# Maschinensucher Offer & Deal Fetcher (`webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher`) Actor

Fetch structured machine offers by category and identify comparatively low-priced deals.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher.md
- **Developed by:** [Webdesign Detail](https://apify.com/webdesigndetail) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Maschinensucher Offer & Deal Fetcher

Collect structured public machine offers from one or more Maschinensucher categories and rank credible low-price candidates using comparable offers from the same run.

### Features

- Category discovery and category URL input
- Country and German federal-state filters
- Exact pagination and global offer limits
- Per-offer detail-page enrichment
- Public price, prior price, VAT basis, location, condition, description, and technical data
- Correct `Preisinfo`/on-request representation
- Auction starting-price/current-bid extraction with buyer-premium context
- Conservative deal scoring with comparable count and confidence
- Apify Proxy on every request
- Bounded retries, session rotation, durable queueing, and partial-run reporting

### Example input

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.maschinensucher.de/Abfuellanlagen-und-Abfuelltechnik/ci-24"
  ],
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "maxPagesPerCategory": 2,
  "maxOffers": 50,
  "includeOfferDetails": true,
  "includeAuctions": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": true}
}
```

Results are stored in the default dataset. The `OUTPUT` record contains run health and counts; `CATEGORY_CATALOG` contains the categories observed on the landing page.

Deal scores describe only the bounded sample collected during that run. They are not appraisals, guarantees, or purchase recommendations. Confirm machine scope, taxes, transport, condition, seller identity, and total acquisition costs independently.

Auction records use `price.status: "auction"`. `auctionPriceType`, `auctionStartingPrice`, and `buyerPremiumPct` make clear whether the public amount is a starting price and which extra buyer premium was shown. Auctions are not compared with classified asking prices.

### Authorization and privacy

This independent Actor is not affiliated with Maschinensucher or Machineseeker Group GmbH. Maschinensucher's terms state that third-party further processing and use of listings requires prior written consent. Use the Actor only with authorization covering your crawl, storage, and publication scope.

The Actor uses public pages only. It does not log in, solve CAPTCHAs, submit contact or purchase forms, or collect gated seller phone/email details.

For complete input, output, scoring, CI/CD, and local-development documentation, see the repository README.

# Actor input Schema

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Maschinensucher category URLs ending in /ci-<number>.

## `discoverCategoriesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Save the current top-level catalogue to CATEGORY\_CATALOG without crawling offers.

## `crawlAllDiscoveredCategories` (type: `boolean`):

Explicitly crawl all top-level categories found on the landing page. Crawl limits still apply.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO country filters supported by the website, for example DE, AT, CH, NL, or BE.

## `germanStates` (type: `array`):

Optional German state filters, for example Bayern or Nordrhein-Westfalen.

## `maxOffers` (type: `integer`):

Exact global maximum number of offer records across all categories.

## `maxPagesPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of result pages followed for each selected category.

## `includeOfferDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Visit every selected offer page to enrich card data with machine details.

## `onlyWithPrice` (type: `boolean`):

Skip offers whose price is displayed as Preisinfo/on request.

## `includeAuctions` (type: `boolean`):

Include auction offers and extract their public starting price or current bid. Auctions are not deal-scored as ordinary asking prices.

## `minimumComparables` (type: `integer`):

Comparable offers required before a deal score is calculated.

## `comparisonYearBand` (type: `integer`):

Maximum manufacture-year difference used for comparable offers.

## `sortDealsFirst` (type: `boolean`):

Write scored records to the dataset from highest to lowest deal score.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum parallel requests. Keep this within the rate allowed by your authorization.

## `maxRequestsPerMinute` (type: `integer`):

Global request-rate ceiling used by Crawlee.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries for transient network, blocking, or extraction failures.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum duration of one navigation in seconds.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

Descriptive User-Agent sent with authorized requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy is required and used for every website request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.maschinensucher.de/Abfuellanlagen-und-Abfuelltechnik/ci-24"
  ],
  "discoverCategoriesOnly": false,
  "crawlAllDiscoveredCategories": false,
  "countries": [],
  "germanStates": [],
  "maxOffers": 100,
  "maxPagesPerCategory": 5,
  "includeOfferDetails": true,
  "onlyWithPrice": false,
  "includeAuctions": false,
  "minimumComparables": 5,
  "comparisonYearBand": 3,
  "sortDealsFirst": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRequestsPerMinute": 60,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "userAgent": "MaschinensucherOfferFetcher/0.1 (authorized Apify Actor)",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `offers` (type: `string`):

Structured and deal-scored offer records in the default dataset.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run status, counts, failures, limits, and timing.

## `categoryCatalog` (type: `string`):

Top-level categories discovered during this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,webdesigndetail/maschinensucher-offer-deal-fetcher"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/WHQ1uXPbIXcKmw8d3/builds/qYTWtEeQMQgyZgdzS/openapi.json