# Amazon Best Sellers Scraper: Top 100, New Releases & Movers (`ksvan/amazon-bestsellers-scraper`) Actor

Top 100 Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas for any category on 20+ Amazon marketplaces: rank, ASIN, title, author/brand, price, rating, reviews, image. Crawl subcategories. Fast HTTP, no browser.

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

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 products

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Amazon Best Sellers Scraper: Top 100 & New Releases

Get the **full Top 100** of any Amazon ranking list in seconds: **Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas**, for any category and subcategory, on **20+ Amazon marketplaces** (US, UK, DE, FR, IT, ES, CA, AU, JP, IN, MX, BR, NL, SE, PL and more).

Fast HTTP scraper, no browser, so runs are quick and cheap. You pay only for products saved to the dataset; failed pages are never charged.

### What you get

For every ranked product:

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `rank` | 3 |
| `asin` | 1538784726 |
| `title` | In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood |
| `author` | Collin Gosselin (author for books, brand/seller line where Amazon shows it) |
| `format` | Hardcover / Kindle Edition / Paperback |
| `formatsAvailable` | 3 |
| `price`, `priceValue`, `priceMax`, `currency` | "$19.50", 19.5, null, "$" |
| `rating`, `ratingsCount` | 4.9, 918 |
| `imageUrl`, `thumbnailUrl` | full-size cover / product image |
| `url`, `authorUrl` | clean product and author links |
| `listType`, `category`, `categoryPath`, `parentCategory`, `marketplace` | bestsellers, Best Sellers in Books, books, null, amazon.com |
| `salesRank`, `salesRank24hAgo`, `rankChangePercent` | Movers & Shakers only: today's rank, yesterday's rank and the % jump |
| `scrapedAt` | 2026-10-18T19:30:00+00:00 |

### Use cases

- **Amazon sellers and FBA research**: see what sells in a category right now and how prices and review counts look at the top.
- **KDP authors and publishers**: track the Top 100 of your book categories (Kindle eBooks, Books, Audible), spot new releases that break in fast, compare covers and prices.
- **Trend spotting**: Movers & Shakers shows the biggest 24-hour rank jumps, the earliest signal that something is taking off.
- **Daily rank tracking**: schedule the actor and build your own rank history per ASIN.
- **Gift and seasonal research**: Most Wished For and Gift Ideas lists before holidays.

### How to use

1. Pick a **marketplace** (amazon.com by default).
2. Pick one or more **lists** (Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For, Gift Ideas).
3. Add **categories** as they appear in the Amazon URL after `/bestsellers/`:
   - `books`, `electronics`, `toys-and-games`, `beauty`, `kitchen`
   - `digital-text/154606011` (Kindle eBooks), `books/17` (Literature & Fiction)
   - leave empty to scrape every department's Top 100 (Any Department)
   - or simply paste the full list URL from your browser into **List URLs**.
4. Optional: set **Subcategory depth** to 1-3 to crawl every subcategory below your categories automatically.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "marketplace": "amazon.com",
  "listTypes": ["bestsellers", "new-releases"],
  "categories": ["books", "digital-text/154606011"],
  "maxItemsPerList": 100,
  "subcategoryDepth": 0
}
```

#### Example output

```json
{
  "listType": "bestsellers",
  "category": "Best Sellers in Books",
  "categoryPath": "books",
  "marketplace": "amazon.com",
  "rank": 2,
  "asin": "1400356822",
  "title": "Contend: Standing Boldly for Biblical Truth While Winning the War Within",
  "author": "Philip Anthony Mitchell",
  "format": "Hardcover",
  "formatsAvailable": 3,
  "price": "$20.98",
  "priceValue": 20.98,
  "currency": "$",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "ratingsCount": 157,
  "imageUrl": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812qlvJI8hL.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/Contend-Standing-Boldly-Biblical-Winning/dp/1400356822",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T19:30:00+00:00"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per product saved. Start fees, proxies and compute are included. A full Top 100 list costs a few cents; errors cost nothing.

### Tips

- Amazon shows at most **100 products per list**, so `maxItemsPerList` above 100 is not possible.
- Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas are supported, but Amazon currently shows them empty on most marketplaces. When a list is empty the actor records an `empty-list` row (not charged) and moves on.
- Small subcategories can have fewer than 100 products.
- Prices are shown in the marketplace's local currency.
- With subcategory crawling use **Max lists** as a safety cap: Books alone has thousands of subcategories at depth 3.

### FAQ

**Is scraping Amazon best seller lists legal?** The lists are public pages that anyone can see without logging in. This actor reads only public data and no personal data. Check the terms that apply to your use case.

**Do I need an Amazon account or API key?** No.

**Something broke or a field is missing?** Open an issue on the Issues tab and it will be fixed quickly.

# Actor input Schema

## `marketplace` (type: `string`):

Which Amazon store to read. Prices come in the store's local currency.

## `listTypes` (type: `array`):

One or more Amazon ranking lists. Each list is scraped for every category below.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Category path as it appears in the Amazon URL after /bestsellers/, e.g. books, electronics, digital-text/154606011 (Kindle eBooks), books/17 (Literature & Fiction). Empty = every top-level department (Any Department), one list each. A full list URL works too.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional. Paste any Amazon Best Sellers / New Releases / Movers & Shakers / Most Wished For / Gift Ideas URL from any marketplace. When filled, Marketplace, Lists and Categories are ignored.

## `maxItemsPerList` (type: `integer`):

Amazon shows up to 100 ranked products per list (two pages of 50).

## `subcategoryDepth` (type: `integer`):

0 = only the lists above. 1 = also every direct subcategory, 2 = and their subcategories, and so on. Depth 1 on Books = about 30 extra lists.

## `maxLists` (type: `integer`):

Safety cap on how many lists (category pages) one run scrapes, useful with subcategory crawling.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many products in total. 0 = no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify datacenter proxy works well for Amazon list pages.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many times a page is retried with a fresh proxy IP before it is reported as an error (errors are not charged).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "marketplace": "amazon.com",
  "listTypes": [
    "bestsellers"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "books"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerList": 100,
  "subcategoryDepth": 0,
  "maxLists": 200,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "maxRetries": 6
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One record per ranked product.

# 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 = {
    "listTypes": [
        "bestsellers"
    ],
    "categories": [
        "books"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ksvan/amazon-bestsellers-scraper").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 = {
    "listTypes": ["bestsellers"],
    "categories": ["books"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "listTypes": [
    "bestsellers"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "books"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call ksvan/amazon-bestsellers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ksvan/amazon-bestsellers-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OA1uCVNtPIscllDZu/builds/8qvuWhslpl6YcykfM/openapi.json