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RUN · 84 active pipelines · cartrade.com live

Automotive inventory,
at warehouse scale.

We extract vehicle listings, dealer inventory, historical pricing, inspection reports, and technical specifications from Cartrade. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Vehicles extracted
412K /day
Price updates
1.2M /24h
Dealer records
85K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from cartrade.com

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

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

listing_idtitlemakemodelvariantmanufacture_yearpricemileage_kmfuel_typetransmissionowner_typelocation_citycertification_statusimage_urlspage_url
used_car listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "CT948210",
"title": "2021 Hyundai Creta SX Opt Diesel AT",
"make": "Hyundai",
"price": 1750000.0,
"mileage_km": 34500,
"fuel_type": "Diesel",
"transmission": "Automatic",
"location_city": "Mumbai",
"certification_status": "Cartrade Certified"
# listing_idtitlemakemodelvariantmanufacture_year
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Complete list of extractable fields for New Car Specs objects from cartrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

model_idmakemodelvariant_nameex_showroom_priceengine_ccbhpseating_capacityfuel_economy_kmpldimensions_mmboot_space_litresground_clearance_mmwarranty_years
new_car specs
● 200 OK
"make": "Tata",
"model": "Nexon",
"variant_name": "Creative Plus S",
"ex_showroom_price": 1280000.0,
"engine_cc": 1199,
"bhp": 118.2,
"fuel_economy_kmpl": 17.4,
"seating_capacity": 5
# model_idmakemodelvariant_nameex_showroom_priceengine_cc
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Complete list of extractable fields for Dealer Data objects from cartrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

dealer_iddealer_nameaddresscitystatepincoderatingreview_counttotal_inventory_countverified_statusbrands_handleddealer_url
dealer_data
● 200 OK
"dealer_id": "DLR4921",
"dealer_name": "Apex Auto Group",
"city": "Bengaluru",
"rating": 4.2,
"review_count": 156,
"total_inventory_count": 42,
"verified_status": true,
"brands_handled": "['Maruti Suzuki', 'Hyundai']"
# dealer_iddealer_nameaddresscitystatepincode
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Complete list of extractable fields for Inspection Reports objects from cartrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idoverall_scoreengine_ratingexterior_ratinginterior_ratingelectricals_ratingsuspension_ratingtest_drive_statusinspector_notesinspection_datereport_url
inspection_reports
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "CT948210",
"overall_score": 4.5,
"engine_rating": 5.0,
"exterior_rating": 4.0,
"interior_rating": 4.5,
"test_drive_status": "Completed",
"inspection_date": "2026-02-14",
"inspector_notes": "Minor scratch on rear bumper. Engine runs smooth."
# listing_idoverall_scoreengine_ratingexterior_ratinginterior_ratingelectricals_rating
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Complete list of extractable fields for On-Road Pricing objects from cartrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

variant_idcityex_showroom_pricerto_taxinsurance_premiumhandling_chargesaccessories_costtotal_on_road_priceemi_estimate_amountloan_interest_rateprice_timestamp
on-road_pricing
● 200 OK
"city": "Delhi",
"ex_showroom_price": 1280000.0,
"rto_tax": 128000.0,
"insurance_premium": 45000.0,
"handling_charges": 5000.0,
"total_on_road_price": 1458000.0,
"emi_estimate_amount": 28400.0,
"price_timestamp": "2026-05-12T10:00:00Z"
# variant_idcityex_showroom_pricerto_taxinsurance_premiumhandling_charges
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Cartrade - nothing you don't

Our Cartrade scraper handles every layer of the platform: dynamic inventory searches, dealer storefronts, technical specifications, and inspection reports - with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Used Inventory Scraping

Extract title, make, model, year, mileage, transmission, owner history, and pricing across all used car listings.

New Car Specs & Variants

Capture detailed technical specifications, dimensions, engine capacity, and variant hierarchies for new vehicles.

Dealer Storefronts

Extract dealer details, verified status, physical address, aggregated ratings, and total active inventory counts.

City-Level Pricing

Simulate location cookies to extract accurate on-road pricing, RTO taxes, and insurance estimates per city.

Inspection Data

Parse structured inspection reports including component-level ratings, test drive status, and inspector notes.

Certification & Badges

Identify Cartrade Certified vehicles, warranty inclusions, and premium listing badges for value analysis.

Historical Price Tracking

Monitor asking price drops, days on market, and inventory turnover rates across specific models or dealers.

