Amazon Best Sellers Scraper — Top 100, New Releases and Movers & Shakers

Scrape Amazon Best Sellers lists without the Amazon API. Get the top 100 products of any category with rank, price, rating and review count, from Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For and Most Gifted. Works on 23 Amazon marketplaces. No Amazon account, no API keys. Pay per product, no start fee.

⭐ Top 100 per category · 5 list types · subcategories · whole-marketplace sweep · rank change on Movers & Shakers · proxies included · API and MCP ready

What does Amazon Best Sellers Scraper do?

Amazon publishes ranked lists of its best-selling products in every department and subcategory, updated hourly. This Actor exports them as clean rows.

You enter	You get
A category, such as electronics	The top 100 of that category
A Best Sellers page link	The top 100 of that exact list
Nothing	The top 100 of every department in the marketplace
A category with Include subcategories on	The category and each of its subcategories

Choose which list you want: Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers, Most Wished For or Most Gifted.

What data does it extract?

Ranking fields

Field	Description
rank	Position in the list, 1 to 100
asin, title, link	Product ID, title and URL
price_amount, price_currency, price_text	Price and currency
rating_average, rating_count	Star rating and number of ratings
image	Product image
category, category_name	Category alias and its display name
list_type, list_link	Which list the row came from and its URL
rank_change_percent, previous_rank, sales_rank	Movement data on Movers & Shakers lists

An Amazon API alternative

Amazon's Product Advertising API (PA-API) does not expose Best Sellers lists as ranked data, and it is only open to approved Associates who keep generating sales.

This Actor is an Amazon API alternative for ranking data. It works without the Amazon Product Advertising API: no Associates account, no access keys, no API pricing to negotiate. You pay per ranked product you export.

	Amazon PA-API	This Actor
Access	Approved Associates only	Anyone
Best Sellers, New Releases, Movers & Shakers	Not available as ranked lists	All five list types
Subcategory lists	Not available	Included
Output	API objects	Flat rows: CSV, Excel, JSON

Why use this Amazon best sellers scraper

All five lists, not just Best Sellers

New Releases shows what is launching. Movers & Shakers shows what is rising fastest in the last 24 hours, with the rank change. Most Wished For and Most Gifted show intent before purchase.

Whole categories in one run

Turn on Include subcategories to capture a department and every subcategory under it. Leave the category empty to sweep the entire marketplace.

23 marketplaces

United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Japan, Singapore, Australia and South Africa.

Fast, with no start fee

A category's top 100 takes a few seconds. Starting a run is free, and you are charged only for rows delivered.

How to scrape Amazon Best Sellers

1. Open the Actor and enter Categories: an alias such as electronics, or a link to any Best Sellers page. Leave empty for all departments.
2. Pick the List type and Marketplace.
3. Set Max products per category. Amazon publishes 100 per list.
4. Optionally turn on Include subcategories.
5. Press Start, then export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

💡 Category aliases differ between marketplaces. On amazon.de, electronics is ce-de. The safest input is a link copied from the Best Sellers page you want.

Input example

{
  "categories": [
    "electronics",
    "https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/toys-and-games/"
  ],
  "listType": "best_sellers",
  "country": "US",
  "maxItemsPerCategory": 100,
  "includeSubcategories": false
}

Field	Type	Description
categories	array	Best Sellers category aliases (electronics, electronics/172541) or links to any Best Sellers, New Releases or Movers & Shakers page, one per line. Leave empty to scrape every top-level department of the marketplace.
listType	string	Which ranked list to scrape. A pasted link to a specific list overrides this for that input. Default "best_sellers".
country	string	Which Amazon site to scrape. A product or category link from another Amazon site overrides this for that input. Default "US".
maxItemsPerCategory	integer	Amazon publishes 100 products per list. Default 100.
includeSubcategories	boolean	Also scrape every subcategory directly under each category you entered.
maxItems	integer	Hard cap on products for the whole run. 0 means no cap.

