Carapis Documentation — Car Listing Data API

Carapis is a unified REST API that returns structured car-listing data parsed from 200+ car marketplaces worldwide — used, new and dealer inventory — so you call one endpoint instead of building and maintaining a scraper per site. Whether you run pricing intelligence, import/export, market research or a dealer tool, Carapis gives you make, model, year, mileage, price, inspection sheets, VIN/history and more from a single API.

What is Carapis?

Carapis is a car-data API. It continuously parses public car-listing marketplaces and normalizes every listing into one consistent schema, then serves it over a stable REST endpoint at https://api.carapis.com. You never touch a headless browser, a proxy pool or a per-site parser — you authenticate with a Bearer key and read structured JSON.

The platform is built for B2B teams: used-car dealers, exporters, marketplaces, OEMs, pricing-intelligence and market-research companies who need reliable vehicle-listing data across many countries from a single integration.

Coverage

Carapis covers 200+ car marketplaces across 10 regions — East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, MENA & Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania and global aggregators. The same query shape works on every source; you select the marketplace with a source parameter.

• East Asia — Encar, Che168, Goo-net, KCar
• Europe — Mobile.de, AutoScout24, AutoTrader UK, Avito
• North America — AutoTrader, CarGurus, Cars.com
• …and 200+ more, with new marketplaces added continuously

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Key data fields

Carapis normalizes each listing into one schema. Depending on the marketplace, you get:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, trim, model year, body type, fuel type, transmission
• Condition & history — mileage, VIN, accident/repair history, and official inspection sheets (the standout Korean/Japanese field)
• Pricing — listed price plus price history (how the price moved over time)
• Listings — used, new and dealer inventory, plus auction lots where available
• Context — factory options/trim packages, photo gallery, dealer/seller info and location

Inspection sheets, VIN/history and price history are what make Carapis valuable beyond a plain listing feed — they power residual-value models, export vetting and pricing intelligence.

Quick Start

Get an API key at my.carapis.com , then call the listings endpoint. The same shape works for every marketplace — change only the source.

import requests
 
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
    params={"source": "encar", "limit": 20},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
    print(car["make"], car["model"], car["year"], car["price"])

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=encar&limit=20",
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CARAPIS_API_KEY}` } },
);
const { results } = await res.json();

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=encar&limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CARAPIS_API_KEY"

See the full getting-started guide for authentication, pagination and filtering.

What you can build

• Pricing intelligence — price-history and mileage fields feed residual-value and market-pricing models.
• Import / export — inspection sheets, VIN and accident history let exporters price and vet vehicles remotely.
• Market research — track inventory mix, price trends and supply across countries from one feed.
• Dealer & marketplace tools — enrich your own inventory or aggregate listings across sources.

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Frequently asked questions

What’s next?

Ready to start? Get your API key at my.carapis.com  and make your first request in minutes.