What a card is worth raw, and in every grade, from Collectr
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- credits per call
- 1–3
The Collectr API returns the Collectr price guide as clean JSON.
This page covers what the Collectr API returns, who uses it, a real response and pricing. Every parameter and response field is in Collectr API parameters and responses →
| grade_name | market_price | grader | grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEM - MT | 1209.19 | PSA | 10 |
| MINT | 344.96 | PSA | 9 |
| NM - MT+ | 312.89 | PSA | 8.5 |
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Collectr API
3 of 10 endpoints, ready to run
Cards and sealed product by name or card number: set, card number, rarity, printing, market price, latest change and which grades have prices.
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What Collectr endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
10 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
search
2 crSearch Collectr's price guide by name across every game, or browse a category, a set or a pri…
- required
- —
- optional
- query, category, set_id, language, product_type, price_min, price_max, sort, page, limit, currency, max_rotations
product
2 crOne card or sealed product in full.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- currency, max_rotations
price_history
3 crThe daily price history behind a product's chart, about one year back.
- required
- product_id
- optional
- grader, grade, variant, days, currency, max_rotations
suggest
1 crCollectr's own search-as-you-type.
- required
- query
- optional
- set_id, max_rotations
sets
2 crEvery set (expansion) Collectr lists for a game, newest first.
- required
- category
- optional
- language, query, max_rotations
set
2 crOne set's analytics as Collectr shows them.
- required
- set_id
- optional
- history_days, currency, max_rotations
trending
2 crWhat collectors are looking at on Collectr today.
- required
- —
- optional
- category, language, product_type, page, limit, currency, max_rotations
movers
2 crBiggest price gainers or losers on Collectr by percent or by amount, for one game or all, car…
- required
- —
- optional
- direction, measure, category, language, product_type, price_min, price_max, page, limit, currency, max_rotations
categories
1 crEvery game and collectible category Collectr prices (Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lo…
- required
- —
- optional
- max_rotations
grading_scales
1 crThe grading companies and grades Collectr prices (PSA, BGS, CGC, TAG, ACE, ARS, AGS) with eac…
- required
- —
- optional
- max_rotations
Every parameter, every allowed value →
Missing a Collectr endpoint, or need a source we don't have yet?Contact us real people · same-day reply.How the Collectr API works
Collectr 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.
Should I grade this card? Three calls
Compare a card's raw price with what each grade sells for, and see the trend, from Collectr.
{"query": "199/165", "category": "pokemon"}Find the card by its number; the row lists which grades have prices.
{"product_id": "517045"}Raw price and every graded price, PSA to AGS, with grade names.
{"product_id": "517045", "grader": "PSA", "grade": "10", "days": 180}How the PSA 10 price moved over six months.
Raw vs graded value and the graded trend for one card in three calls.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/collectr/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"charizard","category":"pokemon"}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "collectr",
"endpoint": "search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}One card, every grade: what a Charizard ex is worth slabbed
Charizard ex 199/165 from Pokémon 151 on 2026-11-08: one product call returned the raw price and 35 graded prices from five grading companies. The same card in a top grade ranges from about 2x to almost 30x the raw price depending on who graded it.
| Grade | Collectr price (USD) | vs raw $296.98 |
|---|---|---|
| Ungraded (raw) | 296.98 | 1.0x |
| PSA 9 MINT | 344.96 | 1.2x |
| PSA 10 GEM - MT | 1,209.19 | 4.1x |
| CGC 10 Gem Mint | 575.04 | 1.9x |
| CGC 10 Pristine | 1,644.00 | 5.5x |
| TAG 10 GEM MINT | 1,280.87 | 4.3x |
| BGS 10 Pristine | 8,499.99 | 28.6x |
Grade 10 is not one thing: CGC, TAG, BGS, ARS and AGS each have two top grades (Gem Mint vs Pristine, or Black Label), so every graded price comes with its grade name. Low grades can sit near or above the raw price (here PSA 5 was 300.00); these are Collectr's own figures, not smoothed by us.
