mobile.de is the default for German used-car data — but it's dealer-dominated,
heavily defended, and you're seeing the same inventory every other dealer and tool
sees. The biggest blind spot it leaves is private sellers, who list on
Kleinanzeigen (formerly eBay Kleinanzeigen). That's where the arbitrage, the cheaper
cars and the motivated sellers are — and it's far more accessible to pull.
Why private-seller data is the edge
- Different inventory — private owners list cheaper and earlier than dealers; it's the half of the market mobile.de under-represents.
- Arbitrage & sourcing — dealers and flippers buy private and resell; this is the sourcing side.
- Cleaner economics — Kleinanzeigen is easier to access reliably than mobile.de's defenses.
The approach
The Kleinanzeigen Autos Scraper
parses the German car attributes most tools drop — Marke (make), Modell,
Erstzulassung (year), Kilometerstand (mileage), Kraftstoff (fuel), Getriebe
(gearbox), Leistung (power), price — into clean, typed fields, with city/PLZ +
radius search.
{ "locationCode": "berlin", "maxPrice": 20000, "minYear": 2016, "maxMileage": 120000 }
Output is one tidy row per car — make, model, year, mileage, fuel, transmission,
power, price, location, URL — ready for price analysis, arbitrage screening or a
search product.
Pair it for full DACH coverage
Used cars are one slice of the DACH market. The same engine powers the
Kleinanzeigen Immobilien Scraper
(real estate) and Kleinanzeigen Jobs Scraper
(local jobs), plus willhaben
for Austria — so you can cover the German-speaking market with one consistent data shape.
Honest note
This complements mobile.de rather than replacing it: mobile.de still has the deepest
dealer inventory. For private-seller cars, market-price analysis and sourcing,
Kleinanzeigen is the better, more accessible source — and it's the half most people miss.
FAQ
Do I need an API key? No — give a location and optional filters.
Can I filter by make/model? Best-effort by title keyword; for exact make filtering,
paste a Kleinanzeigen search URL with the make facet selected.
What fields do I get? Make, model, year, first registration, mileage, price, fuel,
transmission, power, condition, color and location, where the listing provides them.
Is it legal? It reads publicly available listing data. Use it responsibly and
within applicable laws and Kleinanzeigen's terms.
Get the private-seller side of the German car market with the Kleinanzeigen Autos Scraper — a data complement to mobile.de.
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