Craigslist Car Hunter

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What this does

This is a dedicated data extraction tool (an Apify Agent/Actor) designed to efficiently search and gather listings from the "Cars & Trucks for Sale" sections of various regional Craigslist sites.

The primary function of this scraper is to transform unstructured web data into structured, reusable data, making it readily available for other projects to consume.

The Value Proposition: Data as an Asset 📊 Instead of manual collection, this tool automates the process of market research, delivering a comprehensive, uniform dataset. The scraped information is instantly usable for:

Market Analysis: Tracking price trends and inventory changes over time.

Price Comparison: Identifying vehicles priced above or below the regional average.

Cross-Platform Integration: Feeding data into dashboards, custom alerting systems, or third-party databases.

Getting started

Just put the URL you want to scrape the data from in the input box for instance

https://albany.craigslist.org/search/cta?purveyor=owner#search=2~thumb~0

Then run agent

For complete information see this article. In short, you will:

1. Build the Actor
2. Run the Actor

Pull the Actor for local development

If you would like to develop locally, you can pull the existing Actor from Apify console using Apify CLI:

1. Install apify-cli

   Using Homebrew

   $brew install apify-cli
   

   Using NPM

   $npm -g install apify-cli
   

2. Pull the Actor by its unique <ActorId>, which is one of the following:

   • unique name of the Actor to pull (e.g. "apify/hello-world")
   • or ID of the Actor to pull (e.g. "E2jjCZBezvAZnX8Rb")

   You can find both by clicking on the Actor title at the top of the page, which will open a modal containing both Actor unique name and Actor ID.

   This command will copy the Actor into the current directory on your local machine.

   $apify pull <ActorId>
   

Documentation reference

To learn more about Apify and Actors, take a look at the following resources:

• Apify SDK for JavaScript documentation
• Apify SDK for Python documentation
• Apify Platform documentation
• Join our developer community on Discord