🃏 Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper

🚀 Collect structured Magic: The Gathering card data including names, mana costs, types, rarity, images, pricing in USD and EUR, format legalities, and set details. Covers 100,000+ unique cards across every MTG set.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you run a card shop tracking retail prices, build MTG price trackers and deck builder apps, or manage a large personal collection, getting structured card data at scale requires automation. Manual browsing and copy-pasting is not practical for catalogs with tens of thousands of cards.

The Scryfall MTG Scraper automates card data collection using the full Scryfall search syntax. Search by color, type, format, mana cost, set, or any advanced query and get back clean records with images, prices, legalities, and oracle text ready for your tools.

Target Audience	Card shop owners, price tracker developers, deck builders, collection managers
Primary Use Cases	Price tracking, inventory management, deck building, market analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects Magic: The Gathering card data, returning structured records with comprehensive details. It delivers:

• 🃏 Card details - names, mana costs, type lines, power/toughness, loyalty, and oracle text
• 💰 Live prices - USD, USD foil, EUR, and MTGO Tix values for every printing
• 🎨 Card images - high quality card art URLs ready to embed or download
• 📜 Format legalities - Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Pauper, Brawl
• 📊 Set info - collector numbers, release dates, artists, and set codes
• 🏆 EDHREC ranking - see how popular a card is in Commander decks

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🎬 How to Use the Scryfall MTG Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to get started in under 2 minutes.

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⚙️ Input

Configure your card search with Scryfall's powerful query syntax.

Field	Type	Description
Max Items	Integer	Free users: Limited to 10 cards. Paid users: up to 1,000,000
Search Query	String	Scryfall syntax (e.g. "t:creature c:red", "name:phoenix", "pow>=5")
Set Code	String	Filter by set (e.g. "mh3", "neo", "bro")
Format	Select	Filter by format legality (Standard, Modern, Commander, etc.)
Sort Order	Select	Release Date, Name, Mana Cost, Power, EDHREC Rank, Price, etc.

Example 1 - Red creatures for Commander:

{
    "query": "t:creature c:red",
    "format": "commander",
    "order": "edhrec",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2 - All cards in a specific set:

{
    "set": "mh3",
    "order": "usd",
    "maxItems": 500
}

⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 cards per run. Sign up for a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 cards.

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📊 Output

🧾 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
imageUrl	string	Normal card art URL
name	string	Card name
manaCost	string	Mana cost symbols
cmc	number	Converted mana cost
typeLine	string	Full type line
oracleText	string	Card rules text
power	string	Power value (creatures)
toughness	string	Toughness value (creatures)
colors	array	Card colors
rarity	string	common, uncommon, rare, mythic
set	string	Set code
setName	string	Full set name
priceUsd	number	Current USD price
priceEur	number	Current EUR price
legalStandard	string	Standard legality
legalModern	string	Modern legality
legalCommander	string	Commander legality
artist	string	Card illustrator
edhrecRank	integer	EDHREC popularity rank
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp of data collection

📦 Sample Output

Sample 1 - Classic spell:

{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/lightning-bolt.jpg",
    "name": "Lightning Bolt",
    "manaCost": "{R}",
    "cmc": 1,
    "typeLine": "Instant",
    "oracleText": "Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.",
    "colors": ["R"],
    "rarity": "common",
    "set": "m11",
    "setName": "Magic 2011",
    "priceUsd": 1.49,
    "priceEur": 0.92,
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Christopher Moeller",
    "edhrecRank": 45,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 2 - Mythic creature:

{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/sheoldred.jpg",
    "name": "Sheoldred, the Apocalypse",
    "manaCost": "{2}{B}{B}",
    "cmc": 4,
    "typeLine": "Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Praetor",
    "oracleText": "Deathtouch. Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.",
    "power": "4",
    "toughness": "5",
    "colors": ["B"],
    "rarity": "mythic",
    "set": "dmu",
    "setName": "Dominaria United",
    "priceUsd": 42.50,
    "priceEur": 38.90,
    "legalStandard": "not_legal",
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Chris Rahn",
    "edhrecRank": 12,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 3 - Planeswalker:

{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/teferi.jpg",
    "name": "Teferi, Hero of Dominaria",
    "manaCost": "{3}{W}{U}",
    "cmc": 5,
    "typeLine": "Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi",
    "oracleText": "+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.",
    "colors": ["W", "U"],
    "rarity": "mythic",
    "set": "dom",
    "setName": "Dominaria",
    "priceUsd": 8.75,
    "priceEur": 7.20,
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Chris Rallis",
    "edhrecRank": 156,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose the Scryfall MTG Scraper?

Advantage	Details
🃏 100,000+ cards	Access every card ever printed in Magic: The Gathering
🔍 Full search syntax	Use Scryfall's powerful query language for precise targeting
💰 Live pricing	USD, EUR, foil, and MTGO Tix values updated daily
📜 Format legalities	All formats - Standard, Modern, Commander, and more
🎨 Card images	High-quality art URLs ready to embed
🏆 EDHREC rankings	Commander popularity data for every card
⏰ Price tracking	Schedule daily runs to build price history

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📈 How Does It Compare?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Browsing
Bulk card extraction	Up to 1M cards	One at a time
Full search syntax	Yes	Limited web UI
Format legalities	All formats	Click each card
Prices in USD/EUR/Tix	Included	Scattered
Structured export	JSON, CSV, Excel	HTML pages
Scheduled price tracking	Daily runs	Not possible

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "Scryfall Magic The Gathering Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Enter your search query, set code, or format filter
4. Run It - Click "Start" and get card data in seconds
5. Download Data - Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON from the Dataset tab

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💼 Business Use Cases

Card Shops:

• Track retail prices across the entire catalog
• Automate inventory repricing based on market data

Price Tracker Developers:

• Build daily snapshots of card values for investor dashboards
• Feed price data into mobile apps and Discord bots

Deck Builders:

• Pull every legal card for a format to power deckbuilder apps
• Import card metadata into collection trackers

Market Researchers:

• Analyze price movements across sets, rarities, and formats
• Study EDHREC popularity trends over time

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
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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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating Your MTG Data Collection

Schedule daily runs to track card prices and new set releases. Use the Apify scheduler and push data to Google Sheets, Discord webhooks, or your custom price tracking database.

🔌 Integrate Scryfall MTG Scraper with Any App

Connect your card data to thousands of apps using these integrations:

• Make - Automate card data syncs
• Zapier - Trigger price alerts
• Slack - Post new card releases to a channel
• Google Drive - Maintain card inventory spreadsheets
• Airbyte - Sync to your data warehouse
• Webhooks - Trigger workflows on completion

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Scryfall, Wizards of the Coast, or Magic: The Gathering. It collects only publicly available card data.