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RUN · 41 active pipelines · cars24.com live

Cars24 data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract used car inventory, mechanical inspection reports, pricing signals, and ownership history from Cars24. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Cars extracted
42.1K /day
Price updates
85.3K /24h
Inspection reports
12.8K /run
Active pipelines
41
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from cars24.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Car Listings objects from cars24.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idmakemodelvariantmanufacture_yearpriceodometer_kmfuel_typetransmissionbody_typeowner_countrto_codecitylisting_url
car_listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "C24-982134",
"make": "Hyundai",
"model": "Creta",
"variant": "1.6 SX PLUS AUTO",
"manufacture_year": 2018,
"price": 945000.0,
"odometer_km": 42150,
"fuel_type": "Petrol",
"transmission": "Automatic",
"owner_count": 1,
"rto_code": "KA-51",
"city": "Bengaluru"
# listing_idmakemodelvariantmanufacture_yearprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inspection Reports objects from cars24.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idengine_ratingexterior_ratinginterior_ratingtyre_conditionelectricals_statustest_drive_notesstructural_damageac_coolingsuspension_statusbrake_conditionreport_url
inspection_reports
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "C24-982134",
"engine_rating": 4.5,
"exterior_rating": 3.8,
"interior_rating": 4.2,
"tyre_condition": "70% tread remaining",
"electricals_status": "All functional",
"structural_damage": false,
"ac_cooling": "Effective",
"brake_condition": "Pads require replacement within 5000km"
# listing_idengine_ratingexterior_ratinginterior_ratingtyre_conditionelectricals_status
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Complete list of extractable fields for Pricing & Valuation objects from cars24.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idasking_pricetrueprice_estimateemi_startingdownpayment_mindiscount_amountbooking_amountprice_historyrto_tax_paidinsurance_cost
pricing_& valuation
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "C24-982134",
"asking_price": 945000.0,
"trueprice_estimate": 938000.0,
"emi_starting": 18450.0,
"downpayment_min": 94500.0,
"discount_amount": 15000.0,
"booking_amount": 10000.0,
"rto_tax_paid": true
# listing_idasking_pricetrueprice_estimateemi_startingdownpayment_mindiscount_amount
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Complete list of extractable fields for Vehicle History objects from cars24.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idregistration_dateinsurance_typeinsurance_validityfitness_certificate_validitychallan_historyservice_logs_availableloan_historyowner_typerto_city
vehicle_history
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "C24-982134",
"registration_date": "2018-05-14",
"insurance_type": "Comprehensive",
"insurance_validity": "2026-05-13",
"fitness_certificate_validity": "2033-05-13",
"challan_history": "Clear",
"service_logs_available": true,
"owner_type": "Individual",
"rto_city": "Bengaluru South"
# listing_idregistration_dateinsurance_typeinsurance_validityfitness_certificate_validitychallan_history
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Complete list of extractable fields for Media & Assets objects from cars24.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idthumbnail_urlgallery_urlsdefect_imagesview_360_urlvideo_urlinterior_imagesengine_imagesdocument_images
media_& assets
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "C24-982134",
"thumbnail_url": "https://assets.cars24.com/c24-982134-thumb.jpg",
"view_360_url": "https://assets.cars24.com/c24-982134-360.html",
"video_url": "None",
"interior_images": 8,
"engine_images": 3,
"defect_images": "['scratch_front_bumper.jpg', 'dent_rear_door.jpg']"
# listing_idthumbnail_urlgallery_urlsdefect_imagesview_360_urlvideo_url
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Cars24, nothing you do not

Our Cars24 scraper handles every layer of the platform. We extract inventory listings, dynamic pricing, TruePrice valuations, and granular 140-point inspection reports with JavaScript rendering and session management built in.

Full Inventory Extraction

Make, model, variant, year, transmission, and fuel type across all Cars24 hubs. Extracted at listing level with exact specifications.

140-Point Inspection Data

Extract granular mechanical, electrical, and exterior defect mappings directly from the Cars24 inspection sheets.

Pricing & TruePrice Metrics

Capture asking price, historical price drops, and algorithmic TruePrice valuations timestamped per crawl.

