# eBay Scraper Goat (`goat255/ebay-scraper`) Actor

Scrape eBay listings without a login. Search any keyword, pull a seller's listings, or fetch full detail for specific items. Walks pagination up to your chosen limit and returns clean, structured rows with price, condition, seller, shipping, and images.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/goat255/ebay-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Goutam Soni](https://apify.com/goat255) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 listings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## eBay Scraper

Extract eBay listings at scale without a login or API key. Search any keyword, pull a seller's active listings, or fetch full detail for specific items. The scraper walks pagination automatically up to the limit you set, so you can collect hundreds or thousands of listings per source in a single run. Every row comes back in one clean, structured shape.

### What it does

- **Keyword search** - listings matching any search term, with optional sort, condition, and buying-format filters.
- **Seller listings** - the active listings of any seller by username or store URL.
- **Item detail** - full structured detail for specific items, including price, condition, brand, model, and the image gallery.
- **Pagination** - search and seller modes walk multiple pages (240 listings per page) until your `maxItemsPerSource` is reached or the source runs out.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQueries` | array | Keyword searches. Example: `laptop`, `vintage camera`. |
| `sellers` | array | Seller usernames or store URLs. Example: `example_seller`, `https://www.ebay.com/usr/example_seller`. |
| `itemUrls` | array | Item links or numeric IDs to fetch full detail for. Example: `https://www.ebay.com/itm/123456789012` or `123456789012`. |
| `sort` | string | `best_match`, `ending_soonest`, `newly_listed`, `price_low`, `price_high`. Applies to search and seller modes. |
| `condition` | string | `any`, `new`, `used`, `refurbished`. Filters search and seller results. |
| `buyingFormat` | string | `any`, `auction`, `buy_it_now`. Filters search and seller results. |
| `maxItemsPerSource` | integer | Cap per query or seller. Default 240. |
| `concurrency` | integer | Sources processed in parallel. Default 5. |
| `proxyConfig` | object | Apify proxy. RESIDENTIAL is the default and recommended. |

At least one of `searchQueries`, `sellers`, or `itemUrls` is required.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["laptop", "vintage camera"],
  "sort": "price_low",
  "condition": "used",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 480,
  "concurrency": 3
}
```

### Output

Each item is one normalized listing.

```json
{
  "itemId": "123456789012",
  "title": "Example Brand Ultrabook 14 inch 16GB RAM 512GB SSD",
  "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/123456789012",
  "price": 379.99,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "condition": "Refurbished",
  "buyingFormat": "or Best Offer",
  "soldCount": 124,
  "brand": "Acme Co",
  "model": "Ultrabook 14",
  "color": "Silver",
  "seller": "example_seller",
  "sellerFeedback": 99.5,
  "shipping": "+$12.00 delivery",
  "image": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/example/s-l500.webp",
  "images": ["https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/example/s-l1600.jpg"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T19:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Every field is always present. Unknown values are `null`. Search and seller rows populate the list-level fields; item-detail rows add the full image gallery, model, and color.

### Use cases

- Track competitor pricing and inventory across a category over time.
- Build a price-comparison or market-research dataset for a product line.
- Monitor a seller's catalog and stock movement on a schedule.
- Source product data (titles, conditions, images) for resale or analytics.

### Notes

- A run uses the Apify proxy you select. RESIDENTIAL gives the most reliable results.
- If a source is temporarily unavailable, a row is returned with a generic status (`upstream_unavailable`, `upstream_rate_limit`, or `not_found`) so a single failure never stops the run.
- Pagination depth is bounded by what the source exposes for a given query or seller.

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To improve our actors we collect anonymized usage telemetry (run stats and input patterns). No personal account data is collected.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keyword searches to run. Each query returns matching listings. Example: laptop, vintage camera.
## `sellers` (type: `array`):

Seller usernames or store URLs to pull active listings from. Example: example_seller, https://www.ebay.com/usr/example_seller.
## `itemUrls` (type: `array`):

Specific item links or numeric IDs to fetch full detail for. Example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123456789012 or 123456789012.
## `sort` (type: `string`):

Sort order for search and seller modes.
## `condition` (type: `string`):

Restrict search and seller results to a condition.
## `buyingFormat` (type: `string`):

Restrict search and seller results to a buying format.
## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Cap on listings returned per query or seller. Pagination is walked across multiple pages (240 per page) until this is reached or the source is exhausted.
## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many sources to process in parallel. Higher is faster but puts more load on proxies.
## `proxyConfig` (type: `object`):

Apify proxy. RESIDENTIAL is the default and recommended option for the most reliable results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "laptop"
  ],
  "sellers": [],
  "itemUrls": [],
  "sort": "best_match",
  "condition": "any",
  "buyingFormat": "any",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 240,
  "concurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `listings` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "laptop"
    ],
    "sellers": [],
    "itemUrls": [],
    "proxyConfig": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("goat255/ebay-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["laptop"],
    "sellers": [],
    "itemUrls": [],
    "proxyConfig": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("goat255/ebay-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "laptop"
  ],
  "sellers": [],
  "itemUrls": [],
  "proxyConfig": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call goat255/ebay-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=goat255/ebay-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/AIcnyJwiERR8kxiMk/builds/DwPgdlUuO45rnlabW/openapi.json