# Bring A Trailer Auctions Scraper (`gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Bring A Trailer (BaT) car and vehicle auctions: title, current bid, sold price, year, make, reserve status, location, seller, views, watchers and more. By auctions feed, model/maker page, or specific listing URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Gio](https://apify.com/gio21) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Bring A Trailer Auctions Scraper

Extract structured data from [Bring A Trailer](https://bringatrailer.com) (BaT), the leading online marketplace for enthusiast vehicles. Scrape live and completed auctions with current bids, final sold prices, reserve status, seller, location, mileage, VIN/chassis, and full descriptions.

Perfect for market research, price analysis, collector-car valuation, dealer sourcing, and building automotive datasets.

### What you can scrape

- **Live auctions feed** - every active auction on BaT (`https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/`)
- **Model and maker pages** - all listings for a make or model (e.g. `https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911/`)
- **Category pages** - trucks, motorcycles, parts, and more
- **Specific listings** - pass any listing URL for a full detail record

### Features

- Current bid and formatted bid label for live auctions
- Final sold price, sold date, and reserve-met status for completed auctions
- Year, make, model parsed from the listing title
- Country, location (city/state), and geo coordinates
- Seller username, comments count, views and watchers where available
- Optional deep detail: chassis/VIN, mileage, engine, transmission, and the full description
- Fast HTTP scraping (no browser), works at scale

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | array | BaT pages to scrape: the auctions feed, a model/maker/category page, or specific listing URLs. Defaults to the live auctions feed. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Maximum listings to collect across all start URLs. `0` means no limit. Default `100`. |
| `includeSold` | boolean | Include completed (sold and reserve-not-met) auctions. Default `true`. |
| `includeDetails` | boolean | Fetch each listing's detail page for seller, location, chassis, mileage, engine, transmission and the full description. Default `false`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy settings. Apify Proxy (automatic) is recommended and on by default. |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911/"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeSold": true,
  "includeDetails": true
}
```

### Output

Each auction is saved as one dataset item:

```json
{
  "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-bmw-1600-gt/",
  "listingId": 104138255,
  "title": "Ex-Pietro Frua 1967 BMW 1600 GT Coupe",
  "year": "1967",
  "make": "BMW",
  "model": "1600 GT Coupe",
  "status": "live",
  "sold": false,
  "currentBid": 60000,
  "currentBidFormatted": "USD $60,000",
  "soldPrice": null,
  "noReserve": false,
  "country": "United States",
  "location": "Santa Barbara, California 93110",
  "seller": "997M3",
  "commentsCount": 48,
  "endDate": "2026-07-02T17:00:00.000Z",
  "listingDetails": ["Chassis: W001001", "9k Kilometers (~6k Miles) Shown", "1,573cc M10 Inline-Four"],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/..."
}
```

Completed auctions add `soldPrice`, `soldText`, and `soldDate`.

### Common use cases

- Track final sale prices for a specific model to value your own car
- Monitor live auctions ending soon for a make you collect
- Build a dataset of collector-car market trends over time
- Source inventory and leads for a dealership
- Power valuation tools and price-comparison apps

### Pricing

This Actor uses the pay-per-result model: you pay a small fee to start the run plus a per-listing fee. You are only charged for listings actually returned, never for errors or empty pages. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

### FAQ

**Does this work without login?** Yes. It scrapes public auction data, no Bring A Trailer account required.

**Can I get sold prices?** Yes. Keep `includeSold` on and completed auctions return the final `soldPrice` and `soldDate`.

**How do I scrape only one model?** Use the model page URL as a start URL, for example `https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911/`.

**Is this affiliated with Bring A Trailer?** No. This is an independent tool for extracting publicly available data. Please respect BaT's terms of service and use the data responsibly.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Bring A Trailer pages to scrape. Accepts the live auctions feed (https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/), a model or maker page (e.g. https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911/), a category page, or specific listing URLs (https://bringatrailer.com/listing/...). Listing URLs are scraped in full detail.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of auction listings to scrape across all start URLs. Set 0 for no limit.

## `includeSold` (type: `boolean`):

Include completed auctions (sold and reserve-not-met) in addition to live ones. Applies to the auctions feed and model/maker pages.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each listing's detail page to add seller, location, chassis/VIN, mileage, engine, transmission and the full description. Slower (one extra request per listing) but much richer.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy used for requests. Apify Proxy (automatic) is recommended and enabled by default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeSold": true,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/"
  ]
}' |
apify call gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gio21/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/9474mksfPfnW3aIXQ/builds/VDiWH76IesITxnXSL/openapi.json