La Centrale Scraper

🚗 La Centrale Scraper

Get used-car listings from lacentrale.fr, France's car marketplace, as clean structured data: make, model, version, year, mileage, price, fuel, gearbox, La Centrale's deal rating, seller name and the seller's phone number. Paste a search URL or just pick filters. Turn on full details to also get the description, full specs, price history, market quotation, equipment, every photo and the dealer's Google reviews. No login needed.

✨ Why use La Centrale Scraper?

• ⚡ Fast: one result page returns about 23 cars. In our tests 1,000 cars took about 36 seconds and a 20-car run took 6 to 16 seconds.
• 📞 Seller phones included: La Centrale hides phone numbers in an encoded form. The scraper decodes them, so every row has a number you can call.
• 🔍 Search your way: paste any search URL you built on lacentrale.fr, paste listing URLs or references like E120139111, or use the built-in filters (make, model, fuel, body type, price, year, mileage, region, department, seller type).
• 📈 Big searches: La Centrale stops paging after about 6,900 cars per search. Bigger searches are split by price automatically, so you can still collect tens of thousands of cars.
• 🧾 Full records on demand: one switch adds about 90 more fields per car, including specs, CO2, Crit'Air, battery data, price-drop history, market quotation, equipment, all photos and the seller's address, opening hours and Google rating.
• 🛡️ No setup: the site's bot protection and the French proxy are handled for you.

🎯 Use cases

• 💶 Used-car pricing: track asking prices, price drops and La Centrale's market quotation by model, year and mileage.
• 📋 Dealer lead generation: build lists of French car dealers and private sellers with phone numbers, cities and stock.
• 🔔 Stock monitoring: schedule a search (for example every Peugeot 208 under €15,000 in Île-de-France) and catch new listings first.
• 🏁 Competitor watch: see what other dealers list, at what price, with which equipment and warranty.
• 🔋 EV market research: compare battery size, range and prices of used electric and plug-in hybrid cars.

🚀 How to use

1. Open lacentrale.fr, run a search and copy the address from your browser. Or skip that and use the Make, Model and filter fields.
2. Paste the URL into Start URLs. You can add several searches and single listings in one run.
3. Set Max listings (for example 20 for a test, 0 for no limit).
4. Turn on Scrape full details if you need specs, description, photos and seller reviews.
5. Click Start, then export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or fetch them through the API.

📥 Input

{
  "make": "PEUGEOT",
  "model": "208",
  "energies": ["ESSENCE"],
  "priceMax": 15000,
  "yearMin": 2018,
  "regions": ["FR-IDF"],
  "sort": "lowestPrice",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "scrapeDetails": false
}

📤 Output

Each row is one car. Search rows carry about 45 fields; with full details a row carries more than 130.

Search row (from a real run; seller name and phone replaced with examples):

{
  "classifiedId": "87103505530",
  "url": "https://www.lacentrale.fr/auto-occasion-annonce-87103505530.html",
  "reference": "W103505530",
  "make": "RENAULT",
  "model": "CLIO",
  "version": "II (2) CAMPUS 1.5 DCI 65 4CV AUTHENTIQUE 5P",
  "category": "CITADINE",
  "year": 2007,
  "mileage": 161499,
  "gearbox": "MANUAL",
  "energy": "DIESEL",
  "price": 2990,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "goodDealBadge": "VERY_GOOD_DEAL",
  "customerType": "PRO",
  "sellerType": "CENTRE_MULTIMARQUES",
  "sellerName": "AUTO EXEMPLE 18",
  "phone": "0200000000",
  "departmentCode": "18",
  "firstOnlineDate": "2026-06-17",
  "picturesCount": 21,
  "hasAutovizaReport": true,
  "detailsScraped": false
}

Extra fields with Scrape full details (trimmed):

{
  "versionLabel": "II (2) 1.2 100 S&S ALLURE BVM6",
  "priceInitial": 15490,
  "priceHistory": [15490, 14100],
  "refinedQuotation": 15538,
  "powerDin": 101,
  "fiscalHorsePower": 5,
  "co2Combined": 118,
  "critairLevel": "1",
  "nbOfOwners": 1,
  "equipments": ["ABS", "Climatisation automatique", "Radar anti-collision", "..."],
  "sellerCity": "AVION",
  "images": ["https://pictures.lacentrale.fr/classifieds/E119492877_STANDARD_0.jpg?...", "..."],
  "detailsScraped": true
}

💰 Pricing

You pay per car:

• Car from search results: $0.60 per 1,000 cars.
• Full car record (with Scrape full details, or a listing URL): $3.00 per 1,000 cars, instead of the search price.

Platform usage (compute and the French residential proxy) is billed on top. In our tests that was about $0.02 per 1,000 search cars and about $0.30 per 1,000 full records. Example: 1,000 cars from a search cost about $0.62 in total. Use Max listings and the run's maximum charge to cap the spend: the run stops cleanly when the limit is reached.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape La Centrale? The scraper collects only what any visitor can see on public listing pages. Seller names and phones are personal data when the seller is a private person, so follow the GDPR and French rules on direct marketing when you use them.

Do I need a login or my own proxy? No. No account is used, and a French residential proxy is the default. If you pick datacenter exits, the scraper switches to French residential exits automatically, because La Centrale refuses datacenter addresses.

How many cars can I get? As many as the search has. La Centrale serves about 6,900 cars per search; above that the scraper splits the search by price on its own. Very narrow price bands with more than 6,900 cars are the only case it cannot fully cover, and the run says so.

Why is a field empty? Search rows do not contain specs, description or reviews: turn on full details. Some sellers write no description, private sellers have no Google reviews, and battery fields are only filled for electric and plug-in cars.

Can I schedule it or use the API? Yes. Save your input as a task, schedule it, and read the results through the API or an integration.

⚠️ Limits

• Only cars and light vehicles listed on lacentrale.fr (the /listing search). Motorbikes, campers and the price guide pages are not covered.
• One search returns at most about 6,900 cars; bigger searches are split by price, which adds a few extra page loads.
• The phone number is the one La Centrale shows on the listing. For many dealers it is a call-tracking number.
• Seller Google reviews are the five that La Centrale shows on the car's page, not the full review history.
• La Centrale's bot protection is solved automatically. If the solving service is down, the run finishes with what it could load and says so in its status.