🏎️ Cars & Bids Scraper

The Cars & Bids Scraper collects vehicle auction data at scale, with full specs, bid history, seller profiles, plus Doug DeMuro reviews and finance estimates.

Pull structured records from Cars and Bids — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

Copy to your AI assistant

Copy this block into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any LLM to start using this actor.

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

📋 How to Use

1. Go to the Input tab
2. Select a mode: "active" for live auctions, "past" for completed, or "detail" for specific URLs
3. Set your desired maximum items
4. Toggle photo, description, and bid history options
5. Click Start to begin extraction
6. Download results from the Dataset tab in JSON, CSV, or Excel format

Example Input

{
    "mode": "active",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "includeDescription": true,
    "includeBidHistory": true
}

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: acceptsUsdc, auctionEnd, auctionId, bids, bodyStyle, canceledMessage, comments, currentBid, currentBidder, dougReview, drivetrain, engine, equipment, exteriorColor, featured, financePayment, financeRate, financeTerm, hasInspection, highlightedPoints, highlights, historyReportUrl, historyReportVendor, imageUrl, inspectionReportUrl, interiorColor, knownFlaws, location, make, makeSlug, mileage, mileageText, model, modelSlug, modifications, noReserve, otherItems, ownershipHistory, questions, recentServiceHistory. All 40 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Cars & Bids 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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🆘 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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