AutoTrader.ca Price Drop Monitor and Car Scraper

Track AutoTrader Canada listings and get only what changed: new listings, price drops, and sold or removed vehicles, each with the previous price, the size of the drop, and a price history. Schedule it daily and stop re-downloading the same thousand cars to find the three that moved.

Need everything instead? Switch the monitor off and it is a full AutoTrader.ca scraper: price, mileage, VIN, specs, dealer details, and photos from any search as JSON, CSV, or Excel. No coding required: paste a search URL, or build your search with 30+ built-in filters.

What does this AutoTrader.ca monitor do?

It watches any AutoTrader.ca search (a pasted URL or the built-in filter form) and runs in one of two modes:

• Monitor mode: compares the search with the previous run and outputs only the changes: new listings, price drops, price increases, and sold or removed vehicles. Built for a daily schedule.
• Scraper mode (monitor off): outputs every listing in the search, with 127 fields per vehicle, including numeric price and mileage values that are ready for analysis without cleanup.

Both modes read the JSON that AutoTrader.ca embeds in its own pages instead of scraping HTML, so records stay complete and rarely break when AutoTrader changes its page layout.

At a glance

Source	autotrader.ca (cars, RVs, bikes, boats, trailers, trucks, and more)
Fields per vehicle	127 (about 85 populate on a typical dealer listing)
Monitor mode	New listings, price drops, price increases, sold or removed vehicles since the last run, with price history
Best run as	A daily schedule (monitor), or a one-off run (full scrape)
Input	AutoTrader.ca search URL, direct listing URL, or the built-in filter form
Filters	30+, including make, model, price, year, mileage, body type, fuel, features, and location
Output	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, JSONL
Proxies	Included and automatic, no setup and no Apify Proxy subscription needed
Coding needed	None

How to track AutoTrader.ca price drops in 4 steps

1. Choose your vehicles. Paste an AutoTrader.ca search URL into Start URLs, or leave it empty and fill in the Search filters section instead.
2. Turn on Price-drop monitor. Pick which changes to report and, optionally, a minimum price change.
3. Save it as a task and schedule it. Daily is typical. The first run saves the baseline; every later run returns only what changed.
4. Get notified (optional). Add a Slack, email, or webhook integration to the task so each run's changes reach you.

Just want every listing once? Leave the monitor off, set Max results if you want an exact number, and click Start. Results download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Price-drop and new-listing monitor

Turn on Price-drop monitor and schedule the run (daily is typical). Every run compares the search with the previous run and outputs one row per change:

change_type	What happened
new	The listing appeared since the last run
price_drop	The asking price went down
price_increase	The asking price went up (off by default)
removed	The listing is gone from AutoTrader.ca: sold, expired, or taken down
baseline	First run only: the current listings, when Export all listings on the first run is on

Each change row carries the full vehicle record (VIN, specs, dealer, photos) plus:

• previous_price_cad, price_change_cad, price_change_pct for price changes
• price_history, every price the listing has had while monitored, with dates
• first_seen_at and days_tracked, so you can see how long a car sat before it dropped or sold
• watchlist and change_detected_at

How it stays fast and cheap. AutoTrader search pages already show every listing's price, so the monitor reads the search pages (100 listings each) and only opens the listings that changed. A search of 650 vehicles is checked in about 7 requests instead of 650. Unchanged vehicles are never output, so you are not billed for them.

Sold detection is careful. A listing that leaves the search is checked directly before it is reported as removed. If its page still loads (for example the price moved outside your price filter), it is not reported. Removals are only judged when every page of the search was read, so keep monitored searches under the 4,000 results AutoTrader shows per search. Narrow by make, model, price band or postal code if needed.

Example monitor input:

{
  "monitor_mode": true,
  "makes": ["Toyota"],
  "models": ["RAV4"],
  "conditions": ["used"],
  "postal_code": "M5V 3L9",
  "radius_km": "100",
  "report_changes": ["new", "price_drop", "removed"],
  "min_price_change_cad": 500
}

Useful settings:

• Changes to report: pick any of new, price drops, price increases, and sold or removed.
• Minimum price change (CAD / %): skip small adjustments, for example only drops of $1,000 or 5% and more.
• Export all listings on the first run: start with the full picture, or switch it off to only save the baseline.
• Watchlist name: optional. Each search keeps its own history automatically; name one to run two watchlists on the same search.

