# MyArtBroker.com Artist & Print Scraper (`artsiom_k/myartbroker-scraper`) Actor

Scrape MyArtBroker.com artist profiles and print editions with real cross-auction realized prices and a per-artist market-index rollup. No login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/artsiom\_k/myartbroker-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Artsiom Kunitsyn](https://apify.com/artsiom_k) (community)
- **Categories:** Other, 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## myartbroker-scraper

Scrapes **artist profiles** and **prints/editions** from [MyArtBroker.com](https://www.myartbroker.com),
a UK-based secondary-market print brokerage and price-guide platform (Banksy, Warhol, Hockney, Hirst,
and 290+ other artists) — via the site's own embedded page data, no login required.

### Contents

- [Key features](#key-features)
- [Output](#output)
- [Input](#input)
- [Input examples](#input-examples)
- [Incremental (delta) mode](#incremental-delta-mode)
- [How to scrape MyArtBroker.com](#how-to-scrape-myartbrokercom)
- [FAQ](#faq)

### 🔑 Key features

- **Two entity types, one Actor.** Set `entityType` to `artworks` (prints/editions) or `artists`.
- **A genuinely free, rich artist rollup.** One fetch per artist returns a real, server-computed
  market index: recorded auction sale count, annual growth %, average and total sale value across
  8 currencies, and a full historical price-index time series going back years — no per-artwork
  fan-out needed at all, unlike most per-artist rollups in this space.
- **Real cross-auction-house realized-price history per edition** — hammer price, buyer's-premium
  price, and seller net return, in 8 currencies, sourced from real houses (Christie's, Sotheby's,
  Phillips, and others). Closer to an auction house's realized-price archive than a typical
  marketplace listing.
- **No fabricated "sold" flag.** MyArtBroker prices fungible print *editions*, not unique inventory
  — instead of a sold/unsold boolean, artwork records carry real demand signals: how many people are
  registered wanting to buy, sell, or already own a copy. Every artist/artwork is scraped and pushed
  as-is — no push-time filter narrows what you pay for.
- **All 8 currencies, always.** Every price field ships as GBP/USD/EUR/AUD/CAD/JPY/HKD/CNY columns
  — pick the one you need, or use them all. Never an opt-in currency selector to configure.
- **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. MyArtBroker is a curated, relatively small marketplace (293 artists) —
  clear `maxItems` (`null`) for a full run. Real-scale tested: a full 292-artist run and a
  5,000-artwork run both completed with 0 errors on real Apify infra.

### 📋 Output

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

**Example artwork record** (a print that's part of a series):

```json
{
  "source": "myartbroker",
  "entity_type": "artworks",
  "external_id": "aw-7",
  "url": "https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/series-girl-with-balloon/artwork-girl-with-balloon-unsigned-print-2004",
  "title": "Girl With Balloon",
  "artist_id": "at-8",
  "artist_name": "Banksy",
  "artist_slug": "banksy",
  "artist_url": "https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy",
  "collection_slug": "girl-with-balloon",
  "collection_title": "Girl With Balloon",
  "collection_taxonomy": "series",
  "format": "Unsigned Print",
  "signed": "unsigned",
  "year": 2004,
  "medium": "Screenprint",
  "genre": "Street & Urban",
  "edition_size": 600,
  "condition": "excellent",
  "width_cm": 50,
  "height_cm": 70,
  "poa": false,
  "list_price_min_gbp": 40000,
  "list_price_min_usd": 55000,
  "list_price_min_eur": 45000,
  "list_price_min_aud": 80000,
  "list_price_min_cad": 80000,
  "list_price_min_jpy": 8660000,
  "list_price_min_hkd": 420000,
  "list_price_min_cny": 360000,
  "list_price_max_gbp": 80000,
  "list_price_max_usd": 110000,
  "list_price_max_eur": 90000,
  "list_price_max_aud": 150000,
  "list_price_max_cad": 150000,
  "list_price_max_jpy": 17320000,
  "list_price_max_hkd": 850000,
  "list_price_max_cny": 730000,
  "aagr": -7,
  "buy_interest_count": 302,
  "sell_interest_count": 0,
  "owned_count": 0,
  "auction_appearance_count": 7,
  "auction_sale_count": 1,
  "last_auction_date": "March 2026",
  "last_auction_house": "Christie's London - United Kingdom",
  "last_hammer_price_gbp": 70000,
  "last_realized_price_gbp": 88900,
  "change_type": "new"
}
```

**Example artist record:**

```json
{
  "source": "myartbroker",
  "entity_type": "artists",
  "external_id": "at-8",
  "url": "https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy",
  "name": "Banksy",
  "slug": "banksy",
  "tier_level": 1,
  "total_artworks": 269,
  "total_collections": 64,
  "num_recorded_sales": 425,
  "annual_growth_pct": -8,
  "avg_sale_price_gbp": 32318,
  "avg_sale_price_usd": 43367,
  "avg_sale_price_eur": 37358,
  "total_sale_value_gbp": 13735289,
  "total_sale_value_usd": 18431151,
  "market_index_latest": 55.69,
  "market_index_date": "2026-08-16",
  "change_type": "new"
}
```

### 🔧 Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `entityType` | string | `artworks` | `artworks` (prints/editions) or `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](#incremental-delta-mode). |
| `concurrency` | integer | `10` | How many artist/artwork pages to fetch in parallel (validated live up to 20, no blocking). |
| `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):**

```json
{ "entityType": "artworks" }
```

**Full artist directory (293 artists, ~1 fetch each):**

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

**Full artwork catalog** (every print/edition for every artist — one listing-page fetch per 12
items plus one detail-page fetch per item, so this is the slower, more thorough option):

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

### 🔁 Incremental (delta) mode

`auto` mode does a full scan the first time it runs for a given `entityType`, then only pushes
new/changed items on later runs. Only an uncapped run (no `maxItems` limit reached) can detect
delistings or update the baseline.

