# Amazon Bestsellers Scraper | $2/1K | Top 100 by Category (`apivault_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Amazon Best Sellers rankings — top products by category with rank, price, rating, reviews. Perfect for dropshipping and trend research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/apivault\_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Apivault Labs](https://apify.com/apivault_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 bestseller scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🏆 Amazon Bestsellers Scraper | $2/1K | Real-Time Rankings

Scrape Amazon Best Sellers category pages — get the **top 50-100 products** in any category with rank, price, rating, reviews count, ASIN and image. Perfect for dropshipping research, trend spotting, and product discovery.

### ✨ Key Features

- 🏆 Top-ranked products by category (rank 1 to 100)
- 💵 Price, ⭐ rating, reviews count
- 🔢 ASIN auto-extracted (use with our Amazon Product Scraper for deeper data)
- 🌍 Works across all 12 Amazon marketplaces
- 📂 Any category or subcategory
- 🧲 Auto-deduplication
- 🔒 No Amazon API key, no login

### Input

#### Top 100 electronics

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"
  ],
  "maxPages": 2
}
````

#### Multi-category research

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Beauty/zgbs/beauty",
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kitchen/zgbs/kitchen",
    "toys"
  ]
}
```

#### International (Germany bestsellers)

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": ["electronics"],
  "domain": "amazon.de"
}
```

#### Input Parameters

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `categoryUrls` | string\[] | ✅ | Full bestsellers URLs or category slugs (`electronics`, `toys`) |
| `domain` | string | ❌ | Amazon marketplace when only slug provided (default: `amazon.com`) |
| `maxPages` | int | ❌ | 1 (top 50) or 2 (top 100). Amazon caps here. |
| `extractRank` / `extractTitle` / `extractPrice` / `extractRating` / `extractReviewsCount` / `extractAsin` / `extractProductUrl` / `extractImage` | bool | ❌ | Toggle fields (all default true) |
| `extractCategoryName` | bool | ❌ | Include category name on each row (default: true) |
| `maxConcurrency` | int | ❌ | Parallel page scrapes (default: 2) |
| `timeout` | int | ❌ | Timeout per page (default: 180) |

### Output

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics",
  "categoryName": "electronics",
  "domain": "amazon.com",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)",
  "price": "$189.99",
  "rating": "4.7 out of 5 stars",
  "reviewsCount": "123,456",
  "asin": "B0BDHWDR12",
  "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDHWDR12",
  "imageUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/..."
}
```

### Use Cases

- **Dropshipping research** — find trending products to sell
- **Niche validation** — check which categories are hot
- **Affiliate marketing** — build top-10 lists automatically
- **Competitor intelligence** — track where competitors' products rank
- **Price monitoring** — watch bestseller prices over time
- **Product launch research** — see what's dominating before launch

### Pricing

- **$0.002 per item** ($2 per 1,000 items)
- Pay only for successfully extracted items
- Empty or duplicate results are free

### How it works

Builds Amazon bestsellers URL from your category, paginates (2 pages × 50 items = top 100), scrapes through Thunderbit's rendering engine, deduplicates by ASIN per category.

Typical coverage per category:

- 1 page → top 50
- 2 pages → top 100

### Popular Category Examples

| Category | URL slug |
|----------|----------|
| Top Overall | (leave empty or use `"all"`) |
| Electronics | `electronics` |
| Beauty | `beauty` |
| Kitchen | `kitchen` |
| Toys & Games | `toys-and-games` |
| Books | `books` |
| Home & Kitchen | `home-garden` |
| Clothing | `fashion` |
| Health | `hpc` |
| Pet Supplies | `pet-supplies` |

### Tips

- **Combine with Amazon Product Scraper**: first pull top ASINs here, then scrape detailed product data with our [Amazon Product Scraper](https://apify.com)
- **Track trends**: run this daily and diff results — products moving up are gaining momentum
- **International arbitrage**: compare bestsellers across `amazon.com` / `amazon.co.uk` / `amazon.de`
- Keep `maxConcurrency: 2` for reliability

# Actor input Schema

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

List of Amazon Best Sellers category URLs. Examples:
• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs — top 100 overall
• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics — electronics
• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Beauty/zgbs/beauty
Or category slugs like 'electronics', 'toys', 'kitchen'.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Amazon marketplace (ignored if full URL provided)

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Amazon bestsellers pages go up to 2 (top 100). Each page shows ~50 items.

