Car Data API for Used-Car Dealers
Used-car dealers use Carapis to pull live listing, pricing and price-history data from marketplaces like Encar, Mobile.de and AutoTrader through a single REST API — so they can price stock competitively, spot underpriced cars to acquire, and track rivals without building scrapers. Carapis normalizes make, model, trim, year, mileage and price across every source, so a dealer’s pricing model reads one schema instead of dozens of site-specific feeds.
Who they are
Independent lots, franchise dealer groups and online used-car retailers all live or die on two numbers: what they pay for a car and what they can sell it for. Both depend on knowing the live market — the spread of asking prices for a given make/model/year/mileage band, how fast it is moving, and where comparable stock is cheap. Carapis gives that market visibility as structured data rather than a tab full of open browser windows.
What data they pull
- Comparable pricing — make, model, trim, year, mileage and asking price for the same configuration across multiple marketplaces, to set and defend your own price.
- Price history — how a listing’s price has moved over time, the signal behind residual-value and time-on-market models.
- Sourcing leads — newly listed or recently reduced cars you can acquire below market.
- Condition fields — inspection sheets, accident/repair history and options where the source exposes them, so a remote valuation is trustworthy.
- Dealer and location context — who is selling, and where, to map your competitive set.
Why Carapis
Building and maintaining scrapers for a dozen JS-rendered, anti-bot-protected portals is not a dealer’s core business. Carapis runs that extraction and delivers one consistent schema, so your pricing tools, inventory system or spreadsheet can consume every market through the same endpoint. You add sources by changing a source parameter, not by writing new code. See pricing for refresh tiers.