eBay Scraper

Scrapes product data from eBay listings and category pages, bypassing API limitations. Outputs structured JSON for analysis and integration.

Overview

This actor extracts detailed product information from eBay. Provide it with product or category URLs, and it returns data like titles, prices, seller info, and images in a clean JSON format. It's built for automation, market research, and data integration tasks.

Key Features

• Flexible Scraping: Works with specific product URLs or broader category/search pages.
• Detailed Data Extraction: Captures item titles, prices (with currency), condition, seller details, location, brand, and high-quality image URLs.
• Structured Output: Returns data in a consistent JSON schema.
• Common Use Cases:
  • Monitoring price and bidding trends.
  • Competitive analysis and market research.
  • Feeding data into applications, dashboards, or ML models.

How to Use

Configure the actor run with the required input parameters. The scraper will process the startUrls and return the results.

Input Parameters

Example Input

{
  "maxItems": 2,
  "proxyConfig": { "useApifyProxy": true },
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/135502439495", "method": "GET" },
    { "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/135502437036", "method": "GET" }
  ]
}

Output

The dataset contains items in JSON format. Each item includes fields such as:

• url: The source product page.
• itemNumber: The eBay item ID.
• title: Product title.
• price / priceWithCurrency: The item's price.
• condition: Item condition (e.g., "Pre-owned").
• seller: Seller's username.
• itemLocation: Seller's location.
• brand: Product brand.
• images: Array of high-resolution image URLs.
• categories: Breadcrumb trail of eBay categories.

Example Output Item

{
  "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/135502439495",
  "categories": ["Clothing, Shoes & Accessories", "Women", "Women's Accessories", "Wallets"],
  "itemNumber": "135502439495",
  "title": "FENDI Zucca PVC Leather Bifold Wallet Khaki/4BA0264",
  "condition": "Pre-owned",
  "price": 69,
  "priceWithCurrency": "US $69.00",
  "brand": "FENDI",
  "seller": "energy-japan",
  "itemLocation": "Tokyo/Japan, Japan",
  "images": ["https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VLYAAOSwB-5nid3i/s-l1600.jpg", ...]
}