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post/cars-co-za/v1/search2 credits

Search Cars.co.za's live South African stock — 76,076 listings on 2026-10-01, of which 65,553 used and 10,523 new, from 1,710 dealerships plus 211 private sellers. Every row carries the listing id, the canonical URL, the asking price in rand, the odometer, the full spec summary, the deal badge Cars.co.za itself puts on the car, all photo URLs, and the seller block (dealership name, suburb, province, coordinates and rating). 🔴 Measured: search rows carry NO phone number — 0 of 120 — because the source only publishes the dealership's tracking number on `detail` and `dealers` (99 of 100 dealerships there have one). `total_available` is the source's own count for your exact query, so you can see what each filter did. 🔴 One call returns at most 120 rows (measured ceiling) — use `offset` to page, which was measured working to the end of the catalogue, with no overlap between pages. All filters are optional; an unmatched filter returns `ok:true` with 0 results and a warning, never an error.

Working example
Parameters
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curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/cars-co-za/v1/search \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"max_results":"20"}'

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