Every auction on the-saleroom, one row each, in one call
The Saleroom API returns live The Saleroom data as clean JSON for fine art, antiques and collectables auctions in the uk and europe: the full auction calendar, lots with estimates, and bids.
- endpoints
- 6
- credits per call
- 1–5
5 credits per call≈ $5/1,000 calls1,000 free credits, no card
6 active endpoints, on 1 and 5 credit tiers.
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/auctions1 credit
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/all_auctions5 credits
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/lots1 credit
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/lot1 credit
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/search1 credit
- POST/the-saleroom/v1/bids1 credit
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Change a parameter and press Try it. The response on the right is what your code will receive.
The Saleroom API
3 of 6 endpoints, ready to run
The whole auction calendar in one call: every page read, duplicates removed and counted, and the row count checked against the site's own total. Each row has title, auction house, live webcast or timed, status, the date as the site shows it and in UTC, the last day of multi-day sales, location and address, lot categories or sale sections with counts, image and catalogue link.
// Press "Try it" and this pane shows exactly what the // live site returned this second — including an empty // result, if that is the truth. No key, no account.
What The Saleroom endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
6 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
Every parameter, every allowed value →
Missing a The Saleroom endpoint, or need a source we don't have yet?Contact us real people · same-day reply.How the The Saleroom API works
The Saleroom is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 633 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and nothing is cached: every call reads the source live.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
Download the auction calendar every day
One call for the calendar, then the catalogues that matter, then the lots you follow.
{"exclude_closed": true}Every current auction as one row; complete is true when the rows match the site's own total.
{"auction_ref": "<auction_ref from a row>", "page_size": "120"}Every lot with estimate, opening price and current bid.
{"lot_ids": ["<lot_id>", "<lot_id>"]}The live bid state for up to 120 open lots in one call.
A dated, located auction calendar you can diff day by day, and estimates and bids on the lots you care about.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/the-saleroom/v1/all_auctions \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"country":"United Kingdom"}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "the-saleroom",
"endpoint": "all_auctions",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}What the source gives, what it hides, and what we checked
Measured on 2026-11-12: 67 live calls across all six actions plus 10 deliberate bad inputs, checked against the site's own counts and pages.
all_auctions returned 972 auctions from 17 pages, the same 972 the site shows, with no duplicates. Paging through auctions one page at a time gave the same 972. Counts by type (743 live, 224 timed, 4 catalogue only, 1 tender), country, category, association and auction house matched the site's own filter counts.
Every one of the 972 rows has a UTC date. Multi-day sales such as 10 - 13 Nov come back with the first session and the last day; sales abroad are converted from the local time the site shows.
One catalogue paged through to 385 unique lots, the number its own page shows.
A hammer price is returned only when the lot page publishes it (sold for 160, or passed). Where the auction house withholds results, the price stays null.
The calendar card prints lot counts per category or sale section, not a lot total, so the exact number of lots comes from lots.
The site's search only shows lots still open for bidding; closed lots are read through lots and lot.
Whether a timed lot has a reserve and whether it is met is returned; the reserve amount itself, the seller's figure, is not.
What people build with The Saleroom
The jobs this data is most often used for.
endpoints
credits per call
Price-intelligence teams use The Saleroom to get the-saleroom auction calendar, one clean row per auction, 60 per page with the site's own total.
Classifieds aggregators use The Saleroom to get the WHOLE the-saleroom auction calendar (or a filtered part of it) in one call.
Resale and arbitrage tools use The Saleroom to get the lots of one the-saleroom auction catalogue with the auction itself.
Lead-generation teams use The Saleroom to get one the-saleroom lot in full.
What The Saleroom data costs
The cheapest call here is 1 credit, so $15/mo (Pro) buys 10,000 of them — $1.50 per 1,000 credits. Credits roll over and never expire, and failed or blocked calls are not charged.
- 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
- One key, all 633 APIs, one credit pool
- Failed and blocked calls are never charged
- Credits roll over and never expire
Call it in two lines
Sign up, get 1,000 credits and one key that works on every engine. Then this is the whole protocol.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/the-saleroom/v1/all_auctions \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"country":"United Kingdom"}'import os
import requests
REEF_KEY = os.environ["REEF_KEY"]
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/the-saleroom/v1/all_auctions",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"country": "United Kingdom"
},
timeout=90,
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up The Saleroom.
What is the The Saleroom API?▾
The Saleroom API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for fine art, antiques and collectables auctions in the uk and europe: the full auction calendar, lots with estimates, and bids. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /the-saleroom/v1.
Is the The Saleroom API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. The Saleroom calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a The Saleroom login or account?▾
No login to The Saleroom is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the The Saleroom data?▾
The page example is captured from a live auctions call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the The Saleroom API use?▾
The Saleroom actions currently cost 1-5 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free. All APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call The Saleroom from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call the-saleroom actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the The Saleroom API a The Saleroom scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY The Saleroom scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same fine art, antiques and collectables auctions in the uk and europe: the full auction calendar, lots with estimates, and bids back as clean JSON.
Why does my The Saleroom scraper keep getting blocked?▾
Most The Saleroom scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked calls are free.
117 Classifieds & Second-hand APIs on the same key
One key, one credit pool, one response envelope. If you are pulling The Saleroom, you are one call away from the rest of the category — no second contract, no second integration.
Need something this API does not do?
Name the endpoint, the field, or a source we do not carry yet. We ship new APIs every week and you would be first to get the key. Real people read every message and reply the same day.
Try it on your own data before you pay anything
The call above is the real endpoint, not a recording. A free key gives you 1,000 credits, the other 632 APIs, and the same envelope everywhere.
Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-11-12.