📮 Colnect Scraper

Want Colnect catalog items in a spreadsheet — not just URLs? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters — better for AI agents — or paste an input_url. When input_url is set it overrides the filters.

By default the actor also opens each item page (after Colnect’s Anubis protection) and returns the public detail fields collectors care about: series, face value, themes, description, and more.

💡 Perfect for...

• Collectors: Export stamp, coin, or banknote details with public catalog URLs.
• Dashboards: Track catalog items for a country or category without paging the site.
• Market research: Slice Colnect catalog groups by country or keyword.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with specs and marketplace offers.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live Colnect catalog results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed titles, descriptions, and catalog codes into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a Colnect catalog or item URL, or pick the same filters as the site. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Category, country, and keyword.
• 📄 Full public details: Series, issued date, face value, colors, perforation, description, marketplace offer, and more (one Anubis unlock in parallel with sitemaps, then concurrent HTTP). About 1,000 detailed items in under 5 minutes after the unlock.
• 🖼️ Images from the catalog sitemap when public item photos are login-gated.

📦 What's inside the data?

Field	Description
id	Colnect catalog id
url	Public catalog page
title	Item title
category	Catalog group (stamps, coins, …)
country	Issuing country
series	Series name
themes	Theme tags
issued_on / year	Issue date and year
size, colors, watermark, printers	Physical / production specs
format, emission, perforation, printing	Stamp/coin format fields when present
face_value, print_run, score	Value and Colnect score
description	Item description
catalog_code / catalog_codes	Michel / Scott / Yvert / SG when visible
marketplace_offer	Public “Buy Now” summary when listed
image / images	Catalog photo URL(s)
last_modified	Sitemap last-modified timestamp

Note: Some Colnect fields require a logged-in account or are briefly obfuscated for guests (issued_on sometimes). The scraper unlocks public guest fields (including XOR-decorated size/themes/watermark/printers) and drops honeypot placeholders.

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://colnect.com/en/stamps.
Option B: pick stamps or coins and a country, leave Enrich from item pages on, set max_results.

Input Example (filters + details):

{
  "category": "stamps",
  "country": "gibraltar",
  "enrich_details": true,
  "max_results": 25
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://colnect.com/en/coins",
  "enrich_details": true,
  "max_results": 25
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "1",
  "url": "https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/1-Queen_Victoria_1819-1901_Overprint_greenblack-Definitives_1886_Stamps_of_Bermuda_overprinted_in_Black-Gibraltar",
  "title": "Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Overprint (green/black)",
  "category": "Stamps",
  "country": "Gibraltar",
  "series": "Definitives 1886: Stamps of Bermuda overprinted in Black",
  "themes": ["Coats of Arms", "Crowns and Coronets", "Famous People", "Heads of State", "Queens", "Royalty", "Women"],
  "issued_on": "1886-01-01",
  "year": 1886,
  "size": "20.5 x 24.5 mm",
  "colors": ["Brown", "Green", "Multicolor"],
  "face_value": "½ d - Gibraltar penny (old)",
  "perforation": "14",
  "description": "Queen Victoria (facing left), in oval band with geometric emblems to sides...",
  "catalog_code": "michel:GI 1 | scott:GI 1 | yvert:GI 1 | stanley_gibbons:GI 1",
  "marketplace_offer": "1 sale offer for US$ 5.80",
  "image": "https://i.colnect.net/f/8608/717/Queen-Victoria-1819-1901-Overprint-green-black.jpg"
}

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	Colnect catalog, country, or item URL. Overrides every filter.
category	dropdown	No	stamps	Catalog group from the site menu.
country	dropdown	No	all	Issuing country or territory.
query	string	No	—	Name, series, or other keyword.
enrich_details	boolean	No	true	Visit item pages for full public fields.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).