Purple Wave Auctions Scraper — Lots, Bids & Sold

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Scrape public Purple Wave no-reserve auctions for farm machinery, construction equipment, trucks, and government surplus. Each row is one lot: title, year, make, model, hours, VIN or serial, current bid, sold hammer when the lot is closed, location, and photos.

Dealers and appraisers use it as a Purple Wave scraper and as an API alternative to copy-pasting the catalog. Export JSON from the Apify dataset with Python, Node.js, cURL, or an MCP client.

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

IronPlanet	GovPlanet	Ritchie Bros	BidSpotter	NetBid
IronPlanet Scraper	GovPlanet Scraper	Ritchie Bros Auction Scraper	BidSpotter Scraper	NetBid Scraper

Purple Wave	AuctionTime	TractorHouse	MachineryTrader	TruckPaper
Purple Wave Auctions Scraper ◄── you are here	AuctionTime Scraper	TractorHouse Scraper	MachineryTrader Scraper	TruckPaper Scraper

When to use

Use this Actor when you need Purple Wave lots in a dataset: a keyword such as excavator, a make and state, one auction, or sold results.

Use TractorHouse Scraper next when you want retail asking prices for the same farm equipment. Use AuctionTime Scraper when the lot is on AuctionTime instead of Purple Wave.

Key features

• Keyword search plus make, state, and auction id
• Upcoming lots or closed lots with the published hammer
• Year, hours, miles, VIN, serial, bid count, close time, and photos from the public catalog
• Lot URL or auction URL as a start URL
• Monitor mode: the first run stores fingerprints and writes no rows; later runs emit new lots and bid changes
• Bidder account ids are not saved

Input

Field	Default	What it does
searchQuery	excavator	Catalog keyword. Blank, with no other filter, saves 0 rows
make	empty	Manufacturer, such as Caterpillar
state	empty	US state code, such as TX
auctionId	empty	One auction id
saleStatus	upcoming	upcoming, past (sold), or all
startUrls	empty	Search, auction, or lot URL
maxItems	50	Maximum dataset rows
maxPages	5	Catalog pages per search (50 lots per page)
monitorMode	false	Emit only new lots and bid changes after a seed run

{
  "searchQuery": "excavator",
  "saleStatus": "upcoming",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "maxPages": 1
}

Sold hammers for one make:

{
  "make": "Caterpillar",
  "saleStatus": "past",
  "maxItems": 20
}

A single lot URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.purplewave.com/auction/261021/item/EU1538" }
  ]
}

Output

Field	Meaning
title, make, model, year	Lot identity
auctionTitle, auctionId, itemNumber	Which sale and which item
currentBid, nextBid, bidCount, currency	Published bid. On a sold lot, currentBid is the hammer
sold	True when the lot is closed
hours, miles, vin, serialNumber, category	Specs
closingAt	Close time in UTC
city, state, location	Where the machine sits
url, images, description	Lot link, photos, and plain-text specs
changeType, previousPrice	Set in monitor mode

{
  "id": "261021-EU1538",
  "title": "2024 Erie Industries EM15 mini excavator",
  "make": "Erie Industries",
  "model": "EM15",
  "year": "2024",
  "currentBid": 1650,
  "sold": false,
  "serialNumber": "EM15M00680",
  "state": "TX",
  "city": "Hutchins",
  "url": "https://www.purplewave.com/auction/261021/item/EU1538"
}

Use cases

• Pull upcoming construction and farm lots before a sale for a bid sheet
• Export sold Purple Wave hammers for a make and model
• Watch one auction on a schedule and keep only new lots or bid changes
• Compare a Purple Wave lot with retail inventory from TractorHouse or MachineryTrader

Integration examples

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor("crawloop/purplewave-scraper").call({
  searchQuery: "excavator",
  saleStatus: "upcoming",
  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/purplewave-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "excavator",
    "saleStatus": "upcoming",
    "maxItems": 50,
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

cURL

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawloop~purplewave-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchQuery":"excavator","saleStatus":"upcoming","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/purplewave-scraper.

Example prompts:

• "Run Purple Wave Auctions Scraper for excavator and return the top 20 upcoming lots as JSON with bid, hours, and state."
• "Scrape sold Caterpillar lots on Purple Wave and summarize hammer, year, and location."
• "Chain Purple Wave Auctions Scraper then TractorHouse Scraper to compare auction bids with retail asking prices."

Suite next step

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

FAQ

Does this log in or place bids?

No. It reads the public catalog. It does not sign in, watch, or bid.

Why did a blank run save nothing?

A run with no keyword, make, state, auction id, or start URL does not download the whole catalog. Set a search or paste a lot URL.

What is the bid on a sold lot?

sold is true and currentBid is the published hammer. Upcoming lots use the same field for the live bid.

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 bid changes.