PMG Banknote Price Guide Scraper
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PMG Banknote Price Guide Scraper
Scrapes the PMG (Paper Money Guaranty) world banknote price guide — the canonical graded-banknote valuation reference. Extracts one row per (note, PMG grade) with denomination, Pick/Friedberg catalog numbers, EPQ/Star designations, and USD prices.
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Scrapes the PMG (Paper Money Guaranty) World Banknote Price Guide — the canonical graded-banknote valuation reference for collectors and dealers. Extracts one dataset row per (note, PMG grade) pair, covering up to 8 grade columns (G4 through MS63) across 306 countries.
What it scrapes
The PMG price guide publishes USD market values for world paper money graded by PMG. Each record in the output corresponds to a single note at a single PMG grade and includes:
- Country, issuer, series, and denomination
- SCWPM Pick catalog number and Friedberg number (where present)
- PMG grade label, numeric grade, and quality designation (EPQ, Net, Star, etc.)
- USD price as listed in the guide
- Obverse image URL and direct link to the price-guide detail page
Output fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
note_id | string | PMG internal note ID (stable across runs) |
source_url | string | URL of the price-guide detail page |
region | string | Always "world" for this guide |
country | string | Country name (e.g. Afghanistan, Canada) |
issuer | string | Issuing authority |
series | string | Note series or set name |
denomination | string | Face denomination with currency unit |
issue_year | integer | Year of issue |
pick_number | string | SCWPM Pick catalog number |
friedberg_number | string | Friedberg catalog number (US-standard, where available) |
variety | string | Variety designation (where present) |
pmg_grade | string | Full PMG grade label (e.g. 64 EPQ, 58 Net) |
grade_numeric | number | Numeric portion of the grade |
designation | string | Quality designation — EPQ, Net, Star, etc. |
price_usd | number | USD price as shown in the guide |
price_as_of | string | Price date or label as shown on the page |
image_url | string | Obverse image URL for this note |
Input options
| Option | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | 10 | Maximum grade-price records to collect (0 = unlimited) |
country | string | (blank) | Filter to a single country by name (e.g. "Canada"). Leave blank to scrape all 306 countries. |
How it works
The PMG price guide uses a 3-level ASPX cascade (Country → Issuer → Denomination) that gates all data behind sequential form submissions. This actor:
- Loads the index page — extracts 306 country options and ASPX form tokens
- Posts per country — retrieves the issuer list for that country
- Posts per issuer — retrieves the denomination list
- Posts per denomination — submits the search form and collects the note ID (
deid) values from the results grid - Fetches per note — GETs each detail page (
/priceguide/world-note-prices.aspx?deid=N), parses the 8-column grade/price table, and emits one record per non-null grade price
Denomination-level filtering keeps each search result well under the 25-row page limit, so no pagination handling is required.
Performance and limits
- Memory: 512 MB
- Timeout: 4 hours (for full 306-country runs)
- Concurrency: 8 parallel detail-page fetches; cascade steps are serial
- Proxy: None required — the site is accessible from datacenter IPs without challenge
Usage tips
- For a quick test, set
countryto"Afghanistan"andmaxItemsto10. - For a full dataset run, leave
countryblank and setmaxItemsto0. Expect a multi-hour run and roughly 50,000–200,000 records depending on how many grades are populated per note. - The
note_idfield is stable across runs and can be used as a deduplication key.
