HiBid Scraper: auction lots, bids and sold prices

Scrape HiBid.com, the largest online auction marketplace for auction companies in the United States and Canada. Get every lot's title, description, current bid, next minimum bid, bid count, closing time, all images and category, plus the auction (dates, type, lot count, buyer's premium), the pickup location and the auction company (name, phone, email, website). Switch to Closed to get sold prices (price realized) from past auctions. No login, no cookies, no HiBid account.

What you get

Lot	Lot ID and number, title, description, URL, quantity, estimate, all full-size images, category and full category path
Bidding	Current bid, next minimum bid, number of bids, buy-now price, reserve status (when shown), closing time, soft-close extension
Sold prices	Price realized (and per item), quantity sold, HiBid's price note; for closed lots without a published price, the final high bid
Auction	Auction ID, name, catalog URL, type (online-only, live webcast, absentee), status, start and end, lot count, buyer's premium, currency (USD or CAD)
Location	Pickup address, city, state or province, ZIP or postal code, country, and the distance from your ZIP / postal code
Auction company	Name, HiBid page, phone, email, website and address
Auctions mode	One row per auction instead: dates, status, lot count, open lots, shipping, location and auction company

How to use it

1. Add search terms (e.g. drill, tractor, morgan silver dollar), categories (e.g. Coins & Currency, Tractors), or paste HiBid URLs: a search page, an auction catalog, an auction company page or a single lot. You can also list lot IDs or auction IDs.
2. Narrow it down by ZIP / postal code and radius, state / province, country, auction type or shipping.
3. Pick the status: Open (live and upcoming lots), Closing soon, All current, or Closed for sold prices. For Closed, choose how far back to look (default 90 days) or exact dates.
4. Set Maximum results and run.

Input examples

Lots near a postal code, nearest first:

{
  "searchTerms": ["tractor"],
  "zipOrPostalCode": "M5V 2T6",
  "radiusMiles": 100,
  "sortBy": "nearest",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Sold prices for a keyword over the last 30 days, only lots with a published price:

{
  "searchTerms": ["morgan silver dollar"],
  "auctionStatus": "closed",
  "closedWithinDays": 30,
  "soldOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

A whole category in one state:

{
  "categories": ["Cars & Vehicles"],
  "stateOrProvince": "TX",
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Everything from an auction catalog, an auction company and a single lot:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://hibid.com/catalog/777970/the-rock-and-roll-history-auction" },
    { "url": "https://hibid.com/company/148685/the-1-and-only" },
    { "url": "https://hibid.com/lot/324140342/250-vevor-magnetic-drill" }
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100
}

Auctions (not lots) near Chicago:

{
  "scrapeMode": "auctions",
  "zipOrPostalCode": "60601",
  "radiusMiles": 50,
  "sortBy": "nearest",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output example

A lot (the description and image list are shortened here):

{
  "dataType": "lot",
  "lotId": 324140342,
  "lotNumber": "236vb",
  "title": "$250 VEVOR Magnetic Drill 1450W, 11 Bits, 850 RPM",
  "description": "Retail Price: $250\nNotes: Sold as is\nCondition: New - Packaging flawed…",
  "url": "https://hibid.com/lot/324140342/-250-vevor-magnetic-drill-1450w--11-bits--850-rpm",
  "status": "OPEN",
  "isClosed": false,
  "currentBid": 26.5,
  "nextMinimumBid": 28.5,
  "bidCount": 15,
  "priceRealized": null,
  "currency": "USD",
  "closesAt": "2026-10-01T23:57:01.072Z",
  "timeLeftText": "Internet Bidding closes at: 10/1/2026 6:57:00 PM CST",
  "imageUrl": "https://cdn.hibid.com/img.axd?id=8436325829&…",
  "imageCount": 5,
  "category": "Directional",
  "categoryPath": "Construction & Farm - Drills - Directional",
  "shippingOffered": false,
  "auctionId": 780608,
  "auctionName": "Overstock Product Liquidation McAllen 10/1/26",
  "auctionUrl": "https://hibid.com/catalog/780608/overstock-product-liquidation-mcallen-10-1-26",
  "auctionType": "Online-only auction",
  "auctionStatus": "Open for bidding",
  "auctionStartsAt": "2026-09-24T19:00:00",
  "auctionEndsAt": "2026-10-01T19:00:00",
  "auctionLotCount": 386,
  "buyerPremium": "16% Buyer's Premium Added to each lot",
  "locationCity": "Pharr",
  "locationStateOrProvince": "TX",
  "locationPostalCode": "78577",
  "locationCountry": "United States",
  "auctioneerName": "ATX Auctions McAllen",
  "auctioneerUrl": "https://hibid.com/company/131620/atx-auctions-mcallen",
  "auctioneerPhone": "956-957-8939",
  "auctioneerWebsite": "https://atxauctions.com",
  "searchTerm": "drill",
  "source": "search",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T20:00:43.165Z"
}

