🔨 Christie's Auction Scraper

Extract lots from Christie's, the world's largest auction house: fine art, Asian art, jewellery, watches, handbags, wine, design, books, photographs and more. Get auction results (every Christie's sale since 1998: more than 13,000 live and online sales, with the price realised) or live and upcoming lots with estimates, current bids and closing times, in one clean table.

Each lot comes with:

• Price realised (with buyer's premium) in the sale currency and in USD.
• Low and high estimate, in the sale currency and in USD.
• Artist with birth and death years, title, subtitle, the catalogue description and the consignor line ("PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ...").
• Status: sold, unsold, withdrawn, open for bidding or upcoming.
• For online sales: number of bids, the current bid and each lot's closing time.
• The sale: number, title, live or online, city and saleroom, categories, start and end dates.
• Photo, lot link and sale link.
• Add-on: the full lot page, with details, dimensions, provenance, literature, exhibition history, further details, the saleroom notice, the catalogue essay, the specialist's name, title, email and phone, every photo and the superzoom image link.

🎯 Who uses it?

🖼️ Art advisors, dealers and galleries

Pull every Christie's result for an artist, with estimate against price realised, to price a work or back a consignment pitch.

💎 Jewellery, watch, handbag and wine dealers

Track what each Patek Philippe reference, Hermès Birkin or Romanée-Conti vintage sold for in Geneva, Hong Kong, New York and London.

📊 Market analysts, funds and price databases

Feed an art price index with clean USD numbers: estimates, prices, sell-through and dates across 28 years of sales.

🧾 Appraisers, insurers and researchers

Back a valuation with comparable Christie's sales, each with its lot link, provenance, literature and exhibition history.

✨ What it does

• Past results or live and upcoming lots. Past sales give the price realised; upcoming sales give estimates, current online bids and closing times.
• Search the way you think:
  • Search terms ("picasso", "patek philippe nautilus", "hermes birkin"), several per run. Every word must start a word of the artist, title, subtitle, description or consignor line ("monet" finds Claude Monet, not Ramonet); accents and case don't matter.
  • Artist / maker names.
  • 14 categories (Fine Art, Asian Art, Jewellery, Watches & Handbags, Wines & Spirits, Design, Books & Manuscripts...) and every Christie's location (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Geneva, Amsterdam, Milan, Shanghai, United Arab Emirates...).
  • Live or online sales.
• Or paste christies.com links: a lot page or a whole sale (every lot in it), on www.christies.com or onlineonly.christies.com. The filters are ignored with links.
• Every useful filter:
  • Sold, unsold (including withdrawn) or all lots.
  • Sale date range: exact dates, or periods like "6 months" or "2 years".
  • Price and estimate ranges in USD, whatever the sale currency.
  • Minimum online bids, words to exclude.
  • 6 sort orders: most recent or oldest sale, highest or lowest price, highest estimate, most online bids.
• New lots only. For scheduled runs: saves only lots the same search has not saved before.

🏆 Why this scraper

• Every sale since 1998. The whole Christie's results archive, not one search page at a time.
• USD on every row. Christie's sells in USD, GBP, EUR, HKD, CHF and more (and in guilders, lire and francs before the euro). Each row also has the price and estimates in USD, at the rate on the sale's last day, so results from different cities and decades compare directly.
• Online bidding data. Bids, current bid and the exact closing time of every online lot.
• Specialist contacts. The add-on gives the name, title, email and phone of the specialist for each lot.
• Sorts across the whole archive. "Highest price" really reads every matching sale first, then saves the top lots.
• Fast. About 1,000 lots in about 10 seconds (1,000 with full details in under a minute).
• No proxy needed. Nothing extra to set up or pay for.

⚖️ How it compares

Based on each Actor's public input options (October 2026).

