# DAT Freight Rates Scraper

A business tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/parseforge/dat-freight-rates-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `maxItems` (integer): Maximum rates
- `datasets` (array): Datasets to Scrape (e.g. ["national_history","load_truck_ratio"])
- `equipments` (array): Equipment Categories (e.g. ["VAN","FLATBED"])
- `rateTypes` (array): Rate Types (e.g. ["SHIPPER_TO_BROKER_SPOT","BROKER_TO_CARRIER_SPOT"])
- `countries` (array): Countries (e.g. ["US","CA"])
- `periodTypes` (array): Period Granularity (e.g. ["Month","Week"])

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=DAT%20Freight%20Rates%20Scraper with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "DAT Freight Rates Scraper"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md