Amazon API skill

Read public Amazon listing data as clean JSON. This Amazon API skill fetches a product page by URL, searches the catalog by keyword, pulls customer reviews, and lists the sellers offering a given item — useful for price tracking, competitive research, and review-mining without maintaining a scraper against one of the most defended sites on the web.

This skill wraps 4 live Amazon endpoints from the ScraperSocial API. Public data only, returned as clean JSON.

When to use this skill

• A user pastes an Amazon product URL and wants the title, price, rating or specifications.
• You are comparing how a product is priced or positioned across sellers.
• You need the review text for a product to summarise sentiment or pull out recurring complaints.
• You want to find products matching a keyword and rank them.

Do not use this skill when

• You need order, account or Seller Central data. This reads public listing pages only. Use Amazon's own SP-API for anything tied to an account.
• You need a live price guarantee. Prices change constantly and responses may be served from cache. Pass --fresh when the exact current price matters.
• You want a plain keyword search endpoint called search. Amazon's search capability here is product-search; there is no /v1/amazon/search.
• A product link appears in passing with no question attached. Calls cost credits.

Setup

export SCRAPERSOCIAL_KEY=sk_live_...   # https://scrapersocial.com/app/keys

Signing up at scrapersocial.com/signup includes 100 free credits, no card required.

Permissions and scope

These scripts do exactly three things and nothing else: read one environment variable (SCRAPERSOCIAL_KEY), send HTTPS requests to https://api.scrapersocial.com (the host is a constant in the code, not configurable), and print JSON. They run as node scripts/<name>.js with no other shell use, no file writes and no persistence. call_endpoint.js accepts only the 4 documented /v1/amazon/ paths in the table below and refuses anything else before a request is made.

Scripts

Every script also accepts --limit, --cursor, --fields, --format and --fresh. --limit is clamped to 50: above that the API returns an async job instead of data.

Example

node skills/amazon-api/scripts/product_search.js "wireless earbuds"

Every response uses the same envelope:

{ "data": {}, "meta": { "count": 20, "next_cursor": "..." }, "request_id": "a18e4ef88ad4b00b" }

meta appears on paginated endpoints only. Keep request_id — support traces calls with it.

Endpoints

Costs shown per item for paginated endpoints, per call otherwise. Failed calls are not charged.

FAQ

How do I get Amazon product data as JSON?

Run get_product.js with the product URL. It returns the listing as structured JSON for 3 credits. For keyword lookups use product_search.js instead.

Can I get Amazon reviews through the API?

Yes. get_reviews.js takes a product URL and returns reviews, charged 3 credits per review returned. Cap the volume with --limit.

Is this an official Amazon API?

No. ScraperSocial is independent and not affiliated with Amazon. It returns publicly available listing data only.

Why is my price slightly stale?

Responses can come from cache, which is what makes them fast. Add --fresh to bypass the cache at the same credit cost.

Links

• Amazon data on ScraperSocial
• All 33 platform skills
• OpenAPI spec · llms.txt

Disclaimer

ScraperSocial is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any platform named in this repository. All product names, logos and brands are property of their respective owners. These skills return only publicly available data.