Amazon Bestsellers Scraper

Extract ranked product rows from public Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Most Wished For, and Most Gifted pages. Movers & Shakers URLs are reported as unsupported because Amazon no longer exposes public product-card markup on that route to anonymous HTTP clients. Export ASINs, ranks, titles, category provenance, prices, ratings, review counts, and product URLs to CSV, JSON, Excel, API, or MCP workflows.

At a glance

• Primary job: Monitor ranked Amazon category lists without building your own parser.
• Input: Public Amazon list/category URLs such as https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs.
• Output: One row per ranked product plus explicit diagnostic rows for blocked, invalid, or empty inputs.
• Best for: Ecommerce research, rank monitoring, product discovery, merchandising checks, and BI enrichment.

Ready-to-run examples

Open a public example to inspect its input, run it, or reuse it as a task:

• Export Amazon Kitchen Best Sellers
• Monitor Amazon Toys Most Gifted Products
• Export Amazon Beauty Most Wished For
• Export Amazon Books New Releases
• Export Amazon Electronics Best Sellers

• Small smoke test: startUrls: [{ "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs" }], maxItems: 10.
• Category monitoring: Use a specific category URL such as Books or Electronics and schedule daily runs.
• Launch tracking: Use a New Releases URL and compare ASIN/rank movement between dataset exports.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
status	OK for product rows or ERROR for diagnostic rows.
listType	Best Sellers, New Releases, Most Wished For, Most Gifted, or movers-and-shakers on unsupported diagnostic rows.
marketplace	Amazon marketplace hostname such as www.amazon.com.
category	Category/list title visible on the page.
categoryUrl	Category/list URL used for the row.
categoryPath	Visible breadcrumb/subcategory path when supplied by Amazon.
position	Rank within the category/list page.
asin	Amazon product ASIN.
title	Product title from the list card.
productUrl	Public Amazon product URL.
imageUrl	Product image URL.
price	Parsed displayed price when visible.
priceText	Raw displayed price text.
currency	Currency code derived from displayed price or marketplace.
rating	Star rating when visible.
reviewCount	Review count when visible.
numberOfOffers	Offer count when visible.
availability	Availability/status text when visible.
inputUrl	Original user-provided URL.
url	Product URL for product rows or source URL for diagnostic rows.
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp when the row was saved.
errorCode	Diagnostic code for error rows.
error	Short error label.
errorDescription	Human-readable diagnostic description.

Input configuration

Setting	JSON key	Use it for	Example
Start URLs	startUrls	Public Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Most Wished For, or Most Gifted category URLs. Movers & Shakers URLs return an UNSUPPORTED_LIST_TYPE diagnostic row.	https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs
Maximum product rows	maxItems	Cap saved product rows and control spend.	30
Subcategory depth	subcategoryDepth	Reserved for bounded category discovery.	0
Include next page	includeNextPage	Reserved until unique Amazon continuation is proven.	false
Proxy country code	proxyCountryCode	Match marketplace-sensitive price/availability context.	US

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs" }],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "subcategoryDepth": 0,
  "includeNextPage": false,
  "proxyCountryCode": "US"
}

Example output

{
  "status": "OK",
  "listType": "best-sellers",
  "marketplace": "www.amazon.com",
  "category": "Amazon Best Sellers",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs",
  "categoryPath": ["Any Department"],
  "position": 1,
  "asin": "B0EXAMPLE1",
  "title": "Example ranked product",
  "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0EXAMPLE1",
  "imageUrl": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/example.jpg",
  "price": 19.99,
  "priceText": "$19.99",
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 1234,
  "numberOfOffers": null,
  "availability": null,
  "inputUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0EXAMPLE1",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T16:45:00.000Z",
  "errorCode": null,
  "error": null,
  "errorDescription": null
}

Who is it for

• Ecommerce sellers checking which products lead public Amazon category rankings.
• Retail analysts and brand teams monitoring rank, price, rating, and review-count movement.
• Affiliate publishers finding popular products for buying guides and category pages.
• Automation teams feeding bestseller snapshots into dashboards, alerts, or AI workflows.

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event billing. A small Run started event is charged once per run, and the primary Item extracted event is charged only for each Amazon product row saved to the dataset. Diagnostic error rows for invalid URLs or blocked pages are preserved for troubleshooting and are not product rows.

For the current rates and volume tiers, open the live Apify Pricing tab.

Tips and limits

• Start with maxItems: 10-30 to confirm the marketplace and category return public rows.
• Amazon page availability, prices, currency, and visible card fields can vary by marketplace and region.
• Diagnostic rows are saved for invalid URLs, Robot Check/Sorry responses, request failures, and pages where no product cards are detected.
• Product detail pages, seller profiles, reviews, carts, orders, and account-specific recommendations are outside this Actor's scope.

API usage

Node.js:

import { ApifyClient } from "apify-client";

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor("fetch_cat/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call({
  startUrls: [{ url: "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs" }],
  maxItems: 10
});
console.log(run.defaultDatasetId);

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("fetch_cat/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs" }],
    "maxItems": 10,
})
print(run["defaultDatasetId"])

cURL:

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fetch_cat~amazon-bestsellers-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers/zgbs"}],"maxItems":10}'

MCP and AI agents

Use this Actor from MCP-compatible tools through the official Apify MCP Server.

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fetch_cat/amazon-bestsellers-scraper"

Example MCP server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Example prompts:

• "Run fetch_cat/amazon-bestsellers-scraper for the Amazon US Best Sellers root with maxItems 20 and summarize the top categories."
• "Compare today's top 10 product ASINs from this bestseller dataset with yesterday's dataset and highlight rank changes."

FAQ

Can this Actor scrape Amazon product detail pages?
No. It focuses on ranked public list pages. Use a product-detail Actor for deeper product attributes.

Why are price, rating, or review fields sometimes empty?
Amazon does not show every commerce field on every list card. The Actor preserves nulls instead of inventing values.

Does it return diagnostic rows?
Yes. Invalid URLs, Robot Check/Sorry pages, failed requests, and parse-empty pages are saved with status: "ERROR" and an error code.

Can I schedule rank monitoring?
Yes. Schedule the same category URL daily or hourly and compare ASIN + position changes across datasets.

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Support

Questions, bugs, or feature requests? Open an issue on the Actor page in Apify Console and include your run ID and input.