# cgc-cert — CGC Comics certificate verification

Verifies CGC comic/magazine cert numbers against https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/<cert>/ (Firecrawl render of the Cloudflare-challenged public page; Scrapfly fallback). One request per known cert; the CGC census is login-gated and never fetched.

• certUrl(cert) / certFromUrl(url) (also accepts the short cgccomics.com/<cert>/ form).
• Output: catalog_item (title, issue, publisher, issue date/year, grade, label category → qualifier, page quality, key/art comments, grader notes, identifiers.cgc_cert) + partial population_report from the on-page "Total Graded by CGC: In 9.0: n / In Higher Grades: m".
• Shared parser: connectors/firecrawl/_g2-grading-lib/ccg.ts (CCG template used by CGC Comics, CGC Cards, NGC, PMG).
• Fixtures: data/fixtures/cgc-cert/ — rebuild with capture.ts cgc-cert action-comics-1=1134755001 not-found=9999999999.