Dealer Crawl

Dealers

Contact info is pulled from each dealer's Cars.com profile (and AutoTrader listings) on the first crawl that sees them, then refreshed monthly.

Dealer	Fords	Phone	Address	Website	Rating

Recalls

NHTSA campaigns for this model line

Apply to the model year/model in general; the Ford section above is what is actually open on this VIN.

Sources

Aggregators

AutoTrader Cars.com CarGurus (no dealer name on search page) Custom dealer sites Max pages per source AutoTrader VIN lookups per crawl (0 = unlimited; only cars not already found on Cars.com/CarGurus) Full crawl at least every hours (other scheduled runs are quick delta crawls; 0 = always quick) Daily crawl at (local time; clear to use the interval below instead) Auto re-crawl every hours (0 = off)

Recalls

Model-line campaigns come from NHTSA (cached 7 days) . Per-VIN open/completed status comes from ford.com's VIN lookup, checked in the background after each crawl (cached 14 days).

runs the background pass immediately (progress in the crawl log)

ford.com VIN checks per crawl (~6 s each; cars whose model has NHTSA campaigns go first; 0 = off)

Dealer websites

Paste a dealer's used inventory page URL (ideally already filtered to Ford). The crawler reads schema.org data, inline vehicle JSON, or falls back to VIN-based detection, and follows "next" links.