Autowini API: Korean Export Car Listings as Structured Data

Autowini, an export marketplace

Most Korean marketplaces speak to domestic buyers. Autowini speaks to buyers abroad, with listings meant for export. For anyone in the export business, it is both a source of stock and a view of how other sellers present Korean cars to overseas clients.

KoreaCarsAPI is an independent data service, not affiliated with Autowini. The API reads public listings and returns them as data; it does not buy, reserve or order cars.

Who uses Autowini data

The main users are people who already work across borders:

• Importers who want export stock from Korea in their own catalogue, with English fields and full photo sets.
• Exporters who benchmark their own offers against what Autowini sellers list for similar cars.
• Market researchers comparing export listings with domestic asking prices for the same models.
• Developers building a multi-source search where export-ready cars are tagged separately.

What comes back for an Autowini listing

Autowini records follow the common format. The vehicle part has year, brand, model, generation, trim, engine volume, fuel, transmission, body type, colour and options. The listing part has the Autowini URL, title, odometer, price with currency, images and the created_at, updated_at and last_seen_at dates, plus a price history.

Export listings often carry the price in a currency other than won, so always read the currency next to the price instead of assuming KRW. Which fields are filled depends on the listing itself, so build your import to accept missing values.

Photos deserve a mention too. Overseas buyers cannot walk around the car, so the image set often does more selling than the specs. The API returns the full set as original links, which lets you mirror them, resize them or show them straight from the source, depending on how your site works. Keep the external.url with every car as well, so a client can always open the original Autowini page.

Matching export cars with domestic listings by VIN

A car offered for export may also be listed on a domestic site. When a VIN is present, GET /cars/vin/{vin} returns the vehicle with every listing the API knows for it. That lets you see the same car on Autowini and, for example, on Encar or KB ChaChaCha, with each listing's price, dates and source URL.

# Look up one car by VIN and see all of its listings
curl --get https://api.auctionsapi.com/cars/vin/KMHXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \
  -d api_key=$API_KEY

# Each item in listings[] has external.domain and external.url

Practical tips for export data

Export data has a few traps that domestic data does not.

• Normalise currencies before you compare prices across sources.
• Do not assume an export listing and a domestic listing show the same photos or mileage. Compare the odometer values and dates side by side.
• Use last_seen_at to drop cars that are no longer offered, since export stock can move quickly.
• When you sync Autowini on its own, use GET /cars with domains[] and follow next_url until the batch ends.
• Map brands and models through GET /brands and GET /models/{brand_id} so Autowini names line up with the rest of your catalogue.

Where Autowini fits among the other Korean sources

Autowini sits in the export group of marketplaces, next to Autobell Global, RB Auto Trade, Sena Auto, Carpool KR and KS Cars. Together they show what Korean sellers offer abroad. The domestic marketplaces, led by Encar, show what the same kinds of cars are listed for at home.

Reading both groups through one API is the simplest way to see the spread between domestic and export asking prices, and to spot cars that appear on both sides.

If you want to test Autowini data against your own catalogue first, ask for a demo key; paid access is set by the sources and volume you need.

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