Mascus Heavy Equipment Scraper

Scrape Mascus — a global marketplace for used construction, agriculture, forestry, groundcare, material handling, and transportation equipment. Browse listings by equipment type, specific machine category, manufacturer, and country, with year, price, and operating-hours filters, or fetch specific listing URLs directly. HTTP-only, no login, no cookies, no residential proxy required.

What this actor does

• Two modes: browse (category / manufacturer / country search) and byUrl (fetch specific listing pages)
• 6 equipment types: construction, agriculture, forestry, groundcare, material handling, transportation
• 150+ curated machine categories: excavators, dozers, cranes, tractors, forklifts, trucks, trailers, and many more, each mapped to its correct equipment type automatically
• 74 curated manufacturers (Caterpillar, Komatsu, Volvo, John Deere, JCB, Liebherr, and more) plus free-text overrides for any Mascus category/manufacturer slug not in the dropdown
• 105 countries to narrow results to equipment located in a specific market
• Filters: year range, price range, max operating hours, keyword (title/description)
• Rich per-listing data: price, currency, condition, availability, seller name/profile, serial number, and any extra category-specific specs Mascus publishes
• Empty fields are omitted — a field only appears when Mascus actually publishes that data

Output per listing

• title — listing headline (e.g. CAT 336FL)
• brand, model
• mainCategory — top-level equipment type (e.g. Construction Equipment)
• category — specific machine category (e.g. Crawler Excavators)
• year — year of manufacture
• hours — recorded operating hours
• price, currency — only present when the seller has published a fixed price (many auction-sourced listings are "call for price" and omit this)
• condition — e.g. Used, New
• availability — e.g. In Stock
• location — city/region text as published
• country
• serialNumber, customerAssetNumber
• description
• sellerName, sellerUrl
• imageUrl — primary listing photo
• imageUrls[] — full photo gallery (up to 20 images per listing)
• additionalSpecs — any further category-specific spec fields Mascus publishes for that listing (varies by machine type)
• listingId — Mascus's internal listing ID
• sourceUrl — canonical listing URL
• recordType: "listing", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	browse	browse (category/manufacturer/country search) or byUrl (fetch specific listings)
mainCategory	string	construction	Equipment type: construction / agriculture / forestry / groundcare / material-handling / transportation (mode=browse)
subCategory	string	crawler-excavators	Specific machine category to browse (mode=browse). Leave as the default option to use a representative category for the chosen equipment type — Mascus has no single "browse everything" page
subCategoryOther	string	–	Power-user override: an exact Mascus category slug not in the dropdown
manufacturer	string	–	Restrict to one manufacturer/brand (mode=browse)
manufacturerOther	string	–	Power-user override: an exact Mascus manufacturer slug not in the dropdown
country	string	–	Restrict to equipment located in one country
sortBy	string	relevance	Result order: relevance / price ascending / price descending / year newest / year oldest / recently listed
keyword	string	–	Case-insensitive substring match against title/description
yearMin, yearMax	int	–	Year-of-manufacture range
priceMin, priceMax	int	–	Price range in USD (listings without a published price always pass through)
hoursMax	int	–	Drop listings with more operating hours than this
listingUrls	array	–	Direct Mascus listing URLs to fetch (mode=byUrl)
maxItems	int	40	Hard cap on emitted records (1–1000)
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Optional Apify proxy; Mascus serves plain HTML with no bot protection so this is not required

Example: browse crawler excavators (default)

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "mainCategory": "construction",
  "subCategory": "crawler-excavators",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: Caterpillar wheel loaders in Germany, 2018+

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "mainCategory": "construction",
  "subCategory": "wheel-loaders",
  "manufacturer": "caterpillar",
  "country": "de",
  "yearMin": 2018,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: tractors under $80,000 with under 3,000 hours

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "mainCategory": "agriculture",
  "subCategory": "tractors",
  "priceMax": 80000,
  "hoursMax": 3000,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: fetch specific listing URLs

{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "listingUrls": [
    "https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators/cat-336fl/6sft3pih.html",
    "https://www.mascus.com/material-handling/diesel-forklifts/clark-c80d/dudgig5s.html"
  ]
}

Use cases

• Equipment dealers — monitor competitor listings and pricing across manufacturers and regions
• Fleet buyers — source used machinery within a budget and hours-run threshold
• Market research — track average pricing and inventory levels for a specific machine category over time
• Import/export brokers — find equipment available in a specific country for cross-border resale
• Auction & finance analytics — build pricing datasets across construction, agriculture, and transportation equipment

Data source / limitations

This actor scrapes the public listing pages of mascus.com, a global used-equipment marketplace. It is not affiliated with Mascus.

• A meaningful share of listings (particularly auction-sourced inventory) do not publish a fixed price on the listing page — Mascus shows these as "call for price". The price/currency fields are simply omitted for those records rather than showing a placeholder value.
• Mascus has no single page that lists every listing within an equipment type — a specific machine category (subCategory) must always be selected; the actor picks a sensible default automatically if none is given.
• Combining manufacturer and country in the same run applies manufacturer as the primary search facet and country as a secondary filter on the results (Mascus's URL scheme only supports one category-level facet at a time).
• Manufacturer- or country-filtered browsing returns up to the first results page (~40 listings); removing those filters enables full multi-page browsing up to maxItems.

FAQ

Is this affiliated with Mascus? No, this is an independent third-party actor that reads Mascus's public listing pages.

Why don't all listings have a price? Mascus aggregates both dealer listings (which usually show a fixed asking price) and auction-house inventory (which is typically sold "call for price" or via live auction). The actor only includes a price when one is actually published.

Can I search by keyword only, without a category? keyword is applied as a filter on top of a browsed category rather than as an independent full-text search — Mascus's own site-wide search box does not reliably return query-matched results via plain HTTP, so this actor exposes keyword filtering the way that is actually reliable: narrow by category, then filter by keyword.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches listings live from mascus.com at request time.

Can I combine manufacturer and country filters? Yes — see the Limitations note above on how the two combine.

What does additionalSpecs contain? Any spec fields Mascus publishes for a listing beyond the standard set (year, hours, location, country, serial number). These vary by machine type, so the field is only present when extra specs exist.