Scotch Whisky Auctions Scraper

Scrape Scotch Whisky Auctions — one of the UK's largest online whisky auction houses (Glasgow, ~5,000 lots per monthly auction) — for live auction lots and past-auction sold prices (comps).

What it does

Live mode (default)

Scrapes lots in the currently running auction:

• Lot number, title, and URL
• Current highest bid (GBP) — refreshed via the site's live price endpoint at scrape time
• Auction name and auction end date
• Distillery (best-effort), age, distilled year (vintage), cask type
• ABV, bottle size, bottle number
• Bottle image

Optional keywords filter the live catalogue server-side (e.g. macallan, springbank).

Past mode (sold-price comps)

Searches all past auctions by keyword and returns the public sold price and sold month for every matching lot — over a decade of hammer prices (2011 onward) across Macallan, Springbank, Ardbeg, Bowmore, Karuizawa, and thousands of other bottlings. Results are sorted newest-first. Ideal for price histories, valuation models, and whisky investment comps.

If no auction is currently live, live mode automatically falls back to past-auction comps so runs always return data.

Input example

{
    "mode": "past",
    "searchQueries": ["macallan 18", "springbank 21"],
    "maxResults": 100,
    "scrapeDetails": true
}

Output example

{
    "lotNumber": "181-01784",
    "lotId": "884833",
    "title": "Macallan 10 Year Old",
    "distillery": "Macallan",
    "status": "sold",
    "currentBid": null,
    "winningBid": 80,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "soldDate": "July 2026",
    "auctionName": "The 181st Auction",
    "auctionEndsAt": "July 12, 2026",
    "auctionUrl": "https://www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com/auctions/230-the-181st-auction/",
    "age": "10 Years Old",
    "vintage": null,
    "caskType": null,
    "abv": "40%",
    "size": "70cl",
    "bottleNumber": null,
    "imageUrl": "https://d3suvtcq00dftb.cloudfront.net/images/8657379602e06b22285b729ffa4ab1e2-med.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.scotchwhiskyauctions.com/auctions/230-the-181st-auction/884833-macallan-10-year-old/",
    "searchKeyword": "macallan",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-03T20:00:00.000Z"
}

Fields

Field	Description
lotNumber	Auction lot number (e.g. 182-03060)
title	Lot title
distillery	Distillery / brand (parsed from lot description; best-effort)
status	live or sold
currentBid	Current highest bid in GBP (live lots)
winningBid	Final sold price in GBP (past lots)
soldDate	Month the lot sold (past lots, e.g. July 2026)
auctionName / auctionEndsAt	Auction the lot featured in and its end date
age, vintage, caskType, abv, size, bottleNumber	Bottle details from the lot page (with scrapeDetails)

Use cases

• Whisky price tracking — build sold-price histories per bottling
• Valuation / investment models — comps across 180+ auctions since 2011
• Bid sniping research — monitor current bids in the live auction
• Collection management — value a collection against real hammer prices

Notes

• Data comes from public server-rendered pages; no login is used.
• distillery is a best-effort parse (lot descriptions are free-form).
• Bid counts are not publicly exposed by the site.
• Set scrapeDetails: false for fast bulk price sweeps (list data only).