With the Co-Driver Smart Ordered Imagery capability on Auto Trader Connect, you'll have access to our image categorisation and labels. This can optimise the order of your images. You will need to utilise the Co-Driver API to generate these items.
Here's a full list of the functionality:
- Request smart ordered imagery
- Identify missing imagery
The data that is returned can be patched back to the specific stock advert, after a human user has confirmed they are happy with the description being created.
Request Smart Image Ordering
Once the images have been added to the stock advert and classifications have been added. To get the smart image reordering the above call will produce a response which has used the image reordering of Co-Driver. The image ID will be returned in the response and have further data indicating how Auto Trader have categorised the image. Each image that has been categorised will have a label stating the location the image shows and a category of either interior or exterior.
Check out examples of how to use Co-Driver to help order your stocks imagery
Identify missing imagery
Partners can also utilise the Smart Ordered Imagery service to identify missing imagery. When a POST is completed for a stock item with an incomplete set of images, the missing image classifications are returned as 'null' in the response indicating which images are still required.
If a POST request is made on a stock ID that has no imagery at all added to the stock item, a full list of missing imagery classifications will be returned in the recommended order.
This will allow you to have a list of the missing imagery, the order that Auto Trader recommends they be placed in when available and can be taken into your system and used as a reference.
Check out examples of how to use Co-Driver to identify missing imagery
Error handling
When using the APIs above, you may get error response codes that you need to handle. This makes sure you have a smooth service for both you, as a partner, and your end user.