Amazon Best Sellers Scraper

What is Amazon Best Sellers Scraper?

Amazon Best Sellers Scraper lets you extract the ranked top 100 products from Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas lists, helping you spot winning products, track category rankings over time and research competitors before you source or launch. Paste a list link such as https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics/ and get every rank as a clean row: rank, ASIN, title, price, star rating, number of ratings, image and the full category path, plus author and format for books and media.

• 🏆 Find winning products to sell: see what actually sells in any category or subcategory, ranked by Amazon's own hourly sales data
• 📈 Track rankings over time: schedule a daily run and watch products climb and fall in the top 100
• 🔎 Research a niche in one run: set a subcategory depth and read the top 100 of every subcategory under a department
• 🆕 Catch launches early: New Releases shows the best-selling new products before they reach the main list
• 📚 Monitor books and media: author, format (Paperback, Kindle, Hardcover) and formats available on every book row
• 🌍 22 Amazon sites: amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .es, .ca, .com.au, .co.jp, .in, .com.mx, .com.br and more, each priced in its own currency
• ⚡ No browser, no login, no cookies. Fast HTTP requests through Apify Proxy

Amazon only shows the first 30 products of each list when the page loads and fetches the rest as you scroll. Amazon Best Sellers Scraper reads that lazy-loaded part too, so every list comes back complete, ranks 1 to 100, with no gaps.

What data does Amazon Best Sellers Scraper extract?

• 🥇 Rank in the list, 1 to 100 (rank)
• 🆔 ASIN, or ISBN-10 for most books (asin)
• 🏷 Product title and clean product URL (title, url)
• 💲 Price as a number, price range upper end, price as printed, and currency (price, priceMax, priceText, currency)
• ⭐️ Star rating and number of ratings (rating, reviewsCount)
• ✍️ Author or artist and their Amazon page, for books and media (byline, bylineUrl)
• 📖 Format and number of formats available (format, formatsAvailable)
• 🛒 Number of seller offers when shown (offersCount)
• 📸 Full-size image and list thumbnail (imageUrl, thumbnailUrl)
• 📊 Movers & Shakers sales rank now, 24 hours ago, and percent change (salesRank, salesRankPrevious, salesRankChangePercent)
• 🗂 Category name, breadcrumb path, department and browse node id (categoryName, categoryPath, department, categoryNodeId)
• 🌐 List name, list URL, Amazon site and page (listName, listUrl, marketplace, page)

Rank, ASIN, title, URL, image and category are returned on every product row. Price, rating, author and format are filled whenever Amazon shows them on the card (a brand-new product has no rating yet, and some cards show no price when the item is out of stock).

How to scrape Amazon Best Sellers

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Paste one or more Amazon list URLs. Browse to any Best Sellers or New Releases page on Amazon and copy the link.
3. Optionally pick List types to read several lists for the same category, and a Subcategory depth to go down the category tree.
4. Set Max products in total to cap the cost, then click Start.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

Input

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics/",
        "https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/"
    ],
    "listTypes": ["bestsellers", "new-releases"],
    "maxDepth": 1,
    "maxItemsPerList": 100,
    "maxItems": 2000
}

Field	What it does
startUrls	Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For or Gift Ideas links. Required. Both /zgbs/... and /gp/bestsellers/... link styles work.
listTypes	Read these lists for every URL: bestsellers, new-releases, movers-and-shakers, most-wished-for, gift-ideas. Empty means the list in the URL.
maxDepth	Subcategory levels to read under each URL. 0 is just the given list.
maxItemsPerList	Ranks to keep from each list, from the top (1 to 100).
maxItems	Hard cap on rows across all lists, and so on cost.

Tip: start from https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs/ to get the top 100 of every department in one run.

Output

{
    "listType": "bestsellers",
    "listName": "Best Sellers",
    "rank": 1,
    "asin": "153878405X",
    "title": "Verity",
    "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/153878405X",
    "price": 13.53,
    "priceMax": null,
    "priceText": "$13.53",
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.6,
    "reviewsCount": 411667,
    "byline": "Colleen Hoover",
    "bylineUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/Colleen-Hoover/e/B006SKAK42",
    "format": "Paperback",
    "offersCount": null,
    "formatsAvailable": 4,
    "imageUrl": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91SzIoUOaJL.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91SzIoUOaJL._AC_UL300_SR300,200_.jpg",
    "salesRank": null,
    "salesRankPrevious": null,
    "salesRankChangePercent": null,
    "categoryName": "Books",
    "categoryPath": ["Books"],
    "department": "books",
    "categoryNodeId": null,
    "listUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books",
    "marketplace": "amazon.com",
    "page": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T14:02:11.512Z",
    "noResults": false,
    "notice": null
}

The Overview table shows rank, image, product, ASIN, price, rating, ratings count, author, category, list and site side by side. A separate Movers & Shakers view shows the sales rank change columns.

