# eBay Search Scraper — Listings, Prices & Filters ✅ No API Key (`neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search`) Actor

Search active eBay listings by keyword with price, condition, buying-format, category and sort filters. One row per result: item ID, title, URL, numeric price and list price, discount, currency, condition, best-offer flag and image. No API key, account or cookies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search.md
- **Developed by:** [NeuralVerge](https://apify.com/neuralverge) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 results

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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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.

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# README

### eBay Search Scraper — Listings, Prices & Filters ✅ No API Key

Search active eBay listings by keyword and get one clean row per result: item ID,
title, listing URL, price and list price as numbers, the discount between them,
currency, condition and image. Narrow the search with the same filters eBay
offers: sort order, condition, auction or Buy It Now, price range and category.
No API key, no eBay account and no cookies required. One search term per run.

### ✨ Why this Actor

- **eBay's own filters built in.** Sort by price or ending time, keep only new or
  used items, auctions or Buy It Now, a price band, or one category.
- **One row per listing, priced per row.** You pay for what lands in the dataset
  and nothing else.
- **Prices you can compute with.** `price` and `listPrice` are numbers, and
  `discountPercent` is worked out from the two — `null` when there is nothing to
  discount, never a misleading 0.
- **Clean links.** Tracking parameters are removed from every listing URL.
- **eBay's own promo tile is filtered out** and never billed. Duplicate item IDs
  are written once.
- **Predictable cost.** The run is trimmed to what your "Maximum cost per run"
  can pay for *before* anything is fetched.
- **A blocked page is never sold as an empty result set.** A response that carries
  too little traffic to have been a real page fails the run instead of billing you.

### 🔧 How it works

1. Type a search term and, if you like, set filters.
2. Say how many listings you want (up to 500).
3. The Actor calls the Neuralverge extraction engine and writes one dataset row
   per listing.

### Input

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `searchQuery` | What to search for, e.g. `wireless mouse` |
| `maxItems` | Listings per run, 1–500 |
| `sort` | `best_match`, `ending_soonest`, `newly_listed`, `price_low`, `price_high` |
| `condition` | `any`, `new`, `open_box`, `used`, `parts` |
| `buyingFormat` | `any`, `auction`, `buy_it_now` |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Price band |
| `categoryId` | Numeric eBay category ID, e.g. `58058` |

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "nintendo switch",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "sort": "price_low",
  "condition": "used",
  "buyingFormat": "buy_it_now",
  "minPrice": 100,
  "maxPrice": 400
}
```

Looking for a category ID? The **eBay Category List** Actor by Neuralverge returns
all of them with names.

### What you'll receive

One row per listing: `position`, `itemId`, `title`, `url`, `price`, `currency`,
`listPrice`, `discountPercent`, `condition`, `buyingFormat`, `bidCount`,
`hasBestOffer`, `shipping`, `soldCount`, `watcherCount`, `seller` and `image`,
plus the `searchQuery` the row came from.

Everything arrives in a single Output tab as flat columns: no preview view hides
any field, and no column collapses into a nested cell.

#### Example output (real run)

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "iphone 13",
  "position": 1,
  "itemId": "389640259363",
  "title": "Apple iPhone 13 Midnight Black/Blue 128GB/256GB 512GB Unlocked - Free Ship",
  "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/389640259363",
  "price": 210,
  "currency": "USD",
  "listPrice": null,
  "discountPercent": null,
  "condition": "Pre-Owned",
  "buyingFormat": null,
  "bidCount": null,
  "hasBestOffer": false,
  "shipping": null,
  "soldCount": null,
  "watcherCount": null,
  "seller": null,
  "image": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l8EAAeSw6~hplbSz/s-l500.webp"
}
```

A search that ran but matched nothing writes one explicit row instead, so the miss
joins back to its input:

```json
{ "searchQuery": "qwertyuiop no such listing", "found": false, "message": "..." }
```

### Pricing

Pay per result, charged per dataset row. Starting the Actor is free and there is
no minimum charge per run.

- A row is billed whether it is a listing or the single `found: false` row that
  stands for "the search ran and matched nothing" — the work was performed
  either way.
- A run that **fails** is never charged: missing or invalid input, an upstream
  error, and a page that was never retrieved all write nothing.
- Set "Maximum cost per run" to cap a run. The Actor reads that cap before
  fetching and trims the number of rows to what the cap can pay for.
- eBay's own "Shop on eBay" house tile is dropped and never billed.

### Free plan limits

On the Apify Free plan this Actor can be started 5 times per calendar month per
user and returns at most 5 rows per run. Every Neuralverge Actor has its own
allowance, and a run that finds nothing counts towards it. Any paid Apify plan
removes both limits.

### Integrations & API

The dataset is available through the Apify API, and the Actor can be called from
Apify Integrations, scheduled, or chained into another Actor like any other. Rows
export to JSON, CSV, Excel and Google Sheets.

### FAQ

**Which fields are often empty?**
`shipping`, `seller`, `soldCount`, `watcherCount`, `buyingFormat` and `bidCount`
are empty on most cards, because the search results page does not print them for
every listing type. `itemId`, `title`, `url`, `price`, `currency` and `condition`
are the reliable ones. For the full seller block of one listing, use the
**eBay Item Scraper** Actor.

**Which eBay site is searched?**
ebay.com, with prices in US dollars.

**Are results stable between identical runs?**
No. eBay reorders results and rotates promoted listings, so two runs of the same
keyword can return different items. Do not rely on `position` being stable.

**Do I need an eBay account or cookies?**
No.

### Disclaimer

This Actor collects publicly available information from eBay pages. It does not
log in, does not use cookies, and does not access personal accounts. You are
responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with applicable laws
and the terms of the source website.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

What to look for on eBay, exactly as you would type it into the site's search box. One search term per run.

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

How many listings to return, 1-500. You are charged per row delivered, so this is also the cap on what the run can cost. On the Apify Free plan a run is limited to 5 rows whatever you set here.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Result order, as on eBay.

## `condition` (type: `string`):

Only listings in this condition.

## `buyingFormat` (type: `string`):

Auctions only, or fixed-price Buy It Now only.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Lowest price to include, in the currency of the eBay site (USD on ebay.com).

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Highest price to include.

## `categoryId` (type: `string`):

Numeric eBay category ID to search inside, e.g. 58058 (Computers, Tablets & Network Hardware). The eBay Category List Actor returns every ID.

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Only needed if you want to bill the lookups to your own Neuralverge account instead of paying per result here. Leave empty to use this Actor normally.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "wireless mouse",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "sort": "best_match",
  "condition": "any",
  "buyingFormat": "any",
  "categoryId": "58058"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Structured eBay listings, one dataset row per item.

# 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 = {
    "searchQuery": "wireless mouse",
    "maxItems": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search").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 = {
    "searchQuery": "wireless mouse",
    "maxItems": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search").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 '{
  "searchQuery": "wireless mouse",
  "maxItems": 25
}' |
apify call neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuralverge/neuralverge-ebay-item-search"
        }
    }
}
```

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/uRLSjP7Wl4m3ySlr4/builds/4JBzGsaa9BXHyhIjo/openapi.json