# Scryfall Magic The Gathering Scraper (`parseforge/scryfall-mtg-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Magic The Gathering card data including names, mana costs, types, rarity, images, pricing in USD and EUR, format legalities, and set details. Filter by text query, set code, or format. Covers 100,000+ unique cards across every MTG set.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/scryfall-mtg-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
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- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $6.00 / 1,000 results

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

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

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# README

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## 🃏 Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper

🚀 Collect structured Magic: The Gathering card data including names, mana costs, types, rarity, images, pricing in USD and EUR, format legalities, and set details. Covers 100,000+ unique cards across every MTG set.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Whether you run a card shop tracking retail prices, build MTG price trackers and deck builder apps, or manage a large personal collection, getting structured card data at scale requires automation. Manual browsing and copy-pasting is not practical for catalogs with tens of thousands of cards.

The Scryfall MTG Scraper automates card data collection using the full Scryfall search syntax. Search by color, type, format, mana cost, set, or any advanced query and get back clean records with images, prices, legalities, and oracle text ready for your tools.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Target Audience** | Card shop owners, price tracker developers, deck builders, collection managers |
| **Primary Use Cases** | Price tracking, inventory management, deck building, market analysis |

---

### 📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects Magic: The Gathering card data, returning structured records with comprehensive details. It delivers:

- 🃏 **Card details** - names, mana costs, type lines, power/toughness, loyalty, and oracle text
- 💰 **Live prices** - USD, USD foil, EUR, and MTGO Tix values for every printing
- 🎨 **Card images** - high quality card art URLs ready to embed or download
- 📜 **Format legalities** - Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Pauper, Brawl
- 📊 **Set info** - collector numbers, release dates, artists, and set codes
- 🏆 **EDHREC ranking** - see how popular a card is in Commander decks

---

### 🎬 How to Use the Scryfall MTG Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to get started in under 2 minutes.

---

### ⚙️ Input

Configure your card search with Scryfall's powerful query syntax.

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Field</th><th>Type</th><th>Description</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td><b>Max Items</b></td><td>Integer</td><td>Free users: Limited to 10 cards. Paid users: up to 1,000,000</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Search Query</b></td><td>String</td><td>Scryfall syntax (e.g. "t:creature c:red", "name:phoenix", "pow>=5")</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Set Code</b></td><td>String</td><td>Filter by set (e.g. "mh3", "neo", "bro")</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Format</b></td><td>Select</td><td>Filter by format legality (Standard, Modern, Commander, etc.)</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Sort Order</b></td><td>Select</td><td>Release Date, Name, Mana Cost, Power, EDHREC Rank, Price, etc.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

**Example 1 - Red creatures for Commander:**
```json
{
    "query": "t:creature c:red",
    "format": "commander",
    "order": "edhrec",
    "maxItems": 100
}
````

**Example 2 - All cards in a specific set:**

```json
{
    "set": "mh3",
    "order": "usd",
    "maxItems": 500
}
```

> ⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 cards per run. [Sign up for a paid plan](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) to unlock up to 1,000,000 cards.

***

### 📊 Output

#### 🧾 Output Schema

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| imageUrl | string | Normal card art URL |
| name | string | Card name |
| manaCost | string | Mana cost symbols |
| cmc | number | Converted mana cost |
| typeLine | string | Full type line |
| oracleText | string | Card rules text |
| power | string | Power value (creatures) |
| toughness | string | Toughness value (creatures) |
| colors | array | Card colors |
| rarity | string | common, uncommon, rare, mythic |
| set | string | Set code |
| setName | string | Full set name |
| priceUsd | number | Current USD price |
| priceEur | number | Current EUR price |
| legalStandard | string | Standard legality |
| legalModern | string | Modern legality |
| legalCommander | string | Commander legality |
| artist | string | Card illustrator |
| edhrecRank | integer | EDHREC popularity rank |
| scrapedAt | string | Timestamp of data collection |

#### 📦 Sample Output

**Sample 1 - Classic spell:**

```json
{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/lightning-bolt.jpg",
    "name": "Lightning Bolt",
    "manaCost": "{R}",
    "cmc": 1,
    "typeLine": "Instant",
    "oracleText": "Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.",
    "colors": ["R"],
    "rarity": "common",
    "set": "m11",
    "setName": "Magic 2011",
    "priceUsd": 1.49,
    "priceEur": 0.92,
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Christopher Moeller",
    "edhrecRank": 45,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

**Sample 2 - Mythic creature:**

```json
{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/sheoldred.jpg",
    "name": "Sheoldred, the Apocalypse",
    "manaCost": "{2}{B}{B}",
    "cmc": 4,
    "typeLine": "Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Praetor",
    "oracleText": "Deathtouch. Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.",
    "power": "4",
    "toughness": "5",
    "colors": ["B"],
    "rarity": "mythic",
    "set": "dmu",
    "setName": "Dominaria United",
    "priceUsd": 42.50,
    "priceEur": 38.90,
    "legalStandard": "not_legal",
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Chris Rahn",
    "edhrecRank": 12,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

