# AliExpress Search Scraper - Prices, Sales & Ratings (`alaathr/aliexpress-search-products`) Actor

Get AliExpress products for any keyword or search URL: price, original price and discount, units sold, rating, delivery estimate, badges and images, for the country and currency you choose. Pay only for products delivered.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaathr/aliexpress-search-products.md
- **Developed by:** [Alaa Tahir](https://apify.com/alaathr) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 products

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## AliExpress Search Scraper - Prices, Sales & Ratings

Get **AliExpress products for any keyword or search URL**: current price, price before discount and discount %, units sold, rating, delivery estimate, badges and images, for the delivery country and currency you choose.

Fast and reliable: no browser, about 60 products per request, automatic retries with fresh sessions, and **you only pay for products delivered**.

### Typical uses

- **Product research and dropshipping**: find what sells (sort by most orders) and at what price.
- **Price monitoring**: schedule the same searches daily and compare prices and discounts.
- **Market studies**: count products, price ranges and sales levels for a niche.

### How to use it

1. Enter **search queries** (one per line) or paste **AliExpress search or category URLs**.
2. Choose how many products you want per search, the **sort order** and an optional **price range**.
3. Set the **delivery country** and **currency** (default: US, USD).
4. Click **Start** and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Input example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["phone case", "led strip lights"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 200,
  "sortBy": "orders",
  "shipToCountry": "US",
  "currency": "USD"
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "search": "phone case",
  "page": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "productId": "3256808722668670",
  "title": "Luxury Magnetic Matte Translucent Armor Shockproof Case For iPhone 11 12 13 14 15 16 For Magsafe Wireless Charge Cover",
  "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256808722668670.html",
  "price": 0.33,
  "originalPrice": 5.93,
  "discountPercent": 94,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "soldText": "100K+ sold",
  "soldCount": 100000,
  "delivery": "Delivery: Oct 23 - 28",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/....jpg",
  "shipTo": "US"
}
```

### Good to know

- `soldCount` is a lower bound read from AliExpress labels such as "10,000+ sold".
- For US and Canada, AliExpress mixes **new-user deal cards** without a price into the results. They are skipped by default so that every product has a price; turn the option off to keep them.
- Prices and delivery estimates depend on the delivery country.

### Pricing

**$3.00 per 1,000 products** (pay per event). Pages that fail after every retry cost nothing. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options for a hard cap.

#### How much does it cost to scrape AliExpress?

| Run | Cost |
| --- | --- |
| One search, first page (60 products) | $0.18 |
| One search, 5 pages (300 products) | $0.90 |
| 1,000 products | $3.00 |

Apify's free plan includes $5 of usage every month: enough for about 1,600 products a month without paying anything.

### Use it from code or from an AI agent

Run it through the Apify API or the Python/JavaScript clients, or let an assistant call it as a tool through the Apify MCP server.

### More tools from this developer

| Tool | What it returns | Price |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Google Ads Transparency Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/google-ads-transparency-scraper) | Every Google ad of an advertiser or website: format, dates shown, image, texts and link | $1.00 / 1,000 ads |
| [Google Flights Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/google-flights-scraper) | Every flight of a route and date with price, times, stops, layovers and CO2, plus a lowest-price calendar | $2.50 / 1,000 searches |
| [Google Hotels Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/google-hotels-prices) | Hotel prices for your dates in any city, with stars, ratings, address and links | $3.00 / 1,000 hotels |
| [Google Trends Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/google-trends-reliable) | Interest over time, by region and related queries for your own keyword list | $2.50 / 1,000 search terms |
| [Google Trends Trending Now Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/google-trends-trending-now) | Every trending search of a country or US state, with volume, timing, category and news | $0.80 / 1,000 trends |
| [Walmart Scraper](https://apify.com/alaathr/walmart-scraper) | Walmart search results: price, was price, rating, seller, stock, delivery and badges | $1.50 / 1,000 products |

### FAQ

**How many products can I get per search?** AliExpress shows 60 products per page; the Actor pages through the results until your maximum is reached or the results end.

**Does it collect seller or buyer personal data?** No. It collects public product listings only.

**Is this an official AliExpress product?** No. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by AliExpress or Alibaba Group.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search on AliExpress, one per line.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional. AliExpress search or category pages to scrape as they are, with their filters.

## `maxItemsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Stop each search once this many unique products are collected (60 per page).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the results, as on the AliExpress search page.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional lower price limit, in the chosen currency.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional upper price limit, in the chosen currency.

## `shipToCountry` (type: `string`):

Delivery country used for prices and delivery estimates, for example US, GB, FR, DE, MA.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency of the prices, for example USD, EUR, GBP.

## `skipPromotionCards` (type: `boolean`):

For some countries (US, Canada) AliExpress mixes new-user promotions without a price into the results. Keep this on to get only regular products with prices.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many searches run at the same time.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many fresh sessions are tried before a page is given up (failed pages cost nothing).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxies used to reach AliExpress. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "phone case",
    "led strip lights"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 100,
  "sortBy": "best-match",
  "shipToCountry": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "skipPromotionCards": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRetries": 6,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "phone case",
        "led strip lights"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaathr/aliexpress-search-products").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "phone case",
        "led strip lights",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaathr/aliexpress-search-products").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "phone case",
    "led strip lights"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call alaathr/aliexpress-search-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alaathr/aliexpress-search-products"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Gf8Ptv61qsPoWVxee/builds/pgalZkny9saKcF2Ad/openapi.json