GoCollect Scraper: CGC/CBCS/PSA/BGS Census, Sold Prices & More

Get the population data other GoCollect scrapers can't load CGC, CBCS, PSA, and BGS graded population census, sold price ranges, and 5-state change tracking, across comics, Pokémon cards, MTG cards, magazines, concert posters, and video games.

🔬 Census data others skip Graded population by grade for CGC, CBCS, PSA, and BGS. Two other GoCollect scrapers on Apify either drop this data or make you run a second actor for it.

🗂️ Six categories, one actor Comics, Pokémon cards, MTG cards, magazines, concert posters, and video games, all on the same run.

🔔 Automatic change tracking Turn on Monitor Mode and every run tells you what's NEW, UPDATED, or EXPIRED instead of making you compare exports by hand.

💲 Real sold price ranges Historical low/high sold price and how many sold records back it, not just today's asking prices.

🔍 What does GoCollect Scraper do?

GoCollect Scraper extracts pricing and population data from GoCollect.com, the price guide collectors use for comics, Pokémon cards, MTG cards, magazines, concert posters, and video games. For every item you give it, you get the title, publisher or set details, a historical sold price range, and (unlike other GoCollect scrapers on Apify) the actual CGC, CBCS, PSA, or BGS graded population breakdown, grade by grade.

Point it at exact item URLs, or let it browse a category page for you. Run it once for a snapshot, or schedule it and turn on Monitor Mode to get a clean NEW/UPDATED/EXPIRED diff every time, without paying for or rebuilding anything.

🤔 Why use GoCollect Scraper?

If you buy, sell, or grade collectibles, population data tells you how rare a grade actually is before you pay a premium for it. Both other GoCollect actors on Apify either can't load this panel at all or make you run a second, separate actor just to get it.

If you price inventory for resale, you get a real sold price range plus how much sale history backs it, so you can tell a well-supported price from a thin one.

If you're building your own pricing tool or price-tracking dashboard, this Actor hands you structured population and price data on a schedule, ready to pipe into a spreadsheet, database, or app through the Apify API.

⚙️ How to use GoCollect Scraper

STEP 1 Add your items Paste GoCollect item URLs, or pick one or more categories and let the Actor find items for you.

STEP 2 Click Start The default settings finish well under 5 minutes and already include census and sold-price data.

STEP 3 Get your data Download the dataset, or schedule the run and switch on Monitor Mode to track changes automatically.

1. Open the GoCollect Scraper Input tab and paste in exact item URLs (e.g. https://gocollect.com/comic/spawn-1), or set Categories to auto-discover items.
2. Leave Fetch Census & Sold-Price Data on to get the full population breakdown, or turn it off for a faster, metadata-only run.
3. Click Start. Results land in the run's dataset as the Actor works.
4. For recurring tracking, save the Actor as a scheduled task and set Monitor Mode to "Track Changes".

📥 Input

Configure GoCollect Scraper using the visual Input tab in Apify Console, or pass a raw JSON object via the API.

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of URLs	No	Exact GoCollect item URLs to scrape.
categories	array (enum)	No	Categories to auto-discover items from when startUrls doesn't already fill up Max Items: Comics, Pokémon Cards, MTG Cards, Magazines, Concert Posters, Video Games.
browseMode	enum	No	Which GoCollect listing view to auto-discover from: plain category listing, Most Popular (every category), or Key Issues / New This Week (Comics only - falls back to the plain listing for other categories, since those two views redirect elsewhere on the site).
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of items to scrape in this run.
fetchCensusAndSoldPrices	boolean	No	Fetches the CGC/CBCS/PSA/BGS graded-population census and sold-records count for each item.
monitorMode	enum	No	"Snapshot" returns current data only. "Track Changes" labels each item NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, UNCHANGED, or EXPIRED compared to the previous run.
stateName	string	No	Label for this run's tracked item list, used only with Monitor Mode.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy configuration. Datacenter proxy is confirmed to work for every request this Actor makes.

📤 Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

{
    "itemId": "84714",
    "category": "comics",
    "slug": "spawn-1",
    "url": "https://gocollect.com/comic/spawn-1",
    "title": "Spawn #1",
    "properties": {
        "Publisher": "Image",
        "Writer": "Todd McFarlane",
        "Publication Date": "May 10, 1992",
        "Cover Price": "$1.95"
    },
    "soldPriceLow": 63,
    "soldPriceHigh": 425,
    "soldPriceCurrency": "USD",
    "soldOfferCount": 20,
    "soldRecordsCount": 15650,
    "soldRecordsCompany": "CGC",
    "census": [
        {
            "company": "CGC",
            "shared": true,
            "totalGraded": 39503,
            "bySubtype": [
                { "subtype": "Universal", "count": 33841, "percentOfPop": 85.7 }
            ],
            "byGrade": [
                { "grade": "9.8", "universal": 620, "signature": 41, "qualified": 2, "cgcxjsa": 0, "restored": 1, "total": 664 }
            ]
        },
        { "company": "PSA", "shared": false, "totalGraded": null, "bySubtype": null, "byGrade": null }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-17T14:35:23.000Z"
}

You can download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, or RSS from the dataset's Export tab.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
itemId	string	GoCollect's internal item ID.
category	string	Which of the six categories this item belongs to.
title	string	Item title.
properties	object	Publisher, artist, set, rarity, and other category-specific details, straight from GoCollect's own listing.
soldPriceLow / soldPriceHigh	number	Historical sold price range.
soldOfferCount	number	Number of sales GoCollect's price range is based on.
soldRecordsCount	number	Number of individual sold records GoCollect has for this item, for the grading company named in soldRecordsCompany.
census	array	Graded population breakdown per grading company (CGC, CBCS, PSA, or BGS depending on category), with totals by grade and by subtype (Universal, Signature, Qualified, Restored, etc.). shared: false means that company hasn't published census data for this item.
changeType	string	Only present with Monitor Mode on: NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, UNCHANGED, or EXPIRED.

💰 Pricing

GoCollect Scraper uses Apify's pay-per-result pricing: $0.004 per item returned (that's $4 per 1,000 results), including full census and sold-price data. You only pay for items successfully returned; an empty run costs nothing. There's no subscription.

Free plan runs are limited to 25 items per run, 3 runs per day, and a short wait between runs. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits.

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If this Actor saved you from checking census panels by hand, please leave a review on the Apify Store listing. It helps other collectors and resellers find it, and tells us what to build next.

❓ FAQ

Does this Actor need a GoCollect account or login? No. Every field this Actor returns is read anonymously, the same way a public visitor sees GoCollect's pages.

Why is population data missing for some items or grading companies? Not every item has a published census with every grading company. When GoCollect itself hasn't shared that data, census for that company comes back with shared: false rather than a fake zero.

Does this include every individual sale, not just a price range? No. GoCollect gates itemized sale-by-sale history behind a login on its own site, so this Actor reports the historical sold price range and a total sold-records count instead of fabricating individual sale rows.

Can I track price and population changes over time? Yes. Set Monitor Mode to "Track Changes" and schedule the Actor. Each run compares against the last one on the same item list and labels every item NEW, UPDATED, REAPPEARED, UNCHANGED, or EXPIRED.

Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or reach out for a custom solution built around your specific collection.

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