Bring a Trailer Auctions Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Give it a make slug (porsche), the global auctions index, or a direct listing/category URL, and it returns one normalised record per collector-car auction listing — active or completed — carrying current or final bid, VIN/chassis, mileage, seller type, lot number, spec bullets, and (optionally) the full bid-history feed reconstructed from the listing's comment stream.

What we handle for you

• Active and completed/sold auctions — the sold-price time-series most
• VIN/chassis, normalised mileage, seller type (private party vs. dealer),
• Optional full bid-history: bidder, amount, and ISO-8601 timestamp per bid.
• Works from a bare make slug, the global auctions index, a category URL,
• Deduplicated by listing ID across every input entry in a single run.

Use cases

• Classic-car appraisers building comp sets from real sold prices.
• Insurers valuing collector vehicles against recent auction results.
• Dealers tracking what similar inventory is actually selling for.
• Comp-sales researchers who need VIN-decode-ready, machine-joinable

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "makesOrUrls": [
    "porsche"
  ],
  "includeActive": true,
  "includeCompleted": true,
  "includeBidHistory": true,
  "maxListings": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

listing_idtitleurlyearmakevinmileagestatusbid_amountno_reserveseller_typelot_numberbid_countbid_history

{
  "listing_id": 512034,
  "title": "1987 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe 5-Speed",
  "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1987-porsche-911-carrera-coupe-16/",
  "year": 1987,
  "make": "porsche",
  "vin": "WP0AB29901S685909",
  "mileage": 28000,
  "mileage_raw": "28k Miles",
  "status": "sold",
  "currency": "USD",
  "bid_amount": 52000,
  "no_reserve": true,
  "seller_type": "private_party",
  "lot_number": "256804",
  "comment_count": 160,
  "bid_count": 34,
  "watchers": 412,
  "views": 18904,
  "auction_end_at": "2026-06-12T18:00:00+00:00",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/thumb.jpg",
  "spec_bullets": [
    "3.2L Flat-Six",
    "5-Speed Manual",
    "Guards Red Paint",
    "Recent Service"
  ],
  "bid_history": [
    {
      "bidder_name": "carguy88",
      "bidder_id": 44221,
      "amount": 51000,
      "timestamp": "2026-06-12T17:58:11+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• v1 reads only the items array present in the index page's initial
• Only bid events are materialised into bid_history; general comment text
• Single-listing mode (a direct /listing/... URL) can't recover status,
• Currency is passed through as-is; no FX conversion performed.