AliExpress Category Scraper

Pull an entire AliExpress category at once. Pick one of the 24 top-level categories — or all of them — and get back every product the category publishes, each with its selling price, list price and discount, star rating, lifetime order count, launch date, AliExpress Choice badge, promotional badges, delivery window and a direct link. The same run can also return the structure underneath each category: the subcategories AliExpress groups products into, the numeric category identifiers it uses for them, and the brands it associates with the category. Built for product researchers, dropshippers and category managers who need a whole shelf rather than the first two screens of a keyword search.

What you can do with it

• Build a category catalogue. Sweep all 24 top-level categories in one run and get roughly 24,000 products in a single table, ready for a spreadsheet or a database. (The defaults keep a run small; raise the per-category and total limits to collect everything.)
• Find winners inside a niche. Order a category by lifetime orders, by rating, or by price, and keep only the products above the thresholds you set.
• Spot new arrivals. Every product carries the date it was first listed, so "everything added to Pet Supplies since March" is one setting.
• Track discount depth. Selling price, list price and the discount percentage come back side by side, so you can see which shelves are being cleared.
• Compare markets. Run the same category for the United States and for Germany and see two genuinely different assortments, each priced in that country's own currency.
• Map the category tree. Export the subcategories and brands beneath each category, with the numeric identifiers AliExpress uses for them — the cleanest way to seed a taxonomy of your own.

What you get

A product row (abridged — a direct product link and a few more columns come with it):

{
  "recordType": "product",
  "categoryId": "automotive",
  "categoryName": "Automotive",
  "productId": "1005010109964659",
  "globalProductId": "1005010109964659",
  "variantId": "3256809923649907",
  "skuId": "12000051179970093",
  "title": "Cute Cat 3-Piece Car Accessory Set for Women Breathable Mesh Steering Wheel Cover Handbrake Cover Gearshift Cover Rimless",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sd6e169e0e1e34da1b4a9c108977204cdI.jpg",
  "price": 0.99,
  "priceFormatted": "US $0.99",
  "listPrice": 12.65,
  "listPriceFormatted": "US $12.65",
  "discountPercent": 92,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 5,
  "ordersCount": 61,
  "ordersText": "61 sold",
  "isChoice": true,
  "hasFreeShipping": true,
  "promotionBadges": ["Extra 1% off with coins", "Free shipping"],
  "launchDate": "2025-10-08",
  "deliveryDaysMin": 6,
  "deliveryDaysMax": 11,
  "deliveryEarliest": "2026-08-15",
  "deliveryLatest": "2026-08-20",
  "feedPosition": 1,
  "shopFromCountry": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-10T09:14:02.117Z"
}

A subcategory row, when category structure is switched on (a ready-made listing link comes with it too):

{
  "recordType": "subcategory",
  "categoryId": "automotive",
  "categoryName": "Automotive",
  "subcategoryKey": "automotive#car_electronics#smart_driving_systems",
  "subcategoryName": "Smart Driving Systems",
  "searchTerm": "smart car systems",
  "siteCategoryIds": ["200161143", "201673901", "201997201", "202175206"],
  "frontCategoryId": "12135",
  "iconUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Se2cc961e10ef4b218f6cd1b2f9feef96q.png"
}

And a brand row:

{
  "recordType": "brand",
  "categoryId": "automotive",
  "brandKey": "automotive#Brand#SucceBuy",
  "brandName": "SucceBuy",
  "relevanceScore": 0.306928,
  "globalRelevanceScore": 0.258318,
  "siteCategoryIds": ["34"],
  "iconUrl": "https://img.alicdn.com/bao/uploaded/O1CN01-!!-2457c58df8a694ed8f581eadb5c6d7f80bc13eeb71fa6c166d952bfdd681fc85"
}

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
categories	array of text	["pet_supplies", "electronics"]	Which top-level categories to collect. Type the name as it appears on the site (Pet Supplies), the short id (pet_supplies) or the numeric id (11072). Use all for every one of the 24.
country	select	us	Which country's version of AliExpress to read. Sets the currency and the assortment.
resultType	select	products	Products, Category structure (subcategories & brands), or Both.
sortBy	select	feed_order	How to order the products the category published: as presented, most orders, newest launch, lowest price, highest price, or best rated.
maxProductsPerCategory	integer	200	How many products to keep from each category. Maximum 998.
maxProducts	integer	2000	A ceiling across the whole run. Maximum 25,000.
minOrders	integer	empty	Keep only products with at least this many lifetime orders.
minRating	number	empty	Keep only products rated at least this highly out of 5, decimals accepted (4.5). Unrated products are excluded, never counted as zero.
minPrice	number	empty	Lowest price to keep, decimals accepted (0.99), in the currency of the country you chose.
maxPrice	number	empty	Highest price to keep, decimals accepted, in the currency of the country you chose.
choiceOnly	boolean	false	Keep only products carrying the AliExpress Choice badge.
freeShippingOnly	boolean	false	Keep only products advertising free shipping on their listing.
launchedAfter	text	empty	YYYY-MM-DD. Keep only products first listed on or after this date.
categoriesAtOnce	integer	2	How many categories to work through at the same time, 1 to 4. Higher finishes a big job sooner.

