/carsales/listings/search

POST /api/carsales/listings/search

Price: 20 credits

Search carsales.com.au vehicle listings by make and model, condition (new/used), body type, fuel/electric type, transmission, exterior color, state, cylinders, doors, engine induction, lifestyle category, EV connector, private-seller-only, price range, build-year range and maximum odometer. Sort by featured, price, odometer, year or trade-in bonus. Returns listing cards with make/model/badge, year, price and price type, market-price position, body type, transmission, engine, fuel, odometer or build date, EV range, state, seller type, photos and badges.

How to use it

Search carsales.com.au car listings. make/model are slugs (e.g. make='toyota', model='corolla'); model needs make set. Filter by condition, body_type, fuel_type, transmission, color, state, cylinders, doors, induction, lifestyle, ev_connector, private_sellers_only, price_min/price_max (AUD), year_min/year_max, odometer_max (km). Sort by featured/price/odometer/year/trade_in_bonus. count is required. Each filter accepts a single value.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• make string nullable — Make slug (e.g. 'toyota', 'land-rover', 'mercedes-benz') (minLength: 1)
• model string nullable — Model slug (e.g. 'corolla', 'hilux'); requires make to be set (minLength: 1)
• condition string nullable — New or used (one of: "new", "used")
• body_type string nullable — Body type (one of: "suv", "sedan", "hatch", "ute", "wagon", "coupe", "convertible", "people-mover", "van", "bus", "cab-chassis")
• fuel_type string nullable — Fuel / electric type (one of: "petrol", "diesel", "electric", "hybrid", "plug-in-hybrid", "dual-fuel", "gas-only")
• transmission string nullable — Transmission type (one of: "automatic", "manual", "amt")
• color string nullable — Exterior color (one of: "beige", "black", "blue", "bordeaux", "bronze", "brown", "burgundy", "gold", "green", "grey", "magenta", "maroon", "orange", "pink", "purple", "red", "silver", "white", "yellow")
• state string nullable — Australian state / territory (one of: "new-south-wales", "victoria", "queensland", "south-australia", "western-australia", "tasmania", "northern-territory", "australian-capital-territory")
• cylinders string nullable — Number of engine cylinders (one of: "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "8", "10", "12")
• doors string nullable — Number of doors (one of: "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6")
• induction string nullable — Engine induction type (one of: "aspirated", "turbo", "supercharged", "turbo-supercharged")
• lifestyle string nullable — Lifestyle category (one of: "family", "first-car", "green", "offroad-4x4", "performance", "prestige", "tradie", "unique")
• ev_connector string nullable — EV charging connector type (one of: "ccs2", "chademo", "type-1", "type-2")
• private_sellers_only boolean — Only private-seller listings (default: false)
• price_min integer nullable — Minimum price (AUD) (min: 0)
• price_max integer nullable — Maximum price (AUD) (min: 0)
• year_min integer nullable — Minimum build year (min: 1900)
• year_max integer nullable — Maximum build year (min: 1900)
• odometer_max integer nullable — Maximum odometer (km) (min: 0)
• sort string — Sort order (default: "featured"; one of: "featured", "price_low", "price_high", "odometer_low", "odometer_high", "year_new", "year_old", "trade_in_bonus")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "CarsalesListing")
• id string required
• guid string nullable
• url string nullable
• make string nullable
• model string nullable
• badge string nullable
• year integer nullable
• price number nullable
• price_type string nullable
• market_position string nullable
• body_type string nullable
• transmission string nullable
• engine string nullable
• fuel string nullable
• odometer_km number nullable
• build_date string nullable
• ev_range_km number nullable
• state string nullable
• condition string nullable
• seller_type string nullable
• seller_id string nullable
• image string nullable
• images array (default: [])
• photo_count integer nullable
• badges array (default: [])

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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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.