Artsper.com Artist, Artwork & Gallery Scraper

Scrapes artworks (for sale and sold), artist profiles and galleries from Artsper.com: prices in EUR and the gallery's own currency, dimensions, edition size, medium, style, theme, gallery, listing date, plus per-artist rollup stats (average price, medium mix, sold count) computed from each artist's full catalog.

Contents

• For sale, sold or all: what to expect
• Key features
• Output
• Input
• Input examples
• Incremental (delta) mode
• How to scrape Artsper.com
• You might also like
• FAQ

⏱️ For sale, sold or all: what to expect

Artworks have an Availability option. Pick it by what you need and how long you can wait:

Availability	What you get	Speed
For sale (fast) — forSale, the default	Every artwork currently for sale (~205,000), with all filters	Fast. Read from Artsper's own search index, 1,000 artworks per request (over 1,000 rows a second): the whole catalog in a few minutes.
Sold (slow) — sold	Sold artworks	Slow. Artsper shows sold works only on each artist's catalog page (60 works per page), read one page every 2 seconds. With an Artist URL list that's seconds per artist. Across the whole site it means reading every artist's catalog (tens of thousands of artists): many hours, so set Max results or use the artist list.
All (slow) — all	For sale + sold, without duplicates	Slow, for the same reason as Sold.

Want to know what sells, as it sells? You don't need the slow option for that. Schedule a For sale (fast) run with mode: incremental and Max results cleared: every run reports new listings, price changes, and artworks that sold since the last run (change_type: "changed", availability_status: "SoldOut"). Sold (slow) is only needed for sales from before you started tracking.

Typical run times (measured on Apify):

Run	Rows	Time
Default input (for sale, 50 results)	50	~5 s
Paintings for sale in France, €500–2,000	200	~5 s
For sale, no filters	8,000	~12 s
Sold works of 2 artists (Warhol, Kusama), artist URL list	55	~15 s
All (for sale + sold) of 1 artist, with includeDetails	30	~45 s
Every gallery	395	~2 s
Artists with rollup stats	50	~2 min

🔑 Key features

• Three entity types, one Actor. entityType artworks, artists or galleries.
• The whole for-sale catalog in minutes. Artworks come from the search index Artsper's own pages use, with ~45 fields each: price in the gallery's currency and in EUR, width/height/depth, edition size and copies left, unique or edition, framed, ready to hang, negotiable, medium, surface, styles, themes, colors, tags, orientation, gallery, location country and the date the listing was approved.
• Filters that run on the site's side. Category, location country, EUR price range and keyword: you pay only for matching artworks, and filtered runs are even faster.
• Sold artworks with their last price. From the "Sold" cards in artists' catalogs, plus the works Artsper has just marked sold.
• A feed of newly sold works. A scheduled for-sale run checks every artwork that disappeared since the last run: sold (reported as sold), still for sale (kept quietly) or really removed (reported delisted).
• Detail-page extras on request. includeDetails adds condition, signature and certificate of authenticity from each artwork's page (slower: one page per artwork).
• Real per-artist rollup stats, not a sample. Average price, medium mix, sold count and latest artwork, computed from an artist's entire catalog (60 works per page request).
• Galleries. Every gallery in Artsper's gallery directory (~400) with its city, country, number of artworks, number sold and followers.
• Delta mode built in. Every run classifies each item as new, changed, unchanged or delisted against a saved baseline: pay for what changed, not a full re-scrape every time.
• A tracked artist list. artistUrls scrapes exactly the artists you care about (artist profiles, or their artworks for sale and sold), with its own tracking across repeat runs.
• maxItems defaults to 50 (a fast preview); clear it (null) for everything.

📋 Output

One dataset item per artwork, artist or gallery, depending on entityType — see the Output tab's Artworks / Artists / Galleries views for a readable table.

Example artwork record (for sale):

{
  "source": "artsper",
  "entity_type": "artworks",
  "external_id": "artsper_1298532",
  "url": "https://www.artsper.com/en/contemporary-artworks/print/1298532/lenvolee-secrete",
  "title": "L'Envolée Secrète",
  "artist_name": "Hugo Pondz",
  "artist_url": "https://www.artsper.com/en/contemporary-artists/belgium/6293/hugo-pondz",
  "artist_id": 6293,
  "artist_nationality": "Belgian",
  "category": "Print",
  "medium": "tirage fine art",
  "surface": "argentic paper",
  "date_created": "2019",
  "price": 1200,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "price_eur": 1200,
  "availability_status": "InStock",
  "width_cm": 120,
  "height_cm": 80,
  "edition_size": 30,
  "copies_available": 26,
  "is_unique": false,
  "is_framed": false,
  "is_negotiable": true,
  "styles": ["Contemporary Landscape"],
  "themes": ["Everyday life"],
  "tags": ["Sea", "Swimming", "Holidays"],
  "orientation": "Landscape",
  "rarity": "Limited editions",
  "gallery_name": "galerie bruno massa",
  "gallery_id": 1004,
  "location_country_code": "BE",
  "listed_at": "2021-12-15T16:10:00+00:00",
  "image_url": "https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1298532_1_m.jpg",
  "data_source": "search_index",
  "change_type": "new"
}

