Amazon Best Sellers & Rankings Scraper

Scrape Amazon's chart family -- Best Sellers, New Releases, Most Wished For, Most Gifted, and Movers & Shakers -- for any category on any Amazon marketplace. Get rank, ASIN, title, price, rating, and category for every product Amazon currently exposes on a chart, with optional recursion into subcategories and optional product-detail enrichment.

What this actor does

• Five chart types: Best Sellers, New Releases, Most Wished For, Most Gifted, Movers & Shakers
• Any category: pass a category slug (electronics), a slug + browse-node ID (electronics/172541), or paste a full Amazon chart URL
• Category-tree recursion: optionally walk each category's subcategory links up to a configurable depth, scraping every subcategory's own chart too
• 20 Amazon marketplaces: amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .it, .es, .ca, .com.au, .co.jp, .in, .com.br, .com.mx, .nl, .se, .pl, .com.tr, .ae, .sa, .sg, .eg
• Honest empty-chart handling: Movers & Shakers legitimately has no items for many categories -- the actor emits a clear chart-metadata record instead of silently returning zero items or substituting unrelated products
• Empty fields are omitted

Output per chart item

• rank -- position on the chart
• asin -- Amazon Standard Identification Number
• title, url, image
• price -- {value, currency, display} (only emitted when Amazon shows an explicit price)
• stars, reviewsCount
• badge -- e.g. BestSeller, AmazonsChoice (only when Amazon shows one)
• format -- format/variant summary, e.g. "Paperback" or "4 formats available" (books/media charts only, when Amazon's card shows one)
• chartType, category, categoryNodeId, categoryUrl, page
• rankChangeDirection, rankChangeAmount -- Movers & Shakers only, and only when Amazon's own rank-change marker is present
• listPrice, inStock -- only when includeProductDetails is enabled, and only when the product's own detail page shows explicit crossed-out list-price or in-stock/out-of-stock evidence (never inferred)
• childCategories -- sibling/child category links {name, path, url, nodeId} from the chart page's own category nav, when present (e.g. "Camera & Photo", "Computers & Accessories" under Electronics)
• recordType: "chartItem", scrapedAt

Output: chart metadata record

Emitted once per category when a chart is empty or a page cannot be loaded, instead of returning zero items silently:

• chartType, category, categoryNodeId, categoryUrl, domain
• extractedItemCount -- how many items were actually extracted (0 for an empty/failed chart)
• declaredItemCount -- present only when it differs from extractedItemCount, so a partial run is never hidden
• message -- human-readable explanation (e.g. "No items currently available for this chart/category.")
• recordType: "chartMetadata", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
chartType	string	bestSellers	bestSellers / newReleases / mostWishedFor / mostGifted / moversAndShakers
domain	string	amazon.com	Which Amazon marketplace to scrape
categoryUrls	array	["electronics"]	Category slugs, slug/nodeId pairs, or full chart URLs
categoryNodeIds	array	[]	Additional rootSlug/nodeId entries
maxDepth	int	0	Subcategory recursion depth (0-3)
startPage	int	1	First chart page to fetch
maxPages	int	2	Max chart pages to fetch per category
maxItemsPerCategory	int	60	Hard cap on items per category
maxItems	int	200	Hard cap on total items across the run
includeProductDetails	boolean	false	Enrich items with product-detail-page data
maxProductDetails	int	10	Cap on product-detail fetches when enabled
proxyConfiguration	object	AUTO	Apify proxy (datacenter by default)

Example: Best Sellers in Electronics

{
  "chartType": "bestSellers",
  "categoryUrls": ["electronics"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: New Releases for a specific subcategory (Headphones)

{
  "chartType": "newReleases",
  "categoryUrls": ["electronics/172541"],
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: recurse a whole department's subcategories

{
  "chartType": "bestSellers",
  "categoryUrls": ["electronics"],
  "maxDepth": 2,
  "maxItemsPerCategory": 20,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Example: Movers & Shakers on the UK marketplace

{
  "chartType": "moversAndShakers",
  "domain": "amazon.co.uk",
  "categoryUrls": ["electronics"]
}

Use cases

• Market research -- track which products dominate a category's chart over time
• Competitive intelligence -- monitor a competitor's category ranking and pricing
• Trend spotting -- New Releases and Movers & Shakers surface emerging products before they're widely known
• Gift-guide content -- Most Gifted and Most Wished For power seasonal buying-guide content
• Category research -- recurse a department's full subcategory tree to map an entire vertical's top products

FAQ

Is this actor affiliated with Amazon? No. This is a third-party actor that scrapes Amazon's public chart pages.

Does the actor guarantee "Top 100" for every category? No. The actor extracts all chart items Amazon currently exposes up to your maxPages/maxItemsPerCategory limits in a single session. Amazon's own pagination does not reliably expose a fixed rank count on every category, so the actor never claims a guaranteed top-N -- check declaredItemCount vs extractedItemCount on the chart-metadata record to see the actual coverage.

Why is Movers & Shakers sometimes empty? Amazon itself frequently has no movers-and-shakers data for a given category at a given time -- this is a real, documented state on Amazon's own site, not a scraper bug. The actor emits a chart-metadata record explaining this instead of guessing or substituting unrelated recommended products.

Why do some items have no price or rating? Amazon only shows these when they exist on the chart card. The actor never fabricates a price or rating -- if the field is missing, it's omitted from the record entirely.

How is rank different from position across separate runs? rank reflects Amazon's own displayed chart position at scrape time. The actor holds no state between runs, so rankChangeDirection/rankChangeAmount (Movers & Shakers only) are populated strictly from Amazon's own rank-change marker on the page, never inferred by comparing separate runs.

Does the actor need a proxy? No -- it uses Apify's free AUTO (datacenter) proxy by default, which works for the large majority of requests. If a session gets repeatedly blocked, the actor automatically escalates to a residential proxy session as a fallback.

Can I scrape a whole department's subcategories in one run? Yes -- set maxDepth to 1-3 and the actor walks each category's subcategory links (visible in Amazon's own left-nav) that many levels deep, scraping each subcategory's own chart.

More Amazon Actors

Part of a full Amazon scraper suite -- also check out:

• Amazon Category Scraper
• Amazon Product Scraper
• Amazon Reviews Scraper
• Amazon Reviews Scraper Pro
• Amazon Offers Scraper (All Offers Display)
• Amazon Seller & Shop Scraper
• Amazon Deals Scraper
• Amazon Brand Store Scraper
• Amazon Creator Shop Scraper
• Amazon Wishlist & Registry Scraper
• Amazon Keyword Suggestions Scraper