Why Amazon is a special case
Amazon is the most scraped marketplace in the world and one of the best defended. Datacenter IPs get CAPTCHAs quickly, prices and delivery estimates depend on location, and the page layout varies by category and test group. Collecting public Amazon data reliably needs trusted IPs, location control and patient pacing. Our Amazon scraping proxies guide covers the basics.
Which Rayobyte product
| Data | Product | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Product pages, offers | Premium Residential | Rotate per product |
| Delivery estimates by ZIP | Premium Residential with ZIP targeting | Plus the site's own location setting |
| Paginated reviews | Premium Residential sticky session | Keep one IP across pages |
| Search result rankings | Premium Residential, rotating | Match the marketplace's country |
| Hard pages or large volumes | Scraping API | Pay per successful request |
Datacenter proxies rarely last long on Amazon at any volume, so we don't recommend them as the main product here. Rotating ISP can work for some page types; test it.
Marketplace and location
Each Amazon marketplace is its own site with its own prices. Target the marketplace's country: US IPs for amazon.com, German IPs for amazon.de and so on. Within a country, delivery dates and some offers depend on the delivery location. ZIP targeting puts the IP in the right area, but Amazon mainly uses its own delivery location setting, so set that too and keep it in one sticky session while you collect a batch. See Rayobyte geo-targeting.
Pacing and patterns
- Rotate per product for independent page fetches.
- Keep per-IP request rates low. A residential IP making dozens of requests a minute stands out.
- Vary navigation. Fetching only product pages by ID with no other requests is an obvious bot pattern; mixing in occasional search or category pages helps on sensitive workloads.
- Detect CAPTCHAs by content, not status code, and retire that session immediately.
Residential tip: You can test most of this guide for free: Rayobyte offers a no-card trial on Premium Residential, rotating ISP and rotating datacenter proxies. Move to a paid plan once the pilot works. See our complete Rayobyte guide.
Reviews
Review pagination is checked more strictly than product pages. Use one sticky session per product, request pages in order, and stop at a sensible depth. Premium Residential sessions last up to 120 minutes; you'll rarely need more than a few minutes per product. See Rayobyte sticky sessions.
When to use the Scraping API
If your success rate on residential drops below what you need, or you'd rather not maintain parsers that break with layout tests, the Scraping API handles proxies, browsers and retries and charges per successful request: $0.0018 each, with 5,000 free. 100,000 product pages costs about $180. Compare that with your residential cost per successful page, including retries.
Costs on residential
Amazon product pages are heavy, often 500 KB to 1 MB of HTML. 100,000 pages at 700 KB is about 70 GB: $140 at the 50 to 249 GB tier ($2 per GB), before retries. Fetching only the HTML (no images, scripts or styles) is essential.
Legal and ethical notes
Stick to public data: product details, prices, public reviews and rankings. Don't log in to scrape, and don't collect reviewers' personal data you don't need. Seller Central and buyer accounts sit behind login pages, which are blocked on Rayobyte residential traffic anyway. See ethical web scraping.
Proxy tip: For a second opinion on hard targets, run the same test through Geonode residential proxies, which support sticky sessions up to 24 hours and ASN targeting. We compare the two in Geonode for Amazon data.
Related guides
See Rayobyte for e-commerce scraping for other marketplaces and Rayobyte for price monitoring for ongoing tracking.
How it compares
See Rayobyte vs Geonode for Amazon, Rayobyte vs Webshare for Amazon and all three for Amazon.
Not sure this is the right proxy type for the job? The best proxies in 2026 guide compares residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile options, and our cheap proxies guide covers budget picks that still work. To understand the IP type behind this, read our residential proxies guide.
Budget tip: For jobs where a fixed IP list is enough, Webshare is one of the cheapest options: shared datacenter proxies are sold by the IP, and static residential (ISP) proxies cost well under a dollar per IP per month at the time of writing. More in Webshare for Amazon data.
Key takeaways
- Use Premium Residential for Amazon; datacenter IPs get blocked fast.
- Target the marketplace's country and set Amazon's own delivery location for local data.
- Use sticky sessions for reviews and rotation for product pages.
- The Scraping API is a good fallback at $1.80 per 1,000 successful pages.
FAQ
Can I scrape Amazon with datacenter proxies?
Only at very low volumes, and not reliably. Residential proxies or a scraping API are the practical options.
How do I get Amazon prices for a specific ZIP code?
Use a ZIP-targeted residential IP and set Amazon's delivery location to that ZIP within one sticky session.
Is scraping Amazon legal?
Collecting public data is common, but it's governed by Amazon's terms and local law. Avoid logins and personal data, and get legal advice for commercial projects.
Editorial note: Proxy providers change their pools, features and prices often, so treat any figures here as typical ranges at the time of writing and confirm current terms with the provider before you buy.