Troostwijk MCP Server

Troostwijk Auctions

European industrial equipment, vehicles, real estate and bankruptcy/ insolvency liquidation auction lots from troostwijkauctions.com — covering NL/DE/BE/UK/PL/RO/IT and more.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1857+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

The closed-lot hammer-price question — resolved

Verified live 2026-09-13 against real closed auctions:

• biddingStatus: "BIDDING_CLOSED" + saleTerm of CLOSED_RESERVE_PRICE_ALLOCATED or GUARANTEED_SALE_CLOSED means the lot sold, and currentBidAmount is the real hammer price (sample: "Genelec HPW-100 T5 INS 50HZ Stroomgenerator", 42 bids, sold for EUR 5,500.00).
• saleTerm: "UNSOLD" or "CLOSED_RESERVE_PRICE_ALLOCATION_DECLINED" means it did not sell — currentBidAmount there is the highest bid received (or reserve floor), not a sale price.
• saleTerm: "CLOSED_RESERVE_PRICE_ALLOCATION_PENDING" means bidding closed but the seller has not yet accepted or declined — outcome unknown.

troostwijk_sold_comps returns only the first category (real, allocated sales) by default, with every row's outcome field stated explicitly. It never reports a pending or declined bid amount as a sale price.

Locale

Requesting under /en/... with any locale's slug — even the native Dutch one from troostwijk_categories — 307-redirects to the canonical English URL, and fetch() follows it transparently. Category names and templated lot titles (tractors, cars, etc.) come back in English this way. Free-text auction/lot titles written by the seller (estate-sale and liquidation-lot names) are not translated and stay in the source country's language — expect Dutch/German/Polish/Romanian text mixed into results.

Auth

None. Keyless, no login required to browse.

Data sources

• troostwijkauctions.com/en/c/{category_path} — category browse pages; pageProps.lotsData.results in the page's __NEXT_DATA__ blob.
• troostwijkauctions.com/en/a/{auction_slug} — auction detail pages; pageProps.lots.results (works for both single-lot and multi-lot auctions).
• troostwijkauctions.com/en/auctions?auctionBiddingStatuses=BIDDING_CLOSED — the closed-auctions listing troostwijk_sold_comps scans.

robots.txt

Disallows only query-param SEARCH URLs (*search*, *categoryLevel=*, *totalSize=*, *countries=*, *brands=*, *auctions=*, *amounts=*) — category and lot/auction pages are unrestricted. Per Bruce's 2026-09-01 ruling, a Disallow on content already served without credentials is not a blocker; this pack does use the countries= filter param since the underlying data is public either way, but never touches the actual /search path (category browsing serves the same tools without it).

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "troostwijk": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/troostwijk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/troostwijk/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1857+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/troostwijk_categories \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/troostwijk_categories. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-troostwijk is a local stdio bridge to the Pipeworx gateway: your MCP client starts it with npx, and it forwards every call to the same https://gateway.pipeworx.io/troostwijk/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "troostwijk": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-troostwijk"]
    }
  }
}

Without a key it calls anonymously, capped at 50 calls a day. A free account raises that to 200 a day: get a key at https://pipeworx.io/signup and add "env": { "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<your key>" } to the server entry. The key is sent as a Bearer token, the same way a hosted connection sends it, so calls are metered and billed exactly as they are there.

It lists only this pack's tools by default. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 to also list ask_pipeworx and the other gateway-wide tools.

Behind an HTTPS proxy: Node's built-in fetch does not read HTTPS_PROXY by default. Newer Node releases honour it when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set; check your Node version's documentation.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Troostwijk data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT