Obtain a current market valuation (retail, wholesale, auction, or midpoint) for a used crawler or all-terrain crane, and document that no public valuation API exists.

Steps

1. Confirm Rouse Services (part of RB Global, which also owns Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers and IronPlanet) is the primary source of crane-specific transactional valuation data in the industry.
2. Use Rouse's free 'Sales Look Up Tool' to pull retail, wholesale, auction, and midpoint values for a specific make/model, adjusted for meter hours, configuration, and region — this is a web UI lookup, not an API.
3. Alternatively use Ritchie Bros.' free 'Price Results Tool' (blog.rbauction.com) for actual auction sale-price history on comparable equipment.
4. For a quarterly market-trend view, check Rouse's published crane market summary, which tracks orderly liquidation value trends across six crane types: all-terrain, crawler, rough-terrain, truck-mounted, carry-deck, and tower.
5. If a formal appraisal (rather than an indicative valuation) is needed — e.g., for financing, insurance, or a dispute — engage Ritchie Bros.' separate paid Appraisal Services instead of relying on the free lookup tools.