The history lives in a key-value store named autotrader-ca-monitor-... in your own Apify account, and each run also writes a MONITOR_SUMMARY record with the counts. To get alerts, add a Slack, email or webhook integration to the scheduled task.

Two ways to tell it what to scrape

Point the scraper at a URL or use the built-in filters.

Start URLs win. If you enter anything in Start URLs, the Search filters section is ignored for that run and a note appears in the log. To search by filters, leave Start URLs empty.

Option 1: Paste an AutoTrader.ca search URL

Set your filters on autotrader.ca, copy the address bar, and paste it into Start URLs. Direct listing URLs (/offers/... or /a/...) also work and skip straight to that vehicle, in scraper mode only: the monitor watches searches, not single listings.

{
  "start_urls": [
    { "url": "https://www.autotrader.ca/cars/on/toronto/?rcp=100&rcs=0&srt=35" }
  ],
  "max_items": 500
}

Option 2: Use the filter form (no URL needed)

Fill in the Search filters section and the scraper builds the matching AutoTrader search for you, exactly as if you had set the filters on the site.

{
  "makes": ["Audi"],
  "models": ["A4"],
  "conditions": ["used"],
  "price_from": 10000,
  "price_to": 40000,
  "model_year_from": 2015,
  "body_types": ["sedan", "wagon"],
  "transmission": ["automatic"],
  "equipment": ["backup-camera"],
  "postal_code": "M5V 3L9",
  "radius_km": "400",
  "sort_by": "price"
}

Filters combine. Every one you add narrows the results further.

What filters are available?

Filter	Options
Vehicle type	Cars, Bikes & ATVs, RVs, Boats, Watercraft, Snowmobiles, Trailers, Commercial & heavy trucks, Heavy equipment, Farm equipment
Make and model	120 makes. Model names match forgivingly, so CR-V, crv, and CR V all work
Condition	New, Used, Employee's car, Antique / classic, Demonstration, Pre-registered
Seller type	Dealer or private seller
Price	From / to, in CAD
Model year	From / to
Mileage	From / to, in km
Body type	Sedan, SUV, Pick-up truck, Hatchback, Coupe, Convertible, Wagon, Minivan, Other
Fuel type	Gasoline, Diesel, Electric, Hybrid, Flex fuel, Natural gas, Propane (LPG), Other
Transmission	Automatic or manual
Engine	Cylinder count, power range in hp or kW
Doors and seats	From / to
Colours	Exterior (14), interior (11), upholstery material
Features	51 options, all required at once: backup camera, heated seats, sunroof, Apple CarPlay, adaptive cruise control, panoramic roof, and more
Location	Canadian postal code or place name, plus a radius from 10 km to 400 km
Freshness	Only listings posted within the last N days
Damaged vehicles	Excluded by default, matching the site
Sorting	Price, model year, mileage, date posted, power, make/model, or distance, ascending or descending

How do I limit how many results I get?

Input	What it does
Max results (max_items)	Hard cap on vehicles. Set 250 and you get exactly 250.
Start page / End page	Page range. Pages hold 100 listings each here, while autotrader.ca shows 20 per page, so page 3 here covers the site's pages 11 to 15.

Use Max results when you want an exact number, because page ranges can only limit output in steps of 100. Setting end_page: 2 with max_items: 150 returns exactly 150 vehicles, not 200.

Leave all three empty to scrape every available page.

In monitor mode, Max results caps the change rows per run. Every search page is still read, and changes beyond the cap are held back and reported on the next run rather than lost. Leave Start page and End page empty when monitoring: sold vehicles can only be detected when the whole search is read.

What data do you get?

Every record carries the same 127 keys. Which of them are filled depends on what the dealer published, so check Field coverage before you build against a specific field.

