# Amazon Best Sellers Scraper (`good-apis/amazon-bestsellers`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/good-apis/amazon-bestsellers.md
- **Developed by:** [Danny](https://apify.com/good-apis) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Amazon Best Sellers Scraper

Get any Amazon category's Best Sellers list — **best-seller rank, ASIN, title, price, star rating, rating count, a thumbnail image, and the product URL**. No login, no proxies to configure, no browser to manage.

Give it a category (e.g. `electronics`, `books`, `toys-and-games`); each ranked product comes back as one dataset row.

**Pricing: $2.00 per 1,000 products** (pay per result). You are only charged for products actually returned — no monthly rental.

### What you get

Every ranked product returns:

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `rank` | Best-seller rank in the category (1 = top seller) |
| `asin` | Amazon product id |
| `title` | Product title |
| `price` | Price as shown (e.g. `$14.77`) |
| `price_value` | Price as a number (e.g. `14.77`) |
| `currency` | Currency code (e.g. `USD`) |
| `rating` | Average star rating, 1-5 |
| `review_count` | Number of ratings |
| `category` | The category the ranking is for |
| `image` | Product thumbnail image URL |
| `url` | Canonical Amazon product URL |

### Input

| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `category` | ✓\* | A category slug (e.g. `electronics`, `books`, `toys-and-games`, `kitchen`, `video-games`). |
| `url` | ✓\* | Alternatively, a full Best Sellers URL (e.g. `https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics`). |
| `max_results` | | How many ranked products to return (default 30; pages further above 30). |

\*Provide either `category` or `url`.

```json
{ "category": "electronics", "max_results": 30 }
```

### Notes & limits

- Results reflect the **US** Amazon marketplace (residential US proxying is handled server-side).
- Amazon server-renders about **30 ranks per page**; the scraper returns that publicly-reachable ranked set and can page further for more.
- This is an unofficial scraper and is not affiliated with Amazon.

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

The Amazon category to list best sellers for — a category slug such as 'electronics', 'books', 'toys-and-games', 'kitchen', or 'video-games'.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Optional: a full Amazon Best Sellers URL (e.g. 'https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics') to use instead of a category slug.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

How many ranked products to return (default 30). Amazon server-renders about 30 ranks per page; above 30 the scraper pages further.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "electronics",
  "max_results": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped items in the default dataset.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "category": "electronics",
    "max_results": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("good-apis/amazon-bestsellers").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "category": "electronics",
    "max_results": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("good-apis/amazon-bestsellers").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "category": "electronics",
  "max_results": 30
}' |
apify call good-apis/amazon-bestsellers --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=good-apis/amazon-bestsellers",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/3X09q3945ddNfRyrU/builds/PBCsLDUm9fnTPaNbU/openapi.json