Reverb Musical Instrument Scraper

Scrape used-gear listings from Reverb.com — the world's largest marketplace for guitars, basses, keyboards, synths, drums, amps, pedals, and pro audio. Returns clean structured JSON with brand, model, year, finish, condition, price, seller, location, and high-resolution photo URLs. Built for vintage-gear flippers, music-store competitive pricing teams, instrument insurance appraisers, and brand monitoring at guitar manufacturers (Fender / Gibson / Martin / PRS).

Powered by Reverb's official public listings API — no auth required, no anti-bot to fight. Polite throttling baked in.

What you get

Each dataset item has the following fields:

Field	Type	Notes
id	string	Reverb listing ID
title	string	Listing headline
make	string	Brand (Fender, Gibson, Yamaha, etc.)
model	string	Model name
year	string	Year of manufacture (when known)
finish	string	Color / finish (Sunburst, Black, etc.)
condition	string	Mint / Excellent / Very Good / Good / Fair / Poor / B-Stock / Brand New
condition_slug	string	Machine-friendly version (mint, very-good, etc.)
price_amount	string	Listed price as decimal string
price_currency	string	ISO currency code (USD, GBP, EUR, etc.)
price_display	string	Human-readable price ("$7,000")
buyer_price_display	string	Total price the buyer pays incl. fees
categories	string[]	Reverb category breadcrumbs
shop_name	string	Seller / store name
shop_id	integer	Seller ID for joining storefront detail
shop_location	string	Seller's city/region
us_outlet	boolean	Reverb-vetted US outlet store
auction	boolean	Auction listing flag
offers_enabled	boolean	Whether the seller accepts offers
state_slug	string	Lifecycle state (live, sold, etc.)
inventory	integer	Stock count (when applicable)
created_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp
published_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp
description	string	First 1,500 chars of the full listing description
photos	string[]	Up to 10 full-size photo URLs
web_url	string	Public Reverb URL for the listing

Use cases

• Vintage gear flipping — monitor pricing on vintage Fender Stratocaster daily, alert on under-priced listings.
• Music store competitive pricing — pull weekly pricing for every guitar in your category, automatically reprice your own inventory.
• Insurance appraisal — generate a fair-market-value comp report for an insured instrument by pulling 30 days of comparable Reverb listings.
• Brand monitoring — track every "Gibson Les Paul Standard" listing live on Reverb, surface pricing trends, identify common defects/damage in descriptions.
• Resale arbitrage — cross-reference Reverb prices with eBay / Craigslist / Facebook Marketplace to find arbitrage opportunities.
• Custom shop tracking — find every PRS Private Stock or Fender Custom Shop on the site for a high-end re-sale operation.

Quick start

Input JSON:

{
  "query": "fender stratocaster",
  "category": "electric-guitars",
  "condition": "excellent",
  "price_min": 1000,
  "price_max": 5000,
  "max_results": 50
}

Sample output item:

{
  "id": 86234567,
  "title": "Fender American Vintage II 1961 Stratocaster - Olympic White",
  "make": "Fender",
  "model": "American Vintage II 1961 Stratocaster",
  "year": "2024",
  "finish": "Olympic White",
  "condition": "Excellent",
  "condition_slug": "excellent",
  "price_amount": "1899.00",
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "price_display": "$1,899",
  "shop_name": "Sweetwater's Gear Exchange",
  "shop_location": "Fort Wayne, IN, United States",
  "categories": ["Electric Guitars / Solid Body"],
  "photos": ["https://rvbstatic.akamaized.net/..."],
  "web_url": "https://reverb.com/item/86234567-fender-american-vintage-ii..."
}

Python SDK example

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/reverb-musical-instrument-scraper").call(run_input={
    "query": "gibson les paul standard 50s",
    "condition": "excellent",
    "price_min": 1500,
    "max_results": 100,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], "-", item["price_display"], "-", item["shop_location"])

cURL example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~reverb-musical-instrument-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"moog matriarch","max_results":25}'

Integrations

• Zapier / Make.com / n8n — schedule a daily scrape, push results to Google Sheets, Airtable, or your CRM.
• Slack — pipe new listings under your watchlist into a Slack channel via webhook.
• Postgres / BigQuery / Snowflake — sync the dataset directly via Apify's webhook + your data warehouse.

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• Actor start: $0.00005 (one-time per run)
• Per listing returned: $0.005

Cost calculator:

Listings	Approx. cost
25	$0.13
100	$0.50
500	$2.50
1,000	$5.00
10,000	$50.00

There is no minimum subscription. You only pay for listings actually returned to your dataset.

FAQ

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Live. Each run hits Reverb's public listings API in real time — listings posted seconds before the run will appear.

Q: Are sold listings included?
A: By default the API returns live listings only. For sold-comp queries we recommend filtering on state_slug = "sold" in your downstream processing if Reverb's API surfaces them for your query.

Q: What's NOT included?
A: Internal seller analytics (offer counts, watcher counts), private messages, in-cart info. The actor returns only what's publicly visible on a Reverb listing page.

Q: What if the search returns zero results?
A: The actor exits cleanly and pushes no items — you are not charged the per-listing fee, only the tiny actor-start fee.

Q: How do I find category slugs?
A: Browse Reverb.com — the URL slug for any category (e.g. electric-guitars, keyboards-and-synths) maps directly to the category input here.

Q: Are there alternative Reverb actors on Apify?
A: A handful of older Reverb scrapers exist with single-digit user counts; this one is positioned as the canonical, fully-documented Reverb scraper with the official API path.

Related actors from nexgendata

• Shopify Product Scraper — pair Reverb pricing with Shopify storefront analysis for resellers.
• eBay Search Scraper — cross-check Reverb prices against eBay for arbitrage.
• Yahoo Finance Scraper — track Fender / Gibson public-company filings alongside marketplace pricing.

About nexgendata

Built and maintained by nexgendata — a portfolio of 160+ specialized scrapers and MCP servers. Need higher volume, custom output, or a private fork? Email steve_corbeil@hotmail.com.