🛍️ ShopGoodwill Auction Scraper & Saved-Search Monitor

Scrape live ShopGoodwill.com auctions — title, current price, bid count, end time, Buy Now price, seller, shipping, photos, and item URL — by keyword, category, seller, or price range. Then run it on a schedule as a saved-search monitor that pings Slack, email, or webhook the moment a fresh listing drops, so you bid first.

Turn ShopGoodwill into a clean dataset or a real-time deal alert. No login, no API key, no browser automation — the actor reads the site's own public JSON API and filters server-side, so you pull only the items you actually want.

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What does ShopGoodwill Scraper do?

ShopGoodwill Scraper extracts thrift & charity auction listings from ShopGoodwill.com — the largest nonprofit auction site in the US, where 100+ regional Goodwill organizations auction donated jewelry, electronics, collectibles, art, instruments, fashion, and more — and returns clean, structured rows you can export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to your app via API.

• 🔎 Search the way the site does — keyword, category, multi-category, seller (regional Goodwill), price band, Buy-Now-only, pickup-only. All server-side.
• 💰 Live auction economics — current price, bid count, minimum next bid, starting price, Buy Now / discounted Buy Now, shipping price.
• ⏰ Time-aware — exact start/end times plus the site's own time-left countdown.
• 🏷️ Category & seller — category name + full path and the listing Goodwill's seller id (name with details on).
• 📦 Full detail enrichment (optional) — description, seller organization name, pickup city/state/zip, bid increment, bid history, reserve status, handling price, and the full-size photo gallery.
• 🕵️ Sold-price research — flip one switch to search closed auctions up to 90 days back.
• 🔔 Saved-search monitor — schedule it and get Slack / email / webhook alerts for newly listed items matching your query.

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What data does it extract?

For every auction listing:

• 🆔 item_id, 🔗 item_url, 🏷️ title
• 💵 current_price, minimum_bid, starting_price, buy_now_price, discounted_buy_now_price
• 🔨 num_bids, has_bid, bid_increment, bid_history, reserve_met*
• 🚚 shipping_price, handling_price, pickup_city / pickup_state* / pickup_zip*
• 🏢 seller_id, seller_name, shipping_policy, pickup_policy*
• 🗂️ category_id, category_name, category_path
• 📝 description, 📦 quantity, max_quantity, 👀 views
• 🖼️ image_url, gallery_url, images[]*
• 📅 start_time, end_time, ⏳ remaining_time
• ✨ is_new (monitor mode), 🕒 scraped_at

* = filled by the optional fetchDetails enrichment.

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Who is it for?

• 🛒 Resellers & flippers sourcing underpriced jewelry, electronics, cameras, and collectibles.
• 💎 Niche collectors (watches, vinyl, trading cards, instruments) watching for grails the moment they list.
• 📈 Price researchers pulling closed-auction sold prices for comps and arbitrage math.
• 🤖 Deal-alert builders wiring fresh listings into Slack, Discord (via webhook), or their own apps.
• 📊 Marketplace analysts tracking volumes, categories, and price levels across regional Goodwills.

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Two ways to use it

1. Bulk scrape — pull every active (or recently closed) listing for a keyword, category, seller, or price band into one clean dataset.
2. Saved-search monitor (the recurring play) — set monitorMode: true, attach an Apify Schedule (e.g. every 30 min for hot keywords), and the actor emits/alerts only items new since the last run. Pair with sortBy: "newest" so fresh listings land in the scrape window first.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter a Search keyword (e.g. laptop) — or leave it empty and pick a Category ID / Seller IDs to sweep a whole section.
3. (Optional) add filters: price range, Buy It Now only, pickup only, closed auctions.
4. (Optional) turn on Fetch full details for description, seller name, pickup location, bid history, and the 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 listings.

