# Gumroad Best Sellers Scraper | Niche Spy, Trends & Price Intel (`tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Gumroad search results, best sellers and hot-new products with prices, ratings, sellers and rank — plus free niche market stats per query. Monitor mode charges only new products.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tactful\_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Mr Zack](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 product results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Gumroad Best Sellers Scraper — Niche Spy, Trends & Price Intel

Find out **what actually sells on Gumroad** before you create, launch or promote a digital product. This Actor scrapes Gumroad search results, best-seller rankings and trending "hot & new" products — with prices, ratings, sellers, recurring-billing flags and rank — and adds a **free niche market-stats row** per query (market size, top tags, median price, % recurring).

**$1.60 per 1,000 product results + $0.001 per start.** MARKET\_STATS rows, cross-page duplicates and monitor-mode repeats are **never charged**.

### Who is this for?

- **Creators** validating a niche before building: how crowded is "notion template"? What's the median price? Do best sellers use recurring billing?
- **Affiliate marketers** hunting products worth promoting — sort by best sellers or most reviewed, filter by price and rating.
- **Trend scouts & newsletter writers** watching `hot_and_new` for rising products (run on a schedule with monitor mode, pay only for new finds).
- **AI agents & analysts** who need structured Gumroad market data instead of screenshots.

### What you get per product

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `rank` | Position in the chosen sort order (1 = top) |
| `searchTotal` | Market size — total products matching the query |
| `name`, `url`, `productId` | Product identity (clean URL, no tracking params) |
| `sellerName`, `sellerUrl`, `sellerVerified` | Seller info |
| `price`, `currency`, `originalPrice`, `discountPct` | Pricing incl. live discounts |
| `isPayWhatYouWant` | "$0+" pay-what-you-want flag |
| `isRecurring`, `recurrence` | Subscription products (monthly etc.) |
| `ratingCount`, `ratingAverage`, `hasSocialProof` | Review signals |
| `nativeType`, `isSalesLimited`, `thumbnailUrl`, `description` | Extras |

Plus one **free** `MARKET_STATS` row per query: `marketSize`, `topTags` (with counts — instant keyword ideas), `topFiletypes`, `medianPriceUsd`, `avgPriceUsd`, `pctWithRatings`, `avgRatingOfRated`, `pctRecurring`.

### Input

```json
{
  "queries": ["notion template", "lightroom presets"],
  "sort": "best_sellers",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 45,
  "minPrice": 5,
  "minRating": 4,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

- `sort`: `hot_and_new` (trending), `best_sellers`, `newest`, `highest_rated`, `most_reviewed`
- `taxonomy`: browse a category instead of (or with) keywords — e.g. `design`, `3d`, `education`
- `onlyNew`: monitor mode — remembers seen product IDs between runs; repeats are free

### Run it on a schedule

The highest-value setup: **daily `hot_and_new` monitor**.

1. Set `queries` to your niches, `sort` to `hot_and_new`, `onlyNew` to `true`.
2. Create a Schedule in Apify Console (e.g. every morning).
3. Each run emits only products you haven't seen — trending finds land in your dataset for pennies.

### AI agents & MCP

This Actor is AI-agent friendly: call it via the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp) and ask your agent things like "what's the median price and top tags for 'ai prompts' on Gumroad?" The free MARKET\_STATS row answers niche questions in one call; the output schema exposes the dataset URL for direct consumption.

### Honest data policy

- 100% public data from Gumroad's own search — no login, no private endpoints.
- Fields Gumroad doesn't expose (e.g. exact sales counts) are **not faked**; rating counts are your social-proof proxy.
- Cross-page duplicates from ranking jitter are deduplicated and never charged.

### Related Actors

- [Whop New Launches Monitor](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/whop-new-launches-monitor) — the same fresh-product radar for Whop.
- [Whop Content Rewards Scraper](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/whop-content-rewards-scraper) — clipping campaigns paying per view.
- [Ad Budget Signals](https://apify.com/tactful_anvil/ad-budget-signals) — check which domains actively run ads.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to research, e.g. "notion template", "lightroom presets", "trading course". Up to 20 per run.

## `taxonomy` (type: `string`):

Optional Gumroad category slug to browse or narrow queries, e.g. "design", "3d", "education", "software-development".

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Ranking to scrape. hot\_and\_new = trending fresh products; best\_sellers = proven winners.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap of charged product rows per query (1-198).

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only products priced at or above this. Pay-what-you-want products may still appear (Gumroad treats them as $0+).

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only products priced at or below this.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Only products rated at least this many stars.

## `includeMarketStats` (type: `boolean`):

Add one FREE MARKET\_STATS row per query: market size, top 10 tags, top filetypes, median/avg price, % rated, % recurring.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember seen product IDs between runs and emit only products you have not seen before. Already-seen products are never charged. Ideal for schedules.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "notion template"
  ],
  "sort": "hot_and_new",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 45,
  "includeMarketStats": true,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (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 = {
    "queries": [
        "notion template"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper").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 = { "queries": ["notion template"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "notion template"
  ]
}' |
apify call tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tactful_anvil/gumroad-best-sellers-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/tuxfPoVjlfaBnZv6c/builds/l9lXAQG4EhflhADqE/openapi.json