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Offline Adrian H

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Auction APIs
« on: February 18, 2023, 10:04:04 pm »
Hey all, I think it might be fun to try some natural language processing/machine learning on ancient coin auction results. I don't have good web scraping skills, so does anyone know of an auction house where I can query large amounts of past listings and results from? I know you can do this sort of with AC search, but since this is just a little side project, I'd like to not spend anything on it and I don't know how well-suited the AC search search is for the kinds of requests I envision.
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Offline Virgil H

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Re: Auction APIs
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2023, 10:17:01 pm »
I know CNG has a database of their sold coins that goes back a long while. I think other auction houses, as well as many dealer's maintain sold databases. I know Forum deletes prices from sold coins, but most don't. I don't know how many keep data at all, but many do. Literally the only thing I don't like about Forum is deleting the prices of sold coins. I understand the rationale, I just don't agree with it. But, I accept it.

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Offline Adrian H

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Re: Auction APIs
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2023, 10:31:11 pm »
Hmmm.... this is *really* close to what I'm looking for. I'll have to read up more on web scraping techniques but I think this is feasible for getting most of the information I want for each item.
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Offline Virgil H

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Re: Auction APIs
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2023, 10:44:08 pm »
Also, the free version of Coinarchives returns a certain number of results with prices realized, how far back depends on the coin. Could be useful for playing around with. Sound like an interesting project.

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Offline Altamura

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Re: Auction APIs
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2023, 03:54:22 am »
The SIXBID Coin Collector's Archive has hammer prices for most (but not all) auctions they had: https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/en

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Offline Adrian H

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Re: Auction APIs
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2023, 01:34:20 am »
I know CNG has a database of their sold coins that goes back a long while.


And I'm up and running! I have a scraper that parsed every single lot of an auction. With 1200ish lots, that's enough to do some proof of concept testing with ML models before writing a more general parser and grabbing every record.
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