Amazon Search Scraper — Best Sellers, Ranks & Prices

An amazon search scraper that turns amazon search results and category charts into structured rows: amazon asin, title, price, rating, rating count, image, sponsored flag, and the exact position on the page.

Search any keyword, or pull amazon best sellers and New Releases for any category, in any of 20 marketplaces. No login, no API key, no browser. It is an amazon product scraper, an amazon price scraper and an amazon rank tracker in one, billed per product row.

Last verified working: 2026-08-29.

What does the Amazon search scraper do?

You give it keywords or categories. It gives you amazon product data as rows you can sort, filter and export.

• product rows — from a search: query, page, position (the slot on the page, ads included), asin, title, price, currency, rating, ratings_count, image, sponsored, url. From a chart: chart, category and rank instead.
• status rows — free: per keyword or category, what was delivered, how many were filtered, and why anything failed.

Sponsored results are flagged, not silently dropped. That matters more than it sounds: a rank tracker that counts ads as organic reports the wrong number every time. Set skipSponsored and amazon sponsored products are removed before you are billed for them, leaving amazon organic rank.

Amazon keyword rank tracking

position is the slot on the results page with ads included — which is what "where do I rank" actually means to a shopper looking at the page. Pair it with sponsored and you can report both numbers honestly:

• Blended rank — position as-is, the shopper's view.
• Organic rank — run with skipSponsored: true, or filter sponsored == false yourself.

Schedule a daily run over your keywords and store position per ASIN. Every row is timestamped with fetched_at, so amazon keyword tracking history falls out of the dataset with no extra work. That is the whole of amazon rank tracker functionality without a subscription to one.

Amazon best sellers and new releases

Category charts answer a different question from search: not "who ranks for this phrase" but "what is selling, and what is accelerating".

• bestsellers — the standing amazon category bestsellers chart.
• new_releases — amazon new releases, the newest products gaining traction.
• Movers & Shakers — the amazon movers and shakers chart is rendered client-side by Amazon (its HTML carries no products), so this actor does not offer it; diff two daily Best Sellers runs for the same signal.

Each row carries rank, plus price and rating, so one run gives you the chart and the economics together.

Feeding a review run

Every row carries an asin. That is deliberate: pipe the ASINs from a search or a chart straight into an Amazon reviews scrape and you go from "what ranks" to "what customers say" in two steps, without assembling a product list by hand. For amazon seller research and product research tool workflows, that pairing is the whole loop.

Input

Field	What it does
queries	Keywords to search, as a shopper would type them.
categories	Category nodes for charts, e.g. electronics, kitchen, books — the slug from a Best Sellers URL.
chart	bestsellers or new_releases, applied to each category (Movers & Shakers is client-rendered and not available).
pages	How many result pages to walk (about 20 organic products per search page, ~30 per chart page).
maxResultsPerQuery	0 = everything found. N = the first N in Amazon's order.
skipSponsored	Drop ad placements and keep only organic results. Never charged for what it drops.
minRating	Keep only products rated at or above this.
domain	Marketplace: com, co.uk, de, fr, it, es, ca, com.au, co.jp, in, com.mx, com.br, nl, se, pl, sa, ae, sg, com.tr, com.be.
department	Optional department to search inside, e.g. electronics.
sessions, perIp	Parallel proxy sessions and the pace of each. Leave alone unless a run is throttled.
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy. Required — Amazon captchas datacentre traffic that is not rotated. Datacentre is a fine starting point: the run escalates to residential by itself when Amazon pushes back.

Example: daily organic rank tracking on three keywords

{ "queries": ["wireless earbuds", "bone conduction headphones", "sleep earbuds"], "pages": 2, "skipSponsored": true }

Example: what is climbing in a category

{ "categories": ["electronics"], "chart": "new_releases", "pages": 1 }

Example: a keyword and a chart together, cost-capped

{ "queries": ["cast iron skillet"], "categories": ["kitchen"], "chart": "bestsellers", "pages": 1, "maxResultsPerQuery": 15 }

Output

{
  "type": "product", "asin": "B0H9LRGB3B", "title": "Wireless Earbuds, Bluetooth 5.4 Ear Buds",
  "query": "wireless earbuds", "chart": null, "category": null,
  "page": 1, "position": 2, "rank": null, "sponsored": false,
  "price": 73.42, "price_display": "$73.42", "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.7, "ratings_count": 941,
  "image": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/example.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9LRGB3B", "domain": "com", "marketplace": "US"
}

A chart row carries its rank instead of a page position:

{
  "type": "product", "asin": "B08JHCVHTY", "title": "Blink Plus Plan",
  "chart": "bestsellers", "category": "electronics", "rank": 1, "page": 1,
  "query": null, "position": null, "sponsored": false,
  "price": 39.99, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.4, "ratings_count": 12034,
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JHCVHTY", "domain": "com", "marketplace": "US"
}

status rows carry target, kind, status, products, filtered, duplicates, pages, error and fetched_at.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event, one per delivered product row. Free: status rows, every row removed by skipSponsored, minRating or the cap, empty searches, and failed jobs. An ASIN found by two keywords is delivered and billed once per run.

