# Amazon Public PDP / ASIN Monitor (`lukas-ebner/amazon-pdp-monitor`) Actor

Monitor public Amazon PDP and ASIN URLs for price, rating, review-count, availability, bullets, images, and change-friendly report rows. Built for recurring product intelligence, not generic keyword scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lukas-ebner/amazon-pdp-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Lukas Ebner](https://apify.com/lukas-ebner) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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```bash
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# README

## Amazon Public PDP / ASIN Monitor

Scrape **public Amazon product detail pages** by **ASIN or product URL** and get clean, monitoring-ready product snapshots: canonical PDP URL, title, brand, visible price, rating, review count, availability hints, bullet points, breadcrumbs/category, image URLs, Buy Box seller hints, delivery text, and alert/report rows.

This actor is intentionally **narrow**: it supports the validated public subset only — **PDP / ASIN enrichment and monitoring**. It does **not** promise keyword search, category crawling, or broad Amazon discovery.

---

### Why this exists

Amazon demand is real, but the validated low-cost HTTP path is not equally reliable across all public surfaces.

- **Product detail pages (PDPs)** are publicly visible and were validated as reachable after homepage cookie minting.
- **Search and category pages** can fall into Amazon anti-bot interstitials (`bm-verify`) in the cheap HTTP flow.

So this actor focuses on the part that is actually green: **canonical product-page monitoring**.

### What you get

For each ASIN / PDP URL, the actor returns a structured snapshot with fields like:

- `asin`
- `canonicalUrl`
- `title`
- `brand`
- `price`, `currency`, `listPrice`, `discountPercent`
- `rating`, `reviewCount`
- `availability`, `availabilityHint`
- `bulletPoints`
- `breadcrumbs`
- `imageUrls`
- `buyboxSeller`
- `fulfillment`
- `deliveryEstimate`
- `monitoringStatus`, `monitoringSignals`

It also emits:

- a **per-product monitoring report** with completeness and alert flags
- a **run summary** so scheduled runs are easy to inspect downstream

### Who it's for

- **Brands** monitoring public Amazon PDPs for price, stock, and seller changes
- **Marketplace operators** enriching ASIN lists into structured product records
- **Analysts** building public-surface Amazon product datasets
- **Teams scheduling recurring checks** and diffing snapshots in their own storage / BI stack

### Scope limits

This actor is **PUBLIC-SUBSET-ONLY**.

Supported:
- ASIN input like `B004YAVF8I`
- Canonical Amazon PDP URLs like `https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YAVF8I`
- Other product-detail URL variants if they still contain an ASIN

Not supported / not promised:
- keyword search
- category search
- bestseller pages
- review scraping at scale
- seller storefront crawling
- login-gated flows

### Example input

Use `searchTerms` for the simplest platform smoke test:

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["B004YAVF8I"],
  "market": "us",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
````

You can also pass direct product URLs:

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "B004YAVF8I",
    "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGY2R9HR"
  ],
  "directUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FZ8S74R" }
  ],
  "market": "us",
  "requestDelayMs": 1200,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

### Example output

**Product snapshot row**

```json
{
  "recordType": "product",
  "asin": "B004YAVF8I",
  "marketplace": "us",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YAVF8I",
  "title": "...",
  "brand": "...",
  "price": 23.99,
  "currency": "$",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 18432,
  "availability": "In Stock",
  "bulletPoints": ["..."],
  "breadcrumbs": ["Electronics", "Accessories"],
  "imageUrls": ["https://..."],
  "monitoringStatus": "ok",
  "monitoringSignals": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

**Monitoring report row**

```json
{
  "recordType": "productReport",
  "asin": "B004YAVF8I",
  "monitoringStatus": "ok",
  "alertFlags": [],
  "completenessScore": 100,
  "hasPrice": true,
  "hasRating": true,
  "hasAvailability": true,
  "imageCount": 8,
  "bulletCount": 6
}
```

### Monitoring use cases

Schedule the actor daily or hourly for:

- **price watchlists** on important ASINs
- **availability checks** for in-stock / out-of-stock signals
- **Buy Box / seller hint monitoring**
- **catalog enrichment** from internal ASIN lists
- **snapshot pipelines** where your own system computes diffs and alerts

### Reliability notes

Amazon can challenge naive scraping. This actor uses the hardened template style:

- homepage cookie minting before PDP requests
- browser-like HTTP fingerprints via `got-scraping`
- re-mint + proxy rotation on block/challenge
- no headless browser by default

Start with Apify Proxy. If Amazon begins returning anti-bot pages for your workload, switch to residential proxy groups.

