CeX Scraper: Price Checker, Trade-In Prices and Stock

CeX Scraper is a bulk CeX price checker for resellers, repair shops, comparison sites and analysts. It collects CeX selling prices, trade-in cash and voucher values, grades and stock status, using verified EAN or UPC barcodes, search keywords, or a search URL copied from a CeX storefront. Each dataset row represents one CeX box in one market and, where applicable, one condition grade.

What CeX Scraper collects

The Actor supports the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, the Canary Islands, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Australia, Mexico and Malaysia. Prices stay in the currency of the selected storefront. UK results use GBP; Spain, Ireland, the Canary Islands, Portugal and Italy use EUR. Poland uses PLN, Australia AUD, Mexico MXN and Malaysia MYR. The country field uses GB for the UK and ES for the Canary Islands, while market preserves the storefront code.

CeX sells catalogue products rather than individual classified advertisements. A Sony headphone model can therefore appear three times, with separate A, B and C box IDs, prices and stock. Grade labels are Mint, Good and Working respectively. Products without a source grade have null grade and condition values. Stock can cover online orders, physical stores, or both.

For every box you get the selling price, the previous and first recorded price, the date of the last price change, the CeX trade-in cash and voucher values, stock flags for online and in-store availability, category, brand, rating and a working product link.

Use cases

• CeX price checker in bulk. Paste hundreds of barcodes and read the current CeX selling price for every grade in one run, instead of looking up products one by one.
• CeX trade-in prices for resellers. Compare trade_in_cash and trade_in_voucher with what other buyers pay, and find the products where selling to CeX or buying from CeX leaves a margin.
• CeX stock checker. Track in_stock, in_stock_online and in_stock_store for a watch list, and get notified through an Apify schedule and webhook when a grade comes back in stock.
• CeX price tracker. Schedule the same input daily or weekly and store the dataset. previous_price, first_price and price_last_changed show how a box has moved, and your own history shows when.
• Catalogue matching. Join rows with a non-null gtin to your own product feed or to other retailers' barcode data, while keeping internal CeX SKUs separate.
• Market research across countries. Run the same search on the UK, Spain, Portugal or Australia storefront and compare second-hand price levels per market and currency.

Input

Provide at least one of eans, searchTerms, startUrls or search_input. Inputs can be combined, with a maximum of 1,000 input positions per run. EAN inputs are processed first, followed by search terms and search URLs. The input_index field makes each result traceable to its position, including when the same input appears twice.

Use eans for barcode verification. It accepts a list of strings or text separated by commas or newlines. Codes must contain 8–14 digits. UPC and EAN representations with leading zeros are searched together, and a result is accepted only when the numeric prefix of its CeX box ID matches the requested barcode after leading-zero normalization. An unmatched code appears in the run summary and produces no chargeable row.

Use searchTerms for ordinary keyword searches, with a list of strings or one term per line. Keyword results are not filtered by a strict title matcher or barcode matcher. A barcode entered as a search term remains an ordinary text search; put it in eans when exact barcode verification matters.

Use startUrls for HTTPS search URLs on a supported CeX storefront. Category and facet selections are preserved, including categoryFriendlyName, Grade, productLineId, categoryIds and superCatId. A tilde between facet values means either value, such as Grade=B~C. Price ranges, all-stock availability and supported sortBy selections are also preserved. The URL host chooses the storefront; an explicitly conflicting market produces an input error.

market defaults to uk when no URL selects a storefront. maxItems defaults to 100 and applies separately to each search term or URL, with a maximum of 1,000. EAN lookups return all matching grades independently of maxItems. includeOutOfStock defaults to false for keyword searches, while EAN lookups include sold-out grades. minPrice and maxPrice constrain selling prices in the market currency for keyword and URL searches. Explicit filter options take precedence over corresponding URL choices.

sort accepts relevance, price_asc, price_desc, name_asc, name_desc, rating_desc and popularity_desc. An explicit sort overrides sortBy in a URL. CeX can return fewer matches for a sorted search than for relevance; this follows the storefront's own search behaviour. Aliases search_input, country_code, max_items, min_price and max_price are available. Canonical fields take precedence when both forms are supplied.

Field	Type	Default	What it does
eans	list of strings	none	EAN/UPC codes, verified against the CeX box ID
searchTerms	list of strings	none	Keyword searches
startUrls	list of URLs	none	CeX search URLs with their filters
market	string	uk	uk, es, ie, ic, pt, it, pl, au, mx or my
maxItems	integer	100	Results per search term or URL, up to 1,000
includeOutOfStock	boolean	false	Include sold-out boxes in keyword and URL searches
minPrice / maxPrice	number	none	Selling price range in the market currency
sort	string	relevance	Result order for keyword and URL searches
cursor	string	none	Continuation token from next_cursor; repeat the same input and settings

Verified barcode example

This input was tested against real UK catalogue data:

{"eans":["4548736132580"],"market":"uk"}

It resolves Sony WH-1000XM5 Black headphone boxes in grades A, B and C. Another tested code, 0195949052637, resolves AirPods Pro 2 box IDs that omit the initial zero. UPC 711719073208 resolves a box ID that includes an initial zero. These cases illustrate why checking both representations matters.

Search URL example

This URL was tested with the category and grade filters it carries:

{"startUrls":["https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=iphone+13&categoryFriendlyName=iPhone+13&Grade=C&sellPrice=200:250"],"maxItems":100}

Output

The default dataset contains offers. Core fields include source, fetched_at, merchant, product_id, gtin, price, currency, country, condition, availability and url. Prices are numeric amounts, suitable for comparisons without parsing currency symbols. Product URLs point to the specific CeX box. The fetched_at timestamp records when the catalogue response was collected, not the date the product was first listed.

Additional fields include title, brand, image_url, market, grade, trade_in_cash, trade_in_voucher, previous_price, first_price, price_last_changed, in_stock, in_stock_online, in_stock_store, stock_quantity, collection_quantity, category, category_id, super_category, product_lines, rating, discontinued and first_stock_date. Every row also carries input, input_type, input_index and position. Source dates without a timezone remain unchanged. Trade-in fields are null when CeX does not display a buying price or does not allow buying that box.

Stock quantities may be capped by CeX. Treat a reported quantity as at least that many, not as an exact inventory count. Selling price, trade-in cash value and trade-in voucher value describe different transactions and should be compared separately.

Output example

The first row of the verified barcode example above, collected on 5 October 2026:

{
  "market": "uk",
  "input": "4548736132580",
  "input_type": "ean",
  "input_index": 0,
  "position": 1,
  "fetched_at": "2026-10-05T15:43:06.323Z",
  "source": "cex-scraper",
  "merchant": "CeX",
  "product_id": "4548736132580A",
  "title": "Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Noise Canceling Over-Ears (Hard Case) - Black, A",
  "price": 210,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "country": "GB",
  "gtin": "4548736132580",
  "grade": "A",
  "condition": "Mint",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "url": "https://uk.webuy.com/product-detail?id=4548736132580A",
  "brand": "Sony",
  "image_url": "https://uk.static.webuy.com/product_images/Electronics/Headphones/4548736132580A_l.jpg",
  "trade_in_cash": 119,
  "trade_in_voucher": 144,
  "previous_price": 220,
  "first_price": 360,
  "price_last_changed": "2026-07-29 02:00:08",
  "in_stock": true,
  "in_stock_online": true,
  "in_stock_store": true,
  "stock_quantity": 30,
  "collection_quantity": 30,
  "category": "Headphones & Earphones",
  "category_id": "973",
  "super_category": "Electronics",
  "product_lines": ["Portable Entertainment", "Headphones"],
  "rating": 4.6,
  "discontinued": false,
  "first_stock_date": "2022-05-26 16:07:38"
}

The same run returned the B (Good, £180) and C (Working, £150) boxes as separate rows.

