Used and new car market research
Use Autotrader endpoints to turn used and new car market research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Turn public Autotrader listings into structured vehicle data — search by make, model, and location, get a full vehicle spec (trim, mileage, colors, transmission, fuel type, drivetrain) for one listing, and pull a dealer's profile plus current inventory. Credential-free.
Search Autotrader vehicle listings and get normalized vehicle spec, dealer profiles, and current dealer inventory as structured JSON.
Endpoint families
3
Documented params
20
Examples
3
Live catalog snapshot
Active endpoints
3
Methods
GET
Required params
5
Schema refs
3
{
"platform": "Autotrader",
"endpoint": "autotrader-search",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/autotrader/search",
"auth": "apiKey"
}Use cases
Search Autotrader vehicle listings and get normalized vehicle spec, dealer profiles, and current dealer inventory as structured JSON.
Use Autotrader endpoints to turn used and new car market research into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Autotrader endpoints to turn price and mileage monitoring into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Use Autotrader endpoints to turn dealer inventory tracking into repeatable API requests with documented inputs and JSON responses.
Managed execution
Each Crawlora platform API is designed around a specific data surface. Instead of exposing a generic fetch endpoint, Crawlora combines endpoint-specific request logic, managed infrastructure, parsing, normalization, billing, and Playground-tested examples.
Request behavior is tuned for the target platform and endpoint type.
Supported endpoints can use managed proxy routing to improve reliability and reduce infrastructure work.
Dynamic pages can be routed through managed browser instances where JavaScript rendering is required.
Challenge pages and unusable upstream responses are detected and surfaced clearly.
Results are returned as documented JSON instead of raw HTML.
Test the same route from Docs and Playground before production integration.
Coverage map
These cards are generated from the active endpoint catalog, so the landing page reflects the same API surface used by Docs and Playground.
/autotrader/dealer/{id}
/autotrader/search
/autotrader/vehicle/{id}
Endpoint catalog
/autotrader/searchSearches Autotrader for new and used car listings, returning normalized vehicle summaries (make, model, trim, year, mileage, pricing, images) plus the total matching count. Credential-free public data sourced from Autotrader's own server-rendered search page.
/autotrader/vehicle/{id}Returns a normalized Autotrader vehicle listing: full vehicle spec (make, model, trim, mileage, colors, transmission, fuel type, engine, images, pricing), the full listing description, and seller detail (dealership or private seller). Credential-free public data sourced from Autotrader's own server-rendered vehicle detail page.
/autotrader/dealer/{id}Returns a normalized Autotrader dealer profile (name, phone, address, rating, website) plus a first page of the dealer's own current inventory as normalized vehicle summaries and the dealer's total listing count. Credential-free public data sourced from Autotrader's own server-rendered dealer profile page.
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How to scrape Autotrader
Crawlora's Autotrader endpoints return vehicle search results, listing detail, and dealer profiles as normalized JSON with one API key — no HTML parsing required.
Send a make, model, and location to /autotrader/search for normalized vehicle summaries — price, year, mileage, colors, and transmission.
Pass a listing id to /autotrader/vehicle for the full vehicle spec, including drivetrain and fuel type.
Pass a dealer id to /autotrader/dealer for the dealer profile plus a first page of current inventory.
Re-run searches on a schedule to track price, mileage, and inventory changes.
FAQ
Send a make, model, and location to Crawlora's /autotrader/search endpoint and get normalized vehicle summaries as structured JSON.
No Autotrader account or API key is required from the caller — only your Crawlora API key.
Yes — /autotrader/dealer returns the dealer profile (name, phone, address, rating, website) plus a first page of that dealer's current listings.