Czech Auctions Scraper - Portál dražeb (portaldrazeb.cz) Property and Vehicle Auctions

Portál dražeb Scraper is a Czech auctions scraper and portaldrazeb.cz API: export every public auction (flats, family houses, land, commercial property, cars and other assets) with appraisal price, minimum bid, deposit, auction date, region, address, GPS coordinates, photos and official documents, as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Portál dražeb is the official auction portal of the Czech Chamber of Executors (Exekutorská komora ČR) and the largest source of execution auctions in Czechia. The site has no export and no public data API. This actor reads the same data the site's listing pages load, over plain HTTP with no browser and no login, and adds English category names and handy extras like the minimum bid as a % of the appraisal.

How to use

1. Pick the Auction lists you want (upcoming is the main one; also ongoing, finished with final prices, and overbid rounds).
2. Optionally filter by Categories (flats, houses, land, vehicles, ...), Locations (Praha, Brno, Jihomoravský, ...), price range, auction date range or keywords (3+1, garáž, Škoda).
3. Click Start. The whole portal (~800 auctions) is scraped in about a minute.
4. Download the data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or connect it to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

What you get

• Prices (CZK): appraisal price (odhadní cena), minimum bid (nejnižší podání), minimum bid as % of appraisal, bid increment, caution deposit (jistota), and the current or final price for running and finished auctions.
• Timing: auction start and end, publication date, days until the auction, whether it's an online (electronic) auction, and whether it's a repeated auction.
• Location: region (kraj), district (okres), city, street address when published, and latitude/longitude for ~96% of auctions.
• Asset: title, Czech and English category, full description, and photo URLs.
• Documents: direct links to the auction decree (dražební vyhláška), expert valuation report (znalecký posudek) and other official PDFs, labeled by type.
• Auctioneer: the executor's office name, number, district, website and official contact details.
• IDs: auction ID, official file number (e.g. 098EX01347/21-292) and the auction page URL, so you can track the same auction across runs.

Use cases

• Real-estate investors: a daily feed of flats and houses below appraisal, filtered by region and price
• Car dealers and flippers: vehicle auctions with minimum bids and dates
• Market research on Czech execution auctions: volumes, discounts to appraisal, regional spread
• Alerts: schedule a daily run with your filters and get new auctions in Slack, email or a spreadsheet
• Proptech apps and listing aggregators that need Czech auction inventory

Input example

Field	Default	Description
listings	["upcoming"]	upcoming, ongoing, finished, overbids
categories	all	realEstate, land, house, flat, recreational, apartmentBuilding, commercial, garage, otherRealEstate, movables, vehicles, electronics, furniture, art, otherMovables, intangible
locations	all	Region, district, city or street text, e.g. Praha, Brno, Plzen (accents optional)
minPrice / maxPrice	-	Minimum-bid range in CZK
startFrom / startTo	-	Auction date range, YYYY-MM-DD
keywords	-	Words in the title or description
electronicOnly	false	Only auctions you can bid on online
maxResults	0 (no limit)	Cap on saved auctions

Example:

{
    "listings": ["upcoming", "finished"],
    "categories": ["flat", "house"],
    "locations": ["Praha", "Brno", "Plzen"],
    "minPrice": 1000000
}

Output example

One dataset item per auction. This is a real record from a test run (upcoming flat auction in Prague; description shortened):

{
    "listing": "upcoming",
    "auctionId": "poJ7z",
    "auctionNumber": "098EX01347/21-292",
    "url": "https://www.portaldrazeb.cz/drazba/098ex01347-21-292-poj7z",
    "title": "Byt v Praze - Krč o výměře 76,6 m2",
    "category": "Byt",
    "categoryEn": "Flat / apartment",
    "itemType": "real",
    "auctionType": "execution",
    "electronic": true,
    "status": "upcoming",
    "startAt": "2026-10-06T08:00:00.000+00:00",
    "endAt": "2026-10-06T11:00:00.000+00:00",
    "daysToStart": 11,
    "currency": "CZK",
    "estimatedPrice": 9150000,
    "minimumBid": 6100000,
    "minimumBidPctOfEstimate": 66.7,
    "bidIncrement": 15000,
    "cautionDeposit": 1300000,
    "region": "Hlavní město Praha",
    "district": "Praha",
    "city": "Praha",
    "address": "Za dvorem 1862/3, Krč, Praha",
    "latitude": 50.0183617,
    "longitude": 14.4627307,
    "description": "Předmětem dražby je byt v Praze - Krč o výměře 76,6 m2 s lodžií 6,6 m2 a sklepní kójí ...",
    "images": ["https://www.portaldrazeb.cz/upload/auction-image/32vlN"],
    "documents": [
        { "type": "expert_report", "typeLabel": "Expert valuation report (znalecký posudek)", "url": "https://www.portaldrazeb.cz/upload/auction-document/16YPG" },
        { "type": "auction_decree", "typeLabel": "Auction decree (dražební vyhláška)", "url": "https://www.portaldrazeb.cz/upload/auction-document/NxZnn" }
    ],
    "auctioneerOffice": { "name": "Usnul Milan JUDr.", "officeNumber": "098", "district": "Praha 9", "website": "http://www.ep9.cz" },
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-25T05:31:26.675Z"
}

