eBay Product & Listings Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

One row per active eBay listing card matching your search. Sponsored placeholder cards ("Shop on eBay") and malformed cards are filtered out automatically — you only get real listings.

What we handle for you

• Keyword search, no login required — search eBay's live listings the same way a shopper does, no account or API key needed on your end.
• Filter by category, condition, price range, and buying format — narrow results before you pay for a single row.
• Sponsored and malformed cards filtered automatically — placeholder "Shop on eBay" cards and broken cards never reach your dataset.
• We rotate browser fingerprints — curl-cffi with Chrome/Firefox/Safari TLS impersonation, so eBay's servers see real-browser traffic, not raw Python.
• We handle the warm-up dance — eBay's search endpoint 403s a cold request; we collect the bot-manager cookie first, then reuse that session for every search page.
• We retry with exponential backoff — 408 / 429 / 5xx trigger a retry sequence (2s → 30s cap, up to 5 attempts), honouring Retry-After.
• We rotate proxies and sessions on every block — a fresh session_id and a fresh impersonation profile on every 403, through Apify Proxy.
• Clean, Pydantic-validated rows — every dataset row passes schema validation before it lands. ISO 8601 timestamps, stable column names.
• Pay only for results that land — no data, no charge beyond the small actor-start warm-up fee.

Use cases

• Reseller price-checking — pull live asking prices for a product line before you list or restock, filtered by condition and price band.
• Price-intelligence pipelines — feed price / condition / buying_format into a downstream pricing model, refreshed on a schedule.
• Market research — sweep a category for buying-format mix (auction vs. fixed-price vs. best-offer) and price distribution.
• Arbitrage scouting — compare price across min_price/max_price bands to spot underpriced listings worth flipping.
• Competitive monitoring — track how many active listings and what price range a competitor's product category holds right now.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "query": "iphone 13",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "buyingFormat": "any",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

item_idtitlepricecurrencyconditionbuying_formatbids_countitem_urlimage_urlqueryscraped_at

{
  "item_id": "196123456789",
  "title": "Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max 256GB Unlocked",
  "price": 270.74,
  "currency": "USD",
  "condition": "Pre-Owned",
  "buying_format": "best_offer",
  "bids_count": null,
  "item_url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/196123456789",
  "image_url": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/abc123/s-l500.jpg",
  "query": "iphone 13 pro max",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-13T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Active listings only — this Actor covers eBay's live "for sale" search. Sold/completed listings are a separate product.
• ebay.com (US) only, v1 — other eBay marketplaces and non-USD currencies are out of scope for this version.
• Card-level data only — description, seller feedback score, shipping cost, item specifics, and return policy require a detail-page fetch and aren't included.
• No seller identity — seller username, store name, and feedback score aren't exposed on the search-result card.
• Point-in-time runs — this Actor doesn't monitor for new listings continuously; schedule repeat runs via Apify's Scheduler if you need that.
• Unresolvable prices ship as null — a range or starting-bid price that can't resolve to one number ships price: null rather than a guessed value.