📦 Liquidation.com Auction Scraper: Bids, Closing Time & Monitor

Stop refreshing Liquidation.com. Let new lots come to you. Pull live bids, closing times, seller, condition, and location for every lot that matches your search, and get notified only when a new one actually shows up.

🔔 Get alerted to new lots Monitor mode remembers every lot it has already seen and reports only the new ones on your next run.

📋 See the full picture Turn on lot detail lookup for the product description, condition notes, buyer's premium, and shipping terms.

🔎 Look up lots by ID Already tracking specific auctions in a spreadsheet? Pull their live bid and closing time directly.

🛡️ Built to actually finish Runs reliably without a residential proxy, so a scheduled run doesn't stall or fail partway through.

🔍 What does Liquidation.com Auction Scraper do?

Liquidation.com lists thousands of wholesale pallets, packages, and truckloads from major retailers, but its own search page only shows you a snapshot the moment you happen to load it. This Actor pulls the same data programmatically: seller, current bid, bid and watcher counts, closing time, condition, lot size, item count, and warehouse location for every lot matching your search.

Search by keyword, category, condition, lot size, or US region, or hand it specific lot IDs you're already tracking. Turn on lot detail lookup to add the full product description, condition notes, minimum bid, buyer's premium percentage, shipping terms, and pallet count for each lot. Turn on monitor mode to get only the lots that are new since your last run, ideal for a scheduled search that watches a category for you.

💡 Why use this scraper?

Wholesale resellers and arbitrage buyers who source inventory from liquidation lots know the real cost of missing a good pallet: someone else bids it away before you even see it listed. Checking the site by hand a few times a day means you're always a step behind.

• Stop babysitting a browser tab. Schedule a run and let monitor mode tell you only when a genuinely new lot appears in your category.
• Evaluate a lot without opening it. Bid history, condition, and location arrive in one row, so you can decide whether it's worth a closer look before you click through.
• Get the details that matter for margin. Buyer's premium and shipping terms change the real cost of a lot; lot detail lookup surfaces both instead of leaving you to check by hand.
• Feed your own pricing or sourcing tools. Export straight to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or connect it to a spreadsheet or database through Apify's integrations.

🚀 How to use it

STEP 1 Tell it what to find Enter keywords, pick a category, condition, lot size, or region, or paste specific lot IDs.

STEP 2 Run the Actor It collects live bid, closing time, seller, condition, and location for every matching lot.

STEP 3 Get your data Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or schedule it to send you only the new lots.

⚙️ Input

Configure the Actor from the Input tab in Apify Console, or pass JSON directly through the API.

Field	Type	Required	Description
keywords	array of strings	No	Free-text search terms, e.g. "laptop" or "power tools".
lotIds	array of strings	No	Specific auction IDs to fetch directly, skipping search.
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Paste liquidation.com search or category URLs directly for full manual control.
categories	enum (multi-select)	No	Restrict to one or more product categories.
conditions	enum (multi-select)	No	Restrict to one or more item conditions (New, Returns, Shelf Pulls, and others).
lotSizes	enum (multi-select)	No	Restrict to Package, Pallet, or Truckload lots.
usRegions	enum (multi-select)	No	Restrict to lots warehoused in a US region.
fetchLotDetails	boolean	No	Also visit each lot's detail page for description, condition notes, buyer's premium, and shipping terms.
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of lots to collect in this run.
monitorMode	boolean	No	Only output lots not seen in a previous run using the same monitor state name.
monitorStateName	string	No	Name identifying this saved search's monitor state, for repeated scheduled runs.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Not required by default; this Actor runs reliably without a proxy.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
lotId	string	The auction's unique ID on liquidation.com.
title	string	The lot's listing title.
category	string	The lot's category, when the search applied one.
seller	string	The seller's account name.
condition	string	The item condition (Returns, New, Shelf Pulls, and others).
lotSize	string	Package, Pallet, or Truckload.
itemCount	number	Number of items in the lot.
currentBid	number	Current bid in USD.
estRetail	number	Estimated retail value in USD, when the seller listed one.
bidCount	number	Number of bids placed so far.
watchers	number	Number of buyers watching the lot.
views	number	Number of times the lot has been viewed.
closingAt	string	When bidding closes.
location	string	The lot's warehouse location.
imageUrl	string	Link to the lot's listing photo.
detailUrl	string	Link to the lot's page on liquidation.com.
productDescription	string	Full product description (with lot detail lookup enabled).
conditionNote	string	Condition detail note (with lot detail lookup enabled).
minimumBid	number	Minimum bid required in USD (with lot detail lookup enabled).
buyersPremiumPercent	number	Buyer's premium as a percentage (with lot detail lookup enabled).
totalWeightLbs	number	Total lot weight in pounds (with lot detail lookup enabled).
shippingTerms	string	Shipping arrangement for the lot (with lot detail lookup enabled).
numberOfPallets	number	Number of pallets in the lot (with lot detail lookup enabled).
zipCode	string	Warehouse zip code (with lot detail lookup enabled).

Fields with no real value on a given lot are left out of that item rather than filled with a placeholder, so every field you do see is genuine.

Example output

{
    "lotId": "21461151",
    "title": "Signature Hardware SHWORK1BZ Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink",
    "category": "Home Improvement",
    "seller": "FergusonHome",
    "condition": "Returns",
    "lotSize": "Pallet",
    "itemCount": 1,
    "currentBid": 42,
    "estRetail": 823.9,
    "bidCount": 2,
    "watchers": 2,
    "views": 87,
    "closingAt": "Today 9:10AM",
    "location": "Indiana",
    "detailUrl": "https://www.liquidation.com/auction/view?id=21461151",
    "buyersPremiumPercent": 11,
    "shippingTerms": "For pick-up only"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-result pricing: $0.01 per lot record, with automatic discounts on paid Apify plans. You pay only for the lots it actually returns; an empty run, or one that finds nothing matching your filters, costs nothing. There is no subscription and no minimum spend.

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🛠️ Tips

• Keep fetchLotDetails off for a first run to see what a plain listing scrape returns before paying for the extra detail-page fetch.
• Combine monitorMode with Apify's Scheduler to get a running feed of new lots in a category you watch regularly, instead of re-running a full search every time.
• Use lotIds when you already know which auctions you want to track, since it skips search entirely and goes straight to each lot's page.

❓ FAQ

Does this Actor need a login or account on liquidation.com? No. It reads publicly visible listing data the same way the site's own search page shows it.

Will this place bids for me? No. This Actor only reads and reports lot data; it does not place bids or take any action on your behalf.

Why do some lots have fewer fields than others? A field only appears when the site actually published a value for it. Rather than guess or fill in a placeholder, this Actor leaves a missing field out of that lot's data entirely.

Can I track a specific category over time? Yes. Set your filters, turn on monitor mode, and schedule the run. Each run after the first will report only lots that weren't already seen.

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