⚔️ Guild Wars 2 Items & Trading Post Prices Scraper

🚀 Export Guild Wars 2 item data with live Trading Post prices in seconds. Pull from a catalog of 27,966 tradeable items, each joined to its current buy and sell orders.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-04 · 📊 15 fields per record · 27,966 tradeable items · Official GW2 API v2

Track the Guild Wars 2 economy without copying numbers by hand. This Actor reads the official Guild Wars 2 API v2, joins item metadata with live Trading Post buy and sell orders, and returns clean, ready to use rows. Every record carries the item icon, name, type, rarity, level, vendor value, current buy and sell prices in copper, the open order quantities on both sides, and a precomputed margin.

Coverage: the Trading Post id list currently exposes 27,966 tradeable items. You can list the first items automatically, or pass an exact set of item IDs. Names and descriptions are available in English, Spanish, German, French, and Chinese.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
GW2 traders and flippers	Spotting buy and sell spreads
Market analysts and data hobbyists	Tracking item prices over time
Guild and community tool builders	Powering price widgets and bots
Gaming researchers	Studying a live virtual economy

📋 What the Guild Wars 2 Items & Prices Scraper does

• Resolves a set of tradeable item IDs from the official Trading Post endpoint, or accepts your explicit itemIds.
• Fetches item metadata and live commerce prices in batches of up to 200 IDs per call.
• Joins both responses by item ID into a single flat row.
• Computes a margin field (sell price minus buy price) so you can scan spreads at a glance.
• Returns the item icon as the first field, ready to render in a table or gallery.
• Lets you keep only items that currently have an open buy or sell order.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
itemIds	array	Optional list of specific item IDs. Leave empty to auto-list tradeable items.
maxItems	integer	Free users limited to 10. Paid users up to 1,000,000.
language	string	Item name and description language (en, es, de, fr, zh).
onlyPriced	boolean	Keep only items with an open buy or sell order. Default true.

Example 1. Auto-list the first priced items:

{
  "maxItems": 5,
  "language": "en",
  "onlyPriced": true
}

Example 2. Fetch specific items by ID:

{
  "itemIds": ["24", "19684", "30684"],
  "language": "en",
  "onlyPriced": false
}

⚠️ Good to Know: Prices are reported in copper, the base Guild Wars 2 currency (100 copper = 1 silver, 10,000 copper = 1 gold). Some items have a buy or sell side at 0 when no live order exists on that side. Vendor value can legitimately be 0 for many items.

📊 Output

Field	Description
🖼 imageUrl	Item icon image URL
🆔 id	Guild Wars 2 item ID
📌 name	Item name
🏷 type	Item type (Consumable, Armor, Weapon, etc.)
💎 rarity	Rarity tier (Basic to Legendary)
🎚 level	Required character level
🏪 vendorValue	Vendor sell value in copper
🟢 buyPrice	Highest Trading Post buy order in copper
📥 buyQuantity	Quantity wanted at the buy price
🔴 sellPrice	Lowest Trading Post sell order in copper
📤 sellQuantity	Quantity offered at the sell price
📈 margin	Sell price minus buy price in copper
📝 description	Item description (when available)
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection
❌ error	Error message, null on success

