Agent skill

Etsy Category Listing

by browser-act in browser-act/skills

Etsy category page scraper: given an Etsy category URL (e.g.

MITAuto-check passedSales & Support

Install Etsy Category Listing

skills CLI
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill etsy-category-listing -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install browser-act/skills etsy-category-listing --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/solutions/ecommerce/etsy-category-listing .claude/skills/etsy-category-listing && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
etsy-category-listing
GitHub stars
6.1k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
732 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
87
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Etsy category page scraper: given an Etsy category URL (e.g.

  • Works in 2 steps: Tool Readiness → Anti-bot Warm-up
  • User mentions Etsy category
  • SKILL.md covers Language, Objective, Prerequisites and Pre-execution Checks, plus 6 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python; reaches etsy.com and i.etsystatic.com

What it does

Etsy Category Listing is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. Etsy category page scraper: given an Etsy category URL (e.g. https://www.etsy.com/c/jewelry) and optional page number, returns paginated product listings with listingId, shopId, title, url, image, salePrice, originalPrice, currency, rating, reviewCount, shopName, isAd, freeShipping, badge from category and subcategory pages. Use when user mentions Etsy category, Etsy c/ URL, etsy.com category, browse Etsy categories, scrape Etsy category, Etsy category listing, extract Etsy category products, Etsy subcategory…

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/extract-listings.py`).

It sits in Sales & Support, covering Web scraping and E-commerce operations. It works with Python. The repository describes itself as: Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User mentions Etsy category
  • Etsy.com category
  • Browse Etsy categories
  • Scrape Etsy category

Example prompts

  • “/etsy-category-listing”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Tool Readiness
  2. Anti-bot Warm-up

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11c057b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • etsy.com
    • i.etsystatic.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Etsy Category Listing loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 255 tokens; SKILL.md has 732 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~255
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from browser-act/skills at commit 11c057b, republished under its MIT licence (© browser-act). 732 words, ~2,038 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/etsy-category-listing/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
etsy-category-listing
description
Etsy category page scraper: given an Etsy category URL (e.g. https://www.etsy.com/c/jewelry) and optional page number, returns paginated product listings with listingId, shopId, title, url, image, salePrice, originalPrice, currency, rating, reviewCount, shopName, isAd, freeShipping, badge from category and subcategory pages. Use when user mentions Etsy category, Etsy c/ URL, etsy.com category, browse Etsy categories, scrape Etsy category, Etsy category listing, extract Etsy category products, Etsy subcategory, Etsy jewelry, Etsy clothing, Etsy home decor, Etsy wedding, Etsy accessories, Etsy craft supplies, Etsy vintage category, Etsy category page scraper, Etsy taxonomy, get all products from an Etsy category, bulk category export from Etsy, Etsy niche scraping. Also applies to trend research within a specific Etsy category, competitor benchmarking within a category, sourcing suppliers by category, seasonal product monitoring, and paginated bulk collection driven by a category URL.

Etsy — Category Listing

Input an Etsy category URL (and optional page number) → output paginated product listings from that category page.

Language

All process output to user (progress updates, process notifications) follows the user's language.

Objective

Collect product listings from Etsy public category (/c/...) pages, one page at a time, with core fields per item.

Prerequisites

  • Target page is already open in the browser: https://www.etsy.com/c/{category-path} (or navigate to it during execution)
  • No login required — category pages are public
  • Browser session must survive anti-bot verification (DataDome). Best practice: navigate to https://www.etsy.com/ first, then to the category URL, within an established stealth browser session

Pre-execution Checks

1. Tool Readiness

If browser-act has been confirmed available in the current session → skip this step.

Invoke browser-act via Skill tool to load usage. If installation or configuration issues arise, follow its guidance to resolve then retry.

2. Anti-bot Warm-up

If a fresh browser session was just created, before hitting a /c/ URL directly:

  1. navigate https://www.etsy.com/ → wait stable
  2. Then navigate {category URL} → wait stable

If the extraction script returns {"error": true, "message": "blocked by anti-bot verification page"}, switch to a stealth browser with a different fingerprint / proxy, retry the warm-up, then re-run extraction.

Capability Components

This Skill's operational boundary = what the user can manually do in their browser. It only reads data already displayed to the user on the page, never bypassing authentication or access controls. Its role is equivalent to copy-pasting on the user's behalf — the data is already on screen, automation merely saves time. JS code is encapsulated in Python files under the scripts/ directory, invoked via eval "$(python scripts/xxx.py {params})". $(...) is bash syntax; it is recommended to use the bash tool for execution.

DOM: extract product listings from category page

Prerequisite: current page is an Etsy category page (https://www.etsy.com/c/{category-path}) after wait stable.

