/carsandbids/auctions

POST /api/carsandbids/auctions

Price: 5 credits

Get one Cars & Bids auction by id or URL: title, year, make, model, VIN, mileage, engine, drivetrain, transmission, colors, title status, the listing's highlights, equipment, known flaws, service and ownership history, seller notes, bid, comment, watcher and view counts, current bid, sale price, end time, seller and photos by category.

How to use it

Fetch one Cars & Bids auction by the short id from its URL (carsandbids.com/auctions/<id>/<slug>) or by the URL itself. Works for live and ended auctions. Use carsandbids/auctions/search to find ids.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• auction string required — Auction id, the token after /auctions/ in the auction URL, or the full auction URL (examples: "9lYm0eX5", "https://carsandbids.com/auctions/9lYm0eX5/2018-porsche-cayenne-platinum-edition"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "CarsandbidsAuction")
• id string required
• url string required
• listing_id string nullable
• submission_id string nullable
• status string nullable
• sub_title string nullable
• year integer nullable
• make string nullable
• model string nullable
• make_alias string nullable
• model_alias string nullable
• vin string nullable
• location string nullable
• mileage integer nullable
• mileage_text string nullable
• body_style string nullable
• engine string nullable
• drivetrain string nullable
• transmission string nullable
• transmission_details string nullable
• exterior_color string nullable
• interior_color string nullable
• title_status string nullable
• seller_type_code string nullable
• seller_type_details string nullable
• highlighted_points array (default: [])
• highlights string nullable
• equipment string nullable
• modifications string nullable
• known_flaws string nullable
• recent_service_history string nullable
• other_items string nullable
• ownership_history string nullable
• seller_notes string nullable
• dougs_take string nullable
• history_report_url string nullable
• history_report_vendor string nullable
• history_report_expires_at integer nullable
• inspection_report_url string nullable
• is_no_reserve boolean nullable
• is_notable boolean nullable
• is_featured boolean nullable
• is_usdc_accepted boolean nullable
• is_safepay_eligible boolean nullable
• is_not_car boolean nullable
• canceled_message string nullable
• view_count integer nullable
• bid_count integer nullable
• comment_count integer nullable
• question_count integer nullable
• watcher_count integer nullable
• current_bid number nullable
• current_bidder object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CarsandbidsUser")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string required
  • url string required
  • image string nullable
  • is_certified_seller boolean nullable
  • is_seller boolean nullable
  • is_bidder boolean nullable
  • is_verified boolean nullable
  • is_staff boolean nullable
  • reputation integer nullable
  • follower_count integer nullable
• sale_price number nullable
• buyer object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CarsandbidsUser")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string required
  • url string required
  • image string nullable
  • is_certified_seller boolean nullable
  • is_seller boolean nullable
  • is_bidder boolean nullable
  • is_verified boolean nullable
  • is_staff boolean nullable
  • reputation integer nullable
  • follower_count integer nullable
• ends_at integer nullable
• seller object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CarsandbidsUser")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string required
  • url string required
  • image string nullable
  • is_certified_seller boolean nullable
  • is_seller boolean nullable
  • is_bidder boolean nullable
  • is_verified boolean nullable
  • is_staff boolean nullable
  • reputation integer nullable
  • follower_count integer nullable
• photos array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CarsandbidsPhoto")
  • id string nullable
  • category string nullable
  • image string required
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
• videos array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "CarsandbidsVideo")
  • id string required
  • url string nullable
  • duration_seconds number nullable
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • created_at integer 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 — No Cars & Bids auction exists with this id. 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.