# Amazon Scraping Options

# Official Route: Amazon's Affiliate APIs

Creators API (opens new window) — Amazon Associates' current API for product data (the older Product Advertising API 5.0 is being phased out, deprecated May 2026). Free for approved Associates, scoped to affiliate/product-linking use cases rather than bulk data extraction.

Bright Data — Amazon Scraper API (opens new window) — managed endpoints for products, search results, reviews and seller data, returned as structured JSON; handles proxies, CAPTCHAs and page rendering.
Apify — Amazon Product Scraper (opens new window) — a widely-used pay-per-result actor for product, price and review data by search or URL.
RapidAPI — Real-Time Amazon Data (opens new window) — one of the more popular RapidAPI marketplace listings, covering products, reviews, best-sellers and seller data.

Priced on usage and limited to publicly visible data — check current terms before committing to a plan.

amazon-scraper-python (opens new window) — a non-official Python client for reading basic product info from Amazon listings.
PHPScraper itself can fetch and parse public Amazon product pages, but Amazon's bot detection means this is best combined with rotating proxies for anything beyond occasional lookups.

Amazon Reviews'23 (opens new window) — a large-scale, publicly released dataset (hundreds of millions of reviews and product metadata) built from scraped Amazon data by UCSD's McAuley Lab. It's become a standard benchmark for recommender-systems and NLP research — a good example of scraped e-commerce data powering years of downstream academic work.