# Carsales Listing Scraper (`seemuapps/carsales-scraper`) Actor

Scrape full car listing details from carsales.com.au — price, specs, features, images, and seller info.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/carsales-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew](https://apify.com/seemuapps) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 listing scrapeds

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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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Carsales Car Listings Scraper

Extract every car listing from any carsales.com.au search — new, used and demo vehicles across Australia — with price, odometer, engine, transmission, seller type and photos, exported to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets. Follows every results page and automatically works around the site's 440-listing search cap.

### What you get

For every listing in the search results:

- Ad ID, listing URL, title (year make model) and variant
- Year, make, model and condition (new / used / demo)
- Price, price type (drive away or excluding government charges), price excluding government charges, and the carsales price badge (great / good / fair price)
- Body type, transmission, engine, fuel type and odometer in km
- Seller type (private, dealer used, dealer new / demo), seller ID and state
- Whether the listing is a promoted "top spot" result
- Badges such as "Pay through carsales" or "ID verified"
- Photo count and image URLs
- The search URL the listing was found under, its sort order, the total result count for that search, and the scrape timestamp

### Use cases

- Used car market research and price tracking by make, model, state or year
- Dealer stock monitoring and competitor analysis
- Vehicle valuation datasets and price-guide benchmarking
- Lead generation for automotive finance, insurance and inspection services
- Alerts for newly listed cars matching a saved search (schedule the actor and diff on `adId`)

### How to use

1. Open carsales.com.au, run a search with the filters you want and copy the URL — for example `https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/` or `https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/tesla/model-3/victoria-state/`. Both the clean path-style URLs and the longer `?q=(And.Condition.Used...)` filter URLs are accepted.
2. Paste one or more URLs into **Search URLs**.
3. Set **Max Items** (0 for everything) and run. Results appear in the **Dataset** tab.

**Large searches.** carsales serves at most 20 pages (about 440 listings) for any single search. With **Deep collection** on (the default), searches larger than that are split automatically into carsales' own price bands, and then model years if a band is still too big, so a 5,000-listing search comes back complete. Every sub-search is deduplicated by ad ID.

**Proxy.** Apify residential proxy (country AU) is the default and recommended setting. carsales limits each IP to a handful of requests per minute, so a rotating pool is what keeps large runs flowing.

Individual listing detail pages are not supported — this actor works from search results, which already carry the fields listed above.

### Output format

```json
{
  "adId": "OAG-AD-26117498",
  "listingId": "26a34b8d-ff4a-4278-8a58-96f142f03ded",
  "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2021-toyota-rav4-gxl-auto-2wd/OAG-AD-26117498/",
  "title": "2021 Toyota RAV4",
  "variant": "GXL Auto 2WD",
  "year": 2021,
  "make": "Toyota",
  "model": "RAV4",
  "condition": "Used",
  "price": 33990,
  "priceType": "Excl. Govt. Charges",
  "priceExclGovtCharges": 33990,
  "priceBadge": "GOOD PRICE",
  "bodyType": "SUV",
  "transmission": "Automatic",
  "engine": "4cyl 2.5L Hybrid",
  "fuelType": "Hybrid",
  "odometerKm": 91982,
  "sellerType": "Dealer used",
  "sellerId": "AGC-SELLER-62604",
  "state": "NSW",
  "isPromoted": true,
  "badges": [],
  "imageCount": 23,
  "images": ["https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/car/dealer/....jpg"],
  "searchUrl": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/",
  "sortBy": "Featured",
  "totalResultsForSearch": 22992,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T02:11:24.000Z"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `searchUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more carsales.com.au search result URLs copied from your browser, e.g. https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/ or https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/tesla/model-3/victoria-state/. Filters in the URL (make, model, state, price, year, body style, fuel, transmission, sort) are all honoured. Individual listing pages are not supported.

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

Maximum number of unique listings to save across all search URLs. Set 0 for no limit.

## `deepCollection` (type: `boolean`):

carsales only serves the first 20 pages (about 440 listings) of any search. When a search is larger, automatically split it into price bands, then model years, and merge the results so you get the whole set.

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

How many result pages (about 22 listings each) to read for each search or sub-search. The site serves at most 20.

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

Apify residential proxy with country AU is recommended. carsales blocks an IP after roughly 10 rapid requests, so a rotating proxy pool is what keeps large runs flowing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "deepCollection": true,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Fields: adId, url, title, variant, year, make, model, condition, price, priceType, priceExclGovtCharges, priceBadge, bodyType, transmission, engine, fuelType, odometerKm, sellerType, state, isPromoted, badges, imageCount, images, searchUrl, sortBy, totalResultsForSearch, scrapedAt.

# 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 = {
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/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 = {
    "searchUrls": ["https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/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 '{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/used/toyota/hilux/"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}' |
apify call seemuapps/carsales-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/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/oV9iXzDE4azwoZkRm/builds/lxGpiZ699GINkChQ2/openapi.json