Thryft Scraper – Singapore Used Books, Vinyl & Prices

Turn Thryft, Singapore's pre-loved books and vinyl shop, into a clean dataset: every listing with its price in SGD, condition, how many copies are left, genres, cover image and a direct link.

Built for speed above everything: the catalogue is read in parallel waves and the run stops the moment it has what you asked for. Measured at up to 765 listings per second.

No login. No API key. No cookies.

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Speed

Run	Result	Time
400 in-stock listings	400 records	~20 s
1,000 in-stock listings	1,000 records	~25 s
150 vinyl records	150 records	~21 s

Two things make it fast:

• Parallel waves. Pages are independent, so 64 are requested at once instead of walking them one by one. Throughput measured against the live shop: 8 in flight → 126 listings/s, 32 → 341, 64 → 730+.
• Filtering while reading. Keywords, format, price and stock are judged as each listing arrives, so a run stops as soon as enough listings qualify rather than pulling the whole shop first.

Catalogue order is therefore the fastest setting. Any other ordering has to read the whole shop before it can be trusted, and the Actor says so in the log when you pick one.

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What you get for every listing

Identity — title, format (print book, book, vinyl record, audiobook, clothing), shop handle, direct link, vendor

Price — cheapest buyable copy in SGD, highest copy price, original price and discount percentage where the shop shows one

Condition and stock — the condition of the copy you would actually buy (Like New, Very Good, Good, Well Read), every condition currently offered, how many copies are available, how many the listing has ever held

Every copy — each physical copy with its own condition, price, SKU and whether it is still available

Classification — readable genres, subjects, authors and artists, separated from the shop's internal stock references

Selling signals — sellsFast, isPreloved, isOnline

Media — cover image and every other image

Lifecycle — when the listing was published, created and last changed

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Who it is for

Role	What they get
Book resellers & flippers	Underpriced titles by condition, and what stock is moving
Collectors	The whole vinyl or first-edition catalogue sorted by price
Price comparison	Every title with condition-level pricing in SGD
Second-hand market analysts	Condition mix, price bands and genre depth of a real Singapore thrift catalogue
Librarians & educators	Cheap titles by subject, with availability
Bargain hunters	Biggest discounts and items flagged as likely to sell fast
Inventory monitoring	A dated snapshot to diff week over week for new arrivals and sell-throughs

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Use cases

1. Find underpriced books by condition Sort by price low to high and filter to Like New or Very Good in the dataset. Anything cheap in good condition is worth a look.

2. Track new arrivals Sort by newest listings and run it weekly. Diff productId against last week to get a clean feed of what just landed.

3. Pull the whole vinyl catalogue Filter the format to vinyl records and export every record with price, condition and cover art.

4. Hunt discounts Sort by biggest discount to surface everything marked down against its original price.

5. Research an author or genre Search a name or a genre — matching runs across the title, description and genre labels, so you catch listings that do not name the author in the title.

6. Watch sell-through copiesAvailable against copiesTotal shows how much of each listing has already sold.

7. Build a price reference for a title Every copy is returned separately, so you see the full condition-to-price ladder for the same book.

8. Spot what moves fast Filter on sellsFast to see what the shop itself expects to sell quickly.

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Input

Only what you actually need — everything technical is handled for you.

Field	Description
Search keywords	Titles, authors, genres or artists. Matched against title, description, genres and format.
Formats	Keep only print books, vinyl records, audiobooks and so on.
Collections	Limit to shop collections by handle or name, for example all-books or art-books.
Maximum price (SGD)	Keep only items at or below this price.
Only items in stock	On by default — sold copies stay listed, so this is what keeps results buyable.
Maximum items	Upper limit of listings returned.
Sort results by	Catalogue order is fastest; other orders read the whole shop.

{
  "searchTerms": ["murakami"],
  "formats": ["Print Books"],
  "maxPriceSgd": 20,
  "inStockOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "sortBy": "relevance"
}

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Output

One clean row per listing. Abridged below — the real row carries 33 fields.