Monitor fields (monitor mode only, added to every change row)

• change_type: new, price_drop, price_increase, removed, or baseline
• previous_price_cad, price_change_cad, price_change_pct: the price before, and the change in dollars and percent
• price_history: every price seen while the listing was monitored, with dates
• first_seen_at, last_seen_at (removed rows), days_tracked: how long the listing has been watched
• watchlist, change_detected_at
• detail_error: set only when the listing page could not be loaded; the row then carries the fields shown in the search results

Listing info

• listing_url: direct link to the vehicle listing
• ad_id: unique AutoTrader ad identifier
• data_source: origin of the record (AutoTrader Canada)
• status / vehicle_status: Used or New
• listing_status: listing state (for example, Active)
• created_timestamp: exact date and time the listing went up (ISO-8601)
• posted_age_days: how many days it has been listed, for freshness and stale-inventory filters
• leads_range: bucketed buyer-interest signal ("Zero" / "Some")
• description: full vehicle description text

Vehicle specs

• make, model, year, trim
• vin: vehicle identification number (used vehicles, see coverage)
• stock_number: dealer stock reference
• body_type, transmission, drivetrain, fuel_type
• cylinders, displacement, doors, seats
• exterior_color, interior_color

Pricing and market position

• price_formatted: formatted string (for example, "$ 29,873")
• price_cad: numeric CAD value for direct calculations
• market_median_price: AutoTrader's median price for comparable vehicles
• price_vs_market: dollars above or below that median (negative means cheaper than market)
• price_vs_market_pct: the same gap as a percentage, ready to sort on
• suggested_retail_price, suggested_retail_price_raw: MSRP when new (see coverage)
• price_evaluation: AutoTrader's price rating
• price_is_final, price_is_negotiable, price_is_conditional: pricing flags
• financing_available, leasing_available, warranty_exists

Mileage and fuel economy

• mileage_formatted: formatted (for example, "11,213 km")
• mileage_km: numeric km value
• fuel_city_l_100km, fuel_highway_l_100km: numeric consumption

History and condition

• accident_free: accident-history flag
• carfax_available: whether a Carfax report is offered
• carfax_url: link to the report (the free report link where the dealer provides one)
• carfax_mode: how the report is offered, and the reason vin is or is not present
• has_full_service_history, non_smoking, new_inspection, is_rental

Seller and dealer

• seller_name, is_private_seller, dealer_is_dealer, dealer_type, dealer_id
• dealer_phone, dealer_phone_call_to: display and dial-ready formats
• dealer_sms_number: the dealer's SMS line where enabled
• dealer_address_full, dealer_address_street, dealer_city_province
• dealer_inventory_url, dealer_logo_url

Location

• city, province, country, zip_code, full_location
• latitude, longitude: precise coordinates for mapping and radius analysis

Media

• image_urls: array of full-resolution photo URLs
• image_count: number of photos
• header_image: thumbnail URL
• video_urls, has_360_view

Field coverage

The Actor emits 127 keys per record and reads only what AutoTrader publishes on the page. It never guesses or backfills. Around 85 fields populate on a typical dealer listing and the rest return null. The ones worth knowing before you build:

• vin is published only for used vehicles whose listing carries a purchasable Carfax report, typically 55 to 75% of a mixed new/used search. AutoTrader does not print the VIN anywhere on the page in the other cases: new vehicles (no Carfax), listings offering a free Carfax report, and listings where the buyer must request the report from the dealer. For those, vin is null, because the data is not on the page to take and no setting changes that. VINs are returned exactly as the dealer published them, including the occasional typo, rather than being silently dropped or "corrected".
• suggested_retail_price is the manufacturer's suggested retail price when the vehicle was new. It is not a previous asking price. On a used vehicle, MSRP minus the asking price is depreciation, not a discount. AutoTrader does not publish listing price history, so the scraper's own price_drop field stays null. For real price drops, use monitor mode: it records each listing's price every run and reports the change in price_change_cad, with the full price_history. To judge whether a listing is priced well today, use market_median_price and price_vs_market. MSRP is present on roughly 40% of listings.
• posted_age_days and province are computed rather than published: the age from created_timestamp, and the province from the postal code (Canada Post assigns the first letter by province). Both are exact, not estimates.
• Equipment lists (comfort_equipment, safety_equipment, all_equipment, and similar) populate only when the dealer fills in the structured equipment section. Many dealers put this in description free text instead.
• removed rows are built from the last search results the monitor saw, since the listing page no longer exists: make, model, year, price, mileage, seller, dealer phone, city, and price history, but no VIN or specs.
• Fields such as engine, power_hp, average_market_price, price_drop, and dealer_google_rating are kept in the schema for compatibility but are not currently published by AutoTrader and return null.

If a field you need is null across your results, it is missing from the source page rather than dropped by the scraper. Reach out via the Issues tab and it can often be derived from another field.

