# SD Bullion Scraper - Gold, Silver & Coin Prices (`lulzasaur/sdbullion-scraper`) Actor

Scrape SDBullion.com precious-metals products. Get title, metal, product type (coin/bar/round), weight, purity, price, volume/payment pricing tiers (Check/Wire, Bitcoin, Card/PayPal), availability, image, URL. Search any bullion product. Structured JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/sdbullion-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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SD Bullion Scraper

Scrape precious-metals products from [SD Bullion](https://sdbullion.com) — one of the largest online gold, silver, platinum and palladium retailers. Search any bullion product and get clean, structured JSON.

### What it extracts

For each product:

- **title** — full product name
- **metal** — Gold / Silver / Platinum / Palladium (derived from the title)
- **productType** — Coin / Bar / Round / Note
- **weight** — metal content in troy ounces (parsed from the title, incl. fractional oz, grams, kilos)
- **purity** — fineness (e.g. `.999`, `.9999`, `22k`)
- **price** — current price in USD (SD Bullion's "as low as" check/wire price)
- **premiumOverSpot / premiumPercent** — estimated premium over melt value (best-effort, uses live spot prices)
- **paymentTiers** — optional quantity-based pricing tiers per payment method (Check/Wire, Bitcoin, Card/PayPal) — enable **Scrape Payment Pricing Tiers**
- **inStock** — availability
- **sku**, **productId**, **image**, **url**, **searchQuery**, **scrapedAt**

### Input

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `searchQueries` | List of search terms (e.g. `silver eagle`, `gold coin`, `krugerrand`) |
| `metal` | Filter by metal (Any/Gold/Silver/Platinum/Palladium) |
| `productType` | Filter by type (Any/Coin/Bar/Round/Note) |
| `maxResults` | Max products per query |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Price range filter (USD) |
| `inStockOnly` | Only in-stock products |
| `scrapeDetails` | Also fetch per-product payment pricing tiers (slower) |
| `computePremium` | Fetch live spot prices to estimate premium over spot |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["silver eagle", "gold coin"],
  "metal": "Any",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "inStockOnly": true
}
```

### Output sample

```json
{
  "title": "2021 1 oz South African Silver Krugerrand Coin",
  "sku": "SSA21KRUG-1",
  "metal": "Silver",
  "productType": "Coin",
  "weight": 1,
  "purity": ".999",
  "price": 71.63,
  "currency": "USD",
  "premiumOverSpot": 12.34,
  "premiumPercent": 20.8,
  "inStock": true,
  "image": "https://sdbullion.com/media/catalog/product/...",
  "url": "https://sdbullion.com/2021-1-oz-south-african-silver-krugerrand-coin"
}
```

### Use cases

- Track bullion prices and premiums across dealers
- Build price-comparison / arbitrage tools
- Monitor inventory and availability
- Feed pricing dashboards and alerts

Pricing is pay-per-result. Not affiliated with SD Bullion.

# Actor input Schema

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

Search terms to look up on SD Bullion (e.g. 'silver eagle', 'gold coin', 'morgan dollar', 'krugerrand'). Leave empty to use the default.

## `metal` (type: `string`):

Filter results by metal (derived from the product title).

## `productType` (type: `string`):

Filter results by product type (derived from the product title).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to scrape per query (each page returns up to 48).

## `minPrice` (type: `number`):

Filter: only return products at or above this price (USD).

## `maxPrice` (type: `number`):

Filter: only return products at or below this price (USD).

## `inStockOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only return products that are currently in stock.

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each product's detail page to add quantity-based payment pricing tiers (Check/Wire, Bitcoin, Card/PayPal). Slower.

## `computePremium` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch live spot prices and estimate premium over melt value (best-effort; requires weight parsed from the title).

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

Proxy settings. SD Bullion works without proxies (SSR HTML is served to a normal browser user-agent).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "silver eagle"
  ],
  "metal": "Any",
  "productType": "Any",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "inStockOnly": false,
  "scrapeDetails": false,
  "computePremium": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `csv` (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": [
        "silver eagle"
    ]
};

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/sdbullion-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/OpDrv8QPu3MV5rHnh/builds/VjHVb9rYEppG3pEHb/openapi.json