Encar Vehicle History Scraper

🚀 Encar Vehicle History Scraper: Korean Car Accident, Inspection and VIN Check in English

Check the history of a Korean used car before you buy, import or export it. The Encar Vehicle History Scraper takes Encar.com listing URLs or IDs and returns, in English, the car's insurance and accident record, its official performance inspection report (성능점검기록부) and Encar's diagnosis-centre result. It works as a Korean VIN check and Encar English report in one, and as a simple alternative to an Encar API for used-car exporters, dealers and importers sourcing cars from South Korea.

🎯 Use Cases

• Import a car from Korea with confidence: see every insurance claim, owner change and replaced panel before you send a deposit.
• Korean used cars export: screen a whole shortlist of Encar cars at once and drop the ones with flood, total-loss or frame damage.
• Korean VIN check: get the VIN, engine type, first registration and odometer reading from the official inspection, and compare them with the listing.
• Encar in English for buyers abroad: hand your customers a translated history (중고차 사고이력 조회) instead of screenshots of Korean pages.
• Dealer stock audits: re-check the cars you track for new claims, rental use or plate changes.

✨ Features

• Accident and insurance record: every insurance claim with date, type (damage to this car paid by its own or the other party's insurance, or damage it caused to others) and repair cost split into parts, labour and paint, plus the insurance payout. Also owner changes with dates, plate changes, rental, commercial and government use, total loss, flood and theft history, and uninsured periods.
• Official inspection report: VIN, engine type, inspection mileage and validity, accident, simple-repair, flood and tuning flags, recall status, warranty type, emissions, and replaced or welded body panels with their severity rank. Also the condition of every checked system (engine, transmission, steering, brakes, electrical, fuel, EV high-voltage parts) and items needing repair.
• Encar diagnosis result: the diagnosis-centre verdict (for example "No accident" or "Outer panels replaced only (frame intact)") and the result for each checked panel.
• In English: report labels are translated. Make, model and trim use Encar's English names.
• Scanned reports included: when a dealer uploaded the inspection as images, you get the image links for each section of the form.
• Works with the Encar Listings Scraper: paste its url or id values straight in.
• Fair billing: you pay only for cars with at least one report. Sold or removed listings, cars with no reports and invalid inputs get a free status row so you can see what happened to each input.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Add cars: paste Encar listing URLs (for example https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/41667833) or listing IDs, one per line.
2. Run the scraper: each car becomes one record with accidentRecord, inspection and diagnosis sections. A section is null when that report doesn't exist for the car.
3. Export: download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the results through the API.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Encar listing URLs or IDs	Encar.com car listing URLs or plain listing IDs, one per line. Duplicates are looked up once.
Max cars	Maximum number of cars to look up in one run. Default 50.

{
    "items": ["https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/40774766", "41667833"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

💰 Pricing

Pay only for the car histories you get. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Vehicle history	$0.02 per car ($20.00 per 1,000 cars)	One car with at least one report: accident record, inspection report and/or diagnosis, in English
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts.

Cars without any report, invalid inputs and listings that are no longer online are free.

Examples: 10 cars = $0.20 · 50 cars = $1.00 · 500 cars = $10.00 (plus $0.00005 per run).

📊 Sample Output Data

One record per car (long lists shortened with "…"):

{
    "listingId": "40774766",
    "vehicleId": "40762562",
    "url": "https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/40774766",
    "make": "ChevroletGMDaewoo",
    "model": "Malibu",
    "trim": "2.0 Diesel LT Premium Pack",
    "modelYear": 2015,
    "firstRegistration": "2015-09",
    "imported": false,
    "mileageKm": 116985,
    "vin": "KLAGA691DFB075706",
    "plateNumber": "170다6711",
    "fuel": "Diesel",
    "transmission": "Automatic",
    "color": "White",
    "bodyType": "Mid-size car",
    "displacementCc": 1956,
    "priceKrw": 3800000,
    "reportsAvailable": { "accidentRecord": true, "inspection": true, "diagnosis": true },
    "accidentRecord": {
        "reportDate": "2026-10-06",
        "firstRegistrationDate": "2015-09-02",
        "ownerChanges": 2,
        "ownerChangeDates": ["2025-10-15", "2020-09-04"],
        "plateChanges": 1,
        "registrations": [
            {
                "date": "2015-09-02",
                "maskedPlate": "28호XXXX",
                "use": ["Commercial (general)"],
                "vehicleKind": ["Passenger car"]
            },
            { "date": "2020-09-04", "maskedPlate": "170다XXXX", "use": ["Private"], "vehicleKind": ["Passenger car"] }
        ],
        "rentalUse": true,
        "commercialUse": false,
        "governmentUse": false,
        "ownDamageClaims": 2,
        "ownDamageCostKrw": 1197365,
        "damageToOthersClaims": 2,
        "damageToOthersCostKrw": 972243,
        "claims": [
            {
                "date": "2023-10-13",
                "type": "own-damage-other-insurance",
                "costKrw": 634371,
                "partsKrw": 306902,
                "laborKrw": 118980,
                "paintKrw": 208489,
                "insurancePayoutKrw": 908492
            },
            "…"
        ],
        "totalLosses": 0,
        "totalLossDate": null,
        "floodTotalLosses": 0,
        "floodPartialLosses": 0,
        "floodDate": null,
        "thefts": 0,
        "theftDate": null,
        "uninsuredPeriods": ["201509~202309", "202510~202607"]
    },
    "inspection": {
        "format": "TABLE",
        "issueDate": "2026-07-21",
        "validFrom": "2025-09-02",
        "validTo": "2027-09-01",
        "firstRegistrationDate": "2015-09-02",
        "mileageKm": 117033,
        "vin": "KLAGA691DFB075706",
        "engineType": "A20DTH",
        "accident": false,
        "simpleRepair": true,
        "flood": false,
        "tuning": false,
        "seriousDamage": [],
        "usageChanges": ["Rental"],
        "recall": false,
        "recallStatus": [],
        "warranty": "Insurance-company warranty",
        "overallCondition": "Good",
        "odometerCondition": "Good",
        "emissions": { "co": null, "hc": null, "smoke": 3 },
        "replacedOrRepairedPanels": [
            { "code": "P022", "part": "Front fender (right)", "status": ["Replaced"], "rank": ["outer panel rank 1"] }
        ],
        "systemsChecked": 32,
        "issues": [],
        "systems": [
            { "system": "Self-diagnosis", "item": "Engine", "status": "Good" },
            { "system": "Engine", "item": "Oil leak: Cylinder head / gasket", "status": "None" },
            {
                "system": "Transmission",
                "item": "Automatic transmission (A/T): Oil level and condition",
                "status": "Adequate"
            },
            "…"
        ],
        "repairNeeded": [],
        "equipmentOnHand": [],
        "dealer": "오토카",
        "comments": null,
        "images": []
    },
    "diagnosis": {
        "date": "2026-08-26",
        "center": "대구 동구",
        "verdict": "Outer panels replaced only (frame intact)",
        "panels": [
            { "panel": "FRONT_DOOR_LEFT", "result": "NORMAL" },
            { "panel": "HOOD", "result": "NORMAL" },
            { "panel": "FRONT_FENDER_RIGHT", "result": "REPLACEMENT" },
            "…"
        ],
        "replacedPanels": ["FRONT_FENDER_RIGHT"],
        "comment": "본 차량은 엔카의 진단 결과 외부패널부의 프론트휀더(우)가 교환되었으며, …",
        "outerPanelComment": "외부패널 확인 결과 프론트휀더(우)가 교환되었음을 확인 하였습니다. …"
    },
    "input": "https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/40774766",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T13:18:59.266Z"
}

Amounts are in Korean won (KRW). priceKrw is the asking price on the listing. The claims type tells you who paid: own-damage-own-insurance, own-damage-other-insurance or damage-to-others. Free text written by dealers, inspectors and the diagnosis centre (dealer, center, comments, comment, outerPanelComment) is returned in the original Korean.

Inputs that don't produce a history get a free status row instead: "status": "not_found" for sold or removed listings, "no_reports" for cars with no report, "invalid_input" for text that isn't an Encar URL or ID, and "failed" when a lookup failed after retries.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

Most buyers run it on demand for a shortlist of cars, but for dealer stock or a watchlist, a daily or weekly run with the same input catches new claims, owner changes and listings that sold. Set it up in Apify Schedules, or chain it after the Encar Listings Scraper so every new listing that matches your search gets its history checked. Send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). An agent can call it with:

{ "items": ["https://fem.encar.com/cars/detail/40774766"], "maxItems": 5 }

❓ FAQ

Does Encar have an official API? Encar doesn't offer a public API for car history reports. Its data partnerships are for dealers and business partners and need an agreement. This Actor needs no key or account and returns the reports Encar shows publicly on each listing, translated to English and as structured JSON.

How do I do a Korean car history check or VIN check? Find the car on Encar.com, paste its listing URL here and run. You get the VIN, first registration date, inspection mileage, every insurance claim, owner and plate changes, rental use, flood and total-loss records, plus the replaced body panels.

Is there an Encar English version of the reports? Encar's reports are in Korean. This Actor translates the labels, statuses and verdicts to English; only the free-text notes stay in Korean.

Do I need an Encar account? No.

Which cars have reports, and why is a section empty? Almost all. In our sample of 100 listings, 99% had an accident record and an inspection report, and 94% had an Encar diagnosis. When a report doesn't exist for a car, its section is null and reportsAvailable shows which ones were found. Emissions values and inspector comments are null when the inspection form leaves them blank.

Can I search for cars here? This Actor looks up history for cars you already have. To find Korean used cars by make, price or other filters, use the Encar Listings Scraper and pass its results in.

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