LockerFox Storage Auction Scraper — Lots, Bids & Facilities

Every open storage-unit lien auction on lockerfox.com as a clean row — current bid, exact close time, unit size, contents, photos, cleanout deposit and pickup window — with the facility's name, street, city, state, ZIP, phone and opening hours attached to each one.

$0.0035 per row. No run-start fee. A run that matches nothing costs nothing.

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What one row is

One row = one storage unit up for auction, joined to the facility selling it.

That join is the point. A storage-auction listing is only useful if you can act on it, and acting on it means knowing which facility to drive to and which number to call to pay. US self-storage lien statutes require the facility to publish the sale with its identity and location attached — Texas Property Code §59.044, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §21707, Fla. Stat. §83.806 and their equivalents in the other 40 states LockerFox covers. That is why the contact block on these rows is not "usually there": it is 100% filled across every lot we measured.

Switch Row type to Facilities and one row becomes one storage facility with a sale on the calendar instead — the same contact block, plus its sale dates, its open lot ids and its bid range.

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Measured, not estimated

Everything below was counted on 2026-09-18 by walking the entire site — the sitemap, all 43 state schedule pages, and every one of the 1,004 facility pages. Nothing is extrapolated.

	Counted
States LockerFox publishes	43 (42 had stock on the day; West Virginia had none)
Storage facilities with a scheduled sale	1,004
Scheduled sale events on the calendar	1,111
Lots in total	4,741
— open for bidding right now	3,778
— announced, bidding not yet started	963
Facility pages that returned cleanly	1,004 / 1,004 (zero errors)
Biggest states (open lots)	texas 421 · indiana 309 · florida 300 · massachusetts 285 · north-carolina 243 · pennsylvania 238 · georgia 171 · ohio 164 · illinois 160 · michigan 131 · california 120 · kentucky 116
Smallest	mississippi 7 · north-dakota 5 · oregon 3 · kansas 2 · arizona 1 · wyoming 1

This is a small, fast-churning corpus. 3,778 open lots is the entire national inventory at any instant, and individual lots close within days. That makes this a repeat-run product — a nightly or hourly sweep of your states — not a one-off dump of a million rows. Price the value accordingly: one locker won usually pays for a lot of runs.

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Every field, with its measured fill

Fill percentages come from a 150-lot sample drawn evenly across the national census, spanning 34 states, parsed from the raw bytes. "", "N/A", "-" and "—" are counted as not filled. A field we cannot populate is not shipped at all — see What we do not ship below.

Identity

Field	Fill	What it is
lotId	100%	LockerFox's lot number, the id in /auctions/details/<id>
detailUrl	100%	Direct link to the listing (null for lots not yet open)
lotTitle	100%	e.g. Lot #20942220 U-Lock Self Storage
listingStatus	100%	open (biddable now) or openSoon (announced, bidding not started)
listingType	100%	Lien Sale (143/150) or Manager's Unit (7/150)
biddingOpen	100%	false once the bidding window has passed
biddingStartsLocal	upcoming lots only	When bidding opens, e.g. Sunday 9/27 9:00 AM
stateSlug, country	100%	texas, US
scrapedAt	100%	ISO instant of capture

The facility contact block — this is why the row sells

Field	Fill	What it is
facilityName	100%	e.g. U-Lock Self Storage
street	100%	e.g. 762 US 77
city · state · zip	100%	Hallettsville · TX · 77964 — all 150 ZIPs were 5 digits
facilityPhone	100%	All 150 matched (NNN) NNN-NNNN. The facility's own line, not LockerFox's switchboard
facilityUrl	100%	The facility's page, listing all its open lots
facilityMapUrl	100%	Google Maps link, percent-encoded so it actually opens
facilityHours	99%	All seven days as an object, including days the office is Closed
facilityNotes	93%	The free-text payment and cleanout instructions — "Winners must call (361) 798-4141 to pay via credit/debit card. NO CASH. There is no office at the facility…"
pickupTime · pickupTimeHours	100%	72 Hours / 72. Observed: 24h (12), 48h (74), 72h (63), 168h (1)
sellerRatingStars · sellerReviewCount	71%	Star rating and review count where the facility has reviews. Observed stars: 5 (86), 4 (19), 3 (1), 2 (1)
facilityVerifiedOn	71%	Date of the verified review, e.g. Dec 13, 2022
otherAuctionsAtFacility	91%	How many other lots this facility has open — a one-trip signal
scheduledSales	100%	The facility's sale calendar: date, time and address per event
facilityOrgId · facilityId	100%	LockerFox's internal operator and facility ids, stable across runs

