/cars/listings

POST /api/cars/listings

Price: 1 credit

Get a single Cars.com vehicle listing by VIN: make, model, year, trim, body style, price, MSRP, mileage, drivetrain, transmission, exterior and interior color, engine, fuel type and MPG, EV range and charge time, CPO status, photos, dealer name and rating, deal rating and the seller's notes.

How to use it

Fetch one Cars.com vehicle listing by its VIN (17-character Vehicle Identification Number, e.g. 1HGCV2F30LA028120). Returns one item with the full vehicle specification, photos, dealer info and seller notes. Use cars/listings/search to discover VINs.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• vin string required — Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the listing (examples: "1HGCV2F30LA028120"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "CarsListingDetail")
• id string required
• url string nullable
• vin string nullable
• make string nullable
• model string nullable
• year integer nullable
• trim string nullable
• body_style string nullable
• stock_type string nullable
• is_cpo boolean (default: false)
• is_verified boolean (default: false)
• price number nullable
• msrp number nullable
• mileage number nullable
• drivetrain string nullable
• exterior_color string nullable
• fuel_type string nullable
• seller_id string nullable
• seller_zip string nullable
• financing_type string nullable
• image string nullable
• images array (default: [])
• image_count integer nullable
• rank_enthusiast number nullable
• rank_family_friendly number nullable
• rank_luxury number nullable
• rank_off_road number nullable
• rank_sporty number nullable
• interior_color string nullable
• engine string nullable
• mpg string nullable
• ev_range string nullable
• charge_time string nullable
• transmission string nullable
• description string nullable
• deal_rating string nullable
• dealer_name string nullable
• dealer_rating number nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Listing not found (no active Cars.com listing matches the given VIN) Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.