🚗 Bring a Trailer Auctions Scraper

🚀 Collect vehicle auction data from Bring a Trailer in minutes. Pull bids, vehicle specs, seller details, and auction timelines from any BaT listing page. No coding, no login required.

Pull structured records from Bring A Trailer Auctions — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: startUrl (string, default "https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/"), maxItems (integer, default 10). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~bringatrailer-auctions-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

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🔢 VIN decode

The Bring a Trailer Auctions Scraper collects auction data from bringatrailer.com, returning 50+ fields per listing: vehicle make, model, year, trim, current bid, bid count, reserve status, auction end date, location, seller info, full description, modification history, documentation details, image URLs, and direct auction links. Runs support up to 1,000,000 listings on a paid plan.

The Actor works with BaT's URL structure: paste any bringatrailer.com page (active auctions, completed auctions, search results, or specific categories) and the scraper collects every listing on that page and its subsequent pages.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Car collectors, vehicle dealers, auction analysts, appraisers, insurance adjusters, automotive journalists, investment analysts	Auction monitoring, bid tracking, market valuation, inventory sourcing, price trend analysis, collection management

📋 What the Bring a Trailer Auctions Scraper does

One input method with full BaT coverage:

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste any bringatrailer.com URL: active auctions, completed sales, search results, or category pages.
• 💰 Bid data. Current bid, bid count, reserve met status, and auction end date per listing.
• 🚗 Vehicle specs. Make, model, year, trim, mileage, VIN, engine, transmission, exterior/interior colors.
• 👤 Seller details. Seller type (dealer vs private), username, and location.
• 📝 Full description. Vehicle history, modifications, documentation, and feature list.
• 🖼️ Media. High-resolution image URLs for each listing.

💡 Why it matters: manually tracking BaT auctions means refreshing pages, comparing bids, and recording specs by hand. This Actor exports structured auction data at scale, ready for your valuation models, inventory pipeline, or market analysis.

⚠️ Good to Know: BaT supports search filters on their website. Apply your filters (make, model, year, status), then copy the resulting URL and paste it here. The Actor paginates through all results automatically.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Bring a Trailer Auctions Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste a BaT URL and 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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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more auction and automotive scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bring a Trailer or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available auction data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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