Sample output

A monitor change row (example, abridged: the full vehicle record follows the monitor fields):

{
  "change_type": "price_drop",
  "previous_price_cad": 40668,
  "price_change_cad": -3000,
  "price_change_pct": -7.4,
  "price_history": [
    { "date": "2026-09-20", "price_cad": 40668 },
    { "date": "2026-09-26", "price_cad": 37668 }
  ],
  "first_seen_at": "2026-09-20T08:00:00Z",
  "days_tracked": 6,
  "watchlist": "search-3f9c2a71b0de",
  "change_detected_at": "2026-09-26T17:46:44Z",
  "make": "Toyota",
  "model": "Highlander",
  "year": 2021,
  "price_cad": 37668,
  "mileage_km": 113492,
  "seller_name": "Northland Nissan",
  "dealer_phone": "604-239-3401",
  "city": "PRINCE GEORGE",
  "province": "BC"
}

A full vehicle record, real and abridged (127 keys are returned in full):

{
  "ad_id": "6abe52b0-9bc8-416f-9a71-03f0cae48952",
  "listing_url": "https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/ford-escape-awd-panoramic-roof-tech-package-low-km-gasoline-white-cat_ma29gr18589tr11414-6abe52b0-9bc8-416f-9a71-03f0cae48952",
  "data_source": "AutoTrader Canada",
  "make": "Ford",
  "model": "Escape",
  "year": 2024,
  "trim": "AWD | PANORAMIC ROOF | TECH PACKAGE | LOW KM",
  "vin": "1FMCU9MNXRUA61773",
  "stock_number": "N6350A",
  "status": "Used",
  "price_formatted": "$ 29,873",
  "price_cad": 29873,
  "market_median_price": 31300,
  "price_vs_market": -1427,
  "price_vs_market_pct": -4.6,
  "price_evaluation": 1,
  "price_is_negotiable": false,
  "mileage_formatted": "11,213 km",
  "mileage_km": 11213,
  "body_type": "SUV",
  "transmission": "Automatic",
  "drivetrain": "All Wheel Drive",
  "fuel_type": "Gasoline",
  "cylinders": 3,
  "displacement": "1,500 cc",
  "doors": 4,
  "seats": 5,
  "exterior_color": "White",
  "interior_color": "Black",
  "fuel_city_l_100km": 9.2,
  "fuel_highway_l_100km": 7.4,
  "accident_free": true,
  "carfax_mode": "BuyCarFax",
  "carfax_available": true,
  "carfax_url": "https://www.carfax.ca/order?vin=1FMCU9MNXRUA61773&report=verified&ref=trader&refID=5_70436986_ON20080213110737382&refdomain=2",
  "city": "Scarborough",
  "province": "ON",
  "country": "CA",
  "zip_code": "M1L 2N1",
  "full_location": "Scarborough, CA",
  "latitude": 43.72814,
  "longitude": -79.28359,
  "is_private_seller": false,
  "seller_name": "Donway Ford Inc",
  "dealer_phone": "437-889-2758",
  "dealer_address_full": "1975 Eglinton Avenue East, Scarborough, M1L 2N1",
  "financing_available": true,
  "image_count": 11,
  "image_urls": [
    "https://prod.pictures.autoscout24.net/listing-images/6abe52b0-9bc8-416f-9a71-03f0cae48952_4358cf4f-9b2b-47a4-b9a7-1cbeaaef68e8.jpg/1280x960.webp",
    "https://prod.pictures.autoscout24.net/listing-images/6abe52b0-9bc8-416f-9a71-03f0cae48952_b987bc9a-3448-4f93-beb2-e917edced353.jpg/1280x960.webp"
  ],
  "listing_status": "Active",
  "created_timestamp": "2026-06-11T09:10:50.665Z",
  "posted_age_days": 36,
  "leads_range": "Some",
  "description": "Experience style, performance, and advanced technology in this exceptionally low-kilometre 2024 Ford Escape ST-Line AWD..."
}

Who uses this AutoTrader.ca monitor?

