Every CardTrader offer, and the price a card really trades at
- endpoints
- 6
- credits per call
- 1–3
The CardTrader API returns cardtrader.com - the European marketplace for Magic, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, Flesh and Blood, Digimon, Dragon Ball Super, Star Wars Unlimited, Riftbound and six more games - as clean JSON.
This page covers what the CardTrader API returns, who uses it, a real response and pricing. Every parameter and response field is in CardTrader API parameters and responses →
| name | lowest_price | translated_name | version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charizard ☆ Gold Star δ Delta Species | 55000.64 EUR | Charizard ☆ Gold Star δ… | Shiny Rare | 052/068 |
| Shining Charizard Lv.61 | 15000.63 EUR | Shining Charizard Lv.61 | Shining Holo Rare | No.… |
| Charizard | 13183.13 EUR | Charizard | Indonesian KFC Promo 18… |
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CardTrader API
3 of 6 endpoints, ready to run
Cards and sealed products in one game by name: set, collector number, category, number of offers, lowest price and image; optional three cheapest offers matching a language, condition or foil.
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What CardTrader endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
6 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
search
2 crSearch CardTrader for one game by card or product name.
- required
- —
- optional
- query, game, expansion, category, rarity, sort, page, only_available, card_language, min_condition, foil, reverse_holo, first_edition, signed, altered, with_offers, language, currency, country, max_rotations
expansion/products
2 crEvery product of one set with the same rows as search, by collector number by default.
- required
- expansion
- optional
- query, game, category, rarity, sort, page, only_available, card_language, min_condition, foil, reverse_holo, first_edition, signed, altered, with_offers, language, currency, country, max_rotations
expansions
1 crEvery set CardTrader lists for a game, newest first.
- required
- —
- optional
- game, query, max_rotations
games
1 crEvery game CardTrader sells, with its id, slug and product categories (Singles, Booster Boxes…
- required
- —
- optional
- max_rotations
product/detail
3 crOne CardTrader card or product by id or URL.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- offers_limit, language, currency, country, max_rotations
product/offers
3 crEvery public offer on one card or product, cheapest first, as CardTrader shows them to a shop…
- required
- product_id
- optional
- card_language, min_condition, foil, reverse_holo, first_edition, signed, altered, graded, seller_country, seller_type, ct_zero_only, direct_shipping_only, price_min, price_max, limit, language, currency, country, max_rotations
Every parameter, every allowed value →
Missing a CardTrader endpoint, or need a source we don't have yet?Contact us real people · same-day reply.How the CardTrader API works
CardTrader is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 632 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and nothing is cached: every call reads the source live.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
Price a card on CardTrader for a German and a US buyer
Find the card, then read its offers and price figures for each ship-to country.
{"game": "magic", "query": "sol ring", "expansion": "teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-eternal"}product_id of the printing, with its offer count and lowest price.
{"product_id": "374423"}CT Min / CT Market / Best Deal / US Market price boxes and 35-day history, ship-to Germany, in euro.
{"product_id": "374423", "currency": "USD", "country": "US"}The same card as a US buyer sees it: fewer offers, prices in CardTrader's US dollars.
Two market views of the same card - euro and dollar, Germany and the US - in three calls.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/cardtrader/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"game":"pokemon","query":"charizard","sort":"price_desc"}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "cardtrader",
"endpoint": "search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}CardTrader prints four prices on every card page - here is what each one means
The cheapest offer is rarely the price a card trades at. CardTrader shows four figures on the card page and the API returns all four, computed exactly as the page computes them, next to the full offer list (live, 2026-11-07, ship-to Germany unless noted).
| Card | ct_min_price (cheapest offer) | ct_market_price | best_deal_price (CT Zero, English, NM+) | us_market_price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sol Ring, Commander: TMNT (Magic) | €0.18 | €1.24 | €1.35 | €1.63 |
| Llanowar Elves, Foundations (Magic) | €0.11 | €0.11 | €0.13 | €0.29 |
| Skilled Dark Magician, Yugi Reloaded (Yu-Gi-Oh!) | €0.11 | €0.14 | €0.34 | — |
| Sol Ring, Commander: TMNT - ship to the US, in USD | $1.69 | $1.83 | $1.69 | $1.83 |
ct_market_price is the average of the first 15 offers after dropping outliers, as the page shows it today; the daily CT market series behind the price chart can differ (Sol Ring: €1.44 on the chart's latest day) and is returned separately as ct_market_price_daily with its history. Best Deal only counts copies that can ship through CardTrader Zero, in English and Near Mint or better, so it can sit well above the cheapest offer. US-dollar prices are CardTrader's own, not a conversion: the same Sol Ring offer costs €0.18 or $0.23.
What CardTrader publishes, and what it does not
cardtrader.com only - 16 games, prices in EUR or USD, 34 ship-to countries. Measured 2026-11-07: 31 of 31 live cases across six actions, 7 of 7 pages matched against the rendered site, 53 offline checks on real responses. Some of these lines go against us.
