Christie's Auction Scraper

🔨 Christie's Auction Scraper

Extract lots from Christie's, the world's largest auction house: fine art, Asian art, jewellery, watches, handbags, wine, design, books, photographs and more. Get auction results (every Christie's sale since 1998: more than 13,000 live and online sales, with the price realised) or live and upcoming lots with estimates, current bids and closing times, in one clean table.

Each lot comes with:

• Price realised (with buyer's premium) in the sale currency and in USD.
• Low and high estimate, in the sale currency and in USD.
• Artist with birth and death years, title, subtitle, the catalogue description and the consignor line ("PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ...").
• Status: sold, unsold, withdrawn, open for bidding or upcoming.
• For online sales: number of bids, the current bid and each lot's closing time.
• The sale: number, title, live or online, city and saleroom, categories, start and end dates.
• Photo, lot link and sale link.
• Add-on: the full lot page, with details, dimensions, provenance, literature, exhibition history, further details, the saleroom notice, the catalogue essay, the specialist's name, title, email and phone, every photo and the superzoom image link.

👉 Try it now: press Start. The ready-made input gives you 10 lot saveds in a few seconds.
💰 $0.024 per lot saved on the Free plan (10 lot saveds per run), from $0.022 on paid plans. See pricing

✨ Why this scraper?

• Every sale since 1998
  The whole Christie's results archive, not one search page at a time.

• USD on every row
  Christie's sells in USD, GBP, EUR, HKD, CHF and more (and in guilders, lire and francs before the euro). Each row also has the price and estimates in USD, at the rate on the sale's last day, so results from different cities and decades compare directly.

• Online bidding data
  Bids, current bid and the exact closing time of every online lot.

• Specialist contacts
  The add-on gives the name, title, email and phone of the specialist for each lot.

• Sorts across the whole archive
  "Highest price" really reads every matching sale first, then saves the top lots.

• Fast
  About 1,000 lots in about 10 seconds (1,000 with full details in under a minute).

• Apify platform
  Schedule runs, get only new lot saveds, export to Excel or CSV, use the API, or connect Google Sheets, Zapier and Make.

⚖️ How it compares

Based on each Actor's public input options (October 2026).

Capability	This actor	stealth_mode Christie's lots	parseforge Christie's auctions
What you get	lots, with results	lots	featured auction tiles
Prices realised	yes, since 1998	yes	no
Live and upcoming lots	yes	yes	tiles only
Price and estimates in USD	yes, every row	no	no
Search terms	several per run	one	no
Category, location, sale type filters	yes	no	no
Sale date range	yes	no	no
Price range	yes, in USD	yes, sale currency	no
Estimate range	yes, in USD	no	no
Sold / unsold filter	yes	sold or available	no
Online bids, current bid, closing time	yes	no	no
Sort orders	6	6	none
Whole sale links	yes	search links	page links
Provenance, literature, exhibited, essay	add-on	no	no
Specialist email and phone	add-on	no	no
New lots only (monitoring)	yes	no	no

🚀 How to scrape Christie's Auction

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Pick the filters you need, or keep the ready-made input.
3. Click Start.
4. Download the lot saveds as Excel, CSV or JSON from the Output tab.

💰 Pricing

How much does it cost to scrape Christie's Auction?

You pay a one-time $0.003 per run, plus a price for each lot saved saved (and for each add-on you turn on):

Charged for	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
Lot saved: Charged for each Christie's lot saved to your dataset.	0.024	0.022	0.02	0.018
Full lot details: Charged per lot saved with its full lot page (details, provenance, literature, exhibited, essay, specialist contact, every photo).	0.009	0.008	0.007	0.006

Example: 1,000 lot saveds cost about $22 on Bronze. No proxy or compute costs on top.

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
image	Main photo.
lotId, lotNumber	Christie's object number and the lot number in the sale.
artist, artistBirthYear, artistDeathYear	Artist and life dates, when the lot title is an artist ("PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)").
title, subtitle, description	Lot title, the line under it, and the catalogue description.
consignor	The provenance line Christie's prints above the lot ("PROPERTY FROM ...").
status	sold, unsold, withdrawn, open for bidding or upcoming.
price, currency, priceUsd	Price realised with buyer's premium, the sale currency, and the price in USD.
estimateLow, estimateHigh, estimateLowUsd, estimateHighUsd	Estimate in the sale currency and in USD.
currentBid, currentBidUsd, bids	Current bid on an open online lot, and the number of bids (online sales).
saleId, saleNumber, saleTitle, saleType	The sale, Live or Online.
location, saleroomCode	City and Christie's saleroom code.
estimateOnRequest, priceOnRequest	Estimate or price available on request only.
url, saleUrl, superzoomUrl	Lot page, sale page and the high resolution image (add-on).
categories, images	Sale categories, every photo (add-on).
saleStartsAt, saleEndsAt, lotEndsAt	Sale start and end dates, and the online lot closing time (UTC).
details, dimensions	The full catalogue entry and the measurements line (add-on).
provenance, literature, exhibited, furtherDetails, saleroomNotice, essay	Catalogue texts (add-on).
specialistName, specialistTitle, specialistEmail, specialistPhone	The lot's specialist (add-on).
imageCount	Number of photos (add-on).
searchedFor	Which of your searches or links found it.
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (UTC).

