Amazon Scraper API Fixes
Keeping an API reliable isn't a one-and-done job. It's a constant effort. Websites change how their pages look, marketplaces tweak how they respond to requests, and any one of those small changes can quietly break the data flowing into your app without you even noticing right away. Our job is to catch those breaks before you do, fix them fast, and keep your data pipeline running smoothly in the background.
This week, we're happy to report two fixes to the Amazon Scraper API that should make your scraping experience noticeably more reliable. Here's what happened, what we did about it, and what it means for you.
Postal Code Success Rate: Restored
If you've been using the postal code parameter with our Amazon Scraper API to pull location-specific data, think shipping estimates, local availability, or prices that change depending on where a shopper is located, you may have noticed that some of these requests weren't coming back as reliably as usual.
The root cause was on Amazon's side. They made changes to how they handle location-specific requests internally, and that shift caused a drop in success rates whenever a postal code was included in a request. In plain terms: requests that should have worked were failing more often than they should have.
This kind of thing happens more often than people realize. A marketplace like Amazon doesn't just show one static version of a page, it customizes what it shows based on where the request is coming from. When Amazon adjusted the internal handling of that location logic, it created a mismatch between what our API was sending and what Amazon expected to receive, and that mismatch showed up as failed or incomplete requests.
Our engineering team tracked the issue down, adjusted how our API constructs postal code-based requests to line up with Amazon's new behaviour, and tested it across every supported Amazon marketplace, not just the ones where the problem was first spotted. The fix is now live, and postal code requests are processing reliably again.
What this means for you:
if you're pulling location-specific product data whether that's checking regional pricing, delivery estimates, or local stock availability, you can go back to trusting your success rates. No changes are needed on your end, no new parameters to learn, and no re-work to your existing code. Just keep sending requests the way you always have.
Amazon Australia & United Kingdom: Scraping Stability Restored
Separately, we also noticed a temporary dip in success rates for two specific marketplaces: Amazon Australia and Amazon United Kingdom. If you scrape either of these regions, you may have seen more failed or incomplete requests than usual over the past little while.
Again, the cause traced back to changes on the target websites themselves. Amazon regularly updates the structure and behaviour of its pages, and when it does, any scraper (ours included) has to catch up quickly to keep extracting data correctly. That's exactly what happened here: Amazon UK and Amazon Australia both shifted things on their end, and our success rates dipped as a result.
These kinds of regional differences are one of the trickier parts of scraping a global platform. Amazon doesn't roll out changes to every country at the exact same time or in the exact same way, so a fix that works perfectly for Amazon US might not automatically apply to Amazon UK or Amazon Australia. Each marketplace has to be checked and handled on its own.
Our team identified the specific changes on each site, updated our scraping logic to match the new page behavior, and tested the fix thoroughly before rolling it out across both marketplaces. Success rates for Amazon Australia and Amazon United Kingdom are now back to normal, and you should see the same consistent, reliable data extraction you're used to.
What this means for you:
if you scrape Amazon AU or Amazon UK, your requests should now be completing at the rate you'd expect. Again, no action is needed on your side, the fix is already live.
Quick Recap
Postal code requests: Success rates dipped due to a change on Amazon's side, and are now fully restored across all supported marketplaces.
Amazon Australia & UK: Success rates dipped due to changes on those specific target sites, and are now back to normal.
Action needed from you: None. Both fixes are already live.
