🛒 eBay Product Scraper – Sold Listings, Prices & Seller Data Extraction

The eBay Product Scraper extracts structured product and sold listings data from eBay search results at scale, turning any keyword query into a clean dataset of titles, prices, conditions, sold counts and watcher numbers. Instead of paging through eBay's search interface by hand, you supply a list of keywords, pick a marketplace domain, and receive rows you can load straight into a spreadsheet, a pricing model or a BI dashboard.

This eBay scraper is built for resellers, retail analysts, pricing teams and market researchers who need repeatable access to eBay marketplace data. It supports the filters that matter most for ecommerce research — sold items only, completed listings only, free shipping, buying format, condition and item location — so you can isolate exactly the slice of the eBay catalogue you care about. Because the actor runs on Apify, every run produces a versioned dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull directly through the API.

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📊 What Data Can You Extract with This eBay Scraper?

The eBay Product Scraper returns a flat record per listing. The fields group naturally into six categories that map onto how ecommerce teams actually use marketplace data.

Category	Fields	What it tells you
🏷️ Product identity	product_title, product_url, image_url	The listing headline, its canonical eBay page and the primary gallery image
💰 Pricing	price, original_price	Current asking or sold price plus the pre-discount price when eBay displays a strikethrough
📦 Condition & logistics	condition, shipping_cost, item_location	New/used/refurbished state, postage cost and where the item ships from
⭐ Social proof	rating, review_count	Aggregate star rating and the number of reviews backing it
🔥 Demand signals	sold_count, watchers	How many units moved and how many buyers are actively tracking the listing
🧭 Run context	page_number, input_url, card_attribute	Which results page the item came from, the search URL that produced it, and any badge or attribute eBay attaches to the card

The pair worth watching is sold_count and watchers. Price alone tells you what a seller hopes to get; sold count tells you what the market actually paid, and watcher counts reveal latent demand on listings that have not converted yet. Together they let you separate genuinely liquid products from listings that merely look attractive.

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🌟 Key Features of the eBay Scraper

Feature	Description
🔑 Multi-keyword input	Pass an array of search terms in keywords and the eBay scraper works through each one in sequence, tagging every row with the input_url that produced it
🌍 Marketplace switching	Set ebaySite to any eBay domain — www.ebay.com, www.ebay.co.uk, www.ebay.de and so on — to pull region-specific pricing and inventory
✅ Sold listings mode	Enable soldItems to restrict results to items that actually sold, which is the foundation of any realistic eBay price comparable analysis
🕔 Completed listings mode	Enable completedItems to include auctions and fixed-price listings that have ended, sold or not
🚚 Free shipping filter	Turn on freeShipping to isolate listings where postage is included, so landed-cost comparisons stay apples to apples
🔍 Title and description search	searchTitleDescription widens the query beyond titles, surfacing listings where the key term only appears in the item description
🎛️ Granular marketplace filters	Narrow by category, buyingFormat, condition, locatedIn and sortBy to reproduce almost any eBay advanced search
📄 Pagination control	maxPages caps how many result pages are fetched per keyword, keeping run cost predictable
🛡️ Managed anti-blocking	The actor drives a real browser through Playwright and routes traffic through rotating proxies automatically, with proxyCountry selecting the exit region

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🚀 Why Choose This eBay Scraper?

Sold-listing data, not just asking prices. Most eBay research tools only show you live listings, which reflect seller optimism rather than market reality. With soldItems enabled this eBay scraper returns items that changed hands, and sold_count quantifies volume — the difference between guessing a resale value and knowing one.

Filters that mirror eBay's own advanced search. Category ID, buying format, condition, location and sort order are all exposed as inputs. That means you can reproduce a saved eBay search programmatically and run it on a schedule, instead of clicking through the UI every morning.

Real browser rendering. eBay's search results rely heavily on client-side rendering and lazy-loaded cards. This actor uses Playwright to load pages the way a browser does, so fields like watchers, sold_count and card_attribute are captured rather than lost to an empty HTML shell.

Every row carries its provenance. Each item includes page_number and input_url, so when you merge results from a dozen keywords you can always trace a record back to the exact query and result page it came from. That makes deduplication and audit trails straightforward.

