EnglishBuild a site like bid.carsEvery Copart and IAAI car, through our API.
bid.cars shows Copart and IAAI cars with photos and sold prices. Our API gives you the same cars, so you can build a site like it.
- Country
- USA
- Currency
- USD
- Site language
- English
- API
- Auction API
"lot": "41872206","domain": { "name": "iaai_com" },"bid": 6250,"final_bid": 8450,"seller_reserve": { "price": 8000 },"damage": { "main": { "name": "Front End" } },"sale_date": "2026-10-08T15:00:00Z",
Everything a site like bid.cars shows.
Every record arrives in the same clean format, whatever the site writes.
Bids and pricesCurrent bid, Buy Now and the final price, each with the time it changed.
Sold cars archiveSold lots stay with their final price, so you can show history by VIN.
Seller reserveThe minimum the seller will accept, where known. Never shown as a sale price.
Condition and damageDamage, keys and condition as clean values you can filter on.
Full-size photosEvery photo of the listing in full size, not blurry thumbnails.
Official US specsBody, drive, fuel and cylinders filled from the US vPIC service by VIN, never guessed.
Try the request.
Pick a filter and the code changes with it. Run it with your own key.
from_yearbuy_nowminutesExample response with made-up values.
One hour of bid.cars, in your database.
Cars arrive, prices change, cars leave. You get each change as data.
- Import oncePage through every current lot.
/cars?page=1, 2, 3 … - Ask every hourOnly the lots that changed in that hour.
/cars?minutes=60 - Keep the sold onesSold lots move to the archive with their final price.
/archived-lots?minutes=60
- Sold, final price2020 Honda Civic
final_bid 13,900 - New lot2022 Tesla Model 3
lot +1 - Bid changed2019 Ford F-150
bid 12,750 → 13,100 - Sold, final price2021 Toyota Camry
final_bid 13,900
The same car, on every site.
A car listed on several sites arrives as one record with every price.
About bid.cars
bid.cars is a well known site that shows cars from the Copart and IAAI auctions with their photos, damage and sold prices. It is an independent site with no connection to AuctionsAPI.
Everything such a site shows comes from the auctions themselves. Our auction API delivers every current Copart and IAAI lot, bids, Buy Now, the seller reserve where known, final prices and the archive of sold cars, so you can build your own site on the same data.
A catalog of current lotsEvery Copart and IAAI car for sale now, with filters and photos.
Lot and VIN pagesOne page per car with photos, damage, bids and its sale history.
A sold prices archiveFinal prices of sold cars, searchable by VIN.
Questions about the bid.cars API
The data part takes days, not months: import the current lots once, then ask every hour for what changed and what was sold.
Yes. Sold lots stay in our archive with their final price, so a VIN page can show every past sale.
Yes. Every photo of every lot, in full size.
No. bid.cars is an independent site and has no connection with AuctionsAPI. Our API delivers the same Copart and IAAI cars, so you can build a site like it on your own.
Yes. We collect every Copart and IAAI lot, current and sold, with photos and prices. A site built on our API can show the same cars.
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