A basic script read Tesla's current Australian inventory. Intended to set up a price alert for myself.

tesla-inventory.py

"""" Pulls car data from Tesla inventory API """
from datetime import datetime
import json
import requests
from pprint import pprint
import argparse

def get_cars(model='m3', condition='used', region='NSW'):
    """ Get cars from Tesla inventory API """

    query_template = (
        '{"query":{"model":"","condition":"","options":{},'
        '"arrangeby":"Price","order":"asc","market":"AU","language":"en",'
        '"super_region":"north america","region":""},'
        '"offset":0,"count":50,"outsideOffset":0,"outsideSearch":false,'
        '"isFalconDeliverySelectionEnabled":false,"version":null}')
    query_data = json.loads(query_template)

    # override query parameters here
    query_data['query']['model'] = model
    query_data['query']['condition'] = condition
    query_data['query']['region'] = region

    query_json = json.dumps(query_data)

    encoded_query = requests.utils.quote(query_json)
    url = f"https://www.tesla.com/inventory/api/v4/inventory-results?query={encoded_query}"

    headers = {
      'sec-fetch-dest': 'document',
      'sec-fetch-mode': 'navigate',
      'sec-fetch-site': 'none',
      'sec-fetch-user': '?1',
      'user-agent': 'Edg/128.0.0.0',
    }

    response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, timeout=3)

    # Get an array of the results
    json_data = json.loads(response.text)
    results = json_data.get("results", [])

    # Check if results is not a list (api returns an object if no results)
    if not isinstance(results, list):
        results = []

    cars = []
    for result in results:
        car = {}
        car["retrieved_date"] = str(datetime.today().date())
        car["state"] = region

        # basic info
        car["vin"] = result.get("VIN","")

        car["trim"] = result["TrimName"]
        car["year"] = result["Year"]
        car["build_date"] = result["ManufacturingYear"]
        car["odometer"] = result["Odometer"]
        car["price"] = result["InventoryPrice"]
        car["purchase_price"] = result["PurchasePrice"]
        car["location"] = result["City"]
        car["factory"] = result["FactoryCode"]
        car["battery_warranty"] = result["WarrantyBatteryExpDate"]
        car["car_warranty"] = result["WarrantyVehicleExpDate"]
        car["colour"] = result["PAINT"][0].lower()

        # Extract other details from the deeper in the JSON
        # Registration details
        if result["RegistrationDetails"] is not None:
            car["plates"] = result["RegistrationDetails"]["LicensePlateNumber"]
            car["rego_expiry"] = result["RegistrationDetails"]["Expiration"]
        else:
            car["plates"] = ""
            car["rego_expiry"] = ""

        # Specs
        specs = result["OptionCodeSpecs"]["C_SPECS"]["options"]
        for spec in specs:
            car[spec["code"].lower()] = spec["name"]

        # Options
        options = result["OptionCodeSpecs"]["C_OPTS"]["options"]

        car["options"] = json.dumps(options)

        ## Note there are many other details in the JSON
        ## However, I didn't need them for my use case

        cars.append(car)

    return cars

def qprint(printable_cars):
    """ Simple print function for car details """

    printable_cars.sort(key=lambda car: car['price'])
    for car_detail in printable_cars:
        print(car_detail['state'].ljust(4, ' ')
            + car_detail['vin']
            + ' ' + f"{str(car_detail['plates'])}".ljust(7, ' ')
            + ' ' + str(car_detail['year'])
            + ' ' + f"{car_detail['odometer']:,}".rjust(6, ' ') + 'km'
            + ' $' + f"{car_detail['price']:,}"
            + ' ' + car_detail['specs_range']
            + ' ' + car_detail['specs_acceleration']
            + ' ' + car_detail['colour'].ljust(5, ' ')
            + ' ' + car_detail['trim'])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Process some car data.")
    parser.add_argument('--state', type=str, help='State to get car data for, default is ALL')
    parser.add_argument('--out', type=str, help="Output format, 'short' or 'json'", default='short')

    args = parser.parse_args()

    STATES = [args.state] if args.state else ['NSW', 'VIC', 'QLD', 'SA', 'WA', 'TAS', 'NT', 'ACT']

    all_cars = []
    for state in STATES:
        # get_region(state)
        car_list = get_cars(region=state)
        all_cars.extend(car_list)

    if args.out == 'short':
        qprint(all_cars)
    else:
        print(json.dumps(all_cars))