Carsales Scraper

🚗 Carsales scraper for vehicle listings

Carsales Scraper collects public vehicle listings from Carsales.com.au and saves enriched, structured rows you can export, schedule, or use through the Apify API. Paste a Carsales search URL, paste direct vehicle detail URLs, or build a Carsales search from filters such as make, model, condition, seller type, price, year, odometer, state, postcode, body style, fuel type, and transmission.

Use this Carsales scraper when you need Australian car listing data for price checks, dealer inventory research, vehicle market analysis, lead lists, valuation support, or recurring market checks. For a small first run, keep the prefilled Toyota Corolla search URL, set Listing limit to 25, and review the dataset before collecting a larger market segment.

🔎 What this Carsales scraper does

• Scrapes public Carsales search URLs and listing-results URLs.
• Scrapes direct Carsales vehicle detail URLs.
• Builds Carsales searches from user-friendly filters when you do not already have a source URL.
• Saves one dataset item per accepted vehicle listing.
• Enriches each saved listing with public detail-page facts when Carsales shows them.
• Extracts listing IDs, source URLs, titles, make, model, year, price, odometer, condition, seller type, vehicle specs, seller facts, location, listing images, descriptions, features, resources, and source position.
• Works with Apify exports, schedules, webhooks, integrations, and API clients.

The Actor focuses on public Carsales listing data. It does not log in, submit enquiry forms, message sellers, scrape private account data, value vehicles, or enrich rows from third-party databases.

📦 Data you can extract

Each dataset item is one Carsales vehicle listing. Some fields can be null or empty when Carsales does not show that value for a listing.

• listingId and url - source-backed listing identity and vehicle detail URL.
• title, make, model, year, condition, sellerType, and odometerKm.
• price - amount, currency, and source price label.
• vehicle - badge, body style, transmission, fuel type, engine, engine capacity, cylinders, drivetrain, doors, seats, colour, VIN, registration, and stock number when public.
• location - state, region, suburb, and postcode when shown.
• seller - seller ID, seller type, name, phone, ABN, comments, dealer rating, member-since value, and current listing count when public.
• media - direct Carsales listing image URLs plus source media counts when available.
• descriptionText, features, and useful Carsales resource links.
• source - submitted or built input target, source page number, and listing position.

🧭 Common use cases

• Track Carsales prices for a make, model, state, postcode radius, or saved search URL.
• Compare dealer and private seller listings in a vehicle segment.
• Build car lead lists with public seller details, phone numbers when shown, source URLs, and vehicle facts.
• Collect market data for pricing analysis, sourcing workflows, inventory checks, or valuation support.
• Export Carsales listing data to CSV, JSON, Excel, Google Sheets, webhooks, or your own API workflow.
• Schedule repeat runs on Apify to watch a market segment over time.

🚀 How to run

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Paste one or more Carsales search URLs, listing-results URLs, or direct vehicle detail URLs.
3. If you do not have a URL, enter filters such as make, model, condition, seller type, state, price range, year range, odometer range, body style, fuel type, or transmission.
4. Set Listing limit to a small number such as 25 for your first run.
5. Run the Actor and open the dataset.

You can export the finished dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML. You can also consume the same rows through the Apify API, schedule repeat checks, or send results to another tool with webhooks.

⚙️ Input options

• Carsales URLs - Carsales search URLs, listing-results URLs, or vehicle detail URLs.
• Make and Model - vehicle manufacturer and model for filter-built searches.
• Condition - all, new, used, or demo listings.
• State or territory, Postcode, and Radius - geographic filters for generated searches.
• Seller type - all sellers, dealers only, or private sellers only.
• Body style, Fuel type, Transmission, Colour, Cylinders, and Doors - vehicle filters.
• Minimum price, Maximum price, Minimum year, Maximum year, Minimum odometer, and Maximum odometer.
• Sort listings by - featured, price, kilometres, or year ordering for filter-built searches.
• Listing limit - maximum vehicle listings saved across the whole run.
• Page limit per search - maximum Carsales result pages visited for each search target.