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📥 Input

{
  "keywords": ["High-speed infrared sensor", "thermal imaging camera"],
  "ebaySite": "www.ebay.com",
  "maxPages": 3,
  "soldItems": true,
  "completedItems": true,
  "freeShipping": false,
  "searchTitleDescription": false,
  "sortBy": "12",
  "category": "0",
  "buyingFormat": "",
  "condition": "",
  "locatedIn": "",
  "proxyCountry": "US"
}

🔧 eBay Scraper Input Fields

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
keywords	array	✅ Yes	["High-speed infrared sensor"]	List of keywords to search for.
ebaySite	string	No	www.ebay.com	The eBay domain to search on (e.g., www.ebay.com).
maxPages	integer	No	1	Maximum number of pages to scrape per keyword.
soldItems	boolean	No	false	If true, only scrape items that have been sold.
completedItems	boolean	No	false	If true, only scrape completed listings.
freeShipping	boolean	No	false	If true, only return items with free shipping.
searchTitleDescription	boolean	No	false	Include descriptions in the search query.
sortBy	string	No	12	Sorting option ID (e.g., 12 for Best Match).
category	string	No	0	The eBay category ID to search within.
buyingFormat	string	No	""	Filter by buying format (e.g., Auction, Buy It Now).
condition	string	No	""	Filter by item condition.
locatedIn	string	No	""	Filter by item location.
proxyCountry	string	No	US	Proxy country code to use for scraping.

💡 Input Examples

Sold comparables for a resale valuation

{
  "keywords": ["Nikon D750 body"],
  "ebaySite": "www.ebay.com",
  "soldItems": true,
  "completedItems": true,
  "maxPages": 5
}

UK marketplace sweep with free shipping only

{
  "keywords": ["vintage denim jacket", "levis 501 vintage"],
  "ebaySite": "www.ebay.co.uk",
  "freeShipping": true,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "proxyCountry": "GB"
}

Deep keyword search inside a single category

{
  "keywords": ["infrared sensor module"],
  "category": "58058",
  "searchTitleDescription": true,
  "buyingFormat": "Buy It Now",
  "maxPages": 4
}

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📤 Output

{
  "page_number": 1,
  "product_title": "FLIR Lepton 3.5 High-Speed Infrared Thermal Sensor Module",
  "condition": "Brand New",
  "price": "$219.99",
  "image_url": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/abcAAOSw0GRk1x2Z/s-l500.jpg",
  "original_price": "$249.99",
  "rating": "4.9",
  "review_count": "37",
  "sold_count": "12 sold",
  "watchers": "43 watchers",
  "shipping_cost": "Free shipping",
  "item_location": "Portland, Oregon, US",
  "card_attribute": "Top Rated Plus",
  "product_url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/285512349901",
  "input_url": "https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=High-speed+infrared+sensor"
}

🧾 eBay Scraper Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
page_number	integer | null	Page number of the item.
product_title	string | null	Product title of the item.
condition	string | null	Condition of the item.
price	string | number	Price of the item.
image_url	string | null	URL of the item's image.
original_price	string | null	Price before any discount.
rating	string | null	Average rating score.
review_count	string | null	Number of reviews.
sold_count	string | null	Number of sold.
watchers	string | null	Watchers of the item.
shipping_cost	string | null	Shipping cost of the item.
item_location	string | null	Item location of the item.
card_attribute	string | null	Card attribute of the item.
product_url	string | null	URL of the product page.
input_url	string | null	URL supplied in the Actor input that produced this item.

Fields that eBay does not display on a given card come back as null. Auction listings, for example, rarely carry sold_count, and many private sellers show no rating at all. Plan your downstream transforms to tolerate nulls rather than assuming every column is populated.

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💻 How to Use the eBay Scraper (Step by Step)

Step 1: Define your eBay keyword list

Start with the keywords array. Each entry is treated as an independent eBay search, so you can bundle a whole product line into one run — model numbers, brand plus category phrases, or common misspellings that sellers actually use in titles. Keep terms specific enough to avoid a flood of unrelated results; "sensor" will return tens of thousands of listings across dozens of categories, while "FLIR Lepton 3.5 sensor" lands on the products you actually want. If you are researching a broad market, run several narrow keywords rather than one vague one.

