/sothebys/private_sales/search

POST /api/sothebys/private_sales/search

Price: 20 credits

Search Sotheby's private-sale inventory, optionally within one private-sales category, by keyword, department, object type, creator and price. Returns listings with title, creators, price where published, currency, department, item attributes and image.

How to use it

List Sotheby's private-sale works by category. Pass a listing's id to sothebys/shop/items for its full description, condition and shipping.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• category string nullable — Private-sales category to search within; omitted searches every private-sale item (one of: "contemporary-art", "impressionist-modern-art", "prints-multiples", "photographs", "american-art", "european-art", "20th-century-design", "jewelry", "watches", "sneakers-handbags", "books-manuscripts", "furniture-decorative-arts")
• keyword string nullable — Search text (examples: "warhol"; minLength: 1)
• departments array — Sotheby's departments (default: []; one of: "19th Century European Paintings", "20th Century Design", "American Art", "American Furniture, Decorative Art & Folk Art", "Books & Manuscripts", "Chinese Export Porcelain", "Chinese Paintings – Classical", "Chinese Paintings – Modern", "Chinese Works of Art", "Clocks & Barometers", "Collectibles", "Contemporary Arab, Iranian & Turkish Art", "Contemporary Art", "Contemporary Asian Art", "Contemporary Latin American Art", "Contemporary NFT", "English Furniture", "European Ceramics & Glass", "European Sculpture & Works of Art", "French & Continental Furniture", "Impressionist & Modern Art", "Jewelry", "Latin American Art", "Luxury Collectibles", "Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art", "Modern Art | Asia", "Modern British & Irish Art", "Objects of Vertu", "Old Master Paintings", "Photographs", "Popular Culture", "Prints", "Science", "Silver", "Sneakers NFT", "Spirits", "Streetwear & Modern Collectibles", "Vintage Cars", "Watches", "Wine"; examples: ["Contemporary Art"])
• object_types array — Object types (default: []; one of: "Apparel", "Architectural & Garden", "Book", "Bracelet", "Brooch", "Car", "Clock", "Collectible", "Cufflink, Stud & Tie Clip", "Decor", "Dining & Serveware", "Earring", "Fossil", "Generic", "Handbag", "Jewelry", "Lighting", "Mineral", "Mixed Media", "Necklace", "Painting", "Pen", "Photograph", "Precious Accessory", "Print", "Ring", "Sculpture", "Seating", "Sneaker", "Spirit", "Storage", "Table", "Textile", "Vintage Poster", "Watch", "Wine", "Work on Paper"; examples: ["Painting"])
• creators array — Artist, maker or brand names as Sotheby's writes them (default: []; examples: ["Andy Warhol"])
• min_price number nullable — Lowest price or low estimate, in the item's own currency (min: 0)
• max_price number nullable — Highest price or low estimate, in the item's own currency (min: 0)
• count integer required — Max number of items to return (min: 1; max: 3000)

Response

• @type string (default: "SothebysShopListing")
• id string required
• url string nullable
• alias string nullable
• sku string nullable
• creators array (default: [])
• creators_display string nullable
• description string nullable
• sale_designation string nullable
• department string nullable
• categories array (default: [])
• object_types array (default: [])
• way_to_buy string nullable
• sales_channel string nullable
• sales_entity string nullable
• lot_state string nullable
• currency string nullable
• price number nullable
• is_price_published boolean nullable
• estimate_low number nullable
• estimate_high number nullable
• available_quantity integer nullable
• is_owned boolean nullable
• is_enquiry_enabled boolean nullable
• image string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• tags array (default: [])
• ships_from_country string nullable
• ships_from_state string nullable
• ships_internationally boolean nullable
• attributes array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysItemAttribute")
  • name string nullable
  • values array (default: [])
  • unit string nullable
• variants array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "SothebysListingVariant")
  • id string nullable
  • sku string nullable
  • value string nullable
  • price number 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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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.