InstaCar Scraper for Car Subscription Data

Fields in an InstaCar data export, from monthly fee to Euro class

The unit of this catalogue is an offer, not a model. The same BMW 1-Series 116d shows up more than once with different monthly figures and states, so an InstaCar price feed keys on the skuId rather than on make and model, and a specific used unit appends a dated suffix to that id.

Each leasing offer carries:

• Identity - skuId, brand, model, version name such as 120 M Sport and Premium Pack, plus the model page it hangs from.
• Money - the struck-through from fee, the live monthly fee, and the note that the figure excludes VAT; a toggle switches every amount between net and gross.
• Term - Month to Month, 12, 24 and 36 months as four tabs, each with its own fee, its own refundable instastart of one to three monthly rentals, and its own swap allowance.
• Prepayment - a deposit slider that publishes its minimum, maximum and current value on the control itself; moving it moves the monthly figure.
• Availability - Available, Available now, Coming soon, a named month such as Available October, or In subscription, meaning the car is out with a driver.
• Basic specification - engine type, displacement, horsepower, transmission, CO2, fuel type, consumption, length, width, doors.
• Technical specification - chassis, seats, top speed, airbags, torque, Euro class, tyre size, interior material, boot litres, size class, height, kerb weight, tank volume, 0-100 time, gears, driven wheels.
• Equipment - five named groups, Multimedia, Exterior, Interior, Comfort and Safety, each a free list, not a fixed schema.
• Used units - an odometer reading on the card, with year, mileage and colour in the specification block.

The buy tree adds year, kilometres, colour, a sold flag and a finance panel with a down-payment slider and twelve, forty-eight or eighty-four instalments. Micromobility rows are shorter: range, weight, a type such as EScooter, ePatini or Fat Bike, and a monthly fee. Every vehicle page also emits schema.org Car markup, so bodyType, emissionsCO2, meetsEmissionStandard, numberOfAirbags, vehicleTransmission, driveWheelConfiguration and an engine block can be extracted from InstaCar pages without depending on the visual layout.

Facet counts, the private-versus-business split and the Greek tax lines

The filter panel is a dataset in itself: every facet ships with a live count. Price bands run up to 300, then 301 to 450, 451 to 600, 601 to 900 and 900 plus. Contract period, brand, category (Small, Medium, Large, Business), fuel (Petrol, Hybrid, Battery, Diesel, LPG, CNG) and transmission each carry their own tallies, and the offers block counts Deals of the Deals against a single Car Of The Month. Curated strips - Family, Small, Business, Value for Money - cut the fleet another way.

The split that matters commercially is idiotes against epaggelmatika: private individuals against businesses. The private view drops the Business category entirely and shrinks the fleet by roughly a fifth, and the two sides are qualified differently, with E3 forms and VAT returns replacing a payslip. Anyone sizing the Greek market needs both slices, not the headline total.

Greek specifics sit on the card. Monthly figures are quoted excluding VAT, which is how a business reads them and how a private driver does not, so the toggle state has to travel with the number. Road tax and the annual KTEO test are inside the fee, removing two line items a Greek owner would otherwise pay, while the CO2 and Euro class fields on the same card are what those road-tax bands are set from. Formatting is Greek too: dot for thousands, comma for decimals, so a van fee reads 1.437 EUR and a promo 181,50 EUR.

Addressing is shallow: a sitemap index splitting brands, static pages, categories and models, facet landings in both language trees, and numbered paging, which is how an InstaCar scraping run walks the fleet without guessing at URLs.