🚗 AutoTempest Scraper

Extract used car listings from AutoTempest, the search engine that covers the big US car marketplaces at once: Cars.com, eBay Motors, Carvana, TrueCar, CarsDirect, CarGurus, Autotrader, Cars & Bids, Hemmings, PrivateAuto and more. One run searches all of them, nationwide or around a ZIP code, and gives you one clean table.

Each car comes with:

• VIN, year, make, model, trim, price, mileage and title status (clean, salvage, rebuilt, lemon).
• Seller type (dealer or private), dealer name, city, state, ZIP and distance from your ZIP.
• Price history: first price, price change in $ and %, and whether the price dropped.
• Date listed, first seen and days on market.
• Auction data: current bid, number of bids and when the auction ends.
• Source marketplace, description, photo and the link to the original listing.

🎯 Who uses it?

🏪 Car dealers and wholesalers

Find underpriced cars and motivated sellers across every marketplace: price drops, long days on market, private sellers. Check what competing dealers ask for the same model.

💰 Flippers and private buyers

Get every Tacoma, 911 or Miata under your budget within 200 miles, from every site, in one list. Schedule it and get only new listings.

📊 Market researchers, lenders and insurers

Track asking prices, mileage, days on market and price cuts for any make, model and year range, by state or nationwide.

📞 Lead generation

Build lists of car dealers by area, with the models they stock and their prices.

✨ What it does

• Type the car. "Toyota Camry", "Ford F-150", "Porsche 911", "Land Rover Defender" or just "BMW". Several in one run, each its own search. Words after the model ("Honda Civic Type R") narrow the search.
• Or paste AutoTempest links with all their filters.
• Where: nationwide, statewide, within 25 to 1,000 miles (or any custom radius) of a US ZIP or Canadian postal code, or anywhere in the US and Canada.
• Pick the sources: Cars.com, eBay Motors, Carvana, other dealer sites (TrueCar, CarsDirect, CarGurus and more), enthusiast auctions (Cars & Bids and more), Hemmings, CarSoup. All by default.
• Every AutoTempest filter:
  • Year, price and mileage ranges.
  • Body style, fuel, drivetrain, transmission, cylinders, doors, exterior and interior color.
  • Title status: clean, salvage, rebuilt, lemon or any branded title.
  • Dealers or private sellers, auctions or fixed price, listed in the last N days, with photos only.
  • 10 sort orders: best match, newest, oldest, lowest and highest price, lowest and highest mileage, newest and oldest model year, nearest.
• Extra filters: words the title must or must not contain, VIN only, price drops only.
• One row per car. The same car (same VIN) is often listed on several sites. It's saved once, from the first source (you can turn this off).
• New listings only. For scheduled runs: saves only cars listed since the last run of the same search.

🏆 Why this scraper

• Fast. About 1,000 cars in 10 seconds, all sources at once.
• Complete. No page limit: leave the maximum empty and it collects the whole search, every source to the end.
• Mixed sources. Even a small run returns cars from every marketplace, not just the first one.
• Ready to analyse.
  • Prices, mileage, bids and distance are numbers. Dates are ISO.
  • Price history comes as a list, plus first price, change and change % already calculated.
  • Tracking junk is stripped from links.
• No proxy needed. Nothing extra to set up or pay for.

⚖️ How it compares

Based on each Actor's public input options (October 2026).

Capability	This actor	crawlerbros	illuminating_knighthood	automation-lab	ecomscrape	lulzasaur
Make and model by name	yes	yes	yes	yes	no (keyword)	yes
Several vehicles in one run	yes	no	no	no	no	no
AutoTempest links	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no
ZIP and radius	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	ZIP only
Statewide, nationwide, US and Canada	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Year, price and mileage ranges	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no
Body, fuel, drive, cylinders, doors, colors	yes	yes	drive only	no	no	no
Transmission	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
Title status (salvage, rebuilt...)	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
Dealer or private seller	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Auctions or fixed price	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Listed in the last N days	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Choose sources	yes	no	no	no	no	yes
Title must / must not contain	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Price drops only, VIN only	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Skip the same car on other sites	yes	no	no	no	no	no
New listings only (monitoring)	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Sort orders	10	11	5	10	none	7

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
id, url	AutoTempest listing ID and the original listing page.
vin, title, year, make, model, trim	The car.
price	Asking price in USD (Buy It Now on eBay).
currentBid, bids, isAuction, auctionEndsAt	Auction data, when it's an auction.
mileage, titleStatus	Odometer in miles; Clean, Salvage, Rebuilt, Lemon...
sellerType, dealerName	Dealer or Private, and the dealer's name.
city, state, zip, country, distanceMiles	Where the car is. Distance is filled when you search by ZIP.
postedAt, firstSeenAt, daysOnMarket	When it was listed, first seen by AutoTempest, and days since.
firstPrice, priceChange, priceChangePercent, priceDropped, priceHistory	Price history: every date, price and mileage AutoTempest recorded.
source, sourceSite, sourceCode	"Cars.com", "cars.com", cm.
feesIncluded, pendingSale	Price includes fees; sale pending.
description	Listing summary as shown on AutoTempest.
image, thumbnail, hasPhotos	Main photo.
searchedFor	Which of your vehicles or links found it.
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (UTC).

