Cars.com Data Parser & API

Cars.com is one of the top US car-shopping portals — around 27M visits per month across an estimated 2M+ listings — and Carapis extracts its full listing data, including spec, price history, dealer details and CARFAX/AutoCheck history links, through one REST API. An independent public company, Cars.com carries deep dealer inventory plus some private listings, and its mature classifieds structure makes it one of the most data-rich and reliably parseable US sources — served without you building or maintaining a Cloudflare-protected scraper.

What is Cars.com?

Cars.com is a long-running, publicly traded US car-shopping marketplace that aggregates dealer and private-seller inventory with full specifications, pricing and vehicle-history links. It draws roughly 27M visits per month (SimilarWeb/Semrush, Mar 2026) across an estimated 2M+ listings. Each listing typically carries full trim and spec data, price history, dealer ratings, and a link to a CARFAX or AutoCheck report — the North American analogue to an inspection sheet.

Market Position

Cars.com is among the top three US car-shopping portals with ~27M visits per month (SimilarWeb/Semrush, Mar 2026), alongside CarGurus and AutoTrader.com, and lists an estimated 2M+ vehicles. Spun out of TEGNA/Gannett as an independent public company, it is not tied to the Cox Automotive inventory backend — so it gives genuinely independent dealer-inventory coverage rather than a duplicate of the Autotrader/KBB feed. Its combination of broad dealer reach and clean, structured listings makes it a core resale dataset for the US market.

Data Fields Available

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

• Vehicle identity — make, model, trim, model year, VIN
• Condition — mileage and listing condition
• Pricing — listed price and price-change history
• Specification — factory options and trim packages
• Listing context — dealer name / location / ratings, private-seller info, photo gallery
• History — links to CARFAX / AutoCheck vehicle-history reports

The price-history fields and CARFAX/AutoCheck history links are what make Cars.com especially valuable for pricing-intelligence and import/export buyers vetting US vehicles.

API Quick Start

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

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=cars-com&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 — price-history fields feed residual-value and market-pricing models for dealers.
• Market research — track US inventory mix, price trends and dealer coverage. See market research.
• Import / export — vet US vehicles remotely using spec, mileage and history-report links. See import & export.

Frequently asked questions

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