Taoche Data Parser & API
Taoche (淘车) is a Tencent-backed Chinese used-car platform ranked #1 by 2025 GMV (¥15.5B, ~3.8% share) with 13M+ monthly active users, and Carapis can extract its dealer inventory, pricing and condition data through one REST API. Operated by Yusheng and filed for a Hong Kong IPO, Taoche leads a famously fragmented market, and Carapis can serve its data without you building a China-geo, JavaScript-heavy scraper.
On request — not in the live feed today. We do not continuously crawl Taoche right now. Activation takes 2–3 weeks of engineering and is quoted per source, because each one ships with dedicated proxies, anti-bot tuning and ongoing maintenance. Ask us to add it.
| Country | China |
|---|---|
| Type | Portal |
| Owner | Yusheng (Tencent-backed) |
| Vehicle types | used, dealer |
| Monthly visits | 13M+ MAU (omnichannel, 2025) |
| Active listings | large (#1 by 2025 GMV, 3.8% share) |
| API access | No public API (parse-only) |
| Parse priority | ★★★☆☆ |
| Official site | www.taoche.com |
What is Taoche?
Taoche (淘车) is a Chinese used-car platform run by Yusheng and backed by Tencent. It operates an omnichannel model — online listings plus offline transaction support — and reported 13M+ monthly active users in 2025. In a highly fragmented market it ranked #1 by 2025 GMV at ¥15.5B (about a 3.8% share), and its parent filed for a Hong Kong IPO. Taoche connects buyers with dealer inventory and provides structured condition and pricing data per car.
Market Position
Taoche leads China’s used-car market by GMV despite holding only ~3.8% share — a vivid illustration of how fragmented the sector is, with no single player dominating (Benzinga). It moved ¥15.5B in 2025 GMV and reported 13M+ MAU (BigGo Finance), in a national market of 20.1M used-car transactions (SCIO). Its Tencent backing gives it WeChat-ecosystem distribution that rivals lack, and its pending HK IPO signals a push to consolidate the long tail of dealers.
What the API returns
Response schema
Indicative — this is the shape, not a guarantee. Every source returns the same structure, so what you build against does not change when you add one. Which fields carry a value depends on the source and on the individual listing: a site that does not publish mileage returns null there, and Taoche is no exception.
List — GET /apix/api/vehicles/ — returns 30 fields per vehicle:
idstringsource_codestringbrand_namestringbrand_slugstringmodel_namestringmodel_slugstringtrimstringyearintegerprice_usdintegermileageintegerfuel_typeFuelTypeEnumtransmissionTransmissionEnumbody_typeBodyTypeEnumcolorColorEnumseller_typeSellerTypeEnumregionstringsource_locationobjecthas_accidentbooleanis_new_vehiclebooleanis_verifiedbooleanstatusVehicleStatusEnumis_availablebooleanfirst_seen_atstringlast_seen_atstringthumbVehiclePhotophotosarrayphotos_countintegerhas_valuationbooleanhas_llm_analysisbooleananalysisobject
Detail — GET /apix/api/vehicles/{id}/ — adds 23 more:
generationstringprice_originalstringprice_original_currencystringoriginal_msrpstringengine_ccintegerseat_countintegerdrive_typeDriveTypeEnumhas_simple_repairbooleanhas_recallbooleanrecall_fulfilledbooleanwarranty_typestringinspection_passedbooleanowner_countintegeris_undervaluedbooleanvaluation_scorenumberfeaturesarraydescriptionstringlisting_urlstringlisting_idstringvinstringvehicle_nostringavailability_checked_atstringstatus_changed_atstring
Abbreviated example:
{
"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
}Which sources you can actually query is answered by GET /apix/api/sources/ with your API key — it is the list your account can pull today, and it is the one to trust over any page on this site.
Taoche’s value is breadth across a fragmented dealer base: as the GMV leader it aggregates inventory from a wide network of dealers, making it a strong single source for tracking real Chinese used-car transaction pricing.
API Quick Start
Python
import requests
resp = requests.get(
"https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
params={"source": "taoche", "limit": 20},
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
print(car["make"], car["model"], car["year"], car["price"])Get an API key at my.carapis.com and see the full API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page .
Use Cases
- Pricing intelligence — track the GMV leader’s dealer pricing across China for dealers.
- Market research — measure inventory and GMV trends in a fragmented but growing market. See market research.
- Import / export — source dealer inventory and reference Chinese pricing. See import & export.