Find bestselling Etsy listings in a niche: 10 rows for $0.065

publicrecords — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:16:23 +0000

Disclosure: I maintain these Actors on Apify Store (publicrecords).

Etsy sellers and product researchers keep asking how to export Etsy search results for a niche and see which listings are already marked Bestseller. Today's walkthrough does that with Etsy Search Scraper — a different path from sorting by price.

Price (matches the live listing)

Pay-per-event on Apify Store:

Actor start: $0.005
Listing row: $0.006 per delivered listing
10 rows: $0.005 + 10 × $0.006 = $0.065

Blocked pages are not charged.

Paste-ready input (bestsellers in a niche)

{
  "queries": ["personalized dog collar"],
  "sort": "relevance",
  "is_best_seller": true,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "fillLazyCards": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Swap the keyword for your niche. is_best_seller: true keeps only listings Etsy marks Bestseller.

Run it

Open the Actor: publicrecords/etsy-search-scraper
Paste the JSON into Input → Start
Download the dataset (CSV/JSON)

Or from the CLI:

apify call publicrecords/etsy-search-scraper --input '{
  "queries": ["personalized dog collar"],
  "sort": "relevance",
  "is_best_seller": true,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "fillLazyCards": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}'

curl (replace $APIFY_TOKEN):

curl -sS -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/publicrecords~etsy-search-scraper/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "queries": ["personalized dog collar"],
    "sort": "relevance",
    "is_best_seller": true,
    "maxItems": 10,
    "maxPages": 1,
    "fillLazyCards": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
      "useApifyProxy": true,
      "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
      "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
  }'

What you get

Each row is a live search listing: id, title, price, rating, reviews, badges (including Bestseller), shop, and rank in Etsy's order for that query.

Example repo for the price-sort path: GeminiGeorge22/etsy-search-example.

Again: disclosure — I maintain publicrecords/etsy-search-scraper on Apify Store.

Scrape Etsy search results sorted by price: 10 rows for $0.065

publicrecords — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:58:37 +0000

Disclosure: I publish and maintain the Actor used here (publicrecords/etsy-search-scraper on Apify Store). This is the publisher account.

You have an Etsy search query and you want the results as rows you can sort and filter, not a screenshot of page one. Here's the shortest route I know, with a real run as proof.

What you get

Each Etsy search result comes back as one row with listing_id, title, price, currency, shop_name, shop_url, rating_value, review_count, badges (bestseller, star_seller, etsys_pick, popular_now, free_shipping), position and page. You can pass a keyword, a market, or a category URL.

The input (copy this)

This is the exact input from a Store-page run on 2026-10-03: the 10 cheapest "ceramic mug" listings priced $10–$40.

{
  "queries": ["ceramic mug"],
  "sort": "price_asc",
  "minPrice": 10,
  "maxPrice": 40,
  "maxItems": 10,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "fillLazyCards": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

sort takes one of relevance, newest, price_asc, price_desc, top_reviews, the same options as Etsy's own sort menu.
minPrice / maxPrice are whole currency units.
maxItems and maxPages cap the run (Etsy itself stops at 20 pages).

Run it

In the browser: open the Actor in Apify Console, switch the input to JSON, paste the block above, and press Start.

From a terminal: save the block as input.json and run:

curl -s -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/publicrecords~etsy-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json > rows.json

Or clone the one-command example repo, which has the same input.json and the full sample output: GeminiGeorge22/etsy-search-example.

Proof run

Field	Value
Actor	publicrecords/etsy-search-scraper, build 0.2.3
Run ID	`fB8Y28DNUy5kJ9xfg` (Store / console origin, 2026-10-03)
Status	SUCCEEDED, 10 rows
Cost	actor-start $0.005 + 10 × listing-row $0.006 = $0.065

The first 3 of the 10 rows:

#	Title	Price	Shop	Rating	Reviews
1	1980's Christmas Coffee Mug	$10	TheNostalgiaHunter	4.9	~2,200*
2	Daisy a Day Coffee Mug, 11oz Ceramic Mug	$10	SmugMugMugs	5.0	51
3	America 250th Birthday Mug, 1776 Bicentennial Style	$10	SouthernRoyaltyUS	5.0	32

*Etsy shows "2.2k", so that row comes back with review_count_approx: true instead of a made-up exact number.

Pricing, plainly

$6 per 1,000 listing rows, plus a $0.005 start fee per run.
Runs on Apify residential proxy by default. That's passthrough: Apify bills proxy usage, and I add no markup.
A blocked page costs nothing. If a row comes back without a price, title or shop, you still get it, flagged incomplete: true, and you aren't charged for it.

Next step: who is selling?

Search rows tell you what ranks. If you also want to know how fast a shop is selling, feed the shop_name values into the companion Actor Etsy Shop Sales Tracker. It returns one row per shop with daily and 30-day sales counts.

Questions or a query that breaks it? Leave a comment. I maintain both Actors and I read the comments.

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Find bestselling Etsy listings in a niche: 10 rows for $0.065

Price (matches the live listing)

Paste-ready input (bestsellers in a niche)

Run it

What you get

Scrape Etsy search results sorted by price: 10 rows for $0.065

What you get

The input (copy this)

Run it

Proof run

Pricing, plainly

Next step: who is selling?