🚘 Drive.com.au Car Data Scraper

Scrape new, used, and demo car listings from drive.com.au — Australia's #1 expert-led, dealer-only car marketplace.

A car market data API for one of Australia's dealer-only marketplaces: give it a make and model (or leave them blank) and this actor pulls a structured vehicle listings dataset straight from drive.com.au's own data API — price, year, trim, mileage, body type, condition, and location for every listing. Built for competitor price monitoring and used car data extraction, without writing a single line of scraping code.

🇦🇺 Part of the Australia Car Data Scraper collection

Use this actor if you only need drive.com.au data. For multi-site coverage, use one of the collective actors instead:

• All Car Data Scraper Australia — searches drive.com.au plus 5 more major Australian car sites (new + used) in one run.
• Used Car Data Scraper Australia — same 6 sites, used/second-hand listings only.

Or scrape another single Australian site directly:

• Carsales.com.au Car Data Scraper
• AutoTrader.com.au Car Data Scraper
• CarsGuide.com.au Car Data Scraper
• Pickles.com.au Car Data Scraper
• JustCars.com.au Car Data Scraper

🧑‍💼 Who uses this

• Car dealers using this as a competitor price monitoring tool against other dealers listed on drive.com.au
• Market researchers building a vehicle listings dataset for Australia's dealer-only segment
• Investors & analysts studying vehicle depreciation by make, model, and body type
• Developers feeding drive.com.au data into their own app or dashboard

✨ Why use this instead of browsing manually

• 🔎 Any make, any model, or none at all — leave make/model blank to search across the whole site instead of one vehicle line (default maxItems is 20 per run — raise or set it to 0 for deeper coverage).
• 🆕 New, used, or demo filtering — scope results to the site's own stock-type classification.
• 📍 Real location data — region and state for every listing, straight from the search results.
• 📄 Real depth — set "Max results" to 0 and it pages through as much real inventory as the query actually has (up to a 5,000-listing safety ceiling).
• ⚡ Fast and direct — drive.com.au's main site sits behind a Cloudflare challenge, but this actor talks straight to the site's own unprotected data API, so runs are quick and don't need a browser.

💰 Pricing

This actor makes lightweight HTTP requests only — no browser is launched — so it runs on comparatively few Apify compute units per listing. See the Pricing tab on this actor's Store page for current rates before running at scale.

⚙️ Input

Nothing is required.

Field	Type	Description
make	string	Optional. e.g. "Ford", "Toyota". Leave blank to search every make.
model	string	Optional. e.g. "Ranger", "Hilux". Leave blank to search all models of the make.
condition	string	"any" (default), "new", or "used" — filters using the site's own stock-type classification.
maxItems	integer	Stop once this many listings are collected. Default 20. Set to 0 for "no limit".
proxyConfiguration	object	Recommended for reliability at volume. Defaults to an Australian residential proxy.

📦 Output

One row per listing:

{
  "url": "https://www.drive.com.au/cars-for-sale/car/970342672/",
  "title": "2022 Ford Ranger PX MkIII XL Pick-up Double Cab 4dr Spts Auto 6sp 4x4 3.2DT [MY21.75]",
  "image": "https://media.drive.com.au/obj/driveau/upload/vehicles/used/ford/ranger/2022/43f9ebba-72aa-5051-905b-46e5f1750000",
  "make": "Ford",
  "model": "Ranger",
  "price": 22500,
  "vin": null,
  "location": "Perth, WA",
  "sellerName": null,
  "sellerPhone": null,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "trim": "PX MkIII XL Pick-up Double Cab 4dr Spts Auto 6sp 4x4 3.2DT [MY21.75]",
  "year": 2022,
  "condition": "used",
  "mileage": 211633,
  "exteriorColor": null,
  "listedAt": null
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or several other formats from the Console, or pull it via the API.

📝 Notes

• sellerName and sellerPhone are null in this version — dealer contact details aren't exposed on the site's own search API (verified against its schema), unlike some of the other Australian car sites in this catalog.
• price is null for a small number of genuinely price-on-application listings (mostly some new-vehicle stock) — this reflects the site's own data, not a scraping gap.
• exteriorColor and listedAt aren't available from this data source and are always null.
• No proxy is strictly required for this actor's requests (the underlying data API isn't proxy-gated the way the main site is), but a residential proxy is still recommended for reliability at higher volumes.

❓ FAQ

Is this actor affiliated with drive.com.au? No. This is an independent, unofficial scraper built on Apify — it isn't operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with drive.com.au in any way.

Do I need to know how to code? No. Fill in the input form (make, model, condition), click "Start", and download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the run's Dataset tab.

Is scraping drive.com.au data legal? This actor only collects publicly visible listing data. You're responsible for how you use the output — check drive.com.au's terms of service and applicable law for your specific use case.

How much does this cost to run? This actor doesn't use a browser, so it consumes fewer compute units than most scrapers on a per-listing basis. See the Pricing tab on the Store page for exact current rates.

How is this different from the multi-site actor? This actor only queries drive.com.au. If you want the same kind of data alongside 5 other Australian car sites in a single run, use All Car Data Scraper Australia instead.

Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes — use Apify's built-in Scheduler to run this actor on a recurring basis (hourly, daily, weekly) with no code, so your dataset stays current without you starting it manually.

Do I need a proxy? Not strictly — the underlying data API isn't proxy-gated the way the main site is — but a residential Australian proxy is still recommended for reliability at higher volumes.