# Tcgplayer Scraper (`normdata/tcgplayer-scraper`) Actor

Get TCGplayer card and product data for Pokemon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, and every game on the platform — no API key needed. Real per-seller listings with condition and price, server-side filters by set/rarity/price, and full historical price charts. Search, lookup by ID, or track price history.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/normdata/tcgplayer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Norm Data](https://apify.com/normdata) (community)
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 2 monthly users, 98.6% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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

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## 🃏 TCGplayer Scraper

Get TCGplayer card and product data for **Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, and every other trading card game on the platform**, no API key and no login. Market price, every seller listing with condition and reputation, and full historical price and sales-volume charts.

Search the whole catalog by set, rarity, condition, and price, look up specific products by ID, or pull a price history chart.

> 👉 **Try it now:** press **Start**. The ready-made input gives you 10 results in a few seconds.<br>
> 💰 **$0.0143 per result** on the Free plan (10 results per run), from $0.0129 on paid plans. [See pricing](#-pricing)

### ✨ Why this scraper?

> - **Real seller listings, not just an aggregate price**<br>
>   Every listing's condition, printing, language, seller name, rating, sales count, and price plus shipping.
>
> - **Server-side filters that actually narrow the search**<br>
>   Set, rarity, listing condition, and price range all filter at the source.
>
> - **Real historical price charts**<br>
>   Daily market price, sale price range, and quantity sold, per condition, printing, and edition, going back a full quarter.
>
> - **Works with every TCGplayer game**<br>
>   Not just Pokemon: verified live across Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Dragon Ball Super, and more in the same run.
>
> - **A normal maximum-results cap**<br>
>   Not manual page-and-count math.
>
> - **Search**<br>
>   Filters the whole TCGplayer catalog by name, game, set, rarity, listing condition, and price range.
>
> - **Apify platform**<br>
>   Schedule runs, get only new results, export to Excel or CSV, use the API, or connect Google Sheets, Zapier and Make.

### ⚖️ How it compares

Checked directly against both other TCGplayer scrapers on Apify (their own declared input and output):

| Capability | This actor | parseforge/tcgplayer-scraper | devcake/tcgplayer-data-scraper |
|---|:--:|:--:|:--:|
| Every TCGplayer game | yes | **Pokemon only** | yes |
| Per-seller listings (condition, rating, price + shipping) | yes | **no** | yes |
| **Filter by set** | **yes** | yes | **no** |
| **Filter by rarity** | **yes** | yes | **no** |
| **Filter by listing condition** | **yes** | **no** | **no** |
| **Filter by price range** | **yes** | **no** | **no** |
| Historical price / volume chart | yes | no | recent sales list only |
| Direct lookup by product ID | yes | no | no |
| Declared dataset schema | yes | yes | **no** |

### 🚀 How to scrape TCGplayer

1. Create a free Apify account.
2. Pick the filters you need, or keep the ready-made input.
3. Click **Start**.
4. Download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON from the **Output** tab.

### 💰 Pricing

#### How much does it cost to scrape TCGplayer?

You pay a one-time **$0.003** per run, plus a price for each result saved:

| Charged for | Free | Bronze | Silver | Gold+ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **result**: Single result in the default dataset. | 0.0143 | 0.0129 | 0.0114 | 0.01 |

Example: 1,000 results cost about **$12.9** on Bronze. No proxy or compute costs on top.

### 📦 What data you get

| Entity | Useful fields |
| --- | --- |
| Product | ID, name, image, game, set name and code, rarity, and product URL. |
| Pricing | Market price, median price, lowest price, lowest price with shipping, and total active listings. |
| Listings | Seller name, rating, sales count, verified/gold flags, condition, printing, language, price, shipping price, quantity, per seller. |
| Card attributes | Game-specific attributes (HP, energy type, stage, attack text, etc.) when TCGplayer has them, cleaned of display markup. |
| Price history | The requested range plus one entry per condition/printing/edition with a dated series of price and volume. |

### ⚙️ Input

The input form is split into three sections:

| Section | What it's for |
| --- | --- |
| **Mode** | Pick Search, Look up, or Price history, plus the row cap for the run. |
| **Search filters** | Name, game, set, rarity, condition, price range, foil-only, and sort order. Only used in Search mode. |
| **Look up and price history** | Product IDs, and the price-history range. Used in Look up and Price history modes. |

> **Apify Free plan:** every run is limited to a fixed 10-row sample. Upgrade your Apify plan to run your own settings.

