Multi-brand new/used car inventory search: an evolution story of python script to a web scraper to an API driven webapp

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@JD81

Hopefully people are using it, I just love the idea and build quality.

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Thanks, appreciate it! PM’d you.

@HersheySweet

Sorry to add a suggestion, but iirc doesn’t the AutoNation API also return if the car is available, sale pending etc. IK that doesn’t work for JLR products, but for most brands the system does.

Suggestions are always most welcome, after all I’m trying to tailor it to the needs of LHers the best I can. I will look and see if that’s the case. It might as well be.

Edit: so I could only find in transit/on the ground flags in AutoNation API search response payload. Looks like these:

correspond to these in payload:

“S” - stock, “T” - transit. I can add another field to my API response payload for autonation listings to indicate these for their inventory.