Money

Field	Fill	What it is
currentBid	100%	USD, read from the page's own numeric variable, not scraped off the rendered digits
minimumBid	100%	The opening bid the facility set
nextBid	100%	What the next valid bid would be
cleanoutDeposit	100%	Refundable deposit. Observed: $100 (124), $150 (9), $0 (8), $200 (4), $50 (2), $250 (1), $300 (2)
highBidder	49% overall — 100% of lots that have a bid	The leading bidder's handle. Cross-tabbed on the sample: 74 of 74 lots with a bid had a named leader, 0 of 76 lots sitting at $0 did. The two sets are exactly complementary, so the blanks are real, not missed parses
hasBid	100%	true/false, never a fabricated zero
currencyCode	100%	USD

Timing

Field	Fill	What it is
closesAtUtc	100%	An exact UTC instant. Derived from the seconds-to-close the server itself puts in the page, so you never have to guess what CDT meant on a given date
closesAtLocal	100%	Closes Friday 9/18 5:00 PM CDT as published
biddingEndsLocal	100%	Fri 9/18 5:00 PM CDT as published
timezoneAbbrev	100%	Observed: EDT (92), CDT (47), PDT (7), MDT (4)
secondsRemaining · hoursRemaining · daysRemaining	100% on open lots	Countdown at capture time

The unit

Field	Fill	What it is
unitSize	100%	12 x 12
unitWidthFt · unitLengthFt · unitAreaSqFt	100%	Parsed and multiplied out — 12 x 12 → 144 sq ft, so you can filter and sort on size
contents	95%	The facility's contents summary: Clothes, Books, Boxes & Totes, Furniture, Household Goods, Tools & Workshop
contentCategories	95%	The same thing split into an array, ready to filter on
unitDescription	63%	Extra free text where the facility wrote any
photoUrls · photoCount · imageUrl	100%	Every distinct photo at full resolution. Observed 1–12 per lot, median 5. Deduplicated by asset, so the same photo at three render sizes counts once

Bidding activity — switch on Include live bid history

Field	Fill	What it is
liveBid · liveHighBidder · auctionStatus	100%	Read live from LockerFox's own public bid database. auctionStatus was OPEN on all 150 open lots sampled
totalBids · uniqueBidders	100% of lots with a bid	Bid count and distinct bidders
bidHistory	100% of lots with a bid (74/74)	Every single bid: amount, date, bidder handle, and whether it was placed by hand or auto-raised by someone's proxy bid

The page bid and the database bid were identical on 150 of 150 lots, so the two sources cross-check each other.

Facilities mode adds

nextSaleDate · nextSaleTime · openLotCount · openLotIds · upcomingLotCount · upcomingLotIds · nextBiddingOpensLocal · lowestCurrentBid · highestCurrentBid · totalCurrentBidValue · soonestLotClosesAtUtc.

Measured across all 1,004 facilities: phone 1,004/1,004, ZIP 1,004/1,004, full seven-day hours 991/1,004 (98.7%).

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What we do not ship, and why

Shipping a column of nulls is worse than not shipping it. LockerFox does not publish these, so they are cut:

• latitude / longitude — no coordinates anywhere on the site. Use facilityMapUrl or geocode street, city, state, zip yourself.
• totalViews / uniqueViews — view counts are not published.
• reservePrice — not published.
• salesTaxPercent — mentioned in prose in facilityNotes on some lots, never as a structured number.
• unitNumber — the unit's number at the facility is not published.
• postDate / activeDate — LockerFox publishes when a lot closes, not when it was listed.
• paymentOptions as a structured list — the payment terms are free text, and you get them verbatim in facilityNotes (93% fill) rather than a tidy but invented enum.
• facilityWebsite, facilityFeatures — not published.
• A ZIP-radius search — without coordinates, a radius would be a guess. zipCodes matches exact ZIPs instead.

