Mascus Scraper — Used Machinery Listings & Price Monitor

Crawloop Used Machinery Marketplace Suite — Global classifieds for construction, agriculture, forestry, trucks, and material handling. Pair with US Sandhills boards and EU dealer sites for cross-market comps.

Agriaffaires	TractorHouse	Machineryline	Nettikone
Agriaffaires Scraper	TractorHouse Scraper	Machineryline Scraper	Nettikone Scraper

Agrofy	Mascus	Traktorpool	Landwirt
Agrofy Scraper	Mascus Scraper ◄── you are here	Traktorpool Scraper	Landwirt Scraper

Disclaimer: Unofficial tool — not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Mascus, Ritchie Bros., 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 Mascus scraper does

Extract Mascus used machinery listings into clean JSON on Apify: asking price (local + EUR), make, model, year, hours, location, images, and dealer phone when the card publishes one. Built for equipment dealers, fleet buyers, appraisers, and data teams who need a Mascus API alternative in Python, Node.js, or MCP workflows.

Use listings for fast catalog cards or details to open each PDP for serial number, gallery, company website, and spec fields when Mascus shows them. Enable monitorMode with an Apify Schedule to track new listings and price changes on category, brand, or country browse URLs.

Parent categories work (/construction/excavators). Brand and country browse URLs paginate. Year, price, hours, and searchQuery drop rows before charge — they are not Mascus search-index filters.

When to use

• Dealer competitive intelligence — watch CAT excavators in Germany or a category daily
• Asking-price comps for crawler excavators, wheel loaders, tractors, trucks, forklifts, and forestry machines
• Fleet sourcing by manufacturer, model, hours, or country
• Outreach lists from listing cards that already publish a dealer phone
• Join global Mascus asking prices with US stock from MachineryTrader Scraper or EU contacts from Machineryline Scraper

For US dealer boards, use MachineryTrader. For European farm classifieds, use Agriaffaires Scraper. For auctions, use Ritchie Bros Scraper.

Not in scope: posting ads, Mascus login, dealer-profile inventory pages (Mascus loads those in the browser), site-wide keyword search, spare-parts sites on other domains, or a preloaded monthly snapshot dump.

Global classifieds workflow

Global asking prices                 Regional / auction enrichment
────────────────────                 ────────────────────────────

  Mascus Scraper     ◄── you are here ──► worldwide classifieds + phones
       │ category / brand / country + monitor deltas
       ▼
  MachineryTrader Scraper ──────────► US dealer inventory
  Machineryline Scraper ────────────► EU heavy equipment + contacts
  Agriaffaires / Nettikone ─────────► farm classifieds
  Ritchie Bros / IronPlanet ────────► auction lots

  Join by make + model + year ──► comps, remarketing, residual checks

Key features

• URL or filters — paste a category / brand / country / listing URL, or build one from mainCategory, subcategory, manufacturer, and country
• Parent categories — /construction/excavators returns listings; you do not have to pick a single leaf type
• Pagination — category, brand, and country browse URLs continue past page 1
• Two modes — listings (card price, hours, EUR, phone when published) and details (PDP serial, gallery, specs, company website when published)
• Filters before charge — searchQuery (substring on brand/model/title), year, price, hours, advert type, and pricedOnly
• Monitor mode — seed fingerprints on a browse URL, then emit only new / price_change rows; optional Telegram alerts
• HTTP-first — curl_cffi Chrome TLS; Apify Residential recommended at scale

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	crawler excavators sample	Category, brand, country, or listing detail URLs
searchQuery	String	—	Keep rows whose brand/model/title contain these words
mainCategory	String	—	construction, agriculture, forestry, groundcare, material-handling, transportation
subcategory	String	—	Slug such as crawler-excavators or tractors
manufacturer	String	—	Brand slug or name (cat, komatsu, john_deere)
country	String	—	ISO2 code (de, us, nl)
sort	String	relevance	relevance, date, priceasc, pricedesc
advertType	String	all	all, sale, auction, rent
yearMin / yearMax	Integer	—	Year-of-manufacture window
priceMin / priceMax	Integer	—	Asking-price window in listing currency
hoursMax	Integer	—	Maximum operating hours
runMode	String	listings	listings or details
pricedOnly	Boolean	false	Keep only rows with a published price
maxItems	Integer	50	Emit budget (seed run: fingerprint budget)
maxPagesPerUrl	Integer	10	Pages per start URL (~40 listings/page)
monitorMode	Boolean	false	Delta tracking via named KV store
monitorStoreName	String	mascus-monitor-state	Distinct name per watch target
proxyConfiguration	Object	Residential prefill	Apify proxy settings

Provide startUrls and/or category filters. If everything is empty, the Actor defaults to construction excavators.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators" }
  ],
  "runMode": "listings",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Built URL for the same filters without startUrls:

{
  "mainCategory": "construction",
  "subcategory": "crawler-excavators",
  "manufacturer": "cat",
  "country": "de",
  "runMode": "listings",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Monitor mode example (Schedule + Telegram)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators/cat" }
  ],
  "runMode": "listings",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "monitorStoreName": "mascus-monitor-cat-excavators",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPagesPerUrl": 10,
  "telegramToken": "123456:ABC...",
  "telegramChatId": "123456789"
}

Output

Each dataset row is one listing. Cards typically include hours, EUR, and a dealer phone when Mascus shows them. Details mode adds serial, gallery, specs, and company website when those fields are on the PDP.

