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RUN · 41 active pipelines · automobile.it live

Automobile.it data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract vehicle listings, price adjustments, dealer inventories, and technical specifications from automobile.it. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Listings extracted
384K /day
Price updates
42K /24h
Dealer records
14K /run
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from automobile.it

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Vehicle Listings objects from automobile.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idmakemodelversionpricemileage_kmregistration_yearregistration_monthfuel_typetransmissionpower_cvpower_kwlocation_citylocation_regionseller_typepage_url
vehicle_listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "31459281",
"make": "Fiat",
"model": "Panda",
"price": 12500.0,
"mileage_km": 45000,
"registration_year": 2021,
"fuel_type": "Hybrid",
"seller_type": "Dealer"
# listing_idmakemodelversionpricemileage_km
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Complete list of extractable fields for Technical Specs objects from automobile.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idbody_typedoorsseatsemission_classco2_emissions_g_kmfuel_consumption_l_100kmengine_capacity_ccgearscylindersdrivetrainempty_weight_kg
technical_specs
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "31459281",
"body_type": "City car",
"doors": 5,
"emission_class": "Euro 6d-TEMP",
"co2_emissions_g_km": 89,
"engine_capacity_cc": 999,
"drivetrain": "Front",
"empty_weight_kg": 1055
# listing_idbody_typedoorsseatsemission_classco2_emissions_g_km
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dealer Data objects from automobile.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

dealer_iddealer_nameaddresscityregionzip_codephone_numberinventory_countdealer_ratingdealer_reviews_countjoined_datedealer_url
dealer_data
● 200 OK
"dealer_id": "D-84729",
"dealer_name": "Auto Roma Nord SRL",
"city": "Rome",
"region": "Lazio",
"inventory_count": 142,
"dealer_rating": 4.7,
"joined_date": "2015-03-12"
# dealer_iddealer_nameaddresscityregionzip_code
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & History objects from automobile.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idcurrent_priceoriginal_pricediscount_pctprice_history_arrayvaluation_ratingfinancing_availablemonthly_installmentwarranty_monthsvat_deductible
pricing_& history
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "31459281",
"current_price": 12500.0,
"original_price": 13200.0,
"discount_pct": 5.3,
"valuation_rating": "Great Price",
"financing_available": true,
"monthly_installment": 185.0,
"vat_deductible": false
# listing_idcurrent_priceoriginal_pricediscount_pctprice_history_arrayvaluation_rating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Features & Equipment objects from automobile.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idexterior_colourinterior_colourinterior_materialalloy_wheelsnavigation_systemparking_sensorscruise_controlclimate_controlbluetoothled_headlightspanoramic_roof
features_& equipment
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "31459281",
"exterior_colour": "White",
"interior_material": "Cloth",
"alloy_wheels": true,
"parking_sensors": "Rear",
"climate_control": "Manual",
"bluetooth": true
# listing_idexterior_colourinterior_colourinterior_materialalloy_wheelsnavigation_system
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Automobile.it - nothing you don't

Our Automobile.it scraper handles every layer of the platform: individual listings, dynamic pricing, dealer inventories, and technical specifications, with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Listing Extraction

Make, model, version, mileage, registration date, fuel type, and transmission extracted accurately from every vehicle page.

Real-Time Price Tracking

Capture current price, original listing price, dealer discounts, and monthly financing installments timestamped per crawl.

Dealer Intelligence

Extract dealer name, location, contact details, inventory size, and aggregate ratings across the entire platform.

Technical Specifications

Parse detailed engine metrics, drivetrain layouts, weight, dimensions, and performance statistics for market analysis.

Geographic Distribution

Map vehicle availability and pricing variations across different Italian regions, provinces, and specific postal codes.

Image & Media Capture

Extract high-resolution image URLs and gallery metadata for computer vision models and visual cataloguing.

Equipment & Features Parsing

Structure unstructured feature lists into boolean fields for alloy wheels, navigation, parking sensors, and climate control.

Emission & Efficiency Data

Track Euro emission classes and CO2 output metrics to monitor compliance with regional urban access restrictions.

Scheduled & Streaming Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at daily cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From search query to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target makes, models, regions, or dealer IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for automobile.it.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample records before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Automobile.it pipeline handles the hard parts

Classified sites invest heavily in scraping detection. Here is how we stay resilient, and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · automobile.it · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint spoofing

Automobile.it employs bot detection based on request patterns and IP reputation. Our crawlers use Italian residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing trained on real user behaviour.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Vehicle detail pages and dealer inventories rely on JavaScript for rendering image galleries and contact reveals. We run full Playwright browser sessions to capture data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

DOM structures on classified sites change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field, including CSS selectors, XPath, and JSON-LD extraction, ensuring layout changes do not break your pipeline.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For large vehicle catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per listing. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load. You receive a clean changelog.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, inventory drops, and schema drift, responding before you notice. SLA uptime is contractual.

Applications

Who uses Automobile.it data - and how

Teams across industries use automobile.it data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Market Pricing & Valuation

Dealerships and valuation algorithms consume real-time pricing data to adjust their own inventory prices against market averages.

02
Dealer Inventory Monitoring

Automotive OEMs and competing dealer networks track competitor stock levels, days on market, and discount strategies.

03
Automotive Market Research

Analysts track the transition to EV and hybrid vehicles by monitoring fuel type ratios and emission class distribution across regions.

04
Lead Generation for B2B Services

Insurance companies and warranty providers identify high-volume dealerships to target with B2B partnership offerings.

05
AI Training Data

Machine learning teams use structured vehicle specifications and image URLs to train computer vision models for damage detection and vehicle recognition.

06
Fleet Management Planning

Rental and leasing companies analyse residual values of specific makes and models based on secondary market pricing trends.

Why DataFlirt

"Automobile.it holds the pulse of the Italian automotive market, but extracting structured pricing and inventory data requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable scraping requires Italian residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Automobile.it scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our automobile.it scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for image galleries and dynamic phone number reveals
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration for perimeter defence
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from IT pools rotated per request
Supported
Dealer inventory mapping
Extract all active listings tied to a specific dealer profile
Supported
Price history tracking
Capture listing price drops and increases across pipeline runs
Supported
Equipment parsing
Normalised boolean flags for common vehicle features and accessories
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff to only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch for real-time downstream processing
Supported
User account messages
Direct buyer-to-seller messaging requires authenticated user sessions
Partial
Saved searches and alerts
Personalised alert configuration requires account credentials
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies localised to Italy. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state is stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested arrays versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns for direct analysis
XLS
Excel compatible output for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for analytical warehouses
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query your extracted datasets on demand
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About automobile.it scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Automobile.it legal?

Scraping publicly available information from classified sites is generally permissible under applicable law, provided it targets public, non-authenticated vehicle and dealer data. DataFlirt does not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review platform terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle anti-bot systems?

We use Italian residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our selectors have multi-layer fallback chains, and we monitor for blocking rate spikes in real time to trigger pool rotation automatically.

How fresh is the data?

Full catalogue refreshes at daily cadence complete within a defined execution window. For targeted subsets, such as specific dealer inventories or high-value models, we can configure higher frequency runs.

Can you track price history over time?

Yes. Every pipeline run produces timestamped snapshots. We maintain a time-series record per listing for price adjustments and days on market from the date your pipeline starts.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined query set or dealer list with weekly delivery. For full-site extraction or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Do you extract dealer contact information?

Yes, we extract publicly listed dealership names, addresses, phone numbers, and aggregate ratings available on the dealer profile pages.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 vehicle listings as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and data quality before signing a contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=automobile.it ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off vehicle catalogue dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across 300K listings, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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