Amazon Best Sellers Scraper & Bestsellers Tracker

Amazon Best Sellers Scraper & Bestsellers Tracker — top-100 rankings, new entries & trends in 21 marketplaces

Amazon Best Sellers Scraper & Bestsellers Tracker is an Amazon Best Sellers scraper that turns Amazon's public ranking lists into a clean, comparable dataset: the top 100 products of any category in Best Sellers and New Releases (plus Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas whenever Amazon publishes them), across 21 Amazon marketplaces and the whole category tree.

What makes this Amazon bestsellers tracker different: every row can carry a trend signal. Schedule the same input daily or weekly and each product comes back with its previous rank, rank change, "new entry" flag, days in the list, best rank ever, price change and reviews gained since the last run — the raw material for spotting rising products, new competitors and category shifts before they show up in reports.

No Amazon account, no API keys, no browser. Paste a list URL, click Start, and export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets. The default example returns the top 10 Amazon Best Sellers in Electronics in a few seconds (8 s in our last test run).

📈 What can you do with the Amazon Best Sellers Scraper?

• 🚀 Spot rising products early — trendSignal: rising and rankChange show who is climbing; reviewsGained approximates sales velocity.
• 🆕 Catch new competitors — isNewEntry flags products that entered a top-100 since the last run; optional dropped rows tell you who fell out.
• 🧭 Map a category — crawl a department and its subcategories (subcategoryDepth) to see price bands, ratings and leaders per niche.
• 🌍 Compare countries — the same category in amazon.com, .co.uk, .de, .fr, .es, .it, .co.jp… in one run, one schema.
• 💡 Product research & sourcing — New Releases + review growth = demand signals for what to sell or stock next.
• 📊 Feed dashboards — a per-list market summary (median price, average rating, new entries, top risers) is saved with every run, free.

📊 What data does the Amazon Best Sellers Scraper extract?

	Fields
🏆 Ranking	rank, listType, listName, marketplace, domain
🗂️ Category	categoryName, categoryPath (e.g. Electronics > Headphones), categoryId (browse node), categoryUrl, depth
🏷️ Product	asin, title, url (clean /dp/ link), image (largest available), subtitle (format, e.g. Paperback)
💶 Price	price, priceMax (variant ranges), currency (ISO), priceType (featured / offers_from / hidden), offersCount
⭐ Reviews	rating, reviewsCount
🚀 Movers & Shakers	salesRank, salesRankPrevious (24 h ago), salesRankChangePercent
📈 Trends	trendSignal (first_run / new_entry / rising / stable / falling / dropped_out), previousRank, rankChange, isNewEntry, firstSeenAt, timesSeen, bestRank, previousPrice, priceChangePercent, reviewsGained, previousScrapedAt
🧾 Quality	recordType (ranking / dropped), detailLevel (full / rank_only), scrapedAt

Missing values come back as null — products are never filtered out or invented. If Amazon fails to deliver the details of a position after several retries, the row is still saved with its rank and ASIN and marked detailLevel: rank_only.

🚀 How to scrape Amazon Best Sellers

1. Open Amazon Best Sellers Scraper & Bestsellers Tracker in Apify Console and paste one or more Amazon list URLs — any marketplace, any list type, mixed freely. Or pick whole marketplaces and the list types you want.
2. Choose how many products per list (up to 100) and how deep to go into subcategories.
3. Click Start. Download the results or connect them via API, Make, Zapier or webhooks.
4. For trends: save the input as a Task and add a Schedule (daily is ideal for Best Sellers, weekly for slower categories). From the second run on, every row carries its movement.
5. For alerts: turn on Output only changes — each run then saves only new entries, climbers and fallers. Stable products are skipped and not charged, while the history keeps tracking the full list.