Extract: eval "$(python scripts/extract-listings.py)"

Output example:

json
{
  "error": false,
  "url": "https://www.etsy.com/c/jewelry?ref=catnav-10855&page=2",  // page URL
  "currentPage": 2,                        // current page number parsed from URL, defaults 1
  "count": 64,                             // number of unique listings on the page
  "nextPageUrl": "https://www.etsy.com/c/jewelry?ref=pagination&page=3",  // URL of next page, null on last page
  "listings": [
    {
      "listingId": "1791916774",           // Etsy listing id
      "shopId": "18293002",                // Etsy shop id
      "title": "Handmade Silver Ring…",    // product title
      "url": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/1791916774/…",  // canonical listing URL, tracking params stripped
      "image": "https://i.etsystatic.com/…/il_794xN.….jpg",  // primary product image
      "salePrice": "$45.00",               // current display price
      "originalPrice": null,               // original / crossed-out price, null when no discount
      "currency": "$",                     // currency symbol as shown to user
      "rating": 4.9,                       // average star rating, null when card shows none
      "reviewCount": "1.2k",               // review count as displayed
      "shopName": "SilverCraftShop",       // shop / seller display name
      "isAd": false,                       // true when card is an advertised placement
      "freeShipping": true,                // true when "Free shipping" badge shown
      "badge": "Etsy's Pick",              // ranked badge text or null
      "positionIndex": 0                   // 0-based position within the page
    }
  ]
}

Error handling:

  • {"error": true, "message": "blocked by anti-bot verification page"} — DataDome interstitial; retry warm-up in a stealth browser
  • {"error": true, "message": "no listing cards found on page"} — either category has no products or page not fully loaded; verify category URL and pagination

Pagination

URL Pagination: URL pattern {category-URL}&page={N} (append &page={N} to the base category URL) where {N} starts at 1. Termination: navigate to {N+1}; if count === 0 or previous nextPageUrl was null, stop. Etsy typically caps navigable pages per category at ~250.

Success Criteria

result.error === false && result.count >= 1 && result.listings.every(l => l.listingId && l.title && l.url)

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Known Limitations

  • DataDome anti-bot: cold cross-page navigation into /c/ may show a CAPTCHA interstitial. Mitigate by navigating to / first within the same stealth session, or rotating proxy / browser fingerprint on repeated blocks
  • reviewCount returned as displayed text (7.9k, 17.6k) rather than an exact integer
  • Sponsored (ad) placements marked with isAd: true; position is paid
  • Etsy Offsite Ads anonymize the seller in the card text ("Ad from Etsy seller"); for such cards shopName returns null even though isAd: true. Navigate to the listing URL and run the product-detail capability to resolve the true shop if needed
  • Etsy category personalization: results may vary by proxy region and account login state
  • Applying category filters (price range, ship-to, colors, etc.) requires appending Etsy's URL params (e.g. min=10&max=50) to the base category URL before navigation; the extraction script works on whatever page state is present but does not inject filters itself

Execution Efficiency

  • Batch orchestration: Loop through pages serially within a single session; do not parallelize within one browser. Insert 3-8 second sleeps between page navigations. To increase throughput, open multiple stealth browser sessions and distribute categories across them
  • Test before batch execution: Verify the script on 1-2 pages of one category first
  • Reduce redundant pre-operations: Warm-up once per session, then loop pages within the same session
  • Error resumption: Save each page's results to a file as soon as extraction succeeds; resume from the missing page on failure

Experience Notes

Path: {working-directory}/browser-act-skill-forge-memories/etsy-scraper-etsy-category-listing.memory.md (working directory is determined by the Agent running the Skill, typically the project root or current working directory)

Before execution: If the file exists, read it first — it records unexpected situations encountered during past executions (e.g., a strategy has become ineffective); adjust strategy order accordingly.

After execution: If an unexpected situation is encountered (strategy became ineffective, page redesigned, anti-scraping upgraded, better path discovered), append a line: {YYYY-MM-DD}: {what happened} → {conclusion}

Normal execution does not write to the file. Do not record what categories were used or how many results were returned — those are task outputs, not experience.

© browser-act, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in solutions/ecommerce/etsy-category-listing of browser-act/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/extract-listings.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11c057b

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Questions about Etsy Category Listing

What does Etsy Category Listing do?

Etsy category page scraper: given an Etsy category URL (e.g. Etsy Category Listing is an agent skill from browser-act/skills.g.

When should I use Etsy Category Listing?

Etsy Category Listing fits situations like: user mentions Etsy category; etsy.com category; browse Etsy categories; scrape Etsy category.

How do I install Etsy Category Listing in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill etsy-category-listing -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/ecommerce/etsy-category-listing in browser-act/skills) into .claude/skills/etsy-category-listing in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Etsy Category Listing in Codex?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill etsy-category-listing -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/ecommerce/etsy-category-listing in browser-act/skills) into .agents/skills/etsy-category-listing in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Etsy Category Listing in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill etsy-category-listing -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/etsy-category-listing, .gemini/skills/etsy-category-listing, .github/skills/etsy-category-listing and .opencode/skills/etsy-category-listing in your project.

What does Etsy Category Listing need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Etsy Category Listing needs Python for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (python). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Etsy Category Listing access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. In commands or code: etsy.com and i.etsystatic.com; the agent is likely to contact these when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Etsy Category Listing safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Etsy Category Listing use?

Etsy Category Listing is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Etsy Category Listing use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Etsy Category Listing?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Etsy Category Listing: Product Reel Generator (gooseworks-ai/goose-skills, 1.2k stars), Extract (actionbook/actionbook, 1.6k stars), Apify Ecommerce (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Etsy Shop Sales History (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Etsy Category Listing?

browser-act (a GitHub organization) maintains it in browser-act/skills, which has 6,126 GitHub stars. The repository holds 87 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: browser-act/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.