A sold artwork from an artist's catalog (data_source: "artist_catalog") has the title, artist, category, last price (EUR), image and availability_status: "SoldOut"; add includeDetails for medium, surface, dimensions, condition, signature and authenticity from its page.

Example artist record:

{
  "source": "artsper",
  "entity_type": "artists",
  "external_id": "artsper_artist_17",
  "url": "https://www.artsper.com/fr/artistes-contemporains/france/17/jerome-mesnager",
  "name": "Jérôme Mesnager",
  "nationality": "France",
  "birth_year": 1961,
  "total_artworks": 45,
  "sold_artworks": 0,
  "avg_price": 1037.0,
  "mediums": "Fine Art Drawings, Painting, Print, Sculpture",
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example gallery record:

{
  "source": "artsper",
  "entity_type": "galleries",
  "external_id": "artsper_gallery_9948",
  "url": "https://www.artsper.com/us/art-galleries/united-states/9948/zatista-contemporary-fine-art",
  "name": "Zatista Contemporary & Fine Art",
  "city": "Yardley",
  "country": "United States",
  "artworks_count": 7500,
  "sold_count": 178,
  "followers_count": 62,
  "change_type": "new"
}

Results can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Console's Output tab, or pulled via the Apify API/dataset endpoint.

Known gaps:

• price/currency are the gallery's own currency (EUR, USD, GBP or CHF); price_eur is the euro price. Sold works from artist catalogs carry the EUR price only.
• condition, signature and authenticity are only on the artwork's own page: turn on includeDetails for them.
• Filters by country and keyword apply to the search index; sold works read from artist catalogs can't be filtered by them (category and price filters do apply).
• The artist rollup's latest_artwork_* assumes the catalog's default sort is newest-first.

⚙️ Input

The Input tab lists every option with its description.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
entityType	String	artworks	artworks, artists or galleries.
availability	String	forSale	Artworks: forSale (fast), sold (slow), all (slow) — see what to expect.
categories	Array	(all)	Artworks: painting, print, photography, sculpture, drawing, design.
countries	Array of strings	(all)	Artworks: two-letter codes of the countries Artsper lists the artwork in, e.g. ["FR", "US"].
minPrice / maxPrice	Integer	(none)	Artworks: price range in EUR.
keyword	String	(none)	Artworks: Artsper's own site search.
includeDetails	Boolean	false	Artworks: also open each artwork's page for condition, signature and authenticity. Slower.
artistUrls	Array of strings	(none)	Artist URLs, one per line. Artists: scrape exactly these. Artworks: only these artists' works (the fast way to get sold works). Each list gets its own tracking scope.
verifyArtistUrls	Boolean	true	Artists: check artistUrls against the artist sitemap first (about a minute) and skip any not found.
startUrls	Array of strings	(none)	Specific artist/artwork URLs or a catalog URL, scraped page by page instead of the search index; availability and filters are then ignored. Never a delisting-aware scan.
maxItems	Integer	50	Stop after this many dataset items. Clear it (null) for everything — and for incremental tracking, since a capped run never updates the baseline.
mode	String	auto	auto: full on the first run, incremental after. full: push everything. incremental: push only new/changed/sold/delisted items.
impersonate	String	chrome (internal)	curl_cffi TLS-impersonation target; override only if Artsper's Cloudflare check stops passing.
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify Residential	Used only for artwork pages (includeDetails, startUrls, checking disappeared artworks): 12 pages at a time over many IPs. Included in the price.

