fineartamerica-scraper

Scrapes artist/business profiles and print-on-demand artworks from FineArtAmerica.com, one of the largest print-on-demand art marketplaces — via the site's own public sitemaps, no login required.

Contents

• Key features
• Output
• Input
• Input examples
• Incremental (delta) mode
• How to scrape FineArtAmerica.com
• FAQ

🔑 Key features

• Two entity types, one Actor. Set entityType to artworks or artists.
• By far the largest artist directory covered by this collection — ~300,000 individual artist profiles plus ~6,000 agency/brand accounts (Alamy, Getty Images, and other stock houses/galleries share the identical page template). Set accountType to artist or business for a clean dataset of just one, or leave it at all for both.
• Real popularity signals no sibling Actor exposes: followers and visitors (a cumulative profile-view count) on every artist/business record, plus an exact total_artworks count read directly from the page.
• Real per-product pricing. Every artwork is print-on-demand — priced as a range across several product types (canvas print, framed print, metal print, etc.), each with its own SKU and price.
• artistIds input for a genuinely exhaustive per-artist catalog — the default artworks crawl samples a large, real (but non-exhaustive) set of the site's own sitemaps; set artistIds to walk specific artists' full galleries to completion instead.
• Delta mode built in. Every run classifies each item as new, changed, unchanged, or delisted against a persisted baseline.
• maxItems defaults to 50 — a fast preview, and what keeps an unconfigured run within Apify's automated 5-minute QA check. Clear maxItems (null) for a full run.

📋 Output

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

Example artwork record:

{
  "source": "fineartamerica",
  "entity_type": "artworks",
  "external_id": "25769634",
  "url": "https://fineartamerica.com/featured/poolside-glamour-slim-aarons.html",
  "title": "Poolside Glamour",
  "medium_type": "Photograph",
  "category_path": "Wall Art > Photographs > mountain",
  "artist_name": "Slim Aarons",
  "artist_url": "https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/gettyimages",
  "low_price": 68.97,
  "high_price": 141.72,
  "currency": "USD",
  "offer_count": 6,
  "offers": [
    { "sku": "poolside-glamour-canvas-print", "name": "Poolside Glamour Canvas Print", "price": 78.49, "availability": "InStock" }
  ],
  "comment_count": 5,
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example artist record:

{
  "source": "fineartamerica",
  "entity_type": "artists",
  "external_id": "aaronblaise",
  "url": "https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/aaronblaise",
  "name": "Aaron Blaise",
  "account_type": "artist",
  "location": "Jensen Beach, FL, United States",
  "total_artworks": 112,
  "joined_year": "2013",
  "followers": 1562,
  "visitors": 1438196,
  "change_type": "new"
}

🔧 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
entityType	string	artworks	artworks or artists.
artistIds	array	—	artworks only. Profile slugs or URLs to walk exhaustively instead of the general sample.
accountType	string	all	artists only. all / artist / business — filter out agency/brand accounts (or individual artists).
maxItems	integer	50	Stop after pushing this many items. Set to null for a full crawl.
mode	string	auto	auto / full / incremental — see Incremental mode.
concurrency	integer	10	How many pages to fetch in parallel — validated clean up to 20 at real large-scale on both entity types, see FAQ.
impersonate	string	chrome	curl_cffi TLS-impersonation target.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Apify Proxy config — not needed; no anti-bot friction found.

📥 Input examples

Default preview (50 artworks):

{ "entityType": "artworks" }

Full artist/business directory:

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

One artist's complete catalog:

{ "entityType": "artworks", "artistIds": ["aaronblaise"], "maxItems": null }

Individual artists only, no agencies/brands:

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

🔁 Incremental (delta) mode

auto mode does a full scan the first time it runs for a given entityType/scope, then only pushes new/changed items on later runs. Only an uncapped, error-free run can detect delistings, price changes, or update the baseline.

🌐 How to scrape FineArtAmerica.com

FineArtAmerica has no JSON API — this Actor discovers its scope entirely via the site's own public sitemaps and reads each artwork/profile page's own embedded schema.org data and server-rendered HTML, the same content your browser sees.

❓ FAQ

Does this include sold/unsold status? No — this is a print-on-demand catalog. Every artwork is reproduced to order, so there's no concept of a piece selling out; every product offer always shows availability: "InStock".

Is entityType=artworks (default) an exhaustive catalog of the whole site? No, and it doesn't claim to be — FineArtAmerica has no exhaustive artwork sitemap, only tiered "popular"/"grouped"/"new" sitemaps (a large, real sample, but not every artwork on the site). For a specific artist's complete catalog, use artistIds instead.

Why does entityType=artists include businesses/agencies like Alamy or Getty Images? FineArtAmerica uses the exact same profile page template for individual artists and agency/brand/stock-house accounts — there's no structural reason to split them into separate entity types. account_type on each record says which; set accountType to artist or business if you only want one.

Does this need a proxy? No — no anti-bot friction was found anywhere on this site (plain Apache, no Cloudflare or equivalent challenge).

Why does an occasional item take longer than expected? A real, confirmed-live pattern on this site: individual pages occasionally (a handful per thousand requests) hit a ~30-second connection stall, unrelated to concurrency or rate limiting — every instance observed so far has self-healed on retry within a couple of short attempts. This is expected, not a sign of blocking.