Bring a Trailer Auction Results Scraper

Bring a Trailer auction results in one dataset: this Bring a Trailer Scraper collects completed and live auctions with sold prices, last bids, model years, makes, models, currencies, end dates, lot countries and photos. Use it to build comparable classic car sales for valuations, monitor current auctions or compare sold vehicles with lots that did not meet reserve.

Every result is one public auction lot. The Actor supports a free search term or separate manufacturer and model fields, completed auction outcomes, recent time periods, model year bounds and a result limit. Results are delivered to your Apify dataset so you can export them as JSON, CSV, Excel or another supported dataset format.

Who uses Bring a Trailer auction results

• Classic and collector car dealers price stock against recent sold results for the same model and era, and check how often comparable cars fail to meet reserve.
• Insurers and agreed-value underwriters document the market value of a vehicle with dated, public sale prices instead of guide estimates.
• Appraisers and valuation services pull every sold Porsche 911, Jaguar E-Type or Ferrari in a period and attach the original listing URL to each comparable.
• Market analysts and journalists follow how sold prices, bids and the share of unsold lots move over months for a make or model.
• Buyers and sellers watch live auctions closing soon and compare the current bid with what similar cars sold for.

What the Bring a Trailer Scraper collects

Completed auctions include vehicles that sold, auctions whose reserve was not met and withdrawn lots. Live auctions contain the currently visible listings and their scheduled closing times. The title, lot identifier and public listing URL make it possible to revisit each result and inspect its description before using it as a comparable sale.

The completed collection can also contain memorabilia, components and accessories. A keyword search for a manufacturer does not guarantee that every result is a complete vehicle. Check the title and the year, make and model fields before including a row in a valuation analysis. Names and model descriptions follow the source title; they are not a separate vehicle specification catalogue.

Input

Start with a search such as:

{"query":"porsche 911","status":"completed","result":"sold","limit":60}

This search was used during source research. It selects completed sold auctions matching the words Porsche and 911. For a manufacturer and model search, you can instead supply make and model; the Actor combines them with any query you also provide.

Field	Default	Meaning
query	Empty	Free search text, maximum 200 characters
make, model	Empty	Manufacturer and model text added before the query
status	completed	completed or live
result	all	all, sold or unsold, for completed auctions
period	all	all, 7d, 30d, 1y, 2y or 5y
year_min, year_max	Unset	Inclusive model year bounds, 1800–2100
sort	recent	recent, oldest, highest_bid or popular
limit	100	Requested auction count, 1–10,000

Live results are always sorted by scheduled end time, soonest first. The result and period options apply to completed auctions and produce a warning when supplied for live auctions. Live keyword searches require all supplied words to appear in the title or the source's searchable listing text. Year filters exclude live lots whose year is unavailable.

Output

The dataset includes the listing identifier, public URL, decoded title, primary image URL, year, make, model, auction status, bid, sale price, currency, end time and lot country. Each row also carries source, fetched_at and position, making it easier to combine exports and trace the collection time.

auction_status is sold, reserve_not_met, withdrawn or live. The sold field is true for a sale, false for an unsold or withdrawn lot, and null while the auction remains live. sale_price is populated only for sold lots and follows the amount explicitly displayed as “Sold for”. It excludes buyer fees. That amount may differ from the last bid, for example when a sale is agreed after bidding closes.

The research response for this 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena displayed a USD 82,000 last bid and “Sold for USD $85,000”. The Actor therefore preserves high_bid: 82000, price: 82000 and sale_price: 85000, instead of treating the bid as the final sale price.

price and high_bid are the last or current bid in the row's currency. For live auctions, sale_price is null. For unsold and withdrawn lots, an existing bid is retained without implying that the vehicle sold. No currency conversion is performed: USD, EUR and GBP amounts remain in their original currencies.

country describes the US marketplace. location_country describes the country where the lot is located, which may be different. ended_at is the completed auction end time or the scheduled end time of a live auction. All timestamps use UTC. no_reserve, premium and bat_alumni preserve the corresponding auction flags.

