EBTH Scraper — Everything But The House Estate Auctions

Scrape live estate-auction lots from EBTH (Everything But The House), one of the largest online estate-sale marketplaces in the US. Browse every open lot or search by keyword and get clean, structured JSON for each item — current bid, minimum bid, close date, pickup location, condition, images and more.

Great for resale/arbitrage research, price monitoring, market analysis, and building estate-sale datasets.

What it does

• Browse ALL open lots (leave Search Queries empty) or search by keyword (e.g. rolex, mid century, oil painting).
• Paginates automatically through results (48 lots per page) up to your maxItems cap.
• Sorts by Recommended, Ending Soonest, Recently Added, Highest/Lowest Bid, Most Bids, or Most Followed.
• Reads EBTH's public search API directly (fast, no headless browser).

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array of strings	Keywords to search. Leave empty to browse ALL open lots.
maxItems	integer	Max lots per query (default 100, max 5000).
sort	select	recommended, sale_ends_at_asc (Ending Soonest), sale_starts_at_desc (Recently Added), price_asc, price_desc, bids, follows.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	Optional. The API works without a proxy from most egress; enable residential if you hit blocks.

Example

{
  "searchQueries": ["rolex", "persian rug"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "sort": "sale_ends_at_asc"
}

Leave searchQueries empty to pull the entire current catalog of open lots.

Output

Each dataset item looks like:

{
  "id": 14574876,
  "title": "Surrealist Horse and Rider Giclée",
  "url": "https://www.ebth.com/items/14574876-surrealist-horse-and-rider-giclee",
  "currentBid": 435,
  "minimumBid": 460,
  "bidsCount": 32,
  "state": "for_sale",
  "timeStatus": "extended",
  "type": "standard",
  "certifiedAuthentic": false,
  "conditionDetails": "- no significant condition issues to note.",
  "saleStartsAt": "2026-08-05T06:00:00.000Z",
  "closeDate": "2026-08-12T01:06:00.000Z",
  "location": "NCN CPC - CREEK",
  "cityState": "Blue Ash, OH",
  "barcode": "ITMGU76227",
  "imageUrl": "https://imgix-prod.ebth.com/.../Attachment-....jpg",
  "images": ["https://imgix-prod.ebth.com/..."],
  "saleId": 88931,
  "query": "rolex",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-11T06:40:00.000Z"
}

Field notes

• currentBid — highest bid so far (high_bid_amount). May be 0/null before any bids.
• minimumBid — the next minimum required bid (minimum_bid_amount), effectively the starting price.
• closeDate — when the lot's sale ends (ISO 8601, UTC). timeStatus: "extended" means bidding was extended by last-minute activity.
• cityState — pickup city/state; location is the internal warehouse label.
• imageUrl / images — imgix-hosted photos.

Pricing

This actor is billed per result (pay-per-event): a small charge per lot pushed to the dataset, plus a tiny run-start fee. You only pay for the data you actually receive.

Notes & limitations

• Data comes from EBTH's public browse/search API; only currently listed (open) lots are returned.
• Field availability depends on how each lot was catalogued (some fields may be null).
• This is an unofficial scraper and is not affiliated with or endorsed by EBTH.