Quick start

{ "searchText": "laptop", "maxItems": 50 }

Saved-search monitor example

{
  "searchText": "omega seamaster",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "monitorMode": true,
  "alertOnNewItem": true,
  "slackWebhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/…"
}

Sold-price research example

{
  "searchText": "nintendo switch",
  "includeClosedAuctions": true,
  "closedAuctionDaysBack": 30,
  "maxItems": 200
}

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Input

Field	What it does
searchText	keyword to search (empty = all listings; combine with a category/seller)
categoryId / selectedCategoryIds	one category id, or a comma list of several
selectedSellerIds	restrict to specific regional Goodwill sellers (comma list of ids)
priceMin / priceMax	only items in this current-price band
buyNowOnly / pickupOnly	Buy-It-Now-able / local-pickup-only listings
searchDescriptions	also match the keyword in descriptions
includeClosedAuctions + closedAuctionDaysBack	search ended auctions (sold-price comps)
sortBy	ending · newest · oldest · price-low · price-high
fetchDetails	add description, seller name, pickup location, bid history, full gallery
maxItems	hard cap per run (0 = unlimited)
monitorMode, alertOnNewItem, alertOnBidChange, watchlistItemIds	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; start_time / end_time are the site's timestamps; remaining_time is the site's own countdown string.

Example record (truncated):

{
  "item_id": "266505251",
  "item_url": "https://shopgoodwill.com/item/266505251",
  "title": "Lenovo IdeaPad 3 15\" Linux Mint Laptop 128GB",
  "current_price": 43.0,
  "num_bids": 6,
  "minimum_bid": 44.0,
  "starting_price": 14.99,
  "shipping_price": 0,
  "end_time": "2026-06-12T16:00:00",
  "remaining_time": "1h 22m",
  "seller_id": "43",
  "seller_name": "Goodwill Industries of Central Texas",
  "pickup_city": "Austin",
  "pickup_state": "TX",
  "category_name": "Laptops & Notebooks",
  "category_path": "Computers & Electronics > Laptops & Notebooks",
  "image_url": "https://shopgoodwillimages.azureedge.net/production/43/Items/…t1.jpeg",
  "images": ["https://shopgoodwillimages.azureedge.net/production/43/Items/…1.jpg"]
}

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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 / item
lot-detail-enriched	each detail-API fetch	~$0.004 / item
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each newly listed item	~$0.02 / item
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook push	~$0.005 / alert

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

That's about $4 per 1,000 listings — and a keyword monitor that runs hourly costs a few cents a day plus the new items it actually finds.

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Is it legal to scrape ShopGoodwill?

ShopGoodwill listings are public auction data, browsable without a login, and the records are item/listing data — not personal data (bid history shows only anonymized nicknames the site itself displays). Scraping publicly available listings is generally legal, but you are responsible for your use: review the current ShopGoodwill Terms of Service before commercial use or resale of the data.

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FAQ

What is ShopGoodwill? ShopGoodwill.com is the official online auction marketplace of Goodwill — 100+ regional Goodwill nonprofits list donated jewelry, electronics, collectibles, art, fashion, and more, with new auctions ending every minute.

Do I need an account, login, or API key? No. The actor reads the site's public listing data directly — no account, cookies, or API key required.

Can I monitor a saved search and get alerts? Yes. Turn on monitorMode, attach an Apify Schedule, and add a Slack/webhook/email channel. Each run emits and alerts only items new since the last run for that exact search scope.

Can I get sold prices / closed auctions? Yes — set includeClosedAuctions: true and closedAuctionDaysBack (up to 90). Great for comps before you bid.

Can I filter by category or a specific Goodwill store? Yes — categoryId (or selectedCategoryIds for several) and selectedSellerIds for specific regional Goodwills. Combine with keyword and price filters.

How do I find category and seller IDs? Browse shopgoodwill.com — the numeric ids appear in the category and seller page URLs. E.g. category 7 = Computers & Electronics.

Does it return photos? Yes — every listing has image_url; turn on fetchDetails for the full-size images[] gallery.

Does it return the bid history? Yes, with fetchDetails on — amounts, quantities, timestamps, and the site's anonymized bidder nicknames.

How fast is it? The site serves 40 listings per request from a JSON API in well under a second — 1,000 items typically take under a minute without details.

Can I scrape everything, not just one keyword? Yes — leave searchText empty and set maxItems: 0 for an unlimited sweep (optionally scoped to a category or seller).

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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• 🏛️ Government & surplus auction scrapers (GovDeals, GSA Auctions, PublicSurplus)
• 🔨 General online auction & marketplace scrapers
• 📦 Storage-unit and estate-sale auction 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.