RST.ua Scraper — Used Cars & New Listing Alerts | $1/1k

Extract structured car listing data from RST.ua — Ukraine's #2 automotive marketplace. Prices in USD and UAH, mileage, fuel, gearbox, photos, and region.

Schedule it to alert only on genuinely new ads. The actor remembers every listing ID for a stateKey. A paid bump (сьогодні, ТОП) of an older ad is older or returned, not new.

$1.00 per 1,000 listings — the only dedicated RST.ua scraper on Apify. See pricing.

Why This Actor?

• Only RST.ua scraper on Apify — no alternatives
• Zero setup — no API key, no login, click Start
• Fast & cheap — pure HTTP (CP1251 HTML), no browser
• List or detail — cheap card scrape, optional full detail enrichment
• New-listing alerts — onlyNew emits an ad only the first time its ID is seen, and only if that ID is higher than every ID already stored
• Brand by name — type Toyota or Mercedes, not obscure IDs
• Pair with AUTO.RIA — cover both major Ukrainian auto marketplaces
• Or run both at once — UA Cars Monitor merges AUTO.RIA + RST + digest

What Data You Get

Field	Example	Description
title	TOYOTA Camry	Listing title
brand / model	TOYOTA / Camry	Make and model
year	2013	Year of manufacture
priceUSD / priceUAH	13950 / 623600	Prices in USD and UAH
mileageKm	220000	Mileage in km
fuelType	Газ/Бензин	Fuel type
engineVolume	2.5	Engine displacement
gearbox	Автомат	Transmission
driveType	Передній пр.	Drive (detail mode)
bodyType / color	Седан / Чорний	Body & color (detail)
region	Київська	Oblast / region
photos	CDN URLs	Listing photos
description	Seller text	Full text (detail mode)
changeType	new	new, older, returned, price changes, delisted
promotionLabel	3 дні	Paid-bump age, not the publish date
isTop	true	Paid TOP placement
seenBefore	false	This stateKey has stored the ID before

Sample Output

{
    "id": 15416177,
    "url": "https://rst.ua/ukr/oldcars/toyota/camry/toyota_camry_15416177.html",
    "title": "TOYOTA Camry",
    "brand": "TOYOTA",
    "model": "Camry",
    "year": 2013,
    "priceUSD": 13950,
    "priceUAH": 623600,
    "mileageKm": 220000,
    "fuelType": "Газ/Бензин",
    "engineVolume": "2.5",
    "gearbox": "Автомат",
    "driveType": "Передній пр.",
    "bodyType": "Седан",
    "color": "Чорний",
    "region": "Київська",
    "photos": ["https://i0.rst.ua/oldcars/toyota/camry/15416177-1.jpg"],
    "photoCount": 8,
    "source": "detail"
}

Use Cases

Who	What
Dealers	Monitor RST inventory vs AUTO.RIA prices
Importers	Track model availability and asking prices by region
Analysts	Build dual-marketplace UA used-car datasets
Alert bots	Telegram when changeType is new (incremental + onlyNew)

3 Modes

search — Brand / model / year / price

{
    "mode": "search",
    "brandName": "Toyota",
    "modelName": "Camry",
    "yearFrom": 2015,
    "yearTo": 2022,
    "priceTo": 20000,
    "maxResults": 50,
    "fetchDetails": true
}

url — Paste any RST search URL

Configure filters on rst.ua, copy the URL, paste here.

{
    "mode": "url",
    "searchUrl": "https://rst.ua/ukr/oldcars/bmw/x5/",
    "maxResults": 100
}

listings — Specific ads

{
    "mode": "listings",
    "listingIds": [
        "https://rst.ua/ukr/oldcars/toyota/camry/toyota_camry_15416177.html"
    ]
}

Incremental monitoring

Schedule the same search daily:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "brandName": "BMW",
    "maxResults": 200,
    "incremental": true,
    "stateKey": "bmw-ua",
    "onlyChanges": true
}

Each row gets changeType:

Value	Meaning
new	Never seen, and the ID is higher than every ID already observed for this stateKey
older	Never stored, but the ID is lower than the highest ID already seen. An older ad entering the window, usually after a paid bump
returned	Stored before, left the maxResults window, and showed up again
price_dropped / price_raised / unchanged	Still inside the window since the previous run
delisted	Left the window since the previous run. The ad may still be live

The price snapshot is only the current maxResults window. The ID history is not: every ID stays in the saved set, so an older ad cannot become new again. Set onlyNew: true to emit just the never-seen rows for alerts. Leave fetchDetails off. If RST blocks a run before any listing, the run still succeeds and the saved IDs are left as they were.

RST does not show an original publication timestamp. promotionLabel (сьогодні, вчора, 1 тиждень) is the paid bump, and sellerLastOnline is when the seller was last online. The stable identity is id.

Alerts via Apify Integrations

Saved task on this account: rst-new-listing-alerts (Toyota, onlyNew, fetchDetails off, maxResults 20). The first run of that task stores the window and reports it as new. Schedule the same task after that.

1. Task with incremental input → Schedule.
2. Telegram: Integrations → Webhooks → Make → Telegram Bot (or Bot API sendMessage).
   Slack: Integrations → Slack.
3. Optional "emitDigest": true for a one-line summary (headline / topDrops).

Dual-marketplace: UA Cars Monitor.

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 listings (PPE). Platform usage is free for the consumer.

Volume	Cost
50 listings	$0.05
1,000 listings	$1.00
10,000 listings	$10.00

Tip: set fetchDetails: false for faster list-only runs.

Quick Start

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("skipper_lume/rst-ua-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "search",
    "brandName": "Toyota",
    "yearFrom": 2018,
    "maxResults": 30,
})

for car in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{car['title']} — ${car['priceUSD']} — {car.get('region')}")

Tips

• Use Apify Proxy for runs over ~100 listings (Cloudflare)
• Keep maxConcurrency at 3–5
• Pair with AUTO.RIA Scraper for full Ukrainian auto coverage

FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key?
A: No.

Q: VIN / phone numbers?
A: Not reliably public on RST HTML — not extracted.

Q: Encoding?
A: RST serves CP1251; output is clean Unicode JSON.

About RST.ua

RST.ua is one of Ukraine's largest used-car classifieds sites, alongside AUTO.RIA. It is a key source for market pricing, regional supply, and dealer inventory outside the RIA ecosystem.

Changelog

v1.0 (November 2026)

• onlyNew alerts: an ID is new only if it was never stored and is higher than every ID already seen
• Paid bumps of older ads are older or returned, not new
• Saved IDs survive a blocked run
• Initial release: search / url / listings, list cards and detail pages