# Cardsmiths Sports Card Scraper - Boxes, Sets & Checklists (`lulzasaur/cardsmiths-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Cardsmiths (cardsmithsbreaks.com) sports card catalog: product name, sport, year, brand, set, type (box/case/pack), price, stock, featured players, image and URL across Baseball, Football, Basketball, Pokemon and more. Search by keyword or pull the full catalog.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/cardsmiths-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Cardsmiths Sports Card Scraper - Boxes, Sets & Checklists

Scrape the full sports card product catalog from **Cardsmiths** ([cardsmithsbreaks.com](https://cardsmithsbreaks.com)) — one of the largest group-break and box retailers. Pull structured data for every release across Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Hockey, Pokémon, Racing, UFC/WWE and more.

Great for collectors, card-app developers, price/release trackers, and arbitrage tools that need a clean, machine-readable index of current and upcoming sports-card products, their sets and their featured checklists.

### What it scrapes

For each product it returns:

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `name` | Full product name, e.g. `2026 Topps Chrome Baseball Hobby Box` |
| `sport` | Sport / genre (Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, Pokemon, …) |
| `year` | Release year parsed from the name (`2026`, `2025-26`) |
| `brand` | Manufacturer (Topps, Panini, Bowman, Upper Deck, Leaf, …) |
| `setName` | Product line, e.g. `Topps Chrome Baseball` |
| `productType` | Form: Hobby Box, Case, Blaster, Mega, Jumbo, Pack, … |
| `sku` | Product SKU |
| `price` | Current price in USD (note: many break/checklist boxes list at 0) |
| `regularPrice` / `salePrice` / `onSale` | Pricing detail |
| `inStock` | Stock availability |
| `categories` | All WooCommerce categories the product belongs to |
| `featuredCards` | Player / card highlights pulled from the product's checklist images |
| `image` / `imageCount` | Primary product image + total image count |
| `shortDescription` | Cleaned plain-text product summary |
| `url` | Direct product page URL |
| `scrapedAt` | ISO timestamp |

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["topps chrome"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}
```

- **searchQueries** — one or more keywords (`bowman`, `panini prizm`, `baseball`, `pokemon`). Leave **empty** to browse the entire catalog (~1,400+ products).
- **maxResults** — cap across all queries. Use `0` for unlimited.
- **proxyConfiguration** — off by default. Cardsmiths serves an open WooCommerce Store API that works best directly; only enable a proxy if you need it.

### Output

Results are pushed to the default dataset, one row per product. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or consume via the Apify API.

### How it works

The actor reads Cardsmiths' public, read-only **WooCommerce Store API** (`/wp-json/wc/store/v1/products`) — no login required — paginating through search results or the full catalog. It enriches each product with parsed sport, year, brand, set, product form and featured-player highlights.

### Notes

- Cardsmiths is a group-break / sealed-box retailer, so many product pages are release + checklist references where the listed `price` is `0`. Fields like grade and condition do not apply to sealed boxes and are omitted. The value here is a comprehensive, structured **release + checklist catalog** with images, sports and featured players.
- Be respectful of the source site. Use reasonable `maxResults` values.

### Disclaimer

This scraper collects publicly available data for research and personal use. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cardsmiths. Respect the site's terms of service and applicable laws.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search the Cardsmiths catalog (e.g. 'topps chrome', 'bowman', 'panini prizm', 'baseball', 'pokemon'). Each query is paginated up to Max Results. Leave EMPTY to browse the entire catalog.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scrape across all queries. Set to 0 for unlimited (all available results). Default is 100.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Cardsmiths exposes an open WooCommerce Store API that works best WITHOUT a proxy (the default), using the Apify platform IP plus realistic browser fingerprinting. Only enable a proxy if you specifically need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "topps chrome"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "topps chrome"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/cardsmiths-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchQueries": ["topps chrome"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/cardsmiths-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "topps chrome"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/cardsmiths-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/cardsmiths-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GHxg7ogZ5cD1lk6H5/builds/VqDnmUl6SsEVlh0bf/openapi.json