Boat Trader Scraper

Scrape boat listings from Boat Trader at scale. Extract boats-for-sale data by keyword, make, or boat type — perfect for boat dealers, resellers, valuation tools, and marine market research.

What data can you get?

Search mode (fast, default)

• Title (year + make + model)
• Year, make, model
• Price (USD) and a priceHidden flag for "call for price" listings
• Length (feet)
• Condition (new / used)
• Boat type and class (e.g. power, power-bowrider)
• Location (city, state, ZIP, country)
• Dealer / seller (name, phone, city, state)
• Sponsored / featured flag
• Primary image + all image URLs
• Listing URL

Detail mode (scrapeDetails: true)

All of the above, plus per-boat detail-page fields when available:

• Full description
• Hull material
• Engine make and hours
• Beam (feet)
• Fuel type

Detail mode visits each boat page individually — slower and more compute, but richer data.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Plain keywords (pontoon, sea ray fishing), Boat Trader facet slugs (make-sea-ray, type-power, condition-used), or full Boat Trader search URLs. Each query produces its own result set.
maxResults	integer	Max listings per query. 0 = unlimited (paginates to the end). Default 100.
scrapeDetails	boolean	Visit each boat page for richer fields. Default false.
proxyConfiguration	object	Required. Use Apify residential proxies (US). Boat Trader uses a Cloudflare challenge that blocks datacenter IPs.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["pontoon", "make-boston-whaler", "type-sail"],
  "maxResults": 200,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Example output

{
  "id": 10131959,
  "title": "2016 Sea Ray 290 Sundeck Outboard",
  "year": 2016,
  "make": "Sea Ray",
  "model": "290 Sundeck Outboard",
  "condition": "used",
  "type": "power",
  "class": "power-bowrider",
  "price": 52500,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceHidden": false,
  "lengthFt": 29,
  "location": { "city": "Long Beach", "state": "CA", "zip": "90802", "country": "US" },
  "dealer": { "name": "Seattle Yachts - Los Angeles", "phone": "310-776-3346", "city": "Marina Del Rey", "state": "CA" },
  "sponsored": true,
  "image": "https://images.boattrader.com/resize/1/81/48/5798148_20160504082344082_1_XLARGE.jpg",
  "images": ["https://images.boattrader.com/..."],
  "url": "https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2016-sea-ray-290-sundeck-outboard-10131959/",
  "searchQuery": "make-sea-ray",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-24T21:45:00.000Z"
}

How it works

Boat Trader is a server-rendered React app behind Cloudflare. This Actor drives a real headless browser (Playwright) so it passes the Cloudflare managed challenge, then reads the listing data directly from the page's embedded __REDUX_STATE__ JSON (no fragile HTML scraping). Results are paginated automatically (/page-2/, /page-3/, …) until maxResults is reached.

Notes

• Residential proxies are required — datacenter IPs get a Cloudflare 403.
• Boat Trader returns ~31 listings per page.
• This Actor is for legitimate market research and is not affiliated with Boat Trader.