Bidsquare Auction Lot Scraper

Scrape art, antiques & collectibles auction lots from Bidsquare — the online marketplace connecting bidders with respected auction houses. Search by keyword and export clean, structured lot data: titles, estimates, realized/current prices, auction house, sale date, category and images.

What it does

• Searches Bidsquare for one or more keywords (e.g. oil painting, Rolex, Tiffany lamp).
• Paginates through all matching lots (or stops at your maxResults limit).
• Returns one record per lot with estimate range, publicly-shown price, auction house, image and canonical lot URL.
• Optionally visits each lot's detail page (scrapeDetails) to add description, hi-res image, canonical price/currency, sale close date and category from the page's schema.org data.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	Keywords to search. Leave empty / use "" to browse all lots.
maxResults	integer	Max lots per query. 0 = fetch everything via pagination. Default 100.
scrapeDetails	boolean	Visit each lot page for extra fields (description, sale date, category, currency). Default false.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Defaults to Apify Residential proxy (recommended — the site is behind Cloudflare).

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["oil painting", "Tiffany lamp"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like:

{
  "itemId": "8343520",
  "eventId": "21098",
  "eventName": "ARTE CONTEMPORANEO EN OAXACA : TALLER IXRAEL MONTES Y DIVERSOS",
  "eventStatus": "past",
  "title": "IXRAEL MONTES, S/T(amarillo), mixta sobre cilindro, 45 x 9 cm., 2025",
  "lotUrl": "https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/jp-auctions-mexico/...-8343520",
  "imageUrl": "https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/m/3349/33490949.png",
  "auctionHouse": "JP Auctions Mexico",
  "auctionHouseUrl": "https://www.bidsquare.com/auction-house/jp-auctions-mexico",
  "estimateLow": 30000,
  "estimateHigh": 35000,
  "estimateCurrency": "MXN$",
  "estimateDisplay": "MXN$30,000 - MXN$35,000",
  "priceDisplay": null,
  "priceAmount": null,
  "priceGated": true,
  "description": "IXRAEL MONTES, S/T(amarillo), mixta sobre cilindro... (scrapeDetails)",
  "priceCurrency": "MXN",
  "saleDate": "2025-10-30T21:00:00-04:00 EDT",
  "availability": "Discontinued",
  "category": "Paintings",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-03T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Field notes

• Estimates are always public. estimateLow / estimateHigh are numbers in the lot's native currency (estimateCurrency), with a human-readable estimateDisplay.
• Realized / current prices: Bidsquare only shows sold/hammer prices for some auction houses. When a price is public it appears in priceDisplay / priceAmount; when it's behind login, priceGated is true and the amounts are null.
• Detail fields (description, saleDate, priceCurrency, availability, category, detailImageUrl) are only populated when scrapeDetails is enabled.

How it works

Bidsquare's search results are server-rendered, so the scraper reads structured lot cards directly from the search HTML (no browser needed) and, in detail mode, parses each lot page's schema.org Product JSON-LD. It runs behind a residential proxy with a browser fingerprint for reliability.

Pricing

Pay per result — you're charged a small fixed fee per lot record returned, plus a tiny actor-start fee. No monthly subscription.

Disclaimer

This scraper collects publicly available data for research and analysis. Respect Bidsquare's Terms of Service and applicable laws. Not affiliated with Bidsquare.