Amazon Best Sellers Scout

Get the top-ranked best sellers in any Amazon category — the products Amazon shoppers are buying most right now. Plain fetch, no browser, one call per category.

Built by Prime Sieve.

Why

Best-seller rankings are the most reliable demand signal on Amazon. This actor returns the top products per category with rank, price, rating and review count — everything you need for product research, retail arbitrage and trend spotting.

Each result: rank, ASIN, title, price (USD), rating, review count, url, category.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
categories	string[]	[]	Amazon category slugs, e.g. ["electronics", "toys-and-games", "books"]
topN	int	30	Top-ranked results per category (max 100)
minPrice	int	0	Minimum price USD (0 = none)
maxPrice	int	0	Maximum price USD (0 = none)
excludeBrands	string[]	[]	Drop titles containing these (e.g. ["amazon basics"])

Output

One dataset item per best seller:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "asin": "B08JHCVHTY",
  "title": "Blink Plus Plan with Monthly Auto-Renewal",
  "price": 11.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.4,
  "reviewCount": 279167,
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JHCVHTY",
  "category": "Electronics"
}

Pricing

• $0.002 per best seller (pay-per-event) = $2.00 per 1,000 results
• apify-actor-start: $0.05 covers fixed startup cost

Compare: the market-leading best-sellers actor charges $5.90 per 1,000 on free plans (tiered). Same data, a third of the price.

Notes

• Items with no single price (multi-variant "see options" products) are skipped — the actor returns priced items only.
• Runs on a plain fetch (no headless browser) so it's fast and cheap; Amazon may occasionally throttle — the actor retries automatically.
• topN is a ceiling; categories with many multi-variant products may yield fewer priced results.

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• Amazon New Releases Scout — top new products per category
• Amazon New Listings Scout — newest products per keyword
• Amazon KDP Sub-Niche Finder — low-competition KDP niches

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