OSRS Grand Exchange Price Scraper - Live Item Prices, Volumes & Flip Margins

Scrape live Old School RuneScape Grand Exchange prices for every tradeable item: instant-buy and instant-sell prices, 24-hour trade volumes, buy limits, high/low alchemy values and ready-calculated flip margins. No API key, no login, no proxy required.

This Actor joins three official OSRS Wiki real-time price endpoints (item mapping, latest prices, 24h volumes) into one clean, flat row per item, so you get everything you need for flipping and economy analysis in a single dataset.

What you get

One row per Grand Exchange item:

Field	Description
item_id	OSRS item ID
name	Item name (e.g. Dragon scimitar)
examine	In-game examine text
members	true for members-only items
buy_limit	4-hour Grand Exchange buy limit
high_price	Latest instant-buy price in gp
high_time	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of that trade
low_price	Latest instant-sell price in gp
low_time	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of that trade
margin	high_price - low_price (gp profit per flip, before tax)
margin_pct	Margin as a percentage of the low price
volume_24h	Units traded in the last 24 hours
high_alch / low_alch	High and low alchemy values
shop_value	Base shop value
icon_url	Item icon image on the wiki
wiki_url	Item page on the OSRS Wiki
source	Always osrs-wiki
scraped_at	ISO-8601 UTC scrape timestamp

All fields are nullable - items that have not traded recently simply return null prices instead of breaking your pipeline.

Example output

{
  "item_id": 1540,
  "name": "Anti-dragon shield",
  "examine": "This provides partial protection from dragonbreath attacks.",
  "members": false,
  "buy_limit": 125,
  "high_price": 118,
  "high_time": "2026-07-28T11:55:56+00:00",
  "low_price": 116,
  "low_time": "2026-07-28T11:54:42+00:00",
  "margin": 2,
  "margin_pct": 1.72,
  "volume_24h": 11011,
  "high_alch": 12,
  "low_alch": 8,
  "shop_value": 20,
  "icon_url": "https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/images/Anti-dragon_shield.png",
  "wiki_url": "https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Anti-dragon_shield",
  "source": "osrs-wiki",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T12:02:37+00:00"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	prices	Currently prices: mapping + latest prices + volumes joined per item
nameFilter	string	(empty)	Case-insensitive substring filter, e.g. dragon, rune, potion
membersOnly	boolean	false	Only return members-only items
maxItems	integer	500	Max items to push (maximum 5000)

{
  "mode": "prices",
  "nameFilter": "dragon",
  "membersOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Use cases

• OSRS flipping - sort by margin and margin_pct, filter by volume_24h and buy_limit to find items that actually fill, and calculate profit per buy-limit cycle.
• Price tracking - schedule the Actor every few minutes and build a historical price series for any item or basket of items.
• Game economy analysis - study inflation, item sinks, update-driven price shocks and supply/demand across the whole GE.
• Bots & tools - power Discord price bots, flipping spreadsheets, mobile companion apps, merching alerts and Google Sheets dashboards.

Pricing

Roughly $0.5 per 1,000 items scraped. The Actor makes only three HTTP requests total no matter how many items you request, so full-catalogue runs are fast and cheap.

How it works & fair use

Data comes from the official OSRS Wiki real-time prices API. The wiki's API policy requires a descriptive User-Agent that identifies the tool and gives the maintainers a way to make contact, so this Actor always sends:

ninhothedev-osrs-scraper/1.0 daniello@biwo-bauwelt.com

Please do not hammer the endpoints - prices refresh on the order of minutes, so scheduling a run every 5 minutes or slower is more than enough and keeps the free community API healthy for everyone.

This project is unofficial and not affiliated with Jagex Ltd. Old School RuneScape is a trademark of Jagex Ltd.

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