eBay Product Scraper

eBay Product Scraper collects product listings from eBay and turns them into structured data for price monitoring, catalog building, and seller research. Provide a search query or an eBay search, category, or item URL, run the Actor, and export titles, prices, sellers, shipping, and item IDs to JSON, CSV, Excel, or your preferred integration. Use it to compare asking prices, watch sold comps, and automate recurring catalog collection. Pricing starts at $1.00 per 1,000 products, with optional item-page details at $1.50 per 1,000.

What can you automate with eBay Product Scraper?

• Build product catalogs — Turn a keyword or eBay URL into a dataset of item IDs, titles, prices, conditions, and sellers.
• Monitor asking prices — Track price, shipping notes, watchers, and bid counts across US, UK, Germany, and other eBay sites.
• Filter before you export — Narrow constructed searches by buying format, condition, price range, item location, and sold vs active listings.
• Enrich selected items — Turn on product details to add description, image gallery, item specifics, brand, and shipping cost.
• Collect sold comps — Enable sold listings on constructed searches to capture completed sales instead of active inventory.
• Schedule recurring snapshots — Cap volume with maxItems and re-run the same query on a schedule.

Who is this scraper for?

Team	Workflow
Ecommerce and pricing teams	Comparing asking prices and shipping for the same product across marketplaces.
Sourcing and catalog operators	Building item lists with IDs, URLs, conditions, and seller feedback.
Market researchers	Watching which sellers appear for a query and where items ship from.
Agencies	Collecting structured eBay data for client reports without clicking through listings.

What data can you collect from eBay?

Data group	Example fields	How it helps
Listing identity	itemId, title, URL	Deduplicate and reopen the exact listing.
Price	price, formattedPrice, currency	Compare asking prices across a search.
Offer and condition	condition, buyingFormat, watchers, bid count	Separate auctions from Buy It Now and see demand.
Seller and shipping	Seller name, feedback stats, shipping snippet, item location	Qualify the seller and estimate delivery.
Source	Marketplace, sourceQuery, sourceUrl	Know which site and search produced the row.
Item-page details	Description, itemSpecifics, image gallery, brand, MPN, model, shipping cost, payment methods	Appear when Include Product Details is enabled.

Card-level fields such as title, price, seller, and itemId are returned on every product. Description, gallery, item specifics, and checkout fields appear only when product details are enabled.

How to use eBay Product Scraper

1. Open the eBay Product Scraper on Apify.
2. Paste eBay search, category, or item URLs in Start URLs, or leave URLs empty and set Search Queries plus a marketplace.
3. Choose a limit and optional filters — buying format, condition, price range, sold listings, or product details.
4. Run the Actor and wait for product records to appear in the dataset.
5. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel, or connect the dataset to your workflow.

{
    "searchQueries": ["bike"],
    "marketplace": "EBAY_US",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "includeProductDetails": false,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Example workflow

Watch US bike prices every Monday

1. Schedule a weekly run with searchQueries = ["bike"], marketplace = EBAY_US, and soldListings = false.
2. Keep includeProductDetails off for a cheap card-level snapshot, then turn it on only for items you want to inspect.
3. Send new records to Google Sheets through a webhook.
4. Deduplicate user-side against the stable itemId field.

Automate and integrate your results

• Schedules — eBay inventory turns over quickly. Run daily for sourcing and weekly for price research. Create a separate scheduled task per query and marketplace.
• Webhooks — Push completed datasets into Sheets, Slack, or a catalog tool.
• Exports and API — Download from the Apify Console or start a run from the API:

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scraptivo~ebay-scraper/runs?token=YOUR-APIFY-TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQueries": ["bike"],
    "marketplace": "EBAY_US",
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
  }'