Step 2: Choose the right eBay marketplace domain

The ebaySite field decides which regional marketplace you query. Pricing, availability and even condition vocabulary differ meaningfully between www.ebay.com, www.ebay.co.uk, www.ebay.de and www.ebay.com.au. If you are building a cross-border arbitrage model, run the same keyword list against each domain in separate runs and join the datasets afterwards on product_title or a normalised model number. Pair the domain with a matching proxyCountry so the marketplace serves you local currency and shipping options.

Step 3: Decide between live, sold and completed listings

This is the most consequential choice in the input. Leave soldItems and completedItems off to see the current live inventory — useful for competitive assortment analysis and for spotting what is on offer right now. Turn soldItems on when you need realised prices for valuation work, since those are the only records that reflect what a buyer genuinely paid. completedItems broadens that to every ended listing, including unsold ones, which is how you measure sell-through rate: sold listings divided by all completed listings for the same query.

Step 4: Apply marketplace filters to narrow the result set

category, buyingFormat, condition and locatedIn mirror eBay's advanced search controls. Supplying a numeric category ID is the single most effective way to cut noise, because it stops unrelated departments leaking into your results. buyingFormat separates auction dynamics from fixed-price Buy It Now behaviour — the two produce very different price distributions and should usually be analysed separately. locatedIn matters for anyone modelling delivery times or import duties.

Step 5: Set pagination and sorting

maxPages controls how deep the eBay scraper goes per keyword. A single page gives you a fast sample of the most relevant listings; four or five pages gives you enough rows for a stable median price. Combine it with sortBy to control what lands on page one — the default sorting ID 12 corresponds to Best Match, but other IDs order by price, newest listing or ending soonest. If you only need the cheapest offers, sorting by price and capping maxPages at one or two is far more efficient than fetching everything.

Step 6: Run the actor and review the dataset

Click Start in the Apify Console, or trigger the run through the API. As results stream in, open the Dataset tab and check a handful of rows before scaling up. Look specifically at whether price, condition and sold_count are populated the way you expect for your query — if sold_count is empty across the board, you probably forgot to enable soldItems. Adjust the input and rerun; iteration on a one-page run is much cheaper than discovering a mistake after a fifty-page crawl.

Step 7: Export or automate the eBay data

From the dataset view you can export to CSV, JSON, XLSX or XML in one click. For recurring research, set up an Apify Schedule so the eBay scraper runs daily or weekly and appends to a growing price history. Add a webhook to push each finished run into your warehouse, or connect the dataset to Google Sheets so a shared pricing tracker refreshes itself without anyone touching the Console.

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🔌 API Access & Integrations

Run the eBay scraper synchronously and receive dataset items in the same HTTP response:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers-hub~ebay-product-scraper-v2/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "keywords": ["High-speed infrared sensor"],
    "ebaySite": "www.ebay.com",
    "soldItems": true,
    "maxPages": 2
  }'

The same run in Python with the official client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("scrapers-hub/ebay-product-scraper-v2").call(run_input={
    "keywords": ["High-speed infrared sensor", "thermal imaging camera"],
    "ebaySite": "www.ebay.com",
    "soldItems": True,
    "completedItems": True,
    "maxPages": 3,
    "proxyCountry": "US",
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["product_title"], item["price"], item["sold_count"])

Beyond the API, the resulting dataset connects to Zapier, Make, Google Sheets and Slack, and Apify webhooks can fire your own endpoint the moment an eBay scraping run finishes.

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💡 Best Use Cases for eBay Product Data

📈 Resale price benchmarking

Pull sold listings for a model number with soldItems enabled and compute the median price across the last few pages. Because each row also carries condition, you can build separate benchmarks for "Brand New", "Used" and "For parts or not working" instead of averaging incompatible states together. Resellers use this to set list prices that actually clear.

🔎 Competitor assortment tracking

Run a keyword sweep across a category on a schedule and diff the product_title and product_url sets between runs. New URLs mean new listings entering the market; disappearing ones mean sold-out or delisted inventory. Layering item_location on top shows whether competition is domestic or coming from overseas sellers.

