eBay Listings Scraper

eBay Scraper — active eBay listings by search term or URL

eBay Scraper reads eBay search result pages exactly as a logged-out visitor sees them and returns one row per active listing: item ID, title, condition, price (or price range), auction bids and time left, shipping, location, seller name and feedback, watchers and sold counts. It follows eBay's own "next page" link until your limit is reached. With Add item-page details on, it also opens each listing and adds brand, model, MPN / GTIN, item specifics, all images, return policy, payment methods, category path and seller details.

No eBay account, no login, no cookies from a browser.

Sold-listing searches are not available. Since 2026 eBay sends every logged-out visitor of a sold / completed search (LH_Sold=1 / LH_Complete=1) to its sign-in page (re-checked 2026-10-03), so such URLs are skipped with an error. An ended listing whose item URL you already have still works without login: its page stays public and the row carries listingStatus ENDED, the end time and the price the page shows.

Input

Field	Default	Meaning
searchTerms	["iphone 13"] (prefill)	Search terms, one per line, searched on ebay.com
startUrls	empty	eBay search URLs (/sch/i.html?..., filters kept) or item URLs (/itm/<id>, active or ended) from ebay.com, ebay.co.uk or ebay.de
maxItems	20	Total listings to return
maxPagesPerSearch	50	Safety limit on result pages per search
itemsPerPage	auto	60, 120 or 240 cards per result page; auto = smallest that covers maxItems
buyingFormat	all	buyItNow or auction (search terms only)
condition	any	new (Brand New) or used (search terms only)
sort	bestMatch	newlyListed, endingSoonest, priceLowest, priceHighest (search terms only)
minPrice / maxPrice	empty	Price range in the site currency (search terms only)
includeDetails	false	Open every listing's item page for the detail fields (+1 request per row)
proxyConfiguration	Apify RESIDENTIAL, US	Proxy; a blocked page is retried on a new IP

Output

Field	Meaning
itemId, title, url	eBay item number, title, canonical item URL
subtitle	Extra card line (product line or the seller's subtitle)
condition	Condition as shown, e.g. Pre-Owned, Brand New, Excellent - Refurbished
price, priceMax, currency, priceText	Price (lowest of a range), top of a "X to Y" range, ISO currency, text as shown
originalPrice	Struck-through "was" price
buyingFormat, bestOfferAccepted	AUCTION or FIXED_PRICE; "or Best Offer" shown
bidCount, timeLeft, buyItNowPrice	Auction bids, time left as shown, Buy It Now price of an auction
shippingCost, shippingText	Shipping cost (0 = free) and text — follows the visitor's country
itemLocation, freeReturns	Item location; free returns flag
watchersCount, soldCount	"71 watchers", "76+ sold" (lower bound on cards, exact on item pages)
sellerName, sellerPositivePercent, sellerFeedbackScore	Seller and feedback ("14.8K" on cards, exact with details)
productRating, productRatingsCount, epid	eBay catalog product rating, count, product ID
highlights	Other badges on the card: NEWLY LISTED, eBay Refurbished, Last one, coupons ...
image	Card image
position, page, searchTerm, searchUrl	Where the row was found
inputUrl, scrapedAt	URL input that produced the row; ISO UTC timestamp
listingStatus, endedAt, endedText	Item pages only: ACTIVE / ENDED as the page states it; for ended listings the page's own end time (ISO) and its text, e.g. "Ended: Oct 02, 2026 13:30:42 PDT · Item sold on Fri, Oct 2 at 1:30 PM."
Other detail fields	brand, model, mpn, gtin, availability, availableQuantity, quantityText, images, shippingOptions, returnDays, returnPolicy, paymentMethods, categoryPath, categoryId, listedAt, conditionNote, itemSpecifics, sellerItemsSold, sellerJoined, sellerUrl

Measured limits (local tests 2026-10-03, one residential IP in Bangladesh, no proxy)

• eBay is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. Every new session first opens the home page (it gets HTTP 403 and Akamai's cookies), then the real page. From the test IP that first real request passed in 34 of 52 fresh sessions; a further search page in the same session passed 8 of 16 times, item pages 16 of 16. A blocked page gets up to 4 sessions with back-off. Late in testing (after about 110 eBay requests in 40 minutes) one run was blocked on all 4 sessions (2 eBay "Checking your browser" pages, 2 HTTP 403) and returned 0 rows; the same input 10 minutes later returned 150 rows over 3 pages. On Apify each new session uses a new residential IP, which we could not measure locally.
• eBay's "Checking your browser" / CAPTCHA pages are never answered — they count as a block.
• Sold / completed searches: login wall (302 to signin.ebay.com) - refused with an error.
• Ended listings by known item ID: public, no login. Tested on an auction that ended during testing: HTTP 200, listingStatus ENDED, endedAt 2026-10-02T20:30:42Z, "Item sold on Fri, Oct 2 at 1:30 PM.", final price US $31.00 with 12 bids - every value copied from the page, none computed. Only ended auctions were measured; an ended fixed-price page may state less (fields the page does not state stay empty).
• When eBay finds no exact matches it fills the page with listings from a relaxed search (measured: "0 results" + "97132 items found from eBay international sellers"); those are skipped, not returned.
• Shipping costs and the LH_PrefLoc location filter follow the visitor's country (from Bangladesh: "Free International Shipping", and LH_PrefLoc=1 gave 0 results). Use the US proxy for US shipping.
• The "Sponsored" label is drawn as an image on every card and cannot be read reliably, so it is not output.
• ebay.co.uk and ebay.de were tested (search and item pages); other eBay country sites are refused.

Example input

{"searchTerms": ["nintendo switch"], "buyingFormat": "auction", "sort": "endingSoonest", "condition": "used",
 "minPrice": 100, "maxPrice": 300, "includeDetails": true, "maxItems": 50}