Capability	This actor	stealth_mode Christie's lots	parseforge Christie's auctions
What you get	lots, with results	lots	featured auction tiles
Prices realised	yes, since 1998	yes	no
Live and upcoming lots	yes	yes	tiles only
Price and estimates in USD	yes, every row	no	no
Search terms	several per run	one	no
Category, location, sale type filters	yes	no	no
Sale date range	yes	no	no
Price range	yes, in USD	yes, sale currency	no
Estimate range	yes, in USD	no	no
Sold / unsold filter	yes	sold or available	no
Online bids, current bid, closing time	yes	no	no
Sort orders	6	6	none
Whole sale links	yes	search links	page links
Provenance, literature, exhibited, essay	add-on	no	no
Specialist email and phone	add-on	no	no
New lots only (monitoring)	yes	no	no

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
image	Main photo.
lotId, lotNumber	Christie's object number and the lot number in the sale.
artist, artistBirthYear, artistDeathYear	Artist and life dates, when the lot title is an artist ("PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)").
title, subtitle, description	Lot title, the line under it, and the catalogue description.
consignor	The provenance line Christie's prints above the lot ("PROPERTY FROM ...").
status	sold, unsold, withdrawn, open for bidding or upcoming.
price, currency, priceUsd	Price realised with buyer's premium, the sale currency, and the price in USD.
estimateLow, estimateHigh, estimateLowUsd, estimateHighUsd	Estimate in the sale currency and in USD.
currentBid, currentBidUsd, bids	Current bid on an open online lot, and the number of bids (online sales).
saleId, saleNumber, saleTitle, saleType	The sale, Live or Online.
location, saleroomCode	City and Christie's saleroom code.
estimateOnRequest, priceOnRequest	Estimate or price available on request only.
url, saleUrl, superzoomUrl	Lot page, sale page and the high resolution image (add-on).
categories, images	Sale categories, every photo (add-on).
saleStartsAt, saleEndsAt, lotEndsAt	Sale start and end dates, and the online lot closing time (UTC).
details, dimensions	The full catalogue entry and the measurements line (add-on).
provenance, literature, exhibited, furtherDetails, saleroomNotice, essay	Catalogue texts (add-on).
specialistName, specialistTitle, specialistEmail, specialistPhone	The lot's specialist (add-on).
imageCount	Number of photos (add-on).
searchedFor	Which of your searches or links found it.
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (UTC).

Add-on fields only appear when Full lot details is on.

Example row (trimmed)

{
  "image": "https://www.christies.com/img/lotimages/2026/HGK/2026_HGK_24477_0001_000(patek_philippe_nautilus_ref_5726_1a-001_movement_no_7027594_case_no_61_d6601204014719).jpg",
  "lotId": "6601204",
  "lotNumber": "1",
  "title": "PATEK PHILIPPE, NAUTILUS, REF. 5726/1A-001",
  "subtitle": "MOVEMENT NO. 7'027'594, CASE NO. 6'161'466",
  "status": "sold",
  "price": 832000,
  "currency": "HKD",
  "priceUsd": 106009,
  "estimateLow": 500000,
  "estimateHigh": 1000000,
  "estimateLowUsd": 63707,
  "estimateHighUsd": 127415,
  "bids": 4,
  "saleNumber": "24477",
  "saleTitle": "Watches Online: Hong Kong Edit",
  "saleType": "Online",
  "location": "Hong Kong",
  "dimensions": "Diameter: 40.5 mm.",
  "essay": "Reference 5726 was launched in 2010 in stainless steel only, with a leather strap. In 2012, Patek Philippe began production of the reference...",
  "specialistName": "Alexandre Bigler",
  "specialistTitle": "SVP, Senior International Specialist, Head of Collections, Watches",
  "specialistEmail": "abigler@christies.com",
  "imageCount": 6,
  "url": "https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/watches-online-hong-kong-edit/patek-philippe-nautilus-ref-5726-1a-001-1/321486",
  "saleUrl": "https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/watches-online-hong-kong-edit/lots/3934",
  "categories": ["Jewellery, Watches & Handbags"],
  "saleStartsAt": "2026-09-24",
  "saleEndsAt": "2026-10-07",
  "lotEndsAt": "2026-10-07T04:00:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

📈 Every Basquiat sold at Christie's

{ "searchTerms": ["basquiat"], "maxItems": null }

🔥 The 500 most expensive lots Christie's sold in the last 5 years

{ "sortBy": "price_high", "dateFrom": "5 years", "maxItems": 500 }

⌚ Patek Philippe results in Geneva and Hong Kong, with the catalogue details

{ "searchTerms": ["patek philippe"], "locations": ["Geneva", "Hong Kong"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": null }