### Pricing model

Pay-per-event. Dataset items are the primary billable output, which fits monitoring workloads well.

### Legality

This actor is designed for **publicly visible product-page facts**. It does not log in, access account-only surfaces, or promise bypasses for private / gated data. Product images and copy may be copyrighted by Amazon or sellers; factual fields like price, rating count, availability, and ASIN are different in nature. You remain responsible for your own use of the data and applicable law.

### FAQ

**Does it support keyword search?** No. This actor is intentionally limited to the validated PDP / ASIN subset.

**Can I pass ASINs directly?** Yes. Put them in `searchTerms` for the easiest on-platform smoke test.

**Why is `searchTerms` used for ASINs?** So a simple single-value smoke input works on the platform without needing request-list setup.

**Will it always get price / rating / availability?** Amazon can vary markup by locale, experiment, and anti-bot state. The actor returns monitoring flags so you can distinguish complete vs partial snapshots.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Primary input. Pass ASINs like "B004YAVF8I" or canonical Amazon PDP URLs. This actor does not support keyword or category search.

## `directUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional PDP URLs if you prefer request-list style input. Same scope: public product detail pages only.

## `market` (type: `string`):

Default Amazon marketplace used when an input is just an ASIN.

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

Safety cap on total ASINs / URLs processed in one run.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between PDP requests. Lower is faster but raises block risk.

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

Apify Proxy (datacenter) works for normal PDP runs and is the default. For heavy/continuous monitoring, switch to RESIDENTIAL groups (requires a plan with residential proxy) to avoid anti-bot pages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "B004YAVF8I"
  ],
  "market": "us",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "requestDelayMs": 1200,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "B004YAVF8I"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lukas-ebner/amazon-pdp-monitor").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 = { "searchTerms": ["B004YAVF8I"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lukas-ebner/amazon-pdp-monitor").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "B004YAVF8I"
  ]
}' |
apify call lukas-ebner/amazon-pdp-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Amazon Public PDP / ASIN Monitor",
        "description": "Monitor public Amazon PDP and ASIN URLs for price, rating, review-count, availability, bullets, images, and change-friendly report rows. Built for recurring product intelligence, not generic keyword scraping.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "OYajlI7JO1bF2TsIM"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/lukas-ebner~amazon-pdp-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-lukas-ebner-amazon-pdp-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
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                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/lukas-ebner~amazon-pdp-monitor/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-lukas-ebner-amazon-pdp-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
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                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
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                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
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                                }
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                    }
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            }
        },
        "/acts/lukas-ebner~amazon-pdp-monitor/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-lukas-ebner-amazon-pdp-monitor",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchTerms": {
                        "title": "ASINs or Amazon product URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Primary input. Pass ASINs like \"B004YAVF8I\" or canonical Amazon PDP URLs. This actor does not support keyword or category search.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "directUrls": {
                        "title": "Direct product URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Optional PDP URLs if you prefer request-list style input. Same scope: public product detail pages only.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "market": {
                        "title": "Marketplace",
                        "enum": [
                            "us",
                            "uk",
                            "de",
                            "ca",
                            "fr",
                            "it",
                            "es"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Default Amazon marketplace used when an input is just an ASIN.",
                        "default": "us"
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max products",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Safety cap on total ASINs / URLs processed in one run.",
                        "default": 20
                    },
                    "requestDelayMs": {
                        "title": "Request delay (ms)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 10000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Delay between PDP requests. Lower is faster but raises block risk.",
                        "default": 1200
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Apify Proxy (datacenter) works for normal PDP runs and is the default. For heavy/continuous monitoring, switch to RESIDENTIAL groups (requires a plan with residential proxy) to avoid anti-bot pages.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```