Etsy Keyword Search

Etsy — Keyword Search

Input a search keyword (and optional page number) → output paginated product listings from Etsy search results.

Language

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

Objective

Collect product listings from Etsy's public keyword search results, one page at a time, with core fields per item.

Prerequisites

• Target page is already open in the browser: https://www.etsy.com/search?q={keyword} (or navigate to it during execution)
• No login required — search results are public
• Browser session must survive anti-bot verification (DataDome). Best practice: navigate to https://www.etsy.com/ first, then to the search 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 the search URL directly:

1. navigate https://www.etsy.com/ → wait stable
2. Then navigate https://www.etsy.com/search?q={keyword} → wait stable

Reason: hitting /search cold triggers DataDome CAPTCHA more often than hitting / first and following the same-origin flow.

If the extraction script returns {"error": true, "message": "blocked by anti-bot verification page"}, treat this as a hard block: stop execution and inform the user that the page is blocked by anti-bot verification and cannot proceed automatically.

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.

Below are all atomic capabilities discovered and verified during the exploration phase, listed by command template with parameters. Simply invoke them as needed — no need to read scripts/*.py source code or re-verify. Only inspect scripts when execution fails for troubleshooting. Combine freely as needed during execution.

DOM: extract product listings from search results page

Prerequisite: the current page must be an Etsy search results page (https://www.etsy.com/search?q={keyword}&page={page}), already wait stable.

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

Output example:

{
  "error": false,
  "url": "https://www.etsy.com/search?q=leather+wallet",  // page URL
  "currentPage": 1,                        // current page number parsed from URL, defaults 1
  "count": 57,                             // number of unique listings extracted
  "nextPageUrl": "https://www.etsy.com/search?q=leather+wallet&ref=pagination&page=2",  // URL of next page, null on last page
  "listings": [
    {
      "listingId": "547491922",            // Etsy listing id
      "shopId": "15980284",                // Etsy shop id
      "title": "Leather Wallet…",          // product title
      "url": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/547491922/leather-walletwalletman-leather",  // canonical listing URL, tracking params stripped
      "image": "https://i.etsystatic.com/…/il_794xN.….jpg",  // primary product image
      "salePrice": "$32.20",               // current display price (raw text with currency symbol)
      "originalPrice": "$80.50",           // original / crossed-out price, null when no discount
      "currency": "$",                     // currency symbol as shown to user
      "rating": 4.8,                       // average star rating, null when card shows none
      "reviewCount": "7.9k",               // review count as displayed (may include k/M suffix)
      "shopName": "TexasValleyLeather",    // shop / seller display name
      "isAd": true,                        // true when card is an advertised placement
      "freeShipping": false,               // true when "Free shipping" badge shown
      "badge": "Bestseller",               // ranked badge text (Bestseller / Etsy's Pick / Popular now / 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 the search returned no matches or page not fully loaded; check page state and pagination

Pagination

URL Pagination: URL pattern https://www.etsy.com/search?q={keyword}&page={N} where {N} starts at 1. Termination: navigate to {N+1}; if count === 0 or the previous page's nextPageUrl was null, stop. Practical cap: Etsy search rarely exceeds page 250 for a single query.

Success Criteria

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