PakWheels Scraper — Pakistan Used Cars, Prices & Dealers

A PakWheels scraper and unofficial PakWheels API for used car prices in Pakistan. Extract used car listings from PakWheels.com, Pakistan's largest car marketplace (about 84,500 live ads on 23 Sep 2026), into a clean, typed dataset: price in PKR, make, model, version, year, mileage, engine, fuel, transmission, city, seller type, PakWheels inspection score and every photo. Turn on one switch to also open each ad and get the description, colour, body type, registration city, assembly, the full feature list, the PakWheels inspection report and the seller block. A second mode exports the PakWheels dealer directory (showrooms with address, business phone, rating and reviews).

• No login, no cookies, no browser. Plain HTTP requests against the public pages.
• Up to 82 fields per row, every key present on every row (null when the source has no value).
• Pay only for rows delivered. Error rows and duplicates are never charged.
• Low price per row: $0.90 per 1,000 listings ($0.99 with detail pages) and a $0.00001 start fee.
• Fast by default: on the Apify platform the default input returns 100 rows in under 30 s (8 s measured), and 1,000 listings take about 1.5 minutes at 512 MB.

Who uses it

• Car dealers and importers: price your stock against every comparable ad in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad or any other city.
• Market analysts and journalists: track car prices in Pakistan by make, model, year and city over time.
• Lenders, insurers and leasing companies: residual values by model year and mileage.
• Lead generation: the PakWheels car dealer directory with business phone and address.

What you get

Listing fields (always included)

Fill rates measured on the Apify platform on 30 Sep 2026 over n = 1,279 unique listings from 13 different searches (all Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Honda Civic 2016–2022, Suzuki under PKR 15 lakh, hybrids, electric cars, inspected cars, dealers only, private sellers only, a pasted search URL). A first sample of 441 listings on 23 Sep gave the same picture.

Field	What it is	Filled
listing_id, url, title	PakWheels ad reference (stable across runs), public URL, card title	100 %
make, model, version	e.g. Toyota / Corolla / Altis Grande 1.8	100 % / 100 % / 94.1 %
year, mileage_km, engine_cc	model year, odometer in km, displacement in cc (as numbers)	100 % / 100 % / 97.8 %
price, currency, price_text	asking price in PKR as an integer, plus the original "lacs/crore" text	99.5 % (the rest are "Call for price" ads: price is null and price_on_call is true)
fuel_type, transmission, battery_kwh	Petrol / Diesel / Hybrid / Electric…, Automatic / Manual, battery size for EVs	100 % / 100 % / EVs only
city, seller_type	city of the ad; individual or dealer for every row	100 %
is_featured, is_managed_by_pakwheels	featured ad, sale managed by PakWheels	100 % (true 45.5 % / 7.6 %)
inspection_rating, has_auction_sheet, has_video	PakWheels inspection score out of 10, auction sheet badge, video	inspected cars only (8.0 % of the sample) / 100 % / 100 %
images, image_count, image_url	every photo URL of the ad (median 11, max 115)	99.5 %
updated_text, updated_at_approx, updated_at_precision	"Updated 3 days ago", its ISO approximation and its precision	100 %

In the 23 Sep sample, price equalled the "lacs/crore" text on 435 of 435 priced cards — validated against the expected value, not just "not null".

Detail page fields (optional: "Open each ad")

Fill rates measured on the Apify platform on 30 Sep 2026 over n = 294 detail pages from six searches (Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, inspected cars from dealers, electric cars).

Field	What it is	Filled
description	the seller's full text	98.6 %
color, body_type, registered_in, assembly, engine_type	e.g. White, Sedan, Islamabad, Imported, Hybrid	100 %
last_updated, location, city_area	calendar date, "DHA, Karachi Sindh", "DHA"	100 % / 100 % / 76.5 %
features, features_flat	the full feature list by group (median 18 features per car)	97.6 %
detail_images	full-size photo list	99.3 %
inspection_overall_rating, inspection_date, inspection_categories, inspection_report_url	the PakWheels inspection report with per-category scores	inspected cars only (every inspected car in the sample had it)
seller_member_since, seller_phone_verified, seller_email_verified, seller_trusted	seller account age and verification badges	71.4 % / 78.2 % true / 47.3 % true / 20.4 % true
seller_is_showroom_dealer, seller_dealer_url, seller_dealer_address, seller_dealer_timings	showroom name, page, address and opening hours	28.6 % of rows in the sample are showrooms
posted_via, detail_attributes	how the ad was posted; the raw attribute table	57.5 % / 100 %

Dealer directory (outputType = dealers)

One row per showroom from the PakWheels dealer directory: name, city, address, phone (the business phone published in the directory), is_verified, is_featured, reviews_count, rating_stars, logo_url, dealer_url.

