# MTGGoldfish Scraper - MTG Card Prices & Price History (`lulzasaur/mtggoldfish-scraper`) Actor

Look up Magic: The Gathering card prices on MTGGoldfish by name. Paper (tabletop) USD + MTGO tix prices for every printing, plus daily price history, trend stats, spread, highest buylist and foil multiplier.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/mtggoldfish-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
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## 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## MTGGoldfish Scraper — MTG Card Prices & Price History

Look up Magic: The Gathering card prices on [MTGGoldfish](https://www.mtggoldfish.com) by card name. For every printing of a card (set, promo, foil, borderless, etched, and other treatments) you get the current **paper (tabletop) USD price**, the current **MTGO tix price**, **daily price history**, and rich trend statistics.

### Features

- **Search by card name** — partial names work; every matching printing is returned with set, set code, collector number, finish and treatment tags
- **Paper + MTGO prices** — current tabletop USD price and Magic Online tix price for each printing
- **Daily price history** — configurable window (default 30 days, up to the full multi-year series MTGGoldfish tracks) for both paper and MTGO
- **Trend statistics** — daily change, weekly change, all-time high, all-time low
- **Market depth signals** — buylist spread %, highest buylist offer, foil multiplier
- **Card images and canonical MTGGoldfish price-page URLs**

### Input

```json
{
    "cardNames": ["Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer", "Sheoldred, the Apocalypse"],
    "maxPrintingsPerCard": 6,
    "includePriceHistory": true,
    "historyDays": 30
}
```

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `cardNames` | array | `["Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"]` | Card names to look up (partial names OK) |
| `maxPrintingsPerCard` | integer | `6` | Max printings (set/finish variants) per card name |
| `includePriceHistory` | boolean | `true` | Include daily price history arrays |
| `historyDays` | integer | `30` | Most recent days of history per record (`0` = full history) |

### Output

One record per printing:

```json
{
    "name": "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer",
    "cardId": "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer [MH2]",
    "set": "Modern Horizons 2",
    "setCode": "MH2",
    "cardNumber": 138,
    "finish": "Regular",
    "tags": [],
    "paperPrice": 47.17,
    "paperCurrency": "USD",
    "paperDailyChange": -0.37,
    "paperWeeklyChange": -0.72,
    "paperAllTimeHigh": 96.61,
    "paperAllTimeLow": 23.64,
    "spreadPercent": 41,
    "highestBuylist": 28.0,
    "foilMultiplier": 1.33,
    "onlinePriceTix": 8.36,
    "paperPriceHistory": [{ "date": "2026-07-27", "price": 47.43 }],
    "onlinePriceHistory": [{ "date": "2026-07-27", "price": 8.36 }],
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.mtggoldfish.com/images/.../card_image.webp",
    "url": "https://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/modern-horizons-2/138/ragavan-nimble-pilferer",
    "searchQuery": "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Collection valuation** — price an MTG collection with a single batch run
- **Price alerts & trend tracking** — monitor spikes, buyouts and reprint dips with daily history
- **Arbitrage** — compare retail price against highest buylist and spread
- **MTGO finance** — track tix prices alongside paper
- **Deck pricing** — feed decklists in as card names and sum the results

### Notes

- Prices are MTGGoldfish market prices (paper in USD, online in MTGO tix).
- Cards with no recorded price data are skipped rather than emitted as empty rows.
- Proxies are usually unnecessary; the endpoints used are served openly.

# Actor input Schema

## `cardNames` (type: `array`):

Magic: The Gathering card names to look up (e.g. 'Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer', 'Black Lotus'). Partial names work — each query is matched against MTGGoldfish's card search and matching printings are returned.

## `maxPrintingsPerCard` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of printings (set/finish variants) to scrape per card name. Popular cards can have 20+ printings across sets, promos, foils and special treatments.

## `includePriceHistory` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, includes a daily price history array (date + price) for both paper and MTGO in each record.

## `historyDays` (type: `integer`):

Number of most recent days of price history to include per record (MTGGoldfish tracks years of daily prices). Set to 0 for the full available history.

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

Proxy settings. MTGGoldfish serves its search and price-history endpoints openly, so proxies are usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "cardNames": [
    "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"
  ],
  "maxPrintingsPerCard": 6,
  "includePriceHistory": true,
  "historyDays": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "cardNames": [
        "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/mtggoldfish-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 = { "cardNames": ["Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/mtggoldfish-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 '{
  "cardNames": [
    "Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/mtggoldfish-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/KykhDmU2nzdsTjfwl/builds/QHSysD4zbP3fCGbht/openapi.json