We extract vehicle configurations, dealer quotes, used car listings, and Koubei reviews from Autohome. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3 or BigQuery on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Vehicle Specifications objects from autohome.com.cn. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"brand": "BYD", "series": "Han", "model_name": "2024 EV 715km", "msrp": "219800", "engine": "Electric 245 HP", "ev_range": "715", "battery_capacity": "85.4"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dealer Pricing objects from autohome.com.cn. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"dealer_id": "112345", "dealer_name": "Beijing BYD Auto Sales", "city": "Beijing", "quoted_price": "209800", "msrp": "219800", "discount": "10000", "address": "Chaoyang District"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Koubei Reviews objects from autohome.com.cn. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"review_id": "884721", "user_id": "u99382", "rating_space": 5, "rating_power": 4, "rating_handling": 4, "text_pros": "Great acceleration and quiet cabin.", "text_cons": "Infotainment system lags occasionally.", "publish_date": "2023-10-14"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Used Cars objects from autohome.com.cn. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"listing_id": "u448291", "title": "BYD Han 2022 EV 715km Premium", "price": "165000", "mileage": "24000", "reg_date": "2022-05", "city": "Shanghai", "transfer_count": 0
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Complete list of extractable fields for Forums (BBS) objects from autohome.com.cn. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"thread_id": "t992811", "forum_id": "f882", "title": "Real world highway range test", "author": "EV_Fanatic", "view_count": 14502, "reply_count": 128, "post_date": "2023-11-02"
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Our Autohome scraper bypasses custom font obfuscation and regional blocks to extract trim-level specifications, dealer quotes, and consumer sentiment across the Chinese automotive market.
Extract 100+ spec fields per trim including dimensions, powertrain, and interior features.
Track regional dealer quotes and promotional discounts across tier-1 and tier-2 cities.
Resolve Autohome custom web fonts to extract hidden prices and specifications reliably.
Extract verified owner ratings across power, handling, and fuel consumption metrics.
Scrape second-hand listings with mileage, registration data, and condition grading.
Monitor consumer sentiment and issue reports in model-specific discussion forums.
Capture battery specifications, CLTC range, and charging times for the electric vehicle market.
Simulate city-specific IP requests to capture local dealer pricing and inventory.
Download exterior, interior, and detail images in high resolution per vehicle model.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide model IDs, city codes, or forum URLs. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and font-decoding logic for autohome.com.cn.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or BigQuery dataset on agreed cadence.
Autohome uses advanced anti-scraping techniques, including dynamic font obfuscation. Here is how we maintain data integrity.
Autohome replaces price and spec characters with custom web fonts. Our pipeline dynamically maps these fonts back to unicode in real time.
Dealer prices vary by city. We use localised Chinese proxies to extract accurate regional quotes.
Infinite scroll and dynamic spec tables require full Playwright execution to hydrate the DOM.
Aggressive IP blocking requires constant rotation of high-quality residential proxies.
We use fallback selectors to handle structural differences between EV, ICE, and commercial vehicle pages.
Automakers monitor dealer discounts and regional pricing strategies across competing models.
Extract Koubei reviews to understand owner satisfaction regarding fuel economy, comfort, and reliability.
Ingest second-hand inventory data to build depreciation curves and residual value models.
Monitor the rapidly changing Chinese EV landscape, including battery specs and range updates.
Analyse feature adoption rates and trim-level popularity to inform future vehicle configurations.
Track dealer inventory velocity and promotional activity across different tier-1 and tier-2 cities.
"Autohome holds the definitive dataset for the world's largest automotive market, but extracting it requires defeating dynamic font obfuscation at scale."
Most teams fail at scraping Autohome because they cannot parse the custom web fonts used to hide pricing and specifications. DataFlirt maintains dynamic font mapping infrastructure, combined with localised Chinese residential proxies, to ensure your automotive data pipeline never returns corrupted characters.
Everything supported by our autohome.com.cn scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and dynamic content hydration.
Automated extraction and OCR of Autohome custom web fonts to reconstruct obfuscated pricing and spec data.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About autohome.com.cn scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available information from Autohome is generally permissible for non-personal data. DataFlirt targets only public vehicle specs, dealer quotes, and forum posts. We do not extract PII or bypass authentication walls.
Autohome dynamically generates custom web fonts to hide numbers and specific Chinese characters. Our pipeline downloads the font file per page, maps the glyphs, and translates the obfuscated characters back to standard text.
Yes. We use localised Chinese residential proxies to simulate requests from specific cities, capturing accurate local dealer quotes and promotional discounts.
Used car inventory pipelines can be scheduled to run daily or hourly, capturing new listings, price drops, and sold statuses.
Yes. We extract complete review text, owner ratings across all categories (power, handling, fuel, etc.), and associated metadata.
Absolutely. We provide a sample run of specific vehicle series or dealer pages to validate schema fit and font decoding accuracy before contracting.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a daily feed of EV specifications or continuous tracking of regional dealer pricing, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
