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Used-car listings from Spain's largest marketplace

Working with used-car listings from coches.net: prices, DGT environmental badges, dealer data, the marketplace's own price rank and what GDPR allows you to keep.

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coches.netGuide

Scrape coches.net

A walkthrough of extracting used-car listings from Spain's largest vehicle marketplace: how discovery works by facet rather than pagination, what the 55 fields contain, and what a thousand listings cost.

9 min
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coches.netExplainer

Coches.net API

Coches.net publishes no public listing API. What it does publish is a server-rendered payload and a detailed robots.txt — which together define exactly what a compliant integration can read.

6 min
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coches.netExplainer

Price rank explained

Coches.net computes its own valuation for each model and publishes it next to the asking price. Two fields, filled on 77.6% of listings, that replace a pricing model you would otherwise have to build.

7 min
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coches.netGuide

Cars below market price

A concrete screen: which fields to filter on, which segments carry the valuation data, and how to avoid the two biases that make a below-market list look better than it is.

8 min
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coches.netReference

DGT badge data

Spain's environmental badge decides where a car can drive and what it is worth. What each code means, how often it appears in listing data, and why it stays untranslated.

6 min
Used cars of the same model parked close together inside a covered dealer lot.
coches.netGuide

Car dealer lead lists

Dealer profiles come with business phone, address, postcode and province at 100% coverage on a 60-dealer sample. Private sellers' numbers are never included, and that is not a configuration gap.

7 min
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coches.netReference

Coches.net data fields

A reference for the 55 fields in a coches.net listing row, each with the percentage of 550 real listings that had it filled, plus the two fields deliberately left out.

7 min
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coches.netExplainer

GDPR and classifieds

Scraping a marketplace means scraping individuals. Article 14 attaches an obligation to that which no scraper can discharge at scale — and a setting does not remove it, it transfers it.

7 min
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coches.netGuide

Spanish market analysis

What you can and cannot conclude from marketplace listings: asking prices are not transaction prices, inventory is not demand, and the badge distribution tells you more than the fuel type does.

8 min
A narrow street in Valencia, Spain, lined with parked cars and apartment blocks.
coches.netComparison

Comparing data sources

Coches.net, Milanuncios, Wallapop and AutoScout24 all list Spanish cars, and they differ in the one thing that matters for data work: how much structure the site publishes.

7 min