Carfax Scraper API

Vehicle history reports are paid products and stay that way. The Carfax API question usually means listing data, and Decodo's Web Scraping API returns public listings as fields.

* This scraper is now a part of the Web Scraping API.

125M+

IPs worldwide

99.99%

success rate

200

requests per second

100+

ready-made templates

Free

starter plan

Be ahead of the Carfax scraping game

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What is Carfax scraper API?

A Carfax scraper API collects the public used-car marketplace, listing by listing. There's no Carfax API for listing search, and the vehicle history report behind the brand is licensed content that stays out of scope. US inventory is what this covers, with Decodo's mobile.de scraper handling the European side. Each listing returns:

  • Year, make, model, and trim
  • Asking price, with any drop against the earlier ask
  • Mileage and the accident-free indicator
  • Dealer name, city, and state
  • Photo count and days the listing has been live

Prices on a dealer lot move in small steps, so the drop against the earlier ask is usually the field that earns its keep.

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Collect Carfax data

Inventory turns over daily, and the Web Scraping API is built for that cadence of repeat collection. Search and listing URLs go in as 1 bulk submission. Photo galleries and price panels come back rendered, with CAPTCHA work settled along the way. Output lands as Markdown, CSV, JSON, or HTML, and every run picks its exits from 125M+ IPs spread over 195+ geo-locations – datacenter and ISP for speed, mobile and residential where pages resist.

Built-in scraper

JavaScript rendering

Easy API integration

195+ geo-locations, including continent-, country-, state-, and city-, ZIP code, and ASN-level targeting

No CAPTCHAs or IP blocks

Scrape Carfax with Python, Node.js, or cURL

Our Carfax Scraper API works with every major programming language, so it plugs into the tools you already run.

import requests
url = "https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape"
payload = {
"url": "https://www.carfax.com/cars-for-sale/",
"headless": "html"
}
headers = {
"accept": "application/json",
"content-type": "application/json",
"authorization": "Basic [YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_CREDENTIALS]"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Get more from the Carfax scraper API

JavaScript rendering, proxy management, and CAPTCHA handling ship in one API call, so Carfax data arrives without blocks.

100% success rate

Listings that fail to return aren't billed. The invoice counts vehicles that came back parsed.

Advanced anti-bot bypass

Marketplace pages tighten up when traffic looks mechanical. Fresh exits and shuffled headers per request keep a full inventory sweep quiet.

Real-time or on-demand results

Re-check a dealer's stock each morning, or price 1 vehicle while a buyer is still deciding.

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125M+ proxy pool

Used-car pricing follows the metro. Put the request where the buyer sits – any of 195+ locations – and let the exit type follow the job.

JavaScript rendering

Photo carousels and price history panels arrive after the listing shell. The page is taken to completion, so those values are in the response.

Easy integration

Node.js or Python for production, cURL for the first look. Templates cover marketplace listing pages already.

What does Web Scraping API cost?

Choose a plan based on your scraping volume. All plans include the same powerful features – you only pay for what you use. Start with the free plan to test before committing.

Plan price

$0

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

2K req.

$0.50

Standard proxies + JS

1K req.

$0.75

Premium Proxies

1K req.

$1.00

Premium proxies + JS

667 req.

$1.50

Rate limit

10 req/s

Start for free

Plan price

$19

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

38K req.

$0.50

Standard proxies + JS

25K req.

$0.75

Premium Proxies

19K req.

$1.00

Premium proxies + JS

12K req.

$1.50

Rate limit

10 req/s

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Plan price

$49

+VAT / Billed monthly

Request type

Price per 1k req.

Standard proxies

163K req.

$0.30

Standard proxies + JS

75K req.

$0.65

Premium Proxies

54K req.

$0.90

Premium proxies + JS

39K req.

$1.25

Rate limit

25 req/s

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$99

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Standard proxies

707K req.

$0.14

Standard proxies + JS

165K req.

$0.60

Premium Proxies

116K req.

$0.85

Premium proxies + JS

82K req.

$1.20

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50 req/s

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Test our scraping API

With each plan, you access:

99.99% success rate

Results in HTML, JSON, CSV, XHR or PNG

MCP server

JavaScript rendering

AI integrations

100+ pre-built templates

Supports search, pagination, and filtering

LLM-ready markdown format

24/7 tech support

14-day money-back

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Your information is protected by 256-bit SSL

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Carfax. Whether you're shipping a side project or running production pipelines, our infrastructure is built to keep your Carfax scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

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125M+ residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP proxies

Manage proxy rotation yourself

Limited proxy pools

Advanced browser fingerprinting

Build CAPTCHA solvers

Frequent CAPTCHA blocks

Only pay for successful requests

Handle retries manually

Pay for failed requests

100+ ready-made scraping templates

Maintenance overhead

Complex documentation

Data in JSON, CSV, HTML, and Markdown formats

Days to implement

Limited output formats

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEO specialists, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Carfax. Side projects and production pipelines run on the same infrastructure, built to keep your Carfax scraper API up while you focus on the data itself.

Attentive service

The professional expertise of the Decodo solution has significantly boosted our business growth while enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Easy to get things done

Decodo provides great service with a simple setup and friendly support team.

A key to our work

Decodo enables us to develop and test applications in varied environments while supporting precise data collection for research and audience profiling.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to scrape Carfax?

Anything licensed, paid for, or sitting behind a subscription generally falls outside scope. That boundary is worth confirming on Carfax and on any site holding a mix of open and gated material. Check what you actually need before you start. Our scraping legality resource has the wider picture.

How does the Carfax scraper API bypass blocks and CAPTCHAs?

IPs and fingerprint change as a pair, header order shifts, and CAPTCHAs are settled before anything returns. Nothing is charged for a refusal. For auction-style inventory, Decodo's eBay scraper API handles that layout.

What output formats does the Carfax scraper API support?

Listings return as HTML, as JSON on parsed layouts, or as CSV for a dealer-facing sheet. Pricing tools store JSON, since mileage and trim decide what a number actually means.

Can I geo-target Carfax requests to a specific country or city?

Yes. Any of 195+ locations can serve a request, with city-level selection where the network supports it. Inventory here is ordered by distance, so the origin sets which vehicles appear first.

How fast is the Carfax scraper API and can it handle large-scale jobs?

How many listings move at once is a plan setting, enough to refresh a regional inventory nightly. A listing page is typically back in seconds.

Can I try the Carfax scraper API for free?

Yes. There are up to 2K requests on the free Web Scraping API starter plan, opened at signup. Use the first few to confirm the pages you need are reachable without a login. Anything sitting behind an account is a different conversation entirely.

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