TTPAI Data Parser & API

TTPAI (天天拍车) is Autohome’s C2B used-car auction platform in China, where private sellers’ inspected cars are auctioned to dealers, and Carapis extracts its auction listing data — inspection grades, mileage and bid pricing — through one REST API. As part of the Autohome group alongside Che168, TTPAI exposes auction-grade condition and transaction data, served by Carapis without you fighting China’s geo-blocks.

What is TTPAI?

TTPAI (天天拍车) is a consumer-to-business (C2B) used-car auction platform owned by Autohome. Private sellers consign their cars, which are inspected and then auctioned to a network of dealers — so TTPAI sits at the wholesale, transaction end of the market rather than retail classifieds. Each lot carries a structured inspection report and auction status, making it a source of dealer-bid (wholesale) pricing. It is one of three Autohome properties, alongside the autohome.com.cn portal and Che168.

Market Position

TTPAI is the auction arm of the Autohome group — autohome.com.cn (info portal), Che168 (dealer inventory) and TTPAI (C2B auction) — so a single Carapis parser stack reaches all three. In China’s 20.1M-unit used-car market (SCIO), TTPAI’s role is wholesale price discovery: its dealer-bid auctions reveal what trade buyers actually pay, a different and valuable signal versus retail asking prices. No official traffic figure is published, so any number should be treated as an estimate.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a structured record from each TTPAI auction lot:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, trim, model year, fuel type, transmission
• Condition — mileage and auction inspection report / grade
• Pricing — dealer-bid / hammer price (wholesale)
• Auction context — auction status (live, sold, ended)
• Listing context — options, location, photo gallery

TTPAI’s standout is wholesale auction pricing plus inspection grades: it shows the dealer-side (C2B) value of a car, which retail platforms never expose — invaluable for residual-value and trade-in modelling.

API Quick Start

import requests
 
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
    params={"source": "ttpai", "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=ttpai&limit=20",
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CARAPIS_API_KEY}` } },
);
const { results } = await res.json();

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

Get an API key at my.carapis.com  and see the full API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page.

Use Cases

• Pricing intelligence — wholesale auction prices anchor trade-in and residual-value models for dealers.
• Market research — track C2B auction volume and wholesale pricing in China. See market research.
• Import / export — source auction-graded Chinese vehicles at wholesale. See import & export.

Frequently asked questions

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