Example row (trimmed)

{
  "id": "cm-d674a0d4-2812-4337-ad45-158f1f26864e",
  "vin": "4T1G11AK5NU012345",
  "title": "2022 Toyota Camry SE",
  "year": 2022,
  "make": "Toyota",
  "model": "Camry",
  "trim": "SE",
  "price": 23990,
  "isAuction": false,
  "mileage": 31250,
  "titleStatus": "Clean",
  "sellerType": "Dealer",
  "dealerName": "Sunrise Toyota",
  "city": "Atlanta",
  "state": "GA",
  "zip": "30301",
  "country": "US",
  "distanceMiles": 4.2,
  "postedAt": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysOnMarket": 23,
  "firstPrice": 25490,
  "priceChange": -1500,
  "priceChangePercent": -5.9,
  "priceDropped": true,
  "priceHistory": [
    { "date": "2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z", "price": 25490, "mileage": 31250 },
    { "date": "2026-09-28T00:00:00.000Z", "price": 23990, "mileage": 31250 }
  ],
  "source": "Cars.com",
  "sourceSite": "cars.com",
  "sourceCode": "cm",
  "url": "https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/...",
  "searchedFor": "Toyota Camry",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-05T14:02:11.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

🔔 New Toyota Tacomas under $30,000 within 100 miles of Denver, every hour

{ "vehicles": ["Toyota Tacoma"], "zip": "80202", "radius": "100", "maxPrice": 30000, "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": null }

Schedule it: each run saves only the cars listed since the last one.

📉 Price drops on Porsche 911s nationwide

{ "vehicles": ["Porsche 911"], "priceDropsOnly": true, "sortBy": "newest", "maxItems": null }

🛠️ Salvage and rebuilt Teslas for parts or repair

{ "vehicles": ["Tesla Model 3", "Tesla Model Y"], "titleStatus": ["salvage", "rebuilt"], "maxItems": null }

🤝 Private sellers only, manual Mazda Miatas in California

{ "vehicles": ["Mazda MX-5 Miata"], "zip": "94103", "radius": "state", "sellerType": "private", "transmission": "man", "maxItems": null }

🔨 Enthusiast auctions ending soon

{ "vehicles": ["BMW"], "saleType": "auction", "sources": ["te", "eb"], "titleIncludes": ["M3", "M4"], "maxItems": 200 }

🔗 Your own AutoTempest search, as it is

{ "urls": ["https://www.autotempest.com/results?make=toyota&model=rav4&zip=98101&radius=300&fuel=hybrid"], "maxItems": null }

⚙️ How the input is organised

Section	What it's for
Maximum cars	Always first: caps the whole run, shared across your vehicles. Empty means no limit.
What	Vehicles ("Make Model"), AutoTempest links and keywords.
Where	ZIP or postal code and radius (statewide, nationwide or anywhere), and which marketplaces to search.
Filters	Year, price, mileage, body, fuel, drive, transmission, cylinders, doors, colors, title, seller, sale type, listed in the last N days, photos, sort.
Extra filters	Title words, VIN only, price drops only, skip the same car on other sites.
Monitoring	New listings only, with an optional monitor name.

Links keep their own filters; the form filters apply to your vehicles.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time $0.003 when the run starts, plus a price per car saved to your dataset that drops with your Apify plan:

Your Apify plan	Per car	1,000 cars
Free	$0.022	$22.00
Bronze	$0.020	$20.00
Silver	$0.018	$18.00
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.016	$16.00

Cars dropped by your filters or skipped as repeats are not charged. There are no proxy costs. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 cars.

Speed: about 1,000 cars in 10 seconds.

🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the AutoTempest Scraper.
3. Type a vehicle (or keep the prefilled one), set a ZIP and filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

You can also:

• Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
• Schedule it with Apify's built-in Scheduler, with New listings only on, to catch new cars every hour or day.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to US used car listings through the Model Context Protocol:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/autotempest-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.

🔧 Troubleshooting

"No such make" in the log. Start each vehicle with the make, as AutoTempest spells it: "Mercedes-Benz C-Class", "Land Rover Range Rover", "Ram 1500".

The radius was ignored. A radius or statewide search needs a ZIP code. Without one the run searches nationwide and says so in the log.

Fewer cars than AutoTempest shows. The same car is often listed on several sites. With Skip the same car on other sites on (the default) it's saved once. The log says how many repeats were skipped.

Distance is empty. distanceMiles is filled only when you search around a ZIP code.

A scheduled "New listings only" run saved nothing. Nothing new was listed since the last run of the same search. Changing vehicles, links, filters or sources starts a fresh memory; set a Monitor name to keep it.

❓ FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need an AutoTempest account?	No. Only public listings are read.
Does it need a proxy?	No. There is an optional proxy setting if you ever need one.
Does it cover Canada?	Yes: use a Canadian postal code, or "Anywhere" as the radius.
Is there a page limit?	No. Leave the maximum empty to get the whole search.
Does it include Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace?	No. AutoTempest only links out to those, without listing data.
Can I track new listings?	Yes. Turn on New listings only and schedule the run.

🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public listings shown on AutoTempest. It never signs in and never contacts sellers. Use the data in line with AutoTempest's and each marketplace's terms.

📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

🧪 Local development

bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
apify run

Local results are stored in storage/datasets/default.