# Carsales Scraper (`piotrv1001/carsales-scraper`) Actor

The Carsales Scraper extracts vehicle listings from carsales.com.au beyond the pages the site shows, capturing prices, odometer, year, specs, seller type, photos and optional full descriptions and specifications — ideal for car market research, price benchmarking and dealer stock analysis.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/carsales-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 vehicle listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 🚀 Carsales Scraper

Extract car listings from **carsales.com.au**, Australia's largest vehicle marketplace. The **Carsales Scraper** turns any search on the site into structured data — prices, odometer readings, specs, sellers and photos — for market research, price benchmarking, dealer stock analysis and lead lists.

### ✨ Features

- 🚗 **Complete Listing Data**: Title, make, model, badge, year, price, odometer, body type, engine, transmission, state, seller type and ID, photos and URL.
- 📈 **Goes Past the Pages the Site Shows**: Carsales only lets a visitor page through a few hundred results of a search. This scraper keeps going, so a search with 800 or 5,000 matching vehicles returns all of them, not the first slice.
- ✅ **Tells You What It Collected**: Every run logs how many vehicles match the search and how many were collected, so you know whether an export is complete instead of guessing.
- 💲 **Honest Prices**: The displayed price, its basis (drive away, excluding government charges…) and the price excluding government charges are kept as separate fields, so you never compare unlike prices. Vehicles listed without a price are included too.
- 🏷️ **Carsales Price Indicator**: The site's own "Great price" / "Fair price" badge, when shown.
- 🔎 **Optional Full Details**: Seller's description, 70+ specifications, feature list, colour, fuel type, drive type, suburb and postcode.
- 🔗 **Any Filter, Any URL**: Filter on the site by make, model, price, state, body type, fuel or keyword and paste the address. Single vehicle pages work too.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Search on carsales.com.au** – Apply the filters you want and copy the URL from your browser.
2. **Paste the URL** – Add one or more search URLs or vehicle page URLs and set the maximum number of results.
3. **Run the Scraper** – Vehicles are saved cheapest first and can be downloaded as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pulled through the API.

### ⚙️ Input

| Field                           | What it does                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Carsales URLs**               | Search pages (`https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/`, `https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/suv-bodystyle/victoria-state/under-30000/`) or vehicle pages (`/cars/details/...`). |
| **Max results**                 | Maximum number of vehicles to save across all URLs. Default 50.                                                                                                                       |
| **Scrape full vehicle details** | Opens every vehicle and adds the description, specifications, features, colour, fuel type, suburb and postcode. Off by default.                                                       |
| **Proxy configuration**         | The default works for most runs.                                                                                                                                                      |

```json
{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/" }],
    "maxItems": 500,
    "scrapeDetails": false
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay only for the vehicles you get — no start fee, no monthly rental.

| Event               | Price                                 | What you get                                                                                                                                               |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Vehicle listing** | $0.001 per vehicle ($1.00 per 1,000)  | Title, make, model, badge, year, price and price basis, price indicator, odometer, body type, engine, transmission, state, seller type and ID, photos, URL |
| **Vehicle detail**  | $0.0025 per vehicle ($2.50 per 1,000) | Everything above plus description, specifications, features, colour, fuel type, suburb, postcode. Charged *instead of* the listing price.                  |

Examples: 50 listings = $0.05 · every Toyota Yaris in Australia (~500 vehicles) = $0.50 · the same export with full details = $1.25.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

A vehicle listing:

```json
{
    "id": "SSE-AD-20779970",
    "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2010-toyota-yaris-yr-manual-my10/SSE-AD-20779970/",
    "title": "2010 Toyota Yaris YR Manual F MY10",
    "make": "Toyota",
    "model": "Yaris",
    "badge": "YR Manual F MY10",
    "year": 2010,
    "condition": "Used",
    "price": 4300,
    "currency": "AUD",
    "priceLabel": "Excl. Govt. Charges",
    "priceExcludingGovtCharges": null,
    "priceIndicator": null,
    "odometerKm": 278000,
    "bodyType": "Hatch",
    "engine": "4cyl 1.3L Petrol",
    "transmission": "Manual",
    "state": "NSW",
    "sellerType": "Private",
    "sellerId": "SSE-SELLER-20779970",
    "listingType": "Private",
    "photoCount": 15,
    "images": [
        "https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/cars/private/4h7jbdk2u3e1888oaepdxv9it.jpg",
        "https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/cars/private/1xu19yslddlrqutmi0xn6pzrc.jpg"
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T13:29:34.236Z"
}
```

With **Scrape full vehicle details** on, each vehicle also gets:

```json
{
    "priceType": "egc",
    "fuelType": "Petrol - Unleaded ULP",
    "driveType": "FWD",
    "engineCc": 1490,
    "doors": 5,
    "seats": 5,
    "colour": "Azure Grey",
    "variant": "RS415 Hatchback 5dr Auto 4sp 1.5i",
    "suburb": "Belmont",
    "region": "Geelong Districts",
    "postcode": "3216",
    "saleStatus": "For Sale",
    "description": "Looking to sell as we have purchased a new car. 2 previous owners. Car has recently been serviced...",
    "features": ["Inputs: MP3 decoder", "Airbags: Driver", "Airbags: Passenger", "Seatbelts: Lap/sash for 5 seats"],
    "specifications": {
        "ANCAP Rating": "4",
        "Engine Size (cc)": "1490cc",
        "Cylinders": "4",
        "Fuel Capacity": "43L"
    }
}
```

### ℹ️ Good to Know

- **Order**: vehicles come cheapest first, followed by vehicles listed without a price. Very large searches are collected in several price ranges at once, so their order is cheapest first within each range.
- **Completeness**: the run log ends with `collected X of Y matching vehicles`. The site's counter moves while a run is in progress as cars are listed and sold, so a difference of a few vehicles on a large search is normal. When many brand-new cars share the exact same price, year and state, some of them cannot be told apart by any filter; the log says how many and suggests narrowing the search.
- **Prices**: `price` is the amount displayed on the listing and `priceLabel` says what it includes. Dealer drive-away prices also carry `priceExcludingGovtCharges`. Compare like with like.
- **Sellers**: `sellerId` is stable and lets you group a dealer's stock. Carsales shows dealer names, addresses and phone numbers only to signed-in members, so they are not part of the output.
- **Photos**: listings carry the first few photos and `photoCount` tells you how many the ad has.
- **Suggested vehicles**: when a narrow search has few matches, carsales pads the page with vehicles outside your filters. These are left out.

Get the Australian car market into your spreadsheet with **Carsales Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Search pages or single vehicle pages from carsales.com.au. Run a search on the site with any filters (make, model, price, state, body type…) and paste the address, e.g. `https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/` or `https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/suv-bodystyle/victoria-state/under-30000/`. Vehicle pages (`https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/...`) always return full details.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of vehicles to save across all URLs. Vehicles come cheapest first. Set it as high as the search is large: the scraper keeps going past the pages the site itself will show.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open every vehicle and add the seller's description, full specifications, feature list, colour, fuel type, suburb, postcode, publish date and all photos. Charged as a vehicle detail instead of a vehicle listing.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used to reach the site. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/carsales-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/" }],
    "maxItems": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/carsales-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/toyota/yaris/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/carsales-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/carsales-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/cJ9UoV5Th8TFnOLP6/builds/6QUZUhVHsy4kiWJ6A/openapi.json