SellerMagnet API for Amazon Price Tracking

Using SellerMagnet API to Track Amazon Product Price Volatility

By Emma Johnson | July 13, 2025

Understanding Amazon Product Price Volatility with SellerMagnet API

For Amazon businesses and market analysts, tracking product price volatility is crucial for making informed decisions about competitive pricing, inventory management, and overall market strategy. Price fluctuations can be driven by a variety of factors, including supply and demand, competitor actions, and seasonal trends. This blog post will guide you on how to leverage the SellerMagnet API to effectively monitor and analyze these price changes.

Why Track Price Volatility?

Competitive Analysis: Understand how your pricing compares to competitors and identify opportunities to gain a competitive edge.
Inventory Management: Optimize your inventory levels based on price trends and demand forecasts.
Market Research: Gain insights into market dynamics and identify emerging trends.
Profit Maximization: Adjust pricing strategies to maximize profitability while remaining competitive.

Leveraging SellerMagnet API for Price Tracking

The SellerMagnet API offers a comprehensive suite of tools for monitoring Amazon product data, including price fluctuations. Let’s explore how to use the Amazon Product Statistics endpoint to track price volatility effectively.

Amazon Product Statistics Endpoint

The /amazon-product-statistics endpoint provides detailed statistics for an Amazon product, including historical price data. This data can be used to analyze price trends and identify periods of high volatility.

Endpoint: /amazon-product-statistics

Method: GET

Parameters:

asin (required): The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) of the product.
marketplaceId (required): The Marketplace ID (e.g., "A1PA6795UKMFR9" for Amazon.de).
api_key (required): Your SellerMagnet API key.
graphs (optional): Set to true to generate visually graphs for history data.

Example Request:


curl --location --request GET 'https://sellermagnet-api.com/amazon-product-statistics?asin=B08N5WRWNW&marketplaceId=A1PA6795UKMFR9&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&graphs=true'

Example Response:


{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "asin": "B0CLTBHXWQ",
    "productTitle": "Playstation 5 Console Edizione Digital Slim",
    "buyBoxPrice": 41800,
    "buyBoxFulfillment": "FBM",
    "buyBoxSellerIdHistory": [
      [
        "2025-06-14 17:08:00",
        "A2I59UVTUWUFH0"
      ]
    ],
    "categoryTree": [
      {
        "catId": 412603031,
        "name": "Videogiochi"
      },
      {
        "catId": 20904349031,
        "name": "PlayStation 5"
      },
      {
        "catId": 20904364031,
        "name": "Console"
      }
    ],
    "graphs": {
      "amazonAsSellerPriceHistory": "https://sellermagnet-api-webspace.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon/api/charts/B0CLTBHXWQ/1749913774/B0CLTBHXWQ_amazon_price_1749913773.png",
      "lowestFBAPriceHistory": "https://sellermagnet-api-webspace.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon/api/charts/B0CLTBHXWQ/1749913776/B0CLTBHXWQ_fba_price_1749913773.png",
      "lowestFBMPriceHistory": "https://sellermagnet-api-webspace.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon/api/charts/B0CLTBHXWQ/1749913775/B0CLTBHXWQ_fbm_price_1749913773.png",
      "monthlySoldHistory": "https://sellermagnet-api-webspace.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon/api/charts/B0CLTBHXWQ/1749913778/B0CLTBHXWQ_monthly_sold_1749913773.png",
      "productRatingHistory": "https://sellermagnet-api-webspace.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/amazon/api/charts/B0CLTBHXWQ/1749913777/B0CLTBHXWQ_rating_1749913773.png"
    },
    "listedSince": "2023-12-30 01:00:00",
    "lowestFBAPrice": 44999,
    "lowestFBMPrice": 41700,
    "marketplaceId": "APJ6JRA9NG5V4",
    "marketplaceNewPriceHistory": [
      [
        "2025-06-14",
        41700
      ]
    ],
    "offers": {
      "A11IL2PNWYJU7H": {
        "isFBA": true,
        "lastUpdated": "2025-06-14 17:08:00",
        "priceHistory": [
          [
            "2025-06-14 06:22:00",
            44999,
            0
          ]
        ],
        "stockHistory": [
          [
            "2025-05-29 11:32:00",
            1
          ]
        ]
      },
      "A12FLY25DT7QO0": {
        "isFBA": false,
        "lastUpdated": "2025-06-14 17:08:00",
        "priceHistory": [
          [
            "2025-06-09 15:32:00",
            41800,
            0
          ]
        ],
        "stockHistory": [
          [
            "2025-06-14 13:34:00",
            49
          ]
        ]
      },
      "A18KSDUE00UP6J": {
        "isFBA": false,
        "lastUpdated": "2025-06-14 17:08:00",
        "priceHistory": [
          [
            "2025-05-29 11:32:00",
            42890,
            0
          ]
        ],
        "stockHistory": [
          [
            "2025-05-30 18:30:00",
            3
          ]
        ]
      }
    },
    "productReviewAverage": 4.7,
    "productTotalReviews": 3129,
    "rootCategory": {
      "id": 412603031,
      "name": "Videogiochi"
    },
    "stats": {
      "amazonAsSellerPriceHistory": [
        [
          "2025-06-14",
          44999
        ]
      ],
      "buyBoxPriceHistory": [
        [
          "2025-06-13",
          41700
        ]
      ],
      "monthlySoldHistory": [
        [
          "2025-06",
          1000
        ]
      ],
      "productRatingCountHistory": [
        [
          "2025-06-14 15:28:00",
          3129
        ]
      ],
      "productRatingHistory": [
        [
          "2025-02-02 01:30:00",
          4.7
        ]
      ],
      "salesRankHistory": [
        [
          "2025-06-14 01:58:00",
          15
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
}

The data object contains valuable information, including:

amazonPrice: The current price of the product on Amazon.
buyBoxPrice: The current price in the Buy Box.
salesRankHistory: A chronological list of sales rank changes.
buyBoxSellerIdHistory: A chronological list of Buy Box seller changes.

Practical Use Cases

1. Monitoring Price Changes Over Time

By repeatedly calling the /amazon-product-statistics endpoint, you can collect historical price data for a specific product. This data can then be used to create a time series chart, visualizing price fluctuations over time.

2. Identifying Price Spikes and Drops

Analyzing the historical price data allows you to identify significant price spikes and drops. These events can be correlated with external factors such as competitor promotions, seasonal events, or supply chain disruptions.

3. Calculating Price Volatility Metrics

Using the historical price data, you can calculate various volatility metrics, such as standard deviation or average absolute deviation. These metrics provide a quantitative measure of price volatility for a given product.

Enhancing Your Analysis

Combine with Other Endpoints: Use the Amazon Product Offers endpoint to get a snapshot of current offers and compare them with historical data.
Seller Review Analysis: The Amazon Seller Review endpoint help track seller's performance over time.
Automate Data Collection: Utilize DataPipeline features to schedule regular API calls and automate data collection.
Visualizations: Use the graphs=true parameter and Amazon Product Statistics endpoint to generate charts over time.

Additional SellerMagnet API Endpoints

Explore other SellerMagnet API endpoints to enhance your analysis:

Amazon Product Lookup: Retrieve detailed product information for a given ASIN.
Search Amazon: Search Amazon products by keyword.
Amazon Bestsellers: Fetch top-selling products in a specific category.
Amazon Product Estimate Sales: Provides estimated sales data for an Amazon product by ASIN

Getting Started

Ready to start tracking Amazon product price volatility? Visit SellerMagnet API to Try Free and explore our Pricing options. Don't forget to check out the Documentation and Code Examples for more information.

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