APIs Overview

Name	Account-type	Data-format	Description
Seller-API	For API-Account	Data Format	REST-API to edit the vehicle inventory and for other functionality.
Search-API / Ad-Integration	For API-Account and Dealer-Account (for own inventory)	Search-XML	REST-API to search and download ads.
Ad-Stream	For API-Account	Search-XML	Websocket based API to receive server side events (created or changed ads).

Changelog

Latest API changes.

Latest Make Model Updates.

Some definitions

Account

For accessing our API, you need an account. There are two account types:

API-Account - a common API account, for which certain APIs (e.g. Search-API) can be activated. Please contact customer support for activation and credentials.
Dealer-Account - is connected to a dealer-seller. You can get credentials for certain APIs from within Dealer-Area.

Dealer-Area

Dealer-Area is the part of our platform, where a dealer-seller can login and do things like editing the vehicle inventory.

Reference data

Here you find reference tables for the enumerated data types like features, colors, makes, models and others.

Textformatting & Smart Attributes

Here you find information regarding how to format the vehicle description. Information how to use our Smart Attributes (in German only) can be found here.

seller

A seller is the entity which offers vehicles at the mobile.de marketplace. There are three different seller types:

dealer - this is a commercial car/vehicle dealer
FSBO - (For Sale By Owner) non-commercial car/vehicle seller
commercial FSBO - a commercial company/seller that sells vehicles used by that company itself. For example, a delivery service sells some of their delivery vehicles.

In Seller-API and Search-API, sellers are identified by the seller-key (also called seller-ID or customer-ID).
Note: The seller-key is not the customer-number that our dealer customers have.

site / site-id / site-key

mobile.de GmbH operates different platforms (sites) in different countries, for example www.mobile.de in Germany and www.automobile.it in Italy.
Each of these sites is identified by a site-key (you can find a full list of the site-keys in our reference data).

The API is available for all sites, albeit each site may have different rules for offering a vehicle and different sets of reference data.
Hence when offering (posting) a vehicle, you should consider the site your seller is registered and operational at.
You will find more information on that matter in the seller API section.

Customer support contact

Please contact Customer Support if you require more information.

Germany	Phone: +49 (0) 30 81097500 Contact form
Italy	Phone: +39 02 30410311 Contact form
France	Phone: +33 (0) 810 000 220 Contact form

Terms and conditions

The API is operated by mobile.de GmbH.

Imprint

Please note the terms and conditions regarding the API-Usage and Ad-Integration.