🐉 EDHREC Magic: The Gathering Commander Scraper

🚀 Pull Commander deck statistics from EDHREC in seconds. Top commanders ranking, per-deck card categories, inclusion rates, synergy scores, salt, and live price feeds. No API key, no scraping HTML.

The EDHREC MTG Commander Scraper turns EDHREC's public JSON endpoints into clean datasets across two modes. topCommanders returns the ranked list of most-played commanders for a chosen timeframe (week, month, year, 2 years, or all-time) with deck counts and inclusion rates. commanderDetail returns the average deck composition for any specific commander, broken down by card category (creatures, lands, removal, ramp, draw, etc.), each with inclusion percentages, synergy scores, and potential-deck counts.

With fetchDetails enabled, top-commander records gain color identity, converted mana cost, primary type, rarity, salt score, layout, legal status, Scryfall image URLs, and live prices from TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, and Cardmarket. EDHREC aggregates statistics from hundreds of thousands of public decks, making this the largest community deck statistics source for the Commander format.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
EDH/Commander players, MTG content creators, deck-building tools, LGS event organizers, card-price arbitrage analysts, brewing communities, Magic data scientists	Meta tracking, deck-building AI, price-trend analysis, salt-score audits, content research, format health monitoring, brewing tool data feeds

📋 What the EDHREC MTG Commander Scraper does

Two scraping modes plus optional detail enrichment:

• 🏆 Top commanders ranking. Pull the ranked list of most-played commanders for the chosen timeframe.
• ⏳ 6 timeframe slices. Past week, past month, past year, past 2 years, alternative 2-year slug, or all-time.
• 🃏 Per-commander deck composition. Drill into one commander to see average card picks by category with inclusion and synergy.
• 💰 Optional price + image enrichment. Toggle fetchDetails to add color identity, salt, rarity, mana cost, layout, and live prices from three vendors.

Top-commander records include rank, name, slug, EDHREC URL, Scryfall card ID, deck count, inclusion count, and timeframe. With fetchDetails, you also get color identity, CMC, primary type, rarity, salt score, layout, legal-commander flag, normal and art-crop image URLs, Scryfall URI, and USD prices from TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, and Cardmarket. Per-commander detail records include card category, card name, slug, ID, inclusion rate, deck count, synergy score, and potential decks.

💡 Why it matters: EDHREC is the single largest source of Commander meta statistics. Manual data extraction means parsing fragile HTML on rotating pages. This Actor hits the canonical JSON endpoints directly and returns structured ranking, composition, salt, and pricing data ready for analytics, deck-builders, or content research.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: id, inclusion, mode, name, numDecks, rank, scrapedAt, slug, timeframe, url. All 10 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the EDHREC MTG Commander Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode, choose a timeframe or commander slug, optionally toggle fetchDetails, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor pull the rankings or deck composition.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by EDHREC, Wizards of the Coast, or any card publisher. Magic: The Gathering is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Only publicly available statistical aggregates are collected.

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