🛡️ Advanced Anti-Bot Circumvention: Utilizes TLS fingerprinting, modern HTTP/2 framing, and rotating browser headers specifically tuned to glide through Akamai Bot Manager defenses.
• 💰 Fair Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing: Never overpay for idle compute or fixed subscriptions. You only pay for what you extract:
  • $0.005 per Actor start
  • $0.0008 per vehicle record extracted
  • $0.0005 for monitoring/enrichment checks
• 📋 Richest Data Extraction: Extracts 25+ attributes per vehicle including make, model, gross/net price, mileage, first registration, fuel type, transmission, horsepower, dealer phone number, address, geolocation, seller ratings, features, and high-resolution images.
• 🔄 Intelligent Pagination: Seamlessly traverses multi-page search results and supports custom search queries or direct listing URLs.
• 🛡️ Guaranteed Zero-Defect Delivery: Features robust parsing across JSON-LD schemas, Next.js React Server Components (RSC) states, and SSR DOM trees with automatic fallback resilience.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

This actor operates on a pay-as-you-go Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model. You only pay for what you extract:

Event Name	Purpose	Price (USD)	Description
apify-default-dataset-item	result	$0.0008	Single result in the default dataset.
additional-data	Additional cost for monitoring mode	$0.0005	Charged for each item result check
apify-actor-start	Actor Start	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array of objects	No	https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?dam=0&isSearchRequest=true&ms=1900%3B%3B%3B&ref=quickSearch	List of Mobile.de search or individual vehicle detail URLs to crawl.
searchQuery	String	No	"Audi Search"	Free-text search filter (e.g. "Audi Search", "BMW 320", "Porsche 911").
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of vehicle listings to extract (1 – 50,000).
proxy	Object	No	{ "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }	Apify Proxy configuration. Residential proxies are recommended for cloud runs.

Sample JSON Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/search.html?dam=0&isSearchRequest=true&ms=1900%3B%3B%3B&ref=quickSearch"
    }
  ],
  "searchQuery": "Audi Search",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}

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📤 Output Dataset Format

Every record pushed to the default dataset contains normalized, structured automotive information:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique Mobile.de listing ID (e.g. "456993252")
make	String	Vehicle manufacturer (e.g. "Audi")
model	String	Vehicle model (e.g. "RSQ3")
title	String	Full descriptive vehicle title
priceGross	Number	Gross price in EUR (e.g. 23699)
priceCurrency	String	Currency code (e.g. "EUR")
mileageKm	Number	Odometer mileage in kilometers (e.g. 105500)
firstRegistration	String	Date of first registration (e.g. "04/2014")
fuel	String	Fuel type (e.g. "Benzin, E10-geeignet", "Diesel")
transmission	String	Gearbox type (e.g. "Automatik", "Schaltgetriebe")
power	String	Engine power rating (e.g. "228 kW (310 PS)")
color	String	Exterior color (e.g. "Schwarz Metallic")
bodyType	String	Vehicle body style (e.g. "OffRoad", "SUV", "Kombi")
dealerName	String	Dealership or private seller name
dealerPhone	String	Verified contact telephone number
dealerAddress	String	Full physical dealership street address
dealerCity	String	Postal code and city
dealerCountry	String	Country code ("DE")
dealerRating	Number	Dealership rating score out of 5 (e.g. 4.8)
dealerReviewCount	Number	Number of customer reviews
location	Object	Geographic coordinates { "lat": 49.4326, "lon": 6.8460 }
features	Array	Equipment & features list (e.g. ["Allradantrieb", "Panorama-Dach"])
images	Array	High-resolution image URLs
url	String	Canonical URL of the vehicle listing
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of extraction

Sample JSON Output Record

{
  "id": "456993252",
  "make": "Audi",
  "model": "RSQ3",
  "title": "Audi RSQ3 2.5 TFSI quattro *Carbon*Bose*Pano*Naviplus",
  "priceGross": 23699,
  "priceCurrency": "EUR",
  "mileageKm": 105500,
  "firstRegistration": "04/2014",
  "fuel": "Benzin, E10-geeignet",
  "dealerName": "Auto Frank & Tan GmbH",
  "dealerPhone": "+49 (0)6887 8948118",
  "dealerAddress": "Hoher Staden 5a, DE-66839 Schmelz",
  "dealerCity": "DE-66839 Schmelz",
  "dealerCountry": "DE",
  "dealerRating": 4.8,
  "dealerReviewCount": 169,
  "location": {
    "lat": 49.4326602,
    "lon": 6.846016
  },
  "transmission": "Automatik",
  "power": "228 kW (310 PS)",
  "color": "Schwarz Metallic",
  "bodyType": "OffRoad",
  "features": [
    "Allradantrieb",
    "Panorama-Dach",
    "Carbon",
    "LED-Scheinwerfer",
    "Navigationssystem",
    "Bose Soundsystem",
    "Klimaautomatik"
  ],
  "images": [
    "https://img.classistatic.de/api/v1/mo-prod/images/03/031d246f-a1c5-475a-aa30-d7cc5b96038f?rule=mo-1600"
  ],
  "url": "https://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/details.html?id=456993252",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T02:59:15.120Z"
}

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🎯 Use Cases

• Automotive Market Analysis: Monitor vehicle depreciation curves, price trends, and inventory turns across Germany and Europe.
• Dealership Sourcing & Arbitrage: Identify underpriced vehicles, import/export opportunities, and rare model configurations.
• Competitor Inventory Tracking: Track dealership stock levels, pricing updates, and sales velocity in real time.
• Lead Generation: Connect directly with authorized dealerships, verified private sellers, and European automotive brokers.

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🏷️ Tags & Keywords

mobile-de • used-cars • car-scraper • automotive • germany • vehicle-listings • dealer-contacts • audi • bmw • mercedes • porsche • car-market • e-commerce • pay-per-event