# Mile High Comics Scraper - Back Issues, Prices & Grades (`lulzasaur/milehighcomics-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Mile High Comics back-issue comics. Get title, series, issue number, publisher, condition grade, per-grade price (Fair to Near Mint), availability, cover image and URL for Spider-Man, Batman, X-Men and thousands of other comics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/milehighcomics-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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## NewKadia Comic Book Scraper

Scrape back-issue comic listings from **NewKadia** (newkadia.com, one of the largest online back-issue comic retailers — the storefront is now served by **Comic Source / comicsource.com**).

Search by keyword and get structured data for every matching comic: title, series, issue number, condition grades, per-grade prices, cover variants, availability, image and product URL.

### What you get

Per comic (one dataset row):

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `title` | Full comic title (e.g. `X-Men: The End: Men & X-Men #2`) |
| `series` | Series/title with the issue number stripped |
| `issue` | Issue number (e.g. `2`) |
| `publisher` | Publisher/category when exposed by the store (may be null) |
| `condition` | Best available condition grade (e.g. `Near Mint +`) |
| `grades` | All available condition grades |
| `covers` | Cover/edition variants (e.g. `Direct`, `Newsstand`) |
| `variants` | Per-variant breakdown: `{ cover, condition, price, sku, availability }` |
| `price` / `priceMin` / `priceMax` | Price range across grades (USD) |
| `availability` / `available` | `In Stock` / `Out of Stock` (+ boolean) |
| `imageUrl` | Cover image URL |
| `url` | Product page URL |
| `query` | The search term that matched this comic |
| `scrapedAt` | ISO timestamp |

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["spider-man", "x-men"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "scrapeDetails": true
}
```

- **searchQueries** — comic search terms (title, character, series).
- **maxItems** — max comics per query (~36 per results page).
- **scrapeDetails** — when `true` (default), fetches each comic page for all condition grades, per-grade prices, cover variants and stock status. Set `false` for a faster, card-only run (title, from-price, image, URL, issue, series).
- **proxyConfiguration** — optional; works without a proxy from most egress.

### Use cases

- Comic collectors tracking back-issue prices and grades
- Resellers/arbitrage sourcing raw comics to grade
- Price comparison across marketplaces
- Building comic price datasets

### Notes

- Data source: Comic Source Shopify storefront (search results HTML + product-page schema.org `ProductGroup` JSON-LD).
- Pricing is Pay-Per-Event: a small per-run start fee plus a per-result charge.

# Actor input Schema

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

List of comic titles / keywords to look up on Mile High Comics (e.g. 'spider-man', 'batman', 'x-men', 'saga'). Each query returns matching series; every issue of each series is scraped.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of comic issues to scrape per search query (each issue is one row, with prices for all grades).

## `maxTitlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of matching series (titles) to open per search query. Mile High returns up to 50 series per search.

## `maxPagesPerTitle` (type: `integer`):

Long-running series are paginated (~20 issues per page). This caps how many pages to follow per series.

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

Proxy settings. Mile High Comics is a plain server-rendered site that serves 200 to a direct request, so no proxy is needed by default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "batman"
  ],
  "maxItems": 300,
  "maxTitlesPerQuery": 15,
  "maxPagesPerTitle": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# 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": [
        "batman"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/milehighcomics-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": ["batman"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/milehighcomics-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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "batman"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/milehighcomics-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lulzasaur/milehighcomics-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/AeKlBu79ItwPGbjYS/builds/wcuZeGLN9eMZEJC4q/openapi.json