Bring a Trailer Scraper: Completed Car Auction Results

Extract completed Bring a Trailer auctions with result text, published bids, sold prices, end dates and original listing links. Bring a Trailer Scraper builds source-linked auction records for comparable-sales research while keeping an unsold bid separate from a confirmed sale.

Build a comparable-sales reference from completed enthusiast-car auctions, keeping published outcomes separate from bids on unsold cars. Keep comparable records in a spreadsheet, purchasing shortlist or recurring market report, with a link back to each source listing.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Search fields or links to the selected items; see the examples below
📤 Output	One row per auction result
📄 Pagination	Automatic up to maxResults for each input, when more results are available
🔐 Login required	No
⚡ Processing	Multiple inputs per run with automatic retries for temporary errors
💾 Delivery	One complete Apify dataset table; CSV, JSON and Excel export

What the Bring a Trailer scraper collects 🚗

Collect Bring a Trailer auction results with lot titles, published outcomes, bids, dates and original listing links when available.

Collection	What you receive
Bring a Trailer auction results scraper	Auction records with source links, titles and the published result or listing information.

Data can include:

• Auction identity: Listing ID, auction title and original auction URL
• Vehicle context: Published model year, listing excerpt and country
• Auction outcome: Published result text and sold or unsold outcome
• Price and currency: Published bid and currency; sold price when the result identifies a sale
• Dates and images: Auction end date and listing thumbnail URL
• Sale attributes: Published no-reserve flag and result text

How to scrape Bring a Trailer 🚀

1. Open the Actor input form.
2. Fill in the search fields, or paste links to the items you want to collect.
3. Set the maximum results and any optional filters.
4. Start the Actor and review the collected rows.
5. Export the dataset or connect it to your application.

Bring a Trailer auction results scraper — input example

{
  "mode": "bat_search",
  "keywords": "Ford",
  "maxResults": 10
}

maxResults: 10 means up to 10 results for each input. It does not guarantee that the website has that many matches. You can set the limit as low as 1.

Bring a Trailer data fields and complete output 📦

Field group	Included data
Auction identity	Listing ID, auction title and original auction URL
Vehicle context	Published model year, listing excerpt and country
Auction outcome	Published result text and sold or unsold outcome
Price and currency	Published bid and currency; sold price when the result identifies a sale
Dates and images	Auction end date and listing thumbnail URL
Sale attributes	Published no-reserve flag and result text

Each collected item is a separate row. input identifies the submitted value and result_type identifies the selected mode. All returned fields appear in one table; columns that do not apply to a mode can be empty.

A complete JSON result is shown for every collection mode below, in the same order as the input examples. Each example includes every field for its mode; text and lists are not shortened. Values are representative and can change.

Bring a Trailer auction results scraper — complete JSON result

{
  "result_type": "bat_search",
  "input": "https://bringatrailer.com/auctions/results/",
  "status": "success",
  "id": "122213332",
  "url": "https://bringatrailer.com/listing/herb-adams-vse-cobra-replica-2/",
  "title": "428-Powered Herb Adams VSE Cobra 427 Replica 4-Speed",
  "make": null,
  "model": null,
  "variant": null,
  "year": null,
  "price": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "price_text": null,
  "mileage": null,
  "mileage_unit": null,
  "mileage_text": null,
  "vin": null,
  "body_type": null,
  "fuel_type": null,
  "transmission": null,
  "drive_type": null,
  "engine": null,
  "colour": null,
  "condition": null,
  "description": "This Cobra 427 replica was acquired as a kit by the seller's grandfather in 1995 from Herb Adams VSE of Carmel, California, and completed in 2012. Power comes from a 428ci V8 linked with a Toploader four-speed manual transmission and a 9\" rear end, and the car rides on multi-piece 17\" Compomotive alloy wheels as well as adjustable coilover...",
  "description_html": null,
  "location": null,
  "country": "US",
  "seller.id": null,
  "seller.name": null,
  "seller.type": null,
  "seller.url": null,
  "images": [
    "https://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/1965_shelby_cobra-replica_1965_shelby_cobra-replica_08e1083a-87ae-4392-b938-45b3272c0999-EH0eXD-41447-41448-scaled-lGPtUx.jpg?w=470&h=318&crop=1"
  ],
  "features": null,
  "attributes.name": [
    "no_reserve",
    "result_text"
  ],
  "attributes.value": [
    "False",
    "Sold for USD $42,751 on 9/19/2026"
  ],
  "auction_status": "Sold for USD $42,751 on 9/19/2026",
  "current_bid": 42751.0,
  "sale_price": 42751.0,
  "bid_count": null,
  "auction_end": "2026-09-19T19:31:54+00:00",
  "published_at": null,
  "updated_at": null,
  "inspection_url": null
}

Images, tags and other lists stay with their parent result instead of creating extra rows. Invalid or unavailable inputs, inputs with no results, and requests that fail after all retries produce a row with status: failed. At most one failed row is saved per input; it includes error_code and error_message explaining the outcome. A normal end of pagination after collected results does not add a failed row.

