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eBay data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract active listings, sold price history, auction results, seller intelligence, feedback scores, and category data from eBay. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Listings extracted
1.9M /day
Sold price records
8.4M /24h
Seller records
620K /run
Active pipelines
184
Uptime
99.96%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from ebay.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Active Listings objects from ebay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

item_idtitlecategorysub_categoryconditioncondition_descriptionpricecurrencylisting_typebuy_it_now_priceauction_start_pricecurrent_bidbid_countwatcher_counttime_leftend_timeseller_idseller_feedback_scoreseller_positive_pctships_fromshipping_costreturns_acceptedimage_urlsitem_urlscraped_at
active_listings
● 200 OK
"item_id": "296418773291",
"title": "Apple iPhone 15 Pro 256GB Natural Titanium Unlocked",
"condition": "Used – Like New",
"price": 72999.00,
"currency": "INR",
"listing_type": "BUY_IT_NOW",
"watcher_count": 84,
"seller_feedback_score": 4821,
"seller_positive_pct": 99.2,
"returns_accepted": true
# item_idtitlecategorysub_categoryconditioncondition_description
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Complete list of extractable fields for Sold Prices objects from ebay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

item_idtitlecategoryconditionsold_pricecurrencylisting_typebid_countsale_dateseller_idbuyer_countryshipping_costglobal_shippingoriginal_currencyoriginal_priceprice_timestamp
sold_prices
● 200 OK
"item_id": "296418773291",
"title": "Apple iPhone 15 Pro 256GB Natural Titanium Unlocked",
"sold_price": 71500.00,
"listing_type": "AUCTION",
"bid_count": 17,
"sale_date": "2026-05-10",
"buyer_country": "IN",
"global_shipping": false
# item_idtitlecategoryconditionsold_pricecurrency
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seller Intelligence objects from ebay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

seller_idusernamefeedback_scorepositive_pctreviews_countmember_sincelocationtop_ratedpower_seller_statusbusiness_sellerstore_namestore_urlactive_listings_countresponse_timereturn_policyaccepted_payments
seller_intelligence
● 200 OK
"seller_id": "techdeals_india",
"feedback_score": 14829,
"positive_pct": 99.4,
"top_rated": true,
"power_seller_status": "PLATINUM",
"business_seller": true,
"active_listings_count": 3417,
"member_since": "2011-03-15"
# seller_idusernamefeedback_scorepositive_pctreviews_countmember_since
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from ebay.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordsitepositionitem_idtitlepriceconditionlisting_typebid_countwatcher_countseller_feedback_scorefree_shippingreturns_acceptedthumbnail_urlscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "iphone 15 pro unlocked",
"position": 1,
"item_id": "296418773291",
"listing_type": "BUY_IT_NOW",
"free_shipping": true,
"condition": "Used – Like New",
"price": 72999.00,
"scraped_at": "2026-05-12T10:22:11Z"
# keywordsitepositionitem_idtitleprice
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Capabilities

Everything you need from eBay — nothing you don't

Our eBay scraper covers every layer of the marketplace: active listings, auction outcomes, sold price history, seller intelligence, and search rankings — with full JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Listing Data Extraction

Title, condition, description, item specifics, images, shipping options, returns policy, and every metadata field eBay surfaces — scraped at item-ID level.

Sold Price & Auction History

Capture final sold prices, auction outcomes, bid counts, Buy It Now conversions, and Best Offer acceptance rates — timestamped per crawl.

Watcher & Demand Signals

Track watcher counts, bid velocity, and time-left signals to gauge real-time demand for any category or keyword.

Seller Feedback Intelligence

Full feedback scores, positive percentages, Top Rated and PowerSeller status, store details, and active listing counts — for every seller.

eBay Store Scraping

Scrape entire eBay store inventories, category breakdowns, store policies, and promotional banners for competitor intelligence.

SERP & Keyword Rank Tracking

Monitor organic and promoted listings position for any keyword across eBay.com, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de and other regional sites.

Multi-Site Support

ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, ebay.com.au, ebay.fr, ebay.it, ebay.es, ebay.ca — all from a unified schema with normalised pricing.

eBay Motors Data

Vehicles, parts, and accessories with make, model, year, mileage, VIN, and condition specifics — ideal for automotive market intelligence.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

One-off bulk exports or continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or real-time cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From item list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide item IDs, category URLs, keyword sets, or seller usernames. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for ebay.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample records before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our eBay pipeline handles the hard parts

eBay's dynamic listings, auction timers, and bot-detection layers require specialised infrastructure. Here's how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · ebay.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

eBay's fraud detection operates on IP reputation, TLS fingerprints, and behavioural heuristics. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for dynamic content

eBay listing pages, auction timers, and seller feedback panels are JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright sessions with JavaScript execution and lazy-load triggering — capturing data that headless HTTP clients miss entirely.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

eBay updates its DOM structure regularly. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field — CSS selectors, XPath, text-pattern matching, and structured data extraction (LD+JSON) — so layout changes don't break your pipeline.

