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Amazon Search Scraper — Best Sellers, Ranks & Prices

An amazon search scraper that turns amazon search results and category charts into structured rows: amazon asin, title, price, rating, rating count, image, sponsored flag, and the exact position on the page.

Run Amazon Search Scraper on Apify →

Amazon search scraper pricing: what one row costs

Pay per event, one per delivered product row. Free: status rows, every row removed by skipSponsored, minRating or the cap, empty searches, and failed jobs. An ASIN found by two keywords is delivered and billed once per run.

A search page is roughly 20 organic products; a chart page about 30. Three keywords × 2 pages is a little over 100 rows. Verified runs behind this listing cost $0.0002–$0.0052 each in platform compute. Exact per-row pricing is on this page's pricing tab.

Amazon search scraper input reference

Every field of Amazon Search & Best Sellers, straight from the actor's input schema.

Example input

{ "queries": ["wireless earbuds", "bone conduction headphones", "sleep earbuds"], "pages": 2, "skipSponsored": true }

{ "categories": ["electronics"], "chart": "new_releases", "pages": 1 }

Amazon search scraper output fields

Two row types share one dataset: product (one search result or chart entry, charged) and status (per keyword or category, free).

Dataset views in the Apify Console: Overview, Keyword rank, Category charts, Run status.

Example row from a real run

Taken from the actor's README — this is the shape your dataset holds.

{
  "type": "product", "asin": "B0H9LRGB3B", "title": "Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth 5.4 Ear Buds",
  "query": "wireless earbuds", "chart": null, "category": null,
  "page": 1, "position": 2, "rank": null, "sponsored": false,
  "price": 73.42, "price_display": "$73.42", "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.7, "ratings_count": 941,
  "image": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/example.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9LRGB3B", "domain": "com", "marketplace": "US"
}

{
  "type": "product", "asin": "B08JHCVHTY", "title": "Blink Plus Plan",
  "chart": "bestsellers", "category": "electronics", "rank": 1, "page": 1,
  "query": null, "position": null, "sponsored": false,
  "price": 39.99, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.4, "ratings_count": 12034,
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JHCVHTY", "domain": "com", "marketplace": "US"
}

Amazon search scraper in Python, JavaScript and curl

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kestrel/amazon-search-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["wireless earbuds"], "pages": 2, "skipSponsored": True,
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["type"] == "product":
        print(row["position"], row["asin"], row["price"], row["rating"])

JavaScript (Node)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('kestrel/amazon-search-scraper').call({
    categories: ['electronics'], chart: 'new_releases', pages: 1,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((i) => i.type === 'product').map((p) => [p.rank, p.asin, p.title]));

curl

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/kestrel~amazon-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"queries":["wireless earbuds"],"pages":1,"skipSponsored":true}'

The same three calls are runnable files in the examples repository: examples/amazon-search-scraper.py|.js|.sh.

Limits and honest notes

FAQ

Does it need an Amazon API key?

No. Amazon's Product Advertising API needs an affiliate account with ongoing sales requirements, and it does not expose search rank the way a shopper sees it. This is an amazon search without api route: it reads the public results page.

Can I track Amazon keyword rank over time?

Yes — that is the main use. Schedule the run, keep the dataset, and position plus fetched_at give you rank history per ASIN per keyword. Use skipSponsored if you want organic rank only.

How do I separate sponsored from organic results?

Every row has a sponsored boolean. Leave it in to see the page as a shopper does, filter it out for organic analysis, or set skipSponsored: true so ads are dropped before billing and you never pay for them.

Can I scrape Amazon Best Sellers and New Releases?

Yes. Put the category slug in categories and choose chart: bestsellers or new_releases. Each row carries rank, so the chart arrives ready to sort. The slug is the part of a Best Sellers URL after /gp/bestsellers/.

How many products does one search return?

About 20 organic results per page plus ads, so a 2-page run is roughly 40 organic products. Charts return about 30 per page. Set pages for depth and maxResultsPerQuery to cap cost.

Can I get results for a specific category or department?

Two ways: department narrows a keyword search to a department, and categories pulls the chart for a category node. They answer different questions — the first is "who ranks for this phrase in kitchen", the second is "what sells best in kitchen".

Does it return the ASIN so I can scrape reviews next?

Yes, every product row carries asin. Feed those into an Amazon reviews run and you have the full picture: rank and price from here, customer opinion from there.

Which marketplaces are supported?

Twenty, listed in the input table. Set domain per run; the same keyword in two marketplaces should be two runs, because ranks are not comparable across them.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes. Every run writes an Apify dataset, exportable to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Console, or over the API with ?format=csv.

Is there a free tier?

Empty searches, filtered rows, status rows and failed jobs are always free, so a run that finds nothing costs nothing beyond a fraction of a cent of platform compute. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit you can spend here.

How to use Amazon Search Scraper

• How to Scrape Amazon Reviews: the Real Limit Is 13 — Amazon publishes 8-13 reviews per product to logged-out visitors. What that means for review scraping, what you can still build, and honest Python code.
• How to Track Competitor Prices Daily with n8n — A schedule, one HTTP node, a compare-with-yesterday code node and an alert. The workflow shape that turns any price scraper into a daily drop feed.
• How to Track Amazon Best Sellers Rank (BSR) Daily — Chart pages render only 30 of 50 ranks as HTML. How to get contiguous ranks 1-100, what to diff between runs, and why rank alone misleads.

Ready-made runs you can open and start

Each one is a saved input on the Apify Store — open it, press Start, and it runs with the fields already filled in. All 163 across the suite.

Related scrapers

• Amazon Product Scraper — full details, buybox and list price, stock flag, gallery and details table for any ASIN the search returns, in the same 20 marketplaces.
• Amazon Best Sellers Scraper — the Top 100 of any category with every rank filled (a chart page renders only 30 of its 50 entries), plus New Releases.
• Amazon Reviews Scraper — Amazon customer reviews and ratings by ASIN.
• Google Hotels Prices Scraper — hotel prices and every booking site’s rate for a stay.

Run Amazon Search Scraper

The actor lives on the Apify Store, where the pricing tab carries the live per-row price and the input form has every field above: apify.com/kestrel/amazon-search-scraper