Accepted URLs

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/172541/
https://www.amazon.de/gp/new-releases/books/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/kitchen/
https://www.amazon.es/gp/most-wished-for/toys/
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/most-gifted/books/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/          ← every department

Supported marketplaces

🇺🇸 amazon.com · 🇬🇧 amazon.co.uk · 🇩🇪 amazon.de · 🇫🇷 amazon.fr · 🇪🇸 amazon.es · 🇮🇹 amazon.it · 🇳🇱 amazon.nl · 🇧🇪 amazon.com.be · 🇸🇪 amazon.se · 🇵🇱 amazon.pl · 🇮🇪 amazon.ie · 🇨🇦 amazon.ca · 🇲🇽 amazon.com.mx · 🇧🇷 amazon.com.br · 🇯🇵 amazon.co.jp · 🇮🇳 amazon.in · 🇦🇺 amazon.com.au · 🇦🇪 amazon.ae · 🇸🇦 amazon.sa · 🇸🇬 amazon.sg · 🇹🇷 amazon.com.tr

ℹ️ About Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Gift Ideas: in October 2026 Amazon shows these lists empty in most categories ("no movers and shakers available"), even for signed-in shoppers. The Actor supports them and returns data the moment Amazon publishes it; empty lists are reported in the log and the market summary and cost nothing.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
startUrls	Amazon list URLs (any marketplace / list type). Console example: Electronics Best Sellers on amazon.com	—
marketplaces	Scrape the top list of every department in these marketplaces	—
listTypes	Lists to scrape for marketplaces: best_sellers, new_releases, movers_and_shakers, most_wished_for, gift_ideas	best_sellers
subcategoryDepth	0 = only the given lists; 1 = plus direct subcategories; … (each level ≈ 10-20× more lists)	0
maxItemsPerList	Products per list (Amazon ranks up to 100). Console example: 10	100
maxLists	Cap on category lists per run, shared fairly between inputs. Results ≈ lists × products per list	20
maxItems	Optional cap on rows saved (and charged) per run	—
trackTrends	Add trend fields by comparing with the previous run	true
trendStoreName	History name: key-value store in your account (one per tracked project)	amazon-bestsellers-history
onlyChanges	Save only new entries, climbers and fallers (stable products are free); first run saves all	false
includeDroppedProducts	Add a row for each product that left a list since last run	false
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy settings	datacenter
residentialFallback	Only if a marketplace keeps blocking: switch it to local residential IPs	true
maxConcurrency	Parallel requests	5

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics/",
    "https://www.amazon.de/gp/new-releases/kitchen/"
  ],
  "subcategoryDepth": 1,
  "maxItemsPerList": 100,
  "maxLists": 40,
  "trackTrends": true,
  "onlyChanges": false
}

📦 Output example

A row from amazon.es (first run, subcategory at depth 1):

{
  "recordType": "ranking",
  "marketplace": "ES",
  "domain": "amazon.es",
  "listType": "best_sellers",
  "listName": "Best Sellers",
  "categoryId": "970144031",
  "categoryName": "Accesorios de alimentación",
  "categoryPath": "Electrónica > Accesorios de alimentación",
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.amazon.es/gp/bestsellers/electronics/970144031/",
  "depth": 1,
  "rank": 3,
  "asin": "B0D95S3MVQ",
  "title": "decqle Adaptador Enchufe Universal con 2 USB-C(PD 20W) ＆ 1 USB-A para Viaje | Adaptador de Viaje…",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0D95S3MVQ",
  "image": "https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61jD5viM+AL._AC_UL900_SR900,600_.jpg",
  "price": 15.99,
  "priceMax": null,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "priceType": "featured",
  "offersCount": null,
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewsCount": 3928,
  "detailLevel": "full",
  "trendSignal": "first_run",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T15:32:10.505Z"
}

From the second run on, the same row also carries its movement (example values):

{
  "rank": 3,
  "trendSignal": "rising",
  "previousRank": 11,
  "rankChange": 8,
  "isNewEntry": false,
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-18T07:00:12.000Z",
  "timesSeen": 8,
  "bestRank": 3,
  "previousPrice": 17.99,
  "priceChangePercent": -11.12,
  "reviewsGained": 41,
  "previousScrapedAt": "2026-10-24T07:00:09.000Z"
}

rankChange is positive when a product climbs (11 → 3 = +8). On the first run every row is first_run and the trend fields are empty.

