/catawiki/lots/search

POST /api/catawiki/lots/search

Price: 20 credits

Search open Catawiki auction lots by keyword or category, with price range, reserve, buy-now, free shipping, seller country, closing day, object type and specification filters. Returns lot cards with title, images, auction id, current bid in EUR, USD and GBP, reserve state and bidding end time.

How to use it

Search Catawiki lots open for bidding by keyword, or list a category with category_id and no keyword. Take specification and value ids from a lot's specifications in catawiki/lots, and pass a result's id to catawiki/lots for the full lot.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string nullable — Search text (examples: "rolex datejust"; minLength: 1)
• category_id string nullable — Category id or category URL from catawiki/categories; a top-level category needs a keyword (examples: "333", "https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/343-rolex-watches"; minLength: 1)
• sort string — Result order (default: "relevance"; one of: "relevance", "ending_soon", "newest")
• min_price_eur integer nullable — Lower end in EUR of Catawiki's Budget filter, applied as the site applies it; a returned lot's current bid and expert estimate are not guaranteed to lie in the range (min: 0)
• max_price_eur integer nullable — Upper end in EUR of Catawiki's Budget filter, applied as the site applies it; a returned lot's current bid and expert estimate are not guaranteed to lie in the range (min: 0)
• has_reserve_price boolean nullable — true keeps lots with a reserve price, false lots without one
• buy_now_only boolean — Only lots that can be bought instantly (default: false)
• free_shipping_only boolean — Only lots with free shipping (default: false)
• seller_country_codes array — Seller countries as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (default: []; examples: ["nl","jp"])
• closing_dates array — Days on which the lot's bidding closes (default: []; examples: ["2026-09-27"])
• object_type_ids array — Object type ids from the facet list of a category (default: []; examples: ["18133"])
• specifications object — Specification id mapped to value ids, taken from a lot's specifications (default: {}; examples: {"909":["60922"],"926":["60039"]})
  • * array
• count integer required — Max number of lots to return (min: 1; max: 2400)

Response

• @type string (default: "CatawikiLotCard")
• id string required
• subtitle string nullable
• url string nullable
• image string nullable
• thumbnail string nullable
• auction_id string nullable
• favorite_count integer nullable
• has_reserve_price boolean nullable
• has_free_shipping boolean nullable
• is_explicit_content boolean nullable
• buy_now_price_eur number nullable
• seller_name string nullable
• seller_country_code string nullable
• bidding_start_at integer nullable
• bidding_end_at integer nullable
• current_bid object nullable
  • @type string (default: "CatawikiAmount")
  • eur number nullable
  • usd number nullable
  • gbp number nullable
• is_reserve_price_met boolean nullable
• is_closed boolean nullable
• is_buy_now_available boolean nullable
• highest_bidder_token string nullable
• winner_token string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No Catawiki category with lots exists at this category_id. Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.