🚗 Drive.com.au Car Reviews Scraper

Collect professional car reviews and expert ratings from Drive.com.au, Australia's leading automotive publication. Each review includes up to 11 detailed rating scores, a written excerpt, publication and update dates, author information, vehicle identifiers, and content tags. Use powerful filters to narrow results by vehicle category, publication year, author, keyword, or tag.

Whether you are building an automotive research database, training a recommendation model, tracking expert sentiment on specific car brands, or monitoring how reviewers rate new releases over time, this tool gives you structured, publication-quality data at scale.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🏆 Expert Ratings - Collects 11 individual rating scores per review: Overall, Efficiency, Fitness, Handling, Infotainment, Interior, Performance, Ride, Safety, Technology, and Value
• ✍️ Review Excerpts - Captures the opening summary paragraph from each review, giving you the core verdict without the full article
• 🗓️ Publication and Update Dates - Records both when the review was first published and when it was last updated
• 👤 Author Details - Extracts the reviewer's name, slug, and profile photo URL
• 🏷️ Content Tags - Collects WordPress tags associated with each review (e.g. "toyota", "hybrid", "suv", "family car")
• 📂 Review Categories - Identifies which editorial categories apply to each review (Electric & Hybrid, Family, Prestige, Sports, Adventure, City, Work)
• 🚙 Vehicle IDs - Includes the Drive.com.au internal vehicle database ID and UUID for cross-referencing with other datasets
• 🔍 Flexible Filters - Filter by category, keyword search, author, tag, or publication year to get exactly the reviews you need

🗃️ What CarAdvice Data Can You Extract?

The Drive.com.au Car Reviews Scraper can gather any kind of data from Drive.com.au, such as:

🖼️ Featured image	📋 Review title	🔗 Review URL
🆔 Review ID	📅 Published date	🔄 Last updated
📝 Excerpt	👤 Author name	🔗 Author slug
🖼️ Author avatar	🚙 Vehicle ID	🔑 Vehicle UUID
⭐ Overall rating	⚡ Efficiency rating	💪 Fitness rating
🎯 Handling rating	📱 Infotainment rating	🛋️ Interior rating
🏎️ Performance rating	🛞 Ride rating	🛡️ Safety rating
💡 Technology rating	💰 Value rating	📂 Review category
📂 All categories	🏷️ Content tags	🕐 Collected at

🎬 Demo Video

Demo video coming soon.

🔧 Input

Field	Description
Max Items	How many reviews to collect. Free users are limited to 100. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000.
Review Type	Filter by vehicle category: Electric & Hybrid, Family, Prestige, Sports, Adventure, City, Work, or All.
Search Keyword	Filter by keyword in the review title (e.g. "Toyota", "Tesla", "SUV").
Author Name	Filter by author slug to collect only reviews from a specific writer (e.g. "andy-enright").
Tag	Filter by content tag slug (e.g. "lexus", "hybrid", "toyota").
Publication Year	Filter by the year the review was published (e.g. 2024).
Max Concurrency	How many requests to run in parallel. Lower this if you encounter issues. Default is 5.

Example configuration:

{
  "reviewType": "electric-hybrid",
  "search": "Toyota",
  "maxItems": 100
}

📊 Output

Each review returns up to 28 fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Example output:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://media.drive.com.au/obj/.../lexus-rx500h.jpg",
  "title": "2026 Lexus RX500h F Sport Performance review",
  "url": "https://www.drive.com.au/reviews/2026-lexus-rx500h-f-sport-performance-review/",
  "databaseId": 3528780,
  "date": "2026-03-15T12:20:00",
  "modified": "2026-03-15T20:48:49",
  "excerpt": "If you're after the slickest SUV Lexus has ever built, you've come to exactly the right place.",
  "author": "Andy Enright",
  "authorSlug": "andy-enright",
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://media.drive.com.au/obj/.../andy-enright.jpg",
  "vehicleDatabaseId": 16766,
  "vehicleUuid": "b31ab4feb511740c",
  "ratingOverall": 8.5,
  "ratingEfficiency": 8.0,
  "ratingHandling": 8.0,
  "ratingPerformance": 8.5,
  "ratingValue": 8.5,
  "reviewFormat": "Electric & Hybrid",
  "reviewCategories": ["Electric & Hybrid", "Family Cars", "Prestige Cars"],
  "tags": ["lexus", "hybrid", "best sports suv", "lexus rx500h"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-15T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Note on ratings: Around 90% of reviews include rating scores. Older or shorter format reviews may return null for rating fields.

💎 Why Choose the Drive.com.au Car Reviews Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool
18,000+ professional reviews available	✔️
11 individual expert rating scores per review	✔️
Review excerpts included without full article	✔️
Last-updated date for tracking editorial changes	✔️
Author name, slug, and avatar URL	✔️
Real content tags separate from editorial categories	✔️
Vehicle database ID and UUID for cross-referencing	✔️
Filter by category, keyword, author, tag, and year	✔️
Collect reviews from 1997 to present	✔️
Processes 600+ result pages automatically	✔️
Free tier: 100 results per run	✔️
Paid tier: up to 1,000,000 results per run	✔️
CSV, Excel, and JSON export	✔️
No browser required — fast and reliable	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "CarAdvice Drive Reviews Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Your Input: Choose a review category, add any optional filters, set your max item count
4. Download Your Data: Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON when the run finishes

🎯 Business Use Cases

Automotive Researchers

• Build a comprehensive dataset of expert ratings across 18,000+ vehicle reviews
• Track how rating scores for a specific car brand trend over multiple years
• Compare expert opinion on Electric & Hybrid vehicles vs. Prestige categories
• Filter by year to study how reviewer standards have evolved from 1997 to present

Data Scientists and AI Teams

• Train sentiment analysis or recommendation models on professional automotive writing
• Use excerpts and tags as labeled training data for vehicle categorization
• Cross-reference vehicle UUIDs to link review data with specifications datasets
• Collect full author profiles to study writing patterns across the publication

Marketing and Strategy Teams

• Monitor expert coverage of competitor vehicles by searching brand keywords
• Track how new model releases are rated in the weeks after launch
• Identify which categories (Sports, Prestige, Electric) drive the highest average scores
• Use author filtering to follow specific reviewers whose opinions your audience trusts

❓ FAQ

How many reviews are available?

Drive.com.au has over 18,000 professional reviews published since 1997. New reviews are added daily. The total available grows continuously.

How does filtering work?

You can combine any filters. For example, use reviewType "electric-hybrid" together with search "Toyota" to get only Toyota electric and hybrid reviews. All filters are optional.

Do all reviews have rating scores?

Around 90% of reviews include the full set of 11 expert rating scores. Older archive reviews and shorter format pieces may return null for rating fields.

Can I collect reviews by a specific author?

Yes. Use the Author Name field with the author's URL slug (e.g. "andy-enright" from drive.com.au/author/andy-enright). You can find any author's slug in their profile URL.

Are there any limits?

Free users can collect up to 100 reviews per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 reviews per run.

Can I schedule it to run automatically?

Yes. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the tool daily, weekly, or at any interval you choose.

🔗 Integrate Drive.com.au Car Reviews Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows without code
• Zapier - Connect to 5,000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control and CI/CD
• Slack - Get run notifications in your workspace
• Airbyte - Push data into your data warehouse
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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions.
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⚠️ Disclaimer

Disclaimer: This tool is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Drive.com.au, CarAdvice, or any of their subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.