Whatnot Scraper

Whatnot Scraper: listings, live shows and seller stats from Whatnot search

Search Whatnot the way its own box works and get rows back. Listings with price, format, status, condition label and the seller behind them. Live and upcoming shows with viewer counts and start times. Seller profiles with followers, items sold, rating and average shipping days.

Whatnot's search needs words. There is no way to pull a whole category empty-handed, and a listing search hands over about 1,050 results however many it claims to have.

🛍️ What Whatnot Scraper does

Pick one of three things to get: listings, liveShows or sellers. Then give it search words, usernames, or both. Words run as searches. Usernames scope it to those shops: their items, their live and upcoming shows, or their profiles.

Every filter Whatnot's own panel offers is here, and which ones apply depends on what you asked for. Category, seller rating, Premier shops and ships-from work on listings and shows. Buying format, price, condition, graded, autographed and the per-category item details are listings only. Show status, format, brands and tags are shows only.

Filter values are names, not codes, and Whatnot offers only the commonest ones per search: 120 categories, 100 sets. A search where none of your values are on offer returns nothing rather than quietly widening, and the status message says so.

Every run spends about two minutes getting started before the first row lands.

📥 What you give it

{
  "searchFor": "listings",
  "keywords": ["charizard", "pokemon booster box"],
  "category": ["Pokémon Cards"],
  "buyingFormat": "buyItNow",
  "minPrice": 20,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxResults": 300
}

Prices come in each seller's own currency, so a price sort lines raw numbers up across dollars, Canadian dollars and yen. A recent charizard run returned 95 USD listings, 2 CAD and 3 JPY. If a price range matters, set Ships from to one country first.

📤 What you get back

A real listing row from a recent run, with the image link cut short:

{
  "listingId": "TGlzdGluZ05vZGU6MjI5MDE2ODQ2OQ==",
  "title": "Pokemon Slakoth 99/123 Common Mysterious Treasures Pokemon LP",
  "subtitle": "Light Played",
  "price": 5,
  "currency": "USD",
  "format": "buyItNow",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "quantity": 1,
  "currentBid": null,
  "bidCount": null,
  "inLiveShow": false,
  "category": "Pokémon Cards",
  "labels": [],
  "description": "Pokemon Slakoth 99/123 Common Mysterious Treasures Pokemon LP",
  "sellerUsername": "rva_sports_cards",
  "sellerRating": 5,
  "sellerReviews": 30792,
  "sellerPremierShop": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://images.whatnot.com/eyJidWNrZXQiOiAid2hhdG5vdC1pbWFnZXMiLCAia2V5...",
  "url": "https://www.whatnot.com/listing/TGlzdGluZ05vZGU6MjI5MDE2ODQ2OQ%3D%3D",
  "sellerUrl": "https://www.whatnot.com/user/rva_sports_cards",
  "searchedFor": "pokemon",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:47:48.436Z"
}

Live show rows carry showId, title, the seller fields, status of live or upcoming, startTime in UTC, viewers, categories, tags, thumbnailUrl and the two links.

Seller rows carry username, displayName, followers, following, soldCount, rating, reviews, isLive, verifiedSeller, premierShop, averageShipDays, bio, profileImageUrl, url and userId.

🧾 Reading the output

Run it with no words and no usernames and you get the one sample row, a real listing, so you can see the shape first.

There are no diagnostic rows. The status message leads with the result, then names searches that were not read or came back partial, filters Whatnot did not offer, and unknown sellers. RUN_REPORT in the key-value store has one entry per search: how many Whatnot listed, how many it served, pages read, why it stopped, and the currencies delivered.

Four dataset views are set up, overview, listings, liveShows and sellers.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Whatnot Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Choose What to get: listings, live shows or sellers. 3. Type search words into Search words, one per line, or paste usernames into Seller usernames. 4. Add filters if you want them, set Results in total, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.95 per 1,000 rows. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per row delivered. A search with no results, a search Whatnot did not answer or did not finish, a filter Whatnot does not offer for that search, an unknown seller, a repeat, and the sample row are all free.

💡 What people use it for

• Tracking what a card or a sneaker actually lists for, by running the same words on a schedule.
• Watching a set of sellers, their shop, their upcoming shows and their follower counts in one run.
• Finding shows to watch before they start, with Show status on upcoming and a viewer sort.
• Pulling seller profiles for a category to see who has the volume and the rating.
• Filtering to graded or autographed items only and keeping an eye on the asking prices.

🚧 What it does not do

• No buying, bidding or messaging. It reads public pages, nothing more.
• Search words are required for listings and shows. An empty query returns nothing on Whatnot,

so a whole category cannot be pulled without words.

• A listing search reaches about 1,050 results, 21 pages of 50, whatever the result count says.

A show search went about 9,000 deep before Whatnot started repeating itself.

• Mixed currencies break a price sort, because the numbers are compared raw. Pick one

Ships from country when it matters.

• The viewer sort is approximate. In runs of 100 live shows, 31 to 38 of the 99 steps went the

wrong way, mostly by under ten viewers.

• Some filters cannot be double-checked on the rows. Condition, item details, graded,

autographed, show format and ships-from are not in the search results, so Whatnot's own filtering is what you get. Autographed is the weakest: a baseball card search had 18 ticked, 1 titled as signed.

• Seller-scoped shows ignore most filters. That list takes no words, format, brands, tags,

rating, Premier or country.

• Every run has about two minutes of start-up before the first row.

🧭 Which marketplace scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Whatnot account? No. No login, no API key.

Can I get every listing in a category? Not without search words. Whatnot's search returns nothing for an empty query, so use words and narrow with Category.

Why did my filter return nothing? Whatnot only offers certain filter values per search, and a value it does not offer gets you an empty result rather than a wider one. The status message names the filter.

How do I follow one seller? Put the username into Seller usernames and leave Search words empty. Switch What to get between listings, shows and sellers for the three views.

Why are my prices out of order? Mixed currencies. Set Ships from to one country.

Is scraping Whatnot legal? These are public listing, show and profile pages. They carry personal data in places, which GDPR and similar laws cover, and Whatnot's terms govern reuse, so have a reason and read the terms. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID and the words or usernames you used. The status message and RUN_REPORT name which search fell short.