# Vintage & Rare Scraper - Vintage Guitars & Gear (`lulzasaur/vintageandrare-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Vintage & Rare (vintageandrare.com), the marketplace for vintage & boutique guitars and instruments. Get instrument name, brand, year, price, dealer, location, image, and URL from any category (guitars, basses, amps, effects, drums and more).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/vintageandrare-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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Vintage & Rare Scraper

Scrape listings from [Vintage & Rare](https://www.vintageandrare.com) — the leading marketplace for vintage, rare, and boutique guitars and instruments, connecting hundreds of specialist dealers worldwide.

### What it does

Browses any Vintage & Rare category and extracts every listing with structured fields:

- **name** — instrument model/name
- **brand** — manufacturer (Gibson, Fender, Martin, Taylor, boutique builders, …)
- **year** — build/model year
- **price** / **currency** / **priceText** — parsed numeric price plus raw text
- **dealer** / **dealerUrl** — the selling dealer
- **location** — dealer country
- **category** — the category slug scraped
- **productId**, **imageUrl**, **url**, **fullTitle**, **scrapedAt**
- **description** — seller's full description (only when `scrapeDetails` is enabled)

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `categories` | array | `["Guitars-51"]` | Category slugs (`Name-ID`). E.g. `Basses-52`, `Amps-53`, `Effects-90`, `Drums-216`, `Pianos-57`, `Brass-Woodwind-56`, `Stringed-Instruments-188`. |
| `maxResults` | integer | `100` | Max listings per run (0 = unlimited). |
| `scrapeDetails` | boolean | `false` | Visit each product page for the full seller description. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | none | Optional. Not needed — the site is plain SSR HTML. |

### Example

```json
{
    "categories": ["Guitars-51", "Basses-52"],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "scrapeDetails": false
}
```

### Output sample

```json
{
    "name": "ES-175D",
    "brand": "Gibson",
    "year": 1957,
    "price": 6790,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "priceText": "EUR 6.790,-",
    "dealer": "Kitarakuu Oy",
    "dealerUrl": "https://www.vintageandrare.com/dealer/Kitarakuu-Oy-449",
    "location": "Finland",
    "category": "Guitars-51",
    "productId": "131242",
    "imageUrl": "https://www.vintageandrare.com/uploads/products/131242/13183087/Gibson-ES-175D-1957-big.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Gibson-ES-175D-1957-131242"
}
```

### Use cases

- Track vintage guitar pricing and inventory across dealers
- Build datasets for collectible/instrument price analysis and arbitrage
- Monitor new listings from specific brands or eras

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Vintage & Rare category slugs to browse (format 'Name-ID'). Examples: Guitars-51, Basses-52, Amps-53, Effects-90, Drums-216, Pianos-57, Brass-Woodwind-56, Stringed-Instruments-188, Bowed-Instruments-235. Find slugs in the URL of any /category/ page.

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

Maximum number of listings to scrape per run (across all categories). Set 0 for unlimited (paginates until the category is exhausted).

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

If enabled, visits each product page to add the seller's full description. Slower (one extra request per listing).

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

Proxy settings. Vintage & Rare is server-rendered HTML with no anti-bot protection, so proxies are usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "Guitars-51"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "scrapeDetails": 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 = {
    "categories": [
        "Guitars-51"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/vintageandrare-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 = { "categories": ["Guitars-51"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/vintageandrare-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 '{
  "categories": [
    "Guitars-51"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/vintageandrare-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/wNbPmZlHORBesUoec/builds/a5xcxOuf9CYAer0Pw/openapi.json