Alibaba Supplier & Manufacturer Scraper

Give this actor a list of Alibaba supplier storefronts — or just links to products you are interested in — and it returns one complete company record per supplier: who the company legally is, what it is certified to do, how it trades, and the entry from its public business licence. It is built for sourcing teams, importers, trading agents and compliance staff who need to know exactly who is on the other side of an order before they place one.

The part nothing else gives you is the business registry block: the legal company name, the registration number, the registered capital, the legal form, the authority that issued the licence, the issue and expiry dates and the registered address — exactly as the supplier published them.

No account and no login are needed. Just add your suppliers and run it.

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What you can do with it

• Vet a supplier before you order. Confirm the trading name on the storefront matches the legal entity on the business licence, and check the registered capital, the legal form and the registration address.
• Build a qualified manufacturer shortlist. Pull a dozen candidate factories per run into one table with business type, year established, staff numbers, factory size, certifications, export markets and on-time dispatch rate side by side, and add the next dozen in the next run.
• Enrich a list of product links. Paste product links from a sourcing spreadsheet and get back the company behind each one, resolved automatically.
• Screen for compliance and KYC. Export legal entity names and registration numbers straight into a supplier onboarding or sanctions-screening workflow.
• Re-check an approved supplier list. Run the same list monthly and see a changed registration, an expiring licence, a lost certification or a shifted capability profile.
• Separate real factories from resellers. The record states whether the business type was independently checked, who audited the company, and whether it passed an on-site inspection.

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What you get

One row per supplier. Abridged real example:

{
  "supplierName": "Shandong Jianha Baofa Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd.",
  "supplierId": 273706047,
  "subdomain": "jianha",
  "minisiteUrl": "https://jianha.en.alibaba.com/",
  "country": "CN",
  "province": "Shandong",
  "location": "Shandong, China",
  "operationalAddress": "1299-6 Tengfei East Road, Shannan Street, Economic Development Zone, Zaozhuang, Shandong, China",
  "businessType": "Manufacturer, Trading Company",
  "businessTypeVerified": true,
  "yearEstablished": 2022,
  "yearsOnPlatform": "5",
  "employeesBand": "11 - 50 People",
  "verifiedEmployeeCount": 39,
  "factorySize": "3,000-5,000 square meters",
  "annualOutputValue": "US$10 Million - US$50 Million annual output value",
  "annualRevenue": "Confidential",
  "mainProducts": ["Hydraulic Press Machine", "Swivel Axis Press Machine", "Die Casting Machine"],
  "mainMarkets": [
    { "market": "Eastern Europe", "revenueSharePercent": 30 },
    { "market": "North America", "revenueSharePercent": 10 }
  ],
  "mainMarketsTop3": ["Eastern Europe", "North America", "South America"],
  "deliveryTerms": ["FOB", "CIF"],
  "paymentMethods": ["T/T", "L/C"],
  "paymentCurrency": "USD",
  "contractManufacturing": ["OEM Service Offered", "Design Service Offered"],
  "productionServices": ["Drawing-based customization", "Full customization"],
  "qualityAssurance": ["Finished product inspection", "Quality traceability"],
  "certifications": ["ISO9001"],
  "productCertifications": ["CE"],
  "responseTime": "≤2h",
  "reorderRate": 40,
  "onTimeDeliveryRate": 100,
  "storeRating": null,
  "storeRatingMax": 5,
  "storeReviewedOrderCount": 0,
  "goldSupplier": true,
  "onsiteCheckPassed": true,
  "supplierAssessmentPassed": true,
  "tradeAssuranceEnabled": true,
  "auditedBy": "SGS Group",
  "verifiedIdentity": "Custom Manufacturer",
  "capabilityTags": [
    { "tag": "On-site technical support", "description": "Suppliers who provide expatriate engineer services, as assessed by independent third parties." }
  ],
  "categoryRank": {
    "statement": "#6 most popular in Hydraulic Presses",
    "position": 6,
    "category": "Hydraulic Presses"
  },
  "hasVerifiedCredentials": true,
  "businessRegistry": {
    "legalCompanyName": "Shandong Jianha Baofa Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd.",
    "registrationNumber": "91370481MA7KDQWF66",
    "registeredCapital": "RMB 5,000,000",
    "legalForm": "Limited Liability Company(Invested Or Controlled By Natural Person)",
    "issuingAuthority": "Tengzhou City Administration for Market Regulation",
    "countryTerritory": "China",
    "yearEstablished": "2022",
    "dateOfIssue": "2022-03-09",
    "expiryDate": null,
    "expiryAsPublished": "长期",
    "registrationIsIndefinite": true,
    "registeredAddress": "1299-6 Tengfei East Road, Shannan Street, Economic Development Zone Zaozhuang Shandong China",
    "taxRegistrationNumber": null
  },
  "readCountry": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-09T18:44:12.000Z"
}

