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Used cars classifieds scraping

If you want a complete and accurate database of cars sold in your country, used cars listings are NOT a good place to source data from, because they are variable data, every day new cars are posted for sale while others become inactive, many car models are duplicated and some car models are missing because none is on sale today.

But if you want to analyze most popular car models, their average price, age, mileage, etc, or training an image recognition software with amateur images labelled with car make and model, I can help you extracting data from used cars classifieds websites.

Custom database building

A variety of people and companies visit my website, so is NOT possible to make everyone happy by offering a single vehicle database, or to predict what customers will visit me in the future and create suitable databases in advance.

Tell me what data are you looking for, I may customize one of the already-made databases, or create a new database according your requirements, for you and for future customers looking for same thing.

API / web service

I have 15+ years experience in researching automobile industry and compile data in Excel… and I am looking for a skilled web developer with high interest in cars, that can help me to provide API beside selling Excel / CSV / SQL files. I give FREE API access to whoever help me!

Registration number database… is this possible?

    I am writing this page because people asked me if I can provide registration plate database.

    Vehicle registration lookup API and databases are maintained by governments, they CANNOT be made by, or purchased from random individuals and freelancers like me, because every day new cars are registered, scraped or change owners.

    GCC car database changelog

      GCC car database is a project started in May 2016. This page shows number of makes and model years at each successive update.

      India car database changelog

      India Car Database is a project started in August 2015, joined by India Bike Database in January 2016. This page show number of models at each successive monthly updates.

      Year-Make-Model changelog

        Year-Make-Model is a car database started in February 2013. This page shows number of makes and model years at each successive update.

        Year Make Model Trim Specs changelog

          Year-Make-Model-Trim-Specs is a project started in 2014, This page show number of makes, model names, model years and trims at each successive update.

          Year Make Model Trim Specs changed car names

            While analyzing data scraped from Edmunds, I decided to do several changes, correcting few obvious mistakes (example: AMG models and Yukon Denali) and improving model hierarchy to reduce number of so-called models with short production period, which are actually trims of a long-production model:

            2019-04-07

              A strange person trying to sell me database of car buyers from all new car dealerships across India, 1.5 million records.

              2017-11-21

                This was funny! Someone bought a car database from CarQueryAPI and ask me for updates, then realized what crappy database he bought and choose to buy from me another, better quality database.