# 🚘Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper🇦🇺 (`mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper`) Actor

Scrape used car auction listings from pickles.com.au — Australia's leading vehicle auction marketplace. Get price/bid status, year, make, model, mileage, trim & photos in a clean, structured dataset. Fast, reliable, no coding required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [MrDoe](https://apify.com/mrdoe) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

![Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper hero](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/kE36venAoVchGsE6b/records/pickles-com-au-scraper--hero.png)

## 🔨 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](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/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](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/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](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/carsales-com-au-scraper)
- [AutoTrader.com.au Car Data Scraper](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/autotrader-com-au-scraper)
- [CarsGuide.com.au Car Data Scraper](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/carsguide-com-au-scraper)
- [Drive.com.au Car Data Scraper](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/drive-com-au-scraper)
- [JustCars.com.au Car Data Scraper](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/justcars-com-au-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

![Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper input options](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/kE36venAoVchGsE6b/records/pickles-com-au-scraper--input.png)

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

![Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper dataset output](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/kE36venAoVchGsE6b/records/pickles-com-au-scraper--output.png)

![Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper data fields](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/kE36venAoVchGsE6b/records/pickles-com-au-scraper--fields.png)

One row per listing:

```json
{
  "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](https://apify.com/jordan-byte/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.

### Preview

![How Pickles.com.au Car Auction Scraper works](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/kE36venAoVchGsE6b/records/pickles-com-au-scraper--how-it-works.png)

# Actor input Schema

## `make` (type: `string`):

Optional. e.g. "Ford", "Toyota". Leave blank to search every make.

## `model` (type: `string`):

Optional. e.g. "Ranger", "Corolla". Leave blank to search all models of the given make.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop once this many listings have been collected. Set to 0 for "no limit" - pages through as much real inventory as the query actually has, up to a 5,000-item safety ceiling.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Required. pickles.com.au blocks non-proxied traffic at any real volume.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "make": "Ford",
  "model": "Ranger",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "make": "Ford",
    "model": "Ranger"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "make": "Ford",
    "model": "Ranger",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "make": "Ford",
  "model": "Ranger"
}' |
apify call mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mrdoe/pickles-com-au-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/quVabFZkH75jpx7p7/builds/pzzIbdVPZgbLiKL31/openapi.json