eBay Sold Listings API

Real eBay sold prices as JSON, from a database of 400M+ completed sales on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk. Type a keyword or a category id, get every matching sale newest first: final price, sale date, condition, shipping, buying format, location, item id and link. No scraping at run time, no eBay developer approval, no login wall, and history that reaches back well past the 90 days eBay shows.

Try it: leave the sample input as it is and press Start. The run finishes in seconds and the dataset shows what an iPhone 15 Pro 256GB actually sold for this week.

What is the eBay Sold Listings API?

eBay retired findCompletedItems and the Finding API in February 2025, and its Marketplace Insights API is closed to new developers. The Browse API only returns listings that are still for sale. So there is no official way to ask eBay "what did this sell for?"

This Actor answers that question from trawl's database of completed eBay sales. trawl records sales on ebay.com and ebay.co.uk continuously and keeps them, so one request returns real sold listings with the fields a pricing tool needs, in a consistent JSON shape, with a sale from last spring as easy to get as one from today.

What can you do with eBay sold listings data?

• Price before you list. The median and range of real completed sales for the exact item and condition.
• Build comps into your own product. A pricing app, a reseller dashboard, an estate-sale tool, a spreadsheet.
• Track a market over time. Filter by dateFrom and dateTo to compare months, including ones eBay no longer shows.
• Research a whole category. Set a category id with no keyword and get every sale in it.
• Filter by item specifics. Brand, storage capacity, card grade, size, colour: Grade:PSA 10 returns only slabbed PSA 10 sales.
• Feed an AI agent. The Actor runs through Apify's API and MCP server like any other, so an agent can ask for comps in a tool call.

How to search eBay sold listings

Fill in the input and start the run. Everything except the keyword or category is optional.

Input	What it does
Keyword	Words that must all appear in the title, in any order.
Marketplace	eBay US (prices in USD) or eBay UK (prices in GBP).
Max results	How many sales to return, newest first. Up to 20,000 per run.
Condition	New, used, for parts, other.
Exclude words	Words that must not appear in the title (case screen protector).
Category ID	A numeric eBay leaf category. On its own, every sale in the category.
Min / max sold price	In the marketplace's currency.
Sold from / to	A date window, YYYY-MM-DD.
Item specifics	Key:Value lines, exact match: Brand:Apple, Storage Capacity:256 GB.
Include full listing details	Adds each listing page's item specifics, description, images, seller and returns, and the accepted Best Offer amount where eBay publishes it.

A run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Output: one sold listing per dataset item

{
  "title": "Apple iPhone 15 Pro 256GB Unlocked",
  "sale_price": 525,
  "shipping_price": 0,
  "currency": "$",
  "condition": "used",
  "condition_raw": "Pre-Owned",
  "date_sold": "2026-07-18T00:00:00.000Z",
  "buying_format": "Buy It Now",
  "bids": null,
  "best_offer_available": true,
  "location": "United States",
  "item_id": "256637082114",
  "epid": "13051890211",
  "categoryId": "9355",
  "item_link": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/256637082114",
  "image_url": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/abc/s-l500.webp",
  "site": "EBAY_US"
}

sale_price is the listed price, because that is what eBay's sold search shows. For Best Offer sales, turn on Include full listing details and read details.sale_price where details.best_offer_accepted is true; eBay publishes the accepted amount on Collectibles listings (trading cards, coins, comics). Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run's Storage tab, or read it through the Apify API.

How much does it cost to get eBay sold listings?

You pay per sold listing returned, nothing per run and nothing for a search that finds no matches.

Event	Price
Sold listing	$2.50 per 1,000
Sold listing with full details	$5.00 per 1,000

Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly usage, which is 2,000 sold listings a month at no cost. Apify platform usage is included in the price; a 1,000-listing run finishes in a few seconds.

Using the Actor from code

Python, with the Apify client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("trawl/ebay-sold-listings-api").call(run_input={
    "keyword": "iphone 15 pro 256gb",
    "condition": ["used"],
    "maxResults": 300,
})
sales = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
prices = sorted(s["sale_price"] for s in sales)
print(len(prices), "sales, median", prices[len(prices) // 2])

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('trawl/ebay-sold-listings-api').call({
  keyword: 'nintendo switch oled', marketplace: 'EBAY_GB', maxResults: 200,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, 'sales, latest', items[0]);

Need the same data at higher volume, or straight from your backend without Apify in the middle? The same database is available as a plain HTTPS API with a free key at trawl.dev: one GET, up to 2,000 results a call, and GET /item for any listing's full page.

eBay sold listings API vs scraping eBay yourself

	This Actor	A scraper
Source	A database of completed sales, kept continuously	eBay's sold search page, fetched on each run
Login wall	Not affected	eBay now redirects sold searches to a sign-in page
History	Kept past eBay's 90-day window	What eBay shows: about 90 days
Speed	Seconds for thousands of sales	Minutes, and proxies to pay for
Breakage	None when eBay changes its HTML	Every time it does
Cost	Per listing returned	Per run, whether or not it finds anything

FAQ

Is this an official eBay API?

No. trawl is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by eBay Inc. The data is the public record of completed sales that eBay publishes on its sold-listings pages, collected and kept by trawl.

Which marketplaces are covered?

ebay.com (US) and ebay.co.uk (UK). Prices are in the marketplace's own currency and nothing is converted.

How far back does the history go?

Past the 90 days eBay shows. trawl keeps every sale it has recorded, so a date window on a month eBay no longer displays still returns the real sales from that month. Set dateFrom and dateTo to pick the range.

How fresh is the data?

New sales appear within minutes in busy categories and within the day in quieter ones.

Does it return the accepted Best Offer price?

The listed price is what eBay's sold search shows. With Include full listing details on, details.sale_price carries the accepted amount where eBay publishes it, which is Collectibles listings.

Can I filter by item specifics like card grade or storage size?

Yes: Item specifics takes Key:Value lines and matches exactly, case-insensitive. Only listings whose full page was read carry specifics, so results are a subset of a plain keyword search.

What replaces findCompletedItems?

This. The guide at trawl.dev/guides/findcompleteditems-alternative maps the old Finding API fields to this response one by one.

Is it legal to use eBay sold listings data?

The sold listings are information eBay publishes publicly. Use the data under your own jurisdiction's rules and eBay's terms for whatever you build; trawl's terms are at trawl.dev/terms.

Support

Something wrong, or a field you need that is not here? Open an issue on this Actor or write to the address on trawl.dev/contact. Parser changes on eBay's side do not affect this Actor; the database behind it is maintained by the trawl team.