Cardmarket Pokémon Trend Scraper

What does Cardmarket Pokémon Trend Scraper do?

This Actor scrapes trending Pokémon TCG cards from Cardmarket — Europe's largest trading-card marketplace. It supports both the Weekly Top Cards ranking (the most-sold singles of the week) and the Best Bargains list (cards currently priced below their long-term trend). Each result includes the card name, expansion, current EUR price and a direct product URL.

Run it once from the Apify Console to try it, or call it from the Apify API on any schedule, route the dataset into your warehouse, BI tool, or webhook — and let Apify rotate residential proxies and retry failed requests automatically so you never have to babysit a Cloudflare-protected site.

Why use Cardmarket Pokémon Trend Scraper?

• Spot price spikes early — react to which Pokémon singles are pumping this week before your competitors do.
• Source bargains — surface cards trading well under their historical trend for arbitrage or personal collection.
• Power dashboards & alerts — pipe structured JSON into Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack or your own backend.
• No bot-detection headaches — Apify's residential proxy network handles Cardmarket's Cloudflare challenge for you.
• Stable schema — built specifically for Cardmarket's trend pages, not a generic crawler.

How to use Cardmarket Pokémon Trend Scraper

1. Click Try for free on this Actor's page.
2. Pick Weekly Top Cards or Best Bargains in the Page to scrape dropdown.
3. (Optional) Choose a Site language and lower Max results to test cheaply.
4. Click Start — your first run is on the free tier.
5. Open the Output tab to download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

To automate it, hit Schedule or call the Run actor API endpoint.

Input

Configure the run from the Apify Console Input tab. All fields have sensible defaults — only mode is required.

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum	weekly-top-cards	weekly-top-cards or best-bargains
language	enum	en	Cardmarket UI language (en, fr, de, es, it)
maxResults	integer	100	Cap on number of cards returned (1–500)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL group	Proxy settings — residential strongly recommended (Cloudflare-protected)
debugSaveHtml	boolean	false	Save raw HTML to KV store under PAGE_HTML for selector debugging

Example input JSON:

{
    "mode": "weekly-top-cards",
    "language": "en",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Output

Each item pushed to the dataset:

{
    "rank": 1,
    "cardName": "Poké Pad (POR 081)",
    "expansion": "Perfect Order",
    "expansionUrl": "https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Pokemon/Expansions/Perfect-Order",
    "currentPriceEur": 0.02,
    "imageUrl": "https://product-images.s3.cardmarket.com/51/POR/877498/877498.jpg",
    "productId": 877498,
    "url": "https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Pokemon/Products/Singles/Perfect-Order/Poke-Pad-V1-POR081",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-07T18:30:00.000Z",
    "sourceMode": "weekly-top-cards",
    "game": "Pokemon"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab.

Data table

Field	Type	Description
rank	number	Position on the trend page (1-indexed)
cardName	string	Full card title as listed by Cardmarket (incl. set number)
expansion	string	Set / expansion the card belongs to
expansionUrl	string	Absolute URL to the expansion's Cardmarket page
currentPriceEur	number	Current price in EUR
imageUrl	string	Direct CDN URL to the card thumbnail (see Image hotlinking below)
productId	number	Cardmarket internal numeric product ID (stable join key)
url	string	Direct URL to the card's product page
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the row was extracted
sourceMode	string	Which trend page the row came from
game	string	Always Pokemon for this Actor

Image hotlinking — important

Cardmarket's image CDN (product-images.s3.cardmarket.com) is fronted by CloudFront with hotlink protection. Loading the imageUrl directly in a browser tab returns HTTP 403. The image only resolves when the request includes a Referer header set to a Cardmarket domain.

This means:

• ✅ Server-side fetching (curl, requests, fetch in Node, ETL pipelines): add Referer: https://www.cardmarket.com/ to your HTTP request.
• ✅ Make / Zapier / n8n HTTP modules: add a Referer header to the call.
• ❌ Direct embed in Notion, Airtable image columns, browser tab: will show a 403 / broken image.

If you need an embed-friendly URL, fetch the image yourself once and host it on your own CDN. A downloadImages opt-in (which would upload each thumbnail to the run's key-value store) can be added on request.

How much does it cost to scrape Cardmarket Pokémon trends?

Pricing follows the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) model: you pay a flat fee per result, no platform compute fees. A typical run of 100 cards costs around $0.10. The first $5/month of platform usage on the free tier typically covers thousands of free results before you need a paid plan. Residential proxy traffic is included in the per-result event price.

Tips and advanced options

• Use maxResults: 25 for a cheap smoke-test before scheduling a 500-row daily run.
• If you're storing results in your own DB, key on url — it is the most stable identifier across runs.
• Need other TCGs? Sister Actors are coming for Magic: The Gathering, Disney Lorcana, Flesh and Blood and Dragon Ball Super Card Game — same schema.
• For one-off ad-hoc analysis, set language to match the localized expansion names you need.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Is scraping Cardmarket legal? This Actor extracts only publicly visible price and product information; it does not bypass authentication, abuse private endpoints, or store personal data. You are responsible for complying with Cardmarket's Terms of Service and any applicable laws (GDPR, copyright, etc.) in your jurisdiction.

My run got blocked / returned 0 rows. Cardmarket sits behind Cloudflare's managed challenge. Make sure proxyConfiguration uses the RESIDENTIAL group (the default). If issues persist, enable debugSaveHtml: true and inspect the dump in the key-value store.

Can I get a custom variant? Yes — use the Issues tab on this Actor's page to request a custom solution (e.g. specific expansions, filtered rarities, deeper crawl into product pages, image embedding, alternative output schema).

Found a bug or extracted 0 rows on a real run? Report it via the Issues tab and include the run URL — selectors get patched fast.