Bid On Equipment Scraper

Scrape Bid On Equipment (bid-on-equipment.com) — a 25,000+ listing marketplace for used industrial machinery: mills, presses, lathes, CNC machines, pumps, tanks, packaging lines, and more. Search by keyword, browse any of 97 equipment categories or 9 featured manufacturers, look up specific items by ID, pull the site's own "Similar Items" recommendations for a given item, or pull the site's newest-listings / latest-offers / clearance feeds. Every listing includes price, location, manufacturer, model, condition, and full specs. No auth, no cookies, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Eight modes: search, byCategory, byManufacturer, byId, relatedItems, newestListings, latestOffers, clearance
• 97 equipment categories — mills, presses, lathes, pumps, tanks, conveyors, motors, boilers, and more, as a dropdown
• Site-curated "Similar Items" — pull the same related-equipment recommendations shown on each item's own page, including any active negotiation offer amount
• Filters: price range, clearance-only, location (193 US states / Canadian provinces / countries), sort order
• Full item detail enrichment (optional, on by default) — manufacturer, model, serial number, year built, condition, full description, shipping dimensions, and minimum-offer price, pulled from each item's own page
• Reliable images — the primary photo is re-hosted so imageUrl always loads with any HTTP client
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per listing

• itemId, itemNumber — Bid On Equipment's internal item number
• title
• manufacturer, model, serialNumber, yearBuilt (detail lookup only)
• condition, availability (detail lookup only)
• description (detail lookup only)
• price, formattedPrice, currency, minimumOfferPrice (detail lookup only), originalPrice / priceStatus (clearance / latest-offers feeds), currentOfferPrice (mode=relatedItems only, when a related item has an active offer in negotiation)
• isClearance
• location
• category, subCategory, triCategory, categoryId, subCategoryId, triCategoryId — from search results
• categoryPath[] — full breadcrumb hierarchy (detail lookup only)
• shippingHeight, shippingWidth, shippingLength, shippingWeight, prepFee (detail lookup only, when published)
• imageUrl — primary photo, re-hosted for guaranteed accessibility
• imageUrlOriginal — original CDN image URL
• imageUrls[] — full photo gallery, original CDN URLs (detail lookup only)
• offerDate (mode=latestOffers only)
• relatedToItemId — the seed item ID this record was recommended alongside (mode=relatedItems only)
• sourceUrl — the item's page on bid-on-equipment.com
• recordType: "listing", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / byCategory / byManufacturer / byId / relatedItems / newestListings / latestOffers / clearance
searchQuery	string	lathe	Free-text keyword (mode=search; also narrows mode=byCategory)
category	string	–	Equipment category slug (mode=byCategory)
manufacturer	string	–	Featured manufacturer (mode=byManufacturer)
manufacturerCustom	string	–	Any brand name, used when manufacturer=other
itemIds	array	–	Item numbers or item URLs (mode=byId: exact lookup; mode=relatedItems: pull each item's "Similar Items")
minPrice / maxPrice	int	–	Price range in USD
isClearanceOnly	boolean	false	Restrict to clearance-priced items
location	string	–	US state / Canadian province / country filter
sortBy	string	relevance	Relevance / newest / oldest / title / price / location
enrichDetails	boolean	true	Fetch each item's detail page for manufacturer, model, condition, dimensions, etc.
maxItems	int	30	Hard cap on emitted records (1–2000)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO	Optional reliability fallback; not required for normal use

Example: keyword search with price range

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "CNC lathe",
  "minPrice": 5000,
  "maxPrice": 50000,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse a category, newest first

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "mills",
  "sortBy": "newestFirst",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: manufacturer browse

{
  "mode": "byManufacturer",
  "manufacturer": "waukesha",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: look up specific items

{
  "mode": "byId",
  "itemIds": ["122098", "443654"]
}

Example: similar items for a given item

{
  "mode": "relatedItems",
  "itemIds": ["122098"]
}

Example: clearance feed

{
  "mode": "clearance",
  "maxItems": 75
}

Use cases

• Machinery dealers & brokers — monitor new inventory and price movements across categories
• Manufacturing procurement — source used equipment by category, brand, or budget
• Market research — track pricing trends for specific machine types (lathes, presses, mills)
• Auction / resale aggregators — feed listings into a broader used-equipment marketplace
• Asset appraisal — pull comparable listings (manufacturer, model, year, condition) for valuation

FAQ

What is the data source? The public bid-on-equipment.com website — a used industrial machinery marketplace operating since 2001. This actor is a third-party scraper and is not affiliated with Bid On Equipment.

Is this a live auction with a countdown timer? No. Despite the site's name, most listings are "Asking Price" / "Make an Offer" — buyers submit offers that the seller can accept, reject, or counter. There is no bidding countdown. The price field reflects the current asking price (or, for the Latest Offers feed, the most recent accepted-offer amount).

Why do some listings have fewer fields than others? Fields like manufacturer, model, condition, and shipping dimensions only populate when enrichDetails is enabled (default) and the seller provided that data — Bid On Equipment does not require every field to be filled in for every listing.

What does mode=relatedItems return? The same "Similar Items" recommendations shown on the item's own page on bid-on-equipment.com — typically 5-6 items from the same sub-category, picked by the site. relatedToItemId on each record traces it back to the seed item you supplied. currentOfferPrice appears only when that related item has an active buyer offer in negotiation with the seller.

What does minimumOfferPrice mean? The lowest offer amount the site will forward to the seller for negotiation, shown on the item's own page. It's typically about half of the asking price.

Why is category sometimes different from categoryPath? category/subCategory/triCategory come from the search results and their granularity varies per item. categoryPath (detail lookup only) is always the item's full breadcrumb trail, e.g. ["Machine Shop and Tools", "Primary Machine Tools", "Lathes and Turning Machines"].

Are there rate limits? None encountered in testing. The actor uses polite delays between requests regardless.

Why does the site sometimes require a special User-Agent? Bid On Equipment's edge WAF blocks non-browser User-Agent strings (e.g. a bare curl or script default) with a challenge page — no JavaScript execution is actually required, just a standard desktop-browser User-Agent header. If you fetch sourceUrl or imageUrlOriginal directly with a plain HTTP client, set a normal browser User-Agent or open the link in a browser. The imageUrl field is re-hosted specifically so it does not have this requirement — it loads with any HTTP client, no special headers needed.

Is a proxy required? No. proxyConfiguration is available as an optional reliability fallback (Apify's free AUTO datacenter group) but the site works reliably without it.