GET
Listing Search
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/search
Search current UK car listings with filters, sorting, and pagination
Auto Trader UK API
Auto Trader UK Vehicle Listings API for Car Search, Prices, and Dealers
Scrappa's Auto Trader UK Vehicle Listings API returns structured JSON from Auto Trader UK, the UK's largest car marketplace. Search current car listings with postcode radius, price, mileage, and registration filters, open any listing for full details including equipment, finance offers and price indicators, and read dealer profiles and make/model reference lists. Scrappa is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Auto Trader.
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Endpoints
Auto Trader
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Use the first endpoint in this API family with a Scrappa API key. Every account includes 500 free monthly credits, so you can validate the response shape before buying credits.
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Request
curl -X GET "https://scrappa.co/api/autotrader-uk/v1/search?postcode=SW1A1AA&price_search_type=total&make=BMW&page=1" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY"
JSON response
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"listings": [
{
"advert_id": "202610026611938",
"type": "NATURAL_LISTING",
"title": "BMW 1 Series",
"price": { "amount": 850, "currency": "GBP", "display": "£850" },
"vehicle_location": "Welwyn (24 miles)",
"distance": { "value": 24, "unit": "miles" },
"dealer_link": "/dealers/hertfordshire/welwyn/cnh-cars-ltd-10044570?channel=cars",
"tracking_context": { "price": 850, "make": "BMW", "model": "1 Series", "year": 2011, "condition": "used" }
}
],
"pagination": { "page": 1, "page_count": 2125, "total_results": 42498, "has_more": true }
}
}What you can build
Structured data for real applications. Here are some ideas.
Used Car Price Analysis
Analyze UK used car prices by make, model, first registration year, and mileage with numeric GBP prices and price indicators.
Dealer Stock Monitoring
Track a dealer's current vehicles with the same filters, sorting, and pagination as the main search.
UK Car Market Analysis
Build lead lists and market reports for automotive businesses from live listing totals, seller types, and locations.
Deal Finders
Filter listings on price, mileage, and year and sort by price or distance to surface the best offers first.
Vehicle Comparison Features
Power comparison and search features in your own app with full listing details, equipment lists, and dealer stock.
Auto Trader UK scraper API
Auto Trader UK API for car listings, price indicators, dealer profiles, and taxonomy
The Auto Trader UK API is designed for automotive analytics, dealer tools, and car search features. Each listing includes title, make and model, price in GBP, first registration, mileage, fuel type, transmission, location, images, and the dealer link. Detail responses add equipment features, labeled specs, the full description, finance, and the price indicator.
Search current UK car listings by postcode, price range, first registration year, mileage, make, model, fuel, transmission, body type, colour, seller type, and distance.
Sort by relevance, price, distance, mileage, age, or most recent and page with a live has_more signal.
Read the price indicator with the localized label and deviation from the market average where the listing carries one.
Get finance fields such as the initial payment where the listing offers them.
Pass a listing's dealer id as retailer_id to the dealer profile and dealer listings endpoints.
Test the Auto Trader UK API with 500 free monthly credits before scaling production traffic.
Choose the right Auto Trader UK API endpoint
Use Listing Search for market coverage
Combine make, model, registration year, price, mileage, and postcode distance filters to collect matching UK car listings with numeric prices, badges, and a live total count.
Open Auto Trader UK Search API docsUse Listing Details for full vehicle records
Open a listing by advert_id to get specs, key specification, equipment features, gallery, history, running costs, finance, and the price indicator. Removed listings return 404, so drop those IDs from your queue.
Open Auto Trader UK Listing API docsUse Dealer Profile and Dealer Listings for stock tracking
Read one dealer's public profile, FAQs, opening hours, and location, then search their current stock with the same filters and sorting as the main search.
Open Auto Trader UK Dealer API docsAvailable endpoints
Everything you need in one API.
GET
Facets
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/facets
Get the filter facets with live counts and sort options
GET
Taxonomy
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/taxonomy
Get the make and model reference lists with live counts
GET
Listing Details
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/listing
Get the full record of one listing with specs, equipment, gallery, and finance
GET
Dealer Profile
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/dealer
Get a dealer's public profile, FAQs, opening hours, and location
GET
Dealer Listings
/api/autotrader-uk/v1/dealer-listings
Search the current vehicles of one dealer
Scrappa vs ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI
See how Scrappa compares to the official API.
| Feature | Scrappa | ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI |
|---|---|---|
| Auto Trader UK listing data as JSON | Build your own parser | |
| Price indicator and finance fields | Parse it yourself | |
| Dealer profile endpoint | ||
| Dealer stock endpoint | ||
| Price per 1k requests | From $0.20 | Varies by credits per request |
| Unified API key | Yes (80+ APIs) | Scraping only |
| Free tier | 500 credits/month | Trial credits |
Auto Trader UK listing data as JSON
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Build your own parser
Price indicator and finance fields
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Parse it yourself
Dealer profile endpoint
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Dealer stock endpoint
Scrappa:
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Price per 1k requests
Scrappa:
From $0.20
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Varies by credits per request
Unified API key
Scrappa:
Yes (80+ APIs)
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Scraping only
Free tier
Scrappa:
500 credits/month
ScrapingBee / ScraperAPI:
Trial credits
Key features
UK car listing search with postcode, price, year, mileage, make, model, fuel, transmission, body type, colour, seller type, and distance filters
Numeric price in GBP plus badges, dealer links, and image counts
Price indicator with the localized label and deviation where the listing carries one
Finance fields such as the initial payment where the listing offers them
Full listing details with specs, equipment, gallery, history, running costs, and description
Dealer profiles with FAQs, opening hours, location, and aggregate rating
Simple API key auth with 500 free credits per month
Frequently asked questions
No. Scrappa is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Auto Trader. The Auto Trader UK API returns structured JSON from current public UK car listings and dealer data through a Scrappa API key.
Call the taxonomy endpoint with a postcode and read the makes list, then pass a make such as BMW to read its models list. Every option carries a live listing count.
Version 1 covers cars on the Auto Trader UK cars channel.
Auto Trader UK scopes every search to a postcode and a distance radius. Pass any UK postcode such as SW1A1AA and use the distance filter to widen the radius.
Every listing carries a dealer_link and the detail response carries the seller id. Pass the retailer id to the dealer and dealer-listings endpoints.
About 20 natural listings per page. Use page and the has_more signal to page through larger result sets, up to page 100. Totals are live snapshots and can change between requests.
Every Scrappa account includes 500 free credits each month. After that, each request costs one credit, which works out to $0.20 to $0.30 per 1,000 requests depending on the credit pack or plan.