Input requirements and collection settings ⚙️

Setting	What to enter
Maximum results per search or link (maxResults)	Collect up to this many results for each search or link. Minimum: 1.
Keywords (keywords)	Words to look for, for example Ford Focus.
Year from (yearFrom)	Earliest year of manufacture.
Year to (yearTo)	Latest year of manufacture.

Collection mode	Fields to use
Auction Results	Keywords, Year from, Year to

The result limit applies separately to each search or supplied link. Collection ends earlier when no more matching results are available.

Bring a Trailer scraping use cases 🎯

Build auction comparables

Compare the published auction figures for similar vehicles on Bring a Trailer, retaining each lot link for a closer review.

Study completed auction results

Separate sold results from other published outcomes before building an enthusiast-car comparable-sales dataset.

Compare sold and unsold outcomes

Use the published result text to distinguish confirmed sales from bids on vehicles that did not sell.

Review no-reserve results

Use the published no-reserve attribute and result text to compare outcomes across the collected auctions.

Prepare valuation reports

Add source-linked Bring a Trailer auction records to vehicle valuation reports alongside other comparable vehicles.

Pricing and saved-result behavior 💰

See the Actor's Pricing tab for the active pricing model and current rate. Store settings may change, so this README does not claim a fixed cost.

Under dataset-item pricing:

• Each collected item saved in the dataset is one result.
• Images, tags and other values attached to that item do not create additional rows.
• Automatic retry attempts do not create extra dataset rows.
• A saved failed row is also one billable dataset item, including invalid inputs, unavailable items, no results, or exhausted retries. At most one failed row is saved per input, including when some results were already collected.
• maxResults caps all saved rows for each input, including its failed row. Repeated copies of the same input are processed once. More inputs or a higher limit can produce more saved results.

Bring a Trailer scraper API and integrations 🔌

Replace $ACTOR_ID with the ID shown in the Actor API tab and $APIFY_TOKEN with your token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"bat_search","keywords":"Ford","maxResults":10}'

Use schedules for recurring collection, webhooks for completion notifications, and Apify integrations for Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, cloud storage, a CRM or your own application.

Reliability, retries, and public-data limits ⚠️

Temporary connection errors, timeouts and access restrictions are retried automatically, up to five attempts. Invalid inputs save a failed row without an HTTP request; confirmed unavailable items save a failed row without unnecessary retries. Exhausted retries also save a failed row. Results already collected remain available if a later request fails, and normal pagination completion adds no error row. Collection also stops after two consecutive fully processed pages add no new results, even if the website provides another cursor. Required detail lookups are completed before checking a page; new results reset the counter, and independent reply branches are checked separately. Failures while initializing the Actor, saving data or scheduling requests stop the run instead of being reported as a failed website result.

Coverage is the auction-results catalogue; a published bid is not treated as a sale price unless the result states that the car sold.

Optional fields are available only when the website publishes them.

Bring a Trailer controls which information is publicly available. Removed, private or restricted items may be unavailable, and optional values can be null or empty. A run can still fail if the results cannot be saved.

Frequently asked questions ❓

Does it require an account on Bring a Trailer?

No. You do not need to provide an account, password or login cookies. Only publicly available information is collected.

How does maxResults work?

It limits the number of saved results separately for every input. The minimum is 1. With maxResults set to 10, each input returns at most 10 available results.

What can I use to search Bring a Trailer?

Choose keywords, year from, year to in the input form.

Are bids and sold prices treated as the same value?

No. A sold price is recorded when the published result says the car sold. Other visible bids remain separate from confirmed sale results.

Why are some fields empty?

The website may not publish that value, or the field may belong to a different collection mode. Missing values remain null or empty instead of being guessed.

Can I export the results to a spreadsheet?

Yes. Download CSV, Excel or JSON from the Apify dataset. All returned fields are included in the same results table.

Support and responsible use 🛟

For a reproducible issue, share the run ID, selected mode, result limit and a safe public example through the support channel. Never disclose access tokens, passwords or proxy credentials.

Use public Bring a Trailer information lawfully and responsibly. Follow applicable privacy, copyright, data-protection, contractual and platform requirements when storing, analyzing or redistributing results.