PriceCharting Scraper

Scrape video game, trading card, comic book, Funko Pop, LEGO, and coin prices from PriceCharting.com. Get current market prices across multiple conditions plus full historical price chart data spanning years of price trends.

Features

• Multi-query search across video games, trading cards (Pokemon, MTG, Yu-Gi-Oh), comics, Funko Pops, LEGO sets, and coins
• Current prices for all conditions: Loose, CIB (Complete in Box), New, Graded, Box Only, Manual Only
• Historical price data extracted from embedded VGPC chart data — track price trends over months and years
• Product metadata including genre, publisher, release date, ASIN, ePID codes
• Category filtering — narrow results to video games, trading cards, comics, toys, or coins
• Two scraping modes: fast search-only or detailed per-product scraping with full price history
• Pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for results you get

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	String[]	Search terms (e.g. "super mario bros", "charizard")
maxListings	Integer	Max products per query (1-100, default 100)
scrapeDetails	Boolean	Visit detail pages for price history + metadata (default: false)
category	Select	Filter: all, video-games, trading-cards, comics, toys, coins
proxyConfiguration	Object	Optional proxy settings

Output

Search-only mode (scrapeDetails: false)

Fast — extracts data from search results page only:

{
    "title": "Super Mario Bros 3",
    "platform": "NES",
    "loosePrice": 17.84,
    "completePrice": 64.72,
    "newPrice": 651.37,
    "gradedPrice": null,
    "imageUrl": "https://storage.googleapis.com/images.pricecharting.com/.../240.jpg",
    "productUrl": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/nes/super-mario-bros-3",
    "searchQuery": "super mario bros",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Detail mode (scrapeDetails: true)

Richer data with price history from each product page:

{
    "title": "Super Mario Bros",
    "platform": "NES",
    "category": "video-games",
    "productId": "9889",
    "asin": "B00004SVV7",
    "epid": "4444",
    "loosePrice": 16.57,
    "completePrice": 184.75,
    "newPrice": 3434.09,
    "gradedPrice": 21174.68,
    "boxOnlyPrice": 103.38,
    "manualOnlyPrice": 23.67,
    "priceHistory": {
        "loose": [
            { "date": "2007-10-01", "price": 4.99 },
            { "date": "2008-01-01", "price": 5.49 }
        ],
        "cib": [...],
        "new": [...],
        "graded": [...]
    },
    "productUrl": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/nes/super-mario-bros",
    "searchQuery": "super mario bros",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

• Price tracking — monitor collectible values over time
• Arbitrage — compare PriceCharting prices against eBay, Mercari, etc.
• Collection valuation — calculate total collection worth across platforms
• Market research — analyze price trends for specific game consoles or card sets
• Investment analysis — identify appreciating collectibles using historical chart data
• Inventory pricing — auto-price game store or card shop inventory

How It Works

1. Searches PriceCharting for each query (up to 100 results per search)
2. In search-only mode, extracts loose/CIB/new prices directly from search results
3. In detail mode, visits each product page to extract all 6 price conditions plus full historical VGPC chart data
4. Historical prices are parsed from the embedded VGPC.chart_data JavaScript object containing timestamped price arrays

Notes

• PriceCharting returns up to 100 results per search query
• Historical prices are in USD. Zero-value entries are filtered out.
• Price history spans from ~2007 to present depending on the product
• Chart data prices are stored in cents and converted to dollars
• No proxies typically needed — PriceCharting has no anti-bot protection