## `extractRank` (type: `boolean`):

Bestseller position 1, 2, 3...

## `extractTitle` (type: `boolean`):

Product name

## `extractPrice` (type: `boolean`):

Current price

## `extractRating` (type: `boolean`):

Star rating

## `extractReviewsCount` (type: `boolean`):

Number of reviews

## `extractAsin` (type: `boolean`):

Extract Amazon product ID (ASIN) from each item

## `extractProductUrl` (type: `boolean`):

Include link to the product page

## `extractImage` (type: `boolean`):

Main product image URL

## `extractCategoryName` (type: `boolean`):

Include category name on every row

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel category scrapes (default: 2)

## `timeout` (type: `integer`):

Max wait per Amazon page

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"
  ],
  "domain": "amazon.com",
  "maxPages": 2,
  "extractRank": true,
  "extractTitle": true,
  "extractPrice": true,
  "extractRating": true,
  "extractReviewsCount": true,
  "extractAsin": true,
  "extractProductUrl": true,
  "extractImage": true,
  "extractCategoryName": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "timeout": 180
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "categoryUrls": [
        "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("apivault_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "categoryUrls": ["https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("apivault_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "categoryUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"
  ]
}' |
apify call apivault_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=apivault_labs/amazon-bestsellers-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Amazon Bestsellers Scraper | $2/1K | Top 100 by Category",
        "description": "Scrape Amazon Best Sellers rankings — top products by category with rank, price, rating, reviews. Perfect for dropshipping and trend research.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "ZneidejzuEcZ43CnF"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/apivault_labs~amazon-bestsellers-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-apivault_labs-amazon-bestsellers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/apivault_labs~amazon-bestsellers-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-apivault_labs-amazon-bestsellers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/apivault_labs~amazon-bestsellers-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-apivault_labs-amazon-bestsellers-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "categoryUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "categoryUrls": {
                        "title": "Amazon Bestsellers URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of Amazon Best Sellers category URLs. Examples:\n• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs — top 100 overall\n• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics — electronics\n• https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Beauty/zgbs/beauty\nOr category slugs like 'electronics', 'toys', 'kitchen'.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "domain": {
                        "title": "Amazon domain",
                        "enum": [
                            "amazon.com",
                            "amazon.co.uk",
                            "amazon.de",
                            "amazon.fr",
                            "amazon.it",
                            "amazon.es",
                            "amazon.ca",
                            "amazon.com.au",
                            "amazon.co.jp",
                            "amazon.in",
                            "amazon.com.mx",
                            "amazon.com.br"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Amazon marketplace (ignored if full URL provided)",
                        "default": "amazon.com"
                    },
                    "maxPages": {
                        "title": "Pages per category",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 2,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Amazon bestsellers pages go up to 2 (top 100). Each page shows ~50 items.",
                        "default": 2
                    },
                    "extractRank": {
                        "title": "Rank",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Bestseller position 1, 2, 3...",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractTitle": {
                        "title": "Product Title",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Product name",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractPrice": {
                        "title": "Price",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Current price",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractRating": {
                        "title": "Rating",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Star rating",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractReviewsCount": {
                        "title": "Reviews Count",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Number of reviews",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractAsin": {
                        "title": "ASIN",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Extract Amazon product ID (ASIN) from each item",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractProductUrl": {
                        "title": "Product URL",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Include link to the product page",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractImage": {
                        "title": "Product Image",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Main product image URL",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "extractCategoryName": {
                        "title": "Category Name",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Include category name on every row",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max Concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Parallel category scrapes (default: 2)",
                        "default": 2
                    },
                    "timeout": {
                        "title": "Timeout per page (seconds)",
                        "minimum": 60,
                        "maximum": 300,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Max wait per Amazon page",
                        "default": 180
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```