- The full spec sheet (
rawSpecs) of a variant is now read with a single HTML parse per page.
- Status messages are coalesced: a run no longer sends one status update per variant, so far fewer API calls are made and the "Setting status message timed out" warnings go away.
- Default memory raised to 1,024 MB after measurement, one Actor Start event unchanged.
- Variant pages are now cached between runs in a key-value store named
auto-data-html-cache in your Apify account, for 30 days. A later run on the same models does not fetch them again, and fewer warnings are logged.
- Inverted production years (
yearMin greater than yearMax) are refused, and the input now raises a warning for options that cannot take effect.
- The weight-to-power ratio of hybrid variants is now computed on the system power.
- The default memory is now 512 MB, down from 2048 MB, because a run peaks far below it. A run also starts a single Actor Start event instead of two.
- The README documents the known limits of the columns: row key, ranges, empty
powerKw, gross battery capacity, electric consumption, sparse old pages and production years copied as printed.
- The Apify links of the README no longer carry the
fpr parameter.
- README: ranges wording, scrapedAt and cache notes
First version of Auto Data Scraper, built from the auto-data.net part of Car Data Scraper.
- Reads car technical specifications from auto-data.net only, for a whole brand or a list of models, one row per engine variant across every generation.
- Flat summary columns for power, torque, 0-100 km/h, top speed, dimensions, weight, fuel economy, drivetrain, and for electric and hybrid variants system power, gross battery capacity and electric range.
- New
rawSpecs array on every data row: the full spec sheet of the variant page, in page order.
- New
url and autodataId columns. The columns sources, conflicts, dedupeConfidence, sourcesDetail, flags, quarterMileS and peakG of Car Data Scraper are not produced, because there is a single source. Every shared column keeps its name, type and value.
- Five dataset views:
overview, performance, detailed, fullSpecSheet and errors.
- Pay-per-event pricing: one Car variant event per data row, error rows never charged, plus the standard Actor Start event.
- The source options of the multi-source Actor (
sources, extraSources, sourcePriority, conflictThresholdPct) are ignored when sent through the API, with one warning per key.