BrickLink Scraper - LEGO Catalog & Price Guide

Scrape the BrickLink LEGO catalog and its price guide into clean, structured data - no BrickLink account or API key required. For every catalog item you get its identity (number, name, type, category, image) plus the current-market price guide: New and Used min / average / qty-average / max prices, quantities and seller counts, computed from every live listing.

What you get (per item)

• Item number (75300-1, 3001, sw0599), name, type (Set / Part / Minifig / Book / Gear / ...), BrickLink category id
• Canonical catalog URL and image URL
• Currency (USD - all prices are BrickLink's US$-normalized figures)
• New price guide: newMinPrice, newAvgPrice, newQtyAvgPrice, newMaxPrice, newTotalQty, newLots, newSellerCount
• Used price guide: usedMinPrice, usedAvgPrice, usedQtyAvgPrice, usedMaxPrice, usedTotalQty, usedLots, usedSellerCount
• priceGuideSource - current_market when the detailed per-item price guide was fetched, else search_summary (min/max/qty only)

The New/Used min-average-qty-average-max figures mirror BrickLink's "Current Items for Sale" price-guide tables - the numbers resellers price against day to day.

Input

• Search keyword - e.g. star wars, millennium falcon, 75300, or a part number like 3001.
• Item type - Set, Part, Minifig, Book, Gear, Catalog, Instruction, or Any (scans Set/Part/Minifig/Book).
• BrickLink search URLs - or paste catalog/search URLs; the keyword is read from each URL's ?q= parameter.
• Fetch detailed price guide per item - ON (default) computes exact averages from every live listing (one extra bounded request per item); OFF keeps only the search min/max/qty summary (faster/cheaper).
• Max items caps the run.

Example input

{
  "query": "star wars",
  "itemType": "S",
  "priceGuideDetail": true,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Example output record (real, live)

{
  "itemNo": "75407-1",
  "itemName": "Brick-Built Star Wars Logo",
  "itemType": "Set",
  "itemTypeCode": "S",
  "categoryId": "65.169",
  "yearReleased": null,
  "url": "https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=75407-1",
  "imageUrl": "https://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/SN/0/75407-1.png",
  "currency": "USD",
  "newMinPrice": 38.34,
  "newAvgPrice": 67.1586,
  "newQtyAvgPrice": 65.4792,
  "newMaxPrice": 120.55,
  "newTotalQty": 272,
  "newLots": 104,
  "newSellerCount": 101,
  "usedMinPrice": 29.99,
  "usedAvgPrice": 41.268,
  "usedQtyAvgPrice": 41.268,
  "usedMaxPrice": 57.16,
  "usedTotalQty": 5,
  "usedLots": 5,
  "usedSellerCount": 4,
  "priceGuideSource": "current_market",
  "priceGuideSampled": false,
  "soldPriceGuide": null,
  "scrapedFrom": "bricklink.com"
}

How it works

• Search - GET /ajax/clone/search/searchproduct.ajax paginates the catalog for your keyword + item type. Each row already carries a current New/Used min-max-qty-seller summary.
• Price guide - for each item, one bounded GET /ajax/clone/catalogifs.ajax pulls the whole current for-sale book (up to 500 listings, price-sorted), and the actor computes the New/Used min/avg/qty-avg/max/total-qty/lots.

Both are BrickLink's own internal JSON handlers, so the actor parses structured JSON, not brittle CSS, and runs on Apify's default datacenter proxy (no pricey residential proxy).

Known limitation - historical "sold" data

BrickLink's "Last 6 Months Sold" price-guide quadrants live only on the classic catalogPG.asp page, which is protected by an AWS WAF JavaScript challenge and cannot be reached by a plain HTTP client. This actor therefore captures the current-market price guide (live listings) and emits soldPriceGuide as null. Adding sold data would require a headless browser to solve the WAF challenge and mint an aws-waf-token cookie before calling catalogPG.asp; it is intentionally out of scope for this JSON-only, proxy-light actor.

yearReleased is likewise only on the WAF-gated detail page and is emitted as null; categoryId is BrickLink's stable catalog category identifier (name resolution also requires the gated catalog).

Why this actor

• Real price intelligence: New/Used averages, ranges, quantities and seller depth for any LEGO set, part or minifig.
• Fast + cheap: BrickLink's own JSON, one bounded request per item, default datacenter proxy.
• Durable: structured JSON handlers, not CSS selectors.
• Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API.

Great for LEGO resellers, collectors and analysts doing pricing, sell-through and inventory-valuation research.

This is public catalog data provided for research; it is not affiliated with or endorsed by BrickLink or the LEGO Group.