Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about TCGAPIs, our trading card game API, and how to get started.
General
What is TCGAPIs?
TCGAPIs is a comprehensive API service that provides real-time pricing data, live marketplace listings, and sales history for 80+ trading card games including Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and more. Our API enables developers to build applications with accurate TCG market data.
What trading card games does TCGAPIs support?
TCGAPIs supports 80+ trading card games including Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Flesh and Blood, One Piece TCG, Disney Lorcana, Star Wars Unlimited, Digimon, Dragon Ball Super, Weiss Schwarz, Cardfight Vanguard, and many more.
Where does the data come from?
Catalog and market records cover TCGPlayer, Cardmarket, Cardtrader, Cardsynced, Manapool, CardKingdom, and Cardsphere. Available fields and update timing vary by source and endpoint.
Is the data accurate?
The API exposes source market records and multiple price references where available, including low, mid, high, and market values. Check each endpoint response and timestamp before using a value in production.
API & Technical
What endpoints are available?
TCGAPIs provides endpoints for catalog data, product pricing, live marketplace listings, sales history, historic prices, SKU-level condition pricing, card recognition, PSA lookup, and board game data. Public documentation is available before signup.
How do I authenticate API requests?
Protected data endpoints use an API key in the x-api-key request header. JWT Bearer tokens are reserved for signed-in website and dashboard routes.
What is SKU-level pricing?
SKU-level pricing provides prices for specific card variants including condition, printing or finish, edition, and language where available. It is included with the Unlimited plan.
How often is the data updated?
Pricing data is updated hourly across all supported games. Live marketplace listings are updated in real-time as new listings appear on TCGPlayer. Sales history is updated multiple times daily.
Can I make bulk requests?
Bulk access is available through supported CSV exports, Studio pulls, and documented bulk endpoints such as trend-price bulk lookup. Not every endpoint accepts multiple identifiers.
Is there a sandbox/test environment?
The public demo provides limited live evaluation. New accounts also receive 100 no-card credits for catalog and card-recognition evaluation; Business and Unlimited endpoint gates still apply.
What is the Card Recognition API?
The Card Recognition API identifies trading cards from images. Upload a card image and receive matching product IDs with confidence scores. It supports all 80+ games in our database and is included with all paid plans (Hobby: 1,000/month, Business: 5,000/month, Unlimited: 50,000/month).
Pricing & Plans
What plans do you offer?
TCGAPIs offers monthly Hobby, Business, and Unlimited plans. Hobby is £99 with catalog access. Business is £199 and adds product pricing, sales history, historic prices, and multi-marketplace pricing. Unlimited is £499 and adds live TCGPlayer listings, SKU-level pricing, and uncapped API calls.
What are the rate limits?
Rate limits depend on your plan: Hobby (10,000 calls/month), Business (50,000 calls/month), and Unlimited (unlimited). Calls are counted per request.
Can I upgrade or downgrade my plan?
You can manage the current plan and payment method from the dashboard. The billing view shows the provider status and effective renewal or cancellation date before further action.
Do you offer an Enterprise plan?
Custom commercial arrangements may be available for requirements outside the public plans. Contact admin@tcgapis.com to discuss scope and support needs.
Can I download data as CSV?
All paid plans include unlimited CSV downloads for datasets permitted by that plan. Pricing exports require a plan that includes pricing data.
What payment methods do you accept?
Available payment methods are displayed by Whop during checkout and billing management.
Data & Coverage
Do you support all card conditions?
Yes, our API provides pricing for all TCGPlayer conditions: Near Mint (NM), Lightly Played (LP), Moderately Played (MP), Heavily Played (HP), and Damaged (DMG).
Do you have foil pricing?
Yes, we provide separate pricing for foil and non-foil versions of cards, as well as other variants like 1st Edition, Unlimited, Reverse Holo, Extended Art, and more.
How far back does sales history go?
The full sales-history surface provides a filterable archive covering 90+ days where source data is available.
Do you support new releases?
Catalog coverage is updated as new source sets and products become available. Applications should use returned release dates and timestamps rather than assume pre-release availability.
Do you support graded cards?
Our API surfaces pricing for raw cards across the standard TCGPlayer conditions: Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played, and Damaged. Per-grade pricing for PSA, BGS, or CGC graded slabs is not currently part of the API. We expose PSA certificate verification (subject, brand, year, grade, population) via the PSA Checker endpoint, but per-grade market pricing is on the roadmap rather than live today.
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