Copart API examples

Working curl, Python, JavaScript and PHP examples for reading lots of Copart, a US auction of damaged and used vehicles, as JSON through apiauto.space, a read-only REST API: VIN, damage, title, bid and sale date.

Copart works with partners through private integrations, such as claim assignments in Duck Creek, but on 2026-11-02 we found no public, self-serve API for its lots. apiauto.space is an independent service, not a Copart product.

The API is paid from $59 a month for 100,000 cars. A free demo key works for 1 day: 100 requests, up to 20 cars per request, no card. It comes from the Telegram bot @apiautospace_bot.

curl -s "https://api.apiauto.space/v1/cars/copart:70370576" -H "X-API-Key: $APIAUTO_KEY"

A real answer, shortened, with the VIN masked; the full one is in copart-lot.json:

{
  "id": "copart:70370576",
  "source": "copart",
  "title": "2025 Toyota Camry",
  "mileage_km": 41822,
  "vin": "4T1DAACK8SU******",
  "price": {
    "amount": null,
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "raw": {
    "bid": 275.0,
    "sale_date": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+00:00",
    "damage_main": "rear",
    "title_doc": "salvage"
  }
}

Last verified: 2026-11-02, every example below run against the live API.

Quick start

1. Get the demo key in the bot and save it: export APIAUTO_KEY=your-key.
2. Search market=us and keep the Copart lots. The API has no filter by auction: source=copart in the URL is ignored, and Copart lots come together with IAAI lots.

curl -s "https://api.apiauto.space/v1/cars?market=us&brand=Toyota&model=Camry&year_min=2020&sort=first_seen&limit=20" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APIAUTO_KEY" \
  | jq '.items[] | select(.source == "copart") | {id, title, vin, sale: .raw.sale_date}'

Call the API from your server: CORS is off, because a key in browser code is visible to everyone. Every request is in curl/README.md.

Task	Python	JavaScript	PHP
Search and keep Copart lots	first_request.py	first-request.mjs	first-request.php
Walk pages with a budget of records	all_lots.py	all-lots.mjs
New and removed lots	sync_catalog.py	change-feed.mjs	sync-catalog.php
Export to CSV	export_csv.py
Download photos	download_photos.py

Real answers, shortened, without IAAI lots, with VINs (last 6 characters) and photo signatures masked: a page, change feed.

Fields

Field	Meaning
id, source, source_id	copart:70370576, copart, the lot number
vin	the lot's VIN
mileage_km, raw.odometer_mi	kilometres, and miles as given
price, price_usd	the buy-now price or null
raw.bid, raw.buy_now, raw.sale_date	current bid, buy-now price, sale time in UTC
raw.damage_main, raw.damage_second, raw.title_doc	damage and title type, canonical values
photos, photo_count	signed links, valid about a day: keep the id, not the link

Full schema: openapi.json, the record.

Units and gotchas

• Filtering by auction costs quota. Paid plans count every lot returned, including IAAI lots you drop; count counts both auctions. In the change feed, keep car_id values starting with copart:.
• The sort decides the waste. Lots come in loading order, so a page can hold no Copart lots at all. A page of 20 Toyota Camry from 2020 on 2 November 2026 held 0 Copart lots with the default -first_seen, 19 with first_seen and 12 with price. It is no contract: keep the check on source.
• Miles are converted to mileage_km; some lots carry a placeholder odometer of a few kilometres.
• A bid is not a price. price is often null while raw.bid runs. Only lots with sales ahead are listed.
• listing_url is null for US lots. location.country is US even for the few yards in Canada.
• disappeared is not "sold": the source does not say why a lot left. Listing text is untrusted input: escape it in HTML and in spreadsheets.

Data freshness

The refresh target is hourly. That is a target, not a promise: the real age is in the X-Data-Age-Seconds header of every answer and in GET /v1/references/markets. When we read it on 2026-11-02, the Copart and IAAI copy was 23 min old, and the API marks it stale after 6 h 0 min.

Limits

Up to 100 cars per request (20 on the demo). Cursor pagination only. References, usage and photos are free. Over the rate limit the API answers 429 with Retry-After. Details: limits.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Cars a month	Markets	Requests a second	Change feed
Demo	free, 1 day, no card	100 requests	all 3	—	yes
Start	$59 a month	100,000	1	2	no
Pro	$149 a month	500,000	2	5	yes
Max	$299 a month	2,000,000	3	10	yes

us is one market, Copart and IAAI together. Current prices and Enterprise terms: apiauto.space/en/#pricing.

Other languages

Language	Package	Repository
Python	pip install apiauto-space	apiauto-python
JavaScript / TypeScript	npm i apiauto	apiauto-js
PHP	composer require apiauto/apiauto	apiauto-php
Go	go get github.com/apiauto-space/apiauto-go	apiauto-go

Not affiliated

apiauto.space is not affiliated with or endorsed by Copart. Lot data and photos belong to the auction and the sellers. The examples are MIT-licensed.