🚘bringatrailer car data scraper US 🇺🇸

🚗💨 Turn Bring a Trailer's entire auction archive into clean, ready-to-use data — in minutes, not hours. Sold prices, sale dates, seller and location details, VIN/chassis numbers, full specs, and every photo, extracted automatically with zero code. Point it at the results page (or any specific listing) and walk away with structured JSON, CSV, or Excel that's actually usable. Built on Apify, so scheduling, an API, webhooks, and instant exports all come free.

🔥 Why use the Bring a Trailer Car Scraper?

Bring a Trailer is the single richest source of real, closed-sale collector-car prices on the internet — hundreds of thousands of auctions and counting. The problem? All of it lives behind a slow, click-through-one-listing-at-a-time UI. Copy-pasting your way to a useful dataset just isn't realistic. This Actor does the tedious part for you, so you can spend your time on the analysis, not the clicking:

• 📈 Track real market value for any make, model, or era using actual sold prices, not dealer guesses.
• 🧮 Power pricing and valuation tools with a constantly refreshable feed of hard auction data.
• 🔔 Stay on top of the market by scheduling runs that catch every new sale automatically.
• 🔎 Do due diligence in seconds — pull full specs, VIN, seller history, and comment activity before you bid on a specific car.
• ⏱️ Save hours every week that would otherwise go into manual browsing and copy-pasting.

⚡ How to scrape Bring a Trailer auction data

1. Click Try for free to open the Actor.
2. Keep the default Start URL (the Bring a Trailer results page) to pull the most recently sold vehicles — or drop in specific listing URLs if you only want particular cars.
3. Set Max items per start URL to control exactly how much data you collect.
4. Hit Start and let the Actor do the work.
5. Open the Dataset tab to preview, filter, and export your results in one click.

No coding, no proxies, no infrastructure to babysit — pagination, retries, and rate limiting are all handled for you.

🎛️ Input

The Actor keeps its input small and friendly — see the Input tab for the full form.

Field	Description
startUrls	One or more Bring a Trailer URLs to start from: the auction results page for recently sold vehicles, or direct listing URLs for specific auctions.
maxItems	Maximum number of listings to scrape per start URL.
sortBy	Order to scrape results in: recently sold first, or oldest first.
proxyConfiguration	Optional proxy settings. Not required for normal use.

Example input:

{
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/results/" }],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "sortBy": "td"
}

📦 Output

Every scraped listing lands in your dataset as one clean item — ready to download as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel, or pull straight into your own pipeline via the API.

{
    "id": 119024484,
    "title": "20k-Mile 2012 Audi R8 GT Spyder V10",
    "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2012-audi-r8-gt-spyder-16/",
    "description": "This 2012 Audi R8 GT Spyder is #148 of 333 produced...",
    "price": 103000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "soldText": "Bid to USD $103,000 on 8/9/26",
    "soldAt": "2026-08-09T12:00:50.000Z",
    "commentCount": 76,
    "seller": "dciesla",
    "location": "Hampstead, New Hampshire 03841",
    "vin": "WUA8NAFGXCN910148",
    "specs": ["Chassis: WUA8NAFGXCN910148", "20k Miles", "5.2-Liter FSI V10"],
    "images": ["https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/..."],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-09"
}

📋 Data fields

Field	Description
title	Listing title.
price	Winning bid / sold price.
currency	Currency of the price.
soldText	Auction result summary text.
soldAt	Auction end date/time (ISO 8601).
seller	Seller's username.
location	Vehicle location.
vin	VIN or chassis number, when listed.
specs	List of listed specs and equipment.
commentCount	Number of comments on the listing.
images	Full-resolution photo URLs.
url	Listing page URL.
scrapedAt	Date the listing was scraped (YYYY-MM-DD).

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Bring a Trailer?

This Actor is lightweight by design — no browser, just fast HTTP requests — so it's cheap to run. Scraping a few hundred listings typically costs a fraction of a cent to a few cents in compute units, comfortably inside Apify's free tier for occasional use. Actual cost scales with maxItems and how often you schedule runs.

💡 Tips for better runs

• Start small: keep maxItems low for your first run, confirm the data looks right, then scale up.
• Use direct listing URLs in startUrls when you only need a handful of specific vehicles.
• Set up a Schedule in Apify Console to keep a live feed of recently sold vehicles without lifting a finger.
• Listings the Actor has already scraped recently are served from an internal cache, so repeat runs are faster and cheaper the second time around.

❓ FAQ

Is this legal? This Actor only reads publicly available auction listing pages. You're responsible for using the collected data in line with Bring a Trailer's Terms of Service and applicable law.

Some fields are empty. Not every listing includes every field (e.g. sellers don't always list a VIN). The Actor grabs whatever is present and leaves the rest null — no guessing, no made-up data.

Found a bug or want something custom? Open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab. Tailored versions of this scraper for your specific workflow are also available on request.

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