🏛️ Municibid Scraper & Government Surplus Auction Monitor

Scrape live Municibid.com government & municipal surplus auctions — title, current bid, bid count, seller/agency, city & state, close time, description, and full photo gallery — by keyword, category, ZIP radius, price, or state. Then run it on a schedule as a new-lot monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment a fresh lot drops, so you bid first.

Turn Municibid into a clean dataset or a real-time deal alert. No login, no browser automation — the live bid, bid count and close time come straight from the server-rendered listing grid.

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What does Municibid Scraper do?

Municibid Scraper extracts government & municipal surplus auction listings from Municibid.com and returns clean, structured rows you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API. Vehicles, dump trucks, heavy equipment, police & fire surplus, electronics, office furniture, real estate and more — sold off by towns, counties, school districts, utilities, and agencies across the US and Canada.

• 🔎 Search the way the site does — by keyword, category, ZIP + radius, or price range (all server-side).
• 🗺️ Filter by state — keep only the states you want (applied as the listings stream in).
• 💰 Live current bid + bid count — read straight from the listing grid, no detail fetch needed.
• 🏢 Seller & location — the selling agency, plus city and state.
• 📦 Item detail — full description and the complete full-size photo gallery.
• ⏰ Time-aware — each listing's end time and live/ended status.
• 🔔 New-lot monitor — schedule it and get Slack / email / webhook alerts for newly listed lots in your niche.

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What data does it extract?

For every surplus listing:

• 🆔 listing_id, 🔗 lot_url, 🏷️ title
• 💵 current_price, 🔨 total_bids, has_bid
• 📝 description, 🗂️ category
• 🏢 seller (the selling agency / municipality)
• 📍 city, state
• ⏰ end_time, 🚦 status (active / ended / sold)
• 🖼️ images[] (full-size gallery), thumbnail
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🕒 scraped_at

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Who is it for?

• 🛒 Surplus flippers & resellers sourcing vehicles, equipment, and electronics to resell.
• 🚚 Fleet & equipment buyers tracking municipal vehicle/heavy-equipment lots nationwide.
• ♻️ Dealers & exporters monitoring specific categories across many states.
• 📊 Auction aggregators combining Municibid with GovDeals, GSA, PublicSurplus, and others.
• 🏢 Procurement & research teams analyzing what agencies sell and for how much.

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Two ways to use it

1. Bulk scrape — pull active listings for a keyword, category, ZIP radius, price band, or set of states into one clean dataset.
2. New-lot monitor (the recurring play) — set monitorMode: true, attach an Apify Schedule (hourly for hot categories), and the actor emits/alerts only newly-listed lots. Pair with a keyword or category to keep runs cheap and fast.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a Search type (e.g. By keyword) and enter your scope (e.g. dump truck).
3. (Optional) add filters: category, price range, ZIP + radius, listing status, or a list of states.
4. (Optional) turn on Fetch full details for the full description and complete photo gallery.
5. Click Start, then open the Dataset tab to view/export.
6. (Optional) set monitorMode + a Schedule + an alert channel to get pinged on new lots.

Quick start

{ "searchType": "keyword", "keyword": "dump truck", "maxLots": 50 }

State-filtered example

{ "searchType": "all", "states": ["TX", "OK"], "maxLots": 100 }

New-lot monitor example (cheap & fast)

{
  "searchType": "keyword",
  "keyword": "generator",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewLot": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

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Input

Field	What it does
searchType	all · keyword · category · zipcode
keyword / categoryId / zipcode + radiusMiles	server-side scope for the chosen search type
states	optional client-side state filter (Municibid's Browse has no server-side state param)
priceMin / priceMax	only return listings in this current-bid band
statusFilter	current (live) · sold · all
sortBy	newest · price · site default
fetchDetails	add the full description + complete full-size photo gallery
maxLots	hard cap per run (0 = unlimited)
monitorMode, alertOnNewLot, alertOnBidChange, watchlistAuctionIds	recurring watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + parallelism (datacenter is enough)

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Output

Each listing is one dataset record (fields listed above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. Prices are numbers in USD; total_bids is an integer; images[] are full-size photo URLs.

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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 listing returned	~$0.004 / lot
lot-detail-enriched	each detail-page fetch (description + gallery)	~$0.003 / lot
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 Municibid?

Municibid auction listings are public government-surplus data, 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 the current Municibid Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

What is Municibid? Municibid.com is a leading online marketplace where local governments — towns, counties, school districts, police & fire departments, utilities — auction surplus property (vehicles, equipment, electronics, even real estate) to the public.

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

Can I monitor new auctions 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.

Can I filter by state? Yes — add two-letter codes to states. Note Municibid's public Browse doesn't filter by state server-side, so the actor filters as listings stream in; pairing with a keyword or category keeps runs fast and cheap.

Can I find bargains or closing-soon lots? Use priceMax for a price ceiling, and sort/scan by end_time to surface listings about to close.

Does it return photos? Yes — thumbnail per lot from the grid, and the full-size images[] gallery when fetchDetails is on.

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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You might also like

• 🏛️ Other gov & surplus auction sites (GovDeals, GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus, StorageTreasures)
• 🔨 General online auction & marketplace scrapers
• 📍 Local-listing and facility-data 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.