🚚 Shiply.com Freight Marketplace Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Collect real-time freight load listings from Shiply's public marketplace across 11 countries. This tool extracts pickup and delivery locations, distances, quote counts, posting dates, item categories, and thumbnail photos from every listing on the search results board. It processes hundreds of result pages automatically and stops when your target item count is reached.

Whether you are a logistics analyst tracking available freight routes, a fleet manager identifying underserved lanes, or a market researcher measuring carrier demand, this tool gives you a structured dataset ready for analysis in minutes.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🖼️ Thumbnail Photo - Captures the item photo uploaded by the shipper, giving a visual reference for each load
• 🏷️ Item Category - Identifies what type of goods are being shipped: Cars, Moving Home, Furniture, Motorcycles, Boats, Vehicle Parts, and more
• 📍 Pickup and Delivery Locations - Collects city, county, and postcode for both collection and delivery points to map routes precisely
• 🛣️ Distance - Records the estimated mileage for each job to calculate fuel costs and driver compensation
• 💬 Quote Count - Shows how many carriers have already bid on each load, revealing market competition in real time
• 📅 Posting Date - Captures when each listing was posted so you can filter for fresh opportunities
• 🚨 Urgency Flag - Flags loads marked as urgent for carriers focused on high-priority shipments
• ⭐ Featured Status - Identifies promoted listings with higher visibility on the board

🗃️ What Shiply Data Can You Extract?

The Shiply Freight Marketplace Scraper can gather any kind of data from Shiply.com, such as:

🖼️ Thumbnail photo	📋 Title	🔗 Listing URL
🏷️ Category	🆔 Listing ID	📍 Pickup city
🗺️ Pickup county	📮 Pickup postcode	📍 Delivery city
🗺️ Delivery county	📮 Delivery postcode	🛣️ Distance (miles)
💬 Quote count	🚨 Urgent flag	⭐ Featured flag
📅 Date posted	🕐 Collected at

🎬 Demo Video

Demo video coming soon.

🔧 Input

Field	Description
Country	The marketplace to search. Choose from: United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Spain, or United States. Defaults to United Kingdom.
Max Items	How many freight listings to collect. Free users are limited to 100. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000.
Max Concurrency	How many pages to load at the same time. Lower this value if results seem incomplete. Default is 5.
Request Delay (ms)	Pause between requests in milliseconds. Increase to 1000 or higher if you notice missing results. Default is 500.

Example configuration:

{
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "requestDelayMs": 500
}

📊 Output

Each freight listing returns up to 17 fields. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify platform.

Example output:

{
  "title": "2020 KUBOTA KX027-4 Mini Excavator",
  "listingId": "AQOXBMLN9",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://icdn.shiply.com/V45P49ZBR_thumb.jpg",
  "category": null,
  "collectionCity": "Cranbrook",
  "collectionCounty": "Kent",
  "collectionPostcode": "TN18",
  "deliveryCity": "Glossop",
  "deliveryCounty": "Derbyshire",
  "deliveryPostcode": "SK13",
  "mileage": 244,
  "quotesCount": 6,
  "isUrgent": false,
  "isFeatured": false,
  "datePosted": "2026-03-15",
  "url": "https://www.shiply.com/transport/2020-KUBOTA-KX027-4/AQOXBMLN9",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-15T17:00:00.000Z"
}

Note on thumbnailUrl and category: Listings with a shipper-uploaded photo include a thumbnailUrl and no category. Listings without a photo show the item category instead. Both fields are never populated at the same time.

💎 Why Choose the Shiply Freight Marketplace Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool
Covers 11 countries worldwide	✔️
Collects up to 1,000,000 listings per run	✔️
Thumbnail photo URL included	✔️
Item category for every listing	✔️
Full pickup and delivery address (city, county, postcode)	✔️
Distance in miles for every route	✔️
Quote count showing carrier demand	✔️
Posting date with relative time parsing	✔️
Urgent and featured load detection	✔️
Processes hundreds of result pages automatically	✔️
Configurable speed and request delay	✔️
CSV, Excel, and JSON export	✔️
Free tier: 100 results per run	✔️
Paid tier: up to 1,000,000 results	✔️

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Shiply Freight Marketplace Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Your Input: Choose a country, set your max item count, and click Start
4. Download Your Data: Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON when the run finishes

That is all. No coding, no setup, no configuration headaches.

🎯 Business Use Cases

Logistics Analysts

• Monitor load volume across 11 countries to identify peak shipping seasons
• Compare quote counts by route to assess how competitive specific lanes are
• Track urgent load frequency to understand shipper pressure points
• Build historical datasets by scheduling daily runs

Fleet Managers

• Map pickup and delivery postcodes to discover underserved routes in your region
• Filter for categories like Cars, Moving Home, or Haulage to find work that matches your fleet
• Cross-reference mileage with quote counts to find high-value, low-competition jobs
• Prioritize urgent flagged loads for maximum revenue per trip

Market Researchers

• Measure freight demand by country to support logistics industry reports
• Analyze featured listing patterns to understand how shippers position premium loads
• Track category distribution over time to identify growing shipping segments
• Export structured datasets to Power BI, Tableau, or Google Sheets for visualization

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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
⭐ Shiply.com Freight Marketplace 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 Shiply.com Freight Marketplace 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

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

How does it work?

You choose a country and a maximum number of listings. The tool loads Shiply's public search results page by page, extracts the load data, and stops when your target count is reached. No account or login is required.

How accurate is the data?

All data comes directly from Shiply's public search results. Location fields, mileage, quote counts, and posting dates reflect exactly what is visible on the marketplace at the time of collection.

Can I collect data from multiple countries at once?

Each run collects from one country. To cover multiple countries, run the tool once per country and combine the exported files.

Can I schedule it to run automatically?

Yes. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the tool hourly, daily, or weekly without any manual steps.

Are there any limits on how much I can collect?

Free users can collect up to 100 listings per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 listings per run.

How long does a run take?

A run collecting 100 listings typically takes under a minute. Collecting 10,000 listings usually takes 5 to 15 minutes depending on your concurrency settings.

What format can I download the data in?

Results are available as JSON, CSV, or Excel directly from the Apify platform with a single click.

🔗 Integrate Shiply Freight Marketplace Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows without code
• Zapier - Connect to 5,000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control and CI/CD
• Slack - Get run notifications in your workspace
• Airbyte - Push data into your data warehouse
• Google Drive - Export directly to spreadsheets

Use webhooks to trigger downstream workflows the moment a run completes.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Shiply.com Freight Marketplace 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 freight listings for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions.
• Visit the Apify support page for platform help and tutorials.
• Use our Tally contact form for custom solutions, requests, or issue reporting.

⚠️ Disclaimer

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

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