The dataset's Overview view shows photos, title, category, date, appraisal, minimum bid, % of appraisal, deposit, region, city, address and the auction link.

Field fill rates (real test run: all 818 upcoming + finished auctions)

Field	Fill rate
ID, file number, URL, title, category, status, start date, appraisal, minimum bid, description, documents	100%
region, district, city	97-98%
latitude / longitude	96%
photos	81%
auction end time, caution deposit	70%
street address	34% (many executors publish only the municipality)
bid increment	20% (set for online auctions)
current / final price	set for running and finished auctions

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 results (one result = one auction saved to the dataset).

• Every upcoming auction in Czechia (~800) = about $2.40
• A daily alert for flats and houses in Prague (~5-15 new matches) = a few cents per day
• 100 auctions = $0.30

Filters are applied before saving, so you only pay for auctions that match. You're never charged for failed requests or duplicates. Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly platform credit.

Integrations

• Make, Zapier and n8n: send new auctions to Slack, email, a CRM or Airtable.
• Google Sheets: export straight into a spreadsheet, or refresh it on a schedule.
• Apify API: run the actor and fetch results over REST, or with the official JavaScript and Python clients.
• Webhooks: react the moment a run finishes.
• Schedules: run daily with your filters; use auctionId to spot the auctions you haven't seen yet.
• MCP for AI agents: through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents can search Czech auctions with this actor.

Limits

• Portál dražeb only. Auctions published only on other Czech portals (e.g. voluntary-auction or insolvency sites) aren't included.
• Descriptions are in Czech, exactly as the executor wrote them. Categories are translated to English.
• Street addresses are optional for executors; 34% of auctions have one, but region/district/city and coordinates are nearly always there.
• Documents are links, not parsed text. File names aren't included because uploaded file names sometimes contain the debtor's name.
• Finished list is short-lived. The portal lists recently finished auctions only; schedule runs if you want a history of final prices.
• The actor only collects public listing data. Bidding requires a verified account on the portal, and this actor doesn't do that.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Portál dražeb? The actor collects public auction notices that executors are legally required to publish, and it doesn't log in. Auction listings describe assets, not people: the actor leaves out the portal's personal fields (responsible-person details and document file names) and returns only the executor office's official contact data. You're responsible for how you use the data under GDPR and Czech law. This is not legal advice.

How does it avoid blocks? Each run makes only a few requests: one page load per list, plus a few paged API calls. They go through Apify Proxy with realistic Chrome headers and a session pool. If a request fails or is refused, the session is retired and retried on a fresh one with exponential backoff (6 retries by default).

How fresh is the data? It's live: every run reads the portal at that moment. Auction dates, prices and statuses are exactly what the portal shows.

Why are some auctions a "1/2" share of a house? Executors often auction co-ownership shares (spoluvlastnický podíl). The title says so; check the auction decree for details.

Can I get only new auctions every day? Schedule the actor daily and keep the auctionIds you've already seen (for example in a Google Sheet or a key-value store). Anything with a new ID is new.

How it works (for developers)

The listing pages on portaldrazeb.cz are a Vue app that loads auctions from the site's own JSON endpoint (PUT /drazby/{list}.json) with a CSRF token issued with the page. The actor loads the page once per list for a token and session cookie, pages through the JSON in blocks of 200, normalises every record (prices, RÚIAN address, region, coordinates, photos, documents), applies your filters, and pushes one result per matching auction. It uses Crawlee's HttpCrawler with a session pool and retries.

npm install
npm test                                  # parser tests
APIFY_LOCAL_STORAGE_DIR=./storage node src/main.js   # input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json