name: TheCarApi description: >- A multi-source vehicle auction inventory REST/JSON API aggregating live and archived auction listings and European retail classifieds. Provides search, facets, catalog, auction detail & price history, VIN history, market intelligence, and import cost calculators. Fully specified via OpenAPI 3.1 with Postman collection and agent-native documentation (llms.txt). url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thecarapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml image: https://thecarapi.com/og-image.png accessModel: pricing: freemium onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: false label: Freemium · Self-serve signup confidence: high source: - plans - authentication - scopes - rate-limits - security - sandbox generated: '2026-09-02' method: derived created: '2026-09-01' modified: '2026-09-02' specificationVersion: '0.21' tags: - Automotive - Vehicle Data - Car Auctions - Used Cars - Vehicle Inventory - Classifieds - Market Intelligence - Pricing - VIN - Image CDN - Europe - South Korea - Japan Auctions tags_raw: - Automotive - Vehicle Data - Car Auctions - Used Cars - Vehicle Inventory - Classifieds - Market Intelligence - Pricing - VIN - Image CDN - Europe - Korea - Japan Auctions apis: - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-auctions-history-api name: TheCarApi Auctions & history API description: >- Retrieve source-aware listing detail, galleries, price changes, and VIN history. A running openlane or ecarstrade auction has its bid read from the auction house at the moment you request the detail — nothing needs to be passed to enable it. Every other listing is served at its cycle price, refreshed at least every twelve hours. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Auctions & history properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-auctions-history-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-catalog-api name: TheCarApi Catalog API description: >- Build slug-addressable manufacturer and model-group navigation. All catalog list routes paginate with a default limit of 50 and are capped at offset 5000 — a deeper page is a 400 naming the limit. They carry page, page_size and max_page. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Catalog properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-catalog-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-european-classifieds-api name: TheCarApi European classifieds API description: >- A retail price surface of roughly 9.8M live listings gathered from 681 origin portals — national classifieds sites, dealer groups and manufacturer stock pages — across 39 European countries: mobile.de, kleinanzeigen.de, autoscout24, leboncoin.fr, lacentrale.fr, autosupermarket.it, njuskalo.hr and hundreds more. Every listing keeps its origin portal in source_site, so the same feed answers a national question and a portal-level one. These are retail listings, not auction inventory: no bidding, no auction end date, no detail payload and no gallery, just a single remote thumbnail per listing. They live in their own tables with their own vocabulary (seller type, origin portal), which is why they get their own query surface instead of a site slug on /api/search. Ended and paid-placement ("promoted") rows are excluded from every response, and all three endpoints return 503 while the dataset has not been built yet. Scope: theparking — that is the scope name in the path, not the name of a source. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - European classifieds properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-european-classifieds-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-filter-facets-api name: TheCarApi Filter facets API description: >- Discover live filter values and counts. Every facet endpoint accepts the search filters, so a facet describes whatever slice of inventory you are looking at rather than the whole of it — each dimension ignoring only its own filter, so a user can switch brands without the option disappearing. Counts and the totals /api/search reports for the same filters cannot disagree. Facet responses cache for about 600 seconds, and a filter sidebar can read every flat dimension in one call with /api/facets. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Filter facets properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-filter-facets-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-health-contract-api name: TheCarApi Health & contract API description: Check service dependencies and inspect the API index. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Health & contract properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-health-contract-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-import-calculator-api name: TheCarApi Import calculator API description: >- Estimate the landed cost of importing a vehicle. These are estimates, not a binding quote. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Import calculator properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-import-calculator-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-market-intelligence-api name: TheCarApi Market intelligence API description: >- Precomputed price snapshots for a brand, model, and year window — one for the Bulgarian retail market, one for our own auction inventory. Scope: market. Neither is enabled on a new key by default; ask for them. Both are read-only lookups into snapshots built by a pipeline on its own schedule. A 404 therefore means "no snapshot exists for that window", which is the normal answer for a thin brand/model/year combination — not an error to retry. Neither route carries envelope metadata; read X-Request-ID from the header. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Market Intelligence tags_raw: - Market intelligence properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-market-intelligence-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-seo-helpers-api name: TheCarApi SEO helpers API description: Build popular landing pages and resolve brand/model URL slugs. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - SEO helpers properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-seo-helpers-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-top-offers-api name: TheCarApi Top offers API description: >- Live auctions our pipeline judged to be priced below their market reference. Same deals as /api/search?sort=top_offers, but each card additionally carries the reference the verdict was made against. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Top offers properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-top-offers-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-vehicle-details-api name: TheCarApi Vehicle details API description: Fetch a full source payload from cache or, when needed, from the upstream source. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Vehicle details properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-vehicle-details-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - aid: thecarapi:thecarapi-search-and-discovery-api name: TheCarApi Search and Discovery API description: >- Search live auction inventory, then resolve lightweight full-text matches. Ended lots are hidden by default; is_active=false / include_ended=true shows them as well as live ones. humanURL: https://thecarapi.com/docs baseURL: https://api.thecarapi.com tags: - Search & Discovery tags_raw: - Search and Discovery properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/thecarapi-search-and-discovery-api-openapi.yml - type: PostmanCollection url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt maintainers: - FN: TheCarApi Support email: api@thecarapi.com url: mailto:api@thecarapi.com generated: by: apis.io/add model: claude-opus-4-8 confidence: 95 at: '2026-09-01T19:53:13.514Z' common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/thecarapi-capability-edges.yml name: TheCarApi Business Capability Map - type: Website url: https://thecarapi.com/ - type: DomainSecurity url: security/thecarapi-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/thecarapi-authentication.yml - type: OAuthScopes url: scopes/thecarapi-scopes.yml - type: Conventions url: conventions/thecarapi-conventions.yml - type: ErrorCatalog url: errors/thecarapi-problem-types.yml - type: Lifecycle url: lifecycle/thecarapi-lifecycle.yml - type: StatusPage url: https://thecarapi.com/status - type: ChangeLog url: https://thecarapi.com/changelog - type: ChangeLog url: changelog/thecarapi-changelog.yml - type: Plans url: plans/thecarapi-plans-pricing.yml - type: Pricing url: https://thecarapi.com/pricing - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/thecarapi-rate-limits.yml - type: Conformance url: conformance/thecarapi-conformance.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/thecarapi-vocabulary.yml - type: Examples url: https://thecarapi.com/docs/code-examples - type: Examples url: examples/thecarapi-examples.yml - type: DataModel url: data-model/thecarapi-data-model.yml - type: Overlay url: overlays/thecarapi-openapi-overlay.yaml - type: AgentSkill url: skills/_index.yml - type: LLMsTxt url: https://thecarapi.com/llms.txt - type: Postman url: https://thecarapi.com/thecarapi.postman_collection.json - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: Documentation url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: GettingStarted url: https://thecarapi.com/docs - type: APIReference url: https://thecarapi.com/docs/thecarapi-api-reference.md - type: Support url: https://thecarapi.com/contact - type: Blog url: https://thecarapi.com/blog - type: TermsOfService url: https://thecarapi.com/terms - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://thecarapi.com/privacy x-enrichment: date: '2026-09-02' status: enriched artifacts_added: 0 pass: local-v1