Output fields

Product rows (recordType: "product")

Field	Description
categoryId, categoryName	The category this product was collected from.
productId	The product identifier as the chosen country sees it.
globalProductId	The product's stable worldwide identifier. Use this to match the same product across two countries.
variantId, skuId	The specific listed variant the price belongs to.
title	Full product title.
url	Direct link to the product.
imageUrl	Main product image.
price, priceFormatted	Current selling price as a number and as the site displays it.
listPrice, listPriceFormatted	The struck-through price shown beside it, when there is one.
discountPercent	Discount off the list price.
currency	Currency code of both prices, read from the listing itself.
rating	Star rating out of 5, or null when the product has none yet.
ordersCount, ordersText	Exact lifetime order count as a number and as the site words it.
isChoice	Whether the product carries the AliExpress Choice badge.
hasFreeShipping	Whether free shipping is advertised on the listing.
promotionBadges	The promotional labels shown on the listing, as text.
launchDate	The date the product was first listed.
deliveryDaysMin, deliveryDaysMax	Estimated delivery window in days, or null when the listing shows none.
deliveryEarliest, deliveryLatest	The same estimate as dates.
feedPosition	Where the product sat in the category, before your ordering was applied.
shopFromCountry	The country you selected.
scrapedAt	When the run collected the row.

Category-structure rows (recordType: "subcategory" / "brand")

Field	Description
subcategoryKey, subcategoryName	The subcategory's stable key and its display name.
brandKey, brandName	The brand's stable key and its display name.
searchTerm	The wording AliExpress itself uses to look this subcategory up.
siteCategoryIds	The numeric AliExpress category identifiers behind the entry.
frontCategoryId	The numeric identifier of the entry itself.
relevanceScore, globalRelevanceScore	How strongly AliExpress associates the brand with the category, within the category and overall.
iconUrl	The icon or logo shown for the entry.
listingUrl	A ready-made link to the matching listing on AliExpress.

Pricing

You pay per result row. There is no charge for a category that turns out to be unreadable, for products your own filters removed, or for duplicates dropped when the same product appears in two categories.

What is charged	Price
Each row added to your results — a product, a subcategory or a brand	$0.0007 ($0.70 per 1,000 rows)

Worked example: five categories at 200 products each is 1,000 rows, so $0.70. Sweeping all 24 categories for everything they publish is roughly 24,000 rows, about $16.80, plus the platform's usual compute charge.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• A category publishes up to 998 products. That is what AliExpress makes publicly available for a category, and it is what you get — it is not the entire category catalogue, and no setting can raise it.
• There are 24 top-level categories, and they are separate shelves. Where the same product does turn up under two of them it is written once, not twice.
• Ordering happens inside the category you collected. "Most orders first" is the bestseller order of the 998 products this category published, not a site-wide AliExpress bestseller chart. The same is true of "newest" and of every price and rating ordering. AliExpress publishes no ordering control on this listing, so nothing else is possible — and an actor that claimed otherwise would be selling you a number that does not exist. Whenever you order or filter, the whole listing is collected first and then ranked, so the order you get is the order of everything the category published — never of a truncated slice of it.
• Filters narrow what the category published. They do not make AliExpress serve a different or a larger set, so filtering hard on a big minimum will return few rows rather than digging deeper.
• Every row states the currency it was priced in. If AliExpress serves a category in a different currency from the one you selected, the rows say so and the run says so, and a minimum or maximum price is refused for that category rather than being applied across two currencies.
• Store and seller details are not on this listing. No shop name, no seller rating, no review count, no ship-from country and no stock level — AliExpress simply does not publish them here. They are reported nowhere rather than as empty columns.
• Roughly a third of products have no rating yet. Those come back as null, never as a zero, and are excluded from a minimum-rating filter rather than quietly failing it.
• About half of listings carry no delivery estimate. Those come back empty rather than as zero days.
• Some categories list no brands at all. Pet Supplies and Women's Clothing are examples. The run reports that plainly instead of treating it as a failure.
• The subcategory tree is uneven. Most categories publish around two dozen subcategories; a few publish far fewer, and Books & Media publishes one. You get what the category publishes.
• Country changes the products, not just the currency. Two countries return genuinely different assortments, so two runs are not a like-for-like price comparison of the same list.
• The displayed price can be a promotional one. AliExpress shows first-time-shopper allowances and coin discounts on many listings, and the price you see is the price it advertises to a new shopper in that country.
• Prices, ratings, order counts and positions are a snapshot taken when the run collected the row, and they keep moving afterwards.
• A category serves the same products in the same order each time. Running the same category twice in a row will not surface anything new; run it on a schedule instead to watch it change over days.
• Product questions and answers do not exist on AliExpress and are not returned by anything.
• Speed depends on how much you asked for and on how quickly AliExpress answers on the day. No fixed throughput is promised.
• AliExpress's terms govern automated collection. You are responsible for using the data lawfully and in line with those terms.

FAQ

Do I need an AliExpress account? No. Nothing is signed in to and nothing personal is involved.

Does it need my login or password? No. The actor never asks for one and could not use one.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Schedule it on Apify like any other actor. A daily or weekly run over the same categories is the intended way to watch prices, discounts and new arrivals move.

Is the data complete? It is everything AliExpress publishes for the category — up to 998 products per category — collected in the order the category presents them. It is not the site's entire catalogue for that category, and no public route to that exists.

Why do two countries give me different products? Because AliExpress genuinely shows different assortments to shoppers in different countries, with different prices and shipping. Pick the country you sell into and the results match what your customers would see.

Can I get the seller or the number of reviews? Not from this actor. A category listing on AliExpress carries neither, and inventing the columns would be worse than leaving them out. The star rating and the exact lifetime order count are both included.

What is globalProductId for? AliExpress numbers the same product differently for different countries. That field is the identifier that stays the same everywhere, so you can join a US run to a German one product by product.