ILSA an API service for websites and apps showing vehicle listings. ILSA handles your visitor’s search requests, hosts vehicle images, returns the necessary information for your search form, search results and vehicle detail pages.
This means that in most cases there is no need for a separate backend on your end. With ILSA it is possible to build a listing site with solely static hosting.
Please note that ILSA does not provide a frontend. This means you have to create the website (or app), including the layout and design. ILSA only provides you with the data you need to render.
ILSA takes care of ingesting vehicle data as it has close integration with DV to receive vehicles from advertisers. You can extend or modify the vehicle data through enriching.
Every ILSA customer has one of more ILSA instances. They contain the set of vehicles and configuration. The configuration covers which fields you can search on, ordering of the search results and which fields are returned by the API. You can change all of this in the Backoffice.
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The public API calls are:
/dropdowncontents, for populating your search form. It lists all available makes, models, price ranges, together with the number of results for every option./searchresults, to get all vehicles matching the search criteria./vehicle, to get all information about a single vehicle./compare, to compare two or more vehicles, including per property ranking./lead, to pass on customer enquiries to the lead management system of the advertiser.
All input for these calls (except /lead) is passed on using URL query parametersinfo. Output is returned as JSON.
Requests can be personalized for your visitor based on their language, audienceinfo and regioninfo.
We also have a restricted API through which you can perform management operations on your instance.
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Do read our Best Practices.