Zoll-Auktion Offer & Deal Finder

Collect structured public auction offers by category and surface low-competition, ending-soon opportunities with transparent evidence.

This Actor visits each discovered offer page. It does not log in, place bids, add watchlist entries, submit any form, use an LLM, or compare prices on eBay or another marketplace.

Quick start

1. Select one or more top-level categories. You can also paste exact Zoll-Auktion subcategory URLs.
2. Optionally enter a five-digit German postcode and choose a 20, 50, 100, 250, or 500 km radius.
3. Choose all to export every processed offer, or dealsOnly to retain only offers that meet your configured filters and minimum score.
4. Set a practical maxOffers limit, then click Start.
5. Open the Dataset for offer records and inspect the OUTPUT record before using the results.

What you get

Each dataset item includes, when publicly available:

• Auction ID, title, canonical URL, category, and source position.
• Current bid, minimum next bid, currency, bid and view counts.
• Auction start/end timestamps and remaining-time text.
• Seller name, city/state, postcode-search distance, pickup, shipping, payment, VAT, and auction type.
• Normalized description, original image URLs, and linked PDF documents.
• Deal score, label, matched status, positive signals, and risk flags.

The OUTPUT key-value-store record reports counts, completeness, proxy mode, timings, and capped typed errors.

Finding deals

Set postalCode and radiusKm to search every selected category around one German postcode. The Actor first opens the category page, reads its live parent and subcategory selection, submits those IDs through the site's public GET search format, and then follows the exact filtered next-page URLs. This avoids maintaining fragile hardcoded subcategory lists.

Use keywords, maxCurrentBidEur, maxBidCount, endingWithinHours, and deliveryMethod to describe your opportunity. Choose dealsOnly to store only offers satisfying every configured criterion and minDealScore.

The score is deliberately explainable:

• Lower bid competition adds more points.
• Auctions ending within 6, 24, 72, or 168 hours add progressively fewer points.
• Shipping or pickup availability contributes a small convenience signal.
• A bid far below your configured maximum adds a budget signal.
• If the seller explicitly states a Neupreis, Kaufpreis, Schätzwert, Zeitwert, Marktwert, Wiederbeschaffungswert, or Listenpreis, the Actor can report the nominal difference.
• Defect, parts-only, accident, repair, or unverified-function language reduces the score.

high, promising, watch, and weak describe auction opportunity signals—not guaranteed value. The Actor performs no independent market appraisal. Seller-stated reference values are flagged as unverified, and pickup/travel costs are not estimated.

Input example

{
    "categoryIds": ["197", "1130"],
    "postalCode": "77933",
    "radiusKm": 100,
    "maxOffers": 100,
    "keywords": ["Lego", "Werkzeug"],
    "excludeKeywords": ["defekt"],
    "maxCurrentBidEur": 500,
    "maxBidCount": 3,
    "endingWithinHours": 72,
    "deliveryMethod": "any",
    "outputMode": "dealsOnly",
    "minDealScore": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": true}
}

categoryUrls additionally accepts exact HTTPS category and subcategory URLs on www.zoll-auktion.de. Arbitrary hosts and non-category paths are rejected.

Output example

{
    "auctionId": "977055",
    "title": "Example auction title",
    "url": "https://www.zoll-auktion.de/auktion/produkt/example/977055",
    "detailStatus": "complete",
    "currentBid": 2500.0,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "bidCount": 2,
    "auctionEndAt": "2026-09-10T10:00:00+00:00",
    "shippingAvailable": false,
    "pickupAvailable": true,
    "dealScore": 61,
    "dealLabel": "promising",
    "isDeal": true,
    "dealSignals": ["Low bid competition"],
    "riskFlags": [],
    "analysisScope": "Transparent auction-opportunity signals and seller-stated reference values only; no independent market appraisal."
}

The example shows the record shape, not a current auction or guaranteed value. Fields absent from a source page are omitted rather than guessed.

Completeness states

• SUCCEEDED: all processed pages/details completed.
• EMPTY: the run completed but no records remained after the selected output mode.
• PARTIAL: valid records were preserved, but at least one category/detail failed.
• FAILED: the crawl could not obtain a usable category result.

Detail failures produce a limited card-level fallback item with detailStatus: "failed"; such an item never qualifies as a deal.

Proxy and load policy

Apify Proxy is mandatory and custom proxy URLs are rejected. Defaults are limited to three concurrent requests and 30 tasks per minute. The crawler respects robots.txt and follows the site's exact next-page URL. Raising limits can increase blocking and target load.

Cost and platform integrations

The estimated run price is shown by Apify before execution and depends on the pricing configured on the Store listing. A run processes roughly one category request per result page plus one detail request per discovered auction; postcode searches add an initial category lookup. Keep maxOffers and maxPagesPerCategory bounded when testing.

You can run the Actor manually, on a schedule, through the Apify API, or from Apify integrations and webhooks. The output schema exposes direct links to the default dataset and the OUTPUT summary, so automation should check status and isPartial before consuming records.

Limitations

• Auction prices can change after the item was scraped.
• Shipping and pickup details vary; unknown costs are not included in value comparisons.
• Descriptions and condition statements come from sellers and are not verified.
• The page structure may change. Check OUTPUT.isPartial and errors before consuming a run.
• The Actor does not provide financial, legal, appraisal, or bidding advice.

Responsible use and affiliation

Only run or publish this Actor when you have permission and a lawful basis for the intended use. Review the current Zoll-Auktion robots policy and terms before operating it. Apify Proxy does not grant permission to scrape or republish content.

This is an unofficial independent Actor. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Zoll-Auktion, the German customs administration, or any listed seller.

Support

Use the Actor's Issues tab on Apify. Include the run ID, build number, sanitized input, OUTPUT summary, and the first relevant error. Never post your Apify token or private proxy credentials.