Amazon Products By Category Scraper

Overview

This Apify actor scrapes product listings from Amazon category pages. You provide a category URL, and it returns structured product data like titles, prices, and ratings in JSON format.

Key Features

• Category Scraping: Extracts products from a specified Amazon category URL.
• Pagination: Start scraping from any page number.
• Sorting: Order results by featured (default), price (low-to-high or high-to-low), customer reviews, or newest arrivals.
• Filtering: Apply optional filters like brand or price range to refine results.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON with product details and pagination info.

How to Use

Configure the actor run with an input JSON object. Only the categoryUrl is required.

Basic Input Example

{
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/s?i=computers&rh=n%3A541966"
}

Advanced Input Example

{
  "categoryUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/s?i=electronics&rh=n%3A172282",
  "page": 2,
  "sortBy": "price-asc",
  "filters": {
    "minPrice": 25,
    "maxPrice": 100,
    "brand": "Apple"
  }
}

Input Parameters

Required:
* categoryUrl (string): The Amazon category page URL to scrape.

Optional:
* page (integer, default: 1): The page number to start scraping from.
* sortBy (string, default: "featured"): Sorting method. Options: featured, price-asc, price-desc, review-rank, newest.
* filters (object): Additional search filters (e.g., {"brand": "Samsung", "priceRange": "50-200"}).

Output Format

The actor outputs a JSON object with a results array of product objects and a pagination object.

Output Structure

{
  "results": [
    {
      "asin": "B0ABCD1234",
      "title": "Product Name",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0ABCD1234",
      "image": "https://...image.jpg",
      "price": "$29.99",
      "rating": "4.6 out of 5 stars",
      "reviews": "1245",
      "delivery": "FREE delivery Tue, May 7",
      "sponsored": false,
      "prime": true,
      "extraInfo": "More delivery options"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "currentPage": 1,
    "itemsPerPage": 24,
    "totalResults": 7000,
    "totalAvailablePages": 292,
    "paginationLinks": [...]
  },
  "relatedSearch": []
}

Key Output Fields

• results[]: Array of product objects.
• asin: Amazon's unique product identifier.
• title / price / rating: Core product info.
• url / image: Direct links to the product page and image.
• sponsored / prime: Booleans indicating ad status and Prime eligibility.
• pagination: Metadata for navigating through result pages.

Error Handling

The actor includes error handling for invalid URLs and network issues, logging errors appropriately for debugging.