Cars & Bids auction
One Cars & Bids auction: status, current bid or sale amount, start and end time, bid, comment, watcher and view counts, VIN, make, model, year, mileage, body, engine, drivetrain, transmission, colours, title status, location, highlights, the write-up sections (equipment, modifications, known flaws, service history, ownership...), history report link, finance estimate, video titles, all photo URLs by group and the recent bids (amounts and times). Dealers are named; a private party seller is only marked as such. latest=1 with the auctions filters opens the first current auction.
Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.
Parameters
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
url | string | A carsandbids.com/auctions/<id>/... link. |
id | string | The auction id. |
latest | string | 1: open the first auction /carsandbids/v1/auctions returns for the other params. Example: 1 |
status | string | With latest=1: live or closed. |
Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).
Example
curl "https://api.api.sh/carsandbids/v1/auction" \
-H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY" import os, requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.api.sh/carsandbids/v1/auction",
params={},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json() const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/carsandbids/v1/auction");
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json(); Response
A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).