🔨 Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper

Scrape used vehicle auction listings from pickles.com.au, including VIN, odometer, sale location, and photos.

A vehicle listings dataset for Australia's largest auction and ex-fleet remarketing site: give it a make and model (or leave them blank) and this actor pulls a structured dataset of real auction listings straight from pickles.com.au — VIN, odometer, exterior colour, sale/auction location, and photos for every vehicle. Built for wholesale buyers, fleet remarketers, and used car data extraction, without writing a single line of scraping code.

🇦🇺 Part of the Australia Car Data Scraper collection

Use this actor if you only need pickles.com.au data. For multi-site coverage, use one of the collective actors instead:

• All Car Data Scraper Australia — searches pickles.com.au plus 5 more major Australian car sites (new + used) in one run.
• Used Car Data Scraper Australia — same 6 sites, used/second-hand listings only.

Or scrape another single Australian site directly:

• Carsales.com.au Car Data Scraper
• AutoTrader.com.au Car Data Scraper
• CarsGuide.com.au Car Data Scraper
• Drive.com.au Car Data Scraper
• JustCars.com.au Car Data Scraper

🧑‍💼 Who uses this

• Wholesale buyers & dealers monitoring upcoming auction stock and pricing as a competitor price monitoring tool
• Fleet remarketers & insurers tracking ex-fleet and salvage inventory at scale
• VIN-based researchers using the included VIN for lookups, history checks, or duplicate-detection across listings
• Market researchers building a vehicle listings dataset for Australia's auction segment specifically, distinct from retail dealer marketplaces

✨ Why use this instead of browsing manually

• 🔎 Any make, any model, or none at all — leave make/model blank to search across the whole site instead of one vehicle line (default maxItems is 20 per run — raise or set it to 0 for deeper coverage).
• 🔑 VIN included — every listing comes with its VIN where the site has one, useful for lookups and duplicate-detection.
• 📄 Real depth — set "Max results" to 0 and it pages through as much real inventory as the query actually has (up to a 5,000-listing safety ceiling).
• 🛡️ Built to survive anti-bot walls — proxy handling is built in.

💰 Pricing

This actor makes lightweight HTTP requests only — no browser is launched — so it runs on comparatively few Apify compute units per listing. See the Pricing tab on this actor's Store page for current rates before running at scale.

⚙️ Input

Nothing is required except a proxy.

Field	Type	Description
make	string	Optional. e.g. "Ford", "Toyota". Leave blank to search every make.
model	string	Optional. e.g. "Ranger", "Corolla". Leave blank to search all models of the make.
maxItems	integer	Stop once this many listings are collected. Default 20. Set to 0 for "no limit".
proxyConfiguration	object	Required. Defaults to an Australian residential proxy.

📦 Output

One row per listing:

{
  "url": "https://www.pickles.com.au/used/details/cars/62356389",
  "title": "Ford Ranger",
  "image": "https://www.pickles.com.au/images/transform/1a778c17-ada9-447a-8a88-5f9597fe7b51/92c0aa90-adce-47cb-8a00-d8549cc1f3be.jpeg",
  "make": "Ford",
  "model": "Ranger",
  "price": 40990,
  "vin": "MPBCMFF70NX455930",
  "location": "Corner Phoenix Road & Sudlow Road, Bibra Lake, Western Australia, Australia, 6163",
  "sellerName": null,
  "sellerPhone": null,
  "currency": "AUD",
  "trim": "XLT",
  "year": 2022,
  "condition": "used",
  "mileage": 101752,
  "exteriorColor": "White",
  "listedAt": null
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or several other formats from the Console, or pull it via the API.

📝 Notes

• This is an auction site, so price is frequently null. Pickles sells vehicles by live auction - a listing only has a real price once its sale has started and received a bid (or has a "buy now" price set). Pre-auction listings genuinely have no price yet; price reflects the buy-now price, then the current highest bid, then the site's own price field, in that order, and is null rather than 0 when none of those exist.
• sellerName/sellerPhone are always null - vehicles are sold via auction, not by an individual dealer contact.
• A residential Australian proxy is required, not optional - the site blocks non-proxied traffic at any real volume.

❓ FAQ

Is this actor affiliated with pickles.com.au? No. This is an independent, unofficial scraper built on Apify — it isn't operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with pickles.com.au in any way.

Do I need to know how to code? No. Fill in the input form (make, model), click "Start", and download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the run's Dataset tab.

Is scraping pickles.com.au data legal? This actor only collects publicly visible listing data. You're responsible for how you use the output — check pickles.com.au's terms of service and applicable law for your specific use case.

How much does this cost to run? This actor doesn't use a browser, so it consumes fewer compute units than most scrapers on a per-listing basis. See the Pricing tab on the Store page for exact current rates.

How is this different from the multi-site actor? This actor only queries pickles.com.au. If you want the same kind of data alongside 5 other Australian car sites in a single run, use All Car Data Scraper Australia instead.

Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes — use Apify's built-in Scheduler to run this actor on a recurring basis (hourly, daily, weekly) with no code, so your dataset stays current without you starting it manually — useful for tracking new auction listings as they're added.

Why is price null for some listings? See the note above — it means the auction hasn't started or received a bid yet, not a scraping error.

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