Real sample records:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://render.guildwars2.com/file/1D05D1EE04E16E69710E1EAB11AC466BBF105778/219347.png",
  "id": 24,
  "name": "Sealed Package of Snowballs",
  "type": "Consumable",
  "rarity": "Basic",
  "level": 0,
  "vendorValue": 0,
  "buyPrice": 116,
  "buyQuantity": 123940,
  "sellPrice": 189,
  "sellQuantity": 282044,
  "margin": 73,
  "description": "Open this package to create several snowballs that can hit anyone else holding a snowball.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:55:39.555Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://render.guildwars2.com/file/F03808FFE89B40044671EED2E427053B389BE0A1/61007.png",
  "id": 68,
  "name": "Mighty Country Coat",
  "type": "Armor",
  "rarity": "Basic",
  "level": 0,
  "vendorValue": 6,
  "buyPrice": 12,
  "buyQuantity": 169,
  "sellPrice": 42,
  "sellQuantity": 586,
  "margin": 30,
  "description": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:55:39.617Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "imageUrl": "https://render.guildwars2.com/file/F03808FFE89B40044671EED2E427053B389BE0A1/61007.png",
  "id": 69,
  "name": "Mighty Country Coat",
  "type": "Armor",
  "rarity": "Basic",
  "level": 0,
  "vendorValue": 7,
  "buyPrice": 21,
  "buyQuantity": 901,
  "sellPrice": 49,
  "sellQuantity": 517,
  "margin": 28,
  "description": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T19:55:39.649Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Official source. Reads the public Guild Wars 2 API v2 directly, no key required for these endpoints.
• Joined in one pass. Item metadata and live prices arrive together in a single row.
• Margin ready. The spread between buy and sell is computed for you.
• Icon first. Every record leads with the item image for instant visual scanning.
• Multilingual. Pull names and descriptions in five languages.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Item metadata	Live Trading Post prices	Margin precomputed	Icon included
This Actor	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Manual API calls	Yes	Yes	No	No
Copying from in-game UI	Partial	Yes	No	No
Third party wiki scrape	Yes	Often stale	No	Sometimes

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account if you do not have one yet.
2. Open the Guild Wars 2 Items & Prices Scraper in the Apify Console.
3. Leave the input empty for an auto-listed sample, or add specific itemIds.
4. Click Start and watch the run collect items with their prices.
5. Download the results from the dataset or pull them through the API.

💼 Business use cases

Market making and flipping

Goal	How this Actor helps
Find profitable spreads	Scan the margin field across many items
Size an order	Read buyQuantity and sellQuantity for depth

Price monitoring

Goal	How this Actor helps
Track an item over time	Re-run on a schedule and store snapshots
Alert on a threshold	Pipe buyPrice or sellPrice into your own logic

Community tools

Goal	How this Actor helps
Power a price widget	Use imageUrl, name, and prices directly
Feed a Discord bot	Query specific itemIds on demand

Research

Goal	How this Actor helps
Study a virtual economy	Collect broad item and price samples
Compare rarity to price	Join rarity and sellPrice for analysis

🔌 Automating Guild Wars 2 Items & Prices Scraper

Connect runs to the tools your team already uses:

• Make and Zapier to trigger runs and route results.
• Slack to post price alerts to a channel.
• Airbyte to load datasets into a warehouse.
• GitHub Actions to schedule scheduled collections.
• Google Drive to archive snapshots automatically.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: sample a live in-game economy for coursework or articles.
• Personal: keep an eye on the items you trade most.
• Non-profit: power a free community price tracker.
• Experimentation: prototype a trading model on real data.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste a dataset into your favorite assistant and ask it to summarize trends:

• ChatGPT
• Claude
• Perplexity
• Microsoft Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a Guild Wars 2 API key? No. The item and commerce price endpoints used here are public and keyless.

What currency are prices in? Copper. 100 copper equals 1 silver, and 10,000 copper equals 1 gold.

Why is a buy or sell price sometimes 0? That side of the market had no open order at scrape time. The value 0 is real, not missing data.

Why is vendorValue 0 on some items? Many items genuinely have no vendor sell value. The API returns 0 for them.

Can I scrape specific items? Yes. Provide their IDs in the itemIds field.

How many items can I pull? Free accounts return up to 10 items. Paid accounts can return up to 1,000,000.

How fresh are the prices? They reflect the Trading Post at the moment of the run. Re-run to refresh.

Which languages are supported? English, Spanish, German, French, and Chinese for names and descriptions.

Can I keep only items that are actively traded? Yes. Leave onlyPriced enabled to drop items with no open orders.

What does the margin field mean? It is the sell price minus the buy price in copper, a quick read on the spread.

Is this affiliated with ArenaNet? No. It is an independent tool that reads the publicly documented Guild Wars 2 API.

How do I track prices over time? Schedule recurring runs and store each dataset as a snapshot.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Every run produces a structured dataset you can pull through the Apify API, webhooks, or any of the integrations above. Wire it into spreadsheets, dashboards, bots, or your own backend.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Guild Wars 2 or ArenaNet. Only publicly available data is collected.