CarMax vehicle listing search API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/carmax/search

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

CarMax

Response schema

#/definitions/carmax.searchResponseDoc

Overview

Searches CarMax for used car listings, returning normalized vehicle summaries (make, model, trim, year, mileage, colors, engine, fuel economy, pricing, store, images), available search facets with live counts, and the total matching count. Credential-free public data sourced from CarMax's own mobile-app search 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

3 credits/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

- `total_count` reflects CarMax's full matching-result count for the applied filters, not just `len(vehicles)`. - `price_info.is_price_reduced` and `price_info.previous_price` are set when CarMax shows a recent price drop on the listing. - Vehicle summaries carry exact numeric engine/performance fields (`engine_torque_lb_ft`, `engine_torque_rpm`, `horsepower`, `horsepower_rpm`, `cylinders`, `towing_capacity_lbs`, `passenger_count`) and listing metadata (`image_count`, `description`, `prior_uses`) that a page-scrape transport never carried — the mobile search API returns full per-vehicle detail inline, not just a summary. - `filters` lists CarMax's own search facets for the applied filters, with live counts/bounds — the same data CarMax's own filter UI is built from. Each entry's `type` is either `Value` (a discrete list of options with per-value counts, e.g. make, model, body type, exterior color, feature — populates `values`) or `Range` (numeric bounds plus a count histogram, e.g. price, year, mileage — populates `range`). Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "total_count": 91136, "page": 1, "page_size": 48, "vehicles": [ { "stock_number": 28187774, "vin": "1FMJK1K89REA27006", "year": 2024, "make": "Ford", "model": "Expedition Max", "trim": "Limited", "body": "4D Sport Utility", "mileage": 41406, "exterior_color": "Black", "interior_color": "Tan", "engine": "3.5L", "transmission": {"type": "Automatic", "display": "Automatic"}, "drive_train_type": "Rear Wheel Drive", "fuel": {"type": "Gas"}, "efficiency": {"mpg_city": 17, "mpg_highway": 23}, "price_info": {"price": 45998, "is_price_reduced": true, "previous_price": 46998}, "store": {"id": 7124, "name": "Canoga Park"}, "hero_image_url": "https://img2.carmax.com/assets/28187774/hero.jpg?width=400", "highlighted_features": ["Turbo Charged Engine", "Leather Seats", "Panoramic Sunroof"], "engine_torque_lb_ft": 480, "engine_torque_rpm": 2250, "horsepower": 400, "horsepower_rpm": 5000, "cylinders": 6, "towing_capacity_lbs": 6300, "passenger_count": 7, "prior_uses": ["Leased Vehicle", "Rental"], "image_count": 31, "description": "2024 Ford Expedition Max Limited", "url": "https://www.carmax.com/car/28187774" } ], "filters": [ { "name": "Make", "display_name": "Make", "type": "Value", "values": [ {"value": "Toyota", "count": 12453}, {"value": "Ford", "count": 9821} ] }, { "name": "BasePrice", "display_name": "Price range", "type": "Range", "range": { "minimum": 8000, "maximum": 138999, "increment": 1000, "histogram": [ {"minimum": 8000, "maximum": 8999, "count": 4}, {"minimum": 9000, "maximum": 9999, "count": 36} ] } } ], "source_url": "https://mobileapps-afd-prod-endpoint-drgsgffchcfkbmg4.z01.azurefd.net/api/search" } } ```

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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