Add-on fields only appear when Full lot details is on.

Example row (trimmed)

{
  "image": "https://www.christies.com/img/lotimages/2026/HGK/2026_HGK_24477_0001_000(patek_philippe_nautilus_ref_5726_1a-001_movement_no_7027594_case_no_61_d6601204014719).jpg",
  "lotId": "6601204",
  "lotNumber": "1",
  "title": "PATEK PHILIPPE, NAUTILUS, REF. 5726/1A-001",
  "subtitle": "MOVEMENT NO. 7'027'594, CASE NO. 6'161'466",
  "status": "sold",
  "price": 832000,
  "currency": "HKD",
  "priceUsd": 106009,
  "estimateLow": 500000,
  "estimateHigh": 1000000,
  "estimateLowUsd": 63707,
  "estimateHighUsd": 127415,
  "bids": 4,
  "saleNumber": "24477",
  "saleTitle": "Watches Online: Hong Kong Edit",
  "saleType": "Online",
  "location": "Hong Kong",
  "dimensions": "Diameter: 40.5 mm.",
  "essay": "Reference 5726 was launched in 2010 in stainless steel only, with a leather strap. In 2012, Patek Philippe began production of the reference...",
  "specialistName": "Alexandre Bigler",
  "specialistTitle": "SVP, Senior International Specialist, Head of Collections, Watches",
  "specialistEmail": "abigler@christies.com",
  "imageCount": 6,
  "url": "https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/watches-online-hong-kong-edit/patek-philippe-nautilus-ref-5726-1a-001-1/321486",
  "saleUrl": "https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/watches-online-hong-kong-edit/lots/3934",
  "categories": ["Jewellery, Watches & Handbags"],
  "saleStartsAt": "2026-09-24",
  "saleEndsAt": "2026-10-07",
  "lotEndsAt": "2026-10-07T04:00:00.000Z"
}

⚙️ Input

Section	What it's for
Maximum lots, What to scrape, Results	Always first: caps the whole run (empty means no limit), past or upcoming auctions, and sold, unsold or all lots.
What	Search terms, artist / maker, or links.
Sale filters	Category, location, live or online, sale date range.
Lot filters	Price and estimate ranges in USD, minimum online bids, words to exclude, sort order.
Add-ons	Full lot details.
Monitoring	New lots only, with an optional monitor name.

A lot matching ANY of your search terms is kept; every filter narrows them all. With links, the search terms and filters are ignored.

Input examples

📈 Every Basquiat sold at Christie's

{ "searchTerms": ["basquiat"], "maxItems": null }

🔥 The 500 most expensive lots Christie's sold in the last 5 years

{ "sortBy": "price_high", "dateFrom": "5 years", "maxItems": 500 }

⌚ Patek Philippe results in Geneva and Hong Kong, with the catalogue details

{ "searchTerms": ["patek philippe"], "locations": ["Geneva", "Hong Kong"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": null }

🍷 Wine lots that failed to sell, estimated $1,000 to $10,000

{ "categories": ["Wines & Spirits"], "results": "unsold", "minEstimate": 1000, "maxEstimate": 10000, "maxItems": null }

🔔 Online lots with the most bids right now

{ "status": "upcoming", "saleType": "online", "sortBy": "most_bids", "maxItems": 100 }

📚 Every lot of one sale, with full details

{ "urls": ["https://www.christies.com/en/auction/auction-31122"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": null }

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❓ FAQ and troubleshooting

Is there a Christie's Auction API? Do I need an API key?

Christie's Auction has no public data API for this. This Actor works as a Christie's Auction API alternative: it reads the public pages and gives you clean JSON, CSV or Excel, with no API key, no login and no code to maintain. You can also call it from your own code with the Apify API, or from an AI agent through MCP: claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/christies-scraper"

Why do I get only 10 lot saveds?

On the Apify free plan each run saves up to 10 results, so you can try it before paying. Any paid plan removes the limit.

priceUsd or the USD estimates are empty

The rate source starts in 1999, so a few 1998 sales in currencies other than USD have no USD values. The sale currency fields are still filled. USD price and estimate filters skip those lots.

A sold lot has no price

Christie's hides the price of a few sold lots (priceOnRequest is true). They are kept as sold, with an empty price.

Is this an official Christie's Auction tool?

No. It is independent and not affiliated with Christie's Auction. It reads only data Christie's Auction publishes on its public pages, at a moderate pace. Use the data in line with Christie's Auction's terms and the laws that apply to you.

📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com