eBay Reviews Scraper

What does eBay Reviews Scraper do?

It's a simple and powerful scraping tool that allows you to scrape eBay reviews from eBay items. To extract eBay reviews data, just paste the eBay item URL and click "Save & Start" button.

What eBay reviews data can I collect?

With this eBay web scraper, you’ll be able to extract the following data from eBay:

How to scrape eBay reviews?

Use eBay Reviews Scraper. It was designed to be easy to start with even if you've never extracted data from the web before. Here's how you use this eBay data scraper:

1. Open eBay Reviews Scraper on Apify Store and sign into your Apify account.
2. Head over to eBay website and search for the URL of the product you want to scrape.
3. Copy the resulting eBay item or eBay reviews URL, and add it to the scraper to extract details on each listing.
4. Click "Start" and wait for the data to be extracted.
5. Download your eBay web scraper dataset in JSON, XML, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

⬇️ Input sample

To start the eBay Reviews Scraper, you only have to fill in the URL and the number of reviews you want to scrape. You can choose to add the direct product URL or the reviews page URL. Then, just hit the Start button, as in the example below.

In this case, we are about to scrape the first 10 reviews of a garden grass trimmer. This is how the input looks in JSON:

1{
2  "maxItemsPerStartUrl": 10,
3  "startUrls": [
4    {
5      "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/283520158429?epid=8061652351&itmmeta=01J06CSF4QVP99ZSQT77A6MRCQ&hash=item42031e4add:g:SWEAAOSw-~Bl5zym&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA4N6jOk2aiNGjbU0KMfDOh6NSM%2BZayVkPUTh9luMPrRA1GcW9bD%2Bb3xya4rbJ7qwB3uU%2FbtEQ4DwxeZHGWt7%2Fp%2BtxhmnuaVQmrZf%2ByzMY12hWq6NHOGTqYDYNxTCznMFhDpcZZ6tLqTffCK8MZI4AOqBEH5LD1M7wSjnAWMzhflvuzwEhSkvtx377li0Vv%2FVc7MxGC1eRbTc2kKBToMX36Y%2BdpU4X08R0O84UK9nJ5l%2Ft4kVbf49iNeZJUKScmS3U3gtRwuVAw%2BpW8sXgfsg6hAHdkb%2FTJ%2F8Nqi9ZsHfEg6SJ%7Ctkp%3ABFBM0PLlzIFk"
6    }
7  ]
8}

Click on the input tab for a full explanation of an input example in JSON.

⬆️ Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the dataset you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

Here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose to download eBay reviews data in JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1{
2    "image": null,
3    "text": "Very quick delivery and a great product. Does exactly what it should.",
4    "rating": "POSITIVE",
5    "username": "i***d",
6    "submissionTime": "Past month",
7    "item": {
8      "name": "Garden Grass Trimmer 18V Cordless Battery Electric Grass Strimmer Edger Cutter (#",
9      "id": 283520158429,
10      "price": "GBP 49.99"
11    },
12    "reply": null,
13    "position": 1
14  },

Why scrape eBay reviews

You can scrape eBay reviews for rating, review texts, and submission time. That data collected in bulk allows you to:

🕵️ Do market research or analysis

📈 Monitor trends

💯 Keep track of quality control and customer satisfaction

🏷️ Adjust pricing strategies

🥸 Identify fake reviews on eBay

How much will it cost to scrape eBay reviews?

This scraper uses the Pay-per-result pricing model, so your costs can be easily calculated: it will cost you $0.75 to scrape 1,000 eBay reviews, so $0.00075 per review. Apify provides you with $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan, so you can scrape over 6,500 reviews on eBay for free for those credits.

But if you need to extract data regularly, you should get an Apify subscription. We recommend the $49/month Starter plan — it gets you up to 65,333 eBay reviews every month.

❓FAQ

Can I integrate eBay Reviews Scraper with other apps?

Yes. This eBay Reviews Scraper Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate your Facebook Games data with Zapier, Slack, Make, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Asana, LangChain and more.

You can also use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g., get a notification whenever Facebook Games Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Can I use eBay Reviews Scraper as its own API?

Yes, you can use the Apify API to access eBay Reviews Scraper programmatically. The API allows you to manage, schedule, and run Apify Actors, access datasets, monitor performance, get results, create and update Actor versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, you can use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, you can use the apify-client PyPI package.

For detailed information and code examples, see the API tab or refer to the Apify API documentation.

How to scrape eBay reviews in Python?

To access the eBay Reviews API with Python, use the apify-client PyPI package. You can find more details about the client in our Python Client documentation.

Is it legal to scrape eBay reviews?

Our eBay Scraper is ethical and does not extract any private user data. It only extracts what the users have chosen to share publicly. Besides, eBay website anonymizes the names of the reviewers anyway.

To learn more about the legal side of web scraping, check out our blog post on the legality of web scraping and ethical scraping.

Not your cup of tea? Build your own games scraper

eBay Reviews Scraper doesn’t exactly do what you need? You can always build your own! We have various web scraping templates in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript to get you started. Alternatively, you can write it from scratch using our open-source library Crawlee. You can keep the scraper to yourself or make it public by adding it to Apify Store (and find users for it to make money).

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for eBay Reviews Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s issues tab.