🔎 Multi Auction Search — Storage, Surplus & Estate Sites

One keyword search across 8 auction sites in a single run — StorageTreasures, GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus, Municibid, Proxibid, MaxSold, K-BID and Equip-Bid. Get one unified feed of matching lots (title, current bid, location, close time, photo) instead of checking 8 tabs, then schedule it as a cross-site new-lot monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment a fresh match drops anywhere.

Stop tab-hopping between auction sites. Type "tools", "generator", "trailer", "jewelry" — get every matching live lot across the storage-unit, government-surplus, and estate-sale ecosystems in one clean dataset. No login, no API key, no browser automation.

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What does Multi Auction Search do?

Multi Auction Search fans your keyword out to up to 8 auction marketplaces concurrently and returns one normalized table of matching live lots you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API:

• 🏛️ PublicSurplus — state/county/city government surplus (server-side keyword search)
• 🚒 Municibid — municipal surplus: vehicles, equipment, gear (server-side keyword search)
• 🇺🇸 GSA Auctions — federal surplus, from the official public JSON feed
• 📦 StorageTreasures — abandoned storage-unit auctions (contents matched to your keyword)
• 🚜 Equip-Bid — Midwest equipment & liquidation auctions
• 🔨 K-BID — the Midwest's largest independent online-auction marketplace
• 💎 Proxibid — live auction lots by category
• 🏠 MaxSold — estate-sale item lots across the US & Canada

Sites with a real server-side search get your keyword in the request; sites without one have their latest lots fetched and filtered client-side — the same live-verified approach as our 8 dedicated single-site scrapers (linked below).

• ⚡ Concurrent + fault-isolated — all sites run in parallel under a per-site time budget; one slow or blocked site never fails the run.
• 🧾 One unified record shape — site, lot_url, title, current_bid, currency, location, close_time, image.
• 🔔 Cross-site new-lot monitor — schedule it and get Slack / email / webhook alerts for newly listed matches on any of the 8 sites.

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What data does it extract?

One dataset row per matching lot:

• 🌐 site — which marketplace the lot is on
• 🆔 lot_id, 🔗 lot_url — direct link to bid
• 🏷️ title — lot/auction title
• 💵 current_bid + currency (USD / CAD)
• 📍 location — city/state as the site publishes it
• ⏰ close_time — auction end time
• 🖼️ image — lead photo
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🔎 keyword, 🕒 scraped_at

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Who is it for?

• 🛒 Resellers & flippers sourcing inventory ("tools", "pallet", "laptop") across every channel at once.
• 🚚 Equipment & vehicle buyers watching surplus fleets on GSA + PublicSurplus + Municibid simultaneously.
• 📦 Storage-auction hunters combining unit contents with surplus and estate lots in one feed.
• 📊 Deal-alert builders piping cross-site matches into Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n, or a custom app.

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Two ways to use it

1. One-shot search — enter keywords, pick sites, get the combined dataset.
2. Cross-site monitor (the recurring play) — set monitorMode: true, attach an Apify Schedule (e.g. hourly), and the actor emits/alerts only lots that are new since the last run, per keyword+site scope.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter Keywords (e.g. tools — comma-separate multiple terms).
3. Pick Sites to search (the prefill is the 3 fastest; add the rest for full coverage).
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 matches.

Quick start

{ "keywords": "tools", "sites": ["publicsurplus", "municibid", "gsa"] }

Full 8-site sweep

{ "keywords": "generator, welder", "maxLotsPerSite": 100 }

Cross-site new-lot monitor

{
  "keywords": "trailer",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewLot": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

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Input

Field	What it does
keywords	search terms, comma-separated; empty = latest lots per site
sites	which of the 8 sites to include (omit = all 8)
maxLotsPerSite	cap on matching lots per site (default 25)
perSiteTimeoutSecs	per-site time budget; a slow site is cut off, run continues (default 120)
proxibidCategory	Proxibid /for-sale/<category> slug its latest lots are pulled from
maxsoldStates	MaxSold /usa/<state> browse pages used for discovery
gsaApiKey	optional free api.data.gov key (DEMO_KEY used otherwise)
monitorMode, alertOnNewLot	recurring cross-site watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + per-site parallelism (datacenter is enough)

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Output

Each matching lot is one dataset record (fields listed above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. Bids are numbers; close_time is ISO-8601 where the site publishes a real timestamp (site-local or relative text otherwise). A per-site result summary is logged on every run; a failing site is skipped, and the run succeeds as long as at least one site returned.

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How much does it cost?

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

Event	What it covers	Price
lot-scraped	each matching lot returned	$0.004 / lot
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly listed lot (monitor mode)	$0.02 / lot
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook push	$0.005 / alert

That's $4 per 1,000 lots for plain searches.

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Related Actors (deep single-site scrapers)

Need every field a site offers (descriptions, photos galleries, seller/agency, bid counts, server-side filters)? Use the dedicated scraper:

Site	Actor
StorageTreasures	apify.com/scrapersdelight/storagetreasures-scraper
GSA Auctions	apify.com/scrapersdelight/gsa-auctions-scraper
PublicSurplus	apify.com/scrapersdelight/publicsurplus-scraper
Municibid	apify.com/scrapersdelight/municibid-scraper
Proxibid	apify.com/scrapersdelight/proxibid-scraper
MaxSold	apify.com/scrapersdelight/maxsold-scraper
K-BID	apify.com/scrapersdelight/k-bid-scraper
Equip-Bid	apify.com/scrapersdelight/equip-bid-scraper

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Is it legal to scrape these sites?

The lots are public auction listings, 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 each site's Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

Which sites does it search? PublicSurplus, Municibid, GSA Auctions, StorageTreasures, Equip-Bid, K-BID, Proxibid, and MaxSold — pick any subset with the sites input.

Do I need an account, login, or API key? No. Every site is read from public pages or public feeds. (Optionally add a free api.data.gov key for higher GSA rate limits.)

How does keyword matching work? PublicSurplus and Municibid search server-side. The others have no public keyword search, so the actor pulls their latest lots/feeds and matches your terms against titles, descriptions, or unit contents — the same as their dedicated scrapers.

What happens if one site is down or blocks the request? It's logged and skipped. The run succeeds with whatever the other sites returned — only if all selected sites fail does the run fail.

Can I monitor all 8 sites and get alerts? Yes. Turn on monitorMode, attach an Apify Schedule, and add a Slack/webhook/email channel. Each run emits and alerts only lots new since the last run across every selected site.

Why does StorageTreasures sometimes return few matches? It has no server-side search, so the actor scans the newest ~3,000 lots of the national feed per run and matches your keyword against unit contents. Niche terms may match only a handful — that's the real match count, not a failure.

Can I search multiple keywords? Yes — comma-separate them ("generator, welder"). A lot matches if any term matches.

What does current_bid: null mean? K-BID and Equip-Bid list multi-lot auction sales, not single items, so there is no single bid figure; some sites also show no-bid lots. Open the lot_url for live bidding detail, or use the dedicated single-site scraper for item-level data.

How fresh is the data? Live — every run hits the sites in real time. close_time lets you sort by what's ending soonest.

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

Can I integrate with Make, Zapier, n8n, or my backend? Yes — use the webhook/Slack channels for alerts, or the Apify API to pipe the dataset anywhere.

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Feedback

Want another auction site added to the sweep, or a missing field? Open an issue on the actor — fast fixes and feature requests welcome.