Amazon Rufus AI Answers Scraper

What does Amazon Rufus AI Answers Scraper do?

The only Actor that returns what Rufus — Amazon's AI shopping assistant — actually tells shoppers. For each ASIN you get the verbatim Rufus answers to your own free-text questions or to Amazon's own suggestion chips, plus the full list of suggested questions. $1 per 1,000 answers ($0.001 per answer delivered) — you only pay for answers actually returned; ASINs where Rufus has nothing to say are never charged.

Built for AI-visibility monitoring: track what Amazon's AI tells shoppers about your products — or your competitors'.

Runs on the Apify platform: API access, scheduling, integrations, and monitoring included.

Why use Amazon Rufus Scraper?

• AI-visibility monitoring — Rufus increasingly answers shopper questions instead of your listing. Know what it says about your ASINs: which claims it repeats, which concerns it raises, which competitors it mentions.
• Suggestion intelligence — the questions Amazon suggests per product reveal what shoppers (and Amazon's ranking) consider undecided about the product.
• Competitor research — run the same question set across competitor ASINs and compare what Rufus recommends.
• Listing optimization — if Rufus answers a key buying question wrongly or vaguely, that's a concrete gap to fix in your bullets, A+ content, or images.
• Honest billing — you only pay per answer actually delivered. ASINs without a Rufus widget, failed questions, or backend errors produce free transparency items that say exactly why.

How to use Amazon Rufus Scraper

1. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
2. Add one or more ASINs (or paste product URLs).
3. Optionally add your own questions — or leave the field empty to use Amazon's suggestion chips.
4. During the publisher-run beta, the session backend fields are preconfigured for invited users.
5. Click Start and wait a few minutes per ASIN. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or consume it via the Apify API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
asins	array	—	ASINs to ask Rufus about (10 characters each)
productUrls	array	—	Amazon product URLs; ASINs are extracted automatically
marketplace	string	de	de, es, it, fr or com — all five verified live on the logged-in backend (2026-08-19). Rollout quota and throttling limits per marketplace are still unknown, so the conservative caps below apply everywhere
questions	array	(empty)	Your own questions, asked verbatim per ASIN (max 5). Empty = Amazon's suggestion chips are clicked instead
maxQuestionsPerAsin	integer	3	Upper bound of questions per ASIN (hard cap 5 — conservative on purpose, see limitations)
sessionBackendUrl	string	—	Publisher-operated session backend (preconfigured for beta users)
sessionBackendToken	string	—	Backend API token (secret)
sessionBackendBasicAuth	string	—	Optional user:password for an extra auth layer in front of the backend (secret)

Output

One dataset item per answered question (charged), one uncharged metadata item per ASIN, and uncharged transparency items when an ASIN delivers nothing.

{
  "type": "answer",
  "asin": "B00008XF6W",
  "marketplace": "de",
  "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00008XF6W",
  "question": "Für wen ist dieses Produkt besonders gut geeignet?",
  "answer": "Der Gemüsehobel eignet sich besonders gut für Hobby- und Heimköche — die extrascharfen Klingen ermöglichen präzises, müheloses Schneiden …",
  "source": "freetext",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-19T15:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

{
  "type": "asin",
  "asin": "B00008XF6W",
  "marketplace": "de",
  "rufusStatus": "ok",
  "rufusAvailable": true,
  "productTitle": "Fackelmann Gemüsehobel – 29 x 12,5 cm …",
  "suggestedQuestions": ["Wie groß ist der Gemüsehobel?", "Ist er spülmaschinenfest?"],
  "questionsAsked": 3,
  "answersReceived": 3,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-19T15:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Description
type	answer (charged), asin (metadata), or status (transparency)
question	The question exactly as asked (yours or the clicked suggestion chip)
answer	Rufus' verbatim answer text
source	freetext (your question) or chip (Amazon's suggestion)
suggestedQuestions	Amazon's suggestion chips for the product (on the asin item)
rufusStatus	ok, partial, no_answers, no_suggestions, widget_absent, open_failed, or unavailable
reason / detail	Why an ASIN delivered nothing (transparency items)

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you are charged per answer actually pushed (event answer). Everything else is free — the per-ASIN metadata item, and every transparency item for ASINs where Rufus has no widget, a question failed, or the backend was unavailable. A typical run of 10 ASINs × 3 questions yields up to 30 charged answers, minus honest gaps.

Tips and limitations

Beta — honest limitations. This Actor runs on logged-in Amazon sessions operated by the publisher (Rufus answers only exist for logged-in users; anonymous access is server-side blocked by Amazon). It supports amazon.de, amazon.es, amazon.it, amazon.fr and amazon.com (all five live-verified 2026-08-19; per-marketplace rollout quota and throttling limits are still unknown, so conservative caps apply), and a run takes minutes, not seconds (a real browser session loads the product page and waits for each streamed answer). Rufus answers are LLM-generated and non-deterministic in wording — monitor claims and topics, never diff exact wording.

• Latency is minutes per ASIN. A real browser session loads the product page, opens the Rufus panel, and waits for each answer to finish streaming. Batch your ASINs into one run.
• Non-deterministic answers. Rufus is an LLM; wording varies between identical questions. Normalize to claims/topics for monitoring; never alert on wording diffs.
• Five verified marketplaces. Rufus behaves differently per marketplace and is live-verified on amazon.de, amazon.es, amazon.it, amazon.fr and amazon.com (2026-08-19; note: on amazon.com the same widget is branded "Alexa" in the UI). Per-marketplace rollout quota and throttling limits are still unknown — the Actor rejects other marketplaces honestly instead of returning garbage, and more locales follow only after verification.
• Suggestion chips can be flaky. Amazon sometimes renders no suggestion chips at all (rollout- and time-dependent) — the run then returns an honest, uncharged no_suggestions item. For dependable monitoring, prefer your own free-text questions: they don't depend on chips.
• Conservative caps. Max 5 questions per ASIN (default 3). Chat traffic is a stronger account signal than page views; the caps protect the session backend. Jobs are serialized per marketplace on a dedicated account.
• No anonymous mode. Rufus is server-side gated to logged-in sessions — there is no anonymous fallback, and the Actor will not pretend otherwise.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is this legal? The Actor reads information shown to a logged-in user and automates no purchases, reviews, or account actions. You are responsible for complying with Amazon's terms and applicable law for your use case.

Why did my ASIN return widget_absent? Amazon rolls the Rufus widget out per product and audience. Some PDPs simply don't show it — that's a finding, not a bug, and it's never charged.

Why no_answers? The widget was present, but no answer turn appeared in time (streaming stall). Uncharged; retrying later usually helps.

Feedback and issues: use the Issues tab. Custom question sets, additional marketplaces, or higher-volume tiers are available on request.