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A real row

Not an example. This is lot 20942220, delivered by an actual run on 2026-09-18, trimmed only where noted.

{
  "lotId": "20942220",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.lockerfox.com/auctions/details/20942220",
  "lotTitle": "Lot #20942220 U-Lock Self Storage",
  "listingStatus": "open",
  "listingType": "Lien Sale",
  "biddingOpen": true,
  "facilityName": "U-Lock Self Storage",
  "facilityUrl": "https://www.lockerfox.com/storage-auctions/us/texas/hallettsville/u-lock-self-storage/",
  "facilityOrgId": "2272893",
  "facilityId": "2272895",
  "street": "762 US 77",
  "city": "Hallettsville",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "77964",
  "country": "US",
  "facilityPhone": "(361) 798-4141",
  "facilityMapUrl": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/762%20US%2077,Hallettsville,TX,77964",
  "facilityHours": {
    "Monday": "8 AM - 8 PM", "Tuesday": "8 AM - 8 PM", "Wednesday": "8 AM - 8 PM",
    "Thursday": "8 AM - 8 PM", "Friday": "8 AM - 8 PM", "Saturday": "8 AM - 8 PM",
    "Sunday": "8 AM - 8 PM"
  },
  "facilityNotes": "IMPORTANT: Winners must call (361) 798-4141 to pay for their unit via credit/debit card. NO CASH. There is no office at the facility. After paying your high bid amount (plus any sales tax), you will be given a temporary gate code and access to the unit. Unit subject to a $100 cleanout deposit, which will not be charged if unit is fully emptied as required.",
  "sellerRatingStars": 5,
  "sellerReviewCount": 1,
  "facilityVerifiedOn": "Dec 13, 2022",
  "otherAuctionsAtFacility": 17,
  "scheduledSales": [
    { "saleDate": "9/18/26", "saleTime": "5:00 PM", "facilityName": "U-Lock Self Storage",
      "street": "762 US 77", "city": "Hallettsville", "state": "TX", "zip": "77964" }
  ],
  "currentBid": 710,
  "minimumBid": 20,
  "nextBid": 720,
  "highBidder": "melonmacaw94",
  "hasBid": true,
  "cleanoutDeposit": 100,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "closesAtUtc": "2026-09-18T21:59:58.728Z",
  "closesAtLocal": "Friday 9/18 5:00 PM CDT",
  "biddingEndsLocal": "Fri 9/18 5:00 PM CDT",
  "timezoneAbbrev": "CDT",
  "secondsRemaining": 9522,
  "hoursRemaining": 2.65,
  "daysRemaining": 0,
  "unitSize": "12 x 12",
  "unitWidthFt": 12,
  "unitLengthFt": 12,
  "unitAreaSqFt": 144,
  "contents": "Clothes, Books, Boxes & Totes, Furniture, Household Goods, Tools & Workshop",
  "contentCategories": ["Clothes", "Books", "Boxes & Totes", "Furniture", "Household Goods", "Tools & Workshop"],
  "unitDescription": "United must be emptied entirely by Sunday evening or you will be charged a cleanout fee. Special accommodations can be made for clients purchasing multiple units.",
  "pickupTime": "72 Hours",
  "pickupTimeHours": 72,
  "imageUrl": "https://dxy0itsww8gss.cloudfront.net/…/resize=width:1024/…/cDmatHRFSodwdYQfCKg7",
  "photoUrls": ["https://dxy0itsww8gss.cloudfront.net/…"],
  "photoCount": 1,
  "stateSlug": "texas",
  "detailFetched": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T19:21:16.728Z"
}

With Include live bid history on, the same row also carries:

{
  "liveBid": 710,
  "liveHighBidder": "melonmacaw94",
  "auctionStatus": "OPEN",
  "totalBids": 71,
  "uniqueBidders": 4,
  "bidHistory": [
    { "bid": 20,  "date": "9/3", "bidder": "dexter1229", "bidSource": "M", "proxyPusher": null },
    { "bid": 30,  "date": "9/4", "bidder": "dexter1229", "bidSource": "P", "proxyPusher": "melonmacaw94" },
    { "bid": 710, "date": "9/17","bidder": "melonmacaw94","bidSource": "M", "proxyPusher": null }
  ]
}

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Inputs

Input	Type	Default	What it does
mode	select	lots	lots = one row per auction · facilities = one row per facility with a sale
states	list	all 43	Slugs (texas) or codes (TX). An unknown value is reported in RUN_SUMMARY.warnings, never silently dropped
facilityUrls	list	–	Restrict to named facilities, skipping the state walk
lotIds	list	–	Look up known lots directly and skip enumeration entirely — the cheapest way to re-check a watchlist
cities	list	–	Keep lots whose address line contains one of these
zipCodes	list	–	Keep lots at these exact ZIPs
keywords	list	–	Keep lots whose contents or title contain one of these
listingStatus	select	any	open (biddable now) · openSoon (announced)
minCurrentBid / maxCurrentBid	int	–	Bid range in USD
bidState	select	any	noBidsYet ($0, nobody has touched it) · hasBids
minUnitAreaSqFt / maxUnitAreaSqFt	int	–	Unit size range, derived from the published dimensions
closingWithinHours	int	–	"What can I still win today"
fetchLotDetails	bool	true	Off = ~4× faster, 16 fields null, same price per row
includeBidHistory	bool	false	Adds the live bid, leader, status and full bid history at no extra charge
maxRows	int	50	Hard cap on rows delivered and charged. Enumeration stops when it is reached
concurrency	int	6	Requests in flight, 1–12
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Apify datacenter	See Source and limits

Examples

Everything open in Texas and Oklahoma, cheap and closing today:

{ "states": ["TX", "OK"], "maxCurrentBid": 100, "closingWithinHours": 24, "maxRows": 500 }

Untouched lockers — nobody has bid yet — containing tools or electronics:

{ "states": ["FL"], "bidState": "noBidsYet", "keywords": ["tools", "electronics"], "maxRows": 200 }

Re-price a watchlist for a fraction of a cent, no enumeration:

{ "lotIds": ["20942220", "20955693"], "includeBidHistory": true }

Every storage facility with a sale on the calendar in the Northeast, for the phone list:

{ "mode": "facilities", "states": ["MA", "NH", "ME", "VT", "RI", "CT"], "maxRows": 500 }

Get in before the crowd — lots announced but not yet open for bidding:

{ "states": ["GA", "PA"], "listingStatus": "openSoon", "maxRows": 300 }

The whole country:

{ "maxRows": 5000 }

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Pricing

$0.0035 per row delivered. No run-start fee, no charge for anything you do not receive.

• Lots your filters exclude are dropped at the listing-card stage, before any detail page is fetched. That is deliberate: if filtering happened after the fetch, we would pay for candidates you never receive, and that cost would end up in the price. So a narrow filter genuinely costs less.
• Upcoming lots are detected on the card and never cost a detail request.
• Lot IDs that do not exist, pages that answer but publish no record, and lots we could not reach are kept in three separate lists in RUN_SUMMARY and charged nothing — because "no such lot", "no record published" and "we could not get there" mean three different things to someone working a list.
• maxRows is enforced against rows actually produced, not against internal batches, so a cap of 50 charges for exactly 50.

A full national sweep of all 3,778 open lots is about $13.22 and finishes in roughly nine minutes.

