# Estate Sale & Garage Sale Finder (`muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder`) Actor

Find public estate sales, garage sales, tag sales, moving sales, and auctions by U.S. city and state. Export dates, public locations, images, and source URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Muhammad Afzal](https://apify.com/muhammadafzal) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $12.00 / 1,000 sale listings

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Estate Sale & Garage Sale Finder Near You

> **Free-plan limit:** Apify free-plan users receive at most 5 delivered records per run. Paid users may use the Actor’s configured result limit.

Find publicly listed estate sales, garage sales, tag sales, moving sales, and other local sale types from public [EstateSales.NET](https://www.estatesales.net/) city listing pages. It is designed for shoppers, estate-liquidation researchers, and local-market workflows that need structured sale records rather than a browser tab.

This Actor reads public, server-rendered listing data. It does not sign in, solve CAPTCHAs, reveal withheld addresses, or infer private information.

### Common use cases

- Find estate sales and garage sales near a city before a weekend shopping trip.
- Build a local sale calendar or map from structured dates and public location fields.
- Monitor moving sales, tag sales, and auctions across several cities.
- Export public sale listings to JSON, CSV, Excel, or an API workflow.

### What you get

One default-dataset item represents one unique public sale.

| Field | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `saleId`, `title`, `saleType` | Stable source ID, public title, and source category |
| `city`, `state`, `postalCode` | Publicly listed location |
| `startDate`, `endDate` | Public sale dates when available |
| `distanceMiles` | Distance reported on location-based source pages when available |
| `sourceUrl`, `imageUrl` | Public listing and thumbnail links |
| `streetAddress` | Included only when `includeSourceAddress` is true and the source already publicly shows it |

`SUMMARY` in the default key-value store reports the outcome (`DATA`, `EMPTY`, `BLOCKED`, or `FAILED`), record count, and warnings. Diagnostics are not mixed into the sales dataset.

### Input

Use `locations` for standard city/state discovery:

```json
{
  "locations": [{ "city": "New York", "state": "NY" }],
  "saleTypes": ["EstateSales", "GarageSales", "MovingSales", "TagSales"],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeSourceAddress": false
}
```

Use `startUrls` only for public `estatesales.net` location pages when you already have the exact source page:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.estatesales.net/NY/New-York" }],
  "saleTypes": [],
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

An empty `saleTypes` list returns every sale type the source exposes, including types such as online auctions. The source can change its type names; use a blank list first if a requested type produces no matches.

You can search up to 10 city/state pairs or provide up to 20 source URLs in one run. Duplicate source pages and duplicate sale IDs are returned once.

### Example output

```json
{
  "saleId": "12345",
  "title": "Brownstone estate sale",
  "saleType": "EstateSales",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.estatesales.net/NY/New-York/12345",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "postalCode": "10001",
  "streetAddress": null,
  "startDate": "2026-09-05T09:00:00-04:00",
  "endDate": "2026-09-07T16:00:00-04:00",
  "distanceMiles": 3.5,
  "imageUrl": "https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/12345.jpg",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-02T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

| Event | Price (USD) | When it is charged |
|---|---:|---|
| `apify-actor-start` | $0.006251 | Actor Start — Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event). — Charged once per run. |
| `apify-default-dataset-item` | $0.015 | Sale listing — One deduplicated, schema-valid sale record written to the default dataset. |

Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

This covers Apify platform usage for this Actor run. Other Apify products or usage outside this Actor run may still follow your account plan.

### Reliability and limits

- City pages provide a public first page of listings; the source may display fewer records than its overall total.
- If the source returns a public no-match page, the run completes as `EMPTY` with no result records or result charges.
- If a permitted request is blocked, the run reports `BLOCKED` with no fabricated results. Configure a lawful proxy only when you are entitled to use one.
- Maximum output is 100 records per run. Duplicate sale IDs across locations are returned once.
- Public source terms and privacy controls apply. Do not use this Actor to collect or republish withheld addresses or sensitive personal information.

### API example

Run the Actor with the Apify API and read the default dataset when the run finishes:

```bash
curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/muhammadafzal~estate-sale-garage-sale-finder/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&waitForFinish=300" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"locations":[{"city":"Dallas","state":"TX"}],"saleTypes":[],"maxResults":10}'
```

Keep tokens in environment variables or a secret manager in production; do not commit them to source control.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Use this when you know a U.S. city and two-letter state code. Example: {"city":"New York","state":"NY"}. Up to 10 locations; not a ZIP-radius search.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Use this when you already have public EstateSales.NET city or regional listing pages. Example: https://www.estatesales.net/NY/New-York. Only EstateSales.NET listing pages are accepted.

## `saleTypes` (type: `array`):

Use this to keep matching public source sale types. Examples: EstateSales, GarageSales, MovingSales. Leave blank to return every source type, including auctions; matching is case-insensitive.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Use this to cap unique sale records across all locations. Default 25; maximum 100. The source page may expose fewer results than its displayed total.

## `includeSourceAddress` (type: `boolean`):

Use this only when you need a street address that the public source has already displayed. Defaults to false; hidden or unavailable addresses are never inferred.

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

Optional Apify proxy configuration. Leave default direct access first; use a residential proxy only if permitted public requests are blocked.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "locations": [
    {
      "city": "New York",
      "state": "NY"
    }
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "saleTypes": [
    "EstateSales",
    "GarageSales",
    "MovingSales",
    "TagSales"
  ],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeSourceAddress": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Schema-valid public sale records.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts and truthful access diagnostics.

# 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 = {
    "locations": [
        {
            "city": "New York",
            "state": "NY"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder").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 = { "locations": [{
            "city": "New York",
            "state": "NY",
        }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder").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 '{
  "locations": [
    {
      "city": "New York",
      "state": "NY"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,muhammadafzal/estate-sale-garage-sale-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

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/uJHinhdWiRevgvXER/builds/hnZYgn9098xms3Z2h/openapi.json