Built an Amazon Scraper API in 50 Lines of TypeScript (And You Can Too)

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Learn to build a simple Amazon scraper API in 50 lines of TypeScript using Bun.js and Elysia framework

intermediate Published 24 Apr 2026

Action Steps

Install Bun.js and Elysia framework using npm or yarn
Create a new TypeScript project and set up the Elysia server
Use the got library to send HTTP requests to the Amazon website and scrape product data
Parse the HTML response using a library like cheerio and extract relevant data
Create API endpoints to return the scraped data in JSON format
Test the API using a tool like curl or Postman

Who Needs to Know This

This tutorial is beneficial for backend developers and software engineers who want to learn web scraping and API development using TypeScript and Bun.js

Key Insight

💡 You can build a simple web scraper API using TypeScript and Bun.js without relying on stealth plugins or fingerprint hacks