Amazon Scraper

Extracting data from web sources such as product descriptions, prices, or ratings is legal and proves to be extremely useful for e-commerce businesses since it allows them to analyze product characteristics in bulk. However, many countries choose to protect the digital privacy of their citizens and discourage from scraping publically available personal data and copyrighted content.

For additional information on the legality and ethics of web scraping, visit the following link, which breaks down the subject of ethical data extraction from the web.

You can scrape Amazon for free with Free Amazon Product Scraper, which can get you 4,000 results for about $0.25. If your data extraction scope is bigger than 20K results for $1, you might want to opt for one of Apify's paid subscription plans.

Amazon doesn't say much about its anti web-scraping measures. Amazon has implemented basic technical controls to prevent the large-scale extraction and processing of information on the Amazon website. But with the increasing use of web scraping techniques to extract data from e-commerce websites, Amazon had to follow Google's and Meta's example to include more and more tricks in their bag to detect and block Amazon crawlers. All of this combined makes it difficult to get the retail data in an automated fashion.

Amazon website generally discourages scraping in its policy and page structure. Besides that, there are other challenges your Amazon scraper might face when trying to extract data. These include but aren't limited to anti-bot measures, varying page structures, being able to send tons of requests per second, and storing data. Unless you want to deal with them one by one, you might need an all-in-one tool backed up by cloud infrastructure able to tackle each of these challenges altogether.

Yes, it is. To that end, you can either build a scraper tool of your own in any programming language or use an existing solution. Some existing solutions offer a free trial, such as our Free Amazon Product Scraper, and they are quite easy to understand. A good scraper should be able to copy the data visible on Amazon website page and save it into a document of a universal format, usually a JSON, Excel table, or HTML.

You don't need coding skills to scrape Amazon if you're using pre-made Amazon scraper tools from Apify Store. To scrape Amazon without learning to code, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to Apify Store, select your Amazon scraper and click 'Try for free'.
2. Paste the URL of the Amazon category you want to scrape in the input field.
3. Begin data collection by clicking 'Start'.
4. Download your Amazon data in your preferred format.

You can scrape product data from Amazon using Amazon Product Scraper. After clicking the 'Try for free' button, paste a URL of Amazon Category you want to scrape (e.g. videogames), and click 'Start'. When data collection is complete, click the 'Export' button to download your data in any of the format options provided.

Yes. The easiest way would be to find a tool created specifically to extract Amazon reviews. A good Amazon reviews scraper such as the one in Apify Store should be able to export full review data (rating, review text, review popularity, attached photos of items) into various formats, including Excel. However, in order to keep your scraping ethical, we advise avoiding scraping reviewer's information unless you have a legitimate reason to do so.

Yes. Reviews posted on Amazon can contain personal information such as name and thumbnail. That data may look innocuous and indirect, but combined with other web data it could be potentially used to identify the reviewer - which is protected by GDPR in the EU and by other international legislation. We discourage scraping personal data for illegitimate reasons. You can read the basics of ethical web scraping in our expert piece on the legality of web scraping.

You can download scraped Amazon data using Amazon Reviews Scraper. It has an in-built function to export the dataset from storage at any moment. So here's how you

1. Go to Amazon in Apify Store, and click on 'Try for free'
2. Paste a link to the Amazon product you're interested in.
3. Extract data by clicking 'Start'
4. Collect your Amazon reviews and download them in XML format.

It is impossible to extract general sales numbers from Amazon from its website, as it is internal sales data. Looking at the website, there's no way of knowing which items are sold and how big the sales volumes are; once sold, the items simply disappear from the visible catalog leaving little to no digital trace. If you need external, publicly available data such as pricing, you can use one of the Amazon scraping tools.

You can extract data data on a specific item using its Amazon ID (ASIN). Here's how to do it:

1. Find the ASIN of the product you're interested in (a section of URL)
2. Go to Amazon ASINs Scraper in Apify Store and click on 'Try for free'
3. Paste the ASIN of the Amazon product you're interested in.
4. Extract data by clicking 'Start'
5. Collect your Amazon data and download them in a format that suits you.

You can use any of the available Amazon scrapers. No matter which data extraction angle these scrapers have (reviews, product, best sellers), each one will get you the pricing details of the item: listed price (value), saved price and shipping price if indicated, currency, etc. You can then export and clean the results from all data unrelated to pricing. You can also build a very simple scraper targeting exclusively Amazon Prices.

There are plenty of available materials all over the web that can teach you how to build a scraper - even for such an e-commerce giant as Amazon. You can take a look at our documentation and freely accessible tutorials for beginners in web scraping. Beware: it's JavaScript exclusively. You can also look at the publically available source code of already built Amazon scrapers, shared for inspiration (tab Source code). Best of luck!

Yes. You can use a web scraper tool created specifically to extract ASINs from Amazon. Amazon ASINs Scraper will get you Amazon product details such as pricing, features & attributes, item condition, and availability. Besides, you can get info on return policy, brand, reviews breakdown, URLs, and more. It can also include detailed seller information, rating, and reviews count.

You can keep your eye on the top chart in Amazon Best Sellers section with Amazon Best Sellers Scraper. It can easily extract product price, name, a direct link to the product, subcategory, category, links to categories, and a thumbnail. Being able to get that data automatically gives you a pretty good picture of what the product placement looks like on Amazon at any moment and makes product analysis easy.

You can download scraped Amazon data using Amazon Crawler:

1. Find Amazon Product scraper in Apify Store, and click on 'Try for free'.
2. Paste a link to the Amazon product category you want to scrape.
3. Begin data extraction by clicking 'Start'.
4. Download your Amazon data in XML format.

Since many data scientists prefer to work in Python, we've developed Apify API Client for Python. for their specific needs. Just run one of the Amazon crawlers on the Apify platform and use our Python Client to access the extracted data from your Python applications.