Gumtree Cars (AU) Data Parser & API

Gumtree Cars is Australia’s largest consumer-to-consumer classifieds platform — its network carries 2M+ live listings and reaches 5M+ Australians a month — and Carapis extracts its private and dealer used-car listings through one REST API. Owned by the Australian Gumtree Group, it shares inventory with CarsGuide and Autotrader AU, making it the deepest source of private-seller car data in the country.

What is Gumtree Cars (AU)?

Gumtree Cars is the automotive section of Gumtree Australia, the country’s leading general classifieds site. It is overwhelmingly a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) channel — private sellers list used cars and motorcycles directly — alongside some dealer inventory. Gumtree is part of the Gumtree Group, which runs Gumtree, CarsGuide and Autotrader AU as one network carrying 2M+ live listings across all categories.

Market Position

The Gumtree Group network (Gumtree + CarsGuide + Autotrader AU) reaches 5M+ Australians per month with $3B+ in monthly gross listing volume and 2M+ live listings — the #2 automotive cluster behind carsales. Gumtree is the private-seller heavyweight of that network: it captures C2C used-car supply that dealer-led portals miss. Because the three brands share inventory, Gumtree is the natural complement to carsales for full-market Australian coverage.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a structured record from each Gumtree Cars listing:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, variant, year, body type, fuel type, transmission
• Condition & pricing — odometer (mileage), asking price
• Listing context — seller type (private vs dealer), location (state/suburb), photo gallery

As a C2C-heavy source, Gumtree’s value is breadth of private-seller listings — the long tail of the Australian used-car market that complements dealer portals.

API Quick Start

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

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=gumtree-au&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

• Market research — the deepest private-seller pool in AU; track the C2C long tail. See market research.
• Pricing intelligence — private asking prices complement dealer retail data for dealers.
• Import / export — source private listings for vehicle sourcing. See import & export.

Frequently asked questions

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