European Auction Scraper — Troostwijk, Vavato & Surplex

What is European Auction Scraper?

European Auction Scraper extracts live industrial and liquidation auction lots from the biggest European online auction platforms of the TBAuctions group — Troostwijk Auctions, Vavato and Surplex — through one actor, one input, one dataset. Together these platforms typically carry 75,000+ open lots: machinery, forklifts, tools, vehicles, warehouse equipment, IT hardware, office furniture and full bankruptcy inventories across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the rest of Europe.

Instead of checking three auction sites (or paying for three separate scrapers), you get a single normalized feed of every open lot with its current bid, bid count, closing time, location and lot URL — plus something no other auction scraper offers: an optional all-in price estimate (bid + buyer premium + VAT) straight from the platform's own fee calculator, so you know what a lot would actually cost, not just its hammer price.

What can you do with it?

• Source resale inventory: find underpriced forklifts, machines, tools or e-bikes before they close.
• Price research: build datasets of realized auction interest (bids, followers) per category.
• Deal monitoring: schedule runs with a closingWithinHours window and get lots closing today.
• Market analysis: track supply by country, category keyword or platform over time.

Input

Field	What it does
platforms	Which platforms to scrape. Default: Troostwijk (TWK), Vavato (VAVATO), Surplex (SPX) — the brands with the bulk of live inventory. Ten more TBAuctions brands are selectable.
keyword	Case-insensitive filter over lot title + description (e.g. forklift, Makita).
maxItems	Cap on returned lots — you pay per returned lot, never per page fetched.
closingWithinHours	Only lots closing within N hours (0 = off). Lots are scanned in closing-time order.
countryCodes	Only lots located in these countries (e.g. NL, BE, DE).
includeFees	Adds allInPriceEstimate (bid + buyer premium + VAT) for lots with a bid.
maxPagesPerPlatform	Search depth (100 lots/page). Raise it for deep keyword searches.

Example input:

{
    "platforms": ["TWK", "VAVATO", "SPX"],
    "keyword": "forklift",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "closingWithinHours": 48,
    "countryCodes": ["NL", "BE"],
    "includeFees": true
}

Output

One dataset item per lot:

{
    "platform": "TWK",
    "platformName": "Troostwijk Auctions",
    "displayId": "A1-47915-1",
    "title": "1999 Massey Ferguson 6245 Four Wheel Tractor",
    "description": "Runs and drives, 6800 hours...",
    "currentBid": 9000.0,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "bidsCount": 12,
    "followersCount": 41,
    "closesAt": "2026-07-06T17:01:00+00:00",
    "minutesToClose": 512,
    "city": "Wien",
    "countryCode": "at",
    "imageUrl": "https://...jpg",
    "lotUrl": "https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/l/1999-massey-ferguson-6245...",
    "allInPriceEstimate": 11812.5,
    "allInPriceCurrency": "EUR",
    "buyerPremiumPercent": 19.0,
    "vatPercent": 21.0
}

Pricing

You are charged per returned lot (pay-per-event) — filtering, pagination and fee lookups are included. A 100-lot run costs a few cents. Tip: use maxItems to control spend precisely; the actor stops the moment your budget or cap is reached.

FAQ

Is scraping auction lots legal? The actor only reads publicly available lot listings — no login, no personal data, no paywalled content. Auction lots are business inventory, not personal information.

Why is a lot's bid so low? Online auctions concentrate bidding in the final minutes (platforms use a 2–6 minute soft-close). A bid seen hours before close is not a price signal — use closingWithinHours for meaningful prices.

What is allInPriceEstimate? The platform's own estimate of the total you would pay at the current bid: bid + buyer premium + VAT/BTW. Typically 25–45% above the hammer price — this is the number that matters for resale math.

Why do some platforms return zero lots? Ten smaller TBAuctions brands are selectable but hold little or no inventory on the shared storefront most of the time. Troostwijk, Vavato and Surplex carry the volume. For brands without verified lot-page URLs, lotUrl is null rather than a guessed link.

Can it search by keyword server-side? The storefront API has no keyword search, so the actor filters fetched pages (closing-soonest first). For deep searches raise maxPagesPerPlatform (up to 40 pages = 4,000 lots per platform).

Looking for consumer marketplaces instead? Try our monitors: Marktplaats Monitor (NL/BE classifieds), Kleinanzeigen Monitor (German classifieds), or the AutoScout24 Price Monitor for used-car price drops across 7 European markets.

Disclaimer

This is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by TBAuctions, Troostwijk Auctions, Vavato, Surplex or any of their brands. All trademarks belong to their owners. The actor reads only publicly accessible listing data and collects no personal data.