IAA Auction Scraper

Every IAA lot that fits your rules — damage, start code, title and sale date — in one sheet before the sale.

What IAA is, and why the data matters

IAA (Insurance Auto Auctions) is one of the two dominant salvage vehicle auctions in North America alongside Copart, selling insurance total-losses, recovered thefts, fleet and dealer vehicles through branches across the US and Canada. Each lot publishes primary and secondary damage, start code, key status, title type, odometer, actual cash value and sale date.

Rebuilders, exporters and parts buyers bid on both IAA and Copart, and the cars they want are spread across hundreds of branches and thousands of lots a week. Reading both auctions into one list with the same columns — and dropping the lots that fail your damage, title or location rules — is what stops a buyer from spending the morning clicking through branch listings.

What the IAA scraper extracts

Getting past IAA's defences

IAA puts most lot detail behind a buyer login and renders listings through JavaScript. The build runs on your own IAA buyer account, paces requests like a person, and reads search results in slices by branch and sale date so nothing is dropped. No bidding is automated.

What people do with it

How you receive the data

Excel, CSV, JSON, a Google Sheet that refreshes on a schedule, a direct write into MySQL or Postgres, or a REST endpoint your own tools can query.

Frequently asked questions

Can you combine IAA and Copart?

Yes, and most salvage buyers want exactly that — both auctions normalised into one schema, damage and title values mapped to the same wording, and duplicates removed where a car has been relisted.

Do I need an IAA account?

Yes. Detailed lot data sits behind a buyer login, and the build runs on your own account and licence. I do not share credentials between clients or provide access you do not already have.

What does an IAA scraper cost?

A daily filtered feed typically runs $350 to $700 to build plus a monthly to keep it running. Combining it with Copart in one schema is quoted together. Fixed quote within 24 hours.

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