How much does it cost to scrape Amazon Best Sellers?

Amazon Best Sellers Scraper uses flat pay-per-result pricing: $1.00 per 1,000 products, with no monthly fee. Apify's free plan credit covers your first few thousand products every month.

Products	Cost
100 (one full list)	$0.10
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00
100,000	$100.00

For comparison, the most used Amazon best sellers actors on the Apify Store charge $2.00 to $5.90 per 1,000 results on the free plan.

Measured coverage

Measured on 2,179 product rows from 29 lists across amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .co.jp and .in during QA on 2026-10-04 (cloud and local runs through Apify Proxy). Every list came back with complete, gap-free ranks.

Field	Best Sellers	New Releases	Books, Kindle, music, movies
Rank, ASIN, title, URL, image	100%	100%	100%
Category name and path	100%	100%	100%
Price	99%	86%	99%
Rating and number of ratings	93%	35%	68%
Author or artist (byline)	media only	media only	73%
Format	media only	media only	98%

New Releases are often too new to have ratings yet, and some pre-order cards show no price; those fields are null exactly when Amazon's own card leaves them out.

Limits

• Every Amazon list stops at rank 100. That is Amazon's limit, not the scraper's. Use subcategories (maxDepth) for more products: each subcategory has its own top 100.
• Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas are empty in many categories right now. Amazon shows "Sorry, there are no movers and shakers available in this category" on those pages. The run returns one row saying so instead of failing, and Best Sellers and New Releases are full everywhere.
• Prices are the list card price, not the full offer listing. For every seller's offer, Buy Box owner or stock, feed the ASINs into an Amazon product details scraper.
• The department index page (/Best-Sellers/zgbs/) has no ranked list of its own; starting there reads every department's list instead.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Amazon Best Sellers?

Amazon Best Sellers lists are public pages anyone can view without an account. This actor reads only that public data, uses no login and collects no personal data. You are responsible for how you use the results; check Amazon's terms and the laws that apply to you, and consult a lawyer if unsure.

How often does Amazon update Best Sellers rankings?

Amazon says the Best Sellers lists are updated hourly from sales data. Schedule the actor hourly or daily to build a ranking history.

Can I scrape Best Sellers for every category at once?

Yes. Start from https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs/ to read every department, and raise Subcategory depth to go into subcategories. Use Max products in total to keep the run within budget.

Which Amazon sites are supported?

amazon.com, .ca, .com.mx, .com.br, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .es, .nl, .com.be, .ie, .se, .pl, .com.tr, .ae, .sa, .eg, .in, .co.jp, .sg and .com.au. Prices come back in each site's own currency.

Can I use Amazon Best Sellers Scraper as an API?

Yes. Every run is available through the Apify API, and you can start runs and download results with a single HTTP call.

Can I use this in Python?

Yes, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
run = ApifyClient("<YOUR_TOKEN>").actor("cirkit/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(run_input={"startUrls": ["https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics/"]})

Can I integrate it with Google Sheets, Zapier or Make?

Yes. Apify integrates with Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Slack, Airbyte and webhooks, so new rankings can land in a spreadsheet or trigger a workflow automatically.

How do I schedule it to run automatically?

Create a Schedule in Apify Console (for example daily at 06:00) and pick this actor with your saved input. Each run adds a new dataset you can compare with the last.

Why did I get fewer results than expected?

Most often the list itself is short or empty (see Limits), maxItems or maxItemsPerList capped the run, or the URL points at the department index with depth 0. The run summary in the key-value store (RUN_SUMMARY) lists every list read, how many rows it gave and why it stopped.

Can I get a field that is not listed?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab and describe the field. Fields Amazon prints on the list card can usually be added quickly.

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Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-10-04): first release. Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas on 22 Amazon sites, subcategory crawling, complete ranks 1 to 100.