# MTG Seattle Scraper - Magic Card Singles & Prices (`lulzasaur/mtgseattle-scraper`) Actor

Scrape MTG Seattle (mtgseattle.com), a CrystalCommerce TCG singles store. Search cards or browse catalog categories for card name, set, condition, language, foil, price, stock, quantity, image and URL. Ideal for MTG/Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh singles price data. Prefill 'black lotus'.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/mtgseattle-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

## 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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## MTG Seattle Scraper — Magic Card Singles & Prices

Scrape **MTG Seattle** (mtgseattle.com) for trading-card game singles — Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and Yu-Gi-Oh — with real in-stock prices by condition.

### What it does

Search by card name (or browse catalog pages) and get every in-stock variant with its price, condition, foil/finish, set, and quantity — useful for price comparison, arbitrage against TCGplayer/Cardmarket, and collection valuation.

### Input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["black lotus", "sol ring"],
  "maxItems": 40,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 2
}
```

- `searchQueries` — card names to search (defaults to `["black lotus"]`).
- `maxItems` — max records to return.
- `maxPagesPerSource` — how many result pages to page through per query.

### Output (one record per in-stock variant)

```json
{
  "cardName": "Sol Ring",
  "set": "Revised Edition (FBB Italian)",
  "game": "MTG",
  "condition": "NM-Mint",
  "language": "English",
  "foil": false,
  "price": 99.99,
  "inStock": true,
  "quantity": 2,
  "variantId": "…",
  "productId": "…",
  "url": "https://www.mtgseattle.com/…",
  "image": "https://…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-10T…"
}
```

### Notes

- Data comes from the store's server-rendered catalog (CrystalCommerce). Out-of-stock singles hide their price, so records are effectively purchasable in-stock listings.
- Prices are per condition/finish variant, deduplicated across the site's grid/list layouts.

# Actor input Schema

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

Card names to search on MTG Seattle (e.g. 'black lotus', 'underground sea', 'ragavan'). Each query returns matching singles with condition, foil, price and stock.

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional CrystalCommerce catalog category URLs or paths to browse fully, e.g. 'https://www.mtgseattle.com/catalog/magic\_singles-alpha/66' or '/catalog/magic\_singles-unlimited/68'. Use these to scrape an entire set instead of searching.

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

Maximum number of variant records to return across all sources (0 = unlimited).

## `maxPagesPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Maximum result pages to paginate for each search query / category (24 products per page).

## `onlyInStock` (type: `boolean`):

Only return card variants that currently have stock available for purchase.

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

Proxy settings. MTG Seattle serves plain SSR HTML and usually works without a proxy; enable Apify Proxy only if you hit rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "black lotus"
  ],
  "categoryUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxPagesPerSource": 5,
  "onlyInStock": false,
  "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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "black lotus"
    ],
    "categoryUrls": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/mtgseattle-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": ["black lotus"],
    "categoryUrls": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/mtgseattle-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": [
    "black lotus"
  ],
  "categoryUrls": []
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/mtgseattle-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/mtgseattle-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/MH0h6ZVm33gmwiZPy/builds/ay0NHFtYgaUVJ81cS/openapi.json