Whatnot Live Stream Scraper

Whatnot Live Stream Scraper collects live and upcoming Whatnot streams by category, tag or keyword — title, current viewers, start time, tags, categories, seller and thumbnail — and can also pull every item being sold in each show's shop (price, buy-it-now or auction, quantity, images). It reads the same public data the Whatnot mobile app shows to a signed-out user, so no account, app or device is needed.

Spun off from the Whatnot All-in-One API for teams that want a run-and-export dataset instead of a live standby API.

Why use this Actor?

• Live-commerce monitoring — which shows are live in a category right now, and how many people are watching.
• Seller and lead discovery — find active sellers (with rating and verification) in a niche such as trading cards.
• Market research — what is being sold in live shows: formats, prices, quantities.
• Trend tracking — schedule it to see how viewer counts and categories move over the day.

Input

Field	Description
mode	discover (live feeds) or search (keyword search over live and upcoming shows).
categories, tags	Discover mode: category ids (e.g. 149 = Trading Card Games) and tag ids. Each id is one source. With none of them, the logged-out For You feed is read.
queries	Search mode: keywords. Each keyword is one source.
status, sort	Search mode: PLAYING (live) or CREATED (scheduled); sort by viewers (approximate: counts change while paging).
maxStreamsPerSource	New streams to collect per category, tag or keyword (default 100).
minViewers	Keep only streams with at least this many viewers right now.
includeShopItems, maxItemsPerStream	Also output each stream's shop items (default off, up to 50 per stream).

Category and tag ids come from the Whatnot All-in-One API's GET /categories and GET /tags.

How it handles Whatnot's feeds

• Live feeds are re-ranked on every page, so a stream can repeat: rows are de-duplicated by id, across pages and across sources (a stream is output once, under the first source that found it).
• Category and tag feeds never report the end of the list, so collection stops when a page brings no new streams (or at maxStreamsPerSource).

Output

One dataset row per stream, and — with includeShopItems — one row per shop item:

{
    "recordType": "livestream",
    "sourceType": "category",
    "sourceValue": "149",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T02:30:00.000Z",
    "id": "0d7bfba5-0080-46ef-a96e-2ca74cee7e21",
    "title": "MASSIVE TECH SHOW",
    "status": "PLAYING",
    "activeViewers": 515,
    "startTime": 1789907302538,
    "tags": [{ "label": "Gaming" }],
    "user": { "username": "example_seller", "sellerRating": { "overall": 4.8 }, "isVerifiedSeller": false }
}

{
    "recordType": "listing",
    "livestreamId": "0d7bfba5-0080-46ef-a96e-2ca74cee7e21",
    "title": "3 CHANNEL 4K DASHCAM",
    "price": { "amountMinor": 100, "currency": "USD" },
    "transactionType": "AUCTION",
    "listingStatus": "created",
    "quantity": 86
}

Money is { amountMinor, currency } in minor units (44000 USD = $440.00) in the seller's own currency.

Pricing / Cost estimation

Billed pay-per-event: a flat run-start fee plus one livestream event per stream row and one listing event per shop-item row actually saved. Example: 100 streams without shop items = 100 livestream events. See the Actor's page for the current per-event prices.

What is not available

Whatnot does not expose to signed-out users: past shows, sold prices and bid history, followers, or personalized feeds. Only live and scheduled shows are returned.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This is an unofficial Actor, not affiliated with or endorsed by Whatnot Inc. It reads only data that Whatnot shows to signed-out users in its own app; no credentials, private data or bypassed authentication are involved. Use responsibly and in line with Whatnot's Terms of Service and applicable law.

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