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HipComic Scraper - Comic Book Marketplace

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HipComic Scraper - Comic Book Marketplace

HipComic Scraper - Comic Book Marketplace

Scrape HipComic.com comic book marketplace listings. Extract title, series, issue number, publisher, grade & grader (CGC/CBCS/PGX), price, auction vs buy-now format, bids, seller, image, and URL. Great for comic price research, arbitrage, and collection tracking.

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HipComic Scraper

Scrape comic book listings from HipComic.com — an online marketplace for comic books (sister site of ComicConnect). Search by keyword and get clean, structured data for every listing.

What it extracts

For each listing:

  • title — full listing title
  • series & issue — normalized series name and issue number
  • publisher — e.g. Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics
  • grade & grader — numeric grade plus grader (CGC / CBCS / PGX) when slabbed
  • slabbed / labelType — whether the book is encapsulated and the label type (Universal, Signature Series, ...)
  • formatauction or buynow (fixed price / Buy It Now)
  • price, buyoutPrice, startPrice, currency
  • bidCount, highBidder, endTime — auction details
  • makeOffer — whether Best Offer is enabled
  • seller & sellerLocation
  • image (+ full images array)
  • mainCharacter, genre, categoryPath
  • url — direct link to the listing

Input

{
"searchQueries": ["spawn", "amazing spider-man"],
"maxListings": 96,
"format": "all",
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
FieldTypeDefaultDescription
searchQueriesstring[]["spawn"]Comic search terms; one result set per query
maxListingsinteger96Max listings per query (48 per page). 0 = built-in cap
formatstringallall, auction, or buynow
proxyConfigurationobjectResidentialProxy settings (Residential recommended)

Output sample

{
"title": "The Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964) CGC 1.5 1st SCORPION cameo",
"series": "The Amazing Spider-Man (1963)",
"issue": "19",
"publisher": "Marvel",
"grade": "1.5",
"grader": "CGC",
"slabbed": true,
"labelType": "Universal",
"format": "buynow",
"price": 150,
"currency": "USD",
"makeOffer": true,
"bidCount": 0,
"seller": "justindbarnhill",
"image": "https://img.hipcomic.com/p/....jpg",
"url": "https://www.hipcomic.com/listing/the-amazing-spider-man-19-1964-.../21386844"
}

Use cases

  • Comic price research and arbitrage (compare with graded pop reports / sold comps)
  • Tracking auctions vs fixed-price inventory for specific keys
  • Collection valuation and market monitoring

Notes

HipComic sits behind Cloudflare. The actor uses browser-fingerprinted HTTP requests through Apify Residential proxy, which cleanly passes the challenge — no headless browser required.

Data comes from HipComic's server-rendered search pages. Please respect HipComic's Terms of Service and use responsibly.