Output example

{
  "type": "bestseller",
  "rank": 2,
  "asin": "B0DCH8VDXF",
  "title": "Wired Headphones with USB-C Plug",
  "link": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCH8VDXF",
  "price_amount": 19.0,
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "price_text": "$19.00",
  "rating_average": 4.5,
  "rating_count": 18452,
  "image": "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/example._AC_UL300_.jpg",
  "category": "electronics",
  "category_name": "Electronics",
  "list_type": "best_sellers",
  "list_link": "https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/",
  "country": "US",
  "source": "best_sellers:electronics"
}

Pricing

Pay per result. No start fee, no monthly rental, no minimum.

Event	Charged for	Price
bestseller-scraped	each ranked product delivered	$2.99 / 1,000

You export	You pay
Top 100 of one category	$0.30
Top 100 of 40 departments (4,000 products)	$11.96
100,000 ranked products	$299.00

Each product is billed once per run. You are charged right after each batch lands in your dataset, so a run you stop early costs only what it delivered. Duplicates, products that are not found and failed pages are free. Proxies are included.

Use cases

Product research for Amazon sellers

Find what sells in a niche before you source it. Compare price, rating and review count across the top 100 to spot categories where leaders have few reviews.

Trend spotting

Schedule Movers & Shakers hourly. rank_change_percent and previous_rank show what is climbing right now, often before it reaches the main Best Sellers list.

Competitor and brand tracking

Run the same categories every day and chart how each brand's products move up and down the ranks.

Launch monitoring

New Releases shows which recently launched products are gaining traction, and at what price.

Market sizing and category analysis

Sweep a department with subcategories on to map which subcategories are dominated by a few products and which are fragmented.

Affiliate and content sites

Build "best of" pages from current ranking data, with images and prices refreshed on a schedule.

FAQ

Do I need an Amazon account or API key? No. It works without the Amazon Product Advertising API and without logging in.

Is scraping Amazon legal? This is general information, not legal advice. The Actor collects only ranking and product information that Amazon shows publicly to every visitor, and never logs in. Whether your use is lawful depends on where you are and what you do with the data. Amazon's Conditions of Use restrict automated access, and product images and descriptions can be protected by copyright. Use the data for analysis and monitoring, do not republish copyrighted content, and ask a lawyer before building a commercial product on it.

How many products are in each list? Amazon publishes 100 per list, across two pages of 50. Some small subcategories have fewer.

How do I find a category alias? Open the Best Sellers page you want on Amazon and copy its link. The Actor reads the category from the link. You can also paste aliases such as electronics or electronics/172541.

What happens if I leave the category empty? The Actor scrapes the top 100 of every top-level department in the marketplace. On amazon.com that is about 40 lists.

How often do the lists change? Amazon updates them hourly. Schedule the Actor as often as you need.

Why did a category return an error row? The alias may not exist in that marketplace, or the list may be empty at the moment, which happens with Movers & Shakers. Error rows are free.

Does it return seller, stock or specifications for each product? No. It returns what the ranked list shows: rank, title, price, rating, review count and image. Pass the ASINs to the Amazon Product Scraper to refresh prices and ratings in bulk.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use Apify schedules, the API or an MCP client.

Integrations

• Apify API - start runs and fetch datasets from Python, Node.js, cURL or any HTTP client.
• MCP server - call this Actor as a tool from Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT agents and any MCP client.
• No-code - Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, webhooks.
• Schedules - run hourly or daily for price and rank tracking, appending to the same dataset.
• Exports - JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML table.

Related actors

Amazon

• Amazon Product Scraper - search results, prices, ASIN details and sellers

Google

• Google Shopping Scraper - products, prices, sellers and ratings across stores
• Google Search Results Scraper - organic results, news and People Also Ask
• Google Maps Scraper - places with ratings, phone, website and GPS

Reddit and jobs

• Reddit Scraper - posts, comments, search, users and communities
• Reddit Lead Finder - people asking for what you sell
• Indeed & LinkedIn Jobs Scraper - job listings with salary and description

Credits

Data access is built on the open-source amazon-scraper library by Omkar Cloud (MIT License).

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Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Amazon. Amazon and all related marks are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This Actor reads only publicly available pages and does not log in. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and Amazon's terms.