# Invaluable Auction Lot & Realized Price Scraper (`lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper`) Actor

Scrape art, antiques & collectibles auction lots from Invaluable. Get realized (sold) prices, estimates, current bids, auction house, sale date, category, location, images and lot URLs. Search any keyword across past-sale archives or upcoming/live lots.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Invaluable Auction Lot & Realized Price Scraper

Scrape art, antiques, jewelry, watches and collectibles auction lots from
[Invaluable](https://www.invaluable.com) — one of the largest global auction
aggregators. Search any keyword and pull structured data for **past sales with
realized (hammer) prices** or **upcoming & live lots** with estimates and current bids.

Perfect for price research, comps and valuation, market analytics, collectors,
dealers, appraisers, and resale/arbitrage tooling.

### What you get per lot

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `title` | Lot title |
| `description` | Full lot description |
| `realizedPrice` | Sold / hammer price (archive lots) |
| `currentBid` | Current bid (upcoming/live lots) |
| `bidCount` | Number of bids |
| `estimateLow` / `estimateHigh` | Auction house estimate range |
| `currencyCode` / `currencySymbol` | e.g. USD, EUR, GBP |
| `auctionHouse` | Selling auction house name |
| `saleType` | Live / Timed / Online-only |
| `category` / `supercategory` | Lot category taxonomy |
| `artistName` | Artist / maker (when tagged) |
| `saleDate` / `saleDateUnix` | Sale date/time |
| `location` / `countryName` | Auction location |
| `lotNumber` | Lot number in the sale |
| `imageUrl` | Full-resolution lot image |
| `lotUrl` | Direct link to the lot on Invaluable |
| `catalogUrl` | Link to the parent auction catalog |
| `source` | `archive` (past) or `upcoming` (live) |
| `objectID` / `lotRef` | Stable identifiers |
| `scrapedAt` | ISO timestamp of when the record was scraped |

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["rolex", "picasso"],
  "lotType": "archive",
  "realizedPricesOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
|-------|------|---------|-------|
| `searchQueries` | string\[] | `["rolex"]` | Keywords; each run independently. Use `[""]` to browse newest lots. |
| `lotType` | string | `archive` | `archive` (realized prices), `upcoming` (live lots), or `both`. |
| `realizedPricesOnly` | boolean | `true` | Archive only: drop lots with no posted sold price. |
| `maxResults` | integer | `100` | Per query per index. `0` = fetch everything via pagination. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Residential | Residential recommended for reliability. |

### Output sample

```json
{
  "title": "Rolex Submariner Date Stainless Steel Wristwatch",
  "realizedPrice": 8500,
  "currencyCode": "USD",
  "estimateLow": 6000,
  "estimateHigh": 9000,
  "auctionHouse": "Heritage Auctions",
  "category": "Wristwatches",
  "saleDate": "2026-05-14 10:00:00",
  "location": "Dallas, TX, US",
  "lotUrl": "https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/rolex-submariner-...-7A0...",
  "imageUrl": "https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/...jpg",
  "source": "archive",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-03T07:30:00.000Z"
}
```

### How it works

The Actor queries Invaluable's public Algolia-backed search backend directly —
the same API the invaluable.com search page uses — returning clean JSON. It
paginates through results up to your `maxResults` limit and pushes each lot to
the dataset.

### Notes

- Realized prices are only available for **archive** (past-sale) lots.
- Upcoming/live lots expose estimates and current bids instead of a sold price.
- Prices are in each lot's native currency (`currencyCode`); no FX conversion is applied.
- A residential proxy is recommended for reliability.

### Pricing

Pay-per-result: a small charge per lot returned, plus a tiny actor-start fee.
You only pay for the data you receive.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

One or more keywords to search Invaluable lots, e.g. 'rolex', 'picasso', 'meissen porcelain'. Each query is run independently. Leave a single empty string "" to browse the newest lots without a keyword.

## `lotType` (type: `string`):

Which catalog to scrape: 'archive' = past sales with realized (sold) prices; 'upcoming' = upcoming & live lots with estimates and current bids; 'both' = both indexes.

## `realizedPricesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

When scraping the archive, only return lots that have a posted realized (sold) price. Ignored for upcoming/live lots. Default true.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum lots to return per search query (per index). Use 0 to fetch ALL matching lots via pagination (Invaluable archives can hold hundreds of thousands per keyword). Default 100.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Invaluable's HTML pages are Cloudflare-guarded, so a residential proxy is recommended for reliability against the search backend.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "rolex"
  ],
  "lotType": "archive",
  "realizedPricesOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "rolex"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["rolex"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "rolex"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lulzasaur/invaluable-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/xQVVm1Eagm002IBsZ/builds/nYdJLDJWcyErvFlyL/openapi.json