• Used car dealers getting a daily list of competitors' price drops, new stock, and sold units by make, model, and region
• Car flippers and wholesalers catching underpriced vehicles the day they appear or drop, and filtering accident-free, low-kilometre stock across regions
• Car shoppers watching one model in their area without refreshing the site
• Automotive market researchers measuring days on market and markdowns, or building Canadian vehicle pricing datasets with clean numeric fields
• Insurance and fintech teams valuing vehicle portfolios from targeted listing subsets
• Inventory aggregators feeding car-search platforms with fresh AutoTrader Canada data
• Data scientists who need ready-to-use price_cad and mileage_km values without post-processing
• Analysts matching listings to their own VIN records, or mapping inventory density by latitude and longitude

How does it work?

• You provide AutoTrader.ca search URLs or fill in the filter form.
• The Actor requests 100 listings per page and handles all pagination automatically.
• In monitor mode, each search page's listing prices are compared with the previous run's snapshot, and only the listings that changed are opened in full. Listings that left the search are checked one by one before being reported as sold. The snapshot is saved only after a run finishes, so a failed run never corrupts your history.
• Each vehicle detail page is fetched and the embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON is parsed directly. No HTML scraping and no headless browser, which is why it is fast and stable.
• Up to 200 detail pages are fetched in parallel through rotating proxies.
• Runs are resumable. Progress is saved, so an interrupted run picks up where it left off instead of starting over.
• Failed pages retry automatically with capped exponential backoff.
• Results land in the Apify dataset, exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or JSONL.

Why choose this Actor?

• Only what changed. Monitor mode reports new listings, price drops, and sold vehicles instead of the whole search again, so you are not billed for cars that did not move.
• Real price history. AutoTrader does not publish past prices; the monitor records them run after run.
• No false "sold" alerts. A vanished listing is checked before it is reported, and removals are skipped when the search was not fully read.
• More complete records. It parses the listing JSON that AutoTrader itself uses, instead of scraping HTML, so fields are not lost to layout changes.
• Analysis-ready numbers. Both formatted strings and numeric values are returned for price and mileage, so data drops straight into Excel or a database.
• No proxy setup. Rotating proxies are built in. You do not need an Apify Proxy subscription.
• Search without URLs. A full filter form covers make, model, price, year, mileage, body type, fuel, features, and location.
• Exact result limits. Max results caps the output at any number you choose.
• Automatic pagination. No manual page incrementing in your URLs.
• Resumable. Large runs survive interruptions without re-scraping.

Frequently asked questions

How do I get alerts when a car's price drops on AutoTrader.ca?

Turn on Price-drop monitor, set your search, save it as a task, and schedule it (daily is typical). Each run returns only new listings, price drops, and sold vehicles. Add a Slack, email, or webhook integration to the task to be notified when a run finds changes.

How does the monitor know a car was sold?

When a listing that was in your search disappears, the Actor opens its page. If AutoTrader no longer serves it, the listing is reported as removed with its last known price and how many days it was tracked. If the page still loads, nothing is reported.

Do I pay for listings that did not change?

No. Unchanged listings are compared but never output, and billing is per result row. A run with no changes produces an empty dataset.

What happens on the first monitor run?

There is nothing to compare against yet, so the first run saves the current listings as the baseline. With Export all listings on the first run on (the default), it also outputs them, marked baseline. Switch that off if you only want changes from day two on.

Can I change the search on an existing monitor?

Yes, but a changed search starts a new history: each search keeps its own snapshot, so the first run after the change is a new baseline. If you set a Watchlist name and reuse it for a different search, its old history is replaced.

Why were sold vehicles not checked on my run?

Removals are only judged when every page of the search was read. The log names the reason when they are skipped: a search over AutoTrader's 4,000-result limit, a page that failed to load, an End page setting, or the free plan's one-page limit. New listings and price changes are still reported on those runs.

How do I scrape AutoTrader Canada without coding?

Open the Actor, paste an AutoTrader.ca search URL into Start URLs, and click Start. If you would rather not build a URL, leave Start URLs empty and use the Search filters section to pick make, model, price, year, and location. Results download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Is scraping AutoTrader.ca legal?

This Actor collects only publicly available listing data, the same information any visitor sees on autotrader.ca without logging in. It does not access private accounts or personal data. You are responsible for how you use the output, so review AutoTrader's terms and any laws that apply to your use case, and consult a lawyer if you are unsure.

How many listings can I scrape at once?

AutoTrader itself caps any single search at 4,000 listings, no matter how many results it reports. That is a limit of the website, not of this scraper. To collect more, split your search and run it several times: by price band, by model year, by province using postal code and radius, or one make at a time. Each narrowed search gets its own 4,000-listing allowance.

