🏛️ Drouot Scraper

Want auction lots from Drouot.com without clicking through catalogues? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters (category + locale) — structured filters work better for AI agents — or paste an input_url from your browser once you've already opened a category, sale, or lot. When input_url is set it overrides the filters below. Either way, you get clean CSV/JSON with estimates, sale metadata, photos, and auctioneer contacts when Drouot exposes them.

💡 Perfect for...

• Collectors & Dealers: Track paintings, jewellery, watches, and furniture coming up for sale.
• Auction Houses: Monitor competitor catalogues and estimates across the Drouot network.
• Market Research: Analyze estimate bands and sale calendars by category.
• Data Analysts: Export structured Drouot lot data for dashboards and valuation models.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power bots and OpenClaw workflows with live Drouot catalogue results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed lot descriptions and estimates into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a Drouot category (/c/), sale (/v/), lot (/l/), or upcoming auctions (/auctions/future) URL — or use structured filters (better for AI agents). input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Categories: Category ids match Drouot’s own /en/c/{id}/{slug} routes (e.g. 626 = paintings).
• 📄 Structured JSON: Reads SvelteKit __data.json pages — fast HTTP, no browser required.
• 🖼️ Photos: Builds CDN image URLs from lot photo paths.
• 🌍 Locales: en, fr, de, es, it, zh.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every lot, you will get:

• Core Details: id, url, lot_number, title, description, record_type
• Estimates / Bids: estimate_low, estimate_high, currency, current_bid, next_bid, result, sale_fees_percent
• Sale: sale_id, sale_url, sale_title, sale_status, sale_type, sale_date, timezone
• Auctioneer / Venue: auctioneer_id, auctioneer_name, auctioneer_email, auctioneer_phone, city, address
• Media: image_url, images

For upcoming sales mode (scrape_mode=sales or /auctions/future URL): sale calendar rows with lot_count, fees, venue, and auctioneer contacts.

🚀 Quick start

Option A — Input URL

1. Open Drouot.com, open a category or sale — e.g. https://drouot.com/en/c/626/paintings.
2. Paste it into input_url.
3. Set max_lots and click Start.

Option B — Structured filters (better for AI agents)

1. Leave input_url empty.
2. Set scrape_mode to Lots by category, pick a category (e.g. Paintings), and locale.
3. Set max_lots (up to 2000) and click Start.

Export CSV, Excel, or JSON when done.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example (filters):

{
  "scrape_mode": "lots",
  "category": "626",
  "locale": "en",
  "max_lots": 100
}

Input Example (URL override):

{
  "input_url": "https://drouot.com/en/v/183859-day-3-of-three-day-general-auction-jewellery-watches",
  "max_lots": 50
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "34505818",
  "url": "https://drouot.com/en/l/34505818-alfred-arthur-brunel-de-neuville-1852-1941-still-life-with",
  "record_type": "lot",
  "lot_number": 498,
  "title": "Alfred Arthur BRUNEL DE NEUVILLE (1852–1941)",
  "estimate_low": 500,
  "estimate_high": 800,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "sale_id": "183216",
  "sale_fees_percent": 25,
  "image_url": "https://cdn.drouot.com/d/image/lot?size=ftall&path=244/183216/..."
}