HobbyDB Funko Pop Price Guide Scraper

Scrape hobbyDB's Pop Price Guide — the largest independent Funko Pop! vinyl figure database. Search figures by name or character, browse full license/franchise categories (Marvel, Star Wars, Disney, anime, and more), and get estimated collector values, current lowest marketplace asking prices, release info, and images. HTTP-only via hobbyDB's public JSON API. No login, no cookies, no paid proxy required.

What this actor does

• Two modes: search (by figure/character name) and browse (by license/franchise category)
• 28 real hobbyDB Pop! categories — Marvel, Star Wars, Disney, Animation, Movies, Television, Heroes (DC), Games, Harry Potter, WWE, and more, sourced directly from hobbyDB's own Pop! Vinyl taxonomy
• Collector pricing: estimated Mint-condition value, value range, cheapest current listing, and lowest marketplace ask
• Edition/variant filter: Standard, Chase, Retailer Exclusive, Set Exclusive, Convention Exclusive, Glow-in-the-Dark, Autographed, Limited Edition, Deluxe, Error/Variant Misprint, Prototype, Regional Exclusive — matched against hobbyDB's own structured edition taxonomy when available, with a text-based fallback
• Price range filter: min/max estimated value
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per figure

• funkoPopId, name, akaName — alternate/box name
• editionDetail — variant text as catalogued by hobbyDB (e.g. "SDCC 2018 Exclusive")
• productionStatus[] — hobbyDB's own structured edition tags for this figure (e.g. ["Autographed", "Exclusive"]), when catalogued
• categoryType — hobbyDB product-type bucket (e.g. "Art Toys", "Keychains")
• series[] — Funko series lineage (e.g. ["Pop! Vinyl", "Pop! Marvel"])
• description
• brand — always "Funko"
• relatedSubjects[] — franchises/characters/events tied to this figure
• exclusiveTo[] — retailer/convention exclusivity
• refNumber — Funko's official Pop! number
• manufacturerId
• releaseDateFrom, releaseDateTo
• autographedBy
• estimatedValue, estimatedValueRangeLow, estimatedValueRangeHigh — hobbyDB collector price guide (priceGuideCondition notes the condition basis, typically mint)
• lowestListedPrice, cheapestSubvariantPrice — current marketplace asking prices
• forSaleCount — number of active marketplace listings
• avgRating, variantsCount, subvariantsCount
• imageUrl, thumbnailUrl
• sourceUrl, forSaleUrl, priceGuideUrl
• recordType: "funkoPop", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search or browse
searchQuery	string	batman	Figure/character name (mode=search)
category	string	marvel	One of 28 Pop! categories (mode=browse)
editionType	string	any	Edition/variant filter
minPrice	int	–	Drop figures below this estimated value (USD)
maxPrice	int	–	Drop figures above this estimated value (USD)
maxItems	int	30	Hard cap (1–1000)

Example: search by character

{ "mode": "search", "searchQuery": "pikachu", "maxItems": 20 }

Example: browse a franchise category with a price ceiling

{ "mode": "browse", "category": "star_wars", "maxPrice": 50, "maxItems": 100 }

Example: convention exclusives only

{ "mode": "browse", "category": "marvel", "editionType": "convention_exclusive", "maxItems": 50 }

Use cases

• Collector tools — build a personal Funko Pop collection tracker with real price-guide values
• Price monitoring — track estimated values and marketplace lows for specific figures over time
• Marketplace research — compare franchise-wide pricing (e.g. which Marvel Pops hold value best)
• Content/community sites — power a searchable Funko Pop database or wishlist tool
• Investment analysis — identify rare/exclusive editions trending upward in value

Data source / limitations

• Data comes from hobbyDB's public poppriceguide JSON API (hobbydb.com/api/...), the same endpoints hobbyDB's own website calls — no scraping of rendered HTML pages is needed for the data itself.
• Search resolution: hobbyDB's name search isn't relevance-ranked across its full 1M+ item cross-brand toy database, so mode=search first resolves your query to hobbyDB's closest matching cataloged character/franchise subject, then browses that subject's Funko Pop figures. For very generic or ambiguous names this may resolve to a specific related entry (e.g. a particular alter ego) rather than the single most famous version — the figures returned are always genuinely related to your query, just occasionally narrower in scope than the broadest possible match.
• Condition / grading: hobbyDB's physical marketplace listings (used, mint, box-damage grading on individual for-sale copies) sit behind a human-verification and sign-in wall and are not part of hobbyDB's free, publicly reachable API. editionType filters on the figure's own catalogued edition/variant (Standard, Chase, Exclusive, etc.) instead — the closest genuinely free, populated equivalent — rather than physical condition grading. Where hobbyDB catalogues a figure's structured productionStatus tags (Standard/Chase/Exclusive/Set Exclusive/Autographed/Limited Edition/Deluxe/Error/Prototype/Regional), the filter matches against that canonical taxonomy directly; Convention Exclusive and Glow-in-the-Dark have no dedicated tag of their own, so those two match against the figure's descriptive variant text instead.
• Full historical price charts (multi-year value trend graphs) require a hobbyDB sign-in; this actor exposes the same estimated value, value range, and lowest current listing price that hobbyDB shows publicly on every figure without logging in.
• No proxy is required to reach hobbyDB's API from Apify's datacenter IPs; proxyConfiguration is included with the free AUTO group for resilience but works with it left off.

FAQ

What's hobbyDB / Pop Price Guide? hobbyDB is a collectibles database and marketplace; Pop Price Guide is its dedicated Funko Pop! vinyl figure price guide, covering current and vintage Funko releases across every licensed franchise. See hobbydb.com.

Why is estimatedValue sometimes missing? Newly catalogued or one-off figures without enough tracked sales data don't yet have a computed price-guide estimate. The figure's other details (name, images, description, release info) are still returned.

What does priceGuideCondition mean? hobbyDB computes most estimated values assuming Mint condition (mint); some figures show a member_estimate or retail_price basis instead when insufficient sales data exists for a full price-guide calculation.

Can I get every Funko product line, not just Pop! Vinyl? The category list covers hobbyDB's Pop! Vinyl taxonomy (the flagship, highest-volume line). Other Funko lines (Soda, Dorbz, Loungefly) appear incidentally in categoryType/series when returned by a search or category browse, but are not separately browsable categories in this actor.

How fresh is the data? hobbyDB's collector community continuously verifies and updates entries; pricing reflects the latest computed estimate and current live marketplace listing counts at scrape time.