#### Input examples

#### 🔎 Search filtered products

```json
{ "mode": "search", "game": "Pokemon", "setName": "Base Set", "rarityName": "Holo Rare", "condition": "Near Mint", "priceMin": 10, "priceMax": 500, "maxItems": 100 }
```

#### 🔤 Search by name, cheapest first

```json
{ "mode": "search", "query": "black lotus", "game": "Magic: The Gathering", "sortField": "market-price", "sortOrder": "asc", "maxItems": 50 }
```

#### 🆔 Look up specific products

```json
{ "mode": "lookup", "productIds": [106999, 654213] }
```

#### 📈 Price history for the last quarter

```json
{ "mode": "priceHistory", "productIds": [106999], "priceHistoryRange": "quarter" }
```

### ❓ FAQ and troubleshooting

#### Is there a TCGplayer API? Do I need an API key?

> TCGplayer has no public data API for this. This Actor works as a TCGplayer API alternative: it reads the public pages and gives you clean JSON, CSV or Excel, with no API key, no login and no code to maintain. You can also call it from your own code with the Apify API, or from an AI agent through MCP:
> `claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=normdata/tcgplayer-scraper"`

#### Why do I get only 10 results?

> On the Apify free plan each run saves up to 10 results, so you can try it before paying. Any paid plan removes the limit.

#### Market price or median price is null

> TCGplayer only computes them with enough recent sales; rarely-traded products genuinely have neither.

#### A product ID returned an `error: "not found"` row

> Check the ID from the product's URL on tcgplayer.com.

#### What are the limits?

> This Actor reads only TCGplayer's own public search and pricing data. It never signs in and never accesses anything gated behind an account.
>
> An unresolved look-up or price-history product ID still writes one `error: "not found"` row rather than failing the whole run.
>
> TCGplayer only computes a market price or median price when it has enough recent sales data; an obscure or rarely-traded product can genuinely have neither, reported as `null` rather than guessed. `product_type` is left empty when TCGplayer's own search response doesn't include it, which is most products. `image_url` is built from the product ID against TCGplayer's own image CDN, since the search response carries no image field at all. TCGplayer's own history endpoint only supports month and quarter ranges. TCGplayer's own relevance search can repeat a product across pages as the catalog shifts mid-scan, so this Actor drops repeats and keeps fetching until it has enough distinct rows, which can make a large run take a little longer than the requested count suggests.
>
> Read live from TCGplayer's own data on every run. It is not cached.
>
> Is this an official TCGplayer tool? No. Independent, not affiliated with TCGplayer. It reads only publicly available data.

#### Is this an official TCGplayer tool?

> No. It is independent and not affiliated with TCGplayer. It reads only data TCGplayer publishes on its public pages, at a moderate pace. Use the data in line with TCGplayer's terms and the laws that apply to you.

### 📧 Contact

Need a scraper for a different site, or found something wrong with this one? norm.data.scrapers@gmail.com

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/normdata/tcgplayer-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

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

Caps how many rows this run writes. Starts at 10 for a quick sample; raise it for a full run.

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

Search filters TCGplayer's own catalog. Look up resolves exact product IDs. Price history returns daily price/volume series per product ID.

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

Match products whose name contains this text.

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

TCGplayer's own game name, e.g. Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, YuGiOh, Flesh and Blood, Digimon Card Game, One Piece Card Game. Leave empty for all games.

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

Exact TCGplayer set name, e.g. Base Set, Base Set Unlimited.

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

Exact TCGplayer rarity name, e.g. Holo Rare, Common, Secret Rare. Varies by game.

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

Only return seller listings in this condition, e.g. Near Mint, Lightly Played. Leave empty for all conditions.

## `priceMin` (type: `integer`):

Only products with a market price at or above this.

## `priceMax` (type: `integer`):

Only products with a market price at or below this.

## `foilOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only products flagged as foil-only prints.

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

Leave as relevance unless you specifically want price or name order.

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

Only applies when Sort by is not Relevance.

## `productIds` (type: `array`):

TCGplayer product IDs, the number in a product's URL, e.g. 106999 for tcgplayer.com/product/106999/....

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

How far back the price/volume chart goes. TCGplayer's own price-history endpoint only supports these two ranges.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "charizard",
  "game": "Pokemon",
  "foilOnly": false,
  "sortOrder": "asc",
  "priceHistoryRange": "month"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Complete dataset with all scraped TCGplayer products.

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

Overview view with key fields displayed in a table.

# 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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "charizard",
    "game": "Pokemon",
    "foilOnly": false,
    "sortOrder": "asc",
    "priceHistoryRange": "month"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("normdata/tcgplayer-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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "charizard",
    "game": "Pokemon",
    "foilOnly": False,
    "sortOrder": "asc",
    "priceHistoryRange": "month",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("normdata/tcgplayer-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 '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "charizard",
  "game": "Pokemon",
  "foilOnly": false,
  "sortOrder": "asc",
  "priceHistoryRange": "month"
}' |
apify call normdata/tcgplayer-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,normdata/tcgplayer-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/Owv3JLjQBStuDIjIx/builds/8OXf4hC8AynpaUZmX/openapi.json