RTO & Registration Details

Extract RTO codes, registration dates, fitness certificate validity, and verified ownership counts.

EMI & Financing Estimates

Scrape default loan terms, minimum down payment requirements, and interest rate assumptions advertised on the listing.

Defect Image Mapping

Download and map specific defect coordinates to exterior and interior image assets.

Multi-City Support

Filter and extract inventory across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and tier-2 cities using location parameters.

Stock Velocity Tracking

Monitor days on market, sold status, and listing removal events to gauge inventory turnover rates.

Scheduled & Streaming Modes

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

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From filter criteria to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target cities, make and model filters, or specific hubs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for cars24.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample inspection reports 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 Cars24 pipeline handles the hard parts

Cars24 invests heavily in scraping detection. Here is how we stay resilient, and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · cars24.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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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

Cars24 blocks datacenter IPs and repetitive request patterns. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management trained on real user behaviour patterns.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for SPA content

Cars24 relies heavily on client-side rendering. We run full Playwright browser sessions with JavaScript execution, lazy-load triggering, and dynamic widget hydration, capturing data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

DOM structures for inspection reports change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field, so a layout update does not break your data pipeline overnight.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For large city-wide catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per listing. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost, storage bloat, and downstream processing load.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

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

Applications

Who uses Cars24 data, and how

Teams across industries use cars24.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Price Intelligence & Market Benchmarking

Dealerships and aggregators monitor Cars24 pricing models to adjust their own valuation algorithms.

02
Inventory Velocity Analysis

Analysts track days on market and discount frequencies to measure regional used car demand.

03
Vehicle Valuation Models

ML teams use historical pricing and 140-point inspection data to train automated car valuation engines.

04
Competitor Monitoring

OEMs and rival platforms track Cars24 market share, inventory depth, and refurbishment throughput by city.

05
Defect Pattern Recognition

Insurance and warranty providers analyse frequent mechanical failures tied to specific makes and models.

06
Financing & Loan Profiling

NBFCs monitor the EMI structures and down payment requirements advertised against specific vehicle cohorts.

Why DataFlirt

"Cars24 holds the most structured used car inspection and pricing dataset in India, but extracting it requires navigating heavy client-side rendering and aggressive bot protection."

Most teams underestimate the investment required. Reliable Cars24 scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for inspection reports, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Cars24 scraper technical capabilities

Everything supported by our cars24.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for inspection reports and image galleries
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from IN pools rotated per request
Supported
140-Point Inspection parsing
Structured extraction of all mechanical and aesthetic defect flags
Supported
TruePrice tracking
Extraction of algorithmic valuation estimates per listing
Supported
Historical price tracking
Time-series data for price drops and listing duration
Supported
Multi-city inventory
Parallel extraction across all supported regional hubs
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, useful for real-time inventory alerts
Supported
User financing applications
Gated loan approval status and credit score checks require user credentials
Partial
Customer booking history
Requires authenticated user sessions and OTP verification
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Cars24 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 across IN regions. Rotation happens per request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda for burst tasks and ECS for sustained loads. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state 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, schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns, Excel and Sheets compatible
XLS
Native Excel format for immediate business analyst use
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery, compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST API endpoints to query your extracted datasets
PostgreSQL
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About cars24.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Cars24 legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Cars24 is generally permissible under applicable law in India. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated inventory, pricing, and inspection data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate privacy regulations. Clients should review Cars24 terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Cars24 anti-bot systems?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our selectors have multi-layer fallback chains so DOM changes do not break the pipeline. We monitor for rate spikes in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you extract the 140-point inspection reports?

Yes. We parse the inspection reports into structured formats, capturing specific mechanical, electrical, and aesthetic defect flags along with their severity ratings.

Do you track inventory across all Indian cities?

Yes. We support extraction across Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, and all tier-2 cities where Cars24 operates.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for price and availability signals on defined city filters. Full catalogue refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 6-12 hour window.

Do you scrape TruePrice valuations?

Yes. TruePrice estimates are captured alongside the asking price, allowing you to analyse the variance between algorithmic valuation and listing price.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

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

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=cars24.com 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 inventory dump or a continuous price-monitoring feed across all Indian hubs, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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