Copart Public Search Scraper

Free-plan limit: Apify free-plan runs can return at most 5 dataset records per run from this Actor, even if you request more.

Scrape publicly available Copart search-result and lot pages into clean, structured auction-vehicle records. It is intended for auction inventory research, sourcing, price comparison, and workflow automation—not for logging in, bidding, payment, watchlists, or accessing non-public data.

What it returns

Each dataset item represents one unique public lot. The actor returns lotNumber, lotUrl, vehicle year/make/model, VIN when publicly shown, current bid, estimated retail value, damage, sale date, location, image URLs, the source search URL, and an ISO 8601 collection timestamp. Optional values are returned as null so the shape is stable for API and AI-agent workflows.

When to use it

Use it when you have a public Copart search URL with filters already selected, or a direct public lot URL. For example, paste a URL from a Copart search after filtering for year, make, damage, sale location, or vehicle condition. The actor preserves the public page you provide and deduplicates lots by lot number.

Do not use it for Copart login, member, payment, bidding, saved-search, watchlist, or other authenticated URLs. It does not provide account access, bypass access controls, or take auction actions.

Input

startUrls accepts one or more public URLs. The default is a public search page so the Apify health check has a safe, valid input. maxResults caps results from 1 to 200, including the billable maximum. maxRequestRetries controls temporary-failure retries and is deliberately capped at three.

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.copart.com/vehicle-search-featured/vehicleFinder" }],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxRequestRetries": 2
}

Output example

{
  "lotNumber": "99714325",
  "lotUrl": "https://www.copart.com/lot/99714325",
  "year": 2019,
  "make": "TOYOTA",
  "model": "CAMRY",
  "vin": null,
  "currentBid": 4250,
  "estimatedRetailValue": 12450,
  "primaryDamage": "FRONT END",
  "saleDate": null,
  "location": "PA - PITTSBURGH SOUTH",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "searchUrl": "https://www.copart.com/vehicle-search-featured/vehicleFinder",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-22T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
lot-scraped	$0.016	Auction lot scraped — Charged once for each unique public Copart lot written to the dataset.
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run.

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

Reliability and limits

Requests use the Actor owner's DataImpulse proxy configuration. A missing proxy secret stops the run with a configuration error before any target request; the proxy credential is never part of the Actor input or dataset.

Copart can change public-page structure or temporarily limit automated traffic. The actor uses conservative retries, keeps valid no-results searches successful, and reports all-request public-access failures honestly instead of silently producing an empty dataset. Partial data is preserved when individual lot enrichment cannot complete. For repeat research workloads, use reasonable result limits and respect Copart's terms and applicable law.

API and AI-agent use

This actor has a narrow input contract and a stable flat output shape for Apify API and MCP users. Use it for public auction-inventory research. Do not use it as a vehicle-history, private-account, bidding, or title-verification tool.

Compliance

You are responsible for confirming that your collection and use of public data comply with Copart terms, applicable law, and your own authorization. Do not submit credentials or attempt to use this actor to access non-public content.