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Reverb market data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract musical instrument listings, historical transaction prices, seller intelligence, and condition metadata from Reverb. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Listings extracted
312K /day
Price updates
845K /24h
Transaction records
45K /run
Active pipelines
54
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from reverb.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 reverb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idtitlebrandmodelyearfinishconditionpricecurrencyshipping_costaccepts_offersbumpedlocationpublish_date
active_listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "8472910",
"title": "Fender Stratocaster 1979 Antigua",
"brand": "Fender",
"condition": "Very Good",
"price": 2800.0,
"currency": "USD",
"accepts_offers": true
# listing_idtitlebrandmodelyearfinish
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Complete list of extractable fields for Price Guide Data objects from reverb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

transaction_idlisting_idbrandmodelyearconditionsold_pricecurrencyoriginal_pricedate_solddays_on_marketseller_id
price_guide data
● 200 OK
"transaction_id": "tx_99281",
"brand": "Moog",
"model": "Sub 37",
"condition": "Excellent",
"sold_price": 1150.0,
"date_sold": "2023-11-04",
"days_on_market": 14
# transaction_idlisting_idbrandmodelyearcondition
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Complete list of extractable fields for Seller Shop Data objects from reverb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

shop_idshop_namelocationjoined_datetotal_salesrating_pctreview_countquick_shipperpreferred_selleractive_listings_countreturn_policy
seller_shop data
● 200 OK
"shop_id": "sh_4482",
"shop_name": "Chicago Music Exchange",
"total_sales": 145020,
"rating_pct": 99.8,
"review_count": 48291,
"preferred_seller": true,
"quick_shipper": true
# shop_idshop_namelocationjoined_datetotal_salesrating_pct
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Complete list of extractable fields for Shipping Location objects from reverb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idshop_location_cityshop_location_countryships_toshipping_rate_domesticshipping_rate_internationallocal_pickup_availabletax_includedimport_duties_apply
shipping_location
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "8472910",
"shop_location_city": "London",
"ships_to": "Worldwide",
"shipping_rate_domestic": 0.0,
"shipping_rate_international": 150.0,
"local_pickup_available": true
# listing_idshop_location_cityshop_location_countryships_toshipping_rate_domesticshipping_rate_international
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from reverb.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordcategorypage_numpositionlisting_idtitlepriceis_bumpedis_salediscount_pctscraped_at
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "analog synthesizer",
"position": 3,
"listing_id": "992831",
"is_bumped": true,
"price": 850.0,
"discount_pct": 10,
"scraped_at": "2023-11-05T10:00:00Z"
# keywordcategorypage_numpositionlisting_idtitle
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Reverb, nothing you do not

Our Reverb scraper handles every layer of the platform: storefront listings, historical Price Guide data, seller intelligence, and condition metadata, with Cloudflare circumvention built in.

Full Listing Extraction

Capture brand, model, year, finish, condition rating, and detailed descriptions for every gear listing.

Price Guide Tracking

Extract historical transaction data from Reverb Price Guide to map depreciation curves and market value.

Offer & Pricing Signals

Track asking price, accepted offer status, shipping costs, and price drops over time.

Seller Intelligence

Monitor shop inventory levels, total sales volumes, review counts, and Preferred Seller status.

Reverb Bump Detection

Identify promoted listings and track ad spend visibility across specific categories and search terms.

Condition Standardisation

Normalise Reverb condition grades like Mint, Excellent, and Non-Functioning for structured analysis.

Global Market Mapping

Extract shipping zones, local pickup availability, and currency-converted pricing across international shops.

Vintage Gear Attributes

Parse unstructured descriptions to extract serial numbers, modification history, and original part verification.

Scheduled Diffing

Run daily pipelines that only emit new listings, sold items, or price changes to minimise storage overhead.

// engagement pipeline

From search term to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide category URLs, keyword sets, or shop IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and GraphQL parsing for reverb.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

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

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Reverb pipeline handles the hard parts

Reverb relies on Cloudflare and complex GraphQL endpoints. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · reverb.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 and fingerprint spoofing

Reverb uses Cloudflare to block automated traffic. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to bypass rate limits.

GraphQL interception
Direct API payload extraction

Reverb relies heavily on internal GraphQL endpoints for listings and search. We intercept and parse these JSON payloads directly, resulting in cleaner data and faster extraction than DOM parsing.

Pagination handling
Deep Price Guide extraction

Historical sales data in the Price Guide is deeply paginated. We handle cursor-based GraphQL pagination and session state to extract complete, multi-year transaction histories.

Dynamic shipping
Region-specific IP routing

Shipping costs vary by IP location. We route requests through region-specific proxies to capture accurate domestic and international shipping rates for every listing.

State tracking
Real-time offer detection

Reverb listings change status quickly. Our high-frequency crawlers detect when an item transitions from active to sold, or when an offer is accepted, capturing the final state.

Applications

Who uses Reverb data, and how

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

01
Gear Valuation Models

Insurers and appraisers use historical Reverb Price Guide data to calculate replacement values for vintage instruments.

02
Retail Arbitrage

Dealers monitor underpriced listings and local pickup opportunities for immediate purchase and resale.

03
Competitor Intelligence

Large music retailers track competitor shop inventory, pricing strategies, and sales velocity.

04
Manufacturer MAP Monitoring

Audio brands audit Reverb to detect unauthorised dealers selling new B-stock or violating Minimum Advertised Price policies.

05
Market Trend Analysis

Hedge funds and market analysts track secondary market prices for high-end audio gear as alternative asset indicators.

06
AI Pricing Algorithms

Marketplaces use structured Reverb transaction data to train automated pricing recommendation engines.

Why DataFlirt

"Reverb holds the definitive historical ledger of musical instrument transactions, but extracting structured pricing curves requires navigating deep GraphQL pagination and strict rate limits."

Building a reliable Reverb scraper means handling Cloudflare protections, reverse-engineering undocumented GraphQL APIs, and normalising highly unstructured vintage gear descriptions. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation, session handling, and schema validation so your data science team can focus on pricing models, not broken selectors.

Technical Spec

Reverb scraper technical capabilities

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

GraphQL interception
Direct extraction of internal API payloads for clean structured data
Supported
Price Guide history
Historical sold prices and market duration per model
Supported
Reverb Bump tracking
Identify promoted listings and ad placements in search results
Supported
Seller inventory scraping
Complete active catalogue extraction per Reverb shop ID
Supported
Condition normalisation
Standardised mapping of Reverb condition grades
Supported
Shipping cost extraction
Region-specific shipping rates via localised proxies
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing to emit only new or changed listings
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time arbitrage alerts
Supported
Buyer purchase history
Gated buyer account transaction ledgers
Partial
Direct messaging content
Private buyer-seller negotiation messages
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Reverb 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 interaction flows.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel compatible format for analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time processing
API
REST endpoints for on-demand querying
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Reverb legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Reverb is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated listings, pricing, and shop data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you bypass Reverb's anti-bot protections?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour to bypass Cloudflare and strict rate limits.

Can you extract historical sales data?

Yes. We extract historical transaction data from the Reverb Price Guide, mapping sold prices, condition ratings, and transaction dates for specific models.

Do you capture shipping costs?

Yes. We use region-specific proxies to capture accurate domestic and international shipping rates based on the buyer location.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for new listings. Full category refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 4-8 hour window.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined category or brand list with weekly delivery. For larger catalogues or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=reverb.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 Price Guide export or a continuous inventory feed across thousands of shops, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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