🖥️ PCPartPicker Component Scraper

🚀 Export PCPartPicker component listings, prices, specs and stock status for any of 24 categories to CSV, JSON, Excel or XML in seconds.

Scrape PCPartPicker component listings by category. Get product name, lowest listed price, currency, rating count, the category spec columns (core count, TDP, capacity, wattage and so on) and availability in one flat row per component. No login or API key.

PCPartPicker shows live prices across dozens of retailers, but checking each component by hand is slow and the site blocks plain HTTP clients. This Actor loads the public category pages in a stealth browser and returns a clean dataset of every listed product with its current lowest price, specs and stock status.

Who uses it	What they scrape PCPartPicker for
PC builders	Compare current prices for a whole component category.
Price tracking services	Monitor daily price changes for popular components.
E-commerce analysts	Study which products are listed and how they are priced.
Content creators	Gather up-to-date component data for build guides and reviews.

📋 What the PCPartPicker Component Scraper does

• 🗂 Category scraping: choose one of 24 categories (cpu, video-card, motherboard, memory, internal-hard-drive, power-supply, case, monitor and more).
• 🔢 Item limit: maxItems controls how many products are returned, in the site's popularity order.
• 🧩 Specs included: the spec columns PCPartPicker shows for that category come back as a specs object.
• 💲 Price and availability: lowest listed price with its currency symbol, plus available / unavailable status.
• 🛡️ Cloudflare handled: runs in a stealth Firefox build with Apify Proxy, so you do not manage challenges yourself.

Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

A short walkthrough video is in production.

📊 Output

Each component is one row with these fields, in this order:

Field	Description
🖼 imageUrl	Product image URL, or N/A when the site has no image
📌 title	Component name as listed
🔗 url	PCPartPicker product page
🆔 id	PCPartPicker product id from the URL
📦 status	available when a price is listed, otherwise unavailable
💲 price	Lowest listed price as a number, or Not Disclosed
💱 currency	Currency symbol of the price, or N/A
⭐ ratingCount	Number of user ratings, or N/A
🧩 specs	Category spec columns as label/value pairs
🗂 category	Category slug that was scraped
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of extraction
❌ error	Error message, null on success

Three real records from a run with {"category":"cpu","maxItems":5}:

[
  {
    "imageUrl": "https://cdna.pcpartpicker.com/static/forever/images/product/7e2d17b7b777f8b56e1b5119aa97be20.256p.jpg",
    "title": "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D",
    "url": "https://pcpartpicker.com/product/fPyH99/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-47-ghz-8-core-processor-100-1000001084wof",
    "id": "fPyH99",
    "status": "available",
    "price": 449,
    "currency": "$",
    "ratingCount": 457,
    "specs": {
      "Core Count": "8",
      "Performance Core Clock": "4.7 GHz",
      "Performance Core Boost Clock": "5.2 GHz",
      "Microarchitecture": "Zen 5",
      "TDP": "120 W",
      "Integrated Graphics": "Radeon"
    },
    "category": "cpu",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T01:20:16.718Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "imageUrl": "https://cdna.pcpartpicker.com/static/forever/images/product/f0e0e59d75066ec825667b71c31e3c83.256p.jpg",
    "title": "AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D",
    "url": "https://pcpartpicker.com/product/3hyH99/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d-42-ghz-8-core-processor-100-100000910wof",
    "id": "3hyH99",
    "status": "available",
    "price": 348.99,
    "currency": "$",
    "ratingCount": 673,
    "specs": {
      "Core Count": "8",
      "Performance Core Clock": "4.2 GHz",
      "Performance Core Boost Clock": "5 GHz",
      "Microarchitecture": "Zen 4",
      "TDP": "120 W",
      "Integrated Graphics": "Radeon"
    },
    "category": "cpu",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T01:20:16.730Z",
    "error": null
  },
  {
    "imageUrl": "https://cdna.pcpartpicker.com/static/forever/images/product/8a0df381931efb7323f458cfc42260f8.256p.jpg",
    "title": "AMD Ryzen 5 9600X",
    "url": "https://pcpartpicker.com/product/4r4Zxr/amd-ryzen-5-9600x-39-ghz-6-core-processor-100-100001405wof",
    "id": "4r4Zxr",
    "status": "available",
    "price": 171.95,
    "currency": "$",
    "ratingCount": 146,
    "specs": {
      "Core Count": "6",
      "Performance Core Clock": "3.9 GHz",
      "Performance Core Boost Clock": "5.4 GHz",
      "Microarchitecture": "Zen 5",
      "TDP": "65 W",
      "Integrated Graphics": "Radeon"
    },
    "category": "cpu",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T01:20:16.731Z",
    "error": null
  }
]

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
Live prices	The lowest price PCPartPicker currently lists for each component.
Specs per category	Core count, clock, TDP, capacity, wattage, form factor, whatever the category table shows.
Stock status	available or unavailable per product.
Flat schema	One row per product, ready for CSV or spreadsheet import.
Cloudflare handled	Stealth browser and proxy rotation are built in.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

No other Store actor targets PCPartPicker category listings the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.

