CarGurus Data Parser & API

CarGurus is the #1 US car-shopping portal by traffic — around 36M visits per month — and Carapis extracts its full listing data, including the proprietary Deal Rating, price history, dealer details and full spec, through one REST API. CarGurus aggregates millions of dealer and private-seller listings across the US, Canada and UK, and its instant price-vs-market signal makes it one of the richest pricing-intelligence sources in North America — delivered without you building or maintaining a DataDome-protected scraper.

What is CarGurus?

CarGurus is a publicly traded US car-shopping marketplace that ranks dealer and private-seller listings by how their price compares to the market. It draws roughly 36M visits per month (SimilarWeb, Nov 2025), making it the most-visited US car-shopping portal. Its signature Deal Rating (Great/Good/Fair/Overpriced) and per-listing price history are computed from its own market model, giving each car a transparent pricing signal that most portals do not expose.

Market Position

CarGurus leads US car-shopping portals with ~36M visits per month (SimilarWeb, Nov 2025), ahead of Cars.com and AutoTrader.com, and it lists “millions” of dealer and private-seller vehicles. The same brand operates cargurus.ca in Canada and cargurus.co.uk in the UK, so a single Carapis parsing strategy maps onto its North American footprint. Its independent market-pricing model is a competitive moat — the Deal Rating and price-history fields are unique to CarGurus and highly valued for residual-value and competitive-pricing analysis.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a complete structured record from each CarGurus listing:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, trim, model year, VIN
• Condition — mileage and listing condition
• Pricing — listed price, price-change history, and the CarGurus Deal Rating (price-vs-market signal)
• Specification — factory options and trim packages
• Listing context — dealer name / location / ratings, private-seller info, photo gallery

The Deal Rating and price history are what make CarGurus especially valuable: they are a ready-made market-pricing layer for dealers and analysts, not just raw listings.

API Quick Start

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

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=cargurus&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 — Deal Rating and price-history fields power residual-value and competitive-pricing models for dealers.
• Market research — track inventory mix, price trends and days-on-market across the US used-car market. See market research.
• Inventory monitoring — watch competitor listings and price moves at scale instead of manual checks.

Frequently asked questions

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