German Surplus Auctions & Award Prices Scraper (VEBEG)

Turn Germany's official federal-surplus auction portal (VEBEG) into clean, structured data — either currently running lots or historical winning bids (Zuschlagspreise) — with German price formats already normalized into plain EUR floats that Excel, Power BI and any API can use without post-processing.

Keywords: VEBEG Auktionen · Zuschlagspreise · Bundeswehr-Fahrzeuge · Gebrauchtmaschinen · Surplus-Auktionen Deutschland · German surplus auctions · auction scraper · government surplus vehicles, trucks and machine tools.

What you get

Every run writes one JSON record per lot into the default dataset. Two record types:

• active_auction — lots currently open for bidding, optionally filtered by a German keyword.
• award_price — closed lots with the final hammer price, ideal for market research and price benchmarking.

German number formatting is handled for you (3.907,00 EUR becomes 3907.0), the original raw string is kept alongside as winningBidRaw so you can always audit the value.

Example output

{
  "recordType": "award_price",
  "lotNumber": "2645270.005",
  "closingDate": "12.03.2024",
  "descriptionDe": "LKW Mercedes-Benz Actros 1840, Baujahr 2011",
  "winningBidEur": 3907.0,
  "winningBidRaw": "3.907,00 EUR",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "location": "Lagerort Mönchengladbach",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.vebeg.de/de/verkauf/suchen.htm",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.vebeg.de/de/verkauf/zuschlagspreise.htm"
}

Input

Field	Type	Notes
mode	string, required	active_auctions or award_prices
searchQuery	string	German keyword, e.g. Mercedes, Drehmaschine
maxItems	integer	Hard cap, also caps your Pay-per-Event spend

Input presets (copy & paste):

{ "mode": "active_auctions", "searchQuery": "Mercedes", "maxItems": 10 }

{ "mode": "award_prices", "maxItems": 15 }

Use cases

• Dealers & resellers — spot undervalued trucks, machine tools and IT hardware before bidding.
• Price benchmarking — compare historical hammer prices for identical machine classes.
• Fleet and asset valuation — feed realistic German secondary-market prices into valuation models.
• Marketplace builders — power a searchable surplus catalogue or a price-alert bot.
• Journalists & researchers — quantify public-asset disposal trends across years.
• Automation — schedule a daily run and push new lots to Slack, Telegram, Sheets or a database.

Pricing

This Actor uses Pay-per-Event: a small start fee plus a per-dataset-item fee. Set maxItems to keep the maximum cost per run predictable.

Notes & limitations

• Data is public and read directly from the official portal; a polite request delay is built in.
• The portal structure can change; an Actor update may be required if selectors break.
• Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent third-party tool and is not affiliated with VEBEG GmbH & Co. KG. All trademarks belong to their respective owners. No VEBEG logo or branding is used. Use the extracted data in accordance with the source site's terms of use.