Controller.com Scraper — Aircraft Listings & Price Monitor

Crawloop Aviation & Sandhills Classifieds — Controller.com aircraft asking prices, total time, registration, dealer phones, and inventory change alerts. Pair with AeroExpo for OEM / MRO catalogs.

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Disclaimer: Unofficial tool — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Controller.com, Sandhills Global, or their brands. Data is read from publicly accessible pages only. You are responsible for complying with applicable law and site terms. No warranty on accuracy or availability.

What this Controller.com scraper does

This Controller.com scraper extracts aircraft for-sale, for-lease, and fractional-ownership listings into a clean Apify dataset: asking price, make, model, year, total time, registration, serial number, engine times, dealer phone, location, and images. Built as a Controller.com API alternative for aircraft brokers, buyers’ agents, lessors, appraisers, and aviation data teams who need jets, turboprops, piston aircraft, and helicopters in Python, Node.js, or MCP — export JSON / CSV / Excel without manual browsing.

Run listings for fast catalog pulls (retail cards already include dealer phone and aviation specs) or details for PDP canonical URL, breadcrumbs, and video. Enable monitorMode on an Apify Schedule to track new inventory and price changes per dealer, category, or search.

When to use

• Broker competitive intelligence — watch a rival AccountCRMID inventory daily
• Asking-price comps for Citation, King Air, SR22, Robinson, and Gulfstream listings
• Acquisition shortlists by category, year, total time, seats, state, or registration
• Outreach lists with published dealer phones (no details mode required for most retail cards)
• Join used-aircraft asking prices with OEM catalogs from AeroExpo Scraper

When not to use

• You need authenticated sold / valuation figures from Controller Values (login-gated)
• You only need aeronautical product catalogs (avionics, GSE, UAV) — start with AeroExpo Scraper
• You need US construction or farm boards — use MachineryTrader Scraper or TractorHouse Scraper

Aviation + Sandhills workflow

Used aircraft asking prices         Catalog / other Sandhills boards
───────────────────────────         ────────────────────────────────

  Controller.com Scraper ◄── you are here
       │ dealer phones, total time, registration, monitor deltas
       ▼
  AeroExpo Scraper ───────────────► OEM / MRO product catalogs
  MachineryTrader Scraper ────────► US heavy equipment
  TractorHouse / TruckPaper ──────► farm and commercial trucks

Key features

• Search URL or filters — paste a search / dealer inventory / category URL, or build one from manufacturer, category, keywords, state, country, condition, seats, registration, and AccountCRMID
• Two modes — listings (fast SSR cards with phone + specs) and details (canonical URL, video, breadcrumbs)
• Monitor mode — seed fingerprints, then emit only new / price_change rows; optional Telegram alerts
• Aviation specs — total time, registration, serial, engine times, seats, flight rules, ADS-B / WAAS / SVT, extra specs preserved
• Dealer phones on cards — outreach fields without visiting every PDP
• Cloudflare-ready — curl_cffi Chrome TLS; Apify Residential (US) recommended
• Priced-only filter — skip Call-for-price and zero-price rows
• Listing types — For Retail, For Lease, and For Fractional Ownership

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	Cessna sample	Search, category, dealer inventory, or detail URLs
searchQuery	String	—	Keywords (make, model, registration, serial)
listingType	String	For Retail	For Retail, For Lease, or For Fractional Ownership
manufacturer	String	—	e.g. CESSNA, CIRRUS, BEECHCRAFT (comma-separated)
category	String	—	Category id (3 jets, 8 turboprop, 6 piston single, 7 turbine helicopters)
accountCrmId	String	—	Dealer AccountCRMID inventory watch
state / country	String	—	Location filters when building a search URL
condition	String	—	New or Used
registrationNumber	String	—	Exact N-number / registration lookup
runMode	String	listings	listings or details
pricedOnly	Boolean	false	Keep only rows with a published price
maxItems	Integer	100	Emit budget (seed run: fingerprint budget)
maxPagesPerUrl	Integer	10	Pages per start URL (~28 listings/page)
monitorMode	Boolean	false	Delta tracking via named KV store
monitorStoreName	String	controller-com-monitor-state	Distinct name per watch target
proxyConfiguration	Object	US Residential prefill	Apify proxy settings

{
  "searchQuery": "Cirrus SR22",
  "listingType": "For Retail",
  "runMode": "listings",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

{
  "category": "3",
  "yearMin": 2015,
  "totalTimeMax": 4000,
  "pricedOnly": true,
  "sort": "priceHighLow",
  "maxItems": 100
}

{
  "accountCrmId": "8309467",
  "runMode": "listings",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "monitorStoreName": "controller-iams-jets",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 20
}

With monitorMode: true, the first run seeds fingerprints and writes no dataset rows. Later scheduled runs emit only changeType: "new" or "price_change".