EMI & Finance Data

Extract default loan terms, interest rates, and estimated EMI calculations presented on vehicle pages.

Multi-City Coverage

Iterate through regional subdomains and location filters to build a national view of vehicle supply.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run daily inventory syncs or configure real-time pipelines with change-detection diffing for immediate updates.

// engagement pipeline

From search query to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target cities, makes, models, or dealer URLs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for cartrade.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and location verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Cartrade pipeline handles the hard parts

Automotive portals deploy aggressive rate limiting to protect inventory data. Here is how we maintain stable extraction.

pipeline-monitor · cartrade.com · 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
Pagination limits
Bypassing hard limits on search results

Cartrade restricts deep pagination on broad searches. We dynamically partition queries by make, model, year, and micro-location to ensure full catalogue extraction without hitting arbitrary result caps.

Location spoofing
Accurate city-level pricing via cookies

On-road pricing and local inventory depend on session cookies and IP geolocation. Our crawlers manage stateful sessions, injecting specific city codes and headers to extract accurate regional data.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

Key data points like EMI calculators, inspection report modals, and image galleries rely on client-side rendering. We execute full browser sessions to hydrate these components before extraction.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxies and fingerprinting

To prevent IP bans during high-volume crawls, we route requests through Indian residential proxies, rotate user agents, and simulate human interaction patterns to remain undetected by security firewalls.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Automotive listings often have inconsistent DOM structures depending on the dealer or vehicle type. We utilise multiple CSS and XPath fallback chains to ensure data integrity despite layout variations.

Applications

Who uses Cartrade data - and how

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

01
Auto Dealerships

Monitor competitor inventory, track local pricing trends, and optimise asking prices based on current market supply.

02
Insurance Providers

Analyse vehicle depreciation curves and market values to refine premium calculations and total-loss settlement models.

03
Auto Finance & NBFCs

Track exact on-road pricing and variant availability to streamline loan approvals and verify dealer quotes.

04
Market Research

Quantify brand market share, track the shift towards automatic transmissions, and analyse EV adoption rates by city.

05
Pricing Algorithms

Feed real-time used car pricing data into machine learning models to generate instant valuation estimates for consumer platforms.

06
Aggregators

Consolidate listings across multiple portals to provide a unified vehicle search experience for end consumers.

Why DataFlirt

"Cartrade holds the most comprehensive vehicle inventory and pricing data in India, but aggregating it across cities requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Cartrade scraping requires location cookie management, full JavaScript rendering for dynamic pricing, CAPTCHA handling, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the pipeline.

Technical Spec

Cartrade scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for inspection reports and dynamic pricing widgets
Supported
Location simulation
Cookie and header injection for accurate city-level on-road pricing
Supported
Variant mapping
Hierarchical extraction of make, model, and specific trim levels
Supported
Dealer inventory extraction
Complete catalog extraction from individual dealer storefront URLs
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time inventory updates
Supported
Seller phone numbers
Direct contact numbers are protected by an OTP verification wall
Partial
User saved vehicles
Requires authenticated user sessions and personal account credentials
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Cartrade 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 and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows for dynamic automotive listings.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across Indian regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions for location-dependent pricing queries.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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/Sheets compatible
XLS
Standard spreadsheet format for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
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
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
How do you handle Cartrade search pagination limits?

Cartrade limits the number of visible results for broad queries. We bypass this by dynamically partitioning searches into granular micro-queries based on make, model, year, and specific city zones to extract the entire inventory.

Can you extract accurate on-road pricing for specific cities?

Yes. We simulate local browsing sessions by injecting regional cookies and headers, allowing us to capture accurate ex-showroom prices, RTO taxes, and insurance estimates for any specified city.

Do you extract direct seller phone numbers?

No. Cartrade protects direct seller and dealer contact numbers behind an OTP verification wall. We only extract publicly visible dealer information and listing metadata.

How fresh is the inventory data?

We can configure pipelines to run at your required cadence. Full national inventory refreshes typically run daily, while targeted dealer tracking can be executed on an hourly basis.

Can you track price drops on specific vehicles?

Yes. Our change detection system tracks the asking price for every listing ID. We can output a changelog showing price drops, days on market, and status changes over time.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at tracking specific makes/models or a defined list of cities with weekly delivery. For full national catalogue extraction, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=cartrade.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 daily used car inventory dump or continuous new car pricing updates across India - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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