Up to 1,000 per call; the largest card we measured had 386. All 92 offer rows we compared matched the rendered page.
12 rows a page with no total count. Order matched the site on 11 of 11 visible rows.
Only the 'from' price of each offer, not every method.
Names translated in Italian, Spanish, French and German. USD prices come with English names only.
Sold prices.
What people build with CardTrader
The jobs this data is most often used for.
Price two European marketplaces at once: the same card on CardTrader and Cardmarket, by condition and language
Arbitrage between EU and US buyers: euro and dollar prices for the same offers, per ship-to country
Buylist and repricing tools: the cheapest Near Mint English copy that ships through CardTrader Zero
Set trackers: every card of a new set with offer counts and the lowest price, by collector number or rarity
endpoints
credits per call
What CardTrader data costs
The cheapest call here is 1 credit, so $15/mo (Pro) buys 10,000 of them — $1.50 per 1,000 credits. Credits roll over and never expire, and failed or blocked calls are not charged.
- 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
- One key, all 632 APIs, one credit pool
- Failed and blocked calls are never charged
- Credits roll over and never expire
Call it in two lines
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curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/cardtrader/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"game":"pokemon","query":"charizard","sort":"price_desc"}'import os
import requests
REEF_KEY = os.environ["REEF_KEY"]
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/cardtrader/v1/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"game": "pokemon",
"query": "charizard",
"sort": "price_desc"
},
timeout=90,
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up CardTrader.
Why do I get different offers for different countries?▾
Because CardTrader only shows a shopper the offers whose seller ships to the shopper's country, directly or through CardTrader Zero. Set country to the ship-to country (DE by default; 34 countries). Measured on the same card in the same minute: 99 offers starting at €0.18 for Germany, 100 for Italy, 99 for France, 96 for the United Kingdom and 89 starting at $1.69 for the United States - the cheapest Italian and Croatian sellers do not ship there.
Is the price the seller's price or what I pay?▾
price is what the buyer pays, as CardTrader displays it. CardTrader adds a small fee on top of the seller's price; every offer also carries seller_price and buyer_fee (for example €1.25 + €0.10 = €1.35), so you can work with either.
Can I filter offers by condition, language, foil or seller country?▾
Yes. product/offers takes card_language, min_condition (mint, near_mint, slightly_played, moderately_played, played, poor - or NM, SP, MP, PL, PO), foil, reverse_holo for Pokémon, first_edition, signed, altered, graded, seller_country, seller_type (private or professional), ct_zero_only, direct_shipping_only and a price range. Every filtered field is returned on each offer so you can check the result. search takes card_language, min_condition, foil, reverse_holo and first_edition and returns the three cheapest matching offers per card.
How many offers do I get for a popular card?▾
All of them, up to 1,000 rows per call, cheapest first. The biggest card we measured, Llanowar Elves from Foundations, had 386 offer rows holding 7,150 copies for German buyers; product/offers read all 386 in one call and returned the 4 German-language Near Mint ones, from €0.31.
Does it include sold prices?▾
No - CardTrader does not publish completed sales to visitors. What it does publish is its daily CT market price and the US market price for each card over the last ~35 days, which product/detail returns as price_history.
How does this compare with the Cardmarket API?▾
The actions and parameter names follow our Cardmarket API (search, expansion/products, expansions, product/detail, product/offers, game, query, expansion, card_language, min_condition, seller_country…), so the same code can price a card on both European marketplaces. CardTrader adds US-dollar prices, the ship-to country and CardTrader Zero; Cardmarket adds its price guide and sell-price averages.
What is the CardTrader API?▾
CardTrader API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for europe's other big card marketplace: every offer, ct zero best deal and market price, in eur or usd, for any ship-to country. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /cardtrader/v1.
Is the CardTrader API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. CardTrader calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a CardTrader login or account?▾
No login to CardTrader is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the CardTrader data?▾
The page example is captured from a live search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the CardTrader API use?▾
CardTrader actions currently cost 1-3 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free. All APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call CardTrader from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call cardtrader actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the CardTrader API a CardTrader scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY CardTrader scraper. Instead of building and maintaining your own scraper — proxies, headless browsers, captcha and constant breakage — you call one ReefAPI endpoint and get the same europe's other big card marketplace: every offer, ct zero best deal and market price, in eur or usd, for any ship-to country back as clean JSON.
Why does my CardTrader scraper keep getting blocked?▾
Most CardTrader scrapers break on anti-bot defenses, rate limits and IP bans that need rotating residential proxies and browser fingerprinting to clear. ReefAPI handles all of that for you — no proxies, no captchas, no maintenance — and returns live JSON. Blocked calls are free.
350 E-commerce & Marketplaces APIs on the same key
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The call above is the real endpoint, not a recording. A free key gives you 1,000 credits, the other 631 APIs, and the same envelope everywhere.
Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-11-07.