# Carsales Car Finder by Make, Model & Filters (`seemuapps/carsales-search-scraper`) Actor

Find cars on carsales.com.au by make, model, year, price, state, body, fuel and more - get every matching listing with price, kms, specs and photos.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/seemuapps/carsales-search-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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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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 Finder by Make, Model & Filters

Pick a make, model, year range, price range, state, body type, fuel, transmission or colour and get every matching car listing from carsales.com.au — no URL wrangling. Each listing comes with price, odometer, engine, transmission, seller type and photos, exportable to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets.

### What you get

For every matching listing:

- 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, plus badges such as "Pay through carsales"
- Photo count and image URLs
- The search URL the listing was found under and the scrape timestamp

The key-value store also gets a `SEARCH` record showing exactly how your filters were resolved and which carsales searches were run.

### Use cases

- Price tracking for a specific model and year range in your state
- Dealer stock monitoring and competitor analysis by make or body type
- Vehicle valuation datasets and price-guide benchmarking
- Lead generation for automotive finance, insurance and inspection services
- Scheduled alerts for newly listed cars matching a saved set of filters (diff on `adId`)

### How to use

1. In **Vehicles**, start typing and pick one or more makes (e.g. "BMW (all models)") or make + model pairs (e.g. "BMW 3 Series", "Toyota Hilux", "Tesla Model 3"). Every one of carsales' 145 makes and 1,651 models is listed. You can also type your own entry and press Enter — "rs3", "hilux", "merc c class" or "golf gti" are all understood (trailing variant words like "gti" become title keywords). Each vehicle is searched separately with the filters below.
2. Narrow down with **State**, **Body type**, **Fuel type**, **Transmission**, **Colour**, **Min / Max price**, **Min / Max year** and **Max odometer**. Price, year and odometer bounds are applied exactly.
3. Add **Keywords** to require a variant or badge in the title, e.g. `Wildtrak`, `quattro`, `4x4`.
4. Pick a **Sort by** order if you want the cheapest, newest or lowest-km cars first, set **Max Items**, and run. Results appear in the **Dataset** tab.

**Large searches.** carsales serves at most 20 pages (about 440 listings) per search. With **Deep collection** on (the default), bigger searches are split automatically into carsales' own price bands and then model years, and merged back together, so broad searches come back complete.

**Proxy.** Apify residential proxy (country AU) is the default and recommended setting; carsales rate-limits each IP after a handful of requests.

### Output format

```json
{
  "adId": "OAG-AD-26117498",
  "url": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2025-audi-rs3-auto-quattro-my26/OAG-AD-26117498/",
  "title": "2025 Audi RS3",
  "variant": "Auto quattro MY26",
  "year": 2025,
  "make": "Audi",
  "model": "RS3",
  "condition": "Used",
  "price": 109990,
  "priceType": "Drive away",
  "priceExclGovtCharges": 104900,
  "priceBadge": "GOOD PRICE",
  "bodyType": "Sedan",
  "transmission": "Automatic",
  "engine": "5cyl 2.5L Turbo Petrol",
  "fuelType": "Petrol",
  "odometerKm": 4200,
  "sellerType": "Dealer used",
  "sellerId": "AGC-SELLER-62604",
  "state": "VIC",
  "isPromoted": false,
  "badges": [],
  "imageCount": 23,
  "images": ["https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales/car/dealer/....jpg"],
  "searchUrl": "https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/audi/rs3/victoria-state/under-150000/2025-year/",
  "sortBy": "Featured",
  "totalResultsForSearch": 17,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T05:11:24.000Z"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `condition` (type: `string`):

New or used (used includes demo and near-new cars).

## `vehicles` (type: `array`):

Pick one or more makes or make + model pairs — start typing to search (e.g. "BMW 3 Series", "Toyota Hilux", "Tesla (all models)"). You can also type your own entry such as "rs3", "hilux" or "mercedes c-class" and press Enter; it is matched against carsales' 145 makes and 1,651 models. Leave empty to search all cars. Each vehicle is searched separately with the filters below.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Australian state or territory the car is listed in.

## `bodyType` (type: `string`):

Body style.

## `fuelType` (type: `string`):

Fuel type.

## `transmission` (type: `string`):

Gearbox type.

## `colour` (type: `string`):

Exterior colour.

## `priceMin` (type: `integer`):

Lowest price to include. Exact bound applied to results.

## `priceMax` (type: `integer`):

Highest price to include. Exact bound applied to results.

## `yearMin` (type: `integer`):

Oldest model year to include.

## `yearMax` (type: `integer`):

Newest model year to include.

## `odometerMax` (type: `integer`):

Highest odometer reading to include. Exact bound applied to results.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional words that must appear in the listing title or variant, e.g. "Wildtrak", "quattro", "4x4". A listing must match every keyword.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of results as carsales returns them.

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

Maximum number of unique listings to save. 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.

## `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
{
  "condition": "",
  "vehicles": [
    "audi/rs3"
  ],
  "state": "",
  "bodyType": "",
  "fuelType": "",
  "transmission": "",
  "colour": "",
  "sortBy": "",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "deepCollection": true,
  "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.

## `search` (type: `string`):

SEARCH record in the key-value store: the filters as resolved against carsales' make/model lists and the search URLs that were crawled.

# 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 = {
    "vehicles": [
        "audi/rs3"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("seemuapps/carsales-search-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 = {
    "vehicles": ["audi/rs3"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "AU",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("seemuapps/carsales-search-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 '{
  "vehicles": [
    "audi/rs3"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}' |
apify call seemuapps/carsales-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,seemuapps/carsales-search-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/YoEFtbRtt2gJRXCjr/builds/1czuNXuTvmhdsLLBc/openapi.json