GovDeals Scraper

GovDeals Scraper: Government Surplus Auctions

Export auction lots from GovDeals, where US cities, counties, schools and agencies sell their surplus, to a spreadsheet or an API. Search trucks, fire engines, heavy equipment, generators or anything else, and each row gives you the current bid, when the auction ends, where the lot is, the category, the selling agency, and the make, model and year. Run it on a schedule and you get only the new lots and bid changes since the last run.

Who uses it

• Used-equipment and vehicle dealers finding fleet trucks and machinery before the auction closes.
• Resellers and exporters watching a category across every state at once.
• Analysts tracking what used fleet vehicles sell for at public auction.

What you get

A search for truck on 15 November 2026:

Lot	Current bid (USD)	Ends	Location	Category	Selling agency
2019 Ford F-550 Bucket Truck Regular Cab DRW 4WD	10,000	19 Nov	Como, TX	Pickup Trucks
2012 Freightliner M2 106 S/A Bucket Truck	5,100	19 Nov	Beaumont, TX	Bucket Trucks
1995 E-One Pumper Fire Truck	5,000	20 Nov	Sheridan, AR	Fire Trucks	Center Grove Volunteer Fire Department
2007 Ford F-350 Super Duty 4x4 Pickup Truck	975	23 Nov	Dumont, NJ	Pickup Trucks	Dumont Borough
1980 GMC Truck	725	20 Nov	Charlestown, MA	Fire Trucks	Boston, MA

Each row also carries the lot URL and number, the make, model and year, the photo, the ZIP code, the auction's start and end time in UTC, the time left, the bid increment, whether the lot has a reserve and whether it's met, and whether it has sold. Description, asset bid price, and inventory ID appear only when GovDeals provides them.

Two modes

Mode	What you get
search (default)	Every lot matching your keyword and filters
monitor	Only lots that are new, changed bid or ended since the last run

Price

$3 per 1,000 lots. There's no start fee. In monitor mode you pay only for new and changed lots, so a quiet day costs nothing. 100 lots cost $0.30.

How to run it

Bucket trucks in Texas and Oklahoma with bids under $15,000:

{
  "query": "bucket truck",
  "locationStates": ["TX", "OK"],
  "maxCurrentBid": 15000,
  "excludeSold": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

For a daily alert, save the search as a task with "mode": "monitor" and schedule it. The first run records what's up today. After that you get only new lots and bid changes.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
query	truck	What to search for, for example generator or excavator.
mode	search	search or monitor.
locationStates	all	US state codes, for example GA, TX.
minCurrentBid, maxCurrentBid	none	Current bid range in USD.
hasReservePrice	any	Only lots with (or without) a reserve price.
excludeSold	false	Skip lots already sold.
maxItems	24	The most lots to return, up to 500.

Output fields

id, url, title, lotNumber, assetId, auctionId, inventoryId, category, categoryDescription, makeBrand, model, modelYear, currentBid, assetBidPrice, bidIncrement, currencyCode, hasReservePrice, isReserveNotMet, isSold, auctionStartDate, auctionEndDate, auctionEndDateUtc, timeRemaining, locationCity, locationState, locationZip, country, companyName, description, photo (full image URL), scrapedAt. (description, assetBidPrice, and inventoryId are included only when present.)

FAQ

Does it place bids? No. It reads public listings only. You bid on GovDeals yourself.

Why is the selling agency missing on some lots? GovDeals shows some sellers only as a seller number. companyName carries whatever GovDeals publishes.

Does it cover other auction sites? No, only GovDeals.

Something looks wrong in my results. Open an issue on the Issues tab with your input and we'll look at it.

Use it from AI agents (MCP) and Python

AI agents. Add this Actor as a tool in Claude, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server. The agent reads the input schema, so a plain request is enough.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "govdeals-scraper": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=redomic/govdeals-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Python. pip install apify-client, then:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("redomic/govdeals-scraper").call(run_input={"query": "truck", "maxItems": 5})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

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