Magic singles price index

[Ben Titmarsh]

Does anyone know of an online service that tracks the prices of Magic cards over time?  I'm looking for something that tracks the change in prices, ideally using all of the big online stores (Starcity, Channel Fireball, Madhouse...) and display results graphically.

 

If it has a developer API that would be GREAT.  Not really holding out for this.  The closest I've found is TCGPlayer:

 

http://store.tcgplayer.com/product.aspx?id=33252

 

MagicCardMarket.eu also does something kinda similar in that it's a proxy between buyers and sellers, so it tracks the average sell price for each card:

 

http://www.magiccardmarket.eu/Arid_Mesa_%28Zendikar%29.c1p21744.prod

 

Any others?

 

 

[Dan Barrett]

blacklotusproject?

[Philip Dickinson]

could be worth writing something that scrapes pricelists off all the major sites every day at a certain time? i guess then over time you can compile your own analytics

[Ben Titmarsh]

BlackLotusProject looks interesting.  It is based on this:

 

http://www.magictraders.com/pricelists/current-magic

 

I wonder how MOTL compiles this data...

 

Writing one myself is a last resort but I could look into it.  Screen scraping == misery.

[Thomas David Baker]

MOTL has developer friendly export.  Their data can be spotty so I wouldn't treat it as gospel but it's pretty good.