Cars.co.za Data Parser & API

Cars.co.za is one of South Africa’s two dominant car marketplaces — carrying around 74K listings alongside its motoring-media arm — and Carapis extracts its full listing data, including clean English fields, mileage, service history and dealer info, through one REST API. Its well-structured English listings and low anti-bot profile make it an accessible, high-quality source for South African used-car data.

What is Cars.co.za?

Cars.co.za is a leading South African automotive marketplace and motoring-media brand, listing used and new vehicles from dealers across the country. It combines a large classifieds inventory — around 74K listings — with editorial content and awards (such as Cars.co.za Consumer Awards), giving it strong consumer reach. Listings are in English and cleanly structured for extraction.

Market Position

Cars.co.za is one of the two dominant South African car portals, with around 74K live listings, sitting alongside AutoTrader.co.za as the core of the country’s well-structured marketplace duopoly. Its low anti-bot profile and clean English-language fields make it straightforward to parse reliably. Together with AutoTrader.co.za, it gives Carapis broad, dealer-rich coverage of the South African used-car market.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a complete structured record from each Cars.co.za listing:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, trim, model year, body type, fuel type, transmission
• Condition — mileage, service-history indicator
• Pricing — listed price (in ZAR)
• Listing context — dealer info, location/province, photo gallery

Clean English fields, service-history flags and dealer detail make Cars.co.za well suited to pricing intelligence and market research across South Africa.

API Quick Start

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

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=cars-co-za&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 — dealer pricing and service-history fields feed residual-value models for dealers.
• Market research — combine with AutoTrader.co.za to map the full South African used-car market. See market research.
• Import / export — structured English data helps buyers source from South Africa. See import & export.

Frequently asked questions

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