Trailer Trader Scraper

Scrape Trailer Trader (trailertrader.com) — a free U.S. marketplace with 100,000s of new and used trailer listings, from cargo/enclosed and utility trailers to horse trailers, dump trailers, and toy haulers. Browse by category and get title, price, brand, condition, seller, and photos. No login, no API key required.

Data Source & Usage Notes

Read this before running a large job.

• No login required. Trailer Trader's category pages are server-rendered and embed every listing directly in the page's own schema.org structured data — no login, cookies, or API key needed.
• Conservative by design. The actor only ever uses Apify's free datacenter (AUTO) proxy group — never a paid residential proxy.
• Not affiliated with Trailer Trader. This is an independent third-party tool using the source's own public, no-login category pages.

Why Trailer Trader instead of TruckPaper?

This actor was originally scoped as a TruckPaper.com (truckpaper.com, Sandhills Global) commercial truck/trailer marketplace. Live verification (including from Apify's own cloud infrastructure, with stealth Playwright, session rotation, and a circuit breaker already in place) showed truckpaper.com's Cloudflare protection hard-blocks Apify's datacenter ASN specifically — every request, from every tested account and proxy session, returned "Access denied | Cloudflare". Per this project's zero-cost reliability policy, the target was replaced with Trailer Trader — a comparable free, no-login U.S. trailer marketplace, confirmed live and returning real structured listing data from Apify's cloud infrastructure.

What this actor does

• 22 curated categories covering the site's full taxonomy (enclosed/cargo, utility, horse & livestock, dump, gooseneck variants, toy haulers, and more), or type a custom category slug
• Sort by relevance (the site's own order), price low-to-high, or price high-to-low
• Condition filter (any / new / used)
• Max price filter
• Model year filter (min/max, parsed from each listing's title)
• Every field the site publishes in its own structured listing data — title, price, brand, category, condition, seller, description, and photo
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per listing

• listingId, title, sourceUrl — canonical Trailer Trader listing URL
• category — the specific trailer type/category
• brand — manufacturer, when listed
• condition — New or Used
• year — model year, parsed from the listing title, when present
• price, currency
• availability — e.g. InStock, when Trailer Trader publishes it
• sellerName
• description
• imageUrl
• searchCategory — the category browsed to find this result
• country (always "United States")
• recordType: "listing", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
category	string	enclosed-trailers-for-sale	One of 22 curated categories
customCategory	string	–	Exact category slug not in the curated list
sortBy	string	relevance	relevance / priceLowToHigh / priceHighToLow
condition	string	any	any / new / used
maxPrice	number	–	Only return listings at or below this price
minYear	integer	–	Only return listings with model year at or above this value
maxYear	integer	–	Only return listings with model year at or below this value
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap (1–1000)

Example: browse a category

{
  "category": "utility-trailers-for-sale",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: browse a category, cheapest first

{
  "category": "dump-trailers-for-sale",
  "sortBy": "priceLowToHigh",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: filter by condition

{
  "category": "enclosed-trailers-for-sale",
  "condition": "used",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: filter by max price

{
  "category": "enclosed-trailers-for-sale",
  "maxPrice": 8000,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Example: filter by model year range

{
  "category": "enclosed-trailers-for-sale",
  "minYear": 2024,
  "maxYear": 2026,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Use cases

• Market research — survey pricing and availability for a trailer type
• Price monitoring — track listing prices over time
• Lead generation — build a list of sellers/dealers active in a category
• Inventory comparison — compare new vs. used pricing for the same trailer type

FAQ

What's the data source? Trailer Trader's own free public trailer marketplace at trailertrader.com. This actor is an independent third-party tool and is not affiliated with Trailer Trader.

Why did my run return 0 results? The category genuinely has no listings (rare), or — if using customCategory — the slug you typed doesn't exist on the site. Note: an invalid category slug does not error; the site silently falls back to its generic "All Trailers" page instead. Stick to the curated category dropdown to avoid this, or double-check a custom slug against the site's own category menu first.

How fresh is the data? Real-time — the search reflects the marketplace's live listings as of the moment of the search.