Topps APIripped.topps.com ↗
Retrieve articles, chase guides, product announcements, and collector news from the official Topps RIPPED blog via 2 structured endpoints.
What is the Topps API?
The Topps RIPPED API gives developers access to the official Topps trading card hobby blog through 2 endpoints, returning article metadata, full HTML content, categories, tags, and author data. The list_articles endpoint supports pagination, topic filtering, and free-text search, while get_article fetches a single post's complete content by its URL slug — covering baseball, basketball, football, and entertainment card content.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/c0b19d50-aecd-42dc-93ce-16f55a03a099/list_articles?topic=chase_guide&search=chrome' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace ripped-topps-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: Topps RIPPED API — browse chase guides and read full articles."""
from parse_apis.ripped_topps_com_api import Topps, Topic, ArticleNotFound
client = Topps()
# List recent chase guide articles, capped at 5 total items.
for summary in client.article_summaries.list(topic=Topic.CHASE_GUIDE, limit=5):
print(summary.title, "-", summary.date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))
# Drill into the first result to read full content.
first = client.article_summaries.list(search="chrome", limit=1).first()
if first is not None:
article = first.details()
print(article.title)
print("Categories:", ", ".join(article.categories))
print("Content preview:", article.content[:120])
# Direct point-lookup by slug discovered from the listing above.
if first is not None:
try:
full = client.articles.get(slug=first.slug)
print(full.title, "|", full.modified.isoformat())
except ArticleNotFound:
print("Article no longer available")
print("exercised: article_summaries.list / details / articles.get")
List and search articles from Topps RIPPED blog. Returns paginated article summaries with optional filtering by topic category or free-text search. Use topic 'chase_guide' to find what cards to chase, 'product' for upcoming product announcements, and 'product_history' for historical product information. Results are ordered newest first. Each page returns up to per_page articles (default 10, max 100).
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| page | integer | Page number for pagination (1-indexed). |
| topic | string | Filter articles by topic category. Omitted returns all articles. |
| search | string | Free-text search query to filter articles (e.g. 'flagship football', 'chrome basketball'). |
| per_page | integer | Number of articles per page (1-100). |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"page": "current page number",
"articles": "array of article summary objects with id, title, slug, date, link, excerpt, featured_image, categories, and tags",
"per_page": "articles per page"
},
"sample": {
"page": 1,
"articles": [
{
"id": 174492,
"date": "2026-07-01T13:00:10",
"link": "https://ripped.topps.com/chase-cards-guide-2026-topps-chrome-marvel-comics/",
"slug": "chase-cards-guide-2026-topps-chrome-marvel-comics",
"tags": [
"2026 Topps Chrome Marvel Comics",
"Chase Guide",
"Marvel",
"Product",
"Topps Chrome Marvel Comics",
"Trending"
],
"title": "2026 Topps Chrome® Marvel Comics Chase Guide: Top Autos, Inserts & More",
"excerpt": "Top Cards in 2026 Chrome Marvel Comics",
"categories": [
"2026 Topps Chrome Marvel Comics",
"Chase Guide",
"Marvel",
"Product",
"Topps Chrome Marvel Comics"
],
"featured_image": "https://ripped.topps.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/41captain.webp"
}
],
"per_page": 3
}
}About the Topps API
What the API Covers
The Topps RIPPED API surfaces content from ripped.topps.com, the official Topps hobby blog. Articles span chase guides (which cards to target in a given set), upcoming product announcements, product history write-ups, and general collector news across baseball, basketball, football, and entertainment trading card lines.
list_articles Endpoint
The list_articles endpoint returns paginated article summaries. Each object in the articles array includes id, title, slug, date, link, excerpt, featured_image, categories, and tags. You can narrow results with the topic parameter — accepted values include chase_guide, product, and product_history — or pass a free-text search string such as 'chrome basketball' or 'flagship football'. The per_page parameter accepts 1–100, and pagination is 1-indexed via the page parameter.
get_article Endpoint
Once you have a slug from list_articles, pass it to get_article to retrieve the full article. The response includes the complete content field as HTML, alongside title, author, excerpt, date, modified, link, slug, tags, and id. The modified field lets you detect updated posts without re-fetching everything. The author field may be null for some entries.
Limitations and Scope
The API covers published editorial articles on the Topps RIPPED blog. It does not expose product pricing, card values, marketplace listings, or any data outside the blog's editorial content. Coverage is limited to what is publicly published on ripped.topps.com.
The Topps API is a managed, monitored endpoint for ripped.topps.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when ripped.topps.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official ripped.topps.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Monitor the
producttopic category for new Topps product announcements as they publish. - Build a chase guide aggregator by filtering
list_articleswith topicchase_guideand surfacing the latest targets by card set. - Track product history for specific Topps sets using the
product_historytopic and searching by set name. - Index full article HTML from
get_articleto power a searchable collector knowledge base. - Use the
modifiedfield fromget_articleto detect editorial updates to previously published guides. - Extract
tagsandcategoriesfrom article summaries to classify content by sport or card brand automatically. - Subscribe to new articles by polling
list_articlessorted bydateand comparing against previously seenidvalues.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Topps have an official developer API for the RIPPED blog?+
What does the topic parameter in list_articles accept, and what does each value return?+
topic parameter accepts chase_guide (articles about which cards to target in a set), product (upcoming product announcements), and product_history (historical product write-ups). Omitting the parameter returns articles across all categories. You can combine it with a search string to narrow further — for example, topic=chase_guide and search='chrome' to find Chrome-specific chase guides.Does the API return card prices, sale histories, or marketplace data?+
Can I retrieve comments on blog articles?+
get_article or list_articles responses. Both endpoints cover article metadata and content fields. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add a comments endpoint if that data is accessible on the source.How fresh is the article data, and is there any delay after Topps publishes a post?+
modified field in get_article indicates when an article was last updated, which you can use to identify edited posts. Freshness depends on publication timing at the source; there is no guaranteed real-time push mechanism — polling list_articles by date is the standard approach for detecting new content.