BaT Data Grabber

Bring A Trailer(BAT) is a popular online auction website for enthusiast cars. This traverse auction results and saves them as CSV

Bring A Trailer holds a trove of data on how certain models are performing. You can use this data to track trends over time. The goal of this project is to traverse the website of a given model and collect all sales history into a CSV file for later analysis.

Schema

• URL: auction URL for the specific sale
• Title: contains vehicle information at a mininum make and model.
• Subtitle: Contains final price as well auction end date
• Model year
• Price
• Auction end date
• Sold
• Mileage
• Transmission
• Model Trim(only for Porshce 911 BaT model pages)

Additional data cleaning may be required:

• parsing of model generation
• parsing of model trims

Usage:

1. download python file
2. run the script with python 3.8 or greater
3. provide a BaT car model URL (ex: https://bringatrailer.com/porsche/911-gt3/ , https://bringatrailer.com/bmw/m3/?q=bmw%20m3)
4. script will launch browers and load all results
5. script will save all data in a file named BAT_data.csv

Example Data analysis

• Porsche GT3 Analysis
• Porsche 997 BaT Analysis
• BMW M5 BaT Analysis
• BMW M3 BaT Analysis