Amazon Product & Listing Intelligence

Not another title-and-price scraper. Give it an ASIN and get Best Sellers Rank, buy-box seller, and listing-quality signals that most Amazon scrapers do not return at all.

B00FLYWNYQ  Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1                     $104.67   4.7★ 173,442
            #590 Home & Kitchen · #22 Kitchen Small Appliances
            Amazon holds buy box · 6 images · video ✓ · A+ ✓ · 10 bullets

B085DTZQNZ  Owala FreeSip 24 oz                         $29.97   4.6★ 133,330
            #1 Home & Kitchen · #1 Travel & To-Go Drinkware · #1 Insulated Bottles
            94 variant ASINs

No API keys, no browser. Amazon's own Product Advertising API requires an affiliate account with qualifying sales, and it will not tell you your competitor's rank at all.

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What makes this different

Most Amazon scrapers stop at title, price and rating. The fields people actually pay Jungle Scout and Helium 10 for are these:

Field	Why it matters
bestSellersRank	Every category the product ranks in, not just the headline. The closest public proxy for unit sales.
soldByAmazon	Whether Amazon holds the buy box or a third-party seller does. Changes your entire strategy against that listing.
mainRank	Rank in the top-level department — what sellers mean by "the BSR". topRank is the numerically lowest, which is often a much narrower shelf.
variantAsins	The parent/child map — every other size and colour.
Listing audit	imageCount, hasVideo, hasAPlusContent, bulletCount, titleLength. Where a competitor's listing is weak.

Plus the basics done properly: price, listPrice, discountPercent, currency, rating, reviewCount, inStock, availabilityText, couponText, brand, breadcrumbs.

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Who this is for

• Amazon sellers and agencies — track competitor rank, price and buy-box ownership daily. Diff on asin + country.
• Brands policing resellers — soldBy tells you who is actually selling your product, and soldByAmazon tells you when you have lost the buy box.
• Cross-border pricing — the same ASIN across 18 marketplaces, each in its own currency. Read the proxy section first: international storefronts have a hard requirement.
• Listing optimisation — audit a whole category: who has video, who has A+ content, who is wasting title characters.
• Market research — harvest a Best Sellers category and rank the whole field by review count, rating and BSR.

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Input

{
  "asins": ["B00FLYWNYQ", "https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B085DTZQNZ"],
  "countries": ["us", "uk", "de"],
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Accepts a bare ASIN or any Amazon product URL. A URL that names a marketplace wins over the country list, so an amazon.co.uk link is read as a UK listing.

Option	Default	Notes
countries	["us"]	One record per ASIN per marketplace, each billed
bestSellerCategories	—	Slugs like electronics; the discovery route
maxProductsPerCategory	50	Your billing guard on categories
includeBullets	true	Counts are always included
includeDescription	false	Off keeps the dataset far smaller
includeImages / includeVariants	false / true
maxConcurrency	8	Lower it if you see bot checks

Marketplaces: us, uk, de, fr, it, es, nl, se, pl, ca, mx, br, au, jp, in, ae, sg, tr — but see the proxy section: everything except us needs a proxy in that country.

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Proxy: read this before using international marketplaces

amazon.com works on plain datacenter proxy. Enable the Apify proxy and it runs.

International storefronts do not. amazon.de, amazon.co.uk and the rest reject datacenter IP ranges outright — measured at 0 of 4 succeeding from a US datacenter address while the identical requests from a European consumer IP succeeded 4 of 4 at the same moment. It is address reputation, not request rate, so lowering concurrency does not help and neither does backing off. Those marketplaces need a proxy located in that country: either a residential pool, or a datacenter plan that includes it.

Note the cost, because it lands on the Actor and not on the caller: pages average 2 MB, so residential traffic runs about $16 per 1,000 listings. International coverage is a feature for small, targeted cross-border checks, not for bulk runs.

When a marketplace is shut out completely the Actor names it and says which country's proxy would fix it, rather than leaving a column of blocked rows to interpret.

Amazon also geolocates within a working request. A US listing fetched from a European address returns no buy box — "This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location" — so price and soldBy come back null for a product US shoppers can buy freely. Enabling the proxy without picking a country makes the Actor read each marketplace from its own country automatically. Currency is pinned with Amazon's own locale cookies; without it the same listing reports EUR90.69 from Europe and $104.67 from the US.

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Five things worth knowing

Each was measured against live listings, not assumed.

