CarSensor Scraper — Japanese Used Cars

Scrape CarSensor (カーセンサー), Japan's biggest used-car marketplace, on Apify. Search by maker, model, area or free-text keyword and pull complete vehicle details — full price breakdown, year, mileage, inspection, repair history, specs, equipment, warranty, financing and dealer info.

Fast and cheap. Pay per result, no start fee, no subscription.

Why this one

• The full detail surface. Each vehicle returns everything CarSensor holds: total payment vs vehicle price (exact yen), model year, mileage, inspection expiry, repair history, one-owner flag, CarSensor certified quality score, displacement, transmission, drivetrain, fuel, engine type, doors/seats, color, fuel economy (JC08/WLTC), the full equipment list (safety / comfort / interior / exterior), warranty terms, financing plan, dealer name/location/phone and every photo.
• Flexible search. By maker name (toyota, honda, suzuki…), CarSensor codes, or just a keyword — or paste any CarSensor search URL. Pagination is automatic.
• Self-monitored. Every run checks upstream health, catching site changes early.

Modes

Set mode in the input:

search — list used cars

{ "mode": "search", "maker": "toyota", "keyword": "アクア", "priceMaxYen": 800000 } or paste URLs: { "mode": "search", "searchUrls": ["https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/bTO/index.html"] } Returns listing cards (id, title, price, year, mileage, inspection, repair history, color, dealer, location, review score). Set detailFollow: true to also fetch each car's full detail page.

detail — full vehicle detail

{ "mode": "detail", "detailUrls": ["AU7129577638"] } Accepts CarSensor detail URLs or bare vehicle ids. Returns the complete vehicle object.

selftest — free health check

Probes search + detail and reports which are healthy. No charge.

Search filters

maker (name or code), model, prefecture, city, bodyType (CarSensor codes), keyword, priceMinYen/priceMaxYen, yearMin/yearMax, mileageMaxKm, sort. Maker accepts plain names (toyota, nissan, honda, suzuki, daihatsu, mazda, subaru, mitsubishi, lexus, bmw, mercedes, audi, vw…).

Pricing

Pay per result — no monthly fee. See the Store pricing panel.

Free-call limit

Requests that return nothing you are charged for — a blocked page, a search that matches nothing, a vehicle listing that has been sold, and the whole free selftest mode — are capped at 300 per run. Requests that do return billable results never count against it, so a normal run of any size does not come close to the limit. If a run does reach it, it stops there, keeps and charges everything it had already collected, and says so in the log.

Notes

• Proxy: the default Apify proxy works. Japan-geo IPs can help at high volume.
• Prices are in JPY. Booleans like repairHistory are normalized (CarSensor's なし/無/－ → false).
• See ./PRICING.md.