# Amazon Keyword Discovery Scraper (`searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool`) Actor

Discover source-backed public Amazon autocomplete suggestions for seed keywords with marketplace, locale, filtering, serialized pacing, and provenance controls.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool.md
- **Developed by:** [Search API](https://apify.com/searchapi) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 search results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Amazon Keyword Discovery Scraper

Discover keyword phrases returned by Amazon's public autocomplete service for one seed or a bounded seed list. Select one of 12 marketplaces, use seed-only or deterministic A-Z/0-9 expansion, filter suggestions, and enforce hard per-query, per-seed, and global limits.

```json
{ "seedKeywords": ["wireless earbuds"], "marketplace": "amazon.com", "expansionMode": "letters", "suggestionLimit": 10, "maxQueriesPerSeed": 5, "maxItems": 30, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } }
```

Rows contain the normalized keyword, seed/query/rank context, expansion character, marketplace ID and locale, public Amazon search URL, optional source suggestion metadata, and timestamp. Cross-query duplicates are removed. Failures and no-results never become placeholder rows; `OUTPUT` contains counts for records, requests, candidates, filters, duplicates, and bounded failures.

The Actor validates final Amazon origin, HTTP status, JSON content type, 2 MB response bound, challenge signals, JSON syntax, and payload shape before normalization. It independently enforces the requested per-query slice, uses bounded retries/backoff/timeouts/delay, and supports direct or authorized proxy access without logging proxy credentials, headers, cookies, tokens, full completion URLs, or raw responses. It does not bypass authentication, CAPTCHA, paywalls, regional restrictions, or other access controls.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `seedKeyword` (type: `string`):

Single phrase to enter in Amazon search.

## `seedKeywords` (type: `array`):

Optional seed list; takes precedence over seedKeyword.

## `marketplace` (type: `string`):

Amazon marketplace and public completion market ID.

## `locale` (type: `string`):

Request and normalization locale; auto follows marketplace.

## `expansionMode` (type: `string`):

Seed only, A-Z suffixes, or A-Z plus 0-9 suffixes.

## `alphabetExpansion` (type: `boolean`):

Backward-compatible boolean expansion setting.

## `suggestionLimit` (type: `integer`):

Hard per-query result limit.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard global result limit.

## `maxKeywords` (type: `integer`):

Backward-compatible alias for maxItems.

## `maxQueriesPerSeed` (type: `integer`):

Hard request limit per seed, including the base query.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Suggestion must contain one of these substrings when provided.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Suggestions containing any of these substrings are omitted.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between completion queries in milliseconds.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum seconds for one completion request.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries for temporary network, rate-limit, and server failures.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional authorized Apify or custom proxy configuration; credentials are never logged.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "seedKeyword": "wireless earbuds",
  "marketplace": "amazon.com",
  "locale": "auto",
  "expansionMode": "lettersAndNumbers",
  "suggestionLimit": 12,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxQueriesPerSeed": 37,
  "requestDelayMs": 300,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 12,
  "maxRequestRetries": 2
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,searchapi/amazon-keywords-discovery-tool"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Tl6r8AbcaxlQENt6M/builds/GsCahzXX76l6oDYCu/openapi.json