Field	Description
id	Short listing slug from the URL
url	Canonical listing URL
title / brand / model / year	Equipment identity
hours	Operating hours when published
price / currency / priceEur	Asking price and Mascus EUR conversion
location / country	City and ISO country
sellerName / sellerPhone / sellerUrl	Dealer company fields
images / imageCount	Photo URLs
isAuction / isRental	Advert type flags
serialNumber / stockNumber	PDP identifiers (details)
sellerWebsite / sellerAddress / specs	PDP enrichment (details)
changeType	new or price_change in monitor mode

{
  "id": "4t3pgmip",
  "url": "https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators/cat-308cr/4t3pgmip.html",
  "title": "CAT 308CR",
  "brand": "CAT",
  "model": "308CR",
  "year": 2020,
  "hours": 3179,
  "price": 77900,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceEur": 66901,
  "country": "US",
  "location": "Simpsonville, SC, US",
  "sellerName": "Blanchard Machinery Co.",
  "sellerPhone": "+18034658080",
  "isAuction": false,
  "recordType": "listing"
}

Use cases

• Price intelligence — pull CAT / Komatsu / Volvo excavator asking prices by country and compare with US MachineryTrader comps
• Dealer watch — schedule a brand or category URL and get Telegram alerts on new ads and price cuts
• Sourcing — filter by year, hours, and priced-only rows for fleet replacement
• Lead lists — export dealer phones and profile URLs from cards that publish them
• MCP / AI — ask an assistant to run this Actor and return JSON for a model + country

Integration examples

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('crawloop/mascus-scraper').call({
  startUrls: [{ url: 'https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators' }],
  runMode: 'listings',
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.slice(0, 5));

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(token)
run = client.actor("crawloop/mascus-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators"}],
        "runMode": "listings",
        "maxItems": 50,
    }
)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items[:5])

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~mascus-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"startUrls\":[{\"url\":\"https://www.mascus.com/construction/crawler-excavators\"}],\"runMode\":\"listings\",\"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 ID / name.

Example prompts:

• "Run Mascus Scraper for CAT crawler excavators in Germany and return the top 20 rows as JSON"
• "Monitor new Mascus listings for construction excavators and list any price changes since the last run"
• "Scrape Mascus details for this listing URL and return the fields that are on the page (hours, serial, dealer phone, images)"

Suite next step

After a Mascus catalog pull, run MachineryTrader Scraper for US dealer asking prices on the same make/model, Agriaffaires Scraper or Traktorpool Scraper for European farm comps, or Machineryline Scraper for European dealer contacts. For auction comps, use Ritchie Bros Scraper.

FAQ

Is this an official Mascus API? No. It reads public listing pages. There is no official public Mascus API for third-party catalog dumps.

Do I have to pick a leaf category? No. Parent pages such as /construction/excavators return listings. You can also pass a leaf slug (crawler-excavators) or a brand URL.

Why are year/price/hours applied after fetch? Mascus encodes those facets in the UI, not in stable indexable URLs. The Actor still does not charge for rows dropped by those filters.

Does monitor mode spam the dataset? The first scheduled run only stores fingerprints. Later runs emit new and price_change rows only.

Can I crawl a dealer profile URL? No. Pages like /…,searchdealer.html do not put inventory into the HTML the Actor reads. Watch a category, brand, or country URL instead.

Can I scrape every country TLD? You can paste a regional host in startUrls. Built browse URLs default to https://www.mascus.com.

Related Actors

• Agriaffaires Scraper — European farm classifieds
• TractorHouse Scraper — US + EU Sandhills farm equipment
• Machineryline Scraper — EU heavy equipment and company contacts
• Nettikone Scraper — Finnish used machinery
• Agrofy Scraper — Brazil + Argentina farm marketplace
• Traktorpool Scraper — DACH / Central Europe farm machinery
• Landwirt Scraper — AT/DE agrar classifieds + dealer machinery
• MachineryTrader Scraper — US heavy equipment dealer inventory
• Truck1 Scraper — European trucks
• Ritchie Bros Scraper — auction lots
• Machinio Scraper — global machinery aggregator