What CarSensor data does the API return?

Each listing as a standard car record: make, model and generation from a shared catalog, year, mileage, price and currency, location, photos and equipment, plus inspections and history reports when CarSensor publishes them.

How do I select CarSensor in the API?

Call /domains once to read the site ID of CarSensor for your key, then pass it as domains[] to /search or /cars.

What if the same car is on several sites?

It is one car with several listings. Each listing keeps its own site, ID, price and link, so you see every place the car is offered.

How do I keep a copy in sync?

Use the /cars export: start without a cursor and follow next_url until it ends. Run it again to refresh your copy.

Ask for a free demo key and tell us which sites you need. It returns real data in the same JSON as the paid plans.

JapanMarketplace

CarSensor API

CarSensor used-car listings from Japan as JSON: price, mileage, repair history flag and photos.

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On carsensor.net

carsensor.net

In your code

{"vin": string"brand": { name }"model": { name }"year": number"listings": [{"external": {…}"price": {…}"odometer": {…}"is_auction": boolean"images": […]}]"inspections": […]"vehicle_history_reports": […]}

Field names from the real record; values are types, not data.

What is CarSensor?

01/ 06About

About CarSensor

CarSensor is the used-car portal of Recruit, one of Japan's largest. Dealers list cars with price, mileage, repair history and photos. MotorAPIs reads the listings into the same car record as the other Japanese sites.

Country: Japan
Type: Marketplace
API: api.motorapis.com
Website: carsensor.net

What data do I get?

02/ 06Fields

What you get from CarSensor

Every listing, in the shared car record. Fields are filled when CarSensor shows them.

Vehicle

VIN, when the site shows it
Make, model and generation from one shared catalog
Year, fuel, transmission, engine, power
Mileage in km

Listing

Site and listing ID, link to the ad
Price and currency
Seller type and location
Photo gallery
Equipment options

Reports

Inspections, when published
History reports, when published

One car, many sites

The same car on several sites is one car
Sold cars stay readable for about a month

How do I ask for it?

03/ 06Requests

Three requests to start

Site IDs differ per key: read them from /domains once, then filter by them.

01Find the site ID of CarSensor

GET https://api.motorapis.com/domains
  x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

02Search its cars

GET https://api.motorapis.com/search?domains[]={domain_id}&perPage=20
  x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

03Export everything and keep it in sync

GET https://api.motorapis.com/cars?domains[]={domain_id}&limit=500
  x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY

Anything else to know?

04/ 06FAQ

Questions about the CarSensor API

What CarSensor data does the API return?: Each listing as a standard car record: make, model and generation from a shared catalog, year, mileage, price and currency, location, photos and equipment, plus inspections and history reports when CarSensor publishes them.
How do I select CarSensor in the API?: Call /domains once to read the site ID of CarSensor for your key, then pass it as domains[] to /search or /cars.
What if the same car is on several sites?: It is one car with several listings. Each listing keeps its own site, ID, price and link, so you see every place the car is offered.
How do I keep a copy in sync?: Use the /cars export: start without a cursor and follow next_url until it ends. Run it again to refresh your copy.
How can I try it?: Ask for a free demo key and tell us which sites you need. It returns real data in the same JSON as the paid plans.

What else is connected?

05/ 06Related

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06/ 06Start

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