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Terms of use

The rules for using tcgpricing data. Prices are for information only, without guarantee.

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1Scope#scope

These terms apply to the tcgpricing API and the data it delivers. Provider: TCG Buy and Sell Inh. Robles Gasser, Höheweg 10, 2553 Safnern, Switzerland ("we"). "Key holder" means whoever operates a client application that we have issued an API key to.

2Access#access

The API is not open to the public. Only client applications holding an API key can use it. We issue keys by individual agreement only. There is no signup and no right to a key. Calling the API without a valid key, bypassing limits or blocks, and systematic copying of the data are not permitted. The health check used by our status page is the one exception: it needs no key.

3About the data#data

  • Prices are indicative values published by third parties. They are not an offer to buy or sell, not a valuation and not financial or investment advice.
  • Prices are given in the currency they were quoted in. We do not convert them.
  • Card recognition results are suggestions with a confidence value and can be wrong.
  • Data can be late, incomplete or wrong. A missed day cannot always be recovered.

4Rules for key holders#key-holders

These rules apply to every key holder. They are the agreement between the key holder and us unless a signed contract says otherwise.

Keys

  1. One key per application and environment. Keys are for server-side use only and must not be built into apps, browser code or public repositories.
  2. The key holder is responsible for all use of its key and tells us at once if a key may have leaked.
  3. Each key has request limits per minute, which we set and may change. Requests above the limit are refused.

Permitted use

  1. The key holder may show data from the API to the users of the application the key was issued for, as part of that application's own functions (for example a card's details, its current price, a price history chart for cards the user looks at).
  2. Not permitted:
    • passing on the key or the data to others, reselling it, or offering an API, feed, export or download of catalogue or price data;
    • copying the catalogue or the price data in bulk, or building a database from it beyond a cache needed to run the application;
    • showing or exporting complete price lists of a source (for example the whole price guide of a set or game as a table or file);
    • using the data to train models for others or to build a competing data service.
  3. Caches are allowed for at most 24 hours for prices and 7 days for catalogue data, and are deleted when the key ends.

Sources and notices

  1. The data comes from third parties (Data sources). Their terms apply to the key holder as well. The key holder checks for itself that its use, including any paid plans, fits those terms. We do not hold and do not pass on any licence from the sources.
  2. Where a price is shown, the key holder names its source in plain text next to it or on the same screen, for example "Cardmarket price guide, 12 Nov 2026", with the link to the source's product page that the API supplies. No logos of a source, and no wording that suggests a partnership with or approval by a source.
  3. The key holder shows the trademark and copyright notices from Data sources, or links to that page, where card names and images are shown. Card images are shown unaltered, without cropping the artist or copyright line.
  4. If a source or rights holder asks us to stop or change a use, we may change or remove the data concerned at once, and the key holder follows suit in its application without delay.

Personal data

  1. The key holder sends no personal data of its users to the API (no names, e-mail addresses, account ids) and calls the API from its servers.
  2. The key holder tells its own users in its privacy policy that it uses tcgpricing, and links to https://tcgpricing.dev/privacy.
  3. If personal data of the key holder's users is to be processed on its behalf, a data processing agreement is concluded first.

Ending

  1. We may limit, suspend or revoke a key at any time: at once for security reasons, a breach of these terms or a demand from a source; otherwise with 30 days' notice. The key holder may stop at any time.
  2. When a key ends, the key holder stops using the API and deletes cached data from it.

Responsibility

  1. The key holder is responsible for its application and for what its users do with the data. If a third party makes a claim against us because of the key holder's use of the data in breach of these terms or of a source's terms, the key holder holds us harmless.
  2. Unless agreed in writing, the API is provided free of charge and without a service level.

5Availability#availability

We aim for reliable operation and show the current state on the status page of this website. We owe no particular availability or response time and may change or stop the API, unless agreed otherwise in writing.

6Rights#ip

Card names, card texts, artwork, logos and symbols belong to their publishers. Price data belongs to its sources. We grant no rights in them. Our own compilation, structure and software remain ours.

7Liability#liability

We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence and where the law does not allow a limit. Otherwise liability is excluded as far as the law permits, in particular for decisions made on the basis of prices or recognition results, for lost profit and for indirect damage.

8Law and courts#law

Swiss law applies. Place of jurisdiction is Biel/Bienne, subject to mandatory law.

9Changes#changes

We may change these terms. Key holders are told 30 days in advance by e-mail.