# TCGPlayer Card Prices (`devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices`) Actor

Get structured trading-card price data from TCGPlayer by free-text card name — market price, lowest price, listing counts, per-seller listings — across Magic, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and every game on the platform. No login, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## TCGPlayer Card Prices

**💰 $3.20 / 1 000 products**  ·  pay only for results  ·  no credit card to try

*We do the dirty work so your dataset stays clean.* 😈

Get structured trading-card price data from TCGPlayer by free-text card name — market price, lowest price, listing counts, per-seller listings — across Magic, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and every game on the platform. No login, no API key.

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### 🎯 What this scrapes

TCGPlayer is the biggest secondary marketplace for Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and dozens of other trading-card games, but its public search page is a client-rendered shell with no usable price data in the HTML. This Actor talks to the same JSON search endpoint TCGPlayer's own site calls: give it a card name and it returns every matching product's market price, lowest price, listing count, and (optionally) individual seller listings, spanning every game on the platform through one shared search — instead of you hand-checking each card's page one at a time.

### 🔥 What we handle for you

- 🛡️ **Browser fingerprint rotation** — `curl-cffi` impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes on every session, as defense-in-depth.
- 🔁 **Retries with exponential backoff** on `408 / 429 / 5xx` — up to 5 attempts per page, `Retry-After` honoured.
- 🎯 **One search endpoint, every game** — no need to tell us which game a card belongs to; the result tells you.
- 🧊 **Clean, typed dataset rows** — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable ids, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
- 💰 **Pay-Per-Event pricing** — you only pay for products that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

### 💡 Use cases

- Card resellers and arbitrageurs tracking price deltas across marketplaces.
- Deck-pricing tools that total a decklist's live market value.
- Collection-value trackers that revalue a user's card collection on a schedule.
- Price-alert services watching for a target card dropping below a threshold.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click **Start**. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from **Storage → Dataset** as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Notes |
|---|---|:--:|---|---|
| `searchQueries` | `array` | **yes** | \['charizard'] | Free-text card-name queries, e.g. "charizard" or "black lotus". No game pre-selection needed — the game each result… |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | `integer` | no | 50 | Caps how many products are fetched per query, paged in batches of pageSize. |
| `pageSize` | `integer` | no | 10 | Number of products requested per page from TCGPlayer's search API. |
| `includeListings` | `boolean` | no | False | When enabled, attaches up to 5 seller listings per product, sorted by price ascending. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | no | {'useApifyProxy': True} | Apify Proxy routing. No anti-bot defenses were observed on this endpoint during recon, so no proxy group is pinned by… |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "charizard"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 5,
  "pageSize": 5,
  "includeListings": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

### 📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `product_id` | `integer` | TCGPlayer's numeric product id. |
| `product_name` | `string` | Product display name. |
| `product_line` | `string` | Game the product belongs to, e.g. Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering. |
| `set_name` | `string` | Card set name. |
| `set_code` | `string` | Short set code. |
| `rarity` | `string` | Card rarity. |
| `market_price` | `number` | Headline market price in USD. |
| `lowest_price` | `number` | Lowest current listing price in USD. |
| `lowest_price_with_shipping` | `number` | Lowest listing price including shipping. |
| `total_listings` | `integer` | Total live seller listings for this product. |
| `foil_only` | `boolean` | Whether this product listing is foil-only. |
| `product_url` | `string` | Canonical TCGPlayer product page URL. |
| `custom_attributes` | `object` | Per-game metadata passthrough, varies by game. |
| `listings` | `array` | Up to 5 seller listings, only when includeListings=true. |
| `searched_query` | `string` | The searchQueries entry that produced this row. |
| `scraped_at` | `string` | ISO-8601 UTC timestamp at fetch time. |

#### Example output

```json
{
  "product_id": 15870,
  "product_name": "Charizard (Base Set)",
  "product_line": "Pokemon",
  "set_name": "Base Set",
  "set_code": "BS",
  "rarity": "Rare Holo",
  "market_price": 312.45,
  "lowest_price": 249.99,
  "lowest_price_with_shipping": 254.98,
  "total_listings": 87,
  "foil_only": false,
  "product_url": "https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/15870/pokemon-base-set-charizard",
  "custom_attributes": {
    "number": "4/102",
    "rarityDbName": "Rare Holo",
    "releaseDate": "1999-01-09"
  },
  "listings": null,
  "searched_query": "charizard",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-22T10:00:00Z"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

| Event | USD | What it is |
|---|---:|---|
| `actor-start` | $0.20 | One-off warm-up charge per run |
| `product-scraped` | $0.003 | Per product row written to the dataset |

Example: 1 000 products at the rates above ≈ **$3.20**. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

### 🚧 Limitations

- One-shot price snapshot per run — no historical/time-series pricing or trend charts.
- Buylist (vendor-side) pricing is not covered — only marketplace sell-side prices.
- Seller listings are capped at 5 per product — this is a price-check tool, not a full order-book mirror.
- Targets TCGPlayer's US storefront (shippingCountry: US) — no international storefront support in v1.

### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need an account or API key?**

No. This Actor calls TCGPlayer's public search endpoint directly — no login, no API key, no scraping the HTML page.

**Does this cover games other than Magic and Pokemon?**

Yes. Every game TCGPlayer lists — Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, One Piece, Flesh and Blood, and more — comes back through the same search; the game each result belongs to is on the `product_line` field.

**Can I get individual seller listings, not just the market price?**

Yes — set `includeListings` to true and each product row carries up to 5 seller listings (price, condition, shipping, seller rating) sorted cheapest first.

**What if my search matches nothing?**

The run still succeeds — you get zero rows for that query and a status message saying what was searched. That's a completed search with no matches, not an error.

### 💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an
issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab on Apify Console — we ship
fixes weekly and we read every report.

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Built by **[Devil Scrapes](https://apify.com/DevilScrapes)** 😈 — a small fleet of
opinionated public-data Actors. Honest pricing, real engineering, zero fine print.

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# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Free-text card-name queries, e.g. <code>"charizard"</code> or <code>"black lotus"</code>. No game pre-selection needed — the game each result belongs to is returned on every row.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many products are fetched per query, paged in batches of <code>pageSize</code>. Soft cap — the real ceiling is however many results TCGPlayer actually has for that query.

## `pageSize` (type: `integer`):

Number of products requested per page from TCGPlayer's search API.

## `includeListings` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, attaches up to 5 seller listings per product (seller, price, condition, shipping), sorted by price ascending.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy routing. No anti-bot defenses were observed on this endpoint during recon, so no proxy group is pinned by default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "charizard"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "pageSize": 10,
  "includeListings": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "charizard"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
    "pageSize": 10,
    "includeListings": false,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["charizard"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
    "pageSize": 10,
    "includeListings": False,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "charizard"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "pageSize": 10,
  "includeListings": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/tcgplayer-card-prices"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/kKNJGVTShdDeWYHBL/builds/l3JP90VhW8tnyOc4I/openapi.json