European Auction Results — Troostwijk & Vavato

Scrape vehicle and machinery lots from Troostwijk Auctions and Vavato, two of the largest industrial auction houses in Europe — including, for finished auctions, whether each lot actually sold and for how much.

Most European auction data is locked behind a dealer login. This Actor covers two houses that publish their results openly, and reports them without guessing.

Why sold-vs-unsold is the point

On a finished auction, every lot shows a bid amount — including the lots that never sold because the reserve was not met. They look identical in the page data. On a sample vehicle auction, 30 of 48 finished lots did not sell, yet all 48 carried a bid figure.

A scraper that treats "auction closed + has a bid" as a sale therefore invents price history for the majority of its rows. This Actor reads the auction house's own sale term for every lot and reports the outcome explicitly:

Field	Meaning
saleOutcome	sold, unsold, pending (still live) or unknown
priceEurAmount	the figure, whatever it represents
priceType	hammer for a completed sale, current_bid otherwise
reserveMet	whether the reserve was reached, where the source says
priceEur	populated only for confirmed sales, so averages stay clean
sourceSaleTerm	the house's raw term, so you can audit the mapping yourself

Unsold lots are kept, not dropped — "the market would not go above €X" is real information if you are pricing inventory.

What you get per lot

Lot number, title, make, model, year, current or final amount in EUR, bid count, auction start and end times, city and country, lot URL, image, auction id, and the raw status fields.

Vehicle make and model are only filled in when the marque is actually recognised. An unrecognised title leaves them null rather than putting the whole title in the make column — a null is honest, a wrong value quietly corrupts whatever you group by.

Coverage

Both brands run one platform, so a single run can cover both. Vehicle categories: cars, trucks and trailers, off-road vehicles, motorcycles and quads, campers, trailers, army vehicles. Non-vehicle categories (construction and earthmoving, agricultural, boats) are available but off by default, because they dilute a vehicle dataset.

At the time of writing the Cars category alone held 2,743 lots.

Typical uses

• Residual value and price guides — realised prices, not asking prices.
• Dealer sourcing — monitor live lots by category and country, only what is new.
• Market research — sell-through rates by make, model, country and month, which is only computable because unsold lots are reported rather than silently dropped.

Monitoring mode

Turn on Only lots not seen in a previous run and schedule it. The Actor remembers lot IDs between runs and returns only new lots, so a daily run is small and cheap.

Pricing

Pay per event. Live lots and finished lots with a resolved outcome are billed separately, because they are worth different amounts — you are not charged a premium rate for inventory you could have seen on the site.

There is no per-run start fee, and no charge for a run that returns nothing.

Notes on access and data

• Only pages the sites' robots.txt permits are requested, and that file is re-read and re-checked on every run rather than assumed from when this Actor was written. If the policy changes, the Actor stops.
• These are lots, not people. No seller names, phone numbers or email addresses are collected, and free-text fields are scrubbed of contact details before output.
• No login, no paywall and no bot-protection bypass is involved.
• Requests are rate-limited and run without a proxy by default.

Source: troostwijkauctions.com and vavato.com. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to TBAuctions. If you represent either site and want this changed or removed, open an issue on this Actor and it will be actioned.