This blog shows how to extract Cars.com data with Google Chrome Web Scraper Extension. This helps you collect detailed info about new as well as used cars to get sold on Cars.com.
What Data You Can Scrape from Cars.com?
At Actowiz Solutions, we help you scrape data fields from Cars.com like:
- Car Name
- Pricing
- Seller’s Name
- Address
- Reviews
- Ratings
- Additional Details
- Contact Info
The screenshot provided here shows various data fields, which we would be extracting:
Basic Requirements
Browser: Google Chrome - You need to download Chrome browser as this extension requires Chrome 49+.
Data Scraping Chrome Extension: A data scraper extension could get downloaded from Chrome Data Store. After extension download, you would observe a spider icon added in the toolbar.
Importing a Car Data Extractor
After doing installation, just right-click on a page anywhere and go to option ‘Inspect’.
The developer tools console would pop up.
After that, just click on Web Scraper tab as well as select the option ‘Create new sitemap’ as well as click on option ‘Import sitemap’.
Then paste given JSON below in Sitemap JSON box.
Getting a URL from Cars.com
This website Cars.com helps you explore for cars, which you might filter as per the parameters including locations, used and new cars, year, make, deal rating, model, trims, as well as other detailed features.
The Cars.com data scraper assists you in extracting data from Cars.com website as per your needs, you can choose filters when you want the scraped data and copy the corresponding URLs.
Then add a URL to metadata just by clicking a sitemap drop-down as well as paste the URL.
Go to Web Scraper toolbar and click on Sitemap button as well as choose “Edit metadata’ alternative and paste a new URL (as per your filter) like a Start URL.
Run Your Scraper
Go to Sitemap and then click on ‘Scrape’ from drop down. A new Chrome occurrence will launch, helping the extension for rolling and get the data. When data scraping gets completed, this browser would automatically get closed and send the notification.
Downloading the Data
For downloading the extracted data like a CSV file that you could open in Google Sheets or Excel, go to option Sitemap > Export as CSV > Download Now.
At Actowiz Solutions, we will help you with all your data scraping needs. Contact us now for Cars.com data scraping service!
