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Amazon Best Sellers Scraper for Category Research

Use Amazon Best Sellers, New Releases, and Movers pages to track category rank, new products, and assortment changes.

2026-09-01 · 6 min read

What this pipeline does

Amazon category pages are a good early-warning system. Best Sellers show the products buyers are already rewarding. New Releases show fresh assortment pressure. Movers pages show what changed fast enough to deserve a closer look.

Amazon Best Sellers Scraper collects ranked product rows from Best Sellers, New Releases, and Movers category URLs. The actor returns rank, ASIN, title, URL, rating, list type, summaries, and diagnostics. Price can appear when Amazon exposes it cleanly, but rank and product identity are the dependable first-class fields.

Best first run

Start with one category list URL. Do not begin with a large category map.

{
  "listUrls": [
    "https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics/zgbs/electronics"
  ],
  "maxProducts": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Check whether the result has stable rank, ASIN, title, URL, rating, and list type fields. Then add related lists once the first category behaves.

Category row shape

{
  "rank": 1,
  "asin": "B0EXAMPLE1",
  "title": "Example Bestseller",
  "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0EXAMPLE1",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "list_type": "best_sellers"
}

Store one row per product per list per run. A product can appear across multiple list types, and that overlap is often the interesting signal.

Research views

Start with views that answer practical category questions:

  • Products newly appearing in the top 20
  • Products leaving the top 20
  • ASINs appearing in both New Releases and Movers
  • Brands with multiple products on one category list
  • Products with high rank but weak rating or review counts

These views help marketplace teams decide what to scrape next, which products to benchmark, and which category shifts might be worth a manual review.

Pairing with other Amazon actors

Use this actor to discover products and category movement. Then send the ASINs into Amazon Product Scraper for deeper product fields or Amazon Price Tracker & Watchlist for recurring price and availability alerts.

That order avoids scraping everything deeply before you know which products deserve attention.

Deployment notes

Run fast-moving categories daily and slow categories weekly. Keep list type, category URL, and run timestamp in every row so a rank change can be traced back to the exact page where it appeared.