CarTrade Data Parser & API

CarTrade is India’s dealer-and-auction auto portal — an estimated ~4.2M monthly visits and the namesake property of CarTrade Tech — and Carapis extracts its dealer inventory and auction listings through one REST API. As part of CarTrade Tech (which also owns CarWale, OLX India, BikeWale and Shriram Automall), CarTrade adds B2B auction and dealer data to the group’s listing footprint, and Carapis serves it without you maintaining a scraper.

What is CarTrade?

CarTrade is an Indian car portal and auction platform operated by the listed CarTrade Tech group. It connects dealers and buyers with used and new cars and runs vehicle auctions, complementing the consumer-facing CarWale within the same group. SimilarWeb estimated ~4.2M monthly visits (Nov 2024).

Market Position

CarTrade is the namesake of CarTrade Tech, the most important auto ownership cluster in India — CarWale, CarTrade, OLX India, BikeWale and Shriram Automall (B2B auctions). The 2023 OLX India acquisition added ~68M average monthly unique visitors and ~32M listings/yr to the group. CarTrade itself, together with Shriram Automall, exposes physical-auction / repossessed inventory — a relatively rare, high-value field set for South Asia. One Carapis parser stack across CarTrade properties covers C2C, portal, moto and auction.

Data Fields Available

Carapis extracts a structured record from each CarTrade listing:

• Vehicle identity — make, model, variant, model year, fuel type, transmission
• Condition — mileage on used listings
• Pricing — listed or auction price
• Auction context — auction status (the standout CarTrade/Automall field) for B2B and repossessed inventory
• Listing context — dealer info, location, photo gallery

CarTrade’s auction data is among the rarest field sets available in South Asian auto data, valuable for wholesale and remarketing analysis.

API Quick Start

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

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=cartrade&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

• Wholesale & remarketing — auction-status data supports B2B and repossessed-inventory analysis for dealers.
• Pricing intelligence — dealer and auction prices anchor wholesale valuation models. See market research.
• Inventory feeds — combine CarTrade with sister CarTrade Tech sources for full-funnel coverage.

Frequently asked questions

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