Best Sellers Rank is on about 4 listings in 5. Measured at 83% across 24 ASINs in six categories. Amazon omits the rank block entirely on its tech-spec page template, which is consistent per ASIN rather than intermittent — re-running will not conjure it. bestSellersRank is an empty array when absent, never a fabricated zero.

Keyword search is not scrapeable, so this Actor does not claim to. Amazon's /s?k= endpoint returns an empty 2 KB shell to non-browser clients. Discovery is via Best Sellers categories, which do work and paginate.

Reviews are not included. The /product-reviews/ page returns 308 KB with zero review blocks in the HTML — Amazon renders them client-side behind a session. Anything promising bulk Amazon review text from a plain HTTP scraper is either using a browser fleet or not delivering.

A price is only ever read from the buy box. A listing page carries sponsored tiles, "similar items" and comparison tables, each with its own price markup — on one live page every price element belonged to a different ASIN's advert. A page-wide price selector reported $12.59 for a $29.97 water bottle, lifted from a sponsored tile for ASIN B0CCD8LMJ7. Those blocks are deleted before parsing, and a list price at or below the current price is dropped rather than reported. When there is no buy box, price is null — never a neighbour's number.

imageCount counts this variant's gallery, not the page's. A listing embeds every sibling variant's images too: one 7-image product carried 126 hi-res URLs because it sells 94 colourways. Counting raw URLs would make a listing audit meaningless.

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Output

{
  "asin": "B00FLYWNYQ", "country": "us", "marketplace": "amazon.com",
  "title": "Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Electric Pressure Cooker…",
  "brand": "Instant Pot", "category": "Home & Kitchen",
  "price": 104.67, "listPrice": null, "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.7, "reviewCount": 173441,
  "bestSellersRank": [
    { "rank": 589, "category": "Home & Kitchen" },
    { "rank": 22, "category": "Kitchen Small Appliances" }
  ],
  "mainRank": 590, "mainRankCategory": "Home & Kitchen",
  "topRank": 22, "topRankCategory": "Kitchen Small Appliances",
  "inStock": true, "soldBy": "Amazon.com", "shipsFrom": "Amazon.com", "soldByAmazon": true,
  "imageCount": 6, "hasVideo": true, "hasAPlusContent": true, "bulletCount": 10, "titleLength": 179,
  "variantCount": 1, "recordType": "product"
}

Three ready-made views: Products, Price by marketplace and Listing quality audit. Set flattenOutput: true for CSV.

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Honest limits

• ASIN-driven, not keyword-driven. See above.
• No review text. See above.
• An ASIN missing from a marketplace returns NOT_FOUND and is not charged. ASINs are marketplace-specific; a wide country list will always produce some.
• Blocks come in two kinds. On amazon.com they are occasional and rate-driven — the identical request succeeded four times in five when spaced four seconds apart — and are retried on a fresh address after a backoff. On international storefronts from a datacenter IP they are total; see the proxy section. Either way BLOCKED rows are not charged.
• Best Sellers lists contain non-products. Subscription plans and service listings sit alongside physical goods and have no price, rating or rank. They return NOT_A_PRODUCT, named, and are not charged.
• Premium-brand pages carry no breadcrumbs and no rank. Apple and similar use a template with neither, so breadcrumbs is empty and bestSellersRank absent by design, not by failure.
• Pages are large — 2.4 MB average — because the rank table sits at the very end of the document and cannot be truncated away.
• price is the buy-box price, not the cheapest offer on the listing — and it is null when Amazon renders no buy box for the requesting country. That is the proxy setting above, not a parsing failure.

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Pricing

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.005	Once per run
Product scraped	$0.004	Per listing parsed (one per ASIN per marketplace)

$4.00 per 1,000 listings. Tracking 50 competitor ASINs across 3 marketplaces daily costs about $0.61 a day. Failed, missing and blocked listings are never charged.

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Tips

• Diff on asin + country daily. A mainRank that halves is a sales spike; a soldByAmazon that flips is a buy-box loss.
• Compare on mainRank, not topRank. #2 in Home & Kitchen beats #1 in Kids' Sheet & Pillowcase Sets by a wide margin, and only one of those two numbers says so.
• Watch rank, not reviewCount. Rank moves within hours; review counts take weeks.
• Audit a whole category with bestSellerCategories once, then feed the returned ASINs back as asins for cheap daily monitoring.
• Sort your own catalogue by titleLength and hasVideo to find the listings costing you conversions.