# Machinery Trader Scraper — Equipment Listings (`muhammadafzal/machinery-trader-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public MachineryTrader.com equipment listings with prices, specifications, sellers, locations, contact phones, and images.

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

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 equipment records

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Machinery Trader Scraper

Extract public heavy-equipment listings from MachineryTrader.com into structured JSON. Use category/search URLs for bulk collection or individual listing URLs for targeted records.

### Output fields

Each dataset item includes `listingId`, `url`, `title`, `year`, `manufacturer`, `model`, `category`, listing type, condition, numeric and display price, currency, location, seller, phone, stock/serial numbers, hours, description, specifications, image URLs, source URL, and scrape timestamp.

### Input example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/excavators/1031" }],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "countryCode": "US" }
}
```

List pages already expose price, hours, location, seller, contact phone, stock/serial numbers, descriptions, and visible specifications. Enable `includeDetails` only when you need the fuller detail-page specification set; it costs more time and target requests.

### Pricing and limits

Pay per event: $0.00005 per run start and $0.01 per validated dataset record. A 25-record run therefore has $0.25005 in Actor event charges. Proxy/platform costs may apply according to your Apify plan. The Actor never manually charges the platform's synthetic dataset-item event.

### Reliability and responsible use

Machinery Trader uses Cloudflare and can challenge automated traffic. The Actor uses a real browser, coherent sessions, conservative concurrency, bounded retries, and optional US proxying. It reports `BLOCKED`, `EMPTY`, or `REJECTED` in the `OUTPUT` record instead of fabricating listings. Public pages and markup can change; use modest limits and respect the site's terms, robots directives, applicable law, personal-data rules, and intellectual-property rights. This Actor does not log in, solve CAPTCHAs, or bypass access controls.

# Actor input Schema

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

Public MachineryTrader.com search/category pages or individual listing URLs.

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

Stop after this many unique equipment records.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum list/search pages to visit.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each Machinery Trader detail page for additional specifications and images. Slower and more likely to encounter access challenges.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Concurrent browser pages. Keep low for reliable target access.

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

Apify Proxy settings. US residential proxying is recommended for cloud runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/excavators/1031"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 50,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "countryCode": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `output` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/excavators/1031"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("muhammadafzal/machinery-trader-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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/excavators/1031" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("muhammadafzal/machinery-trader-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/excavators/1031"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call muhammadafzal/machinery-trader-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,muhammadafzal/machinery-trader-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/2SUFBUlOes04pDSC5/builds/mwQ8Xd7UvtLFgNiUR/openapi.json