Carsales Car Finder by Make, Model & Filters

E-commerce & Marketplaces

Operated by Sourcelane✓ verified

Scrapes carsales.com.au to extract complete vehicle listings for specified make/model combinations and filter criteria (year range, price range, state, body type, fuel, transmission, colour, keywords and sort order). Returns structured listing records containing a unique listing identifier and URL, human-readable title and variant, year/make/model and condition, detailed pricing information (amount, price type and price excluding government charges, plus a price badge), vehicle specifications (body type, transmission, engine description, fuel type, odometer in km), seller metadata (seller type, seller identifier and state), promotion and listing badges, photo counts and image URLs, the resolved search URL and a scrape timestamp.

Verified Sep 28, 12:10 AM

$0.002

per listing

Up to 100 per call. Only pay for results returned; failed calls are refunded.

What people use it for

Price tracking for a specific model and year range within a state
Dealer stock monitoring and competitor analysis by make or body type
Building vehicle valuation results and price-guide benchmarking
Lead generation for automotive finance, insurance and inspection services
Scheduled alerts for newly listed cars matching saved filters (detecting diffs on listing identifiers)

Trust & reliability

7d uptime trend

Window	Uptime	Success rate	p50	p95
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Calling contract

Call it through Sourcelane's gateway or MCP server. We run the connector, apply your agent's spend guardrails, and bill only the results returned.

Call it via Sourcelane

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"carsales-search-scraper","params":{"vehicles":["audi/rs3"],"maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Request params

Field	Type	Required	Description
`condition`	string	optional	New or used (used includes demo and near-new cars).
`vehicles`	array	optional	Pick one or more makes or make + model pairs — start typing to search (e.g. "BMW 3 Series", "Toyota Hilux", "Tesla (all models)"). You can also type your own entry such as "rs3", "hilux" or "mercedes c-class" and press Enter; it is matched against carsales' 145 makes and 1,651 models. Leave empty to search all cars. Each vehicle is searched separately with the filters below.
`state`	string	optional	Australian state or territory the car is listed in.
`bodyType`	string	optional	Body style.
`fuelType`	string	optional	Fuel type.
`transmission`	string	optional	Gearbox type.
`colour`	string	optional	Exterior colour.
`priceMin`	integer	optional	Lowest price to include. Exact bound applied to results.
`priceMax`	integer	optional	Highest price to include. Exact bound applied to results.
`yearMin`	integer	optional	Oldest model year to include.
`yearMax`	integer	optional	Newest model year to include.
`odometerMax`	integer	optional	Highest odometer reading to include. Exact bound applied to results.
`keywords`	array	optional	Optional words that must appear in the listing title or variant, e.g. "Wildtrak", "quattro", "4x4". A listing must match every keyword.
`sortBy`	string	optional	Order of results as carsales returns them.
`maxItems`	integer	optional	Maximum number of unique listings to save. Set 0 for no limit. Capped at 100 per call.
`deepCollection`	boolean	optional	carsales only serves the first 20 pages (about 440 listings) of any search. When a search is larger, automatically split it into price bands, then model years, and merge the results.

Each result contains

Field	Type	Description
`adId`	string	Ad Id
`listingId`	string	Listing Id
`url`	string	Url
`title`	string	Title
`variant`	string	Variant
`year`	integer	Year
`make`	string	Make
`model`	string	Model
`condition`	string	Condition
`price`	integer	Price
`priceType`	string	Price Type
`priceExclGovtCharges`	integer	Price Excl Govt Charges
`priceBadge`	string	—
`bodyType`	string	—
`transmission`	string	—
`engine`	string	—
`fuelType`	string	—
`odometerKm`	integer	—
`sellerType`	string	—
`sellerId`	string	—
`state`	string	—
`isPromoted`	boolean	—
`badges`	array	—
`imageCount`	integer	—
`images`	array	—
`searchUrl`	string	—
`sortBy`	string	—
`totalResultsForSearch`	integer	—
`scrapedAt`	string	—

Use Carsales Car Finder by Make, Model & Filters from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Pick your tool and connect in under a minute. Then just ask — for example: “Track the price of these 20 grocery items at Woolworths and Coles every week.”

Connect Claude

Web, desktop and mobile. Paste one URL.

1Copy your personal connector URL
2In Claude open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
3Paste the URL and click Add — done

Manual setup (config files, REST, Python) +

Claude Code

Adds the Sourcelane MCP server with your key as a header.

terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sourcelane https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"

Claude Desktop (config file)

Alternative to the connector URL: add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor & Windsurf

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or Windsurf's mcp_config.json).

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Save as .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code prompts for your key once.

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "sourcelane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:sourcelane-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "sourcelane-key",
      "description": "Sourcelane agent key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}

ChatGPT Custom GPT (Actions)

Create a GPT → Actions → Import from URL, then Authentication: API Key, Bearer.

OpenAPI schema URL

https://sourcelane-amber.vercel.app/openapi.json

REST

One POST. Pass maxResults to cap cost.

curl

curl -X POST https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listing":"carsales-search-scraper","params":{"vehicles":["audi/rs3"],"maxItems":5},"maxResults":10}'

Python, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK…

Wrap the REST call as a tool, or point an MCP client at the endpoint.

python

import requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://cool-puffin-608.convex.site/v1/call",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer sl_live_your_agent_key"},
    json={
        "listing": "carsales-search-scraper",
        "params": {"vehicles":["audi/rs3"],"maxItems":5},
        "maxResults": 10,
    },
    timeout=300,
)
body = res.json()
print(body["receipt"]["chargedMicros"], "micro-USD for", body["receipt"]["results"], "results")
print(body["data"])

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