riseart-scraper

Scrapes both artworks and artist profiles from Riseart.com, a UK-based online art marketplace — via the site's own public GraphQL search API, no HTML scraping or sitemap walking needed.

Contents

• Key features
• Output
• Input
• Input examples
• Incremental (delta) mode
• How to scrape Riseart.com
• You might also like
• FAQ

🔑 Key features

• Two entity types, one Actor. Set entityType to artworks or artists.
• No detail-page fetch at all. Riseart's own public searchArt/searchArtists GraphQL queries already return every field this Actor emits, up to 100 items per request — there's no separate "discover a URL, then fetch its detail page" step like most scrapers need.
• Fast, concurrent pagination. Search-result pages are fetched in parallel (concurrency input, default 20) — validated live against Riseart's own endpoint with zero blocking at concurrency up to 50. A full, uncapped crawl of every artist (~1,625) finishes in under 5 seconds.
• Multi-currency. The store input picks which of Riseart's three regional stores prices are read from — eu (EUR), uk (GBP), or us (USD).
• Delta mode built in. Every run classifies each item as new, changed, unchanged, or delisted against a persisted baseline — pay for what changed, not a full re-scrape every time.
• maxItems defaults to 50 — a fast preview, and what keeps an unconfigured run within Apify's automated 5-minute QA check. Clear it (null) for a full crawl of the catalog (~48,800 artworks or ~1,625 artists as of this build).
• Real per-artist rollup stats. entityType: "artists" fetches each artist's complete artwork list (a real per-artist fetch, not a sample, sold pieces included) to compute total_artworks, avg_price, for_sale_artworks, enquire_only_artworks, and sold_artworks. A minSoldArtworks input filters what gets pushed down to artists with at least that many sales.
• Full artwork detail for specific artists, sold pieces included. Set artistIds on entityType: "artworks" to fetch every artwork for exactly those artists instead of the general catalog — the only way to get sold artworks with full detail (title, images, dimensions, price, medium/style/subject), since the general catalog never returns sold items at all. See How to scrape Riseart.com for the two-run workflow this enables.

📋 Output

One dataset item per artwork or artist, 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": "riseart",
  "entity_type": "artworks",
  "external_id": "192404",
  "url": "https://www.riseart.com/art/192404/whispering-tides-by-paul-bennett",
  "title": "Whispering Tides",
  "artist_id": 2054,
  "artist_name": "Paul Bennett",
  "artist_alias": "paulbennett",
  "artist_url": "https://www.riseart.com/artist/2054/paulbennett",
  "price": 2755,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "can_buy": true,
  "can_rent": false,
  "sold": false,
  "stock": 1,
  "medium": "paintings",
  "style": "abstract",
  "subject": "landscapes",
  "width_cm": 80,
  "height_cm": 80,
  "depth_cm": 4,
  "unit": "CENTIMETER",
  "image_url": "https://d1ee3oaj5b5ueh.cloudfront.net/thumbs/1200x1500_processed_art_2026_08_ac409a7f-d3df-4d1c-b657-906ffe16be78-main-square.jpg",
  "change_type": "new"
}

Example artist record:

{
  "source": "riseart",
  "entity_type": "artists",
  "external_id": "131449",
  "url": "https://www.riseart.com/artist/131449/carolin-kreutzer",
  "name": "Carolin Kreutzer",
  "alias": "carolin-kreutzer",
  "gender": "F",
  "website": "https://carolinkreutzer.de",
  "score": 549,
  "commissions": true,
  "birth_year": 1981,
  "birth_city": "Hamburg",
  "birth_country": "DE",
  "lives_city": "Stuttgart",
  "lives_country": "DE",
  "ships_country": "DE",
  "mediums": ["painters"],
  "total_artworks": 35,
  "avg_price": 1894.43,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "for_sale_artworks": 30,
  "enquire_only_artworks": 0,
  "sold_artworks": 5,
  "change_type": "new"
}

🔧 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
entityType	string	artworks	artworks or artists.
store	string	eu	Currency/region for artwork prices: eu (EUR), uk (GBP), us (USD). Ignored for artists.
sort	string	featured	Passed through to Riseart's own search API. Only affects discovery order, not coverage.
rankingCountry	string	—	Optional 2-letter country code affecting search ranking only.
artistIds	array	—	artworks only. List of Riseart artist ids — fetches every artwork for exactly those artists (sold pieces included) instead of the general catalog. See How to scrape Riseart.com.
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	20	How many result pages (100 items each) to fetch in parallel.
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, EUR):

{ "entityType": "artworks" }

Full artist directory:

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

Artworks priced in GBP:

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

Every artist with at least one sale, plus full detail on all their artworks (two runs):

{ "entityType": "artists", "minSoldArtworks": 1, "maxItems": null }

Take the external_id of every artist record this returns, then:

{ "entityType": "artworks", "artistIds": ["120264", "118510", "131529"], "maxItems": null }

The second run returns every artwork (sold and unsold) for exactly those artists, with the same full detail as a regular artworks run plus a real sold flag — something the general artworks catalog can't give you, since it never returns sold items at all.

🔁 Incremental (delta) mode

auto mode does a full scan the first time it runs for a given entityType/store combination, then only pushes new/changed items on later runs — cutting cost on repeat runs by not re-charging for items that haven't changed. Only an uncapped run (no maxItems limit reached, and no page errors) can detect delistings or update the baseline.

🌐 How to scrape Riseart.com

Riseart's frontend calls its own public GraphQL API directly (https://graphql.riseart.com) — this Actor replicates exactly those calls (searchArt/searchArtists), the same requests your own browser makes when you browse the site, just automated and exhaustive.

🔗 You might also like

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

Does this Actor tell me how many artworks an artist has sold? Yes — sold_artworks on every artist record, computed from that artist's complete artwork list (sold pieces included). Confirmed live at scale: a 40-artist random sample came back with 1,159 total artworks, 244 sold (21%), across 28/40 artists with at least one sale. Set minSoldArtworks to only push artists who've sold at least that many pieces. Separately, for_sale_artworks counts directly-buyable listings and enquire_only_artworks counts price-on-request ones — a genuine, different-from-sold distinction (an enquire-only listing is still for sale, just not via direct checkout).

Can I get full detail (images, price, dimensions) on sold artworks? Yes, but only via artistIds — the general entityType: "artworks" catalog never returns sold items at all (confirmed live: none of a known-sold artist's sold pieces show up in a normal search, however it's sorted/filtered). Set artistIds to a specific list of artist ids and every artwork for those artists comes back, sold pieces included with a real sold flag. The usual workflow: run entityType: "artists" with minSoldArtworks: 1 first to collect the artist ids you care about, then feed those into an artistIds-scoped artworks run. See Input examples.

Why does the same artwork show a different price across runs if I only changed store? That's expected — store selects genuinely different regional pricing (EUR/GBP/USD), not just a currency conversion, and delta mode scopes its baseline by store for exactly this reason: switching it starts a fresh baseline rather than reporting every item as "changed".

Does this need a proxy? No — no anti-bot friction was found anywhere on the endpoint this Actor uses.