Bandai · 8,120 printings
Digimon card scanner API
Alternate art parallels with the same card number, across four languages.
- 8,120
- Matchable printings
- 4
- Languages
- 38 ms
- Median match
- $0
- Charged for a miss
The problem
Why Digimon is hard to identify
Digimon follows Bandai's house pattern, which means parallels rather than reprints carry the value. Alternate art versions of popular cards share the base card's number and code, and box toppers, pre-release promos and tournament packs reuse art with stamps or foiling changes. The number tells you which card; the treatment tells you what it is worth.
With four printed languages and a Japanese release cadence ahead of the English one, language is part of the product identity here too. The match returns the parallel and the language explicitly rather than folding them into a single card record.
wss://api.tcggraph.com/v1/scanidle- 0
- Frames
- 0
- Matched
- 0
- Unbilled
A replayed transcript of Digimon cards from the public demo catalog, including a frame that does not resolve and is not billed. Nothing is being inferred in your browser.
What settles it
The fields a match is decided on
Read in the order a person grading Digimon would read them. The match returns all of them, so you never have to infer a printing from a card name.
| Field | Why it decides the price |
|---|---|
| Card number | The BT16-045 style code fixes set and position. |
| Parallel treatment | Alternate art shares the number and multiplies the price. |
| Language | Four printed languages on separate release schedules. |
| Promo stamp | Pre-release and tournament promos are separate products. |
Where scanners fail
Digimon traps that return the wrong printing
Each of these is a case where the artwork is right and the answer is still wrong. A confident wrong match costs more than a refused one, which is why an unresolved frame is free.
Alternate art shares the code
As with One Piece, the printed code does not change between base and parallel, so it cannot be the key.
Stamped promos
A stamp in the corner is the only difference from the base card, and it is often the part of the card a sleeve or a thumb covers.
Integrate it
Scanning Digimon in about fifteen lines
Pin the socket to one game and matching gets both faster and more certain, because there are fewer near-identical candidates to rule out.
The card inside a match is the same object /v1/cards?game=digimon returns, including the Digimon-specific fields. If you already read this API, a scanner is a new input to code you have written rather than a second integration.
Scanning is metered separately from data, so pointing a camera at a stack all morning cannot spend the credits your repricer needs at midnight.
Scan pricing
$29/mo · 6,000 matched cards
Or $0.012 per matched card with no plan at all. Down to $0.0025 at volume, and a frame we cannot place is never billed.
Compare scan plansconst socket = new WebSocket("wss://api.tcggraph.com/v1/scan", [
"tcggraph.v1",
`bearer.${process.env.TCGGRAPH_KEY}`,
]);
socket.onopen = () =>
socket.send(
JSON.stringify({
type: "config",
games: ["digimon"],
minConfidence: 0.92,
prices: ["cardmarket", "tcgplayer"],
}),
);
socket.onmessage = (event) => {
const frame = JSON.parse(event.data);
for (const match of frame.matches ?? []) {
// The printing, not just the card: set, number, language, finish.
intake.add(match.printing, match.card.prices);
}
// Unresolved frames arrive too, and cost nothing.
for (const miss of frame.unresolved ?? []) showHint(miss.reason);
};
for await (const jpeg of camera.frames()) socket.send(jpeg);{
"requestId": "scan_01K5Z8P4XQJ7YB3M",
"latencyMs": 41,
"matches": [
{
"confidence": 0.9962,
"billed": true,
"box": {
"x": 0.171,
"y": 0.064,
"w": 0.658,
"h": 0.872
},
"printing": {
"id": "dgm_bt1_084",
"language": "en",
"finish": "holofoil",
"edition": "unlimited",
"collectorNumber": "BT1-084"
},
"card": {
"id": "dgm_bt1_084",
"game": "digimon",
"name": "Omnimon",
"set": {
"code": "BT1",
"name": [
"BT-01: Booster New Evolution",
"BT-06: Booster Double Diamond",
"BT01-03: Release Special Booster Ver.1.0",
"BTC-01: Booster Ultimate Evolution",
"PB-12E: Digimon Card Game 2nd Anniversary Set",
"Ultimate Cup 2022"
]
},
"rarity": "Common",
"prices": []
},
"alternatives": []
}
],
"scans": {
"billed": 1,
"remaining": 5842
}
}FAQ
Scanning Digimon
Start with Digimon, add the rest for nothing
One key covers every game we carry, and scans are pooled across all of them. There is no per-game surcharge and no separate model to enable — a stack with Digimon, Pokémon and Magic mixed together resolves card by card without you sorting it first.