A search page is roughly 20 organic products; a chart page about 30. Three keywords × 2 pages is a little over 100 rows. Verified runs behind this listing cost $0.0002–$0.0052 each in platform compute. Exact per-row pricing is on this page's pricing tab.

Amazon search scraper in Python, JavaScript, curl, n8n, Make or an AI agent

In Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kestrel/amazon-search-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["wireless earbuds"], "pages": 2, "skipSponsored": True,
})
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["type"] == "product":
        print(row["position"], row["asin"], row["price"], row["rating"])

In JavaScript (Node):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('kestrel/amazon-search-scraper').call({
    categories: ['electronics'], chart: 'new_releases', pages: 1,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.filter((i) => i.type === 'product').map((p) => [p.rank, p.asin, p.title]));

With curl, synchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/kestrel~amazon-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"queries":["wireless earbuds"],"pages":1,"skipSponsored":true}'

For n8n, Make and Zapier, add the actor as a step through Apify's integration and map position, asin and price into a sheet or an alert — "my ASIN dropped below position 10" is two nodes. For AI agents, the actor is callable over Apify's MCP server. To get amazon search results csv, run it and use the dataset's Export button, or append ?format=csv to the dataset items API.

Amazon competitor tracking, in practice

Rank on its own is a vanity number. What makes it useful is the row it arrives on: the same record carries the competitor's price, rating and ratings_count. So a weekly run over your keywords answers the questions that actually change decisions:

• Who moved above me, and did they cut price to do it?
• Is the ASIN beating me winning on rating, or on review volume?
• How much of page one is amazon sponsored products — that is, how much of this keyword must be bought rather than earned?
• Which of my ASINs appear for keywords I never targeted?

Because the dataset accumulates, amazon competitor tracking becomes a table you can chart rather than a screenshot you take.

Bulk amazon product data

For bulk amazon product data, widen pages and hand the run a list of keywords or categories. Each ASIN is delivered once per run even when several keywords surface it, so a broad sweep does not pay twice for the same product. maxResultsPerQuery bounds each job independently, which is the safest way to keep a large sweep predictable.

Is it legal to scrape Amazon search results?

This reads publicly visible search and chart pages with no login and no account, and it collects no personal data — a product row is an ASIN, a title, a price and a rating. Scraping public pages that contain no personal data is broadly accepted, and hiQ v. LinkedIn is the usual US reference point.

The caveats: Amazon's Conditions of Use discourage automated access, so this is a terms question rather than a criminal one, and the risk sits with whoever operates the run. Facts such as prices and ranks are not copyrightable, though a database of them can attract sui generis protection in the EU — so do not resell the raw dataset as a product. None of this is legal advice; if your use is commercial or large, ask a lawyer.

Limits and honest notes

• position includes ads. That is intentional — it is the shopper's view. Use sponsored or skipSponsored for organic rank.
• Price is what the results page shows. Some listings show a range, or nothing until you open the product; price is then null. Chart pages in particular often omit prices for a portion of entries.
• Chart rank is Amazon's own where it prints one, and otherwise the position in the returned order.
• Search pages carry about 20 organic products, plus ads. Walking more pages is how you go deeper, and a page that adds nothing new ends the walk automatically.
• Amazon serves a captcha to repeat callers. The run detects it and rotates to a fresh IP rather than parsing the captcha page as an empty result set.
• Cheap proxies first, residential only when Amazon pushes back. A run starts on the proxies you chose — datacentre is the cheapest — and rotates to a fresh IP on a captcha or a 503. When the same page is refused twice in a row that is the IP range being blocked, not the page, so the run stops trusting that pool: its sessions re-open on a residential proxy and stay there for the rest of the run. Nothing to configure, no run has to fail to teach it, and a run that is never refused never leaves the cheap pool — so a run costs the least that still succeeds. The run's SUMMARY reports it as http.escalated.
• Marketplaces differ. The same keyword ranks differently in com and co.uk; run each marketplace as its own job.

FAQ

Does it need an Amazon API key?

No. Amazon's Product Advertising API needs an affiliate account with ongoing sales requirements, and it does not expose search rank the way a shopper sees it. This is an amazon search without api route: it reads the public results page.