{
  "productId": 10738510659865,
  "title": "Theology of the Body for Beginners",
  "url": "https://thryft.asia/products/theology-of-the-body-for-beginners-1",
  "format": "Print Books",

  "priceSgd": 10.9,
  "priceMaxSgd": 13.9,
  "compareAtPriceSgd": null,
  "discountPercent": null,
  "currency": "SGD",

  "inStock": true,
  "condition": "Very Good",
  "conditions": ["Very Good", "Well Read"],
  "copiesAvailable": 1,
  "copiesTotal": 4,
  "copies": [
    {
      "variantId": 52826260177177,
      "label": "Like New",
      "sku": "X67276",
      "priceSgd": 13.9,
      "available": false
    }
  ],
  "skus": ["X67276"],

  "description": "A clear introduction to the theology of the body...",
  "genres": ["Catholic", "Christian Living", "Philosophy", "Religion", "Theology", "Christopher West"],
  "genreCount": 14,
  "internalTags": ["BOX.WHJ.081225", "Preloved", "Online"],

  "sellsFast": false,
  "isPreloved": true,

  "imageCount": 1,
  "primaryImageUrl": "https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/...jpg",

  "listedAt": "2026-07-14T00:32:06.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-29T10:01:52.000Z",
  "matchedTerm": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-29T10:05:00.000Z"
}

All money is in Singapore dollars and all timestamps are ISO 8601.

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML in one click, or pull it from the API.

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What a run costs

Thryft refuses plain and datacentre connections, so reads go over the Apify residential proxy — and that traffic, not compute, is what a run costs. The Actor is built to read as few pages as it can:

Run	Read	Residential traffic	Cost
800 in-stock listings	8 pages	1.0 MB	~$0.013
One collection (art-books)	9 pages	~1.1 MB	~$0.014
Keyword search across the shop	up to 100 pages	~12 MB	~$0.12

Three things keep it cheap:

• Waves are sized to the request. Asking for 800 listings reads 8 pages, not 64. Earlier versions read the same 16,000 products for every run — this alone made a typical run 5.8× cheaper.
• A named collection replaces the catalogue. Filtering to a collection reads only that collection, so a targeted pull never pays for the rest of the shop.
• The plain route is tried first. It is checked once per run with a single tiny request; if Thryft ever accepts unproxied traffic, runs become nearly free automatically with no change on your side.

To keep costs down: prefer a collection filter or a modest Maximum items over a keyword search, and leave the sort on catalogue order. Keyword searches and any other sort order have to read the whole shop, which is where the cost is.

Memory: 1 GB is plenty and is what the Actor asks for. Raising it multiplies the compute charge without making the run faster, because the bottleneck is the network.

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Notes worth knowing

Sold copies stay listed. A thrift shop keeps a listing after its copies sell, and a large part of the catalogue is sold out. That is why Only items in stock is on by default — leave it on unless you specifically want sold history.

Keyword searches read more of the shop. The shop publishes no bulk search, so a keyword run scans the catalogue rather than querying an index. It still works, it simply reads further than a plain catalogue pull. If the shop stops serving pages part-way, the log says so instead of quietly returning a short list.

This Actor uses the Apify residential proxy. Thryft refuses direct and datacentre connections, so residential routing is required and enabled automatically. If your account has no residential proxy, the run stops immediately with a clear message rather than failing obscurely.

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Integrations & automation

• Make (Integromat) — run weekly and append new arrivals to a Google Sheet
• n8n — alert when a watched author or title appears in stock under your price
• Zapier — push discounted listings into Slack or Airtable
• Google Sheets / Airtable — build a live want-list tracker
• API / webhooks — call the Actor from your own stack and read the dataset endpoint
• AI agents / MCP — a documented output schema makes this easy to chain

Popular workflow: run a weekly catalogue pull sorted by newest, then diff productId to get new arrivals and diff copiesAvailable to see what sold.

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FAQ

Do I need a Thryft account? No. The Actor reads only publicly listed catalogue data.

How many listings are there? Tens of thousands, including sold-out history. In-stock items are a much smaller share, which is what the default returns.

Why does the condition matter so much? It is a second-hand shop: the same title appears at several prices, one per copy condition. The Actor gives you the condition of the copy you would buy plus the full ladder in copies.

Are prices per copy? Yes. priceSgd is the cheapest buyable copy; copies lists every copy with its own price and condition.

What if I want sold-out listings too? Turn off Only items in stock. You then also get titles whose copies have all sold, useful for sell-through analysis.

How fast is it really? Up to 765 listings per second measured against the live shop, and about 20–25 seconds for a typical run of a few hundred to a thousand listings.

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