What Collectr publishes, and what it does not
Collectr's price guide only, prices in USD (converted on request). Measured 2026-11-08: 35 of 35 live cases across ten actions, and 669 rows and prices checked against Collectr's own pages with no difference. Some of these lines go against us.
Base Set Charizard came back with 85 graded prices across 2 printings, SV151 Charizard ex with 35 across 5 graders, and a One Piece Luffy with 10.
About a year. Raw prices are close to daily; graded prices have gaps.
Pokémon 178 English, 202 Japanese and 26 Chinese sets, Magic 192, One Piece 23.
Basketball only, and only Panini 2018-21 rookies.
Population counts, the window a price change covers, and portfolios (they need a login). A new product with no price yet is null, never 0.
What people build with Collectr
The jobs this data is most often used for.
Grading decisions: raw price next to PSA, CGC, TAG and BGS prices for the same card
Collection value trackers: market price per card and printing, with history for charts
Sealed product investing: booster box and ETB prices and their movement
Market dashboards: trending cards, biggest gainers and losers, set value over time
endpoints
credits per call
What Collectr 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
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curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/collectr/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"charizard","category":"pokemon"}'import os
import requests
REEF_KEY = os.environ["REEF_KEY"]
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/collectr/v1/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"query": "charizard",
"category": "pokemon"
},
timeout=90,
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up Collectr.
Which grading companies are covered?▾
PSA, BGS (Beckett), CGC, TAG, ACE, ARS and AGS - whatever Collectr prices for that card. Each graded price carries the grader, the grade, the grade name and the date of the price. The graders a card has are listed on every search row, so you can skip cards with no graded data. SGC is not in Collectr's grading scale.
Can I get the price history for a PSA 10?▾
Yes. price_history with grader PSA and grade 10 returns the daily series Collectr charts, about a year back (raw prices are near-daily; graded series have gaps on days with no data). Use days to cut the window, variant to pick one printing, or grader all for every series at once.
Does it cover Japanese and Chinese Pokémon cards?▾
Yes. Collectr keeps separate English, Japanese and Chinese Pokémon set lists (178, 202 and 26 sets in our 2026-11-08 run). search takes language jp or cn, sets lists the sets per language, and product tells you the card's language from its set.
Is sealed product included?▾
Yes - booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, bundles, tins and collections have their own market price and history. Use product_type sealed in search, or cards for singles only.
Are sports cards covered?▾
Only lightly. Collectr's catalog has a small basketball section (Panini Prizm, Select and Optic rookie cards from 2018-21) and no baseball, football or soccer. For sports cards use Card Ladder or SportsCardsPro.
How do I find the id of a card?▾
suggest returns up to 10 matches for a name as you type; search takes a name or a card number such as 199/165. For TCGplayer-listed cards the Collectr id is the TCGplayer product id, so a TCGplayer product URL works as the id too.
What is the Collectr API?▾
Collectr API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for raw and graded card prices (psa, bgs, cgc, tag) with a year of history, for pokémon, magic, one piece and 30+ tcgs. It returns live JSON through POST requests under /collectr/v1.
Is the Collectr API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Collectr calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need a Collectr login or account?▾
No login to Collectr 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 Collectr 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 Collectr API use?▾
Collectr 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 Collectr from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call collectr actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
Is the Collectr API a Collectr scraper?▾
It is the managed alternative to a DIY Collectr 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 raw and graded card prices (psa, bgs, cgc, tag) with a year of history, for pokémon, magic, one piece and 30+ tcgs back as clean JSON.
Why does my Collectr scraper keep getting blocked?▾
Most Collectr 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
One key, one credit pool, one response envelope. If you are pulling Collectr, you are one call away from the rest of the category — no second contract, no second integration.
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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 2026-11-08.