💹 Demand and sell-through analysis

Combine sold_count with watchers to rank products by commercial momentum. A listing with high watchers but zero sales usually signals a price that is above the market's willingness to pay, while high sold counts on a modest watcher base points to a proven, fast-moving SKU. Run the same query with and without completedItems to derive a sell-through ratio.

🚢 Landed-cost and shipping strategy

shipping_cost and item_location together reveal how much of a listing's competitiveness comes from postage rather than price. Comparing the total of price plus shipping_cost against the free-shipping cohort (captured by setting freeShipping to true in a second run) tells you whether absorbing postage would improve your placement.

🧾 Discount and promotion monitoring

Where eBay shows a strikethrough, the actor captures both price and original_price. The gap between them is the advertised discount, and tracking that gap over weekly runs exposes seasonal promotion cycles in a category — invaluable for planning your own markdown calendar.

⭐ Seller quality and trust signals

rating, review_count and card_attribute describe the credibility layer around a listing. Filtering your analysis to sellers with a meaningful review_count removes noise from one-off private sales, and card_attribute frequently surfaces badges like Top Rated Plus that correlate with conversion.

🗂️ Catalogue enrichment and product research

For teams building or cleaning a product catalogue, product_title, image_url and product_url provide ready-made reference data. Sourcing teams use keyword sweeps to discover accessory and variant listings they had not catalogued, then follow product_url for manual verification.

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⚙️ Tips for Better eBay Scraping Results

• Match proxyCountry to ebaySite. Querying www.ebay.co.uk from a US exit can return different currency formatting and shipping estimates than a UK buyer would see. Aligning the two keeps your dataset internally consistent.
• Use a category ID instead of longer keywords. Adding words to a query narrows results unpredictably; setting category to the right numeric ID is a hard filter and dramatically improves precision.
• Start with maxPages at 1. Validate that the fields you need are populated on a single page before committing to a deep crawl. It costs almost nothing and catches filter mistakes early.
• Separate auction and fixed-price runs. Set buyingFormat explicitly rather than mixing formats, because auction closing prices and Buy It Now asking prices follow different distributions and blending them distorts any average.
• Turn on searchTitleDescription only when titles fail you. It widens recall considerably but also pulls in listings where your term appears incidentally, so treat it as a fallback rather than a default.
• Schedule runs at a consistent time of day. eBay inventory and pricing move throughout the week; sampling at the same hour makes week-over-week comparisons meaningful instead of noisy.

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🛠️ Troubleshooting

Why is my eBay scraper run returning zero items? The most common cause is an over-restrictive filter combination. Setting soldItems and freeShipping and a narrow category at once can eliminate every result. Remove filters one at a time until rows appear, then add them back selectively. Also confirm the keyword actually returns results when typed into the eBay site you selected.

Why are sold_count and watchers empty? eBay only shows these badges on some listings. Watcher counts typically appear on listings with active interest, and sold counts on multi-quantity fixed-price items. If they are empty across every row, check that soldItems is enabled — live listings that have never sold have nothing to report.

Why does price sometimes come back as a string with a currency symbol? The field is typed as string or number because eBay renders prices in several formats, including ranges for multi-variant listings. Normalise it downstream by stripping currency symbols and thousands separators, and decide how to handle range values such as "$19.99 to $34.99" before loading into a numeric column.

Why do results differ between two runs with the same input? eBay search is dynamic. Listings end, new ones are posted, and Best Match ordering is personalised and time-sensitive. For stable comparisons, sort deterministically via sortBy, restrict to completedItems, and treat each run as a snapshot with a timestamp rather than a fixed truth.

The run is slower than expected. How do I speed it up? Rendering eBay in a real browser is the price of getting complete fields. Reduce maxPages, trim the keywords array, or split a large keyword list across several parallel runs rather than one long sequential run.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions About eBay Scraping

Is scraping eBay legal? The eBay scraper only collects information that eBay publishes publicly on its search results pages — no logins, no private account data. Collecting public data is generally permissible in many jurisdictions, but you remain responsible for complying with eBay's Terms of Service, applicable law and any restrictions in your own contracts. Seek legal advice for commercial redistribution.

Can I scrape eBay sold listings with this actor? Yes. Set soldItems to true to restrict results to items that have sold. Combine it with completedItems to capture every ended listing, which is what you need to calculate sell-through rates alongside realised prices.