Why do I get 4,000 listings when the search says there are more?

Same reason as above. AutoTrader stops serving results past 4,000 for a single search. Split the search into narrower ones and run each separately.

Do all listings include a VIN?

No. AutoTrader publishes a VIN only for used vehicles carrying a purchasable Carfax report, roughly two thirds of a mixed new/used search. New vehicles do not have one, and listings with a free Carfax report do not expose it on the page, so vin is null there. See Field coverage.

What should I put in the Postal code field?

Use either a Canadian postal code on its own (V2N 0A3, V2N0A3, or just the first three characters V2N), or a place name with or without a province (Prince George, Prince George, BC, Toronto, ON).

Do not combine the two. V2N0A3, BC is the one format AutoTrader's own search cannot read. The scraper strips the province off a postal code for you, and if a location cannot be resolved at all it stops the run with an error rather than quietly scraping the entire country.

If you leave the radius empty, AutoTrader applies its own default of 100 km.

Can I filter by drivetrain (AWD, FWD, RWD)?

No, and neither can AutoTrader. The site shows drivetrain on each listing, but its search backend does not filter on it, so the option is ignored even on autotrader.ca itself. The drivetrain of every scraped vehicle is included in the output, so you can filter the dataset afterwards.

I filled in the filters but it scraped something else. Why?

You almost certainly had something in Start URLs. Start URLs always take precedence, and the Search filters section is ignored whenever they are set. The run log says so explicitly. Clear Start URLs to search by filters.

Can I limit how many results I get?

Yes, in two ways. Max results caps the number of vehicles outright, so setting 250 returns exactly 250. Start page and End page scrape a page range instead, but pages hold 100 listings each here, so they only limit output in steps of 100. Leave all three blank to fetch everything.

Can I scrape a single vehicle URL instead of a search?

Yes, in scraper mode. Pass a direct listing URL in Start URLs. Both the current https://www.autotrader.ca/offers/... form and the older https://www.autotrader.ca/a/... form are supported, and the Actor scrapes just that vehicle. Monitor mode skips single listing URLs; paste the search the vehicle appears in instead.

Does it handle proxies and anti-bot protection?

Yes, with nothing to set up. Every run goes through a built-in rotating proxy network with browser-like request fingerprinting and automatic retries. You do not need an Apify Proxy subscription or a proxy of your own.

Can I scrape RVs, motorcycles, boats, or trucks too?

Yes. Set Vehicle type in the filter section to RVs, Bikes & ATVs, Boats, Watercraft, Snowmobiles, Trailers, Commercial & heavy trucks, Heavy equipment, or Farm equipment. Every other filter applies within the type you pick.

What output formats are available?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, and JSONL, all available from the Apify dataset UI and the REST API.

Is the data live?

Yes. Every run fetches current listings directly from AutoTrader.ca. Nothing is cached or served from an old copy.

Does it support scheduling and webhooks?

Yes, and monitor mode is built for it. Use Apify's built-in scheduler for cron-based runs (hourly, daily, weekly), and webhooks or the Slack and email integrations to act on each run's changes.

Can you add more fields?

The embedded JSON contains extensive vehicle data, so most additional fields can be added on request. Reach out via the Issues tab.

Pricing

Billing is pay per result: every row in the dataset is one result. The current rate is shown on this Actor's Store page.

• In monitor mode, only changes are rows, so unchanged listings cost nothing, and a run with no changes produces no rows. The optional first-run export (baseline rows) is billed like any other result; switch it off to skip it.
• In scraper mode, every vehicle scraped is a row.
• Free-plan runs are limited to the first page of each search (100 listings). An Apify plan unlocks every page.

Use via API or MCP

Run this Actor programmatically via the Apify REST API, or connect it as an MCP server for AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor.

API run endpoint:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fayoussef~autotrader-ca/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN

MCP server URL:

https://mcp.apify.com/actors/fayoussef~autotrader-ca

To run the monitor through the API, send the same input you would schedule, for example:

{
  "monitor_mode": true,
  "start_urls": [{ "url": "https://www.autotrader.ca/cars/honda/civic/qc/montreal/?ustate=U" }],
  "report_changes": ["new", "price_drop", "removed"]
}

Each run's counts are also written to the MONITOR_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store.

Full API docs: https://docs.apify.com/api/v2

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