DubiCars Dealer Scraper — UAE Car Dealers

Turns the dealer directory of DubiCars, the UAE's largest car marketplace, into a B2B lead list: one row per dealer with a direct phone number, e-mail, street address, map coordinates and live inventory count.

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Read this before you buy: coverage

DubiCars advertises 1,522 dealers. Its directory serves 684 of them.

That is not a limitation of this Actor — it is the site refusing its own pagination. Page 30 of the directory returns normally; page 31 returns a Cloudflare challenge, deterministically, from datacenter and residential exits alike, while the page footer carries on linking to pages 31 through 96 as though they worked. This Actor sweeps every facet the site does serve — the global list plus each of the eight emirate views — and deduplicates, which lifts the reachable set from 480 to 684 (44.9%).

A scraper that trusted the footer's page links would fire ~65 refused requests per run and hand you 480 rows while the page it just read says 1,522. This one tells you the number and reports it in RUN_SUMMARY as reachableUnion against advertisedByDubicars.

What one row looks like

{
  "dealerId": "2516",
  "dealerName": "777 Cars Trading",
  "emirate": "Dubai",
  "carsCount": 64,
  "phone": "+97142695977",
  "email": "motorsdxb777@gmail.com",
  "streetAddress": "Aweer, Showroom 74",
  "latitude": 25.086817,
  "longitude": 55.145386,
  "priceRange": "AED 70,000 - AED 1,950,000",
  "listingsSampled": 30,
  "exportListingsInSample": 0,
  "sellsForExport": false,
  "enriched": true
}

field	what it is
dealerName · emirate · carsCount	Identity and how many vehicles they have live right now
phone	Direct dealer line — comes free from the directory, not from the enrichment step
latitude · longitude	Map coordinates, also free from the directory
email · streetAddress · priceRange	From the dealer's own page, when enrichContacts is on
listingsSampled · exportListingsInSample · sellsForExport	See the export question below
enriched · enrichmentNote	false means the dealer's page was not read — never that they have no e-mail
detailUrlIsCanonical	false where the directory published no link and the dealer id was used instead

Measured across two live runs: 16 of 18 dealers enriched (89%) — 12/12 on one sample, 4/6 on another. The two that failed publish no structured contact block on their own page; they are still delivered, flagged enriched: false with the reason, and not charged differently.

The export question, answered honestly

DubiCars shows an "export dealers" filter and states a cohort of 186 on the button. That filter does not work as a URL. ?filter=only-for-export returns a byte-identical page to the unfiltered view — same 16 dealers, same "1522 dealers found" — and so does every other parameter form. The directory simply ignores unknown query parameters.

So this Actor does not sell you an export flag copied off a filter it cannot reproduce. What it gives you instead is measured per dealer, from that dealer's own listings: exportListingsInSample counts how many of their live vehicles are flagged for export rather than the local market, and sellsForExport is true when that count is above zero. listingsSampled tells you how many listings that judgement is based on, so you can see how strong it is. Where no listings were sampled, all three are null rather than a guess.

Input

input	default	what it does
emirate	all	Dubai 428 · Sharjah 156 · Ajman 45 · Abu Dhabi 44 · Umm al-Quwain 5 · Al Ain 4 · Ras al-Khaimah 2
minCarsCount	0	Keep only dealers with at least this many vehicles live — a proxy for dealer size
enrichContacts	true	Reads each dealer's page for e-mail, address and price range. Off = fast directory-only pull, but phone and coordinates are still included
maxDealers	200	Cap on delivered and charged rows, applied after sorting by inventory size
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy (datacenter)	Datacenter is enough — the page-30 boundary behaves identically on residential, so residential buys nothing here

Results come back largest dealer first, so a capped run returns the dealers with real inventory rather than an arbitrary slice.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0018 per dealer-lead — charged only for a dealer row actually delivered. Filters are applied before delivery, so rows they drop are never charged, and a run that returns nothing costs nothing. A full enriched pull of all 684 reachable dealers is $1.23.

A row where the dealer's page could not be read is still delivered — flagged enriched: false with the reason — so you can see what was missed instead of being quietly short-changed.

Every run writes a RUN_SUMMARY with the advertised total, the reachable union, the coverage fraction, the page ceiling that caused it, and delivered vs charged.

Source and legal

Data comes from the public dealer directory at dubicars.com/dealers and from each dealer's own public page. Both are pages DubiCars serves to any visitor with no login.

robots.txt disallows /api, /ajax, /search, /search-count and /webapp. This Actor uses none of them — it reads the HTML directory and the dealer pages, which are not disallowed. Dealer contact details are published by the dealers themselves to attract buyers; you are responsible for how you use them, which for outreach into the UAE means the Consumer Protection Law's e-marketing rules, and the equivalent wherever you are sending from.