artsy-scraper

Scrapes artists, artworks, and galleries/dealers ("partners") from Artsy.net via Artsy's own public GraphQL API — real represented-artist lists and inventory data per gallery, real per-artist aggregate stats with no per-artwork fan-out, and delta mode.

Contents

• Key features
• Output
• Input
• Input examples
• Incremental (delta) mode
• You might also like
• FAQ

🔑 Key features

• Exhaustive, not keyword-search-only. This is the difference that matters most: every other Artsy scraper on Apify requires a search query and returns whatever that query turns up. This one crawls Artsy's own sitemaps — 173,000+ artists, ~5,800 galleries/dealers, millions of artworks — so you get the whole catalog (or any slice of it via startUrls), not just what a keyword happens to surface.
• The dealer/gallery angle is a first-class entity, not a bolted-on field.

  entityType: partners
  returns each gallery's real, fully-paginated represented-artist list AND inventory list — not a page, not a sample, both walked to completion — plus real aggregate stats (total artists, total artworks). No other Artsy scraper on Apify offers this.
• Delta (incremental) mode. Every run classifies each item as new/changed/unchanged/delisted against a persisted baseline, so a repeat run only costs you for what actually changed. No other Artsy scraper on Apify has this either.
• A real, documented GraphQL API under the hood, not HTML scraping. Every field comes from Artsy's own public "Metaphysics" API, whose schema is open-source — richer, more reliable data than parsing rendered pages, and fast: validated at up to 190 requests/second with zero blocking.
• Artist stats need no extra fetching at all. total_artworks/for_sale_artworks/follows are real, server-computed numbers — one request per artist, not one request per artwork in their catalog.
• Rich artwork data: for-sale/sold status, hidden-price ("price on request") detection, listed price with currency, medium, dimensions, and the selling gallery/dealer.
• Fast by default. Concurrent fetching (tunable via concurrency, default 25) — 500 artworks in under 20 seconds in real testing.

📋 Output

One dataset item per artwork, artist, or partner, depending on entityType — see .actor/dataset_schema.json for the full field list, or the Output tab's per-entity-type views for a readable table.

Example artwork record:

{
  "source": "artsy",
  "entity_type": "artworks",
  "external_id": "stacy-daguiar-hybrid-plus-ladybug",
  "url": "https://www.artsy.net/artwork/stacy-daguiar-hybrid-plus-ladybug",
  "title": "Hybrid + Ladybug",
  "artist_name": "Stacy D'Aguiar",
  "partner_name": "Abend Gallery",
  "medium": "Acrylic on wood",
  "is_for_sale": false,
  "is_sold": true,
  "price_amount": 365,
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "price_display": "US$365",
  "sale_message": "Sold",
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example artist record:

{
  "source": "artsy",
  "entity_type": "artists",
  "external_id": "andy-warhol",
  "url": "https://www.artsy.net/artist/andy-warhol",
  "name": "Andy Warhol",
  "nationality": "American",
  "gender": "male",
  "birthday": "1928",
  "deathday": "1987",
  "hometown": "Pittsburgh, PA, USA",
  "location": "New York, NY, USA",
  "bio": "Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century's most iconic images...",
  "total_artworks": 9651,
  "for_sale_artworks": 3294,
  "follows": 216033,
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example partner (gallery) record:

{
  "source": "artsy",
  "entity_type": "partners",
  "external_id": "dc-moore-gallery",
  "url": "https://www.artsy.net/partner/dc-moore-gallery",
  "name": "DC Moore Gallery",
  "type": "Gallery",
  "city": "New York",
  "country": "US",
  "total_artists": 136,
  "total_artworks": 1412,
  "represented_artists": "Alicia Adamerovich, Eric Aho, ... Milton Avery",
  "represented_artist_urls": "https://www.artsy.net/artist/alicia-adamerovich, https://www.artsy.net/artist/eric-aho, ...",
  "artwork_titles": "Tile Roof (Gardenville), Heraldic Iris, ...",
  "artwork_urls": "https://www.artsy.net/artwork/..., https://www.artsy.net/artwork/..., ...",
  "change_type": "new"
}

represented_artist_urls/artwork_urls are real artsy.net URLs, same order as their

represented_ artists

🔧 Input

💡 Input examples

Default preview (50 artworks): leave input empty.

All galleries/dealers, uncapped:

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

A specific artist:

{ "entityType": "artists", "startUrls": ["https://www.artsy.net/artist/andy-warhol"] }

🔄 Incremental (delta) mode

Every run classifies each item as new/changed/unchanged/delisted against a baseline persisted between runs. mode: auto (the default) does a full scan on the first run for a given entityType/scope, then only pushes new/changed items afterwards. Only a plain, unscoped sitemap crawl (no startUrls) can detect delistings or update the baseline — see the linked doc below for the full design.

🔗 You might also like

• SaatchiArt Artist & Artwork Scraper — a real per-artist rollup (avg price, medium mix, sold count) computed from an artist's full catalog, an independent art marketplace source.
• Artmajeur Artist & Artwork Scraper — same rollup-stats design, a second independent art marketplace.
• Artsper Artist & Artwork Scraper — same rollup-stats design, a third independent art marketplace.
• Artfinder Artist & Artwork Scraper — same rollup-stats design, a fourth independent art marketplace.
• Bluethumb Artist & Artwork Scraper — a fifth independent art marketplace (Australia's largest), with real per-artist sold/available/total counts read from a single profile-page fetch, no rollup fan-out needed.
• 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).
• 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 — an eighth, 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 ninth, 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

Why is partner_name sometimes empty on an artwork? Not every artwork on Artsy is currently listed by a gallery/dealer — some are archival records with no active seller attached.

Why is price_amount null even though is_for_sale is true? Many galleries mark high-value work "Price on request" (is_price_hidden: true) rather than publishing a number — sale_message will say so.

Does a partners run give me full details for every artist/artwork a gallery carries? No, and deliberately so. A partners run gets you the complete represented-artist list and the complete reachable inventory list — every one, paginated to completion, not a capped sample — but only name/title + URL for each, not full per-record detail (bio, price, dimensions, etc.). Fetching full detail for potentially hundreds of artists or thousands of artworks inline would turn a several- second run into a much slower, much more expensive one, for data most customers don't need on every single gallery in scope. Instead, use represented_artist_urls/artwork_urls from a partners run as input to a follow-up entityType: artists or entityType: artworks run's startUrls, scoped to exactly the artists/artworks you actually want full detail on.

Why can artwork_urls be shorter than total_artworks — or even empty? Confirmed live against real galleries: Artsy's own aggregate artwork count for a partner (total_artworks) can be higher than what's actually reachable through the public inventory listing this Actor uses — sometimes substantially so (e.g. one real gallery reported 425 total artworks but 0 were reachable via the public listing). This isn't a bug in this Actor: the gap looks to be private/unpublished inventory that's only visible to the gallery's own Artsy account, not something available without a real partner login. total_artists/represented_artist_urls don't have this gap in any case checked so far — it's specific to the artwork inventory listing.