How to use it

Quick start — leave everything empty and click Start: you get the 100 most recently updated ads in Pakistan.

Filter like on the site — every filter below was verified to narrow the results on the live site (23 Sep 2026): city, make, model, year range, price range (PKR), mileage range, engine cc range, transmission, engine type, body type, assembly (local/imported), registration city, colour, seller type, PakWheels-inspected only, managed-by-PakWheels only, keyword and sort order.

Or paste a search URL — apply filters on pakwheels.com and paste the address bar, e.g. https://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/search/-/ct_karachi/mk_honda/.

Example input:

{
  "city": "lahore",
  "make": "toyota",
  "model": "corolla",
  "yearFrom": 2018,
  "priceTo": 6000000,
  "maxItems": 300,
  "scrapeDetails": true
}

Example output row (shortened, values illustrative):

{
  "record_type": "listing",
  "listing_id": 11988742,
  "url": "https://www.pakwheels.com/used-cars/proton-saga-2022-for-sale-in-karachi-11988742",
  "title": "Proton Saga 2022 1.3L Ace A/T",
  "make": "Proton", "model": "Saga", "version": "1.3L Ace A/T", "year": 2022,
  "price": 2470000, "currency": "PKR", "price_text": "PKR 24.7 lacs",
  "mileage_km": 28000, "fuel_type": "Petrol", "engine_cc": 1299, "transmission": "Automatic",
  "city": "Karachi", "seller_type": "dealer", "image_count": 18,
  "color": "Red", "body_type": "Sedan", "registered_in": "Karachi", "assembly": "Local",
  "city_area": "Zamzama", "features_flat": ["ABS", "Air Bags", "Cruise Control", "..."],
  "seller_member_since": "2020-01-18", "seller_phone_verified": true
}

Pricing

Pay per event — you only pay for what is delivered:

Event	Price	When
Listing	$0.0009 per listing	each listing row delivered
Detail page	$0.00009 per listing	only with "Open each ad" on, on top of the listing
Dealer	$0.002 per dealer	each dealer row (outputType = dealers)
Actor start	$0.00001	platform minimum, once per run

1,000 listings cost $0.90; with detail pages, $0.99. Error rows are never charged, and a listing is never charged twice within a run (duplicates across pages are skipped). When your maximum charge limit is reached the run stops cleanly and says so — no free rows, no surprise.

Privacy

• Private sellers (about 87 % of PakWheels ads, measured over 84,486 ads on 23 Sep 2026; 84 % of the 1,279 rows above): the seller's name is withheld by default and phone numbers typed into the description are masked. Turn on "Include private sellers' names" only if you have a lawful basis to process them.
• Dealers and showrooms: business name, address, opening hours and business phone are always included.
• Seller phone numbers from ads are never collected: PakWheels shows them only to signed-in users, and this actor never signs in.
• To ask for your data to be removed from this actor's output, email privacy@actorstack.dev.

Speed and limits

Measured on the Apify platform on 30 Sep 2026 at 512 MB and the default settings: 100 listings in 8–25 s, 1,000 listings in 96 s (peak memory 228 MB), 150 listings with detail pages in about 2 minutes, 40 dealers in 7 s. PakWheels answered every request from Apify on the first attempt, without a proxy. If the site ever refuses requests, the actor moves to a fallback route at once, pauses politely only when there is nothing else to try, and tells you in the status message.

A single search pages through all its results (the index ends where the site stops returning new ads). For the whole country, split by city or make and run several searches.

FAQ

Is there an official PakWheels API? Not a public one: the site's JSON endpoints require a signed-in session. This actor works as an unofficial PakWheels API: call it from the Apify API, Python or JavaScript client, or schedule it, and get the same rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Is the data real-time? Yes — every run reads the live site. Schedule it daily to build a price history.

How many listings can I get? Up to 100,000 per run (about 84,000 ads are live). A search stops when PakWheels stops returning new ads.

Why is price empty on some rows? Those ads say "Call for price": price is null and price_on_call is true, never a made-up number.

Can I get the seller's phone number? No. PakWheels shows it only to signed-in users, and this actor never signs in. Dealer rows (outputType = dealers) carry the showroom's business phone from the public directory.

Can I get a dealer's inventory? Run listings with "Seller type: Dealers only" and a city; each row has seller_type: dealer, and with detail pages on, the showroom name, page and address.

Which values do filters take? The words as they appear in PakWheels URLs: city lahore, make toyota, model corolla, body type suv. Keywords are sent in PakWheels' own format (lower case, letters, numbers, . and -).

What happens with a wrong filter value or a search with no results? The run finishes green with a single error row explaining what to fix, and nothing is charged.

Does it use a proxy? No proxy is needed today. You can pass your own in "Proxy configuration"; if your proxy fails, the run says so in an error row instead of failing.