Saatchi Art Original Art Listings Scraper

Scrape original artwork listings from Saatchi Art — the world's largest online marketplace for original art with over 2 million works from 100,000+ artists.

What it does

This actor paginates through Saatchi Art listing pages and extracts structured artwork data from the server-rendered JSON embedded in each page. No detail page crawl required — all fields come from the listing index.

Output fields per artwork:

• Artwork ID, title, and direct URL
• Artist name, location, and profile URL
• Category, style(s), subject, medium(s), and materials
• Price in USD (original listing price)
• Sold/available status and print availability
• Dimensions in cm and inches, orientation
• Primary image URL (reference only — not rehosted)
• Upload date as ISO timestamp

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum artworks to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all.
startUrls	array	—	BYO Saatchi Art listing URLs (category, filter, or style pages). If empty, uses category.
category	string	paintings	Category to scrape when startUrls is not set.

Available categories: paintings, drawings, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed-media, fiber-arts, drawings-pastels

Example startUrls values:

• https://www.saatchiart.com/paintings — all paintings
• https://www.saatchiart.com/paintings/abstract — abstract paintings only
• https://www.saatchiart.com/photography/portrait — portrait photography

Example output

{
  "artwork_id": "12785089",
  "title": "Arizona Dream, Floriane",
  "artist_name": "delphine rocher",
  "artist_location": "france",
  "category": "Painting",
  "subject": "landscape",
  "style": "figurative",
  "styles": "figurative, impressionism, surrealism, fauvism",
  "medium": "oil",
  "mediums": "oil",
  "materials": "canvas",
  "price": 3730,
  "currency": "USD",
  "is_sold": false,
  "is_original": true,
  "has_prints": false,
  "edition_info": "",
  "dimensions_cm": "81W x 116H x 2D cm",
  "dimensions_in": "31.9W x 45.7H x 0.8D in",
  "orientation": "vertical",
  "is_ready_to_hang": true,
  "year_created": "2025-05-06T08:23:19.000Z",
  "image_url": "https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/1645581/art/12785089/11847267-TNDERRFA-7.jpg",
  "artwork_url": "https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Arizona-Dream-Floriane/1645581/12785089/view",
  "artist_profile_url": "https://www.saatchiart.com/delphinerocher"
}

Use cases

• Art market analytics — price benchmarking across styles, mediums, and categories
• Artist discovery — build datasets of emerging artists by location and speciality
• Portfolio research — monitor availability and pricing across the primary art market
• Style and trend analysis — track which styles and subjects are active on the market
• Academic research — study art market pricing patterns across 2M+ listed works

Notes

• Image URLs are reference links to Saatchi Art's CDN — the actor does not download or rehost images
• Prices reflect the USD listing price; Saatchi Art may display different prices by region
• The is_original field is always true — listing pages only show original works, not prints; has_prints indicates if print editions are separately available
• Saatchi Art serves server-rendered HTML — no browser required, low resource usage