Cars.com vehicle listing detail API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/carsdotcom/vehicle/{listing_id}

Auth

apiKey

Credits

3 credits/request

Platform

Cars.com

Response schema

#/definitions/carsdotcom.VehicleResponse

Overview

Returns a normalized Cars.com vehicle listing: full vehicle spec (make, model, trim, mileage, colors, engine, transmission, fuel economy, a key-specs table), Cars.com's own deal-fairness rating and predicted fair price, categorized equipment features, an AutoCheck-derived vehicle history report, Cars.com's own price-change history, the seller's notes, dealer detail (name, rating, address, website, phones, hours) or private-seller detail for a for-sale-by-owner listing, and certified-pre-owned/manufacturer-program detail when applicable. Credential-free public data sourced directly from Cars.com's own public GraphQL 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

- `model` and `trim` are cleanly split (e.g. `model: "CT 200h"`, `trim: "Base"`). - A delisted or invalid `listing_id` returns a `404`. - `deal_rating` is omitted when Cars.com does not show a deal-fairness assessment for this listing (not enough comparable listings, etc). - `history`'s `owner`/`accidents`/`title` strings are a human-readable summary derived from the boolean fields alongside them (`one_owner`, `no_accidents`, `clean_title`, ...) — prefer the booleans for programmatic checks. This is not a substitute for a full paid vehicle history report. - `key_specs` and `price_history` are frequently empty arrays — Cars.com only populates them for some listings. - `dealer` is populated for a dealer listing; `private_seller` is populated instead for a for-sale-by-owner listing. A listing has at most one of the two. - `certified_pre_owned_program` is only populated for a certified-pre-owned listing (`is_cpo: true`); `new_vehicle_program` is only populated when Cars.com attaches a manufacturer incentive program to a new-inventory listing. Both are omitted otherwise. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "listing_id": "a6ea5d6f-0395-4f9d-94d5-724c4d7414de", "vin": "JTHKD5BH9G2270550", "year": 2016, "make": "Lexus", "model": "CT 200h", "trim": "Base", "body_style": "Hatchback", "mileage": 63436, "exterior_color": "White", "drivetrain": "Front-wheel Drive", "fuel_type": "Hybrid", "stock_type": "USED", "price": 21992, "images": ["https://platform.cstatic-images.com/in/v2/.../1.jpg"], "url": "https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/a6ea5d6f-0395-4f9d-94d5-724c4d7414de/", "title": "Used 2016 Lexus CT 200h Base", "stock_number": "G2270550", "interior_color": "Parchment", "engine": "1.8L I-4 DOHC, variable valve control, regular unleaded, engine", "transmission": "Automatic", "cylinder_count": 4, "door_count": 4, "mpg_city": 43, "mpg_highway": 40, "deal_rating": { "rating": "fair", "good_price_min": 17591, "good_price_max": 19566, "predicted_price": 17950, "predicted_price_difference": -4042 }, "features": [ {"category": "Safety", "items": ["Automatic Emergency Braking", "Backup Camera", "Brake Assist", "Stability Control"]} ], "history": { "owner": "Multiple Owners", "accidents": "No accidents reported", "title": "Clean", "one_owner": false, "no_accidents": true, "clean_title": true, "report_url": "https://www.autocheck.com/vehiclehistory/?vin=JTHKD5BH9G2270550&siteID=7071", "report_source": "autocheck" }, "sellers_notes": "This vehicle includes a Money-Back Guarantee* and passed our precise inspection process...", "dealer": { "name": "Lexus of Cerritos", "rating": 4.8, "review_count": 4101, "address": "18800 Studebaker Rd, Cerritos, CA 90703", "website": "https://www.cerritoslexus.com/", "phones": [{"area_code": "888", "local_number": "3375218", "phone_type": "PRIMARY"}], "hours": [{"day": "MON", "department": "Sales", "start_at": "09:00:00", "end_at": "21:00:00"}] }, "listed_days": 13, "total_price_change_display": "$0", "price_history": [ {"description": "Listed", "inserted_at": "2026-07-22T01:17:35", "list_price": 21992, "list_price_display": "$21,992"} ], "source_url": "https://graph.cars.com/graphql/api" } } ```

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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