GoCollect Comic Price Guide Scraper

Scrape GoCollect — the comic-book price guide and sales-history platform. Search by comic title or character, browse the Hot List of trending books, browse Key Issues, or browse the newest additions. Get publisher, creator credits, publication date, comic-book era, and historical sale price ranges per comic. HTTP-only, no login, no API key.

What this actor does

• Five modes: search, hottest, keyIssues, new, bySlug
• Publisher filter: Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, and more
• Era filter: Golden / Silver / Bronze / Copper / Modern Age, derived from publication date
• Full price guide detail: historical low/high sale price, offer count, cover price, page count
• Creator credits: writer(s), artist(s), penciler(s), inker(s), colorist(s), letterer(s), cover artist(s), editor(s)
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per comic

• slug — GoCollect's URL slug for this comic
• title — comic title including issue number/variant, e.g. Amazing Spider-Man #1
• description — GoCollect's summary text for the comic
• imageUrl — cover image
• category — always Comic
• seriesName, seriesUrl — the comic's series, e.g. Amazing Spider-Man
• variantCount — number of known cover variants for this issue, when GoCollect tracks any
• publisher — e.g. Marvel, DC Comics
• writers[], artists[], pencilers[], inkers[], colorists[], letterers[], coverArtists[], editors[]
• publicationDate — ISO date, when resolvable
• publicationYear
• era — golden / silver / bronze / copper / modern
• decade — e.g. 1960s
• coverPrice, coverPriceUsd — original newsstand cover price
• pageCount
• priceCurrency, lowPrice, highPrice, offerCount, priceRangeDescription — historical sales-based price range, when available
• sourceUrl — the comic's GoCollect page
• recordType: "comic", scrapedAt

Newly solicited/unreleased comics may not have sales history yet, so lowPrice/highPrice/offerCount are omitted rather than fabricated for those records.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search / hottest / keyIssues / new / bySlug
searchQuery	string	spider-man	Free-text title/character query (mode=search)
comicUrls	array	–	Comic URLs or bare slugs to look up (mode=bySlug)
publisher	string	any	Restrict to a publisher, or any
era	string	any	Restrict to a comic-book era, or any
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on emitted records (1-200)
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO	Optional Apify Proxy configuration

Example: search by title, filter to Marvel Silver Age

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "spider-man",
  "publisher": "Marvel",
  "era": "silver",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: browse the Hot List

{
  "mode": "hottest",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: browse Key Issues filtered to DC Comics

{
  "mode": "keyIssues",
  "publisher": "DC Comics",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: lookup specific comics by URL

{
  "mode": "bySlug",
  "comicUrls": [
    "https://gocollect.com/comic/amazing-spider-man-1",
    "fantastic-four-1"
  ]
}

Use cases

• Collector price research — check the current sales-based value range before buying or selling
• Grading/investment tracking — monitor Hot List and Key Issues movers over time
• Dealer inventory pricing — bulk-pull price ranges for a want list or inventory
• Publisher/era collections — build a dataset of a publisher's or era's key issues
• Marketplace listing enrichment — attach publication metadata and price context to comic listings

Data source / limitations

Data comes from GoCollect's publicly accessible comic pages (search, Hot List, Key Issues, New, and individual comic detail pages) — the same pages a visitor sees without logging in. GoCollect's account-gated premium tools (portfolio tracking, custom alerts, and other subscriber-only features) are out of scope and not accessed by this actor. Publisher and era are only included on a record when GoCollect exposes that field for the comic; if a comic's page doesn't list a publisher, the filter treats it as a non-match-excluding field (it won't be wrongly filtered out just because the field is missing), consistent with how every other filter in this actor behaves.

A comic detail page also shows a per-grade "Graded Population" (CGC/PSA census) panel and a "What's it Worth?" grade-price breakdown; these render as perpetual loading placeholders even with full JavaScript execution and never resolve without a paid data feed, so they are not included — only the aggregate historical sale price range (lowPrice/highPrice) that GoCollect publishes openly is captured.

FAQ

What is the data source? The public gocollect.com comic price guide. All data is GoCollect's own published pricing and metadata.

Is this affiliated with GoCollect? No. This is an independent third-party actor that reads GoCollect's public pages. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GoCollect.

What do the "eras" mean? Standard comic-collecting eras derived from publication year: Golden Age (1938-1955), Silver Age (1956-1969), Bronze Age (1970-1984), Copper Age (1985-1991), and Modern Age (1992-present).

Why do some comics have no price range? GoCollect's price range is based on historical sales. Newly solicited or just-released comics may not have any recorded sales yet, so no price range exists for them.

Is the search exact or fuzzy? search performs the same relevance-ranked text search as typing into GoCollect's own search box — it matches on title/character text, not an exact string.

How fresh is the data? Data reflects GoCollect's live pages at the time the actor runs; price ranges update as new sales are recorded.

Are there rate limits? GoCollect is public and does not require an API key or login. The actor fetches politely with small delays between requests.