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Capture
Open a vehicle page on your dealership site and press Scan. The spec sheet is read off the page itself — structured data first, the rendered page as backup — so a trim buried in a spec-run title still lands in the right field.
Chrome & Edge extension · your dealership website
Your whole lot on Marketplace. One click per vehicle.
Inventory capture is how AutoLens copies a vehicle from your own website into your inventory. Open a vehicle page on your dealership website and press Scan. AutoLens reads the spec sheet and pulls the photos at the size your site actually serves. It writes the ad copy from that vehicle and queues the post. Nobody retypes a VIN again.
1 · Your vehicle page
yourdealership.ca/inventory/f-150-xlt
Scan this page
2 · AutoLens captures
- Title2024 Ford F-150 XLT
- Price$58,990
- Odometer14,890 km
- VIN1FTFW1E54PFA12345
- Body styleTruck
- Drivetrain4x4
- ExteriorBlack
- Photos24 · full size
3 · Marketplace draft
2024 Ford F-150 XLT
$58,990
Ad copy written from this truck’s own spec sheet — 4x4, 14,890 km, XLT trim. No borrowed paragraph from the unit beside it.
Queued to publish
Capture runs on inventory pages you own or are authorized to advertise. Turn on review mode and every listing stops for a person to check before it publishes.
The click, unpacked
Four things happen. You do one of them.
Capture is not a screenshot and a hope. Here is the whole chain between pressing Scan and a listing that is ready to publish.
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Photos at full size
Every image a page exposes is collected and the largest genuine version wins — not whichever URL happened to load first. Lazy-loaded thumbnails no longer beat the full-size render sitting in the same tag.
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Ad copy from this vehicle
The description is written from the spec sheet you just captured — trim, drivetrain, engine, equipment — so two trucks that differ only by trim do not get the same paragraph.
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Queue and publish
Scanned vehicles stack up in a queue. Publish the whole queue and each listing is filled in and posted in turn, spaced out on purpose so the dealership Facebook account is not posting like a bot.
Captured per vehicle
Sixteen fields you would otherwise retype.
Every one of these is read off your own vehicle page and mapped to what Facebook Marketplace actually accepts. Where a value has no clean equivalent — a transmission type Marketplace does not offer, a paint name with no colour word in it — the field is left blank rather than filled with a guess. A blank beats a wrong answer on a live ad.
See what happens after captureYear · make · model
Trim
Price
Odometer + unit (km vs mi)
VIN / serial
Body style
Transmission
Drivetrain
Fuel type
Exterior colour
Interior colour
Stock number
Engine
Condition (new / used)
Equipment list
Every gallery photo
Photo fidelity
The picture your website shows.
Buyers scroll past soft photos. Capture picks the largest real version of each image a page exposes, and the bytes go to Facebook untouched — no canvas, no re-encode, nowhere for quality to leak out.
2048 px
Target long edge
Facebook re-encodes and caps the long edge at 2048, so asking a CDN for 4000 px uploads megabytes it will throw away. We ask for what survives.
Never lower
Resolution floor
A photo already served larger than the target keeps its size. An upgrade rule that cannot read the current width does not fire at all — a capture never comes back softer than the page.
Verified
Decoded, not assumed
Some CDNs answer an unknown size with a 200 and a 1×1 pixel. Dimensions are read from the decoded image, so a bad guess is caught instead of silently posted.
On one Stellantis storefront the same photo was available at four different sizes in the same page. The version the browser rendered was 1536×1024; the one behind it was 2048×1365. Capture takes the second one — and the duplicate of that hero at a smaller size stops eating a photo slot.
Ad copy
Written from the vehicle. Not about the category.
Generic ad copy is what happens when a generator is handed a year, make, and model and nothing else. Capture hands over the whole spec sheet — and then holds the copy to rules a dealer can live with.
- Written only from fields captured on the page — no horsepower, torque, towing, or fuel-economy figures invented from the model name.
- No warranty, financing, title, or history claims. Those are the dealer’s to make, in writing, not an ad generator’s.
- No equipment that was not on the page. A loaded trim with no feature list gets honest copy, not a guessed one.
- Your standing line — a promo, a disclaimer — is appended exactly as you wrote it, above the contact number, never paraphrased.
Every generated description ends the same way: your copy, then your line, then the number a buyer should text.
Publishing
Automation you can watch.
The posting run happens in a visible tab, on purpose. Automation that hides its work is automation you cannot trust with a price.
You can watch it work
Each field is scrolled into view, highlighted, and captioned with the value being written, with a running filled/missed tally. A form that changed under us is visible immediately instead of surfacing as a rejected post.
Paced on purpose
Listings are spaced roughly a minute apart. That gap is a safety limit protecting the dealership’s Facebook account, and it is not something we shorten for a faster demo.
Counted honestly
A post counts as live only when Facebook hands back a real listing link. Attempts that never confirmed are reported as attempts, so the number on your dashboard is the number on Marketplace.
Interactive
See what manual posting costs you
Plug in your numbers. We'll show the hours — and the labor dollars — tied up in Marketplace posting every month.
Hours / week
6
Hours / month
26
Labor / month
$650
Labor / year
$7,794
Estimates based on your inputs only. AutoLens compresses this workflow by capturing each vehicle from your own website once, then batch-preparing the listings for Marketplace.
Capture does not remove the whole number — a posting run still occupies a browser tab. It removes the typing, the copy-paste, and the photo downloads.
Compatibility
Where it runs today.
Browsers
Chrome · MV3Edge · MV3Firefox · not yet
Publishing targets Facebook Marketplace vehicle listings, in the Facebook session already open in that browser.
Dealer website platforms
- Dealer eProcessTested on live storefronts
- D2C MediaTested on live storefronts
- PowerGoTested on live storefronts
- Structured-data sitesGeneric JSON-LD fallback
Not an exhaustive list, and not a promise about a site we have never seen. Send a vehicle page link and we will check it before you buy.
Your inventory, your rights. Capture is for vehicle pages you own or are authorized to advertise, and the photos you post need to be yours to post — on many dealer sites the images are owned jointly with the website vendor or the photographer, so it is worth knowing which yours are. Using AutoLens against sites you do not control is outside what we support.
Straight answers
What it doesn’t do.
Four things worth knowing before you decide, rather than after.
- Scraping sites you don’t control
Capture is for inventory you own or are authorized to advertise. Competitor sites and third-party marketplace pages are not a supported use, and the acceptable-use rules say so.
- Automatic delisting when a unit sells
Sold vehicles stop being re-posted, but pulling a live Marketplace listing down is still a manual step. We would rather say that than imply a sweep that isn’t running.
- Posting while you’re signed out
Publishing happens in your own browser, in your own Facebook session. Nothing posts on a schedule while the laptop is closed.
- Unlimited daily volume
Ten posts per person per day, and ten per Facebook account. It is an anti-spam ceiling that protects the account doing the posting, so it applies on every plan.
FAQ
Before you install it.
- How many clicks is it, really?
One per vehicle to capture, one to publish the queue. A ten-vehicle batch is eleven clicks and about ten minutes of unattended browser time — most of which is the deliberate spacing between posts.
- Does it work on my website?
It is built and tested against the platforms Canadian dealer sites usually run on, with a structured-data fallback for the rest. If your site is not on the list, send us a vehicle page link and we will tell you honestly whether it reads cleanly before you pay for anything.
- Where do the photos come from?
Your own vehicle page, at the largest size that page serves. The bytes are handed to Facebook unchanged — there is no re-encoding step, so nothing is degraded in transit.
- What about vehicles I add by hand?
The dashboard has a full add/edit form with a readiness badge that tells you what Facebook still needs — three photos, a price, mileage, a description, a location — before a unit is postable. Capture and manual entry feed the same inventory.
- Can inventory come in without scanning each vehicle?
Yes. If your DMS or website provider produces an inventory export, connect it in Settings → Inventory feed and it syncs every hour into the same inventory. Units you already captured are matched and updated, not duplicated.
- Do captured vehicles reach the rest of the CRM?
Yes. A captured vehicle becomes a listing in your AutoLens inventory, which is what the pipeline, the analytics, and the Marketplace engagement figures read from. On plans that include the AI Responder, the buyer who texts about it lands in the same account.
Stop retyping your own inventory.
Install the extension, open a vehicle page, press Scan. If it does not read your site cleanly, we would rather find that out on a demo call than after you have paid for a month.
Capture is included on every plan, starting with the extension-only tier. Talk to us about plans.