Cars & Bids Scraper

Scrape public Cars & Bids search, browse, results, and auction pages. Each dataset item is one auction with vehicle specifications, current/final bid, auction status, seller, location, bid counts, description, and image URLs.

The actor uses a Playwright browser because Cars & Bids is a JavaScript application. It detects Cloudflare or other access challenges and stops with a truthful warning when no data can be collected. It does not sign in, place bids, bypass access controls, or collect private account data.

Input

Use startUrls or searchUrls. Examples:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://carsandbids.com/search/honda" }],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Direct auction pages such as https://carsandbids.com/auctions/K1GDYq2n/factory-five-type-65-coupe are also supported. When no URL is supplied, the actor uses a public Honda search page as a prefill path.

Output

Records include auctionId, title, url, status, price, year, make, model, mileage, vin, location, transmission, bodyStyle, engine, drivetrain, seller, bid/view/watch counts, description, imageUrls, and scrapedAt. Run diagnostics are written to the SUMMARY key-value record.

Pricing

This Actor uses Pay Per Event pricing: $0.03 per auction record delivered. A run returning 10 records costs $0.30 in event charges, in addition to any platform usage charged by Apify. Blocked or empty runs return no auction records and incur no result-event charges. The maximum result-event cost is $0.03 × maxResults.

Limits and access

maxResults is capped at 500 and maxPages at 50. The actor uses the known-good US Apify proxy group for the owner account by default, keeps one browser session consistent, persists cookies, limits request rate/concurrency, and rotates the session after a challenge response. Proxy availability depends on the Apify account and region; provide another available group in proxyConfiguration when needed. Results reflect public page content at scrape time. This Actor does not sign in, place bids, solve CAPTCHAs, bypass access controls, or collect private account data.

What data does Cars & Bids Scraper return?

Field	Type	Description
auctionId	string	Stable public auction identifier from the Cars & Bids URL.
title	string	Public auction vehicle title.
subtitle	string or null	Subtitle
url	string	Auction URL
status	string or null	Auction status
price	number or null	Current or final price
priceText	string or null	Price text
year	integer or null	Year
make	string or null	Make
model	string or null	Model
mileage	number or null	Mileage
vin	string or null	VIN
location	string or null	Location
transmission	string or null	Transmission
bodyStyle	string or null	Body style
engine	string or null	Engine
drivetrain	string or null	Drivetrain
exteriorColor	string or null	Exterior color
interiorColor	string or null	Interior color
seller	string or null	Seller
bidCount	number or null	Bid count
viewCount	number or null	View count
watchingCount	number or null	Watching count
reserveStatus	string or null	Reserve status

Use cases

• Schedule repeatable collection and export results to downstream workflows.
• Run a one-off research job and export the structured result as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS from Apify.
• Schedule the same input to monitor changes over time and send completed datasets to a webhook or integration.
• Feed schema-shaped records into a database, spreadsheet, BI tool, or AI workflow with the source URL retained for verification.

Run Cars & Bids Scraper with the Apify API

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('muhammadafzal/cars-and-bids-scraper').call({
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://carsandbids.com/search/honda"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "useExternalProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952"
    ],
    "countryCode": "US"
  }
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

You can also run the Actor from Apify Console, schedules, webhooks, the REST API, Make, Zapier, n8n, or the hosted Apify MCP server.

Responsible use

Use this Actor only for data you are authorized to access. Follow the target website's terms, robots and access policies, and applicable privacy, database, copyright, anti-spam, and data-protection laws. Do not use it to bypass authentication or other access controls, collect private data, harass people, or make high-impact decisions without independent verification.