🏎️ The Market Scraper: Classic Car Auction Prices, Bids & Alerts

Every live, upcoming and sold classic car lot on The Market, with the bids and the result. Pull current bids, bid counts, reserve status, estimates, hammer prices and final prices from the public themarket.co.uk auctions, together with mileage, chassis number, colours, location, description and photos. Schedule the same run to catch new lots, bids, endings and results.

🔨 Bids and results Current bid, bid count, next minimum bid, reserve status, hammer price and final price.

📈 Price against estimate Estimate range where the site shows it, and how far each sold lot landed from the middle.

🔧 Vehicle facts Mileage, engine size, transmission, fuel, steering, colours, chassis number and location.

🔔 Change alerts New lots, bid increases, ending soon, sold, withdrawn and removed lots between runs.

Know what classic cars sell for on The Market, and watch the auctions as they run. This Actor reads the public auction pages and returns one row per lot, with the lot number, a link back to the page and only the facts the page states. Choose live, upcoming or sold lots, narrow them by make, model, year and price, or paste lot and make links. Anything the page does not show is left out, never guessed.

👥 Who uses it

• I deal in classic cars and need to see what comparable cars actually sold for, with bid counts and reserve outcome, before I price my stock.
• I value or insure collector cars and need dated sold prices by make, model and year as evidence for an agreed value.
• I write about the classic car market and want a weekly list of results, the biggest sellers and the lots about to end.
• I bid on classic cars and want an alert when a make I follow goes live, gets a new bid or enters its last day.

🚀 How it works

STEP 1 Choose the lots Pick live, upcoming, buy now or sold lots, or paste lot and make links from The Market.

STEP 2 Set your filters Make, model, year range, price range, no reserve only or ending within a number of hours.

STEP 3 Export or schedule Download Excel, CSV or JSON, or schedule the run and receive only what changed.

🔍 What does it do?

• Returns one row per lot: title, year, make, model, status, current bid, bid count, reserve status, end time (UTC and UK time), location and main image.
• Reads every lot page by default, adding description, key facts, mileage, engine size, transmission, fuel, steering, colours, chassis number, registration, seller type, video link, followers and the bid history (amount and time only).
• Shows hammer price, final price and the buyer's premium for sold lots, and compares the sold price with the estimate midpoint when the site shows an estimate.
• Filters before saving, so you only pay for lots that match: make, model, year range, price range, no reserve, ending soon and search words.
• Lists the whole results archive, newest first, or only one make.
• Keeps a named history of a search and marks each lot as new lot, went live, bid increase, estimate change, ending soon, sold, withdrawn, status change, unchanged or removed.
• Reads public pages only. No account, no login, no bidder or seller names.

Prices are in the currency the lot is listed in, normally pounds sterling. Fields such as estimates, mileage or chassis number appear only on lots where the page shows them.

