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Quickstart

An integration needs two endpoints: /cars for active vehicles and /archived-lots for the ones that were sold or removed. Every call is a plain GET with your key in the x-api-key header.

  1. 1

    Import the active catalog

    Request /cars and go through every page (page=1, 2, 3…) until links.next is null. Save each vehicle and its lots in your database.

  2. 2

    Pull updates every hour

    Run /cars?minutes=60 from a cron job. It returns vehicles added or changed in the last 60 minutes: insert the new ones and update the rest.

  3. 3

    Retire sold lots

    In the same job request /archived-lots?minutes=60. It returns the lots that were sold or removed, with the final bid where available. Archive or delete them by lot_id.

That is the whole loop: your database stays up to date. Apply your key once on the Authentication page and every example fills in. Authentication

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