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Software
Japanese Motor Market
A marketplace for Japanese cars, built on a scraper that pulls completed Bring a Trailer auctions through the same public endpoint the site calls itself.
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Spec
| Lane | Software |
|---|---|
| Status | In progress |
| Timeline | 7 May 2026 |
| Commits | 7, forked from Classic Motor Market |
| Stack | Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, Tailwind v4, Prisma 6, Postgres on Neon |
| Services | Clerk for auth, Cloudflare Images, Resend, deployed on Vercel |
20,245listings scraped
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Constraint
What made it hard
Bring a Trailer publishes no API. Getting completed auction data meant finding a way in that would not break the next time they changed their front end.
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Decision
What I chose, and what I rejected
I pulled from the same public WordPress REST endpoint the site itself calls when you click Show More, rather than scraping rendered HTML. Parsing the page would have broken on the next redesign. The endpoint returns structured data and has held.
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