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
Every figure below is read from the live Autotrader endpoint catalog — 3 endpoints, 20 documented request parameters, and 3 published response schemas — the same catalog Docs and Playground run against.
3 documented Autotrader endpoints, grouped into 3 request families — Dealer, Search and Vehicle.
20 request parameters are documented across those Autotrader endpoints, 5 of them required — the full input contract is public before you write any integration code.
3 of the 3 Autotrader endpoints ship a recorded example response, and 3 carry a documented response schema — you can code against the real JSON before the first request.
Autotrader endpoints document their error responses (400, 404, 500 and 503) alongside the success schema, so a block, a rate limit, or a missing record comes back as a typed error rather than silently empty data.
3 hosted MCP tools back the Autotrader endpoints, so an agent can call the same routes with the same parameters and the same JSON contract, with no custom glue.
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.
Response notes
- `total_count` reflects Autotrader's full matching-result count for the applied filters, not just `len(vehicles)`. - An invalid `condition`, `body_style`, or `seller_type` value returns `400` before any upstream request is made. - A search with no matching listings returns `200` with `"vehicles": []` and `total_count: 0`, not an error. - `pricing.no_price_label` (e.g. `"Contact Dealer For Price"`) is set instead of a numeric price when the dealer requires direct contact for pricing. - `stats` reports price and model-year aggregates (min/average/max) across the FULL matching result set for the applied filters, not just the returned page — useful for market-research callers who want the shape of the whole matching inventory. It is omitted when Autotrader's page does not carry this aggregate for the request. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "total_count": 3392288, "page": 1, "page_size": 24, "vehicles": [ { "id": 754822172, "vin": "5GAEVAKS4TJ113378", "title": "New 2026 Buick Enclave Preferred w/ Power Package", "year": 2026, "make": {"code": "BUICK", "name": "Buick"}, "model": {"code": "ENCLAVE", "name": "Enclave"}, "trim": {"code": "ENCLAVE|Preferred", "name": "Preferred"}, "body_styles": [{"code": "SUV", "name": "Sport Utility"}], "mileage": {"label": "Mileage", "value": "1,111"}, "color": {"exterior_color": "Ocean Blue Metallic", "exterior_color_simple": "BLUE"}, "transmission": {"code": "AUT", "name": "Automatic", "description": "8-Speed Automatic"}, "fuel_type": {"code": "G", "name": "Gasoline", "group": "Gas"}, "listing_type": "NEW", "days_on_site": 252, "pricing": {"sale_price": 45235, "msrp": 53055, "display_price": 45235}, "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/754822172" } ], "stats": { "derived_price": {"max": 289995, "average": 34521.5, "min": 1500}, "year": {"max": 2026, "average": 2018.3, "min": 1960}, "start_year": 1960, "end_year": 2026, "min_price": 1500, "max_price": 289995 }, "source_url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/all-cars" } } ```
MCP tool autotrader_search
/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.
Response notes
- `id` must be numeric; a non-numeric value returns `400` before any upstream request is made. - A listing id that is well-formed but no longer exists (sold, removed, or never existed) returns `404`, not an empty `200`. - `dealer` is omitted when Autotrader's page does not carry a resolvable seller record for the listing (parser drift or an incomplete listing). - `pricing.no_price_label` (e.g. `"Contact Dealer For Price"`) is set instead of a numeric price when the dealer requires direct contact for pricing. - `similar_listings` is a list of normalized vehicle summaries (the same shape as a search result, not full detail) for other listings Autotrader surfaces as similar on the same page. It is omitted when Autotrader's page does not carry a similar-listings shelf for this vehicle. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": 754822172, "vin": "5GAEVAKS4TJ113378", "title": "New 2026 Buick Enclave Preferred w/ Power Package", "year": 2026, "make": {"code": "BUICK", "name": "Buick"}, "model": {"code": "ENCLAVE", "name": "Enclave"}, "trim": {"code": "ENCLAVE|Preferred", "name": "Preferred"}, "mileage": {"label": "Mileage", "value": "1,111"}, "color": {"exterior_color": "Ocean Blue Metallic", "exterior_color_simple": "BLUE", "interior_color": "Sandstone With Ebony"}, "transmission": {"code": "AUT", "name": "Automatic", "description": "8-Speed Automatic"}, "fuel_type": {"code": "G", "name": "Gasoline", "group": "Gas"}, "drive_type": {"name": "AWD4WD", "description": "All wheel drive"}, "engine": {"code": "4CLDR", "name": "4-Cylinder Turbo"}, "mpg_city": 20, "mpg_highway": 25, "listing_type": "NEW", "stock_id": "TJ113378", "packages": ["Power Package", "LPO, Floor Liner Package"], "vehicle_history_flags": ["NO_SALVAGE_TITLE", "NO_ACCIDENTS_REPORTED"], "pricing": {"sale_price": 45235, "msrp": 53055, "dealer_discounted_price": 46985, "display_price": 45235}, "description": "This 2026 Buick Enclave Preferred in Ocean Blue Metallic comes with the following features: ...", "dealer": { "id": 64141623, "name": "Chuck Nash Chevrolet Buick GMC", "phone": "7373444772", "address1": "3209 N I 35", "city": "San Marcos", "state": "TX", "zip": "78666", "rating": 4.7, "rating_count": 4332, "is_private_seller": false }, "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/754822172", "similar_listings": [ { "id": 754822999, "title": "New 2026 Buick Enclave Essence", "year": 2026, "make": {"code": "BUICK", "name": "Buick"}, "model": {"code": "ENCLAVE", "name": "Enclave"}, "pricing": {"sale_price": 47995, "msrp": 55000, "display_price": 47995}, "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/754822999" } ], "source_url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/754822172" } } ```
MCP tool autotrader_vehicle
/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.
Response notes
- `id` must be numeric; a non-numeric value returns `400` before any upstream request is made. - A dealer id that is well-formed but has no resolvable dealer record returns `404`, not an empty `200`. - `inventory` is a first batch of the dealer's own current listings (the page Autotrader itself renders), not the dealer's entire lot. `total_count` reports the dealer's true current listing count, which may be larger than `len(inventory)`. - `is_private_seller` is `true` for a private-individual seller profile rather than a dealership. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "id": 64141623, "name": "Chuck Nash Chevrolet Buick GMC", "phone": "7373444772", "address1": "3209 N I 35", "city": "San Marcos", "state": "TX", "zip": "78666", "rating": 4.7, "rating_count": 4332, "is_private_seller": false, "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/car-dealers/san-marcos-tx/64141623/chuck-nash-chevrolet-buick-gmc", "inventory": [ { "id": 754822172, "title": "New 2026 Buick Enclave Preferred w/ Power Package", "year": 2026, "make": {"code": "BUICK", "name": "Buick"}, "model": {"code": "ENCLAVE", "name": "Enclave"}, "pricing": {"sale_price": 45235, "msrp": 53055, "display_price": 45235}, "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicle/754822172" } ], "total_count": 638, "source_url": "https://www.autotrader.com/car-dealers/64141623" } } ```
MCP tool autotrader_dealer
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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.