Cars & Bids Scraper — Live Bids & Sold Prices

Disclaimer: Unofficial tool — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Cars & Bids. Data is read from publicly accessible auction pages only. No login and no bidding. You are responsible for complying with applicable law and the site’s terms. No warranty on accuracy or availability. Provided for informational and research use.

Scrape Cars & Bids live auctions and sold prices. Export current bid, sale amount, mileage, location, no-reserve, and — when you turn on listing details — VIN, engine, and bid count. One Cars & Bids scraper for dealer comps, auction monitoring, and enthusiast-car pricing.

Best for: dealers, brokers, and analysts who want auction rows in JSON or CSV for sheets, databases, and scheduled watches.

Crawloop vehicle pricing suite — enthusiast auction results, then marketplace comps for the same year, make, and model.

Cars & Bids	eBay sold comps	eBay asking prices	German dealer inventory
Cars & Bids Scraper ◄── you are here	eBay Sold Listings Scraper	eBay Active Listings Scraper	Mobile.de Scraper
Live bids and closed sale amounts	Completed marketplace sales	Live BIN and auction asking prices	Used cars, prices, dealer contacts

When to use this Actor

• Live auction watch — current bid, end time, mileage, location, and no-reserve on cars that are still open
• Sold price comps — closed auctions with the final sale amount
• Scheduled new-lot monitor — monitorMode on an Apify Schedule so repeat runs only charge new auction ids
• VIN and spec pull — includeDetails adds VIN, engine, colors, title status, and bid/comment/watcher counts
• Make and model research — search porsche or 911 turbo, or paste a search URL

When not to use this Actor

• Marketplace sold comps outside this auction house — use eBay Sold Listings Scraper for the same year, make, and model
• Live eBay asking prices — use eBay Active Listings Scraper
• Placing bids or logging in — this Actor only reads public auction data
• Used auto parts inventory — use Car-Part Scraper for recycler stock
• German dealer inventory — use Mobile.de Scraper

Key features

• Live and closed auctions in one Actor. Search rows already include the current bid or the sale amount
• Optional listing detail for VIN, engine, drivetrain, colors, photos, and bid statistics
• Monitor mode stores seen auction ids in a named key-value store and skips them on the next run
• HTTP catalog — no browser. Leave proxy off unless a run starts returning HTTP 403
• Deduped rows across several searches in the same run

Input

Field	Required	Default	Description
searchQueries	No	—	Keywords such as porsche or 911 turbo
make	No	—	Make, for example porsche. With model, becomes one search
model	No	—	Model text searched with make
startUrls	No	—	Auction links or search links
auctionStatus	No	live	live or closed
sort	No	newest	newest or endingSoon. Closed and monitor runs use newest
maxItems	No	50	Cap across all searches. The closed archive is large
includeDetails	No	false	VIN, engine, colors, bid count, watchers
monitorMode	No	false	Emit only auction ids not seen in the monitor store
monitorStoreName	No	cars-and-bids-monitor	One name per watch
resetMonitorState	No	false	Clear seen ids before this run
proxyConfiguration	No	off	Turn on only after HTTP 403

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["porsche 911"],
  "auctionStatus": "closed",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Auction links also work inside the input JSON:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3vdlMwVO/2003-porsche-911-turbo" }
  ],
  "includeDetails": true
}

Output

Each dataset row is one auction.

Field	Description
auctionId	Public auction id
url	Auction URL
title	Listing title
status	live or sold
year	Model year
make, model	Filled when listing detail is loaded
mileage	Odometer miles
location	Seller location
noReserve	No-reserve flag
currentBid	Current high bid in USD
saleAmount	Final sale amount on closed auctions
auctionEnd	End time
imageUrl	Main photo
sellerUsername	Public seller username
vin, engine, bodyStyle, driveTrain	Listing detail
bidCount, commentCount, watcherCount, viewCount	Listing detail
scrapedAt	ISO-8601 timestamp

Example output

{
  "auctionId": "3vdlMwVO",
  "url": "https://carsandbids.com/auctions/3vdlMwVO",
  "title": "2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe",
  "status": "live",
  "year": 2003,
  "mileage": 33700,
  "location": "Las Vegas, NV 89113",
  "noReserve": false,
  "currentBid": 69996,
  "saleAmount": null,
  "auctionEnd": "2026-09-29T19:57:00.000+00:00",
  "sellerUsername": "seller1",
  "vin": null
}

vin stays empty until includeDetails is true. Closed rows set status to sold and fill saleAmount.

Use cases

• Dealer desk — morning list of live no-reserve cars ending today (sort: endingSoon)
• Sold comps — closed porsche 911 sales with mileage and sale amount before pricing a car
• Watch a model — Schedule plus monitorMode so only new lots are charged
• Spec sheet — includeDetails when the VIN and engine matter, not only the bid

Integration examples

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('crawloop/cars-and-bids-scraper').call({
  searchQueries: ['porsche 911'],
  auctionStatus: 'closed',
  maxItems: 25,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) {
  console.log(item.title, item.saleAmount || item.currentBid, item.mileage);
}

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token="YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("crawloop/cars-and-bids-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": ["porsche 911"],
    "auctionStatus": "closed",
    "maxItems": 25,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("title"), item.get("saleAmount") or item.get("currentBid"))

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~cars-and-bids-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQueries":["porsche 911"],"auctionStatus":"closed","maxItems":25}'

MCP and AI assistants

Use this Actor from AI tools via Apify MCP. Connect your Apify account, then call this Actor by its Store ID crawloop/cars-and-bids-scraper.

Example prompts:

• "Run Cars & Bids Scraper for live porsche auctions, max 20, and return title, currentBid, mileage, auctionEnd as JSON"
• "Scrape closed Cars & Bids results for 911 turbo and summarize sale amounts by mileage"
• "Chain Cars & Bids Scraper then eBay Sold Listings Scraper for the same year, make, and model"

Suite next step

After Cars & Bids sold prices, run eBay Sold Listings Scraper for marketplace comps on the same year, make, and model. For cars that are still listed, use eBay Active Listings Scraper. For German dealer inventory, use Mobile.de Scraper. For recycler parts on that year and model, use Car-Part Scraper.

FAQ

Is this a Cars & Bids API? Unofficial. It reads the same public catalog JSON the website uses. There is no separate buyer API to replace it.

Do search rows include the price? Yes. Live rows include currentBid. Closed rows include saleAmount. includeDetails is for VIN, engine, and bid statistics, not for the price itself.

How does monitor mode work? The first run saves every auction id it sees. Later runs with the same monitorStoreName skip those ids and only charge new ones. Use one store name per watch, and resetMonitorState when you want a fresh baseline.

Can I pull the whole sold archive? Yes, by raising maxItems. The closed archive is tens of thousands of lots. Start with a make or a keyword so the run stays inside your cap.

Do I need a proxy? No. Leave proxy off. Enable Apify Proxy only if a run fails with HTTP 403.

Does it log in or bid? No. Public auction fields only.