• Deduplication — The Actor appends results on every run. Use itemId as the stable key when merging datasets.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	What it controls
startUrls	Array of URLs	No	—	eBay search, category/browse, or item URLs. When set, these URLs are used instead of constructed searches.
searchQueries	Array of strings	No	—	Product search terms. Used only when Start URLs are empty.
marketplace	String	No	EBAY_US	eBay site for constructed searches (EBAY_US, EBAY_UK, EBAY_DE, EBAY_AU, EBAY_CA, and other listed sites). Start URLs keep the host from the URL.
category	String	No	0	eBay category ID for constructed searches. Ignored when Start URLs are set.
buyingFormat	String	No	all	all, buy_it_now, auction, or best_offer.
condition	String	No	any	any, new, open_box, certified_refurbished, seller_refurbished, used, or for_parts.
sortBy	String	No	best_match	best_match, ending_soonest, newly_listed, price_shipping_lowest, price_shipping_highest, or nearest.
itemLocation	String	No	default	default, domestic, worldwide, or local (nearby, uses ZIP).
zipCode	String	No	—	Postal code for nearby searches.
distance	Integer	No	—	Search radius in miles around the ZIP. Used with Item Location = Nearby.
minPrice / maxPrice	Number	No	—	Price range on constructed searches.
soldListings	Boolean	No	false	Collect completed/sold listings instead of active ones (constructed searches only).
maxItems	Integer	No	0	Maximum products across all URLs and queries (0 = unlimited).
includeProductDetails	Boolean	No	false	Open each item page for description, images, specifics, and shipping. Charges product-details.
detailConcurrency	Integer	No	8	Parallel detail fetches (1–15).
proxyConfiguration	Proxy object	No	Apify proxy, RESIDENTIAL	Residential proxies are recommended.

Provide startUrls and/or searchQueries (or a category other than All Categories). When Start URLs are set, query filters are not used to build the search.

Do Start URLs override search queries?

Yes. When startUrls is provided, the Actor uses those URLs and does not build a search from searchQueries and the filter fields.

Output example

Each dataset item is one product:

{
    "itemId": "125459703651",
    "title": "Chopper Lowrider beach Stretch cruiser bike Coaster Brakes Big Fat Bicycle",
    "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/125459703651",
    "price": 664.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "formattedPrice": "$664.99",
    "condition": "Brand New",
    "buyingFormat": "Buy It Now",
    "shipping": "Shipping not specified",
    "itemLocation": "United States",
    "seller": "reignbike",
    "sellerFeedbackPercent": 99.8,
    "sellerFeedbackCount": 2100,
    "watchers": 98,
    "marketplace": "EBAY_US",
    "sourceType": "search",
    "sourceQuery": "bike"
}

How much does it cost to scrape eBay?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing plus a small Actor-start event ($0.00005 per start, scaled by memory):

• $1.00 / 1,000 products — a dataset-item event for every product written to the dataset.
• $1.50 / 1,000 product details — a product-details event only when Include Product Details is enabled.

A search-only run of 1,000 products costs $1.00. Enriching the same 1,000 products with details costs $2.50. Volume discounts on Apify paid plans reduce the per-1,000 rate (for example $0.97 per 1,000 products and $1.20 per 1,000 details at the Gold plan). Compute units consumed are deducted from your Apify plan.

Reliability and responsible use

• Proxy requirement — Residential proxies are recommended. The default input uses the Apify RESIDENTIAL group.
• Conditional fields — Description, gallery, item specifics, brand, and shipping cost appear only when product details are enabled. eBay also leaves some card fields empty.
• Sold listings — soldListings applies to constructed searches only, not to pasted Start URLs.
• Public listings — The Actor collects publicly visible eBay listing data.
• Responsible use — Only use the data in ways that comply with eBay's terms and applicable law.

Frequently asked questions

Can I scrape eBay by keyword and marketplace?

Yes. Leave Start URLs empty, set searchQueries such as ["iphone 13"], and choose a marketplace such as EBAY_US or EBAY_UK. You can also restrict the run with category, condition, buying format, and price range.

Can I schedule eBay Product Scraper to run automatically?

Yes. Open the Scheduler tab in Apify Console. Daily suits sourcing; weekly suits price research. Create a separate schedule per query and marketplace.

What counts as one result?

Each product saved to the dataset is one dataset-item event ($1.00 per 1,000). If product details are enabled, each enriched product also counts as a product-details event ($1.50 per 1,000).

Why are some fields empty?

Brand, description, item specifics, gallery URLs, and shipping cost are collected only when Include Product Details is enabled. eBay also omits watchers, bids, or shipping text on some cards.

How do I avoid duplicate records?

The Actor does not deduplicate across runs. Use itemId as the stable key. maxItems caps the size of a single run.

Do I need a proxy?

Residential proxies are recommended and are the default. If a run returns unusually few products, confirm the proxy group is RESIDENTIAL.

Related Scraptivo automations

• Amazon Scraper — product listings from Amazon.
• Flipkart Scraper — product listings from Flipkart.
• Target Scraper — product listings from Target.
• Best Buy Scraper — product listings from Best Buy.

Support and custom workflows

Need a different field, source, or delivery workflow? Contact Scraptivo at scraptivo@gmail.com. Include the Actor name, sample URL, required fields, and expected volume so we can assess the request.