Taobao Shop Scraper

Profile any Taobao or Tmall shop and pull its listed products in a single run. You get the shop's own record — name, description, service and delivery scores, assortment size — plus up to 60 listed products with price, promotion and images attached. Watch competitors, find suppliers, or pull a catalog slice into your own systems. No account and no login are needed.

What you can do with it

• Watch competitors. Track a rival shop's listing: what it sells, at which prices, and with which promotions.
• Find suppliers. A shop's profile, scores and listed products in one table is the fastest shortlist you will build all week.
• Pull a catalog slice. Mirror the shop's listed products — IDs, titles, prices, images — into a spreadsheet or database.
• Benchmark your own shop. Compare assortment size and score bands against the shops around you.
• Schedule the watch. Re-run weekly and see new arrivals, delistings and price moves per shop.

What you get

One profile row per shop, plus one row per listed product. Abridged real examples:

{ "recordType": "shop_profile", "shopId": "63978904", "shopName": "優送網", "shopUrl": "https://world.taobao.com/dianpu/63978904.htm", "descriptionScore": 4.9, "serviceScore": 4.9, "deliveryScore": 4.9, "productCountHint": 508, "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z" }

{ "recordType": "shop_product", "shopId": "63978904", "shopName": "優送網", "listPosition": 1, "itemId": "8803330176", "title": "農夫山泉天然水4L*4桶整箱特批價家庭大瓶桶裝飲用水江浙滬皖包郵", "url": "https://world.taobao.com/item/8803330176.htm", "price": 45, "currency": "CNY", "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T00:00:00.000Z" }

Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
shopUrls	list of text	(example shop)	Shop links (world.taobao.com/dianpu/…) or numeric shop IDs. Up to 20 per run.
maxProductsPerShop	number	60	How many listed products to collect per shop, newest first (maximum 60). Set 0 for the profile only.
includeProfile	true/false	true	Include the shop's own profile row alongside its products.
maxConcurrency	number	3	How many shops to work through at the same time (1–5).

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
recordType	text	shop_profile for the shop's own row, shop_product for each listed product.
shopId, shopName, shopUrl	text	Shop identifier, name and link (on every row).
sellerId	text	The seller's identifier (profile rows).
descriptionScore, serviceScore, deliveryScore	number	The shop's published scores (profile rows).
productCountHint	number	Listed products the shop reports (profile rows). Only the first screen, up to 60, is readable per run.
listPosition	number	Position in the shop's listing order (product rows).
itemId, title, url	text	Product identifier, title and link (product rows).
price, promoPrice, promoLabel, currency	number / text	Selling price in yuan (always CNY) plus promotion details when advertised. promoPrice stays empty when the promotion matches the selling price.
onPromo	true/false	Whether the site advertises a promotion on the product.
freeShipping	true/false	Whether the product ships free.
categoryId	text	The site's own category for the product.
imageUrl	text	Main product picture.
scrapedAt	text	When the row was collected.

Pricing

You pay per row returned — nothing else, and nothing for a shop that cannot be read.

What you pay for	Price
Each row (profile or product)	$1.50 per 1,000

Worked example. One shop profile plus 60 products = 61 rows = about $0.09 for the run. Watching 5 shops costs about $0.46.

Limits & what this actor cannot do

• The site publishes the shop's first screen of listings — up to 60 products — so a huge catalog returns its newest slice, not the whole assortment. The profile row reports the total the shop advertises, so you always know how much of it you saw.
• Prices, promotions and scores are a snapshot at the moment of collection and keep changing afterwards.
• Some shops publish no scores. Those come back empty rather than invented.
• For an exact shop, paste its link instead of a bare ID you are unsure of.
• Speed depends on the size of the job and on the source site's own response times; 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, and for handling any personal data in line with applicable privacy law.

FAQ

Do I need a Taobao account? No. Nothing is signed in to and nothing is bought.

How do I point it at an exact shop? Paste the shop's link — that always resolves to the right shop.

Can I get just the profile without products? Yes. Set the maximum products per shop to 0 and only the profile row is collected.

Why only 60 products when the shop lists hundreds? Because the site publishes the shop's first screen of listings — its newest slice. The profile row tells you the advertised total, so schedule re-runs to watch new arrivals rotate in.

Can I schedule competitor watches? Yes. Save the shops as a task and run it on any schedule Apify supports, then compare assortments and prices over time.