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Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
supplierUrls	list of text	(required)	One entry per supplier. A storefront address (jianha.en.alibaba.com), a full storefront link, or a product link (https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/…) which is resolved to the company that sells it.
country	select	us	Which country's version of the site to read. Company records are published the same way everywhere, so this rarely changes what comes back.
includeTradeProfile	boolean	true	On: also return business type, year established, staff numbers, main products, export markets with revenue share, revenue band, factory size, certifications, delivery and payment terms, response and reorder rates. Off: return only the company identity and its business registry entry, which is quicker and lets one run cover more suppliers.
includeLegalRepresentative	boolean	false	Adds the legal representative named on the business licence, and the licence scan. This is personal data about a named individual — see Limits below.
maxSuppliers	integer	10 (max 12)	How many suppliers to look up in this run.

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Output fields

Field	Meaning
supplierName, supplierId, subdomain, minisiteUrl	Company identity and where its storefront lives.
inputTarget, inputType	The entry you supplied and whether it was a storefront or a product link.
country, province, location, operationalAddress	Where the company operates.
businessType, businessTypeVerified	Manufacturer, trading company, or both — and whether that was independently checked.
yearEstablished, yearsOnPlatform	Company age and how long it has traded on the marketplace.
employeesBand, verifiedEmployeeCount	Self-declared staff band, plus the headcount an auditor counted.
factorySize, annualOutputValue, annualRevenue, tradeShows	Production scale as published.
mainProducts	What the company sells.
mainMarkets, mainMarketsTop3	Export markets, with each market's share of revenue where the company discloses it.
deliveryTerms, paymentMethods, paymentCurrency	Incoterms, accepted payment types and settlement currency.
contractManufacturing, productionServices, qualityAssurance	OEM/ODM options, customisation depth and inspection practices.
certifications, productCertifications	Management-system certificates and product certificates.
responseRate, responseTime, reorderRate, onTimeDeliveryRate, quotationPerformance	The company's service record.
storeRating, storeRatingMax, storeReviewedOrderCount	The rating of the whole storefront, not of any single product.
goldSupplier, paidMember, onsiteCheckPassed, supplierAssessmentPassed, avCheckPassed, tradeAssuranceEnabled, auditedBy, verifiedIdentity	Verification tier and who carried out the audit.
capabilityTags	Audited capability statements, each with the definition the auditor used.
categoryRank	Ranking position inside a named category, when the company holds one.
description, advantageDescription	The company's own profile text.
hasVerifiedCredentials	True when a business licence entry with a registration number was published.
businessRegistry	Legal company name, registration number, registered capital, legal form, issuing authority, country, year established, issue date, expiry date (plus the expiry exactly as published and a flag for licences with no end date), registered address and tax registration number.
productPageProfile	Extra company facts carried on a product page, present only when you supplied a product link: dispatch guarantees, trade-assurance cover, the audited "verified information" statements with who verified each one, and — where the company publishes them — its six-month order value and order count. The order value is given as the exact figure in US dollars, alongside the rounded band the site displays.
readCountry, sectionsRead, scrapedAt	Which country the record was read as, which parts of the company profile contributed, and when.

