Sandbox::https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-scraping-api-autotrader

The autotrader template is built to obtain autotrader website information.

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Real-time and Asynchronous integration methods are available for this template.
Batch requests are also supported.

Input Parameters

Request parameters available for the Autotrader template:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`target`	string	✅	Target type must be set to `autotrader`.
`url`	string	✅	autotrader URL.
`headless`	string		`html` value enables JavaScript rendering. Read more. `png` value enables screenshot response. Read more.
`geo`	string		Set the country to use when submitting the query.
`device_type`	string		Specify device type and browser. Read more.
`xhr`	boolean		Set to `true` to retrieve a list of XHR and fetch requests.Read more. Default value is `false`.
`markdown`	boolean		Set to `true` to receive a Markdown response. Read more. Default value is `false`.

Request Examples

# update 'TOKEN VALUE' with your API KEY
curl --request 'POST' \
        --url 'https://data.decodo.com/v1/scrape' \
        --header 'Accept: application/json' \
        --header 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN VALUE' \
        --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
        --data '
    {
      "target": "autotrader",
      "url": "https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&postcode=SE15+6GY&make=",
      "headless": "html"
    }
'

const scrape = async() => {
  const response = await fetch("https://data.decodo.com/v1/scrape", {
    method: "POST",
    body: JSON.stringify({
      "target": "autotrader",
      "url": "https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&postcode=SE15+6GY&make=",
      "headless": "html"
    }),
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN VALUE" // update with your API KEY
    },
  }).catch(error => console.log(error));

  console.log(await response.json())
}

scrape()

import requests
  
url = "https://data.decodo.com/v1/scrape"
  
payload = {
      "target": "autotrader",
      "url": "https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-search?channel=cars&postcode=SE15+6GY&make=",
      "headless": "html"
}
  
headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Bearer TOKEN VALUE" # update with your API KEY
}
  
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
  
print(response.text)

Output

Response Example

JSON

{
    "results": [
        {
            "content": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\" data-previous-scroll-y=\"-0px\" class=\"sp-message-open\"><head><script nonce=\"\">  (function (d, s) {\n    var sampleRate = 10;\n    if (Math.ceil(Math.random() * 100) >= sampleRate) {\n      return;\n    }\n    var j = d.createElement(s);\n    var t = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    j.src =\n      'https://apm-assets.prod.atcdn.co.uk/elastic-apm-rum.umd.min.js';\n    j.onload = function () {\n      elasticApm.init({\n        serviceName: 'sauron-search-resu...",
            "headers": {
                "cache-control": "max-age=60",
                "cf-cache-status": "DYNAMIC",
                "cf-ray": "9fd936c42b7c623b-OTP",
                "content-encoding": "gzip",
                "content-security-policy": "upgrade-insecure-requests; report-uri https://app.csp-report-receiver.prod.k8.atcloud.io/api/csp/report-uri; report-to autotrader-csp;",
                "content-type": "text/html;charset=utf-8",
                "date": "Mon, 18 May 2026 07:40:28 GMT",
                "link": "<https://apm-assets.prod.atcdn.co.uk/elastic-apm-rum.umd.min.js>; rel=\"prefetch\"",
                "referrer-policy": "origin-when-cross-origin",
                "reporting-endpoints": "autotrader-csp=\"https://app.csp-report-receiver.prod.k8.atcloud.io/api/csp/report-to\"",
                "server": "cloudflare",
                "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000",
                "vary": "Accept-Encoding, accept-encoding, Accept-Encoding",
                "x-at-service": "sauron-search-results-app",
                "x-atcloud-response-service": "consumer-gateway",
                "x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
                "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN",
                "x-request-id": "9fd936c42b7c623b",
                "x-xss-protection": "1; mode=block"
            },
            "cookies": [
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": -1,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "bucket",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": false,
                    "value": "desktop",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1810626028.437895,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "userid",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "ID=7d36e623-0abe-43c8-9133-eea105669618",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1810626028.437913,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "user",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "STATUS=0&HASH=dcc618499edeb093a029d7ca9d31b30f&PR=&ID=7d36e623-0abe-43c8-9133-eea105669618",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".avalanche.autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1779091829.317089,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "__cf_bm",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "MC5PUi8Oy5VPwjW324F4DH.fJCMJll6ei7wMqrK4CX8-1779090029.2076461-1.0.1.1-s.WBgWVmBw9Db4ad.fLwM795553.x5kwLa_uih3mARBoL83Ooo.ptE.b19hqJXhHqKzlwGh.D5YTo8PHOBmF5wS5KZYmt5IIt6N.zlKtig6dywYBPQqnYyRzH.pc0Obh",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": "www.autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": -1,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "postcode",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": false,
                    "value": "postcode=SE15%206GY",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1810626029.999696,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "sp",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "c95456c2-f615-4478-93bc-f500e5d04807",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": "www.autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1781682030.037583,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "_sp_v1_ss",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "1:H4sIAAAAAAAAAItWqo5RKimOUbKKJpuRB2IY1MbqxCilgph5pTk5QHYJWEF17SCVUIoFANDVDhr8AAAA",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": "www.autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1781682030.037664,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "_sp_v1_p",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "392",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": "www.autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1781682030.037687,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "_sp_v1_data",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "1173773",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1810626030.037918,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "_sp_su",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": true,
                    "value": "false",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": 1810626032,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "LPVID",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": false,
                    "value": "kwZDdhNDEyMDRiMmFlMTY1",
                    "version": ""
                },
                {
                    "comment": "",
                    "domain": ".autotrader.co.uk",
                    "expires": -1,
                    "httponly": "",
                    "key": "LPSID-79835795",
                    "max-age": "",
                    "path": "/",
                    "samesite": "",
                    "secure": false,
                    "value": "_YbJwJI4RYmhSMPuPwucDA",
                    "version": ""
                }
            ],
            "status_code": 200,
            "task_id": "7462044411841497089",
            "created_at": "2026-05-18 07:40:25",
            "updated_at": "2026-05-18 07:40:34",
            "type": "raw"
        }
    ]
}

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