The Autotrader API searches US car listings around a ZIP code and returns one row per vehicle — title, year, make, model and trim, price and MSRP, mileage, body style, fuel and drive type, exterior colour, the full specification pairs, the VIN, days on site, a photo and the listing URL.
You anchor the search on a five-digit ZIP and optionally narrow it by condition, make and model. Each result is read from Autotrader's server-rendered payload over the TLS tier through a US residential exit — roughly 25 to 38 vehicles a page — so no headless browser is involved. Listings priced "Contact Dealer For Price" keep that label in no_price_label instead of a fabricated number.
$0.001 per delivered listing, up to 75 listings per run. Nothing delivered means nothing charged.
You pass a zip, pick a condition (all-cars, new-cars, used-cars or certified-cars) and optionally a make and model. The collector runs that search and pages through the results, parsing each vehicle card into a flat row.
Two details shape how you read the output:
specifications is a label-to-value object carrying the full spec grid, while the fields people filter on most — mileage, body_style, fuel_type, drive_type, exterior_color — are also promoted to their own typed columns.price is null and the on-page wording is preserved in no_price_label, so you can tell "no price shown" apart from "priced at zero".Building a cross-market classifieds pipeline? The Kleinanzeigen collector handles the German classifieds side with a comparable row shape.
The one required input is zip, a five-digit US postal code the search radiates from. condition filters by new, used or certified; make selects a brand and model narrows within it (model needs a make alongside it). max_results caps the run at up to 75 vehicles and defaults to 25.
Each vehicle is one flat row. price and msrp are numbers, so a new-car search lets you compute discount off sticker directly, and no_price_label covers the contact-for-price cases. vin gives you a stable key to dedupe across runs and dealers, mileage and days_on_site are typed for filtering, and specifications preserves every label-value pair the listing published.
$0.001 per delivered listing (
$0.001 per delivered listing,
The free monthly allowance is $2 of usage, about 2,000 listings at this price, with no card needed. GET /v1/scraper/collectors returns the exact per-row price your key is charged.
Autotrader does not offer a public consumer-listings API. The programmatic access that exists is trade-facing — dealer inventory and syndication integrations that require a dealer or partner relationship and are scoped to your own stock, not the whole marketplace. A shopper, analyst or researcher who wants to read what is listed near a ZIP has no official endpoint to call.
This collector fills that gap by reading the same public search a car buyer sees. There is no dealer account to secure and no syndication contract; your QuantumProxies key is the only credential. You receive the fields on the public listing — price, MSRP, mileage, specs, VIN — rather than a private back-office feed, which is what market and pricing analysis actually needs.
Fetching one Autotrader results page is straightforward. Keeping a national sweep alive is the hard part:
Handing it over gives you a typed schema and a bill that only moves on delivered rows. If you would rather keep your own crawler and just want dependable US exits under it, the residential proxies are the network this collector runs on.
Pull a make and model across several metro ZIPs and regress price against mileage, year and trim to build a live valuation curve for a segment.
Filter to new-cars and compare price with msrp to see how far below sticker dealers are actually transacting in a region.
Use vin to dedupe and days_on_site to measure how long stock sits, spotting the vehicles and dealers most likely to negotiate.
One run returns up to 75 vehicles for a ZIP-anchored search; broader coverage means more ZIPs or tighter make/model slices rather than one endless page. Runs are independent and parallelise up to your plan's rate limit — 60 requests a minute on pay-as-you-go, up to 1,200 on the top tier. This collector reads the search result card and its spec grid; it does not pull the dealer's full photo gallery or contact form.
Legally: vehicle listings are shown publicly to every visitor, and collecting public data is generally lawful in most US jurisdictions, but Autotrader's terms restrict automated access and your downstream use carries its own obligations. This is not legal advice — get advice for your specific situation.
Autotrader has no public listings API, free or otherwise — only trade integrations for dealers syndicating their own stock. This collector reads the public search near a ZIP and includes a $2 monthly allowance, about 2,000 listings at $0.001 each, before any charge.
No. There is no Autotrader developer key or dealer relationship required, because the marketplace exposes no public API. You authenticate with your QuantumProxies key and the collector reads the public results directly.
Yes, when the listing publishes them. The VIN lands in its own field and the complete label-value spec grid is returned in specifications, alongside promoted columns for mileage, body style, fuel type, drive type and colour.
Pass your five-digit zip, set make and model together, and optionally a condition like used-cars. The search radiates out from that ZIP, and each row carries the dealer distance context Autotrader shows.