# eBay Listings Scraper (`neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-scraper`) Actor

eBay Scraper SD - eBay Scraper is an e-commerce data tool that extracts active eBay listings by search term or URL: item ID, title, condition, price, bids, shipping, location, seller rating and feedback, page after page, plus optional item-page details. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Neuro Scraper](https://apify.com/neuro-scraper) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.49 / 1,000 results

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Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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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 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

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

# Actor input Schema

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

What you would type into the eBay search box, one term per line. Each term is searched on ebay.com among active listings. Example: iphone 13

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

Paste eBay search result URLs, e.g. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?\_nkw=lego+star+wars\&LH_Auction=1 (every filter in the URL is kept), or item URLs, e.g. https://www.ebay.com/itm/267543612733 (an ended listing is returned too, with listingStatus ENDED and the price its page shows). Sites tested: ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de. Sold / completed SEARCH URLs (LH_Sold=1, LH_Complete=1) need an eBay login since 2026 and are skipped with an error.

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

Maximum number of listings to return in total. Result pages are read one after another until this number is reached or eBay has no next page. Example: 100

## `maxPagesPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Safety limit on result pages read per search term or search URL. Example: 5

## `itemsPerPage` (type: `string`):

How many listings eBay puts on one result page (60, 120 or 240). Auto picks the smallest size that covers Max results, so small runs download less. A search URL that already sets \_ipg keeps its own value. Example: 240 for runs of 1,000+ listings.

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

Only for search terms (a pasted search URL keeps its own filters). Buy It Now includes fixed-price listings that also accept Best Offer. Example: Auction.

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

Only for search terms. New = eBay's "Brand New" condition, Used = "Pre-Owned" / used. Example: Used.

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

Only for search terms. Price sorts include shipping, as on eBay. Example: Ending soonest.

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

Only for search terms. Lowest item price in the site's currency (USD on ebay.com); 0 = no minimum. Example: 100

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

Only for search terms. Highest item price in the site's currency; 0 = no maximum. Example: 300

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open every result's item page and add brand, model, MPN / GTIN, availability, quantity and sold count, all images, shipping options, return policy, payment methods, category path, listing start time, seller notes, item specifics and seller details. Costs one extra request per listing, so runs are slower. Example: on, to get item specifics for 50 listings.

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

eBay is protected by Akamai Bot Manager. Residential proxy in the US is recommended and is the default; a blocked page is retried on a new proxy IP. Shipping costs follow the proxy country. Example: RESIDENTIAL group, country US.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "iphone 13"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "maxPagesPerSearch": 50,
  "itemsPerPage": "auto",
  "buyingFormat": "all",
  "condition": "any",
  "sort": "bestMatch",
  "minPrice": 0,
  "maxPrice": 0,
  "includeDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# 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": [
        "iphone 13"
    ],
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["iphone 13"],
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "iphone 13"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuro-scraper/ebay-listings-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/ECFrmSoggGfZrWxas/builds/UFfOpbRTOTH9nnJkz/openapi.json