Ebay Product Scraper

What does eBay Product Scraper do?

eBay Product Scraper extracts structured data from eBay search results and item detail pages - title, price, condition, seller, shipping, item specifics, images and more - with no eBay account or API key required. Point it at a keyword or a list of item numbers and get clean JSON back.

Run it on the Apify platform to get scheduled runs, a REST API, webhooks, proxy rotation, and integrations with Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack and more.

Two operations

Operation	What it does	Key input
Product Search	Walks an eBay search-results listing page by page and returns one row per organic result	query / queries
Item Details	Fetches full detail for specific listings	itemId / itemIds

Why use eBay Product Scraper?

• Price and competitor monitoring - track how an item or a whole category is priced across sellers over time.
• Market research - measure demand, typical condition mix, and sold counts for a product line.
• Reselling and sourcing - spot underpriced listings and auctions ending soon.
• Catalog enrichment - pull item specifics, images and descriptions for your own storefront.

What makes this different?

• One Actor, two jobs - listing scraping and detail scraping share a single interface and output schema.
• Handles both eBay layouts - eBay is mid-migration between two result-grid designs; this Actor reads either.
• Honest empty-run handling - if eBay challenges every request, the run fails loudly instead of returning an empty dataset that looks like "no results".
• No login, no keys - nothing to register, no OAuth.

Data it extracts

Field	Description
itemId	eBay item number
title	Listing title
price, priceMax	Price; priceMax is set only for multi-variation price ranges
listPrice	Original / strikethrough price when discounted
currency	ISO currency code parsed from the price
condition	New, Brand New, Open Box, Used, etc.
availability, soldCount, outOfStock	Stock and sales signals (details)
shipping	Shipping cost text (search)
seller, sellerName, sellerFeedbackPercent	Seller identity and positive-feedback percentage
rating, reviewCount	Aggregated product rating where eBay shows one
bids, isAuction	Auction status and current bid count
itemSpecifics	Key/value map from the "About this item" panel (details)
description, breadcrumbs, images	Long description, category path, image gallery (details)
itemUrl	Canonical listing URL

How to use eBay Product Scraper

1. Open the Actor and pick an Operation: Product Search or Item Details.
2. For search, type a Search query (or several under Search queries - batch). For details, paste one or more Item numbers or URLs.
3. Optionally set Sort by, Condition, Buy It Now only, a price range, and Max items.
4. Leave Proxy configuration on the residential default.
5. Click Start. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull it from the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
operation	string	search or productDetails (required)
query / queries	string / array	Keyword(s) for the search operation
itemId / itemIds	string / array	Item number(s) or URL(s) for the details operation
sortBy	string	best-match, price-asc, price-desc, newly-listed, ending-soonest
condition	string	new, open-box, refurbished, used, for-parts
buyItNow	boolean	Exclude auction-only listings
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	USD price range for search
maxItems	integer	Cap on total rows (search only). Default 20. First 10 rows free.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings; residential recommended

Output

Each dataset row is one listing. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

{
  "_operation": "productDetails",
  "itemId": "146721557193",
  "title": "Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Cherry MX Red",
  "price": 109.99,
  "priceMax": null,
  "listPrice": 159.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "condition": "New",
  "availability": "More than 10 available",
  "soldCount": 342,
  "outOfStock": false,
  "seller": null,
  "sellerName": "corsair_official",
  "sellerFeedbackPercent": 99.5,
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 211,
  "bids": null,
  "isAuction": false,
  "itemSpecifics": { "Brand": "Corsair", "Switch Type": "Cherry MX Red", "Connectivity": "USB" },
  "breadcrumbs": ["Computers/Tablets & Networking", "Keyboards, Mice & Pointers", "Keyboards & Keypads"],
  "image": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xyz/s-l1600.jpg",
  "images": ["https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xyz/s-l1600.jpg"],
  "itemUrl": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/146721557193",
  "status": "success"
}

How much does it cost to scrape eBay?

The Actor is billed per result (pay-per-event): one event when a run starts, and one per row pushed. The first 10 rows of every run are free, so small test runs cost nothing. A typical 200-row search run uses a few cents of compute plus the per-result fee. Detail runs cost one event per item.

Tips

• Set maxItems to keep search runs bounded - eBay listings for a broad keyword can run to thousands of pages.
• Use sortBy: "ending-soonest" plus condition: "used" for sourcing/reselling workflows.
• Batch itemIds (up to a few hundred per run) rather than one run per item.
• If a run fails with "eBay served a challenge", re-run - residential proxy sessions rotate and usually clear it.

Known limitations

• US marketplace only. The Actor targets ebay.com; other eBay sites (.co.uk, .de, …) are not yet supported. The proxy is pinned to US exits by default so prices come back in USD; if you override the proxy country, the currency field records whatever eBay served.
• eBay serves its item pages in several rotating layouts. Core fields (title, price, currency, condition, availability, seller, images) come from each listing's embedded structured data and are reliable across all of them, but the full item-specifics table is only present in some layouts - expect itemSpecifics to sometimes contain just Brand.
• On search results, condition is read from the card and can be null for listings whose card doesn't spell it out (common for one-off vintage/collectible items).
• eBay does not show an aggregate rating for most listings, so rating / reviewCount are usually null.
• Sponsored placements are not separately flagged in the current eBay markup and may appear as organic rows.
• Ended or removed listings return a single row with status: "error" rather than partial data.

FAQ

Do I need an eBay account or API key? No.

Is scraping eBay legal? Scraping publicly available data is generally legal, but you are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with eBay's Terms of Service and applicable law. This Actor collects only public listing data, no personal data beyond public seller usernames.

Can it scrape sold/completed listings? Not yet - it scrapes active listings. Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab if you need this.

Something looks wrong. File it on the Issues tab with the input you used - fixes usually ship quickly.