💎 Proxibid Scraper & Auction Lot Monitor

Scrape live Proxibid (proxibid.com) auction lots — title, current bid, auction house, location, type, and photos — by category, price range, or auction house. Then run it on a schedule as a new-lot monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment a fresh lot is listed, so you bid first.

Turn Proxibid's multi-vendor marketplace — jewelry, coins, vehicles, farm equipment, collectibles, real estate — into a clean dataset or a real-time deal alert. No login, no browser automation.

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What does Proxibid Scraper do?

Proxibid Scraper extracts auction lot listings from proxibid.com and returns them as clean, structured rows you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API. Proxibid aggregates thousands of auction houses across dozens of categories — this actor makes any category searchable, exportable, and watchable.

• 🔎 Browse by category — jewelry, coins, cars, farm equipment, art & antiques, real estate, and more.
• 💵 Bid data — current price, auction type (LIVE / TIMED), and lot timing.
• 🏢 Seller & location — auction house name and lot location.
• 🖼️ Photos — lot thumbnail (plus the full gallery + description with detail fetch on).
• 💰 Server-side price + auction-house filters — find bargains or track one seller.
• 🔔 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 lot:

• 🆔 lot_id, 🔗 lot_url, 🏷️ title
• 💵 price (number) + price_text, 🔨 auction_type, ⏰ lot_time_info
• 🏢 auction_house, auction_house_id
• 📍 location
• 🖼️ image (+ images[] and description with detail fetch)
• 🚦 auction_ended
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🕒 scraped_at

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Who is it for?

• 💎 Dealers & resellers in jewelry, coins, collectibles, or equipment sourcing inventory.
• 🚜 Equipment & vehicle buyers tracking farm/industrial lots across auction houses.
• 📊 Price-research & comps teams analyzing realized prices by category.
• 🧭 Auction aggregators combining Proxibid with HiBid, BidSpotter, and others.

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Two ways to use it

1. Bulk scrape — pull a whole category (optionally price/house-filtered) 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. Enter a Category slug (e.g. jewelry-gemstones-watches).
3. (Optional) add a price range or an auction-house filter.
4. (Optional) turn on Fetch full details for description + full 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

{ "category": "jewelry-gemstones-watches", "maxLots": 120 }

Bargain monitor example

{
  "category": "coins-currency",
  "maxPrice": 100,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewLot": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

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Input

Field	What it does
category	the Proxibid category slug (after /for-sale/ in the URL)
minPrice / maxPrice	server-side current-price band
auctionHouseName	restrict to one auction house / seller
includeEnded	include lots whose auction already ended
fetchDetails	add full description + image gallery (one request per lot)
maxLots	hard cap per run (categories can hold tens of thousands)
monitorMode, alertOnNewLot	recurring watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + parallelism (residential helps on detail pages)

Tip: a category can contain tens of thousands of lots (jewelry alone had 56k+). Keep maxLots set, or use price/auction-house filters to narrow the pull.

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Output

Each lot is one dataset record (fields above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. price is a number in USD; price_text keeps the original (e.g. for LIVE lots showing "Bid Live").

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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 lot returned	~$0.003 / lot
lot-detail-enriched	each detail fetch	~$0.004 / 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 Proxibid?

Proxibid 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 Proxibid's Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

What is Proxibid? Proxibid is a large online marketplace where thousands of auction houses sell jewelry, coins, vehicles, farm equipment, collectibles, real estate, and more — both LIVE and TIMED auctions.

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

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

Can I find bargains or filter by seller? Yes — maxPrice for a ceiling, auctionHouseName to track one seller, minPrice for a floor.

How do I find a category slug? Open the category on proxibid.com and copy the part of the URL after /for-sale/ (e.g. jewelry-gemstones-watches).

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 auction marketplaces (HiBid, BidSpotter, LiveAuctioneers)
• 🏛️ Government & surplus auctions (GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus, StorageTreasures)
• 🔨 Midwest online auctions (K-BID, equip-bid)

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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.