Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Scraper

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Extract stamp listings from the Stanley Gibbons online shop — the canonical British and Commonwealth philatelic catalogue authority. Covers Great Britain and Commonwealth stamp collections with SG catalogue numbers, conditions, issue years, prices in GBP, and availability.

Features

• Extract stamp listings from Stanley Gibbons' Great Britain and Commonwealth collections
• Capture SG catalogue numbers, condition grades, issue years and date ranges, and denominations parsed directly from the product title
• Get live sale prices in GBP and availability status for each stamp
• Includes product images from the Stanley Gibbons CDN
• Reads the Shopify JSON API directly — no HTML scraping, no authentication required
• No proxy needed — the Shopify storefront API has no bot detection or rate limiting
• Pay-per-event pricing at roughly $0.001 per record

Who Uses Stanley Gibbons Catalogue Data and Why?

• Philatelic collectors — build searchable price guides for British and Commonwealth stamps, track catalogue values, and monitor in-stock listings
• Stamp dealers and auction houses — cross-reference SG numbers against current Stanley Gibbons sale prices to benchmark inventory
• Price guide developers — build stamp valuation tools using the canonical SG-number reference used globally for British stamps
• Market analysts — analyze pricing trends by reign, condition, denomination, or country across the British Commonwealth
• Researchers — catalogue philatelic data by watermark, perforation type, or issue period for academic study

How It Works

1. You specify which Shopify collections to scrape (default: Great Britain and Commonwealth) and an optional item cap.
2. The actor fetches the Shopify /products.json API in pages of 250 items per request.
3. Each product record is transformed: SG catalogue number, condition, issue year, and denomination are parsed from the product title; price, availability, and image are read directly from the Shopify variant.
4. Results are saved to the Apify dataset.

Input

Basic: Scrape all GB and Commonwealth stamps

{
"maxItems":100
}

Scrape only Great Britain stamps

{
"collections":["stamps-great-britain"],
"maxItems":500
}

Scrape all available stamps (no cap)

{
"collections":["stamps-great-britain","stamps-commonwealth"]
}

Include a sale or special collection

{
"collections":["stamps-great-britain","stamps-commonwealth","david-spivack-april-2026"],
"maxItems":200
}

Input Fields

Output Schema

Each item in the dataset has these fields:

Notes:

• sg_number is the Stanley Gibbons catalogue number — the global reference identifier for British and Commonwealth stamps.
• catalogue_value is populated when the listing's compare-at price is set; otherwise null.
• condition is extracted from the product title. Common values: Unmounted Mint, Mounted Mint, Fine Used, Used, Colour Trial, Proof.
• denomination, issue_year, and issue_date are parsed from the product title and may be null for unusual title formats.

Available Collections

Sale collections (e.g. david-spivack-april-2026) appear periodically and can be specified directly.

Notes

• Prices are in GBP (pounds sterling).
• The Stanley Gibbons online shop is updated regularly — run the actor periodically to capture new listings and price changes.
• This actor scrapes the live Stanley Gibbons Shopify storefront. It is not affiliated with Stanley Gibbons Ltd.