Cars

If you want Trovit to include your car ads from your site in our search results, and you have more than 50 ads, you only have to follow these steps:

  • Setup a XML file with the format described below
  • Download our validator to ensure that your XML feed is trovit friendly
  • Send us an email using our contact form with the URL where we can read the XML file you just created, for example: http://www.yourdomain.com/trovit_feed.xml
  • Keep in mind that we only accept feeds with listings of cars. We don’t include bikes, motorbikes, boats, car parts …

In case you have any problem or question please don’t hesitate to contact us.

XML feed format

These are some simple guidelines for the creation of a XML file to include ads from your site in Trovit. If you need more information about the XML format you can check the Wikipedia.

The XML file has one ‘trovit’ tag, and one or more ‘ad’ elements. Each ‘ad’ element has the following fields:

  • id: id of the ad in your website (numeric or alphanumeric, but has to be unique because we use it to avoid duplicate entries)
  • url: URL of the ad on your website
  • title: title of the ad
  • content: content of the ad
  • price: price of the car
  • make: make of the car (optional)
  • model: model of the car (optional)
  • color: color of the car (optional)
  • year: year of the car (optional)
  • city: city name
  • city_area: city area (optional)
  • postcode: postcode (optional)
  • region: name of the region/county/state (optional)
  • mileage: mileage of the car on kilometers (optional)
  • doors: doors of the car (optional)
  • fuel: fuel del coche (ex. petrol, gasoil, etc) (optional)
  • transmission: transmission of the car (manual/automatic) (optional)
  • engine_size: engine sie of the car on c.c. (optional)
  • power: power of the car (optional)
  • seats: seats of the car (optional)
  • gears: number of gear change of the car (optional)
  • pictures: URLs of the pictures for this ad, see information below
  • date: date of the ad in the following format: DD/MM/YYYY
  • time: time of the ad in the following format: HH:MM (optional)

pictures: the ‘ad’ element may containt a set of ‘picture’ fields a part of the ‘pictures’ tag.
The tags of each ‘picture’ element are:

  • title: title of the picture (optional)
  • url: URL of the picture on your site

The XML feed would look like this:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<trovit>

<ad>
    <id><![CDATA[...]]></id>
    <url><![CDATA[...]]></url>
    <title><![CDATA[...]]></title>

    <content><![CDATA[...]]></content>

    <price><![CDATA[...]]></price>

    <make><![CDATA[...]]></make>
    <model><![CDATA[...]]></model>
    <color><![CDATA[...]]></color>

    <year><![CDATA[...]]></year>

    <city><![CDATA[...]]></city>
    <city_area><![CDATA[...]]></city_area>
    <postcode><![CDATA[...]]></postcode>

    <region><![CDATA[...]]></region>
    <mileage><![CDATA[...]]></mileage>
    <doors><![CDATA[...]]></doors>
    <fuel><![CDATA[...]]></fuel>
    <transmission><![CDATA[...]]></transmission>
    <engine_size><![CDATA[...]]></engine_size>
    <power><![CDATA[...]]></power>
    <seats><![CDATA[...]]></seats>
    <gears><![CDATA[...]]></gears>

    <pictures>
        <picture>
            <picture_url><![CDATA[...]]></picture_url>
            <picture_title><![CDATA[...]]></picture_title>
        </picture>

        <picture>
            <picture_url><![CDATA[...]]></picture_url>
            <picture_title><![CDATA[...]]></picture_title>
        </picture>
        …
    </pictures>

    <date><![CDATA[...]]></date>
    <time><![CDATA[...]]></time>

</ad>

<ad>
    ….

</ad>

<ad>
    ….
</ad>

…

</trovit>

You can copy and paste the previous code and use it as a template for your own XML file.

Example XML feed

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<trovit>

<ad>
	<id><![CDATA[7004578]]></id>

	<url><![CDATA[http://www.yourdomain.com/ad/7004578]]></url>
	<title><![CDATA[Audi A3 for sale, almost new]]></title>
	<content><![CDATA[Audi A3 for sale, almost new, I'm selling it because
    I'm moving to another country]]></content>

	<price><![CDATA[20000]]></price>

        <make><![CDATA[Audi]]></make>
        <model><![CDATA[A3]]></model>
        <color><![CDATA[Black]]></color>
        <year><![CDATA[2004]]></year>

        <city><![CDATA[London]]></city>
        <city_area><![CDATA[Kensington]]></city_area>
        <postcode><![CDATA[]]></postcode>
        <region><![CDATA[London]]></region>

        <mileage><![CDATA[5000]]></mileage>
        <doors><![CDATA[5]]></doors>
        <fuel><![CDATA[gasoil]]></fuel>
        <transmission><![CDATA[manual]]></region>
        <engine_size><![CDATA[1781]]></engine_size>
        <power><![CDATA[75]]></power>
        <seats><![CDATA[5]]></seats>
        <gears><![CDATA[5]]></gears>

	<pictures>
            <picture>
                <picture_url><![CDATA[http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/image1.jpg]]></picture_url>
                <picture_title><![CDATA[front]]></picture_title>
            </picture>

            <picture>
                <picture_url><![CDATA[http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/image2.jpg]]></picture_url>
                <picture_title><![CDATA[back]]></picture_title>
            </picture>
	</pictures>

	<date><![CDATA[30/09/2006]]></date>
	<time><![CDATA[18:30]]></time>
</ad>

<ad>
	<id><![CDATA[332A53BC2]]></id>

	<url><![CDATA[http://www.yourdomain.com/ad/332A53BC2]]></url>
	<title><![CDATA[Mercedes SLK for sale]]></title>
	<content><![CDATA[Mercedes SLK, 50,000 miles, for sale]]></content>

	<price><![CDATA[30000]]></price>

        <make><![CDATA[Mercedes]]></make>
        <model><![CDATA[SLK]]></model>
        <color><![CDATA[Gray]]></color>
        <year><![CDATA[2001]]></year>

        <city><![CDATA[London]]></city>
        <city_area><![CDATA[]]></city_area>
        <postcode><![CDATA[]]></postcode>
        <region><![CDATA[London]]></region>

	<pictures>
            <picture>
                <picture_url><![CDATA[http://www.yourdomain.co.uk/image1.jpg]]></picture_url>
                <picture_title><![CDATA[front]]></picture_title>
            </picture>

	</pictures>

	<date><![CDATA[20/09/2006]]></date>
	<time><![CDATA[15:00]]></time>
</ad>

</trovit>