🃏 Goldin Scraper

Extract lots from Goldin, the auction house for high-end sports cards, trading cards, comics and memorabilia. Get sold prices (more than 800,000 lots sold since 2012: what each card really went for) or live and upcoming lots with their current bids, in one clean table.

Each lot comes with:

• Final price and the price with buyer's premium (what the buyer actually paid, worked out the way goldin.co does it).
• Grader, grade and grade label (PSA GEM MT 10, BGS 9.5, CGC 9.8...), the pop count when the title gives it, the item's year, and rookie, autographed and serial numbered flags (with the print run, e.g. /25).
• Starting bid, number of bids, buyer's premium %, and whether a Buy Now item accepts offers.
• Auction type (Elite, Weekly, Thematic, Fixed Price), auction title, start, end and sale date.
• Main photo, lot link and auction link.
• Add-on: the full lot page, with the description, category, sub-category, item type, cert number, views, last bid time, listing date, seller and winner IDs, every photo and video, plus player, set and card number where Goldin lists them.

🎯 Who uses it?

💳 Card collectors and investors

Pull every sale of a card, in every grade, with the real price paid. Track how a player's rookie cards trend month by month.

🏪 Dealers and breakers

Price your inventory and consignments on real Goldin comps, then watch live auctions for cards with few bids that are about to close.

📊 Price guides, apps and analysts

Feed a price database or a valuation model with clean numbers: final price, premium price, grader, grade, bids and dates for hundreds of thousands of lots.

🧾 Appraisers and insurers

Back a valuation with recent sales of the same card and grade, each with its Goldin link and cert number.

✨ What it does

• Sold lots or live lots. Sold lots give the final price; live lots give the current bid and closing time (and the fixed price marketplace).
• Search the way you think:
  • Search terms ("michael jordan rookie", "charizard 1st edition", "ohtani"), several per run. Every word must be in the lot title, so long description boilerplate doesn't bring unrelated lots (you can turn on description matches too).
  • 64 categories, 111 sub-categories (Baseball, Basketball, Pokemon, Marvel, Silver Age...) and 95 item types (single cards, sealed boxes, game-used memorabilia, comics, tickets...).
  • 30 grading companies (PSA, Beckett, CGC, SGC, WATA...).
  • Auction type: Elite, Weekly, Thematic or Fixed Price.
• Or paste goldin.co links: a lot page, or a whole auction (every lot in it). The filters are ignored with links.
• Every useful filter:
  • Price and year ranges.
  • Sold date range: exact dates, or periods like "30 days" or "6 months".
  • 7 sort orders: most recent sale (or ending soonest), highest and lowest price, most and fewest bids, most viewed, newly listed.
• Extra filters: title words to include or exclude, grade range (for example 9.5 to 10), rookie cards only, autographed only, max print run (25 keeps /25, /10 and 1/1 cards), bid count range (0 finds live lots nobody has bid on).
• New lots only. For scheduled runs: saves only lots the same search has not saved before.

🏆 Why this scraper

• No 20,000 result cap. Goldin lists at most 20,000 lots per search. Past that, this scraper reads the search one auction at a time (and in price bands for the biggest ones), so you can pull every matching sale.
• The price the buyer paid. Besides the hammer price you get priceWithPremium, using Goldin's own rules (the premium changed in June 2024, and small lots have a flat fee).
• Grades as numbers. Grader, grade, label, pop, print run, rookie and autograph flags are split out of the title, ready to filter and chart.
• Fast. About 1,000 lots in 5 seconds (1,000 with full details in about 40 seconds).
• No proxy needed. Nothing extra to set up or pay for.

⚖️ How it compares

Based on each Actor's public input options (October 2026).

