Bring a Trailer Scraper — Collector Car Auctions

Scrape collector-car auction data from Bring a Trailer (BaT), the leading enthusiast auction site with realized (sold) prices. Get both live auctions and completed/sold results — ideal for collector-car market research, price comps, valuation, and arbitrage.

What it does

• Pulls sold/ended auction results with realized sale prices from BaT's public listings API (fully paginated — thousands of results).
• Pulls live/active auctions in progress, with current high bids.
• Keyword search (e.g. porsche 911, ford mustang, bmw e30) — run multiple queries in one job.
• Filter by model year range, category, and sort (recent, highest price, lowest price).
• No login required. Clean structured JSON, ready for CSV/Excel/API export.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Keywords to search. Each runs separately. Empty = sweep all.
status	string	sold (ended results w/ prices — default), active (live), or all.
maxResults	integer	Max records across all queries. 0 = unlimited. Default 100.
minimumYear / maximumYear	integer	Model-year range filter (sold/ended results).
category	string	Optional BaT category slug (e.g. porsche, trucks-4x4s).
sort	string	td recent (default), th highest price, tl lowest price.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter proxy is sufficient.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["porsche 911", "ford bronco"],
  "status": "sold",
  "maxResults": 500,
  "minimumYear": 2000,
  "sort": "td"
}

Output

Each record:

{
  "id": 115855117,
  "title": "410-Mile 2024 Ferrari Roma Coupe",
  "year": 2024,
  "make": "Ferrari",
  "model": "Roma Coupe",
  "mileage": 410,
  "status": "sold",
  "sold": true,
  "currentBid": 219000,
  "currentBidFormatted": "USD $219,000",
  "soldPrice": 219000,
  "soldText": "Sold for USD $219,000 on 6/24/2026",
  "currency": "USD",
  "noReserve": false,
  "premium": false,
  "era": "2020",
  "country": "United States",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "latitude": 37.32,
  "longitude": -93.29,
  "comments": 0,
  "watchers": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "endDate": "2026-06-24T...Z",
  "excerpt": "This 2024 Ferrari Roma coupe was specified with...",
  "imageUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/...jpg",
  "listingUrl": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2024-ferrari-roma-coupe-11/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-24T..."
}

status is one of: sold (reserve met, realized price in soldPrice), not_sold (reserve not met / "Bid to X"), active (live), or ended.

How it works

• Sold/ended results come from BaT's public WordPress REST listings API (/wp-json/bringatrailer/1.0/data/listings-filter), which returns full pagination metadata and supports keyword/year/category filters.
• Active auctions come from the embedded data payload on the /auctions/ page.

The scraper is read-only and only collects publicly visible data.

Pricing

Pay-per-result. You are charged a tiny actor-start fee plus a per-result fee for each auction record saved to the dataset.

Use cases

• Collector-car price comps and valuation
• Market trend analysis by make/model/year
• Arbitrage scouting (sold prices vs. asking prices elsewhere)
• Building a dataset of realized enthusiast-car sales