Market summary

Each run also saves MARKET_SUMMARY in its key-value store (free): one entry per list with products, medianPrice, avgRating, medianReviews, newEntries, rising, falling, droppedOut, topRisers and fastestReviewGrowth.

💰 How much does the Amazon Best Sellers Scraper cost?

You pay per product saved (pay-per-event). The price per product is $0.0035 on the Free plan, $0.003 on Bronze, $0.0024 on Silver and $0.0019 on Gold and above. Empty lists, blocked pages that are retried, unchanged products skipped by Output only changes and the market summary are free.

Rule of thumb: results ≈ lists × products per list. The 10-product example costs about $0.035 on the Free plan; a full top-100 list is 100 results; a department with 20 subcategories at depth 1 is about 2,100 results. The default cap of 20 lists keeps any run at 2,000 results or less until you raise it.

The Actor is HTTP-only (no browser), so platform usage is tiny: the 10-product example ran in about 8 seconds for roughly $0.0003 of platform usage on 512 MB.

🤖 Use with Claude/ChatGPT (MCP)

Call Amazon Best Sellers Scraper & Bestsellers Tracker from any MCP-compatible AI assistant through the Apify MCP server.

• Hosted server: https://mcp.apify.com.
• Only this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,rastriq/amazon-bestsellers-tracker
• Local client: npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --tools rastriq/amazon-bestsellers-tracker with the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable set.

Example prompts:

• "Get the top 20 Amazon Best Sellers in Electronics on amazon.com and list price, rating and review count."
• "Scrape the New Releases in Toys & Games on amazon.com and tell me which products have the most reviews."
• "Run my Amazon bestsellers tracker on the Kitchen category of amazon.co.uk and show me which products entered the top 100 since the last run."

❓ FAQ

How fresh are the rankings? Each run captures the list exactly as Amazon shows it at that moment; schedule it daily or weekly to follow changes.

Why are some prices null or priceType: hidden? Some products show "Click for details" (minimum advertised price) or have no current offer. offers_from means there is no featured offer and the price is the lowest of offersCount sellers.

Do I get local prices? Prices are as Amazon shows them to the proxy IP. The default proxy is datacenter; the run log tells you when its IPs are not from the marketplace's country (prices may then show without local VAT). If a marketplace keeps blocking, Residential fallback switches that marketplace to residential IPs of its country, when your account has them.

Why did my run return no products from some marketplace? Amazon sometimes serves a challenge page to datacenter IPs, and the Actor does not try to solve it: the page is retried with a fresh session and, if it keeps failing, the list is skipped and costs nothing. In our latest tests amazon.com lists worked on datacenter proxy while a single amazon.de list was blocked; use a residential proxy in the Proxy setting for marketplaces that block.

What happens if a run finds no results? If a run finds no results, it ends with status FAILED and a message explaining the likely cause, so empty runs are never silent.

Is the history shared with anyone? No. It lives in a named key-value store in your Apify account (trendStoreName). Use different names to keep separate histories, delete the store to start fresh.

Is it legal to scrape Amazon Best Sellers? The Amazon Best Sellers Scraper collects publicly visible ranking data — no personal data and nothing behind a login. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with applicable laws and terms.

🔗 Related Actors

• Amazon Product Scraper & Price Tracker — full product pages by ASIN: price, stock, seller, Buy Box, BSR, variants and price-change alerts. Perfect next step for the ASINs this Amazon bestsellers tracker surfaces.
• Amazon Reviews Scraper — the reviews behind the products climbing the charts.

Questions or a marketplace not listed? Open an issue in the Issues tab.