# PriceCharting Collectible Price Guide Scraper (`jungle_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper`) Actor Scrape collectible prices from PriceCharting.com — the web's broadest free price guide. Covers retro video games, Pokemon / Magic / YuGiOh cards, comic books, Funko Pops, and more. Extracts ungraded, CIB, new, and graded prices across all public catalog categories. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jungle\_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [BowTiedRaccoon](https://apify.com/jungle_synthesizer) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Games - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per event This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## PriceCharting Collectible Price Guide Scraper Scrape price data for collectibles from [PriceCharting.com](https://www.pricecharting.com/) — the web's broadest free price guide. Covers retro video games, Pokemon / Magic / YuGiOh / Digimon / Dragon Ball / One Piece / Lorcana / Marvel trading cards, comic books, Funko Pops, LEGO sets, and more. ### What it does Walks PriceCharting's public catalog tree and extracts price tables for every item across all supported categories. Unlike the Pokemon-only incumbents on the Apify store, this actor covers the full multi-vertical catalog in a single run. **Price tiers extracted per item:** - Video games: Loose (ungraded), CIB (complete-in-box), New (sealed) - Trading cards: Ungraded, Grade 9, PSA 10 - Comic books: Ungraded, CGC mid grade, CGC high grade - Funko Pops: Out of Box, In Damaged Box, New **Optional enrichment** (`includeProductDetail: true`): visits each product's detail page to add UPC, ASIN, volume sold, and last sold date. ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | `maxItems` | integer | Maximum records to scrape (0 = unlimited). Default: 0. | | `categories` | array | Category slugs to scrape (see below). Leave empty to scrape all. | | `startUrls` | array | Specific console/set URLs to scrape directly (bypasses category discovery). | | `includeProductDetail` | boolean | Visit each product page for UPC/ASIN/volume enrichment. Increases run time. Default: false. | **Valid category slugs:** `video-games`, `pokemon-cards`, `magic-cards`, `yugioh-cards`, `digimon-cards`, `dragon-ball-cards`, `garbage-pail-cards`, `lorcana-cards`, `marvel-cards`, `one-piece-cards`, `star-wars-cards`, `other-tcg-cards`, `other-cards`, `comic-books`, `funko-pops`, `lego-sets` ### Output Each record represents one collectible item from a price table: ```json { "product_id": "630417", "source_url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-base-set", "product_url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-base-set/charizard-4", "category": "pokemon-cards", "console_or_set": "pokemon-base-set", "console_or_set_name": "Pokemon Base Set", "product_name": "Charizard #4", "card_number": "4", "ungraded_price": 387.50, "cib_price": 2866.13, "new_price": null, "graded_price": 28272.50, "grade_label": "PSA 10", "box_only_price": null, "manual_only_price": null, "upc": null, "asin": null, "volume_sold": null, "last_sold_at": null, "image_url": null } ```` ### Example inputs **Scrape Pokemon Base Set only:** ```json { "startUrls": ["https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-base-set"], "maxItems": 0 } ``` **Scrape all Pokemon and Magic card sets:** ```json { "categories": ["pokemon-cards", "magic-cards"], "maxItems": 0 } ``` **Scrape NES video games with product enrichment:** ```json { "startUrls": ["https://www.pricecharting.com/console/nes"], "maxItems": 500, "includeProductDetail": true } ``` ### Notes - All data is scraped from PriceCharting's public HTML price tables. The paid API is not used. - Prices are updated frequently on PriceCharting (often daily). Run on a schedule to keep data fresh. - Category crawls enqueue hundreds of set pages; `maxItems` is a hard global cap applied across all sets. - The `cib_price` field stores different values by category: Complete-in-Box for video games, Grade 9 for TCG cards, mid-grade CGC for comics. # Actor input Schema ## `sp_intended_usage` (type: `string`): Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler. ## `sp_improvement_suggestions` (type: `string`): Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements. ## `sp_contact` (type: `string`): Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of price records to scrape. Set 0 for unlimited. ## `categories` (type: `array`): Collectible categories to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all categories. Valid values: video-games, pokemon-cards, magic-cards, yugioh-cards, digimon-cards, dragon-ball-cards, garbage-pail-cards, lorcana-cards, marvel-cards, one-piece-cards, star-wars-cards, other-tcg-cards, other-cards, comic-books, funko-pops, lego-sets. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Optional: specific PriceCharting console or set URLs to scrape directly (e.g. https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-base-set). When provided, only these pages are scraped. ## `includeProductDetail` (type: `boolean`): When enabled, visits each product's detail page to enrich with UPC, ASIN, volume sold, and last sold date. Significantly increases run time. ## Actor input object example ```json { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "categories": [ "video-games", "pokemon-cards" ], "startUrls": [], "includeProductDetail": false } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "categories": [ "video-games", "pokemon-cards" ], "startUrls": [] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "categories": [ "video-games", "pokemon-cards", ], "startUrls": [], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...", "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...", "sp_contact": "Share your email here...", "maxItems": 10, "categories": [ "video-games", "pokemon-cards" ], "startUrls": [] }' | apify call jungle_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jungle_synthesizer/pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "PriceCharting Collectible Price Guide Scraper", "description": "Scrape collectible prices from PriceCharting.com — the web's broadest free price guide. Covers retro video games, Pokemon / Magic / YuGiOh cards, comic books, Funko Pops, and more. Extracts ungraded, CIB, new, and graded prices across all public catalog categories.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "WeU13ngesZvS9Dae5" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jungle_synthesizer-pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jungle_synthesizer-pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jungle_synthesizer~pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jungle_synthesizer-pricecharting-collectible-price-guide-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "maxItems" ], "properties": { "sp_intended_usage": { "title": "What is the intended usage of this data?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Please describe how you plan to use the data extracted by this crawler." }, "sp_improvement_suggestions": { "title": "How can we improve this crawler for you?", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide any feedback or suggestions for improvements." }, "sp_contact": { "title": "Contact Email", "minLength": 1, "type": "string", "description": "Provide your email address so we can get in touch with you." }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max Items", "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of price records to scrape. Set 0 for unlimited.", "default": 0 }, "categories": { "title": "Categories", "type": "array", "description": "Collectible categories to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all categories. Valid values: video-games, pokemon-cards, magic-cards, yugioh-cards, digimon-cards, dragon-ball-cards, garbage-pail-cards, lorcana-cards, marvel-cards, one-piece-cards, star-wars-cards, other-tcg-cards, other-cards, comic-books, funko-pops, lego-sets.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs (console/set pages)", "type": "array", "description": "Optional: specific PriceCharting console or set URLs to scrape directly (e.g. https://www.pricecharting.com/console/pokemon-base-set). When provided, only these pages are scraped.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "includeProductDetail": { "title": "Include product detail enrichment", "type": "boolean", "description": "When enabled, visits each product's detail page to enrich with UPC, ASIN, volume sold, and last sold date. Significantly increases run time.", "default": false } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```