DiscoverCars car rental API reference

One pick-up place (location text such as LAX, or place_id) and a rental window. Each offer has the supplier, car, ACRISS code, class, the rental total as DiscoverCars lists it in currency, free cancellation, payment type, mileage, fuel policy, deposit and the supplier's rating; cheapest_by_class gives the lowest total per car class. Offers come cheapest first; limit caps how many are returned.

Request

POSThttps://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/cars/discovercars

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Body

JSON object. Unknown fields are rejected with 422.

pickupstring (date-time)required
Pick-up date and local time, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM.
dropoffstring (date-time)required
Drop-off date and local time, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM; same place as pick-up.
currencystringdefault USDmin length 3, max length 3
Currency of every price.
limitintegerdefault 100min 1, max 1000
Offers to return, cheapest first.
locationstring | nullmin length 2, max length 120
Airport code, airport or city name, looked up with DiscoverCars' own search box. Ignored with place_id.
place_idinteger | nullmin 1
DiscoverCars place id (LAX is 4798): place_id of a result from POST /v1/cars/discovercars/locations.
driver_ageintegerdefault 35min 18, max 99
Driver's age.
residence_countrystringdefault USpattern ^[A-Za-z]{2}$
Driver's country of residence (ISO code); some suppliers price by it.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.scrapercompany.com/v1/cars/discovercars" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SCRAPERCOMPANY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "pickup": "2026-12-01T10:00",
    "dropoff": "2026-12-03T10:00"
  }'

Response

200 — DiscoverCars offers for one rental. Metered responses carry x-credits-charged and x-credits-remaining headers (see credit headers).

200 response

{
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "discovercars_cars",
    "location_id": "4798",
    "pickup": "2026-12-01T10:00",
    "dropoff": "2026-12-03T10:00",
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "location": {
    "id": "4798",
    "name": "Los Angeles Airport (LAX)"
  },
  "days": 2,
  "cheapest": {
    "offer_id": "8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-C6HT",
    "supplier": "Priceless",
    "car_name": "Toyota Corolla",
    "car_class": "Intermediate",
    "acriss": "ICAR",
    "total": 86.57,
    "per_day": 43.28,
    "currency": "USD",
    "transmission": "automatic",
    "seats": 5,
    "doors": 4,
    "bags": 1,
    "mileage": "unlimited",
    "free_cancellation": true,
    "payment": "Pay part now",
    "fuel_policy": "Same to same",
    "pickup_location": "Free shuttle service",
    "supplier_rating": 5.7,
    "deposit": "US$200.00 – US$1,000.00",
    "image": "https://www.discovercars.com/images/car/8524/220.png",
    "link": "https://www.discovercars.com/en/offer/8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-C6HT"
  },
  "cheapest_by_class": [
    {
      "car_class": "Intermediate",
      "total": 86.57,
      "supplier": "Priceless",
      "car_name": "Toyota Corolla",
      "offer_id": "8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-C6HT"
    },
    {
      "car_class": "Full-size",
      "total": 93.94,
      "supplier": "Priceless",
      "car_name": "Nissan Altima",
      "offer_id": "8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-T9SM"
    }
  ],
  "offers": [
    {
      "offer_id": "8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-C6HT",
      "supplier": "Priceless",
      "car_name": "Toyota Corolla",
      "car_class": "Intermediate",
      "acriss": "ICAR",
      "total": 86.57,
      "per_day": 43.28,
      "currency": "USD",
      "transmission": "automatic",
      "seats": 5,
      "doors": 4,
      "bags": 1,
      "mileage": "unlimited",
      "free_cancellation": true,
      "payment": "Pay part now",
      "fuel_policy": "Same to same",
      "pickup_location": "Free shuttle service",
      "supplier_rating": 5.7,
      "deposit": "US$200.00 – US$1,000.00",
      "image": "https://www.discovercars.com/images/car/8524/220.png",
      "link": "https://www.discovercars.com/en/offer/8af49c27-4e19-4aea-b3a9-ee45ebd19030-C6HT"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "total_offers": 40,
  "suppliers": 14,
  "meta": {
    "source": "discovercars",
    "price_basis": "rental_total_as_listed",
    "elapsed_s": 4.1
  }
}

Arrays are shortened to their first items.

Errors

Errors return a JSON body with a detail field. Failed requests are not charged. See Errors for the full list and retry advice.

Status	Meaning	Retry?
`401`Unauthorized	Missing or invalid API key. `{"detail":"missing or invalid API key"}`	No, fix the request
`402`Payment Required	Not enough credits for this request: the account's credits mode is `enforce` (`mode` in `GET /v1/billing`) and the request costs more than the available credits. Nothing is run or charged. `{"detail":"insufficient credits: this request costs 5, 0 available. Credits renew 2026-11-01."}`	No, fix the request
`404`Not Found	The property, stay, job or record was not found. `{"detail":"job not found"}`	No, fix the request
`422`Unprocessable Content	Request validation failed. `detail` is a list of problems for schema errors, or a string for semantic checks performed by the endpoint. `{"detail":[{"loc":["body","name"],"msg":"Field required","type":"missing"}]}`	No, fix the request
`429`Too Many Requests	Too many requests: the key's requests-per-minute limit was exceeded, or (in `enforce` credits mode) the plan's concurrent-request limit. No rate-limit or Retry-After headers are sent; back off and retry. `{"detail":"rate limit 60/min exceeded"}`	Yes, with backoff
`503`Service Unavailable	Temporarily unavailable: a dependency of this endpoint is down, or the upstream source changed its contract. Retry later. `{"detail":"database unavailable: OperationalError"}`	Yes, with backoff

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Credits

10 credits per successful call (10 per search (no offers, an unknown place and failed requests are free)). Failed, blocked and empty results are free.

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