# eBay Scraper - Products, Prices & Sold Listings (`swerve/ebay-scraper`) Actor

Scrape eBay search results: title, price, condition, buying format, shipping, seller rating and image. Flip a switch for SOLD listings and real sold-price comps for reselling. No API key. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/swerve/ebay-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Swerve](https://apify.com/swerve) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 88.2% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## eBay Scraper - Products, Prices & Sold Listings

Scrape **eBay** search results in bulk. Search any keyword and get every item with title, price, condition, buying format, shipping, seller rating and image. Flip one switch to get **sold listings** instead, for real sold-price comps. **No API key.**

### What you can do with it

- Pull active listings for any keyword: price, condition, format, seller, image
- Get **sold-price comps** for reselling, arbitrage and market research (real prices items actually sold for)
- Track prices and inventory for a product over time
- Feed listings and prices into your own app, spreadsheet or model

### Input

| Field | What it does | Example |
|-------|--------------|---------|
| **Search keywords** | What to search for. | `laptop`, `nintendo switch oled`, `vintage rolex` |
| **Sold listings (price comps)** | Return recently sold items with their sold price and date, instead of active listings. | on for comps |
| **Condition** | Filter by New, Used or Refurbished. | Any |
| **eBay search URLs** | Optional. Paste filtered eBay search URLs directly. | `https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=drone` |

### Output

One row per item:

```json
{
  "itemId": "283987164379",
  "url": "https://www.ebay.com/itm/283987164379",
  "title": "Dell Latitude 3420 Business 14\" Laptop Intel Core i5 16GB RAM 256GB SSD",
  "price": 249.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "condition": "Good - Refurbished",
  "buyingFormat": "Buy It Now",
  "shipping": "Free delivery",
  "sellerFeedbackPercent": 99.6,
  "soldInfo": "Jul 18, 2026",
  "sold": true,
  "image": "https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/.../s-l500.jpg",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-18T14:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Fill rates on the core fields (itemId, title, price, image, url) are ~100%. On sold searches, sold price and date are ~100%.

### How it works

This actor reads eBay's own search-results pages through a US residential connection (used by default), so it returns clean items without a browser. It pages through each search automatically. For sold-price comps, turn on "Sold listings".

### Limits

- Shipping and buying format are shown when eBay lists them on the card; some items omit them.
- Sold listings cover eBay's recent sold history (the last ~90 days it exposes).
- Very large searches are capped by eBay at a few thousand results per query; narrow the keyword or add filters for more depth.

### Pricing

Pay per result. You only pay for the items you actually get.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

What to search for on eBay. Examples: laptop, nintendo switch, vintage rolex. Each keyword is searched and its items returned.

## `soldItems` (type: `boolean`):

Return recently SOLD items instead of active listings, to see real sold prices for comps and reselling. Off returns active listings.

## `condition` (type: `string`):

Filter by item condition.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional. Paste eBay search-results URLs directly (e.g. a filtered search).

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Cap items per keyword. Leave blank for all.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Optional overall cap. Leave blank for everything.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

eBay is scraped through a US residential proxy by default for reliability. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "laptop"
  ],
  "soldItems": false,
  "condition": "any",
  "startUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountryCode": "US"
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "laptop"
    ],
    "startUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountryCode": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("swerve/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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["laptop"],
    "startUrls": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountryCode": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("swerve/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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "laptop"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountryCode": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call swerve/ebay-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/F5W3hQlGBk4fv1GaJ/builds/tpe4tQgs1J7wON6Jz/openapi.json