How many eBay listings can I scrape in one run? That depends on maxPages and the length of your keywords array. Each keyword is searched independently and each page yields a page of results, so total volume is roughly keywords multiplied by pages multiplied by listings per page.

Which eBay marketplaces are supported? Any eBay domain you can put in the ebaySite field, including www.ebay.com, www.ebay.co.uk, www.ebay.de, www.ebay.fr, www.ebay.it, www.ebay.com.au and www.ebay.ca. Set proxyCountry to match for the most representative results.

Do I need an eBay API key or developer account? No. The actor works from eBay's public search pages, so there is no API key, no application review and no rate-limit quota tied to a developer account.

Can I filter eBay results by condition? Yes, through the condition input. The condition vocabulary follows eBay's own labels, and the extracted condition field on each output row lets you verify the filter behaved as expected.

How do I scrape a specific eBay category? Supply the numeric category ID in the category field. You can find the ID in the URL of any eBay category page — it is the number following /bn_ or in the _sacat query parameter of a search URL. The default 0 means all categories.

Can I configure my own proxies for eBay scraping? Proxy rotation is handled automatically by the actor. You can influence the exit region with proxyCountry, but the underlying proxy pool is managed for you rather than being user-supplied.

Does this eBay scraper collect seller names or contact details? No. The output fields cover listing attributes — title, price, condition, shipping, location, ratings and demand signals — not seller identities or contact information.

How often should I run the eBay scraper for price tracking? Daily runs suit fast-moving consumer categories and anything with auction dynamics. Weekly is usually enough for durable goods and industrial parts. Use an Apify Schedule and keep the input identical between runs so the time series stays comparable.

Can I export eBay data to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes. Every Apify dataset exports to CSV, XLSX, JSON and XML from the Console, and the dataset API endpoint can be pulled directly into Google Sheets or any BI tool that reads JSON or CSV over HTTP.

What happens if a field is missing from an eBay listing? It is returned as null rather than being omitted, so your schema stays consistent across rows. Always guard against nulls in downstream code, particularly for rating, review_count, sold_count, watchers and original_price.

Can I search eBay item descriptions and not just titles? Yes. Setting searchTitleDescription to true extends the query into listing descriptions. This increases recall but also brings in incidental matches, so review a sample before relying on it for a large run.

Does the actor handle eBay's anti-bot protection? The scraper drives a real browser and routes requests through rotating proxies automatically, which is what allows dynamically rendered fields to be captured. As with any public-web scraper, occasional retries may still be needed on very large runs.

How do I trace an output row back to the search that produced it? Every item carries input_url and page_number. When you run multiple keywords in one job, group by input_url to reconstruct per-keyword result sets, and use page_number to understand ranking position within each search.

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🆘 Support & Feedback

Found a bug, or noticed an eBay layout change that broke a field? Open a ticket on the Issues tab of this actor — that is the fastest route to a fix, and it lets other users see the status of known problems.

Need a custom version of this eBay scraper — extra fields, a different marketplace, item-level detail pages, or a bespoke output shape for your pipeline? Get in touch at scraperhubapi@gmail.com and describe what you need.

If the eBay Product Scraper saves you time, please leave a rating and a short review on the actor page. Honest feedback helps other ecommerce and pricing teams find the tool, and it tells us which features to prioritise next.

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⚖️ Disclaimer

This eBay scraper collects only publicly available information displayed on eBay's search results pages. It does not access private accounts, bypass authentication, or retrieve data hidden behind a login.

You are responsible for how you use the extracted data. That includes complying with eBay's Terms of Service, robots directives, applicable copyright and database rights, and any competition or consumer-protection rules that govern price monitoring in your market. Scraping frequency should remain reasonable and proportionate.

The output fields are listing attributes rather than personal data, but if any record you collect happens to contain information relating to an identifiable individual, you become the data controller for that record and must handle it in line with the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA and any other privacy legislation that applies to you — including lawful basis, retention limits and responding to data subject requests.

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by eBay Inc. If you believe data collected through this actor should be removed, contact scraperhubapi@gmail.com with the details and we will act on the request promptly.