💡 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
Lot, make or list links	array of URLs	No	A lot page, a make page such as /auctions/ferrari, or the live, coming soon or results lists. When set, only these links are read.
Auction status	array	No	Live, upcoming, buy now offers or sold results. Used when no links are given.
Make / Model contains	string	No	Keep one make (as written on the site) and models whose name contains the text.
Year from / Year to	integer	No	Model year range.
Minimum price / Maximum price	number	No	Range in pounds, applied to the current bid or the sold price.
No reserve only	boolean	No	Keep only lots the site marks as no reserve.
Ending within (hours)	integer	No	Keep only live lots that close within this many hours.
Search words	string	No	Words that must all appear in the title, tagline, registration or location.
List data only	boolean	No	Skip the individual lot pages for a faster run with list-level fields.
Track changes between runs	boolean	No	Compares with the previous run of the same monitor and labels every lot.
Monitor name	string	No	Keeps the history of one monitor. Use one name per search you track.
Only save changes	boolean	No	Saves only new, changed or removed lots, so you pay for changes only.
Ending soon window (hours)	integer	No	How close to its end a live lot counts as ending soon.
Maximum lots	integer	No	How many lots to save in this run. Free plans are limited to 25.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
lotId, lotNumber, url	string, integer	Lot identifier, lot number and the lot page.
title, year, make, model, tagline	string, integer	Lot name and the year, make and model as the site lists them.
status	string	live, upcoming, buy_now, sold, withdrawn or ended.
auctionStartsAt, endsAt, endsAtUk, endingSoon	string, boolean	Bidding opens and closes (UTC and UK time), and whether a live lot closes inside your window.
currentBid, bidCount, nextMinimumBid, currency	number, string	Highest bid so far, number of bids and the next bid needed.
reserveStatus, noReserve	string, boolean	no_reserve, reserve_met, reserve_close or reserve_not_close, as the site shows it.
estimateLow, estimateHigh, startingPrice, buyNowPrice	number	Estimate range (only when the site displays it), starting price and buy now offer.
hammerPrice, finalPrice, buyersPremium, buyersPremiumPercent, soldAfterAuction	number, boolean	Sold lots: top bid, the final price shown, the premium between them, and whether the sale closed after the auction.
hammerVsEstimatePercent	number	Sold price against the estimate midpoint, when an estimate is shown.
sellerType, location, country, countryCode, countryOfRegistration, registration	string	Trade or private seller flag, where the car is and how it is registered.
chassisNumber, mileage, mileageUnit, mileageText, engine, engineCc, transmission, fuelType, steering, exteriorColour, interiorColour	string, number	Vehicle facts as stated on the lot page.
keyFacts, summary, description, descriptionSections	string, array	The seller write-up and key facts.
imageUrl, images, imageCount, galleryPhotoCount, videoUrl	string, array, integer	Photos on the lot page, the size of the full gallery and the video link.
watchCount, commentCount, bids	integer, array	Followers, comments and the bid history (amount and time).
changeType, changedFields, previousStatus, previousBid, bidChange, previousBidCount, previousEstimateLow, previousEstimateHigh, previousEndsAt, firstSeenAt, changeDetectedAt, missingReason	various	Change tracking fields, present when tracking is on.
scrapedAt	string	When the lot was read.

🔄 Change tracking

Switch on "Track changes between runs", pick a monitor name and schedule the same input daily, or hourly for an auction week. The first run records a baseline and marks every lot new lot. Later runs mark a lot went live, bid increase (with the previous bid and the change), estimate change, ending soon (once, when it enters your window), sold (with hammer price and price against estimate), withdrawn, status change, unchanged or removed. A lot that left the live and upcoming lists is opened directly, so its result is caught even though it is no longer listed. Turn on "Only save changes" to save and pay for changes only.

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per lot, with no subscription and no extra charge for lot pages, bid history or change tracking. Empty runs cost nothing, and the discount tiers on your Apify plan apply automatically.

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✨ Tips

• Start small. Run 10 live lots, check the columns, then raise the limit or switch on sold results.
• Build a price history. Choose sold lots, set a make and a year range, and export the hammer and final prices.
• Watch one marque. Set the make, switch on change tracking and schedule it daily.
• Catch the last day. Set "Ending within" to 24 hours and schedule an hourly run with "Only save changes".

❓ FAQ

Which lots can I collect?

Live lots open for bids, upcoming lots listed before bidding opens, buy now offers after an auction, and sold lots from the public results archive, newest first.

What is the final price?

For a sold lot the hammer price is the winning bid and the final price is the total the site shows for the sale, which includes the buyer's premium on lots where one applies. The premium is shown as the difference between them.

Are estimates always included?

Only when the lot page displays an estimate. Many lots do not show one, and those rows simply have no estimate fields.

Do I get bidder or seller names?

No. Bidder and seller identities are never collected. The bid history lists amounts and times only.

Where does the data come from?

From the public auction pages of themarket.co.uk, without any account or login. You are responsible for using the data in line with the site's terms and your local rules.

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