Encar Data Parser & API

Encar is South Korea’s #1 used-car marketplace — around 1.2 million vehicles are registered on it each year — and Carapis extracts its full listing data, including government inspection sheets, mileage, accident history, options and dealer details, through one REST API. Owned by CAR Group (the parent of carsales.com.au and Webmotors), Encar carries the richest structured used-car data in Korea, and Carapis serves it without you building or maintaining a JavaScript-heavy, regionally blocked scraper.

What is Encar?

Encar (엔카) is the leading used-car portal in South Korea, operated by SK Encar under CAR Group. It lists vehicles from both licensed dealers and certified inventory, and is best known for attaching an official vehicle inspection report to most listings — a structured condition record that makes Korean used-car data unusually rich. Encar sees an estimated ~7M monthly visits (Q3-2025 estimate; SimilarWeb reports ~4.2M).

Market Position

Encar is the dominant used-car marketplace in Korea, with roughly 1.2M cars registered on the platform per year and ~150K+ live listings at any time (2025 estimates). Its owner, CAR Group (formerly carsales.com Ltd), runs a single corporate data model across Australia (carsales), Korea (Encar), Brazil (Webmotors), Chile (Chileautos) and the US (Trader Interactive) — so the techniques used to structure Encar data transfer to several other Carapis platforms. Encar competes with KB Chachacha and KCar, but leads on inventory depth and data structure.

What the API returns

{
  "id": "0193f2c1-...",
  "source_code": "encar",
  "brand_name": "BMW",
  "model_name": "320i",
  "trim": "M Sport",
  "year": 2021,
  "price_usd": 28400,
  "price_original": "38900000",
  "price_original_currency": "KRW",
  "mileage": 45000,
  "fuel_type": "gasoline",
  "transmission": "automatic",
  "has_accident": false,
  "listing_url": "https://...",
  "photos": [{ "url": "https://cdn.carapis.com/..." }],
  "first_seen_at": "2026-09-28T11:04:22Z",
  "is_available": true
}

The inspection sheet and accident history are what make Encar especially valuable for import/export and pricing-intelligence buyers: they are the closest thing Korea has to a CARFAX-style condition record, delivered as structured fields rather than scanned PDFs.

API Quick Start

import requests
 
resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
    params={"source": "encar", "limit": 20},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
    print(car["make"], car["model"], car["year"], car["price"])

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=encar&limit=20",
  { headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.CARAPIS_API_KEY}` } },
);
const { results } = await res.json();

curl "https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings?source=encar&limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CARAPIS_API_KEY"

Get an API key at my.carapis.com  and see the full API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page .

Use Cases

• Import / export — Korean used cars are a major export category; inspection-sheet and accident data let exporters price and vet vehicles remotely. See import & export.
• Pricing intelligence — price-history fields power residual-value and market-pricing models for dealers.
• Market research — track inventory mix, mileage and price trends across the Korean used-car market. See market research.

Frequently asked questions

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