### 🌐 How to scrape MyArtBroker.com

Every page on the site is a Next.js server-rendered page that embeds its own data as a
`__NEXT_DATA__` JSON blob — this Actor reads that directly rather than parsing rendered HTML text.
Any single artist page also embeds the site's entire current 293-artist directory, so no sitemap or
separate crawl is needed to discover the artist roster; `entityType: "artworks"` then walks each
artist's own paginated print listing to discover every edition.

### ❓ FAQ

**Why don't artwork records have a `sold` field?**
MyArtBroker prices fungible print *editions* — a format like "Girl With Balloon (Unsigned Print)"
represents up to 600 individual copies, not one unique object — so there's no meaningful
sold/unsold state the way there is on a marketplace selling unique originals. `buy_interest_count`/
`sell_interest_count`/`owned_count` are the real demand signals MyArtBroker itself surfaces instead.

**Is `auction_history` the complete sale history for an edition?**
Not necessarily for anonymous (non-logged-in) access — MyArtBroker's own interface shows a
"you've reached your data view limit" message on deeper auction history. In testing, a real,
actively-traded Banksy edition came back with 7 listed auction *appearances* but only 1 carrying
actual realized-price data. `auction_appearance_count` and `auction_sale_count` are reported
separately for exactly this reason — check both rather than assuming the list is exhaustive.

**Why is `total_collections`/`num_recorded_sales`/`market_index_latest` empty for some artists?**
`total_collections` is 0 for artists whose catalog isn't organized into named series — a real,
common case, not a bug. The market-index fields (`num_recorded_sales`, `annual_growth_pct`,
`avg_sale_price_gbp`, `market_index_series`) only populate for artists MyArtBroker has enough real
auction-sale history to compute an index for — an artist with no recorded sales legitimately has
nothing to index yet.

**Can I get prices in a specific currency, or all of them?**
Both, always — every price field (list prices on artworks, average/total sale value on artists)
ships as 8 separate columns (GBP/USD/EUR/AUD/CAD/JPY/HKD/CNY), so "a specific one" is just the
column you read and "all of them" is the default output, no currency-selector input needed.

**Does the currency data have any known quirks?**
One real one in MyArtBroker's own source data, observed on multiple artists (including Banksy):
their sales-summary data occasionally lists one currency twice. This Actor takes the first
occurrence (every duplicate seen carried an identical value anyway) rather than letting the second
silently overwrite it — invisible in the final output either way, but noted here for transparency.

**Why do some artwork URLs have two path segments and others three?**
An artwork that belongs to a named series (e.g. Banksy's "Girl With Balloon") gets a three-segment
URL (`/artist-X/series-Y/artwork-Z`); a standalone artwork with no series gets a two-segment one
(`/artist-X/artwork-Z`) — both are real, confirmed-live URL shapes, not an inconsistency.

**Does this need a proxy?**
No — no anti-bot friction was found anywhere on this site. Cloudflare sits in front, but a plain
request with a normal browser User-Agent passes cleanly (tested at concurrency 20, zero blocking).

# Actor input Schema

## `entityType` (type: `string`):

Scrape prints/editions or artist profiles. Artist records include a real, free rollup (num\_recorded\_sales/annual\_growth\_pct/avg\_sale\_price\_gbp/market\_index\_series) computed server-side by MyArtBroker itself — no extra fan-out needed. Artwork records include real cross-auction-house realized-price history where available. See dataset\_schema.json for the full field list per entity type.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after pushing this many dataset items. Defaults to 50 — a fast, cheap preview, and what keeps an unconfigured run within Apify's automated 5-minute QA check. MyArtBroker is a curated, relatively small marketplace (293 artists as of this build) — a full, uncapped entityType="artists" run covers the whole roster in one pass; an uncapped entityType="artworks" run additionally fetches each artwork's own detail page (one extra request per item) for edition size, condition, and auction history.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

"auto" (recommended): full scan on the first run for a given entityType, incremental (new/changed only) afterwards. "full": always push every item and refresh the baseline — schedule this periodically to catch delistings/price changes. "incremental": always push only new/changed items. Only an uncapped run can detect delistings or update the baseline.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many artist/artwork pages to fetch in parallel. Defaults to 10 — validated live against myartbroker.com with zero blocking at concurrency 20 (~2 req/s, page-generation-time-bound rather than rate-limited). Raise cautiously; there's no confirmed anti-bot reason to, but this hasn't been load-tested above 20.

## `impersonate` (type: `string`):

curl\_cffi browser TLS-impersonation target. Defaults to "chrome" internally, though no anti-bot friction was found anywhere on this site — Cloudflare sits in front but a plain browser User-Agent passes cleanly. Override only if that stops holding.

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

Apify Proxy configuration. Leave off unless you start seeing blocks from your own IP reputation — no anti-bot friction was found while building this actor.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "entityType": "artworks",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "mode": "auto",
  "concurrency": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("artsiom_k/myartbroker-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 = {}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call artsiom_k/myartbroker-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,artsiom_k/myartbroker-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/YxHPFd2KNzyGnk1Qc/builds/xYTfuY4lVKBgs8QI3/openapi.json