Fanatics Collect Scraper - Weekly & Premier Auctions

Scrape Fanatics Collect (PWCC successor, #2 high-end card auction) for weekly, premier, and fixed-price lots. Get grader/grade normalization, final-sale prices, buyer's-premium %, bid counts, and eBay vault flags. Filter by category, sport, grader, and price range.

What it does

This actor scrapes lot listings from Fanatics Collect (formerly PWCC Marketplace, acquired by Fanatics in 2024), the #2 platform for high-end sports card auctions after Heritage Auctions.

For each lot it extracts:

• Lot title, player/subject, year, card number, set name
• Grader (PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC, RAW) and grade normalization to numeric
• Current bid, opening bid, final sale price, buyer's premium %
• Bid count and watchers count
• In eBay vault flag and vault listing URL
• Auction type, stable lot ID (join key, identical across runs), display lot number, auction UUID, lot slug
• Image URLs, description, listing status, auction end date

Use cases

• Price research — track what graded cards are selling for at the #2 card auction
• Market analysis — monitor weekly auction sell-through rates and bid counts
• Portfolio valuation — pull current bids on PSA/BGS graded cards you own
• Deal scouting — find lots with low current bids relative to recent comps
• Archive research — query past auction results for pricing history

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	weekly_auction	weekly_auction, premier_auction, fixed_price, past_auctions, or lot
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum lots to scrape. 0 = unlimited
categories	array	All	Top-level category filter(s), multi-select: Sports Cards, Trading Card Games, Other, Video Games, Comics
graders	array	All	Grading service filter(s), multi-select: PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC, Ungraded
subcategories	array	All	Subcategory filter(s), free text, case/accent-insensitive, e.g. Pokemon, One Piece, Magic The Gathering, Yu-gi-oh!, Basketball, Baseball, Football, Soccer. Pokemon matches English, Japanese and other-language Pokémon. Unknown values fail the run with the closest matches
keyword	string	—	Free-text keyword search

Deprecated: the pre-FR-778 scalar category / grader fields are still accepted for backward compatibility with existing tasks/schedules, and are coerced into categories / graders. Legacy RAW maps to Ungraded. New integrations should use the array fields — category: "Non-Sport" and category: "Memorabilia" have no unambiguous real-category mapping and now fail the run loudly rather than silently returning unfiltered results.

Modes

• Weekly Auction (weekly_auction) — Active weekly lots (runs while auction is live)
• Premier Auction (premier_auction) — Premier auction lots
• Fixed Price (fixed_price) — Buy-it-now marketplace listings
• Past Auctions (past_auctions) — Sold/completed lot archive (always has data)
• Single Lot (lot) — Scrape specific lot URLs you supply in lotUrls

Output

Each dataset record contains:

{
  "lot_id": "abc12345-def6-7890-ghij-klmnopqrstuv",
  "lot_number": "4521",
  "lot_url": "https://www.fanaticscollect.com/weekly/abc-uuid/1989-ken-griffey-jr-psa-9",
  "lot_slug": "1989-ken-griffey-jr-psa-9",
  "auction_id": "abc12345-def6-7890-ghij-klmnopqrstuv",
  "auction_type": "WEEKLY",
  "title": "1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. #1 PSA 9 MINT",
  "player_or_subject": "Ken Griffey Jr.",
  "year": 1989,
  "card_number": "1",
  "grader": "PSA",
  "grade": "9",
  "grade_numeric": 9,
  "bid_count": 12,
  "watchers_count": 47,
  "current_bid": 250.00,
  "opening_bid": 100.00,
  "final_sale_price": null,
  "buyers_premium_pct": null,
  "final_price_with_premium": null,
  "premium_source": "not_exposed_by_source",
  "currency": "USD",
  "listing_status": "active",
  "in_ebay_vault": false,
  "image_urls": "https://dilxwvfkfup17.cloudfront.net/...",
  "auction_end_date": "2026-05-20T22:00:00Z"
}

Notes

• Clears the site's bot protection automatically
• Weekly auction data is only available while an auction is active; use past_auctions mode for historical data
• The lot mode accepts direct lot URLs from Fanatics Collect
• final_price_with_premium / buyers_premium_pct (same names as the Goldin actor): populated on sold auction lots from the source's own hammer and buyer-paid figures, otherwise null with premium_source: not_exposed_by_source. final_sale_price keeps its existing meaning.
• Lot timing: weekly auctions typically close on Sundays at 9 PM Pacific
• lot_id is the site's stable per-listing identifier — the same lot polled across separate runs returns the same lot_id, so it is safe to use as a join/dedup key. lot_number is the auction-scoped display badge (e.g. "2089") and repeats across different auctions — do not use it to deduplicate. auction_end_date is always present as a key (ISO 8601, or explicit null when the source has not published an end time for that lot)