Can I track Amazon keyword rank over time?

Yes — that is the main use. Schedule the run, keep the dataset, and position plus fetched_at give you rank history per ASIN per keyword. Use skipSponsored if you want organic rank only.

How do I separate sponsored from organic results?

Every row has a sponsored boolean. Leave it in to see the page as a shopper does, filter it out for organic analysis, or set skipSponsored: true so ads are dropped before billing and you never pay for them.

Can I scrape Amazon Best Sellers and New Releases?

Yes. Put the category slug in categories and choose chart: bestsellers or new_releases. Each row carries rank, so the chart arrives ready to sort. The slug is the part of a Best Sellers URL after /gp/bestsellers/.

How many products does one search return?

About 20 organic results per page plus ads, so a 2-page run is roughly 40 organic products. Charts return about 30 per page. Set pages for depth and maxResultsPerQuery to cap cost.

Can I get results for a specific category or department?

Two ways: department narrows a keyword search to a department, and categories pulls the chart for a category node. They answer different questions — the first is "who ranks for this phrase in kitchen", the second is "what sells best in kitchen".

Does it return the ASIN so I can scrape reviews next?

Yes, every product row carries asin. Feed those into an Amazon reviews run and you have the full picture: rank and price from here, customer opinion from there.

Which marketplaces are supported?

Twenty, listed in the input table. Set domain per run; the same keyword in two marketplaces should be two runs, because ranks are not comparable across them.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes. Every run writes an Apify dataset, exportable to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML from the Console, or over the API with ?format=csv.

Is there a free tier?

Empty searches, filtered rows, status rows and failed jobs are always free, so a run that finds nothing costs nothing beyond a fraction of a cent of platform compute. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit you can spend here.

Amazon bestsellers scraper: charts as a research surface

An amazon bestsellers scraper is the fastest read on a category you do not know. Search tells you who bid or optimised for a phrase; the charts tell you what people are actually buying, ranked by Amazon itself from real sales.

Three charts, three questions:

• Best Sellers answers what is established. Slow to move, and a good baseline for what a category's price and rating norms look like.
• New Releases answers what is entering. Products here are young; a high rating on a low ratings_count is a product still proving itself, and it is where new competition shows up first.
• Movers & Shakers would answer what changed today, but Amazon renders that chart in the browser, so it is not available here; the same signal comes from diffing today's Best Sellers run against yesterday's.

Run both on the same category in one job list and you get a picture no single chart gives: the incumbents and the entrants — each row with price, rating and rating count attached.

Reading the numbers honestly

A chart position is not sales volume, and Amazon does not publish units. rank tells you the ordering, ratings_count gives you a rough proxy for cumulative demand, and the change in ratings_count between two runs is a better velocity signal than either. That last one only exists if you keep your runs — which is the argument for scheduling rather than running ad hoc.

Likewise price on a chart page is often absent for a portion of entries. That is Amazon's rendering, not a parsing gap; when you need reliable prices for a specific set of ASINs, feed them into a product-level run instead.

Category slugs

The categories input takes the slug from a Best Sellers URL — the part after /gp/bestsellers/. electronics, kitchen, books, toys-and-games and so on. Nested nodes work too if you paste the full path. If a slug returns nothing, open the chart in a browser and copy the segment exactly as Amazon writes it; slugs differ between marketplaces.

Ready-made runs

Each link opens this actor with the input already filled in — press Start and it runs. Every one is capped, so what it bills is on the page before you run it. What each returns is spelled out at mtedj.github.io/kestrel-actors-examples/recipes.html.

• Keyword Rank Tracking for ASINs
• Sponsored Products Share of Page
• Scrape Search Results to CSV
• Category Bestsellers in One Run
• Product Research Tool: Top 100 by Keyword
• Keyword Tracking on .co.uk
• Search Results on .de
• Product Data Inside a Department
• Bulk Product Data, 10 Keywords
• Search Without API Access, No Key
• Bestsellers Scraper for Japan

Related scrapers

Search tells you what ranks. Reviews tell you why — every product row here carries an asin you can feed straight into the reviews run:

• Amazon Product Scraper — full details, buybox and list price, stock flag, gallery and details table for any ASIN the search returns, in the same 20 marketplaces.
• Amazon Best Sellers Scraper — the Top 100 of any category with every rank filled (a chart page renders only 30 of its 50 entries), plus New Releases.
• Amazon Reviews Scraper — Amazon customer reviews and ratings by ASIN.
• Google Hotels Prices Scraper — hotel prices and every booking site’s rate for a stay.

All of them bill per delivered row, never charge for rows a filter or a spending limit removed, and write an Apify dataset you can export to CSV, Excel or JSON.