Auction Research

Researches Bonhams auctions and lots via the Crawlora API — upcoming and past sales, lot search, estimates, realized prices, departments, and auction detail — returning clean JSON. Use when the user wants auction-house research, comparable lots, sale calendars, or public estimate/realized-price data.

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Auction research

Search Bonhams' public auction and lot catalog as normalized JSON for sale calendar research, lot comparisons, estimates, and realized prices.

When to use this skill

  • Find upcoming or past Bonhams auctions.
  • Search lots across auctions by object, artist, or category.
  • Inspect one auction's metadata and lot list.
  • Pull one lot's estimate, realized price, department, and sale facts.

Setup

  • Get a Crawlora API key at crawlora.net.
  • Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
  • The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1.

How it works

Use /bonhams/auctions/search for sale discovery and /bonhams/lots/search for cross-sale lot research. Follow an auction id into /bonhams/auctions/{id} and /bonhams/auctions/{id}/lots; use /bonhams/lots/{auctionId}/{lotNumber} for full lot detail.

Full endpoint list: reference/endpoints.md.

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