	PCPartPicker Component Scraper	Build it in-house	By hand
Setup	Run it now, zero config	Days of engineering	None, but hours per pull
When PCPartPicker changes	Maintained for you	You fix it	You re-learn the page
Proxies, retries, anti-bot	Built in	Your problem	Browser only
Output	Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export	Whatever you build	Copy-paste
Cost	Pay per result	Engineering time	Analyst hours

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
2. Open the PCPartPicker Component Scraper.
3. Pick a category, set maxItems, then click Start.
4. Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run. Each run scrapes one category; schedule several runs for several categories.

Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.

💼 Business use cases

🛒 Price comparison tools

A developer runs the Actor daily for video-card and feeds the output into a dashboard that shows the cheapest listed price for each graphics card.

📈 Price tracking over time

A price tracking service schedules the Actor for cpu and stores historical prices to alert users when a processor drops below a target.

📊 Assortment analysis

An e-commerce analyst scrapes motherboard weekly to see which chipsets and form factors dominate the listings and at what price bands.

📝 Build guides and reviews

A tech blogger runs the Actor for memory before writing a guide, so every recommended kit has a current price and is in stock.

🔌 Automating PCPartPicker Component Scraper

• Make / Zapier: trigger a run on a schedule and push new rows into Google Sheets or Airtable.
• Slack: post a message when a tracked component's price falls below a threshold.
• Airbyte: load the dataset into your warehouse for trend analysis.
• GitHub Actions: run the Actor via the API and commit a CSV snapshot to a repository.
• Google Drive: save each run's Excel export to a shared folder.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: study component price trends across product generations.
• Personal: watch the parts on your own build list and buy at the right time.
• Non-profit: plan lab or classroom PC purchases with current prices.
• Experimentation: train price prediction models on regular snapshots.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Give an AI agent live access to PCPartPicker through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=parseforge/pcpartpicker-component-scraper"

Then prompt it in plain language, for example "list the five most popular CPUs on PCPartPicker with their prices".

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🗂 Which categories can I scrape?

Any of the 24 PCPartPicker product categories: cpu, cpu-cooler, motherboard, memory, internal-hard-drive, video-card, case, power-supply, os, monitor, sound-card, wired-network-card, wireless-network-card, headphones, keyboard, mouse, speakers, webcam, case-fan, fan-controller, thermal-paste, external-hard-drive, optical-drive and ups.

🔢 How many items can I get in one run?

maxItems sets the cap. Free plans get 10 as a preview; paid plans can request up to 1,000,000, limited by how many products the category lists.

🔑 Do I need an API key or a PCPartPicker login?

No. The Actor reads public category pages.

🧩 What is inside specs?

The spec columns PCPartPicker shows for that category, for example Core Count, Performance Core Clock, TDP and Integrated Graphics for CPUs, or Capacity and Speed for memory.

💲 Why is price sometimes Not Disclosed?

PCPartPicker shows no price when no listed merchant sells the item. The row is still returned with status set to unavailable.

🏪 Does it return the merchant name?

No. The category table only shows the lowest price, not which store lists it. Open the product url for the full merchant list.

🌍 Which regional site is scraped?

The US site, so prices are in dollars.

🔀 Can I scrape several categories in one run?

No. Each run scrapes one category. Schedule one run per category, or call the API in a loop.

🔁 How often should I run it?

Prices change daily. For tracking, run it daily or hourly; for one-off research a single run is enough.

🚫 Why did my run return no results?

The category slug is probably wrong. Use the exact slug from the dropdown (for example video-card, not gpu). If the log shows repeated challenge pages, switch the proxy setting to RESIDENTIAL.

📤 Can I export the data?

Yes, to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML from the Apify Console or the API.

🕒 How long does a run take?

The browser start and Cloudflare clearance take about 10 seconds; each page of 100 products adds a few seconds.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, Make, Zapier, Airbyte, or any tool that speaks HTTP through the Apify integrations. Webhooks can notify your system the moment a run finishes.

🔗 Recommended Actors

Browse the full ParseForge collection for more e-commerce and price-tracking scrapers.

🆘 Need help? Use the contact form with your run ID, your input, and what you expected.

⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PCPartPicker. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.