ebay-web-scraper

Scrape eBay search results and listings into parsed JSON. A thin Python wrapper over the ScrapingBee web scraping API that renders eBay, routes through residential proxies, and extracts fields using the CSS selectors from ScrapingBee's eBay guide.

pip install ebay-web-scraper

Covers the searches people run: ebay scraper, ebay scraper api, ebay web scraper, ebay data scraper, ebay product scraper. Requires Python 3.8+ and requests.

30-second example

from ebay_web_scraper import EbayScraper

scraper = EbayScraper(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

results = scraper.search("nintendo switch")
for item in results["products"]:
    print(item.get("title"), item.get("price"))

Grab a key first. ScrapingBee gives 1,000 credits with no card at scrapingbee.com.

The client

EbayScraper(api_key: str, timeout: int = 60)

Every request renders JavaScript and uses a premium (residential) proxy by default, because eBay needs both. The client serializes extraction rules and builds eBay URLs for you.

Methods

search(query, page=None, sold=False, **kwargs)

Search eBay and return structured listings. Returns a dict with a products list.

Each product carries the fields defined by the default rules: title, price, url, and shipping.

scrape(url, extract_rules=None, **kwargs)

Fetch any eBay URL, such as a single product page, a store, or a category. Returns rendered HTML by default, or JSON when you pass extract_rules.

Selectors

The default extraction targets eBay search results with the selectors from ScrapingBee's guide:

{
    "products": {
        "selector": "li.s-card",
        "type": "list",
        "output": {
            "title": "div.s-card__title span.su-styled-text",
            "price": "span.s-card__price",
            "url": {"selector": "a.s-card__link:not(.image-treatment)", "output": "@href"},
            "shipping": "div.s-card__attribute-row",
        },
    }
}

When eBay changes its markup, pass your own extract_rules, or add ai_extract_rules through extra for natural-language extraction.

Sold prices and pagination

# real sale prices from completed listings
sold = scraper.search("iphone 15", sold=True)

# walk result pages
page_two = scraper.search("iphone 15", page=2)

Credits

ScrapingBee bills successful requests. An eBay search with rendering and a premium proxy costs 25 credits. CSS extraction adds nothing; ai_extract_rules adds 5. See scrapingbee.com/pricing.

Notes

• Scrape public eBay pages only. ScrapingBee's terms prohibit scraping behind a login.
• Selectors reflect eBay's current search markup and may need updating over time.

Links

• How to scrape eBay (ScrapingBee)
• Data extraction rules
• ScrapingBee pricing

License

MIT

Disclaimer

Unofficial Python client built on the ScrapingBee web scraping API. Not affiliated with ScrapingBee or eBay. Comply with eBay's terms of service and applicable law.