Capability	This actor	jungle_synthesizer	getascraper	automation-lab	lulzasaur	123webdata
Search terms	several per run, title matched	one	one	one	yes	links only
Sold lots	yes	yes	yes	links only	not stated	links only
Live lots	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Lot links	yes	yes	no	yes	no	yes
Whole auction links	yes	no	no	no	no	category links
Categories, sub-categories, item types	yes	sport only	no	no	no	no
Grading company filter	30	yes	yes	no	no	no
Auction type filter	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
Price range	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no
Year range	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
Sold date range	yes	yes	no	no	no	no
Grade range	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Rookie, autograph and print run filters	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Rookie and serial number fields	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
Bid count range, title words	yes	no	no	no	no	no
Sort orders	7	none	none	none	none	none
Price with buyer's premium	yes	yes	yes	no	no	yes
Full lot page (description, cert, photos)	add-on	no	no	descriptions	yes	yes
Past 20,000 results	yes	no	yes	no	no	no
New lots only (monitoring)	yes	no	new or changed	no	no	no

📦 What data you get

Field	Description
image	Main photo.
lotId, lotNumber, title, status	The lot as listed. status is sold, live, upcoming or unsold.
year	The item's year (card season start, issue year).
grader, grade, gradeLabel	Grading company, numeric grade (1 to 10) and the label as written, e.g. GEM MT 10 or Authentic.
population	Pop count when the title gives it ("Pop 1").
numbered, printRun	Serial numbering from the title, e.g. 10/25 and print run 25 (1/1 for one of ones).
price	Final price for sold lots, current bid or asking price for live lots, in USD, before the premium.
priceWithPremium, buyerPremiumPct	What the buyer pays with Goldin's buyer's premium, and the premium %.
startingBid, bids	Opening bid and number of bids.
auctionType, auctionTitle, auctionId	Elite, Weekly, Thematic or Fixed Price, and the auction.
description, category, subCategory, itemType	Full lot details (add-on).
sport, player, setName, setNumber, parallel	Card details where Goldin lists them (add-on; mostly on PSA Vault lots).
certNumber, serialNumber, sellerId, topBidderId	Grading cert number, Goldin's item serial, the consignor's anonymous ID and the winner's (sold) or top bidder's (live) anonymous ID (add-on).
views, viewsLastDay, imageCount	Page views and number of photos (add-on).
searchedFor	Which of your searches or links found it.
rookie, autographed	Rookie card ("Rookie" or "RC" in the title); signed or autographed item.
allowOffers, vaultEligible	Buy Now item accepts offers; item can stay in the Goldin vault (add-on).
url, auctionUrl	Lot page and auction page.
tags, images, videos	Goldin tags, every photo and video (add-on).
startsAt, endsAt, soldAt, lastBidAt, listedAt	Lot start and end, sale date, last bid and when the lot was listed on Goldin (UTC).
scrapedAt	When the row was collected (UTC).

Add-on fields only appear when Full lot details is on.

Example row (trimmed)

{
  "image": "https://d2tt46f3mh26nl.cloudfront.net/public/Lots/202609-2219-2608-88f934e6-6d0f-40f5-a291-86625557dc47/17ea57bf-f63e-4863-b657-666ce775a2a4@2x",
  "lotNumber": 1096,
  "title": "1986-87 Fleer #57 Michael Jordan Rookie Card - PSA EX 5",
  "status": "sold",
  "year": 1986,
  "grader": "PSA",
  "grade": 5,
  "gradeLabel": "EX 5",
  "rookie": true,
  "autographed": false,
  "price": 7038,
  "priceWithPremium": 8586.36,
  "buyerPremiumPct": 22,
  "startingBid": 10,
  "bids": 47,
  "auctionType": "Weekly",
  "auctionTitle": "2026 Weekly Auction Sep 29 - Oct 8",
  "category": "Sport",
  "subCategory": "Basketball",
  "itemType": "Single Cards",
  "certNumber": "160188470",
  "views": 2560,
  "url": "https://goldin.co/item/1986-87-fleer-57-michael-jordan-rookie-card-psa-ex-56iv6x",
  "auctionUrl": "https://goldin.co/auction/2026-weekly-auction-sep-29-oct-8q9mnv",
  "soldAt": "2026-10-09T02:45:58.000Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T23:51:51.661Z"
}

💡 Use cases

📈 Every PSA 10 Shohei Ohtani card sold in the last year

{ "searchTerms": ["ohtani"], "graders": ["PSA"], "minGrade": 10, "soldFrom": "1 year", "maxItems": null }

