🔨 K-BID Auction Scraper & New-Auction Monitor

Scrape live K-BID (k-bid.com) Midwest online auctions — title, seller, location, closing time, item count, categories, and sample items with live closing bids — by state, affiliate, ZIP radius, or category. Then run it on a schedule as a new-auction monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment a fresh auction drops in your area, so you bid first.

Turn the Midwest's largest independent online-auction marketplace into a clean dataset or a real-time deal alert. No login, no browser automation — K-BID serves plain HTML.

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What does K-BID Scraper do?

K-BID Scraper extracts online estate, household, commercial, and vehicle auction listings from k-bid.com and returns them as clean, structured rows you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API. K-BID hosts 100+ concurrent auctions from 80+ independent auction companies across Minnesota and the upper Midwest — this actor makes that firehose searchable, exportable, and watchable.

• 🔎 Search by state, affiliate, ZIP + radius, or category — server-side filters keep it fast.
• 🏷️ Auction details — title, seller (affiliate), location, phone, item count, categories.
• ⏰ Timing — closing date/time and live status (Active / Closing / Opening Soon).
• 🖼️ Sample items with live bids — each listing's thumbnails carry "Closing Bid $X" previews, captured without opening a single item page.
• 📦 Optional item scrape — drill into any auction to pull its individual item lots.
• 🔔 New-auction monitor — schedule it and get Slack / email / webhook alerts for newly listed auctions in your niche.

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What data does it extract?

For every auction:

• 🆔 auction_id, 🔗 auction_url, 🏷️ title
• 🏢 affiliate (the auction company), ☎️ phone
• 📍 location, city, state, zipcode
• 🗂️ category, 🔢 item_count
• ⏰ closing_time, 🚦 status
• 🖼️ thumbnails[], 🛒 sample_items[] ({ description, closing_bid } from the listing thumbnails)
• 📋 items[] (when "Scrape individual items" is on)
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🕒 scraped_at

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Who is it for?

• 🛒 Resellers & flippers sourcing estate/household lots to win and resell.
• ♻️ Thrift & consignment sourcers hunting cheap inventory by category and location.
• 🚚 Local pickup buyers monitoring auctions near a ZIP for closing-soon deals.
• 📊 Reseller-tooling & SaaS builders who need a Midwest-auction data feed.
• 🧭 Auction aggregators combining K-BID with HiBid, equip-bid, and others.

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Two ways to use it

1. Bulk scrape — pull every current auction (optionally filtered) into one clean dataset.
2. New-auction monitor (the recurring play) — set monitorMode: true, attach an Apify Schedule, and the actor emits/alerts only newly-listed auctions since the last run.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a Search type (e.g. By ZIP + radius) and enter your scope.
3. Choose a Sort — Ending soonest or Newest first.
4. (Optional) turn on Scrape individual items to pull each auction's item lots (heavier).
5. Click Start, then open the Dataset tab to view/export.
6. (Optional) set monitorMode + a Schedule + an alert channel to get pinged on new auctions.

Quick start

{ "searchType": "all", "sortBy": "closing" }

ZIP-radius monitor example

{
  "searchType": "zipcode",
  "zipcode": "55330",
  "radiusMiles": 50,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewLot": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

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Input

Field	What it does
searchType	all · state · affiliate · zipcode · category
states / affiliateId / zipcode + radiusMiles / categoryIds	the scope for the chosen search type
sortBy	closing (ending soonest) · published (newest)
scrapeItems	also open each auction and extract its individual item lots (heavy)
maxAuctions	hard cap per run (0 = unlimited)
monitorMode, alertOnNewLot	recurring watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + parallelism

Note on state filtering: K-BID blocks its state-path URLs, so By state is applied to the parsed auction location after fetching. For tight geographic targeting, prefer ZIP + radius (filtered server-side).

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Output

Each auction is one dataset record (fields above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. closing_time is the auction's local closing timestamp string; sample_items[].closing_bid is a number in USD.

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How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event — you pay for what you pull, no subscription. Suggested rates:

Event	What it covers	Suggested price
lot-scraped	each auction returned	~$0.004 / auction
auction-detail-scraped	each auction opened for items	~$0.004 / auction
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly listed auction	~$0.02 / auction
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook push	~$0.005 / alert

(Final per-event prices are set on the actor's pricing page.)

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Is it legal to scrape K-BID?

K-BID auction listings are public, browsable without a login, and the records are item/listing data — not personal data (aside from the public business phone each auction company lists). Scraping publicly available listings is generally legal, but you are responsible for your use: review K-BID's Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

What is K-BID? K-BID.com is the Midwest's largest independent online-auction marketplace, hosting estate, household, commercial, and vehicle auctions from dozens of independent auction companies.

Do I need an account or login? No. The actor reads public listing data directly.

Can I monitor new auctions near me and get alerts? Yes. Use searchType: "zipcode" + monitorMode, attach an Apify Schedule, and add a Slack/webhook/email channel. Each run alerts only auctions new since the last run.

Can I get the individual items in an auction? Yes — turn on scrapeItems. Note that auctions can hold hundreds of items, so this is much heavier than the default auction-level scrape.

Does it include current bids? The auction listing exposes sample items with their closing bids in the thumbnails (sample_items[]), captured without opening item pages.

How do I export the data? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS from the Dataset tab, or via the Apify API.

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You might also like

• 🔨 Other Midwest & online auction sites (equip-bid, HiBid)
• 🏛️ Government & surplus auctions (GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus, StorageTreasures)
• 📦 General marketplace scrapers

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Feedback

Found a missing field or want a new filter? Open an issue on the actor — fast fixes and feature requests welcome.