The summary and OUTPUT records contain delivered counts, warnings, missed EANs and search totals. not_found lists unmatched barcode inputs. searches is keyed by input_index and records the input, market, search index, total hits and returned count. Large input lists are continued automatically. Dataset identity includes the input position, market and product ID, so the same box returned for two inputs remains two attributable rows.

CeX Scraper compared with other options

Option	Good for	What you give up
Checking prices on the CeX website	A handful of products	No export, one product and one market at a time
Consumer CeX price checker and tracker sites	Browsing price changes in the UK	No structured feed of your own list, no barcode verification, usually one market
Writing your own scraper	Full control	Building and maintaining storefront access, pagination and barcode matching yourself
CeX Scraper	Bulk lookups, scheduled tracking, exports	Results are limited to what CeX shows in its catalogue search

What sets this Actor apart is exact barcode mode: a barcode only returns boxes whose ID matches that EAN or UPC, so a lookup never fills your sheet with similar-looking products. Grades stay separate, prices are numbers, gtin is only filled when the barcode passes its GS1 check digit, and search URLs keep the filters you selected on the storefront.

Pricing

The proposed starting price is $0.002 per product result, or $2 per 1,000 rows. The Actor charges the product event once per delivered row. There is no run-start charge in this model. Empty searches and missed barcodes deliver no rows and incur no product charge. The current price displayed on the Actor page is the applicable price when running it.

As an example, 500 barcodes that each resolve three grades deliver 1,500 rows, which is $3.00 at the starting price. 50 of those barcodes not found at CeX cost nothing.

Users on the free plan receive up to 10 rows per run. Paying users can collect their requested results. OUTPUT and summary expose freeTierCapped, freeTierDelivered, userIsPaying and free_tier_remaining. The remaining count is 0–10 for free users and -1 for paying users. These limits apply across all inputs in the run, rather than resetting for each keyword.

Limits and interpretation

CeX restricts each search to its first 1,000 matches. Narrow broad queries with categories, grades or price bands. This is not a full catalogue export. Dutch and Indian storefronts are currently excluded because the observed catalogues have no online stock. Search names remain in the language used by the storefront.

Not every CeX box has a barcode. Phones, laptops and consoles often use internal SKU identifiers. Their gtin field is null, while the original box ID remains in product_id. A numeric box ID is exposed as gtin only when it has a supported barcode length and passes its GS1 check digit. Do not join internal SKUs to another retailer's barcode catalogue by guessing.

FAQ

Can I use this as a CeX price checker for a list of products?

Yes. Put the barcodes in eans, or the product names in searchTerms, and run once. Every grade comes back as its own row with price, trade-in values and stock, ready to export.

Can I compare grades of the same product?

Yes. Each grade has its own row, price, availability and box ID. Group rows by a non-null gtin and market to compare those offers, while keeping grade separate.

Why did my barcode produce no results?

CeX may not carry that product, or may represent it with an internal SKU. Exact EAN mode intentionally rejects unrelated keyword matches. Check not_found in the summary; missed inputs are free.

Does this include out-of-stock products?

EAN lookups do, allowing you to see all known grades. Keyword and URL searches default to available stock, unless includeOutOfStock is enabled or the URL selects all stock.

Does CeX have an official API?

CeX does not offer a documented public developer API for its catalogue. Searches for "CeX API" mostly lead to an unrelated cryptocurrency exchange. This Actor gives you the CeX catalogue as a dataset you can query through the Apify API, with JSON, CSV and Excel exports.

How do I track CeX prices or stock over time?

Save your input as a task and add an Apify schedule, for example daily. Each run writes a new dataset; compare price and in_stock between runs, or use a webhook to send changes to your own system.

Can I export the results?

Yes. Use Apify dataset exports such as JSON, CSV or Excel. Numeric prices, stable box IDs and input context support scheduled comparisons and catalogue joins. Always keep currency and market alongside each price.