CarMax vehicle recommendations API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/carmax/vehicle/{stock_number}/recommendations

Auth

apiKey

Credits

1 credit/request

Platform

CarMax

Response schema

#/definitions/carmax.vehicleRecommendationsResponseDoc

Overview

Returns CarMax's own similar-vehicle recommendations for a listing: stock number, description, display mileage/price, store location, and image, for vehicles CarMax considers comparable. An empty list is a normal result, not an error. Credential-free public data sourced from CarMax's own mobile-app 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

- Only a display-formatted summary is available at this endpoint (`mileage_display`/`price_display` as CarMax's own rounded strings, e.g. `"78K"`/`"$22,998"`, not exact numeric values) — fetch `/carmax/vehicle/{stock_number}` for the full record on any recommended stock number. - An empty `recommendations` list is a normal result (CarMax has no similar vehicles to suggest for that listing/location), not an error. A malformed request (e.g. a missing `store_id`) still returns `400`. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "stock_number": 28187774, "recommendations": [ { "stock_number": 70078825, "description": "2022 Honda Civic Sport", "mileage_display": "78K", "price_display": "$22,998", "location": "San Gabriel Valley/Duarte", "vehicle_caption": "Only available at CarMax San Gabriel Valley/Duarte, CA", "hero_image_url": "https://img2.carmax.com/assets/70078825/hero.jpg?width=400&height=225", "url": "https://www.carmax.com/car/70078825" } ], "source_url": "https://mobileapps-afd-prod-endpoint-drgsgffchcfkbmg4.z01.azurefd.net/api/vehicles/recommendations?locationId=7124&stockNumber=28187774" } } ```

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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