Saleroom

saleroom

What did that watch actually sell for — and what is one worth today? saleroom is a read-only client for the altfinance auction-results service, which tracks realized prices across twenty luxury categories: watches, handbags, jewelry, gems, cars and motorcycles, aircraft, wine and whisky, art, design, fashion, coins and more. You can list the tables, inspect a table's columns, run filtered and sorted queries over the sales history, read summary statistics and price trends, ask for a fair-value range on a single item, search the whole market at once, consult a precomputed brand/model price index, and view price alerts.

Nothing here trades, bids or changes anything: all nine tools only read. Responses come back exactly as the service returned them — nothing is trimmed, renamed or summarised on the way through.

Configuration

Two environment variables control the client:

• ALTFINANCE_API_KEY (required) — sent on every request as Authorization: Bearer <key>. When it is not set, every tool fails with ALTFINANCE_API_KEY is not set before any request is made.
• ALTFINANCE_API_URL (optional) — API base URL. Defaults to https://api.altfndata.com.

Tools

• list_tables — the available auction tables, with live descriptions and column counts. No arguments.
• get_table_schema — column names and types for one table. Takes table (required).
• query_table — query a table with filters, sort, fields selection and pagination (limit 1–500, offset ≥ 0). Takes table (required) plus the optional arguments.
• market_stats — a realized-price summary for a table or a filtered segment: count, median, percentiles, average, min/max, sale-date span and top vendors. Takes table (required) and optional filters.
• price_trend — how realized prices moved over time, bucketed by year, quarter or month. Takes table (required), optional bucket and optional filters.
• price_check — a fair-value range for a single item from comparable sales, with source links. Takes item (required) and optional category. Live categories are handbags, watches and cars.
• search — whole-market keyword search across every category at once, merged by realized price. Takes query (required) and optional category.
• market_index — a precomputed model-level price index for a brand or model (handbags, watches, cars). Takes query (required) and optional category.
• list_alerts — a read-only view of price alerts, or guidance on enabling them. No arguments.

The twenty tables are: watches, handbags, jewelry, gems, automobile, motorcycle, aircraft, wine_whisky, works_of_art, fine_art, design, fashion, shoes, automobilia, books, coins, other_automobile, perfume, accessories and musical_instruments.

A filter is {column, operator, value}. The operators are eq, neq, gt, gte, lt, lte, like, in, not_in, is_null and is_not_null. Omit value for is_null / is_not_null; pass an array for in / not_in. A sort is {field, direction} with direction asc or desc.

Validation happens before any request. An unknown operator fails with unknown filter operator: <op>; a missing value where one is required fails with filter value is required for operator <op>; a limit outside 1–500 fails with limit must be an integer between 1 and 500. An upstream non-2xx reply fails with altfinance error: HTTP <status> and an unreachable API with altfinance unreachable.

Endpoint provenance

The original service's project record pins the nine tools, the twenty table names, the filter operators, the sorting, field-selection and pagination rules, the trend buckets and the two environment variables — and that all nine endpoints are read-only. It does not pin the per-tool argument names beyond its prose, the filter/sort JSON shapes, the auth header or the request paths. Those pieces are reconstructions, labelled as such:

• Authorization: Bearer <key> header — reconstruction (the record pins API-key authentication only).
• GET <base>/v1/tables — list_tables.
• GET <base>/v1/tables/{table}/schema — get_table_schema.
• POST <base>/v1/tables/{table}/query with body {filters?, sort?, fields?, limit?, offset?} (unset fields omitted) — query_table.
• POST <base>/v1/tables/{table}/stats with body {filters?} — market_stats.
• GET <base>/v1/tables/{table}/trend with bucket and a JSON-encoded filters query parameter when set — price_trend.
• POST <base>/v1/price-check with body {item, category?} — price_check.
• GET <base>/v1/search?q=&category= — search.
• GET <base>/v1/market-index?query=&category= — market_index.
• GET <base>/v1/alerts — list_alerts.

CLI

Each tool is a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/saleroom list_tables '{}'npx @reneturcios/saleroom query_table '{"table":"watches","filters":[{"column":"brand","operator":"eq","value":"Rolex"}],"limit":10}'npx @reneturcios/saleroom price_check '{"item":"Rolex Submariner 1968","category":"watches"}'npx @reneturcios/saleroom --version

Output is the tool's result text (the upstream JSON on success). Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on a runtime error (including a validation or upstream failure), 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/saleroom mcp

MCP client config:

{  "mcpServers": {    "saleroom": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/saleroom", "mcp"],      "env": {        "ALTFINANCE_API_KEY": "<your key>"      }    }  }}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/saleroomdocker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/saleroom list_tables '{}'

Development

npm installnpm run build   # tsc -> dist/npm test        # tsx --test test/*.test.ts (fake fetch only, no network)npm run dev     # run the CLI from source

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Rene Turcios