PriceCharting Collection Scraper — Whole-Set Prices, History & Product Lists

Turn any PriceCharting collection page (a full Pokémon set, a game console, a comic run, a coin series) into one clean JSON record: the collection's historical index value and median-price time series, plus every product in the set with its name, ID, image and current prices.

Paste a collection URL (or bare slug) and get back one tidy record per collection — ready for a spreadsheet, database, dashboard, or app. No browser automation, and you are never billed for failed lookups.

Companion to the PriceCharting Product Scraper, which scrapes individual product pages (full grade ladder, per-condition price history, sold listings, POP report, gallery images). Use this actor when you want the whole set at once; use that one when you want deep detail on specific products.

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What it does

Given https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-1999-topps-movie, it:

1. Reads the collection header — name, category, the PriceCharting Index value and median card price, and the full historical time-series behind the page's chart (both the index-value and median series).
2. Pages through the entire product table (the site loads 150 at a time; this actor follows the "more results" pagination to the end automatically) and captures every product: name, numeric ID, canonical URL, full-resolution image, and the three listed prices.
3. Emits one dataset record per collection, with all products nested inside.

Non-collection pages (typos, removed sets) are reported in the run SUMMARY and are never written to the dataset or billed.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
Collections (required)	list	–	One per line: a /console/<slug> URL or a bare slug (e.g. pokemon-1999-topps-movie).
Include the product list	boolean	true	Scrape every product in the set into the products array. Turn off for collection stats + history only (one page, much faster on huge consoles).
Include the collection price history	boolean	true	Include the full value/median history series. The current value & median are always included.
Max products per collection	integer	0	Cap products scraped per collection (0 = whole set).
Proxy configuration	object	Automatic	Datacenter is reliable and cheapest; switch to residential only on failures.
Max concurrency	integer	3	Collections fetched in parallel (pagination within a collection is always sequential).
Delay between requests	integer	1	Politeness delay (seconds) before each request, pagination included.
Max collections	integer	0	Stop after N collection records (0 = unlimited).
Max run seconds	integer	210	Stop the run gracefully after N seconds, keeping every collection already scraped. 0 = no time limit.

Run length. A single large console can page through thousands of products, so Max run seconds (210) bounds the run's wall-clock time. When it is reached the Actor stops gracefully — every collection already scraped is kept, SUMMARY records stoppedOnTimeBudget: true, and the run finishes successfully. Raise it (or set 0) for very large consoles, and give the run a matching Apify run timeout. Turning off Include the product list is the other way to keep a big console fast.

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Output

Each collection becomes one dataset record:

Field	Description
collectionUrl, collectionName	The page URL and clean set/console name
category, consoleUid, breadcrumb	PriceCharting category, internal UID, and the breadcrumb trail
currency	Always USD
priceColumns	Maps the stable price keys to this category's on-site labels (cards: used=Ungraded, cib=Grade 9, new=PSA 10; games: Loose / CIB / New)
productCount	Number of products scraped (null if the product list was disabled)
currentValue, currentMedian	Latest index value and median card price (USD)
valueHistory, medianHistory	Per-series arrays of { "date": "YYYY-MM-DD", "price": 12.34 } points
products	One entry per product: { productId, productName, url, imageUrl, prices: { used, cib, new } }
source, scrapedAt	scrape; ISO timestamp

Example (products & history truncated)

{
  "collectionUrl": "https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-1999-topps-movie",
  "collectionName": "Pokemon 1999 Topps Movie",
  "category": "pokemon-cards",
  "consoleUid": "G52737",
  "breadcrumb": ["Trading Cards", "Pokemon Card", "Pokemon 1999 Topps Movie"],
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceColumns": { "used": "Ungraded", "cib": "Grade 9", "new": "PSA 10" },
  "productCount": 201,
  "currentValue": 24.70,
  "currentMedian": 2.23,
  "valueHistory":  [ { "date": "2022-07-02", "price": 4.62 }, "…", { "date": "2026-06-02", "price": 24.70 } ],
  "medianHistory": [ { "date": "2022-07-02", "price": 2.44 }, "…", { "date": "2026-06-02", "price": 2.23 } ],
  "products": [
    {
      "productId": 3560849,
      "productName": "Pikachu's Vacation #42",
      "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-1999-topps-movie/pikachu%27s-vacation-42",
      "imageUrl": "https://storage.googleapis.com/images.pricecharting.com/…/1600.jpg",
      "prices": { "used": 3.64, "cib": 33.73, "new": 154.81 }
    }
  ],
  "source": "scrape",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-17T06:27:41+00:00"
}

For the per-condition price history, full grade ladder (PSA/BGS/CGC/…), sold listings and gallery images of an individual product, feed its url or productId into the PriceCharting Product Scraper.

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HTTP API (one collection per request)

This Actor can also be called over HTTP as a REST API — useful when an app or agent needs a single collection lookup without starting a batch run. Paste a list of collections, or use bulk volume pricing across many sets, still uses the Input interface above.

Authenticate with your Apify API token (prefer the header form):

curl -X POST "https://incognito_mode--pricecharting-collection-scraper.apify.actor/scrape" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "collection": "pokemon-1999-topps-movie",
    "includeProducts": true,
    "includePriceHistory": true
  }'

Field	Default	Description
collection (required)	–	/console/<slug> URL or bare slug
includeProducts	true	Full product list (pages the set)
includePriceHistory	true	Full value/median history series
maxProductsPerCollection	0	Cap products (0 = no limit)
requestDelaySecs	1	Delay between page requests
maxRunSecs	180	Soft wall-clock budget for this request (capped at 240)

A successful response is the same JSON record shape as a dataset item from an Input run. Failed lookups return an error and are not billed. Copy the stable hostname from the Actor’s Endpoints tab in Apify Console (do not hard-code username–name URLs if the Console shows an ID-based host).

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Notes

• Prices are normalized to USD (the currency=usd cookie pins it regardless of run geo).
• The three per-product price columns are whatever PriceCharting shows for that category — read priceColumns to know what used/cib/new mean for your set.
• This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PriceCharting. Please scrape responsibly — keep concurrency low and delays reasonable.