eBay Product & Listings Scraper

The devil's in the data. 😈

$1.25 / 1,000 results — pay only for results that land, no credit card to try.

Search eBay's live "for sale" listings by keyword and get back structured rows: title, price, condition, buying format, item URL, and thumbnail — ready for reseller pricing tools, price-intelligence pipelines, and market research. eBay's search page fights back with a first-request block; we handle the warm-up cookies, the retries, and the fingerprint rotation so your dataset stays clean.

🎯 What this scrapes

One row per active eBay listing card matching your search. Sponsored placeholder cards ("Shop on eBay") and malformed cards are filtered out automatically — you only get real listings.

Field	Type	Description
item_id	string	eBay item ID, parsed from the item link
title	string	Listing title, accessibility suffix stripped
price	number | null	Listing price in USD; null on an unresolvable range/text price
currency	string	Fixed "USD" for v1 (ebay.com only)
condition	string | null	Item condition (e.g. "Pre-Owned", "Open Box")
buying_format	string | null	One of "auction", "fixed_price", "best_offer", "unknown"
bids_count	integer | null	Bid count, auction listings only
item_url	string	Canonical https://www.ebay.com/itm/<item_id> link
image_url	string | null	Thumbnail image URL
query	string	Echo of your search query
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp

🔥 Features

• Keyword search, no login required — search eBay's live listings the same way a shopper does, no account or API key needed on your end.
• Filter by category, condition, price range, and buying format — narrow results before you pay for a single row.
• Sponsored and malformed cards filtered automatically — placeholder "Shop on eBay" cards and broken cards never reach your dataset.
• We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi with Chrome/Firefox/Safari TLS impersonation, so eBay's servers see real-browser traffic, not raw Python.
• We handle the warm-up dance — eBay's search endpoint 403s a cold request; we collect the bot-manager cookie first, then reuse that session for every search page.
• We retry with exponential backoff — 408 / 429 / 5xx trigger a retry sequence (2s → 30s cap, up to 5 attempts), honouring Retry-After.
• We rotate proxies and sessions on every block — a fresh session_id and a fresh impersonation profile on every 403, through Apify Proxy.
• Clean, Pydantic-validated rows — every dataset row passes schema validation before it lands. ISO 8601 timestamps, stable column names.
• Pay only for results that land — no data, no charge beyond the small actor-start warm-up fee.

💡 Use cases

• Reseller price-checking — pull live asking prices for a product line before you list or restock, filtered by condition and price band.
• Price-intelligence pipelines — feed price / condition / buying_format into a downstream pricing model, refreshed on a schedule.
• Market research — sweep a category for buying-format mix (auction vs. fixed-price vs. best-offer) and price distribution.
• Arbitrage scouting — compare price across min_price/max_price bands to spot underpriced listings worth flipping.
• Competitive monitoring — track how many active listings and what price range a competitor's product category holds right now.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Open the Actor input form in Apify Console.
2. Enter your query (required) — the same keywords you'd type into eBay's search box.
3. Optionally narrow with categoryId, conditionIds, minPrice/maxPrice, or buyingFormat.
4. Set maxResults to cap how many rows to collect (default 100, up to 1000).
5. Leave proxyConfiguration on Apify Proxy (default) for stable, unblocked runs.
6. Click Start. Results stream into the default dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

Basic keyword search

{
  "query": "iphone 13",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Filtered search — condition, price band, buying format

{
  "query": "fender stratocaster",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "conditionIds": ["3000"],
  "minPrice": 200,
  "maxPrice": 1200,
  "buyingFormat": "fixed_price"
}

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	string	yes	—	Search keywords, 1-200 characters
maxResults	integer	no	100	Cap on rows collected, 1-1000
categoryId	string	no	—	eBay numeric category ID
conditionIds	string[]	no	—	eBay numeric condition IDs
minPrice	number	no	—	Lowest price to include, USD
maxPrice	number	no	—	Highest price to include, USD (must be >= minPrice)
buyingFormat	string	no	"any"	One of "any", "fixed_price", "auction", "best_offer"
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Apify Proxy configuration

📤 Output

One row per real (non-sponsored) listing card, up to maxResults. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML from the Apify Console.

Example row:

{
  "item_id": "196123456789",
  "title": "Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max 256GB Unlocked",
  "price": 270.74,
  "currency": "USD",
  "condition": "Pre-Owned",
  "buying_format": "best_offer",
  "bids_count": null,
  "item_url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/196123456789",
  "image_url": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/abc123/s-l500.jpg",
  "query": "iphone 13 pro max",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-13T12:00:00+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

This Actor is priced per-event — you pay only for results that land in your dataset.

Event	Price (USD)	When charged
actor-start	$0.05	Once at the start of each run
result-row	$0.0012	Per listing row written to the dataset

A 100-row run costs $0.17 total. A full 1,000-row run costs $1.25 — inside the $1.00-1.50/1,000 band the current eBay-scraper category charges, with a cleaner, actively-maintained dataset behind it.

🚧 Limitations

• Active listings only — this Actor covers eBay's live "for sale" search. Sold/completed listings are a separate product.
• ebay.com (US) only, v1 — other eBay marketplaces and non-USD currencies are out of scope for this version.
• Card-level data only — description, seller feedback score, shipping cost, item specifics, and return policy require a detail-page fetch and aren't included.
• No seller identity — seller username, store name, and feedback score aren't exposed on the search-result card.
• Point-in-time runs — this Actor doesn't monitor for new listings continuously; schedule repeat runs via Apify's Scheduler if you need that.
• Unresolvable prices ship as null — a range or starting-bid price that can't resolve to one number ships price: null rather than a guessed value.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an eBay account or API key? No. This Actor searches eBay's public listings the same way a shopper does — no login, no eBay Developer API key required.

Q: Can I filter by condition and price at the same time? Yes — conditionIds, minPrice, maxPrice, and buyingFormat all combine in a single search.

Q: What happens if eBay blocks the request? We rotate the session and browser fingerprint and retry the warm-up-then-search flow automatically. If a run ends with zero results, you'll see a clear status message explaining why (no matches vs. block-exhausted) rather than a silent empty dataset.

Q: Does this cover sold or completed listings? No — this Actor covers active, currently-listed items only. Sold/completed listing data is a separate Devil Scrapes Actor.

Q: Can I get more than 1,000 results per run? Not in a single run — maxResults caps at 1000. Narrow your query or split by categoryId/price band and run multiple queries for larger coverage.

💬 Your feedback

This Actor is built and maintained by Devil Scrapes. If a search returns fewer rows than expected, or you notice eBay's markup has shifted, open an issue on the Actor page and we'll patch it within a release cycle. The target blocks; we get back up.