Amazon Price Tracker

Track Amazon product prices, monitor price drops, find deals and discounts. Perfect for price history tracking, bargain hunting, and market research.

🎯 Features

• Price Tracking: Monitor current and original prices with discount calculations
• Rating & Reviews: Track product ratings and review counts
• Seller Information: Identify Amazon vs third-party sellers
• Flexible Filtering: Filter by price range, rating, and review count
• Search Results: Crawl search pages, categories, or individual products
• Proxy Support: Built-in proxy configuration to avoid blocking

📊 Output Data

Each scraped product includes:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Product page URL
asin	string	Amazon Standard Identification Number
title	string	Product name
price	number	Current price in USD
originalPrice	number	Original price before discount
discount	number	Discount percentage (0-100)
rating	number	Product rating (0-5 stars)
reviewCount	integer	Number of reviews
category	string	Product category path
seller	string	Seller name
availability	string	Stock status
imageUrl	string	Product image URL
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp (ISO 8601)

🚀 Quick Start

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
start_urls	array	✅	-	Amazon URLs to crawl
maxResults	number	❌	50	Maximum products to scrape (0 = unlimited)
minPrice	number	❌	0	Minimum price in USD
maxPrice	number	❌	-	Maximum price in USD
minRating	number	❌	0	Minimum rating (0-5)
minReviews	number	❌	0	Minimum review count
proxyConfig	object	❌	-	Proxy configuration (recommended)
requestDelay	number	❌	2.0	Delay between requests (seconds)

Example Input

{
  "start_urls": [
    {"url": "https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gaming+laptop"}
  ],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "minPrice": 500,
  "maxPrice": 2000,
  "minRating": 4.0,
  "minReviews": 100
}

Example Output

{
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JQL3X5P",
  "asin": "B09JQL3X5P",
  "title": "ASUS ROG Strix G15 Gaming Laptop",
  "price": 1299.99,
  "originalPrice": 1599.99,
  "discount": 18.75,
  "rating": 4.5,
  "reviewCount": 1234,
  "category": "Electronics > Computers > Laptops",
  "seller": "Amazon",
  "availability": "In Stock",
  "imageUrl": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/xxx.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-09T13:00:00.000Z"
}

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing:

Event	Price	Description
actor-start	$0.01	Actor initialization
page-scraped	$0.001	Each page crawled
result-generated	$0.01	Each product extracted

Estimated cost: $2-5 per 100 products

🔧 Use Cases

1. Price Monitoring: Track price changes over time
2. Deal Hunting: Find products with high discounts
3. Competitive Analysis: Monitor competitor pricing
4. Market Research: Analyze product trends and ratings
5. Inventory Tracking: Monitor stock availability

📝 Tips

• Always Use Proxies: Amazon will block requests without proxies
• Start Small: Test with maxResults: 10 first
• Use Filters: Filter by rating and reviews to find quality products
• Search URLs: Use search URLs to find multiple products at once
• Monitor Delays: Use requestDelay: 2.0 or higher to avoid blocking

⚠️ Limitations

• Amazon may change their HTML structure
• Some products may require JavaScript rendering (not supported)
• Rate limiting may occur without proxies
• CAPTCHA may appear on high-volume requests

🛠️ Technical Details

• Runtime: Python 3.14
• Crawler: BeautifulSoupCrawler (Crawlee)
• Parser: lxml
• Proxy Support: Yes (Apify Proxy recommended)

📚 Resources

• Apify Documentation
• Crawlee for Python
• Actor Source Code

🐛 Issues & Support

Found a bug or need help? Please create an issue or contact the developer.

📄 License

This Actor is provided for educational and research purposes. Please respect Amazon's Terms of Service and robots.txt when using this Actor.

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Developer: janseling
Version: 0.0
Last Updated: 2026-03-09