AuctionTime Scraper — Lots, Bids & Dates

Disclaimer: Unofficial tool — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by AuctionTime or Sandhills or their affiliates. Data is read from publicly accessible auction search and lot pages only. No login. You are responsible for complying with applicable law (including GDPR where a seller or contact name appears) and the site’s terms. No warranty on accuracy or availability. Provided for informational and research use.

Scrape public AuctionTime equipment auctions for farm machinery, construction equipment, trucks, and trailers. Each row is one lot: title, year, make, model, current bid when published, auction date, hours, location, seller, and photos.

Dealers and appraisers use it to watch upcoming lots and to export auction-result metadata. Sold hammer prices are often hidden on the public card, so a row can have a date and specs with an empty price.

Crawloop Used Machinery Marketplace Suite — equipment auctions and dealer inventory.

IronPlanet	GovPlanet	Ritchie Bros	BidSpotter	NetBid	AuctionTime	Purple Wave
IronPlanet Scraper	GovPlanet Scraper	Ritchie Bros Auction Scraper	BidSpotter Scraper	NetBid Scraper	AuctionTime Scraper ◄── you are here	Purple Wave Auctions Scraper

AuctionTime	TractorHouse	MachineryTrader	TruckPaper
AuctionTime Scraper ◄── you are here	TractorHouse Scraper	MachineryTrader Scraper	TruckPaper Scraper

When to use

Use this Actor when you need AuctionTime lots in a dataset: upcoming auctions, a keyword such as excavator, or a category URL you already have.

Use TractorHouse Scraper next when you want retail asking prices for the same kind of farm equipment. Use Ritchie Bros Auction Scraper when the lot is on Ritchie Bros instead of AuctionTime.

Key features

• Search by manufacturer, category id, state, or a start URL. A keyword then keeps lots whose title, make, model, or description contains that word
• Upcoming auctions, auction results, or the for-sale catalog
• Lot number, auction date, current bid, hours, serial, seller, and images from the search card
• Optional detail pages for address enrichment
• Monitor mode: the first run stores fingerprints and writes no rows; later runs emit new lots and price changes
• Phone fields stay off unless you turn them on

Input

Field	Default	What it does
searchQuery	excavator	Extra text filter. A keyword alone does not search the catalog
listingType	Auction	Auction, Auction Results, or For Sale
manufacturer	empty	Brand filter
category	empty	Sandhills category id
state	empty	US state code
startUrls	empty	Search, category, or lot URLs
runMode	listings	details opens each lot page
maxItems	50	Maximum saved rows
maxPagesPerUrl	3	Search pages per URL
pricedOnly	false	Keep only rows with a numeric price or bid
monitorMode	false	New lots and price changes after a seed run
includePhones	false	Keep public phone fields
proxyConfiguration	US residential	Required for Cloudflare

{
  "searchQuery": "excavator",
  "listingType": "Auction",
  "manufacturer": "CATERPILLAR",
  "state": "TX",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 2,
  "runMode": "listings",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

A category page you already copied from the browser also works:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/construction-equipment/for-sale/list" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 40
}

Output

Field	Meaning
title, make, model, year	Lot identity
currentBid, price, priceFormatted, currency	Bid or published price. Empty when the card only says Auction
auctionDate, lotNumber	When and which lot
hours, serialNumber, category	Specs from the card
location, city, state	Where the machine sits
dealerName	Seller or auction company
url, images	Lot link and photos
changeType	new or price_change in monitor mode

{
  "id": "42",
  "title": "2018 CATERPILLAR 320",
  "make": "CATERPILLAR",
  "model": "320",
  "year": "2018",
  "currentBid": 12500,
  "price": null,
  "auctionDate": "Oct 22, 2026",
  "lotNumber": "14A",
  "hours": "4500",
  "state": "TX",
  "dealerName": "Example Auction Co",
  "url": "https://www.auctiontime.com/listing/auction/42"
}

Use cases

• Watch upcoming construction and farm auctions for a make and model
• Export lot metadata before a sale for a bid sheet
• Compare AuctionTime lots with retail asking prices from TractorHouse
• Schedule a monitor so only new lots and bid changes land in the dataset

Integration examples

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor("crawloop/auctiontime-scraper").call({
  searchQuery: "excavator",
  listingType: "Auction",
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("crawloop/auctiontime-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "excavator",
    "listingType": "Auction",
    "maxItems": 50,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~auctiontime-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQuery":"excavator","listingType":"Auction","maxItems":50}'

MCP and AI assistants

Use this Actor from AI tools via Apify MCP. Connect your Apify account, then call this Actor by its Store name crawloop/auctiontime-scraper.

Example prompts:

• "Run AuctionTime Scraper for Caterpillar excavators in Texas and return the top 20 lots as JSON with bid, date, and hours."
• "Scrape upcoming AuctionTime farm equipment lots and summarize make, model, and auction date."
• "Chain AuctionTime Scraper then TractorHouse Scraper to compare auction lots with retail asking prices."

Suite next step

After the auction export, run TractorHouse Scraper for retail asking prices on the same farm equipment, or Ritchie Bros Auction Scraper for Ritchie Bros lots.

FAQ

Does this log in or place bids?

No. It reads public search cards and, in details mode, public lot pages. It does not sign in, watch, or bid.

Why did a keyword return no rows?

AuctionTime's public search HTML applies manufacturer, category, and state. It does not apply a keyword by itself, and this Actor does not save that unfiltered catalog. Set a manufacturer or paste a filtered start URL, then use the keyword to keep matching rows.

Why is the price empty?

Auction result and some live cards publish the word Auction instead of a number. The hammer price is often behind a login. pricedOnly drops those rows.

What does monitor mode write on the first run?

Nothing to the dataset. It stores lot fingerprints. The next scheduled run writes new lots and price or bid changes.