Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Scraper

Extract stamp listings from the Stanley Gibbons online shop — the canonical British and Commonwealth philatelic catalogue authority. Covers Great Britain and Commonwealth stamp collections with SG catalogue numbers, conditions, issue years, prices in GBP, and availability.

Features

• Extract stamp listings from Stanley Gibbons' Great Britain and Commonwealth collections
• Capture SG catalogue numbers, condition grades, issue years and date ranges, and denominations parsed directly from the product title
• Get live sale prices in GBP and availability status for each stamp
• Includes product images from the Stanley Gibbons CDN
• Reads the Shopify JSON API directly — no HTML scraping, no authentication required
• No proxy needed — the Shopify storefront API has no bot detection or rate limiting
• Pay-per-event pricing at roughly $0.001 per record

Who Uses Stanley Gibbons Catalogue Data and Why?

• Philatelic collectors — build searchable price guides for British and Commonwealth stamps, track catalogue values, and monitor in-stock listings
• Stamp dealers and auction houses — cross-reference SG numbers against current Stanley Gibbons sale prices to benchmark inventory
• Price guide developers — build stamp valuation tools using the canonical SG-number reference used globally for British stamps
• Market analysts — analyze pricing trends by reign, condition, denomination, or country across the British Commonwealth
• Researchers — catalogue philatelic data by watermark, perforation type, or issue period for academic study

How It Works

1. You specify which Shopify collections to scrape (default: Great Britain and Commonwealth) and an optional item cap.
2. The actor fetches the Shopify /products.json API in pages of 250 items per request.
3. Each product record is transformed: SG catalogue number, condition, issue year, and denomination are parsed from the product title; price, availability, and image are read directly from the Shopify variant.
4. Results are saved to the Apify dataset.

Input

Basic: Scrape all GB and Commonwealth stamps

{
  "maxItems": 100
}

Scrape only Great Britain stamps

{
  "collections": ["stamps-great-britain"],
  "maxItems": 500
}

Scrape all available stamps (no cap)

{
  "collections": ["stamps-great-britain", "stamps-commonwealth"]
}

Include a sale or special collection

{
  "collections": ["stamps-great-britain", "stamps-commonwealth", "david-spivack-april-2026"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Input Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
collections	array	["stamps-great-britain", "stamps-commonwealth"]	Shopify collection slugs to scrape. Leave empty to use both stamp collections.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of stamp records to return. Omit for no cap (full catalogue run).

Output Schema

Each item in the dataset has these fields:

Field	Type	Example
sg_product_id	string	P267000578
product_url	string	https://shop.stanleygibbons.com/products/great-britain-sg-266-...
sg_number	string	266
title	string	Great Britain SG 266 Unmounted Mint 1902-10 £1 dull blue-green
country	string	Great Britain
region	string	great-britain
issue_year	integer	1902
issue_date	string	1902-10
denomination	string	£1
condition	string	Unmounted Mint
sale_price	number	1750
catalogue_value	number	2500 (or null)
currency	string	GBP
in_stock	boolean	true
image_url	string	https://cdn.shopify.com/...
description	string	Full text description from the listing

Notes:

• sg_number is the Stanley Gibbons catalogue number — the global reference identifier for British and Commonwealth stamps.
• catalogue_value is populated when the listing's compare-at price is set; otherwise null.
• condition is extracted from the product title. Common values: Unmounted Mint, Mounted Mint, Fine Used, Used, Colour Trial, Proof.
• denomination, issue_year, and issue_date are parsed from the product title and may be null for unusual title formats.

Available Collections

Collection slug	Description
stamps-great-britain	~1,200 British stamps from penny black to modern issues
stamps-commonwealth	~2,750 stamps from across the British Commonwealth

Sale collections (e.g. david-spivack-april-2026) appear periodically and can be specified directly.

Notes

• Prices are in GBP (pounds sterling).
• The Stanley Gibbons online shop is updated regularly — run the actor periodically to capture new listings and price changes.
• This actor scrapes the live Stanley Gibbons Shopify storefront. It is not affiliated with Stanley Gibbons Ltd.