A closed lot carries the sold price: "priceRealized": 7460, "isClosed": true, "auctionStatus": "Closed (archived)".

An auction row (Auctions mode):

{
  "dataType": "auction",
  "auctionId": 778655,
  "auctionName": "504: GIA certified RARE COLOR/Lab Diamonds & More",
  "url": "https://hibid.com/catalog/778655/504--gia-certified-rare-color-lab-diamonds-and-more",
  "auctionType": "Online-only auction",
  "auctionStatus": "Open for bidding",
  "startsAt": "2026-09-16T13:57:00",
  "endsAt": "2026-10-24T18:00:00",
  "lotCount": 685,
  "openLotCount": 685,
  "currency": "USD",
  "shipping": "All lots",
  "distanceMiles": 0.77,
  "locationCity": "Toronto",
  "locationStateOrProvince": "ON",
  "locationCountry": "Canada",
  "auctioneerName": "Affordable Creations"
}

The Lots and Auctions tabs of the dataset show the key columns as a table. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it with the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 rows (one row = one lot, or one auction in Auctions mode), plus a small $0.005 charge per run start. Lots skipped by your filters (for example Only lots with a price realized) are not charged. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the run stops there, keeping what it saved.

Tips

• Bigger than 10,000 results? HiBid shows at most 10,000 lots for one search (1,000 for closed lots). The actor automatically splits big searches by category (open lots) or by date (closed lots) to go beyond that.
• Track prices of specific lots: put their IDs in Lot IDs and run on a schedule. Lots that have closed are looked up in the archive, so the last run gives you the final price.
• Times: closesAt is exact and in UTC. Auction start and end times are shown the way HiBid shows them, in the auction company's local time.
• Run report: the RUN_REPORT record in the run's key-value store lists every search, how many results HiBid had, and why the run stopped.

FAQ

Do I need a HiBid account or login? No. No login needed: no HiBid account, cookie or API key. The actor reads the same public auction listings that anyone can browse on hibid.com without signing in. Apify datacenter proxies, included in every Apify plan, work fine.

Is it legal to scrape HiBid? This actor collects only publicly available information that hibid.com shows to any visitor without an account: auction lots, current bids, published sold prices, auction dates and locations, and the business contact details of the auction companies running the auctions. It does not collect information about individual bidders: it never touches accounts, bidder IDs, bid histories, watch lists or payments, and it removes phone numbers and email addresses other than the auction company's from lot descriptions. Scraping public data is generally lawful, but how you use the results is up to you: follow the laws that apply to you (for example CCPA, PIPEDA or GDPR) and HiBid's terms, and check with a lawyer if you are unsure. Apify's guide is a good starting point: Is web scraping legal?

Does it access any private data? No. Everything comes from public auction pages. Anything behind a HiBid login (your bids, watch list, invoices, payment details) is never requested.

Why is priceRealized empty on some closed lots? The auction company didn't publish the sold price (HiBid then shows "Price Realized Not Uploaded", which is in priceRealizedNote). Turn on Only lots with a price realized to skip them; skipped lots are not charged.

Can I search past auctions by keyword? In Lots mode with Closed, yes: that is how you get sold prices by keyword. In Auctions mode, closed auctions are listed by category and date only, because hibid.com asks crawlers not to use its past-auction keyword search.

Why does a lot show in a strange category? Categories are chosen by each auction company, so a few lots are filed oddly. The actor reports HiBid's category as it is.

What if HiBid blocks the run? If HiBid refuses datacenter IPs, the run switches to residential proxies when your Apify account has them. If HiBid shows a bot check, the run stops right away and keeps what it saved; it never tries to get around one. Either way the run ends with a plain status message and the results collected so far.