🔨 AuctionTime Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect equipment auction listings from AuctionTime.com including excavators, tractors, trucks, trailers, and farm machinery. Perfect for equipment dealers monitoring prices, procurement teams sourcing inventory, and market analysts tracking equipment values. Get an auctiontime scraper without coding, download auction data as CSV or Excel, and monitor competitor equipment listings with bid prices and auction dates all included.

The AuctionTime Scraper collects heavy equipment auction listings with complete bid information and equipment specifications, up to 12 data fields per item, with no authentication required.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🖼️ Image URL - Browse equipment photos directly from your data without visiting the site
• 📝 Title - Full equipment description including year, manufacturer, and model for quick identification
• 🏭 Manufacturer - Equipment brand such as Caterpillar, John Deere, or Komatsu to filter by preferred brands
• 🔧 Model - Specific equipment model for inventory matching and comparison
• 📅 Year - Manufacturing year to assess equipment age and depreciation
• 💰 Current Bid - Live bid amount to track price trends across auctions
• 📊 Bid Count - Number of bids placed to gauge auction competitiveness
• 🕐 Auction End Date - When the auction closes to plan your bidding strategy
• 🌍 Location - City and state formatted for regional equipment sourcing
• 🔗 Listing URL - Direct link to the auction page for detailed inspection and bidding
• 📍 Scraped At - Timestamp of data collection for tracking freshness
• ⚠️ Error - Any collection issues for troubleshooting failed listings

🔧 Input

• Start URL - Direct URL from an AuctionTime.com search page, or use search filters below to build your own
• Search Query - Search term for equipment such as "excavator", "tractor", or "dump truck"
• Category - Equipment category ID to narrow by type (61 for Excavators, 4 for Tractors, 135 for Dump Trucks)
• Manufacturer - Filter by brand such as CATERPILLAR, JOHN DEERE, or KOMATSU
• Year Min/Max - Equipment age range to find recent or vintage machinery
• Price Min/Max - Budget range in USD to stay within your procurement limits
• State - US state code such as TX, CA, or FL to source from specific regions
• Max Items - How many listings to collect (free users up to 100 per run, paid users up to 1,000,000)

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.auctiontime.com/listings/search?ListingType=Auction&Category=61",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchQuery": "excavator",
  "category": "61",
  "manufacturer": "CATERPILLAR",
  "yearMin": 2010,
  "yearMax": 2023,
  "priceMin": 50000,
  "priceMax": 500000,
  "state": "TX"
}

📊 Output

Each auction listing includes up to 12 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🖼️ Image URL	📝 Title	🏭 Manufacturer
🔧 Model	📅 Year	💰 Current Bid
📊 Bid Count	🕐 Auction End	🌍 Location
🔗 Listing URL	📍 Scraped At	⚠️ Error

💎 Why Choose the AuctionTime Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Scrapers
Filter by price range	✔️	❌
Filter by year range	✔️	❌
Filter by manufacturer	✔️	❌
Filter by state location	✔️	❌
Current bid prices included	✔️	❌
Bid count tracked	✔️	❌
Auction end dates	✔️	❌
Category filtering	✔️	❌
No login required	✔️	Partial
Real-time data collection	✔️	❌
Up to 1M results per run	✔️	❌
CSV and Excel export	✔️	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up - Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool - Search for "AuctionTime Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It - Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Equipment Dealers - Monitor competitor listings during peak auction seasons to adjust your inventory offers before rushing to match prices
• 💼 Procurement Managers - Find deals by tracking multiple auctions weekly across regions to compare bids and identify the best equipment values
• 🔬 Market Analysts - Build historical datasets to forecast equipment depreciation and track buyer demand patterns by category and location

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ AuctionTime Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the AuctionTime Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test AuctionTime Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running AuctionTime Scraper regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running AuctionTime Scraper at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using AuctionTime Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run AuctionTime Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use AuctionTime Scraper?

Yes. AuctionTime Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Integrate with any app

AuctionTime Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 results for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by AuctionTime.com or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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