**Sample 3 - Planeswalker:**

```json
{
    "imageUrl": "https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/teferi.jpg",
    "name": "Teferi, Hero of Dominaria",
    "manaCost": "{3}{W}{U}",
    "cmc": 5,
    "typeLine": "Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi",
    "oracleText": "+1: Draw a card. At the beginning of the next end step, untap up to two lands.",
    "colors": ["W", "U"],
    "rarity": "mythic",
    "set": "dom",
    "setName": "Dominaria",
    "priceUsd": 8.75,
    "priceEur": 7.20,
    "legalModern": "legal",
    "legalCommander": "legal",
    "artist": "Chris Rallis",
    "edhrecRank": 156,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

***

### ✨ Why Choose the Scryfall MTG Scraper?

| Advantage | Details |
|-----------|---------|
| 🃏 **100,000+ cards** | Access every card ever printed in Magic: The Gathering |
| 🔍 **Full search syntax** | Use Scryfall's powerful query language for precise targeting |
| 💰 **Live pricing** | USD, EUR, foil, and MTGO Tix values updated daily |
| 📜 **Format legalities** | All formats - Standard, Modern, Commander, and more |
| 🎨 **Card images** | High-quality art URLs ready to embed |
| 🏆 **EDHREC rankings** | Commander popularity data for every card |
| ⏰ **Price tracking** | Schedule daily runs to build price history |

***

### 📈 How Does It Compare?

| Feature | Our Tool | Manual Browsing |
|---------|----------|-----------------|
| Bulk card extraction | Up to 1M cards | One at a time |
| Full search syntax | Yes | Limited web UI |
| Format legalities | All formats | Click each card |
| Prices in USD/EUR/Tix | Included | Scattered |
| Structured export | JSON, CSV, Excel | HTML pages |
| Scheduled price tracking | Daily runs | Not possible |

***

### 🚀 How to Use

1. **Sign Up** - [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes)
2. **Find the Tool** - Search for "Scryfall Magic The Gathering Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. **Set Input** - Enter your search query, set code, or format filter
4. **Run It** - Click "Start" and get card data in seconds
5. **Download Data** - Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON from the Dataset tab

***

### 💼 Business Use Cases

**Card Shops:**

- Track retail prices across the entire catalog
- Automate inventory repricing based on market data

**Price Tracker Developers:**

- Build daily snapshots of card values for investor dashboards
- Feed price data into mobile apps and Discord bots

**Deck Builders:**

- Pull every legal card for a format to power deckbuilder apps
- Import card metadata into collection trackers

**Market Researchers:**

- Analyze price movements across sets, rarities, and formats
- Study EDHREC popularity trends over time

***

***

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

| | Capability |
|---|---|
| 🎯 | **Built for the job.** Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely. |
| 🔖 | **Structured output.** Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines. |
| ⚡ | **Fast.** Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes. |
| 🔁 | **Always fresh.** Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time. |
| 🌐 | **No infra to manage.** Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage. |
| 🛡️ | **Reliable.** Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling. |
| 🚫 | **No code required.** Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK. |

> 📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

***

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Approach | Cost | Coverage | Refresh | Filters | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **⭐ Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper** *(this Actor)* | $5 free credit, then pay-per-use | Full source coverage | **Live per run** | Source-native filters supported | ⚡ 2 min |
| Build your own scraper | Engineering hours | Full once built | Whenever you maintain it | Custom code | 🐢 Days to weeks |
| Paid managed APIs | $$$ monthly | Vendor-defined | Live | Vendor-defined | ⏳ Hours |
| Third-party data dumps | Varies | Subset, often stale | Periodic | None | 🕒 Variable |

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

***

### 🚀 How to use

1. 📝 **Sign up.** [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 **Open the Actor.** Go to the Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 **Set input.** Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 **Run it.** Click **Start** and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 **Download.** Grab your results in the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

> ⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: **3-5 minutes.** No coding required.

***

### 💼 Business use cases

<table>
<tr>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 📊 Data & Analytics

- Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data
- Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records
- Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time
- Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields

</td>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🏢 Operations & Strategy

- Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts
- Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data
- Power workflows that depend on fresh source records
- Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🎯 Marketing & Growth

- Identify market opportunities and trending topics
- Research target audiences and customer personas at scale
- Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records
- Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time

</td>
<td width="50%" valign="top">

#### 🛠️ Engineering & Product

- Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler
- Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor
- Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks
- Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

</td>
</tr>
</table>

***

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

<table>
<tr>
<td width="50%">

#### 🎓 Research and academia

- Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework
- Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots
- Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls
- Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping

</td>
<td width="50%">

#### 🎨 Personal and creative

- Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches
- Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics
- Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters
- Hobbyist collections and personal trackers

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="50%">

#### 🤝 Non-profit and civic

- Transparency reporting and accountability projects
- Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data
- Community-run databases for local issues
- Investigative journalism on public records

</td>
<td width="50%">

#### 🧪 Experimentation

- Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data
- Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend
- Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora
- Test dashboard concepts with live input

</td>
</tr>
</table>

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### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

<details>
<summary><b>💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?</b></summary>

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes **$5 in free monthly credit**. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. [Create a free Apify account here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) to get started.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?</b></summary>

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📏 How many items can I scrape per run?</b></summary>