Output

Field	Description
id	Listing id
title / make / model / year	Aircraft identity
price / currency / priceFormatted / priceOnRequest	Asking price when published
totalTime / totalTimeHours / registrationNumber / serialNumber	Airframe identity and hours
engine1MakeModel / engine1Time / seats / flightRules	Common aviation specs
additionalSpecs	Any other published spec (winglets, APU, programs, …)
dealerName / dealerPhone / dealerContact	Seller contact
accountCrmId	Dealer account key for inventory watch URLs
location / city / state / country	Aircraft location
images / imageCount	Photo URLs
changeType / previousPrice / monitoredAt	Monitor deltas only

{
  "id": "258432389",
  "title": "2016 CESSNA CITATION LATITUDE",
  "make": "CESSNA",
  "model": "CITATION LATITUDE",
  "year": "2016",
  "price": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceFormatted": "Call for price",
  "priceOnRequest": true,
  "condition": "Used",
  "category": "Jet Aircraft",
  "totalTimeHours": 3552,
  "serialNumber": "680A-0067",
  "registrationNumber": "N518KB",
  "engine1MakeModel": "PRATT & WHITNEY PW306D1",
  "dealerName": "International Aircraft Marketing & Sales",
  "dealerPhone": "(941) 961-4245",
  "accountCrmId": "8309467",
  "location": "Orlando, Florida",
  "url": "https://www.controller.com/listing/for-sale/258432389/2016-cessna-citation-latitude-jet-aircraft"
}

Use cases

• Aircraft brokers — monitor new and competitor listings by category, price band, or region
• Market research — track asking prices across manufacturers, years, and aircraft categories
• Aviation finance & leasing — source retail, lease, and fractional-ownership inventory
• Aircraft valuation tools — build comparable datasets from published listings
• Buyer's agents — shortlist aircraft matching budget, hours, seats, and location

Integration examples

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });

const run = await client.actor('crawloop/controller-com-scraper').call({
  manufacturer: 'CESSNA',
  category: '3',
  runMode: 'listings',
  maxItems: 40,
  pricedOnly: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("crawloop/controller-com-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "Cirrus SR22",
    "runMode": "listings",
    "maxItems": 40,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item.get("priceFormatted"), item.get("dealerPhone"))

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~controller-com-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"manufacturer\":\"CESSNA\",\"category\":\"3\",\"maxItems\":25,\"runMode\":\"listings\"}"

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/controller-com-scraper.

Example prompts:

• "Run Controller.com Scraper for Cessna jets, max 40, priced only, and return title, price, totalTimeHours, registrationNumber, dealerPhone as JSON"
• "Monitor dealer AccountCRMID 8309467 on Controller.com and list only new or price-changed rows"
• "Scrape Controller.com listings for Cirrus SR22, then look up avionics catalogs with AeroExpo Scraper"

Suite next step

After used-aircraft asking prices, pull aeronautical product catalogs (avionics, GSE, UAV) with AeroExpo Scraper, or US heavy equipment comps with MachineryTrader Scraper.

FAQ

Is this a Controller.com API?
There is no official public bulk API for most users. This Actor is a structured scrape / API alternative that returns a dataset you can call from Python, Node.js, cURL, or MCP.

Do I need details mode for dealer phones?
Usually no — retail cards already expose dealerPhone, location, total time, and registration. Use details when you need canonical URL, breadcrumbs, or video.

How do I watch one dealer?
Set accountCrmId (from any listing card) or paste a dealer inventory search URL, enable monitorMode, pick a unique monitorStoreName, and schedule the Actor.

Why is price missing on some listings?
Sellers often list "Call for price". Those rows get priceOnRequest: true and no numeric price. Turn on pricedOnly to skip them.

Which proxy should I use?
Apify Residential with apifyProxyCountry: "US" is recommended — the site sits behind Cloudflare.

Can I search by N-number?
Yes — set registrationNumber (exact match) or put the N-number in searchQuery.

Does Controller EMEA use a different catalog?
The .co.uk front is the same Sandhills inventory. Switch baseUrl if you need that host; filters and fields are the same.

Related Actors

Actor	Role
AeroExpo Scraper	Aeronautical product catalogs, specs, PDF datasheets
MachineryTrader Scraper	US Sandhills heavy equipment + dealer monitor
TractorHouse Scraper	US / EU Sandhills farm equipment
TruckPaper Scraper	US commercial trucks and trailers