# oxylabs/how-to-scrape-amazon-prices

A code for extracting best-selling items, search results, and currently available deals from Amazon using Python and Oxylabs E-Commerce Scraper API.

Repository: https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-amazon-prices
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/how-to-scrape-amazon-prices
Homepage: https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/ecommerce
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: amazon, amazon-scraper, api, python, python-scraper, scraper-api, web-scraper, web-scraping
Last push: 2026-06-19T07:29:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 64/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 35, longevity 63
- inputs: {"age_days": 895, "days_push": 75, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2028, forks 8 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.972849+00:00)

## What it is
A Python-based example repository and free CLI tool for scraping Amazon product prices, best sellers, search results, and deals from department pages. It also demonstrates integration with the Oxylabs E-Commerce Scraper API for larger-scale scraping.

## Use cases
- scrape amazon product prices from a department page
- extract best-selling items from amazon
- get amazon search results data
- monitor amazon deals and discounts
- learn how to scrape amazon with python
- collect amazon pricing data at scale via scraper api

## When to choose
- you need a quick free tool to pull prices from an Amazon department page
- you want example code for integrating Oxylabs E-Commerce Scraper API
- you are learning web scraping on e-commerce sites with Python

## When to avoid
- you need to scrape sites other than Amazon
- you want a licensed, production-grade library (no license is provided)
- you cannot rely on a third-party paid API for large-scale scraping
- you need a maintained library with API guarantees rather than tutorial code

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli, http-client
- domain: crawlers, e-commerce, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: amazon-scraper, price-monitoring, ecommerce-scraper-api, tutorial-code, oxylabs

## Member repositories
- oxylabs/how-to-scrape-amazon-prices (main) score 64

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.972849+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:59:40.312672+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.