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Source and limits — read this before you buy

Where the data comes from. The public pages of lockerfox.com: /sitemap.xml, each state's /schedule page, each facility page, and each lot's detail page. No login, no account, no paid proxy. Photos and contents summaries are uploaded by the facilities themselves, and LockerFox's own disclaimer notes some descriptions may be AI-generated — always check the photos.

robots.txt. https://www.lockerfox.com/robots.txt reads, verbatim:

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5
Allow: /account/login/
Disallow: /auctions/
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /public-notices/
Disallow: /operators/?utm_campaign=Legal
Disallow: /account/

Disallow: /auctions/ covers the lot detail page, which is the richest hop in Lots mode. The sitemap, state, city, /schedule and facility pages are all permitted. Facilities mode never touches a /auctions/ path at all, and neither does Lots mode with fetchLotDetails off — both stay entirely inside the allowed part of the site. The Crawl-delay: 5 directive is not honoured: at 6 concurrent requests a full national run takes about nine minutes, where a 5-second delay would make it about 6.7 hours. You should decide whether that trade is acceptable for your use.

Blocking. None observed. Across 1,250+ requests on 2026-09-18 — from a home IP, through an Apify datacenter exit, and through a US residential exit — nothing was blocked, challenged or rate-limited, and the bytes were identical on all three (state page 277,995 B, lot page 57,253 B on every route). No Cloudflare, no CAPTCHA, no JS challenge. Datacenter proxy is therefore the default; switch to residential only if your own network is treated differently.

Session behaviour. Lot detail pages need a session cookie that only a state-scoped index page will issue. The actor handles this per worker and re-establishes it automatically. You will not see it, but it is the reason a naive scrape of this site returns zero rows.

Honest limits.

1. The corpus is small and churns fast. 3,778 open lots nationwide; individual lots close within days. This is a monitoring feed, not a bulk dataset.
2. No coordinates, so no radius search. See What we do not ship.
3. Bids and countdowns are live values. currentBid and secondsRemaining were true at scrapedAt and will have moved by the time you read them.
4. A lot can close between enumeration and fetch. When it does, the site stops rendering the countdown; the row comes back with biddingOpen: false and the lot is listed in RUN_SUMMARY.closedSinceEnumerated rather than silently carrying a stale time.
5. Upcoming lots are genuinely thinner. LockerFox publishes no detail page and no photos for a lot until bidding opens, so openSoon rows carry the card fields only. They are flagged, never padded.
6. contents is the facility's summary, not an inventory. 95% fill, and the facility wrote it.
7. Seller ratings exist for 71% of lots. A blank means the facility has no reviews, not that we failed to read them.
8. West Virginia has a live page and zero stock. Four other states were in single digits on the measurement day. A state filter returning nothing is usually the truth, and RUN_SUMMARY will say so.
9. maxRows on an unfiltered national run takes states in alphabetical order, not a random sample. The walk follows the sitemap, so { "maxRows": 60 } with no states returns Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona and California — not 60 lots spread across the country. That is deliberate (it is what makes a small cap cheap: enumeration stops early instead of walking all 1,004 facilities first). If you want a specific area, name it in states; if you want everything, set maxRows to 5000.

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Who this is for

• Storage-unit flippers and resellers — find lockers worth bidding on, with the phone number to call the moment you win.
• Liquidators and clean-out crews — facilityNotes tells you the payment method, the cleanout deposit and the pickup window before you commit.
• Auction alert services — run it on a schedule against your states and diff on lotId; every lot carries a stable id and an exact closesAtUtc.
• Anyone already using a StorageTreasures feed — LockerFox is a separate, independent platform, so this is net-new inventory rather than the same lots again.
• Route planners — otherAuctionsAtFacility and Facilities mode's openLotIds tell you where one trip wins several units.
• Market researchers — bidHistory gives you the complete price discovery path on every lot that has a bid, including which raises were automatic proxy bids.

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Output

• Dataset — one row per lot (or facility). Four ready-made table views: Storage auction lots, Facility contacts, Facilities & sale calendar, Bidding activity. Export JSON, CSV, Excel, or pull via API.
• RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store — states walked, facilities found, sale rows read, lot cards seen, cards that passed your filters, rows delivered (= rows charged), the measured field fill for your own run, and the three separate "nothing" lists.

Legal

This actor reads pages that lockerfox.com serves to any anonymous visitor. Lien-sale notices are published under state self-storage statutes precisely so that they are public. It collects no personal data about bidders beyond the public display handles the site itself shows next to bids, holds no credentials, and does not place bids. You are responsible for how you use the output, including any applicable marketing and contact rules.