How to scrape Autotrader

Autotrader is the leading automotive marketplace in the United Kingdom, with over 60 million visitors per month.

With over 400,000 vehicles listed on Autotrader monthly, the platform integrates the best-in-class modern data tools for building a trustworthy, scalable, and profitable marketplace.

The platform serves as a goldmine both for private vehicle sellers or buyers and dealers.

If you are a car dealer, you face high switching costs since customers are very price-conscious. In order to make a sale, you need to gain a competitive advantage.

If you are a car buyer, in the terms of the different types of cars and dealerships, finding the right car with the most desirable price for you can be a tedious process.

You can use data scraping for the cases mentioned above and not only.

The good news is that Hexomatic offers a scraping solution for Autotrader that is lightning fast.

In this tutorial, you will learn:

#1 How to scrape Autotrader listings.

#2 How to scrape Autotrader single product.

#1 How to scrape Autotrader listings

Hexomatic offers ready-made templates allowing you to scrape any vehicle listings from Autotrader on autopilot. You can perform 1-click scraping of the desired vehicle models with their URLs and images to perform market and competitor research if you are a dealer or make the process of finding your desired vehicle if you are a car enthusiast.

So, follow the steps below to get things done. 

Step 1: Go to Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

 Step 2: Capture the URLs of the targeted pages

Go to https://www.autotrader.com/ and capture the URLs of the listings you want to scrape. 

For example,

Step 3: Select the “ Autotrader listings” recipe

From the Recipe Library, select the “Autotrader listings” recipe and click the “Use with data input” option.

Step 4: Add the captured listings URL(s) via data input

Add the listings URL(s) captured from Autotrader.com via data input. You have the option of adding a single URL or a list of URLs.

Step 5: Add the “Autotrader listings” recipe to the workflow

Next, add the “Autotrader listings” recipe to the workflow, selecting data input as the source. 

Then, click Continue.

Step 6: Run the workflow

Now, you can run the workflow. 

Step 7: View and Save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets.

#2 How to scrape Autotrader single product

After scraping product listings, you can scrape detailed information about any vehicle using our ready-made “Autotrader single product” recipe.

Step 1: Go to Public Recipe Library

From your dashboard, select Recipe Library to access the public scraping recipes. 

Step 2: Capture the targeted single product page URL(s)

Go to https://www.autotrader.com/ and capture the URLs of the single product pages you want to scrape. 

For example,

Step 3: Select the “Autotrader single product” recipe 

From the Recipe Library, search and select the “Autotrader single product” recipe and click the “Use with data input” option.

Then, click Continue.

Step 4: Add the captured URL(s) via data input

Add the page URL(s) you have captured previously via data input. You have the option of adding a single URL and a list of URLs. 

Step 5: Add the “Autotrader single product” recipe to the workflow

Next, add the “Booking single listing” recipe to the workflow, selecting data input as the source.

Step 6:  Run the workflow

You can now run the workflow.

Step 7: View and Save the results

Once the workflow has finished running, you can view the results and export them to CSV or Google Sheets.

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