# Discogs Scraper - Vinyl & Music Releases + Prices (`jongoose/discogs-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Discogs search results into clean structured data - releases & masters with artist, title, label & catalog number, format, year, country and cover art. Optionally enrich each release from its detail page with genre, style and marketplace price stats (lowest / median / highest, number for s…

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jongoose/discogs-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [James Scott](https://apify.com/jongoose) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 6 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Discogs Scraper - Vinyl & Music Releases + Prices

Scrape **Discogs** search results (releases & masters) into clean, structured data - **no Discogs account or API token required**. Optionally enrich each release with **genre, style and live marketplace price stats** pulled straight from its detail page.

### What you get (per release)

Base fields (from the search page - fast, one request per 25 results):

- **releaseId** and canonical **url** (`https://www.discogs.com/release/... ` or `/master/...`)
- **title**, **artist**
- **label**, **catno** (catalog number)
- **format** (e.g. `Vinyl (LP, Album, Reissue)`)
- **year**, **country**
- **thumbUrl** (cover-art thumbnail)
- **genre**, **style** - *null unless `fetchMarketplaceStats` is on* (Discogs' search feed does not expose them)

Extra fields when **`fetchMarketplaceStats`** is enabled (one extra request per release):

- **genre**, **style**
- **lowestPrice**, **medianPrice**, **highestPrice** (sales-history stats), **priceCurrency**
- **numForSale** (copies currently for sale)
- **haveCount** ("have" / in collections), **wantCount** ("want" / wantlists)
- **rating** (community average, 1-5)

### Input

- **Search query** - type an artist, album, label, catalog number or keyword.
- **Result type** - `release` (individual pressings) or `master` (grouped albums).
- **Discogs search URLs (advanced)** - build a filtered search on discogs.com (genre, style, format, year, country...) and paste the URL(s). Overrides the query.
- **Max releases** - caps the run.
- **Fetch marketplace stats + genre/style** - toggle detail-page enrichment (off by default).
- **Proxy** - Apify's default datacenter proxy is plenty.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "query": "Nirvana",
  "type": "release",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchMarketplaceStats": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

Or drive it with a fully-filtered search URL:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=miles+davis&type=release&format_exact=Vinyl" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 250,
  "fetchMarketplaceStats": true
}
```

#### Example output (with `fetchMarketplaceStats`)

```json
{
  "releaseId": 7445961,
  "title": "Nirvana",
  "artist": "Nirvana",
  "label": "DGC",
  "catno": "0602547378781",
  "format": "Vinyl (LP, Compilation, Reissue)",
  "year": 2015,
  "country": "Europe",
  "genre": "Rock",
  "style": "Grunge, Alternative Rock",
  "thumbUrl": "https://i.discogs.com/.../R-7445961.jpeg",
  "url": "https://www.discogs.com/release/7445961-Nirvana-Nirvana",
  "lowestPrice": 15.47,
  "medianPrice": 29.32,
  "highestPrice": 56.82,
  "numForSale": 155,
  "haveCount": 22318,
  "wantCount": 1734,
  "rating": 4.54,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "scrapedFrom": "discogs.com"
}
```

### Why this actor

- **Reads embedded JSON, not brittle CSS.** Base fields come from the search page's React Server Components (`self.__next_f`) data; enrichment reads the detail page's schema.org `ld+json` and `dsdata` cache. Durable and complete.
- **No token, no account.** Discogs offers an official API (`api.discogs.com`), but its database search and some endpoints are rate-limited and require an auth token. This actor needs **neither** - it scrapes the public search HTML and public detail-page JSON.
- **Fast + cheap by default.** Search-only mode makes one request per 25 results on Apify's datacenter proxy. Turn on `fetchMarketplaceStats` only when you need prices/genre/style.
- Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API.

Great for record dealers, collectors and analysts doing **price research, pressing comparison, and catalog/inventory monitoring**.

> Prices are Discogs sales-history statistics, converted to **USD** by default. Marketplace/detail pages are Cloudflare-protected, so a small share of enrichment requests may be skipped on a given run.

### Legal

Public data for research purposes only. This is **not a consumer report** and must **not** be used for FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) purposes.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

What to search for on Discogs - an artist, album, label, catalog number or any keyword (e.g. "Nirvana", "Blue Note", "Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works"). Used when no Start URL is given below.

## `type` (type: `string`):

Scrape individual pressings (releases) or grouped albums (masters). Applies to the Search query above.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more Discogs search-results URLs. Build a filtered search on discogs.com (genre, style, format, year, country, decade, etc.) and paste the URL(s) here for precise targeting - this overrides the Search query above. Example: https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=miles+davis\&type=release\&format_exact=Vinyl

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after collecting this many releases.

## `fetchMarketplaceStats` (type: `boolean`):

For each release, also fetch its detail page to add genre, style, sales-history lowest/median/highest price, number for sale, have/want counts and community rating. Slower (one extra request per release) and detail pages are Cloudflare-protected, so some may be skipped. No Discogs API token required. Leave OFF for fast search-only scraping (genre/style/prices will be null).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

This site soft-blocks datacenter IPs, so the actor uses Apify Residential proxy by default. Keep residential for reliable results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "Nirvana",
  "type": "release",
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "fetchMarketplaceStats": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "Nirvana",
    "startUrls": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jongoose/discogs-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "Nirvana",
    "startUrls": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jongoose/discogs-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "Nirvana",
  "startUrls": []
}' |
apify call jongoose/discogs-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jongoose/discogs-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zn1oEzRYB9X5KuHQF/builds/B2bZYLvBPO4vUxAZT/openapi.json