CarMax store locator API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/carmax/stores

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Platform

CarMax

Response schema

#/definitions/carmax.storeSearchResponseDoc

Overview

Searches CarMax's physical store locations by ZIP code or free-text keyword, returning normalized stores with full address, every published phone number, opening hours, and (for a ZIP-based search) live driving distance in miles. Credential-free public data sourced from CarMax's own mobile-app store-locator API. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

Authentication

Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.

Billing

Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.

Credit cost

1 credit/request

Charged response

Successful 2xx responses

Infrastructure behavior

This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.

• Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
• Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
• Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
• Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
• Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
• Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
• Observability: responses include request context where available

Response behavior

- `distance_miles` is only populated when `zip` was used to search — a `keyword` text search does not compute distance. - `hours` reports CarMax's own compact day-range representation (`start_day_of_week`/`end_day_of_week`, 0=Sunday through 6=Saturday) plus human-readable `days_of_week_display`/`hours_display` strings. - `store_availability` is a live, human-readable status string (e.g. "Open Now. Closes at 9:00 PM PDT"). - `phone_numbers` lists every phone line CarMax publishes for the store, tagged by type (local sales line, service line, fax, toll-free, ...). `primary_phone_number` is CarMax's own designated primary contact number. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "stores": [ { "id": 7126, "name": "CarMax Burbank", "address_line1": "301 N Victory Blvd", "city": "Burbank", "state": "California", "state_abbreviation": "CA", "zip_code": "91502", "phone_numbers": [ {"type": "PhoneLocal", "number": "8184316000"} ], "primary_phone_number": "8184316000", "latitude": 34.17144, "longitude": -118.30294, "hours": [ {"start_day_of_week": 1, "end_day_of_week": 5, "open_time": "10:00:00", "close_time": "21:00:00", "days_of_week_display": "Monday - Friday", "hours_display": "10:00 AM - 9:00 PM"} ], "active_status": "Active", "store_availability": "Open Now. Closes at 9:00 PM PDT", "distance_miles": 8.3, "time_zone": "PDT", "iana_time_zone": "America/Los_Angeles", "url": "https://www.carmax.com/stores/7126" } ], "source_url": "https://mobileapps-afd-prod-endpoint-drgsgffchcfkbmg4.z01.azurefd.net/api/stores/details?Take=10&KeyWord=90210" } } ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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