Free users are limited to **10 items per run** so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to **1,000,000** per run. [Upgrade here](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) if you need full scale.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🕒 How fresh is the data?</b></summary>

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?</b></summary>

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for [Node.js](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/js) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python). You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📤 How do I export the data?</b></summary>

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

</details>

<details>
<summary><b>📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?</b></summary>

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

***

</details>

### 🔌 Automating Your MTG Data Collection

Schedule daily runs to track card prices and new set releases. Use the Apify scheduler and push data to Google Sheets, Discord webhooks, or your custom price tracking database.

### 🔌 Integrate Scryfall MTG Scraper with Any App

Connect your card data to thousands of apps using these integrations:

- [Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Automate card data syncs
- [Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Trigger price alerts
- [Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Post new card releases to a channel
- [Google Drive](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Maintain card inventory spreadsheets
- [Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Sync to your data warehouse
- [Webhooks](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/webhooks) - Trigger workflows on completion

***

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Card Scraper connects to any cloud service via [Apify integrations](https://apify.com/integrations):

- [**Make**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make) - Automate multi-step workflows
- [**Zapier**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier) - Connect with 5,000+ apps
- [**Slack**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack) - Get run notifications in your channels
- [**Airbyte**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte) - Pipe results into your warehouse
- [**GitHub**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github) - Trigger runs from commits and releases
- [**Google Drive**](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive) - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

***

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

Looking for more data collection tools? Check out these related actors:

| Actor | Description | Link |
|-------|-------------|------|
| Hugging Face Model Scraper | AI model metadata | [Link](https://apify.com/parseforge/hugging-face-model-scraper) |
| Bring A Trailer Auctions Scraper | Car auction listings and bids | [Link](https://apify.com/parseforge/bringatrailer-auctions-scraper) |
| Flippa Scraper | Online business listings | [Link](https://apify.com/parseforge/flippa-scraper) |
| duPont Registry Scraper | Luxury marketplace listings | [Link](https://apify.com/parseforge/dupont-registry-scraper) |
| Stripe App Marketplace Scraper | App marketplace listings | [Link](https://apify.com/parseforge/stripe-marketplace-scraper) |

**Pro Tip:** 💡 Browse the full [ParseForge catalog](https://apify.com/parseforge) to find more data tools.

***

### 🆘 Need Help?

- Check the FAQ section above for common questions
- Visit the [Apify documentation](https://docs.apify.com) for platform guides
- Contact us at [Tally contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

***

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Scryfall, Wizards of the Coast, or Magic: The Gathering. It collects only publicly available card data.

# Actor input Schema

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

Free users: Limited to 10 cards. Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000

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

Scryfall search syntax. Examples: 'lightning bolt', 't:creature c:red', 'pow>=5', 'name:phoenix'

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

Filter by set code (e.g. 'mh3', 'neo', 'bro').

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

Filter by format legality.

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

How to sort results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "query": "t:creature c:red",
  "order": "released"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (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 = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "query": "t:creature c:red",
    "order": "released"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/scryfall-mtg-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,
    "query": "t:creature c:red",
    "order": "released",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/scryfall-mtg-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 '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "query": "t:creature c:red",
  "order": "released"
}' |
apify call parseforge/scryfall-mtg-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Scryfall Magic The Gathering Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape Magic The Gathering card data including names, mana costs, types, rarity, images, pricing in USD and EUR, format legalities, and set details. Filter by text query, set code, or format. Covers 100,000+ unique cards across every MTG set.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "No70S8f6MZuT5q1LP"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/parseforge~scryfall-mtg-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-scryfall-mtg-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~scryfall-mtg-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-scryfall-mtg-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~scryfall-mtg-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-scryfall-mtg-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users: Limited to 10 cards. Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000"
                    },
                    "query": {
                        "title": "Search Query",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Scryfall search syntax. Examples: 'lightning bolt', 't:creature c:red', 'pow>=5', 'name:phoenix'"
                    },
                    "set": {
                        "title": "Set Code",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter by set code (e.g. 'mh3', 'neo', 'bro')."
                    },
                    "format": {
                        "title": "Format",
                        "enum": [
                            "",
                            "standard",
                            "pioneer",
                            "modern",
                            "legacy",
                            "vintage",
                            "commander",
                            "pauper",
                            "brawl"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter by format legality."
                    },
                    "order": {
                        "title": "Sort Order",
                        "enum": [
                            "released",
                            "set",
                            "name",
                            "cmc",
                            "power",
                            "toughness",
                            "edhrec",
                            "usd",
                            "eur",
                            "artist"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "How to sort results."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