A field the company has not disclosed comes back empty. It is never filled with a zero, a dash or a blank string — an undisclosed reorder rate and a reorder rate of zero are very different facts about a supplier.

Every run also writes a summary record with the suppliers collected, the ones that turned out to have no public company profile, the ones that could not be read, and the ones that were never reached.

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Pricing

Pay per event.

Event	Charged when
Supplier record	Once for every company record added to your results.
Verified credentials	Once more when that record includes the company's business licence entry.

A supplier who publishes no business licence entry still gives you the full company record and is charged only the first event.

Worked example. Ten suppliers, nine of which publish a licence entry: ten supplier records plus nine credential events. At the listed prices that is under nine cents for the whole run.

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Limits & what this actor cannot do

• There are no e-mail addresses and no phone numbers. Alibaba does not publish supplier e-mail addresses or telephone numbers on the public company pages at all, so this actor never returns them and never guesses them. What it sells is verified company credentials, not a contact list. To reach a supplier, use the storefront link in every record.
• Written company reviews are not available. Where a storefront rating and a reviewed-order count are published they are returned, but the review text behind them is not published to visitors and is not returned. Ratings are the storefront's, never a single product's.
• A run covers up to 12 suppliers. The site serves company profiles slowly and limits how many one visitor may read in a row. For longer lists, split them across several runs or schedule them.
• If the site stops serving profiles part-way through a run, the run stops cleanly, tells you which suppliers were never reached, and asks you to try those again in about half an hour. It never reports an unfinished run as a complete one.
• Not every supplier publishes a business licence entry. Those records come back with hasVerifiedCredentials set to false and no businessRegistry block at all, which is reported as "not published" rather than as a failure — and is charged as an ordinary record, not as a credentialed one.
• A supplier's six-month trading figures are published by some companies and not others. Where they exist they are returned with the exact value in US dollars next to the rounded band the site shows. Where the company does not publish them the fields come back empty, never as zero.
• A storefront that arrives in an unfamiliar form is reported as a failure, not as a company with no public profile. The two are kept apart on purpose: a live company must never be filed as absent.
• Registry values are returned exactly as published. Registered capital arrives as its published string (for example RMB 5,000,000), and a licence with no end date arrives with the site's own wording preserved alongside a flag, instead of being forced into a date that would be wrong.
• The legal representative is a named individual. The name printed on a company's business licence, and the licence scan that shows it, are withheld unless you switch them on. If you do switch them on, you are responsible for handling that personal data in line with the privacy law that applies to you. Nothing else identifying a private person is ever returned — named sales staff, account handles and profile photos published on supplier pages are deliberately left out.
• Everything is a snapshot. Ratings, delivery rates, certifications and rankings keep changing after collection.
• Suppliers that have removed their storefront are reported as unavailable, which is kept separate from suppliers the run could not read.
• Speed depends on the size of the job and on how quickly the source site answers. No fixed throughput is promised.
• The source site's terms govern automated access. You are responsible for using the data lawfully and in line with those terms.

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FAQ

Do I need an account on the source site? No. Nothing here needs an account of any kind.

Does it need my login or password? No. There is nothing to sign in to and nothing to configure.

Can I give it product links instead of supplier storefronts? Yes. A product link is resolved to the company that sells it, and that company's record comes back with the extra facts the product page carries — the audited capability statements, trade-assurance cover, and the six-month order value and order count where that company publishes them.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Schedule it on Apify like any other actor, for example to re-check an approved supplier list every month and spot a changed registration or an expired licence.

Is the data complete? It is complete for what Alibaba publishes about a company. Every field a supplier discloses publicly is returned; every field they withhold comes back empty rather than invented. E-mail addresses, phone numbers and review text are not published on these pages by anyone, so no tool can return them.

Why is the registered capital text rather than a number? Because it is published with its own currency wording, and reducing it to a bare number would either drop the currency or force a conversion the source never made. You get the published value verbatim.