🧪 Input examples

Every artwork for sale (fast, a few minutes):

{ "entityType": "artworks", "maxItems": null }

Paintings for sale in France between €500 and €2,000:

{
  "entityType": "artworks",
  "categories": ["painting"],
  "countries": ["FR"],
  "minPrice": 500,
  "maxPrice": 2000,
  "maxItems": null
}

Sold works of specific artists (slow option, but quick for a short list):

{
  "entityType": "artworks",
  "availability": "sold",
  "artistUrls": [
    "https://www.artsper.com/us/contemporary-artists/united-states/1554/andy-warhol",
    "https://www.artsper.com/us/contemporary-artists/japan/2391/yayoi-kusama"
  ],
  "maxItems": null
}

Daily feed of new listings, price changes and newly sold works (schedule it):

{ "entityType": "artworks", "availability": "forSale", "mode": "incremental", "maxItems": null }

Full artist directory, with rollup stats:

{ "entityType": "artists", "maxItems": null }

Every gallery:

{ "entityType": "galleries", "maxItems": null }

🔄 Incremental (delta) mode

Every run classifies each item as new, changed (price or availability moved, for artworks; catalog size/sold count/average price, for artists; artwork or sold count, for galleries), unchanged, or delisted, using a baseline saved per entityType and input (availability, filters, artist list).

• mode: auto (default) — the first run for a given input pushes everything (full); later runs push only new/changed/delisted items (incremental).
• Sold and removed artworks are told apart. When an artwork from the last run is missing, the Actor checks it: if Artsper marks it sold, you get it as changed with availability_status: "SoldOut"; if its page is still for sale, it stays tracked quietly; only an artwork whose page is really gone comes back as delisted.
• Only a complete run updates the baseline and reports sold/delisted items: maxItems cleared, no startUrls, and no errors. A capped or startUrls run never does.
• A URL confirmed gone is recorded and never fetched again on any future run.

🚀 How to scrape Artsper.com

1. Open the Artsper Artist, Artwork & Gallery Scraper in Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. Pick entityType (artworks, artists or galleries), and for artworks the Availability (For sale is fast; Sold and All are slow) and any filters.
3. maxItems defaults to 50 (a quick preview) — clear it (set to null) for a full run.
4. Click Start.
5. When the run finishes, browse results in the Output tab, or download as JSON/CSV/Excel, or fetch them via the API.
6. To track over time instead of scraping once: create a Schedule with mode: auto — the first run does a full scan, every run after only bills what actually changed, including works that sold.

🔗 You might also like

• SaatchiArt Artist & Artwork Scraper — the same entity-type/rollup-stats design pointed at a second, independent art marketplace, for expanding artist coverage or cross-referencing the same artist's presence and pricing across platforms.
• Artmajeur Artist & Artwork Scraper — a third, independent art marketplace source, same design.
• Artfinder Artist & Artwork Scraper — a fourth, independent art marketplace source, same design.
• Artsy Artist, Artwork & Gallery Scraper — a fifth, independent art marketplace source, plus a genuine dealer/gallery angle (real represented-artist rollups per gallery) this collection doesn't otherwise have.
• Riseart Artist & Artwork Scraper — a sixth, independent art marketplace source, built entirely on the site's own public GraphQL search API (no HTML scraping, no per-item detail fetch), with a real per-artist rollup (total artworks, avg price, for-sale vs. enquire-only split, sold count).
• Kunsthaus ARTES Artist & Artwork Scraper — a seventh, independent art marketplace source (German gallery), with a real four-state availability signal (for sale, price-on-request, reserved, sold) read from the site's own schema.org microdata.
• Ars Mundi Artist & Artwork Scraper — a ninth, independent art marketplace source (a sibling German gallery running the same underlying platform as Kunsthaus ARTES), also selling jewelry and decorative objects alongside paintings/sculptures.
• Artprice.com Artist & Artwork Scraper — a tenth, independent art marketplace source, built on Artprice.com's own public unauthenticated JSON APIs (artist directory + current marketplace listings), with real per-artist rollup stats and multi-currency pricing (EUR/USD/GBP/CNY/BTC/ETH) on every artwork.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Artsper.com? It's legal to collect publicly available marketplace data such as artwork listings, prices, and public artist profile information. Scrape it only with a legitimate purpose under GDPR.

How do I get only new/changed items? Use mode: auto (or incremental) on a schedule — see Incremental mode.

Can I get only sold artworks? Yes: set Availability to Sold (slow). It's slow because Artsper shows sold works only on each artist's catalog page, so give an Artist URL list for a quick run, or set Max results. To follow sales as they happen, schedule a For sale (fast) run in incremental mode instead: works that sold since the previous run come back with availability_status: "SoldOut".

Why is "For sale" so much faster than "Sold"? For-sale artworks come from Artsper's own search index, 1,000 per request. Sold works aren't in it (apart from the most recent ~1,400), so they're read from artists' catalog pages, 60 per page, paced at one page every 2 seconds to stay within Artsper's rate limit.

Does the artist rollup count sold works? Yes — sold_artworks/sold_avg_price on artist records come from the "Sold" marker on each artwork in the artist's catalog.

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