🧾 Example input

{
	"startUrls": [
		{
			"url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/corolla/"
		}
	],
	"maxListings": 25,
	"maxPagesPerSearch": 3
}

📊 Example output

{
	"listingId": "OAG-AD-25995937",
	"url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2022-toyota-corolla-sx-hybrid-auto/OAG-AD-25995937/",
	"title": "2022 Toyota Corolla SX Hybrid Auto",
	"make": "Toyota",
	"model": "Corolla",
	"year": 2022,
	"price": {
		"amount": 29990,
		"currency": "AUD",
		"label": "Drive away $29,084 Excl. Est. Govt. Charges"
	},
	"condition": "Used",
	"sellerType": "Dealer",
	"odometerKm": 35512,
	"vehicle": {
		"badge": "SX Hybrid",
		"bodyStyle": "Hatch",
		"transmission": "Automatic",
		"fuelType": "Hybrid",
		"engine": "4cyl 1.8L Hybrid",
		"engineCapacity": "1.8L",
		"cylinders": 4,
		"drivetrain": "FWD",
		"doors": 5,
		"seats": 5,
		"colour": "Glacier White",
		"vin": null,
		"registrationPlate": "072QK9",
		"registrationExpiry": "July 2026",
		"stockNumber": "U805318"
	},
	"location": {
		"state": "QLD",
		"region": "Brisbane East",
		"suburb": "Capalaba",
		"postcode": "4157"
	},
	"seller": {
		"id": "AGC-SELLER-58549",
		"type": "Dealer",
		"name": "Example Mazda",
		"phone": "0488 801 900",
		"abn": null,
		"comments": "Single owner car with full service history.",
		"dealerRating": 5,
		"dealerMemberSince": "2019",
		"dealerCurrentListings": 45
	},
	"media": {
		"imageUrls": [
			"https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/cars/dealer/example-1.jpg",
			"https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/cars/dealer/example-2.jpg"
		],
		"videoCount": null,
		"threeSixtyCount": null
	},
	"descriptionText": "2022 Toyota Corolla SX Hybrid, single owner car with full service history.",
	"features": ["Satellite navigation", "Reverse camera"],
	"resources": [
		{
			"label": "Price guide",
			"url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/_details/api/v1/price-guide/carsales/OAG-AD-25995937"
		}
	],
	"source": {
		"matchedInput": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/corolla/",
		"pageNumber": 1,
		"position": 1
	}
}

💳 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged for each scraped vehicle listing saved to the dataset. Empty searches, skipped duplicates, failed detail URLs, and no-result runs do not create paid listing rows.

Keep Listing limit small for your first run so you can inspect the row shape and expected cost before collecting a larger Carsales dataset.

⚠️ Limits and caveats

• The Actor collects public listing data that Carsales returns for the requested pages, filters, or detail URLs.
• Carsales may omit some values for a listing, so fields such as seller phone, VIN, registration, postcode, description, features, or media counts can be null or empty.
• Search URLs are paginated up to Page limit per search.
• Direct detail URLs return one listing row per usable public detail URL.
• The Actor does not contact sellers, submit forms, scrape private Carsales account areas, or calculate vehicle valuations.

❓ FAQ

🔍 Can I paste a Carsales search URL?

Yes. Paste a Carsales search or listing-results URL in Carsales URLs. The Actor paginates it until the page limit or listing limit is reached.

🚘 Can I paste direct Carsales vehicle detail URLs?

Yes. Direct detail URLs are accepted and saved as individual enriched vehicle listing rows.

🔐 Do I need a Carsales login or cookies?

No. The Actor is built for public Carsales listing data and does not ask for Carsales cookies, account credentials, or an API key.

📤 Can I export the data to CSV or use it from an API?

Yes. Apify datasets can be exported as CSV, JSON, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML. You can also consume the dataset through the Apify API, schedules, webhooks, and integrations.

📝 Changelog

• 1.0: Added enriched Carsales listing details, broader search filters, and lower per-listing pricing.
• 0.1: Initial release.

🆘 Support

For issues, questions, or feature requests, file a ticket and I'll fix or implement it in less than 24h 🫡

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Made with ❤️ by Maxime Dupré