Weebs of the Shore · 3,240 printings
Grand Archive card scanner API
A small catalog, and almost all of its value in foil and alternate treatments.
- 3,240
- Matchable printings
- 3
- Languages
- 38 ms
- Median match
- $0
- Charged for a miss
The problem
Why Grand Archive is hard to identify
Grand Archive is the smallest catalog on this list, which makes recognition unusually reliable — there are simply fewer cards to confuse. What there is instead is treatment depth: foil, alternate art and promotional printings of the same card, sharing a number and differing substantially in price.
Because the print runs are small, availability moves prices faster than in the larger games, which is the argument for returning the price on the match rather than letting a cached number stand in for it.
wss://api.tcggraph.com/v1/scanidle- 0
- Frames
- 0
- Matched
- 0
- Unbilled
A replayed transcript of Grand Archive 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 Grand Archive 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 | Fixes set and position in a small, consistently laid out catalog. |
| Treatment | Foil, alternate art and promo printings share a number. |
| Edition | Early print runs are separately priced. |
Where scanners fail
Grand Archive 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.
Thin markets move fast
Small print runs mean a price from last week can be badly wrong. The match carries a current quote rather than relying on your cache.
Integrate it
Scanning Grand Archive 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=grand-archive returns, including the Grand Archive-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: ["grand-archive"],
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": "ga_mdwbkuhtjm",
"language": "en",
"finish": "holofoil",
"edition": "unlimited",
"collectorNumber": "004"
},
"card": {
"id": "ga_mdwbkuhtjm",
"game": "grand-archive",
"name": "Silvie, Slime Sovereign",
"set": {
"code": "ReC-SLM",
"name": "Re:Collection Slime Sovereign"
},
"rarity": "4",
"prices": []
},
"alternatives": []
}
],
"scans": {
"billed": 1,
"remaining": 5842
}
}FAQ
Scanning Grand Archive
Start with Grand Archive, 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 Grand Archive, Pokémon and Magic mixed together resolves card by card without you sorting it first.