📦 MaxSold Scraper & Estate Auction Monitor

Scrape live MaxSold (maxsold.com) estate & downsizing auctions — every item lot with its title, current bid, bid count, lot number, closing time, and photos — by US state or by specific auction. Then run it on a schedule as a new-lot monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment fresh lots drop, so you bid first.

Turn MaxSold's estate-sale and reseller auctions across the US & Canada into a clean dataset or a real-time deal alert. No login, no browser automation.

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What does MaxSold Scraper do?

MaxSold Scraper extracts estate, downsizing, and reseller auction item lots from maxsold.com and returns them as clean, structured rows you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API. MaxSold runs managed online estate sales with everything from antiques and tools to furniture and collectibles — this actor pulls the individual item lots with live bid data.

• 🔎 Find auctions by state or scrape specific auction IDs directly.
• 🛒 Item-level data — title, description, current bid, starting/minimum bid, bid count, lot number.
• ⏰ Timing — each lot's start/end time and the auction's close time.
• 🏷️ Reserve flags — has_reserve / reserve_met and buyer_premium.
• 🖼️ Photos — every item image.
• 🔔 New-lot monitor — schedule it and get Slack / email / webhook alerts for newly listed lots.

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What data does it extract?

For every item lot:

• 🆔 item_id, 🔗 item_url, 🏷️ title, 📝 description, 🔢 lot_number
• 💵 current_bid, starting_bid, minimum_bid, 🔨 bid_count
• 🏷️ has_reserve, reserve_met, buyer_premium
• ⏰ start_time, end_time, 👁️ viewed
• 🖼️ images[]
• 🏛️ auction_id, auction_url, auction_title, close_time
• 📍 region, city, state, country
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🕒 scraped_at

(Turn off item scraping to get one row per auction instead — title, region, category, lot count, open/close time, image.)

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Who is it for?

• 🛒 Estate-sale flippers & resellers sourcing lots to win, pick up, and resell.
• ♻️ Thrift & consignment sourcers hunting cheap inventory by category.
• 📊 Price-research teams analyzing realized estate-auction prices.
• 🧭 Auction aggregators combining MaxSold with other estate/auction sources.

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Two ways to use it

1. Bulk scrape — discover auctions by state (or list auction IDs) and pull every item lot into one clean dataset.
2. New-lot monitor (the recurring play) — set monitorMode: true, attach an Apify Schedule, and the actor emits/alerts only newly-listed lots since the last run.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Choose a Search type: Discover by state (enter state names) or Specific auction IDs.
3. Keep Scrape item lots on for item-level rows (or turn it off for auction-level rows).
4. Click Start, then open the Dataset tab to view/export.
5. (Optional) set monitorMode + a Schedule + an alert channel to get pinged on new lots.

Quick start

{ "searchType": "discover", "states": ["texas"], "scrapeItems": true, "maxAuctions": 10 }

Specific-auction example

{ "searchType": "auctions", "auctionIds": ["110479"], "scrapeItems": true }

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Input

Field	What it does
searchType	discover (browse by state) · auctions (scrape given auction IDs)
states	full lower-case US state names to browse (e.g. texas, new-york)
auctionIds	specific MaxSold auction IDs to scrape
scrapeItems	output one row per item lot (on) or per auction (off)
maxAuctions / maxItems	caps per run
monitorMode, alertOnNewLot	recurring watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + parallelism

Note on discovery: MaxSold's state browse returns the auctions it currently surfaces for that geo (it's geo-approximate — full geo-search is a credentialed call this actor doesn't use). For precise, complete coverage of a known sale, use Specific auction IDs (the number in /auction/{id}/bidgallery).

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Output

Each item lot (or auction) is one dataset record (fields above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. Bids are numbers in USD; times are ISO‑8601 with the auction's timezone offset.

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How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event — you pay for what you pull, no subscription. Suggested rates:

Event	What it covers	Suggested price
lot-scraped	each item/auction returned	~$0.003 / row
auction-detail-scraped	each auction opened for items	~$0.004 / auction
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly listed lot	~$0.02 / lot
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook push	~$0.005 / alert

(Final per-event prices are set on the actor's pricing page.)

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Is it legal to scrape MaxSold?

MaxSold lot listings are public, browsable without a login, and the records are item/listing data — not personal data. Scraping publicly available listings is generally legal, but you are responsible for your use: review MaxSold's Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

What is MaxSold? MaxSold runs managed online estate and downsizing auctions across the US and Canada, selling everything in a home or estate as individual lots to local pickup buyers.

Do I need an account or login? No. The actor reads public listing data directly.

Can I monitor new lots and get alerts? Yes. Use monitorMode, attach an Apify Schedule, and add a Slack/webhook/email channel. Each run alerts only lots new since the last run.

How do I scrape a specific auction? Set searchType: "auctions" and put the auction's ID (the number in /auction/{id}/bidgallery) in auctionIds.

Does it include photos and bid counts? Yes — every item lot includes images[], current_bid, and bid_count.

How do I export the data? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS from the Dataset tab, or via the Apify API.

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You might also like

• 📦 Other estate & online auctions (K-BID, equip-bid, Proxibid)
• 🏛️ Government & surplus auctions (GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus, StorageTreasures)
• 🔨 General auction marketplace scrapers

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Feedback

Found a missing field or want a new filter? Open an issue on the actor — fast fixes and feature requests welcome.