Collectors · E-commerce

Amazon scraper API in Python

Amazon search results for a keyword — ASIN, price, rating, reviews, image. One POST from Python with query, rows back as JSON with 19 fields, $0.001 per delivered product. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

Get an API key See the collector

A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the amazon_search collector returns one dict per product, at $0.001 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/amazon_search/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "query": "running shoes",
        "country": "us",
        "max_results": 40,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("asin"), row.get("title"), row.get("brand"), row.get("price"))

Python: one Amazon search run (Scarpe (amazon.com)), printing asin, title, brand, price

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Amazon search collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`query`	string	yes	What to search on Amazon, e.g. "running shoes".
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — picks the local site AND the proxy exit (default us).
`max_results`	integer	no (default 20)	How many products to deliver at most (1–200). You pay only for delivered products.

Response fields

19 fields per product.

Fields of each row (product)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position across pages.
`page`	integer	Search page the row came from.
`asin`	string	Amazon product id.
`title`	string, nullable	Product title.
`brand`	string, nullable	Brand line when the layout shows one.
`price`	string, nullable	Current price as shown.
`price_value`	number, nullable	Numeric current price.
`list_price`	string, nullable	Struck-through list price when discounted.
`rating`	number, nullable	Star rating (1–5).
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Review count (1.4K → 1400).
`sponsored`	boolean	True for paid placements.
`image`	string, nullable	Thumbnail URL.
`url`	string	Clean product URL (https://host/dp/ASIN).
`delivery`	string, nullable	Delivery promise snippet.
`badge`	string, nullable	Card badge as shown ("Overall Pick", "Best Seller", "Amazon's Choice").
`bought_past_month`	string, nullable	Recent sales line as shown ("2K+ bought in past month").
`coupon`	string, nullable	Coupon text when the card shows one.
`more_buying_choices`	string, nullable	Lowest other offer when the card lists more buying choices.
`image_large`	string, nullable	Largest image rendition the card offers.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/amazon_search/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"query":"running shoes","country":"us","max_results":40}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.001 per delivered product.

What Amazon search rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.001
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Up to 200 products per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,000 products. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Amazon search API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 products of this collector at $0.001 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 200 products per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.001 per delivered product, no subscription.

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