Fastline Scraper

Scrape Fastline.com — a leading US marketplace for farm and agricultural equipment. Search by keyword, browse by equipment category, manufacturer, or US state. Get price, manufacturer, model, year, hours, horsepower, condition, seller contact details, and photos for tractors, combines, planters, sprayers, hay and forage equipment, tillage equipment, skid steers, and more. No login, no cookies required.

What this actor does

• Five modes: search (keyword), byCategory (equipment category), byManufacturer (brand), byLocation (US state), byUrl (specific listing URLs)
• Combinable server-side filters: category, manufacturer, and state can all be combined in the same run
• Post-retrieval filters: price range, model year range, hours range, horsepower range, condition, and drive type narrow results further after fetching each listing's real data
• Real prices only — listings with no genuine price posted anywhere have the price field omitted rather than showing a fake $0
• Empty fields are omitted — a listing only includes the fields that were actually present on its page

Output per listing

• title — listing headline (year, manufacturer, model)
• sourceUrl — direct link to the listing on Fastline.com
• price, currency — numeric price and currency, when a real price is posted
• category — equipment category (e.g. Tractor, Combine)
• manufacturer, model, year
• hours — recorded operating hours, when listed
• horsepower — engine horsepower, when listed
• condition — New or Used
• drive — drive type (e.g. 2WD, 4WD, MFWD, MFD/FWA, Track), when present on the listing
• transmissionType — spec field, when present on the listing
• serialNumber, stockNumber
• description — full listing description
• location — seller's city/state/zip
• sellerName, sellerPhone, sellerEmail
• sellerState — seller's US state abbreviation (e.g. NE), when present as a distinct field on the listing
• images[] — full-size listing photo URLs
• recordType: "listing", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCategory / byManufacturer / byLocation / byUrl
keywords	string	–	Keyword search (mode=search); can combine with other filters
category	string	–	Equipment category (mode=byCategory, or narrows other modes)
manufacturer	string	–	Manufacturer dropdown (mode=byManufacturer, or narrows other modes)
manufacturerOther	string	–	Free-text manufacturer name, for brands not in the dropdown
state	string	–	US state (mode=byLocation, or narrows other modes)
condition	string	–	New / Used
driveType	string	–	2WD / 4WD / MFWD / MFD/FWA / Track / Other
sortBy	string	–	Server-side sort order: price low/high, year newest/oldest, or date listed newest/oldest — matters most with a capped maxItems since it decides which listings land inside the cap
startUrls	array	–	Specific listing URLs to fetch (mode=byUrl)
minPrice / maxPrice	int	–	Price range in USD
minYear / maxYear	int	–	Model year range
minHours / maxHours	int	–	Hours range
minHorsepower / maxHorsepower	int	–	Engine horsepower range
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on emitted records (1–500)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy (auto)	Optional — only used automatically as a fallback if the site starts blocking requests

Example: search by keyword, filter by manufacturer

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": "combine",
  "manufacturer": "John Deere",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: browse a category with price and year filters

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "tractors",
  "minPrice": 20000,
  "maxPrice": 100000,
  "minYear": 2015,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse all equipment listed in a US state

{
  "mode": "byLocation",
  "state": "Iowa",
  "condition": "Used",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: cheapest tractors first, capped at 10 results

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "tractors",
  "sortBy": "priceLowToHigh",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Example: fetch specific listing URLs directly

{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.fastline.com/farm-equipment/listing-detail/2014-john-deere-5085e-akrs-equipment-syracuse-nebraska/35134f90-5a4c-4668-a747-36de3d89e84e"
  ]
}

Use cases

• Equipment dealers — monitor new listings and pricing for competitive benchmarking
• Buyers — filter a large marketplace quickly by manufacturer, price, year, and condition without manual browsing
• Market research — track how tractors, combines, and other ag equipment are priced across categories and regions
• Procurement teams — build a shortlist of available equipment matching budget and specification requirements
• Data aggregators — feed ag-equipment listings into a broader marketplace search tool

FAQ

What's Fastline.com? An online marketplace and print magazine for buying and selling new and used farm equipment — tractors, combines, planters, sprayers, hay and forage equipment, tillage equipment, and more — across the United States.

Why is price missing on some listings? A small number of listings have no price entered anywhere — typically "call for price" listings. Rather than showing a fabricated $0, the actor leaves the field out entirely.

Why are hours or horsepower missing on some listings? Not every equipment type has these fields — a planter or trailer listing has no hours/horsepower to report, so the field is simply omitted rather than showing a placeholder.

Can I combine category, manufacturer, and state in one run? Yes — all three are applied together on the source site itself, regardless of which mode you choose, so you can e.g. run mode=byCategory with category=combines, manufacturer=Case IH, and state=Iowa all at once. condition, driveType, price range, year range, hours range, and horsepower range are applied after retrieval.

Why is driveType missing on some listings? Drive type mainly applies to tractors and self-propelled equipment — a planter, disc, or trailer has no drive type to report, so the field is omitted rather than showing a placeholder.

What does sortBy do? It controls the order listings are fetched in from Fastline.com itself (cheapest/most expensive first, newest/oldest model year, or most/least recently listed). This is most useful when maxItems is set below the total number of matching listings, since the sort order decides which ones get included.

Does manufacturer require an exact match? The dropdown values match the site's own manufacturer filter exactly. If you use manufacturerOther instead, it matches at the start of a word, case-insensitively.

Is this actor affiliated with Fastline.com? No — this is an independent, third-party actor that reads publicly available listing pages.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as the last time you ran the actor — each run reads the live site directly, there's no caching.

Limitations

• Coverage is scoped to Fastline's farm-equipment category tree (tractors, combines, planting/tillage/hay/harvest equipment, trailers-adjacent farm categories, etc.) — Fastline also lists construction equipment, trucks, and trailers under separate category trees not covered by this actor, matching the farm/ag-equipment focus.
• A very small number of listings are dealer "auction" placements that link out to a sister auction site; these are automatically skipped since they don't carry the same structured listing data.