Auction timing
Precise end-time capture for live auctions

Auction data requires time-sensitive scraping near listing end. Our pipeline schedules crawls around end-time windows to capture final bid counts, watcher spikes, and sold prices immediately after settlement.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, price outliers, schema drift, and coverage drops — and respond before you notice. SLA uptime is contractual, not aspirational.

Applications

Who uses eBay data — and how

Teams across industries use ebay.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Reseller & Arbitrage Intelligence

Resellers monitor sold price history and active listing spreads to identify profitable arbitrage opportunities across conditions, categories, and geographies.

02
Pricing & Valuation Models

Finance teams and insurers use eBay sold prices as real-world secondary market valuations for electronics, collectibles, vehicles, and industrial equipment.

03
Competitive Seller Analysis

Marketplace sellers track competitor listings, pricing strategies, sell-through rates, and feedback trends to optimise their own eBay storefronts.

04
AI Training Data

ML teams use eBay datasets — product descriptions, condition gradings, pricing pairs — to train condition-assessment models and price prediction engines.

05
Fraud & Counterfeit Detection

Brand protection teams monitor eBay for unauthorised sellers, MAP violations, counterfeit listings, and suspicious seller patterns at scale.

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Investor & Market Research

Analysts track category velocity, average selling prices, and seller concentration metrics to assess marketplace liquidity and demand trends.

Why DataFlirt

"eBay's sold price data is one of the richest secondary-market pricing signals available anywhere — but it's locked behind pagination, dynamic rendering, and aggressive bot detection."

Most teams underestimate what reliable eBay scraping requires: residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, auction-window timing, CAPTCHA handling, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis — not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

eBay scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our ebay.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions — required for auction timers, availability, and dynamic content
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from IN / US / UK / DE pools — rotated per request
Supported
Multi-site support
ebay.com, .co.uk, .de, .com.au, .fr, .it, .es, .ca and more
Supported
Sold price history
Completed and sold listings scraped for historical price time-series
Supported
Auction data capture
Bid counts, current bid, reserve met, auction end-time, and final sold price
Supported
Seller storefront scraping
All active listings per seller, store policies, and feedback corpus
Supported
Sponsored listing detection
Distinguishes organic vs promoted placements in search results
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record or batch — useful for real-time repricing and alerting workflows
Supported
eBay Motors specifics
VIN, make, model, year, mileage, and vehicle-specific item specifics
Supported
Authenticated gated data
Purchase history, private seller messages, and account-level data require credentials
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the eBay pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and auction-timer interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across IN/US/UK/DE regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
// faq

Common questions.

About ebay.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping eBay legal?

Scraping publicly available information from eBay is generally permissible under applicable law in India, the US, and the UK — reinforced by the hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling and similar precedents. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated listing, pricing, and seller data. We do not extract personal data, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. We recommend clients review eBay's ToS independently and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle eBay's anti-bot systems?

We use residential ISP proxies that appear as real consumer traffic, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our selectors have multi-layer fallback chains so DOM changes don't break the pipeline. We monitor for 503/CAPTCHA rate spikes in real time and trigger pool rotation or solver queues automatically.

Which eBay sites do you support?

We support ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, ebay.com.au, ebay.fr, ebay.it, ebay.es, ebay.ca, ebay.nl, ebay.at, ebay.be, and ebay.ie — all from a unified schema with marketplace-normalised pricing.

Can you capture sold price history?

Yes. eBay's completed listings and sold items pages expose historical sale prices for the past 90 days. We scrape these systematically and maintain a time-series table per item category or keyword — giving you a robust secondary-market pricing dataset.

How do you handle live auctions?

We schedule crawls around auction end-time windows to capture final bid counts, watcher spikes, and sold prices immediately after settlement. For real-time auction monitoring on a defined item set, we can run sub-hourly polling with webhook delivery.

What's the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined item list (typically 1,000–50,000 items) with weekly delivery. For larger catalogues, ongoing monitoring contracts, or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency. Contact us with your use case for a scoped quote.

Can you scrape eBay Motors data?

Yes — including vehicle-specific fields: make, model, year, mileage, VIN, transmission, fuel type, colour, and all item specifics. Parts and accessories are also supported with cross-reference compatibility data where eBay surfaces it.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 items or 50 search result pages as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit, field completeness, and data quality before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ebay.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off sold-price history dump or a continuous listing-monitoring feed across 1M items — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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