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"title": "Carsales.com.au $0.9 Bypass 440 Limit · Search by URL · Filters",
"description": "Scrape Carsales.com.au — Australia's #1 car marketplace — with the only Apify actor that bypasses the 20-page (440-car) cap per search. Rich rows: make, model, year, price, location, seller, transmission, fuel, odometer, photos, specs. JSON + CSV.",
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"enum": [
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"type": "string",
"description": "How to find listings. Direct URLs — paste any carsales URL and the scraper paginates through it. Search by filters — pick a few dropdowns and the scraper builds the URL. Fields belonging to the other mode are ignored.",
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"description": "One or more carsales URLs to scrape. Each URL is processed independently — internally split into price-range chunks if it returns more than ~400 listings, then paginated to completion. Copy a URL straight from your carsales browser tab, or use the example below as a template.",
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"new",
"used",
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"convertible",
"ute",
"van",
"bus",
"cab-chassis",
"people-mover"
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"type": "string",
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"",
"nsw",
"vic",
"qld",
"sa",
"wa",
"tas",
"act",
"nt"
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"type": "string",
"description": "Limit results to one Australian state/territory. Pick All Australia for a national search.",
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"",
"automatic",
"manual"
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"default": ""
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"fuelType": {
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"",
"petrol",
"diesel",
"hybrid",
"plug-in-hybrid",
"electric",
"dual-fuel"
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"colour": {
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"description": "Exterior colour as a free-text word — e.g. black, white, silver. Carsales matches loosely."
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"cylinders": {
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"maximum": 16,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Engine cylinder count. Common values: 3, 4, 6, 8, 12."
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"doors": {
"title": "Doors",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 10,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of doors. Common values: 2, 3, 4, 5."
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"priceMin": {
"title": "Minimum price (AUD)",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Set either bound on its own or combine with Maximum price. Setting any price bound lets the scraper split the search efficiently — recommended for large catalogues."
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"priceMax": {
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"type": "integer",
"description": "Upper price cap. Leave empty for no upper limit."
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"yearMin": {
"title": "Minimum year",
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"maximum": 2100,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Oldest model year to include. Pair with Maximum year for an exact range."
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"yearMax": {
"title": "Maximum year",
"minimum": 1900,
"maximum": 2100,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Newest model year to include."
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"odometerMin": {
"title": "Minimum odometer (km)",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Lower bound on kilometres on the clock."
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"odometerMax": {
"title": "Maximum odometer (km)",
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Upper bound on kilometres on the clock — useful for filtering out high-km stock."
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"postcode": {
"title": "Postcode",
"pattern": "^[0-9]{4}$",
"type": "string",
"description": "4-digit Australian postcode. Combine with Radius to find cars near you instead of by state."
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"radiusKm": {
"title": "Radius (km)",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 1000,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How far from the postcode to search. Defaults to 25 km when a postcode is set without a radius. Ignored if no postcode is provided."
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"sortBy": {
"title": "Sort order",
"enum": [
"featured",
"price-asc",
"price-desc",
"km-asc",
"km-desc",
"year-desc",
"year-asc"
],
"type": "string",
"description": "Order of results returned. The scraper still walks every page regardless of sort — this is mostly relevant when combined with Maximum listings to grab \"the top N cheapest\" etc. (URL mode honours whatever sort is in the URL.)",
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"title": "Max concurrency",
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How many detail pages to fetch in parallel. Higher is faster but burns proxy budget quicker; lower is gentler on the proxy pool.",
"default": 5
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"title": "Min concurrency",
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer",
"description": "Floor on parallel detail fetches — keeps the run moving even if some requests slow down.",
"default": 1
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"maxRequestRetries": {
"title": "Max request retries",
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How many times to retry a single failed request before giving up. The scraper scales this internally for pagination (2x) and trips a circuit breaker after 3 consecutive blocked pages — increase this if you're on a flaky proxy pool.",
"default": 5
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"monitoringMode": {
"title": "Monitoring mode — deliver only new listings since last run",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Turn on for scheduled runs that should only deliver listings new since the last run. A persistent seen-IDs set is consulted before pushing each item, so listings already delivered in a prior run are filtered out. Best paired with a scheduled run on Apify (e.g. every 3 hours) — each run produces a small delta instead of re-scraping the whole catalogue. First-run tip: set maxItems to a small number (e.g. 500) for the very first scheduled run — there are no seen IDs yet, so without a cap the actor would scrape the whole catalogue. From the second run onward maxItems is just a ceiling. Pricing note: each listing the actor evaluates against the seen-IDs set is charged as one additional-details event — this reflects the dedup work performed, including on runs where 0 new items are delivered.",
"default": false
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"title": "Skip price-range splitting",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "When on, the actor skips the internal price-range splitter that breaks large queries into chunks. Instead, it paginates a single query and stops at carsales' natural cap (~400 items). Useful for monitoring scheduled runs where you only want a small fresh sample rather than the full catalogue — ~10x cheaper compute per run. Off by default; turn on if you've enabled monitoring mode and don't need exhaustive scraping.",
"default": false
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"title": "Monitoring window",
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"since-last-run",
"today-aest",
"last-24h",
"last-6h",
"last-3h"
],
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"description": "How far back to look for new listings on each run (used only when monitoring mode is on). since-last-run (default): cutoff = the previous successful run's start time — bootstraps to midnight AEST on the very first run. today-aest: midnight today in Australian Eastern Time. last-24h / last-6h / last-3h: rolling window.",
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"flatten": {
"title": "Flatten output",
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Off (default): every item is a nested object with grouped fields (specs, seller, location, media, meta, resources) plus the most-used identity fields at the top level. Apify's dataset table view automatically flattens nested keys into columns like specs.fuelType. On: each item is a single-level object with ~110 keys — useful when piping straight into a spreadsheet that doesn't follow dotted paths.",
"default": false
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"payload": {
"title": "Payload",
"type": "object",
"description": "Advanced: extra payload data passed verbatim to carsales' internal API. Most users can leave this empty. Example: {\"data\": {}, \"sharedGroupPostBack\": \"...\"}"
},
"proxy": {
"title": "Proxy configuration",
"type": "object",
"description": "Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy with country AU is strongly recommended and is the default. Datacentre and free-tier proxy groups get blocked by carsales' bot defence and will return 0 listings. If your plan doesn't include residential credit, paste your own residential proxy URLs.",
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]
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