Example output: Bring a Trailer auction results

Two real rows from collections on 5 October 2026. A sold lot, from the search {"query":"ferrari","result":"sold","period":"30d","limit":10}:

{
  "source": "bringatrailer-scraper",
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-05T21:55:24.814Z",
  "country": "US",
  "listing_id": "123130331",
  "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1999-ferrari-360-modena-70/",
  "title": "1999 Ferrari 360 Modena",
  "price": 82000,
  "currency": "USD",
  "brand": "Ferrari",
  "image_url": "https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/JCZ7373-scaled-copy-2026-09-28-43z-08935.jpg",
  "position": 1,
  "year": 1999,
  "make": "Ferrari",
  "model": "360 Modena",
  "auction_status": "sold",
  "sold": true,
  "sale_price": 85000,
  "high_bid": 82000,
  "price_text": "USD $82,000",
  "ended_at": "2026-10-05T20:37:24.000Z",
  "location_country": "US",
  "no_reserve": false,
  "premium": false,
  "bat_alumni": false,
  "excerpt": "This Grigio Titanio 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena has 37k miles and is powered by a 3.6-liter V8 that received a timing belt service in 2026. ..."
}

And a lot whose reserve was not met, from the search {"result":"unsold","limit":10}. The bid is kept, sale_price stays null:

{
  "listing_id": "122119000",
  "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1997-aston-martin-db7-volante-9/",
  "title": "1997 Aston Martin DB7 Volante",
  "year": 1997,
  "make": "Aston Martin",
  "model": "DB7 Volante",
  "auction_status": "reserve_not_met",
  "sold": false,
  "sale_price": null,
  "high_bid": 18620,
  "price": 18620,
  "currency": "USD",
  "ended_at": "2026-10-05T21:14:42.000Z",
  "location_country": "US"
}

The excerpt is shortened here; the dataset holds the full text. Every row also carries the image URL and the three auction flags.

Bring a Trailer scraper compared with other sources

• The Bring a Trailer website shows auction results page by page for people. It has no public export or API for collecting hundreds of results into a spreadsheet.
• Valuation guides and price trackers publish averages and estimates per model. They are useful context, but an appraiser or insurer often needs the individual sales behind a number, with a date and a link to the lot.
• Copying results by hand works for five cars, not for every sold 911 of the last two years. It also makes it easy to mistake the last bid for the sale price.
• Writing your own scraper means handling pagination, duplicates, HTML entities, currencies and the difference between a bid and a negotiated sale yourself.
• Other Bring a Trailer scrapers in the Store differ in scope and price model; some also open every detail page for VIN or mileage at a higher price per row. This one focuses on listing rows with an explicit sale price, and you pay only per delivered auction, with no start fee.

Collection limits and completeness

A completed search can expose at most 10,000 rows for one filter combination, even if the source reports many more matches. Narrow the recency or model year bounds to collect different portions of the history. total_results is the source matching count, while window_capped indicates that the completed result window is limited.

Large Actor runs continue automatically in smaller portions. Dataset rows are deduplicated by their auction identifier. The output record and summary retain warnings when a collection cannot finish, and a remaining next_cursor indicates a resumable collection. A changing auction catalogue can affect which rows are visible between requests; the result is a collection of observations, not a historical database snapshot.

Pricing

Pricing is per delivered auction listing. The list price is USD 0.004 per listing (USD 4 per 1,000 auction results); the Actor's pricing tab always shows the active rate. There is no separate start event in this Actor's charge map. Empty searches and requests that return no usable auction listings incur no listing charge. Each delivered row is counted once after collection and deduplication.

Non-paying Apify users receive at most ten dataset rows per run. A larger requested limit is capped before collection for those users. Paying users can request the full supported result range, subject to the source's matching count and search window. The run summary records delivered rows and collection limitations so that a short collection remains visible.

FAQ

Can I use this to find comparable classic car sales?

Yes. Select status: completed and result: sold, then filter by model, year and recency. Use sale_price and currency for the observed sale amount. Inspect the original lot description before considering condition, specification and provenance comparable.

Does an unsold auction have a sale price?

No. sale_price is null when the reserve was not met or the lot was withdrawn. A last bid can still be present in price and high_bid; that bid is not evidence of a sale.

Why are year, make or model sometimes null?

Completed listings rely on the title for those fields. Parts, signs and other memorabilia often have no vehicle year or manufacturer directly after a year. The Actor preserves unknown fields as null rather than guessing a vehicle identity.

Are VIN, mileage and seller details included?

This version collects listing rows. It does not enrich every lot from its detail page, so VIN, mileage, seller identity and full bid histories are outside the promised output.

Can I download the entire auction history in one run?

A single completed filter combination is limited to 10,000 visible results. Split a larger research collection into narrower year or recency searches and deduplicate identifiers across your exported datasets.

Does the sale price include the buyer's fee?

No. sale_price is the amount displayed as "Sold for" on the lot, without the buyer's premium. Add the fee yourself if your valuation needs the total cost to the buyer.

Can I track live auctions?

Yes. Set status: live to get the currently running auctions sorted by closing time, soonest first. sold is null and sale_price is empty until the auction has ended; run the same search later with status: completed to collect the outcomes.

Which currencies appear in the results?

Most lots are in USD, but auctions can also run in EUR or GBP. The Actor never converts amounts: compare rows in the same currency, or convert them with your own exchange rate for the end date.