🔥 Top 500 Pokemon sales of all time

{ "subCategories": ["Pokemon"], "sortBy": "price_high", "maxItems": 500 }

🏀 Vintage basketball cards (1948 to 1980) that sold for $1,000 to $10,000

{ "subCategories": ["Basketball"], "itemTypes": ["Single Cards"], "yearFrom": 1948, "yearTo": 1980, "minPrice": 1000, "maxPrice": 10000, "maxItems": null }

🔔 New live Charizard lots with no bids yet, every morning

{ "status": "live", "searchTerms": ["charizard"], "maxBids": 0, "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": null }

📚 Every lot of one auction, with full details

{ "urls": ["https://goldin.co/auction/2026-weekly-auction-sep-29-oct-8q9mnv"], "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": null }

⚙️ How the input is organised

Section	What it's for
Maximum lots and What to scrape	Always first: caps the whole run (shared across your searches; empty means no limit), and sold or live lots.
What	Search terms, links, categories, sub-categories, item types, graders, auction type.
Price, year and dates	Price, year and sold date ranges, and the sort order.
Extra filters	Title words, grade range, rookies, autographs, print run, bid count range.
Add-ons	Full lot details.
Monitoring	New lots only, with an optional monitor name.

Each search term is one search; every filter narrows all of them. With links, the search terms and filters are ignored.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event: a one-time $0.003 when the run starts, plus a price per lot saved to your dataset that drops with your Apify plan. Full lot details are an optional add-on per lot.

Your Apify plan	Per lot	With full details	1,000 lots	1,000 lots with details
Free	$0.018	+$0.005	$18.00	$23.00
Bronze	$0.016	+$0.0045	$16.00	$20.50
Silver	$0.014	+$0.004	$14.00	$18.00
Gold / Platinum / Diamond	$0.012	+$0.0035	$12.00	$15.50

Lots dropped by your filters are not charged. There are no proxy costs. New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit. On the Free plan a run saves up to 10 lots.

Speed: about 1,000 lots in 5 seconds; 1,000 with full details in about 40 seconds.

🚀 Run it

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the Goldin Scraper.
3. Type a search term (or keep the prefilled one), pick sold or live lots and your filters, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

You can also:

• Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
• Schedule it with Apify's built-in Scheduler, with New lots only on, to catch new lots every day.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

Give an AI agent live access to Goldin prices through the Model Context Protocol:

claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/goldin-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language, for example "what have PSA 10 Wembanyama Prizm rookies sold for on Goldin this year?".

🔧 Troubleshooting

The log says "More than 20,000 results". That's normal. Goldin lists at most 20,000 lots per search, so the rest is read one auction at a time, newest first. Past the first 20,000, rows come auction by auction.

A search returns fewer lots than goldin.co. Goldin also matches words in the lot description, often boilerplate (a magazine lot can mention "Michael Jordan" in its standard text). By default every word of your term must be in the title. Turn on Match words in descriptions too to keep everything Goldin matches.

Some rows have no grade. The item is raw, authenticated only ("Authentic"), or graded on a scale the title doesn't give as a number. Set a grade range to keep only numeric grades.

A row has an error field. Only with the add-on, and only when that lot's page could not be loaded: the search fields are filled, the add-on fields are empty and error says why. Rows that worked have no error. With the add-on off, its fields are left out of the rows.

Player, set or card number are empty. Goldin fills them only for some lots (mostly PSA Vault items). The title always has the full card name.

A scheduled "New lots only" run saved nothing. Nothing new matched since the last run. Changing terms, links or filters starts a fresh memory; set a Monitor name to keep it.

❓ FAQ

Question	Answer
Do I need a Goldin account?	No. Only public lot data is read.
Does the price include the buyer's premium?	price doesn't; priceWithPremium does.
How far back do sold lots go?	To 2012, more than 800,000 lots.
Is there a result limit?	No. Leave the maximum empty to get the whole search, even past 20,000.
Does it need a proxy?	No.
Can I track new lots?	Yes. Turn on New lots only and schedule the run.

🛡️ Limits & responsible use

This Actor reads only public lot data shown on Goldin. It never signs in and never bids. Use the data in line with Goldin's terms.

📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

🧪 Local development

bun install
bun run typecheck
bun test/qa.mjs
apify run

Local results are stored in storage/datasets/default.