# Steel City Collectibles Scraper - Cards & Boxes (`lulzasaur/steelcitycollectibles-scraper`) Actor

Scrape sports card & TCG product listings from SteelCityCollectibles.com. Get title, sport/category, product type, price, sale/MSRP, availability, presale, image, and URL. Search by keyword like 'pokemon' or 'baseball' — paginated to Max Results.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/steelcitycollectibles-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Steel City Collectibles Scraper

Scrape product listings from [Steel City Collectibles](https://www.steelcitycollectibles.com) — a leading sports card & trading card game (TCG) retailer selling sealed boxes, cases, packs, singles, and supplies.

### What it does

Given one or more search keywords, this Actor searches SteelCityCollectibles.com and returns every matching product with structured fields, paginating through the full result set up to your **Max Results** limit.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `searchQueries` | array | Keywords to search (e.g. `pokemon`, `baseball`, `2025 topps`). Each is paginated fully. |
| `maxResults` | integer | Cap on total listings across all queries. `0` = unlimited. Default `100`. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Optional proxy. Works best WITHOUT a proxy (the default). |

#### Example

```json
{
    "searchQueries": ["pokemon"],
    "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item:

```json
{
    "itemId": 440591,
    "title": "Pokemon Mega Forces Tin Case",
    "category": "Baseball",
    "sport": "Baseball",
    "nsCategory": null,
    "productType": "case",
    "price": 239.95,
    "salePrice": null,
    "regPrice": 239.95,
    "msrp": null,
    "onSale": false,
    "currency": "USD",
    "availableQty": 3,
    "availability": "In Stock",
    "presale": true,
    "releaseDate": "8/28/26",
    "isClearance": false,
    "image": "https://www.steelcitycollectibles.com/storage/img/uploads/products/large/mega-forces-3-tin-lot30931599.jpg",
    "url": "https://www.steelcitycollectibles.com/i/pokemon-mega-forces-tin-case",
    "searchQuery": "pokemon",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `title` | Product name |
| `category` / `sport` / `nsCategory` | Sport (baseball, basketball, …) or non-sport category |
| `productType` | Configuration: `box`, `case`, `pack`, `lot`, `display_box`, etc. |
| `price` | Current selling price |
| `salePrice` | Sale price when on sale |
| `regPrice` | Regular price |
| `msrp` | Manufacturer list price when available |
| `onSale` | Whether the item is on sale |
| `availableQty` / `availability` | On-hand quantity and In Stock / Out of Stock |
| `presale` / `releaseDate` | Presale flag and release date |
| `image` / `url` | Main product image and product page URL |

### Use cases

- Track sealed sports-card and Pokemon box/case pricing and availability
- Monitor presales and release calendars for hobby product
- Build price-comparison and arbitrage tools across card retailers
- Feed inventory and MSRP data into dashboards

### Notes

Data is read from the storefront's embedded product JSON, making extraction resilient to layout changes. Please scrape responsibly and respect the site's terms of service.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

One or more keywords to search SteelCityCollectibles.com product listings (e.g. 'pokemon', 'baseball', '2025 topps'). Each query is paginated through its full result set up to Max Results.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of product listings to scrape across all queries. Set to 0 for unlimited (all available results). Default is 60.

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

Proxy settings. Steel City Collectibles is behind Cloudflare, which challenges datacenter IPs, so US RESIDENTIAL proxies are REQUIRED (the default). The Actor rotates residential IPs on each challenge until one is served the real page. Leave this as-is unless you know what you're doing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "pokemon"
  ],
  "maxResults": 60,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "pokemon"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/steelcitycollectibles-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 = {
    "searchQueries": ["pokemon"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "pokemon"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/steelcitycollectibles-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lulzasaur/steelcitycollectibles-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/5TrtK3lwXaTydP5K6/builds/jGicMSLelFIlEuLYg/openapi.json