Copart UK Scraper: salvage car auction data, fast and cheap

Scrape vehicle lots from Copart UK (copart.co.uk), the UK's largest salvage car auction. You get clean JSON with make, model, year, current bid, odometer, damage, run-and-drive status, Cat N / Cat S salvage category, sale date, yard location and photos. Use it as an unofficial Copart UK API for damaged and repairable car data. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it from your own code.

• Cheap: $0.60 per 1,000 lots, plus $0.0005 per run.
• Fast: 100 lots per request, with no browser. 50 lots take under a second.
• Filtered at the source: make, model, year, mileage and maximum bid are filtered by Copart itself.
• Unrepairable lots excluded by default: Cat A (crush) and Cat B (breaker) lots are dropped on Copart's side, so you don't pay for cars that can't go back on the road.

What can you use it for?

• Bidding research: watch current bids on the makes and models you rebuild or export.
• Repairable car sourcing: find Cat N and Cat S cars under your budget before the auction day.
• Auction alerts: schedule runs and get new lots that match your filters.
• Market data: build salvage price and damage statistics in a spreadsheet or database.

How to scrape Copart UK

1. Search on copart.co.uk with the filters you want and copy the results URL, or just type a make into searchQuery.
2. Paste it into startUrls, and set maxItems and maxBid.
3. Click Start. Download the lots as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Input

Paste any Copart UK search URL, or build one with filters:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.copart.co.uk/lotSearchResults?free=true&query=bmw"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxBid": 5000,
  "excludeUnrepairable": true
}

Field	Description
startUrls	Copart UK lotSearchResults URLs: a simple ?query=… search, or a ?searchCriteria={…} URL with filters such as lot_make_desc, lot_year or odometer_reading_received.
searchQuery	Free-text search; overrides the URL's query.
maxItems	How many lots to return (default 20).
maxBid	Only lots whose current bid is at or below this (GBP).
excludeUnrepairable	Drop Cat A and Cat B lots (default true).
useCache / cacheTtlMinutes	Repeating the same search within 15 minutes returns the stored results instantly. Bids move, so keep this short, or set useCache: false.

Lots come in Copart's order: soonest auction first.

Filtered search URL example

https://www.copart.co.uk/lotSearchResults?searchCriteria={"query":["*"],"filter":{"MAKE":["lot_make_desc:\"BMW\""],"YEAR":["lot_year:[2016 TO 2020]"],"ODM":["odometer_reading_received:[0 TO 80000]"]}}

Output

{
  "lotNumber": "49216006",
  "title": "2016 BMW X5 xDrive M50d 5dr Auto [7 Seat]",
  "lotMakeDesc": "BMW",
  "lotModelDesc": "X5 M50D",
  "lotYear": 2016,
  "currentBid": 7200,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "odometer": 84908,
  "primaryDamage": "SIDE",
  "secondaryDamage": "MINOR DENTS/SCRATCHES",
  "runAndDrive": "ENHANCED VEHICLES",
  "category": "N REPAIRABLE NON STRUCTURAL",
  "vin": null,
  "saleDate": "2026-11-02T10:00:00.000Z",
  "fuelType": "Diesel",
  "location": "BRISTOL",
  "url": "https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/49216006/clean-title-2016-bmw-x5-xdrive-m50d-5dr-auto-7-seat-bristol",
  "images": ["https://cs.copart.com/…_ful.jpg", "https://cs.copart.com/…_thb.jpg"]
}

• odometer is null when Copart recorded no reading, rather than a false 0.
• vin is null when Copart masks it.
• images holds the full-size photo first, then the thumbnail.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0005 per run + $0.0006 per lot.

Lots	Cost
100	$0.06
1,000	$0.60
10,000	$6.00

The actor respects your run's maximum charge. It stops fetching once that limit is reached.

Use it from your code

Call the scraper through the Apify API, here with the Python client (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("xerneas_ftw/copart-uk").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "volkswagen golf",
    "maxItems": 200,
    "maxBid": 3000,
})
for lot in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(lot["title"], lot["currentBid"], lot["category"])

It also works with JavaScript, plain HTTP, Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets through Apify integrations.

FAQ

Is there an official Copart UK API? Not a public one. This actor gives you the lot data as structured JSON.

Do I need a Copart membership? No. It reads public lot listings, the same ones anyone can browse without logging in.

Does it cover Copart USA or other countries? No, only copart.co.uk.

What do Cat N and Cat S mean? UK write-off categories. Cat N is non-structural damage and Cat S is structural damage. Both can be repaired and put back on the road. Cat A and Cat B can't, which is why they're excluded by default.

Legal

This actor collects only publicly available auction listing data. You are responsible for using it in line with Copart's terms and applicable law.