Us Auctions
liveGovernmentUS Auctions MCP — every live US auction lot across government and commercial sources in one index (surplus, seized/forfeited, estate, industrial): search lots, lots closing soon, auction events and auction houses, and sold-price history since closed lots are never deleted.
Tools
us_auctions_searchSearch live US auction lots across every source Pipeworx indexes — commercial auction houses (HiBid: ~1,900 US auctioneers, industrial liquidations, estate and equipment sales) and government surplus/
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us_auctions_closing_soonUS auction lots ordered by soonest close time — the "what can I still bid on before it ends" view across commercial and government sources alike. Optionally filter by state, asset_type, segment, aucti
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us_auction_eventsUpcoming US auction EVENTS — the sales themselves rather than individual lots ("Synthetic Fuels Company plant liquidation, 271 lots, Aug 28, Fremont CA"). Use this to answer "what auctions are happeni
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us_auction_housesWhich US auction houses Pipeworx covers, and how much they currently have live — name, home state, number of open sales and total lots across them. Use to find the auctioneers active in a state or in
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us_auctions_sold_compsHistorical SOLD prices for US auction items — the final hammer price of closed lots, which no upstream site keeps but Pipeworx retains across both the commercial and government halves of the market. U
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us_auctions_coverageWhat US auction data Pipeworx currently holds: per-source active lot counts, open sale counts, retained sold comps, and when each source last refreshed. Use to gauge coverage and freshness before rely
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Test with curl
The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/us-auctions/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/us-auctions/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"us_auctions_search","arguments":{}}}'Use with the SDK
Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("us_auctions_search", {});// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("us auctions mcp — every live us auction lot across government and commercial sources in one index (surplus, seized/forfeited, estate, industrial): search lots, lots closing soon, auction events and auction houses, and sold-price history since closed lots are never deleted");