Trade Me Motors Data Parser & API
Trade Me Motors is New Zealand’s dominant car marketplace — drawing 1M+ Kiwi buyers a month — and Carapis extracts its dealer, private, new and used listing data through one REST API. As both an auction and fixed-price marketplace, Trade Me Motors functions as NZ’s effective national car marketplace, so a single Carapis parser covers the bulk of New Zealand supply.
| Country | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Type | Marketplace |
| Owner | Trade Me |
| Vehicle types | used, new, dealer, private, moto, commercial |
| Monthly visits | 1M+ Kiwi buyers/mo |
| Active listings | — (national marketplace) |
| API access | Partial / limited API |
| Parse priority | ★★★★☆ |
| Official site | www.trademe.co.nz/motors |
What is Trade Me Motors?
Trade Me Motors is the automotive vertical of Trade Me, New Zealand’s leading horizontal online marketplace. It lists vehicles from both licensed dealers and private sellers across passenger cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles, in both auction and fixed-price (Buy Now) formats. With 1M+ Kiwi buyers per month, it is the near-default destination for buying and selling cars in New Zealand.
Market Position
Trade Me Motors is the dominant car marketplace in New Zealand, drawing 1M+ Kiwi buyers per month — a near-monopoly position in a relatively small market, which means one parser captures most of the country’s live supply. Its main structured competitors are Turners (auction + dealer network) and the smaller AutoTrader NZ portal. Because Trade Me spans both auction and fixed-price listings, its data is useful for both retail pricing and time-to-sell signals.
Data Fields Available
Carapis extracts a complete structured record from each Trade Me Motors listing:
- Vehicle identity — make, model, variant, year, body type, fuel type, transmission
- Condition & pricing — odometer (mileage), price (auction reserve / Buy Now)
- Specification — listed options and features
- Listing context — dealer or private seller, listing type (auction vs fixed-price), location (region), photo gallery
The auction-vs-fixed-price flag is the NZ-specific signal, letting buyers separate dealer retail stock from private auction listings across the national market.
API Quick Start
Python
import requests
resp = requests.get(
"https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
params={"source": "trademe-motors", "limit": 20},
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
print(car["make"], car["model"], car["year"], car["price"])Get an API key at my.carapis.com and see the full API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page.
Use Cases
- Market research — one source covers most of the NZ car market; track make/model mix and price trends. See market research.
- Pricing intelligence — auction and Buy Now prices feed residual-value models for dealers.
- Import / export — NZ is a major Japanese-import destination; benchmark retail prices against source markets. See import & export.