🍷 Wine lots that failed to sell, estimated $1,000 to $10,000

{ "categories": ["Wines & Spirits"], "results": "unsold", "minEstimate": 1000, "maxEstimate": 10000, "maxItems": null }

🔔 Online lots with the most bids right now

{ "status": "upcoming", "saleType": "online", "sortBy": "most_bids", "maxItems": 100 }

📚 Every lot of one sale, with full details

{ "urls": ["https://www.christies.com/en/auction/auction-31122"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": null }

⚙️ How the input is organised

Section	What it's for
Maximum lots, What to scrape, Results	Always first: caps the whole run (empty means no limit), past or upcoming auctions, and sold, unsold or all lots.
What	Search terms, artist / maker, or links.
Sale filters	Category, location, live or online, sale date range.
Lot filters	Price and estimate ranges in USD, minimum online bids, words to exclude, sort order.
Add-ons	Full lot details.
Monitoring	New lots only, with an optional monitor name.

A lot matching ANY of your search terms is kept; every filter narrows them all. With links, the search terms and filters are ignored.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time $0.003 when the run starts, plus a price per lot saved to your dataset that drops with your Apify plan. Full lot details are an optional add-on per lot.

Your Apify plan	Per lot	With full details	1,000 lots	1,000 lots with details
Free	$0.024	+$0.009	$24.00	$33.00
Bronze	$0.022	+$0.008	$22.00	$30.00
Silver	$0.020	+$0.007	$20.00	$27.00
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.018	+$0.006	$18.00	$24.00

Lots dropped by your filters are not charged. There are no proxy costs. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 lots.

Speed: about 1,000 lots in about 10 seconds; 1,000 with full details in under a minute. Price, estimate and bid sorts read every matching sale first, so a sort across the whole archive takes longer: narrow it with a category, location or date range.

🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Christie's Auction Scraper.
3. Type an artist or search term (or keep the prefilled one), pick past or upcoming auctions and your filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

You can also:

• Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
• Schedule it with Apify's built-in Scheduler, with New lots only on, to catch new lots as Christie's publishes them.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Christie's results through the Model Context Protocol:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/christies-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language, for example "what did Christie's sell Monet water lilies for since 2015, in USD?".

🔧 Troubleshooting

priceUsd or the USD estimates are empty. The rate source starts in 1999, so a few 1998 sales in currencies other than USD have no USD values. The sale currency fields are still filled. USD price and estimate filters skip those lots.

A sold lot has no price. Christie's hides the price of a few sold lots (priceOnRequest is true). They are kept as sold, with an empty price.

bids is empty. Christie's publishes bid counts for online sales only, and not for older online sales or lots it no longer lists on the online sale page (often unsold ones). Live sale rows have no bids.

artist is empty. The lot title is not an artist (a watch brand, a wine, an object). The name is still in title.

An upcoming sale has no lots. Christie's lists the sale on its calendar before the catalogue is online. Its lots appear in later runs.

A row has an error field. Only with the add-on, and only when that lot's page could not be loaded: the base fields are filled, the add-on fields are empty and error says why. Rows that worked have no error. With the add-on off, its fields are left out of the rows.

A scheduled "New lots only" run saved nothing. Nothing new matched since the last run. Changing terms, links or filters starts a fresh memory; set a Monitor name to keep it.

❓ FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a Christie's account?	No. Only public lot data is read.
Does the price include the buyer's premium?	Yes, price and priceUsd are the price realised Christie's publishes.
How far back do results go?	To 1998, every sale on the Christie's results pages.
Are private sales included?	No. Only auctions, live and online.
Is there a result limit?	No. Leave the maximum empty to get everything that matches.
Does it need a proxy?	No.
Can I track new lots?	Yes. Turn on New lots only and schedule the run.

🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public lot data shown on christies.com. It never signs in and never bids. Use the data in line with Christie's terms.

📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

🧪 Local development

bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
bun test/verify.mjs
apify run

Local results are stored in storage/datasets/default.