AliExpress Search Scraper — Prices, Orders, Ratings

Recorded run, 17 Oct 2026: the 120 best-selling mechanical keyboards between $20 and $60 in 14 seconds. Every price inside the range, sorted by real order count (31,742 → 170), 0 blocked requests, exactly 120 products charged.

From Architekture, makers of the Woolworths AU, Coles AU, ALDI AU, Tesco UK and Sainsbury's UK scrapers.

Type the keywords a shopper would type, get every product card AliExpress shows for them as clean JSON: sale price, original price, discount, the exact order count, rating, image, item link, whether the listing is sponsored, free-shipping and delivery estimate. Sort by most orders or by price, filter by price range. You pay per product delivered; failed requests are free.

🛍️ Marketplace	📍 Market	💰 From	🔑 Standout fields
AliExpress	Global (prices in request-country currency)	$2.50 / 1,000 products	Exact order counts, sponsored flag, delivery estimates

🤖 Built for AI workflows. Every row is deterministic, schema-stable JSON — feed it straight to LLM apps, RAG pipelines, or agent tool calls via the Apify API, the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com), or AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.

🚀 Why choose this actor

• Exact order counts, not just "10,000+ sold". ordersCount is AliExpress's own integer (e.g. 37,932) next to the rounded label shown to shoppers (ordersText).
• Sponsored listings are flagged. Around a quarter of cards on some pages are ads; isSponsored lets you keep or drop them instead of mistaking them for organic results.
• 🌐 Built for AliExpress's rate limit. AliExpress blocks an IP after a handful of searches. The actor switches to a fresh IP every 4 requests and on any block, so long runs finish instead of timing out.
• 💸 Filters you can trust. Sort and price range are applied by AliExpress, and on page 1 of each keyword the actor checks AliExpress confirmed them; if not, RUN_SUMMARY.warnings says so.
• 💸 No duplicates. AliExpress repeats products across pages; each product is returned (and charged) once per run, even across keywords.
• 🔬 Clean stops. Hitting your spending limit or run timeout ends the run with a summary and everything collected so far, never a crash.

⚠️ Worth knowing up front

• 🔎 Search results only. This actor reads AliExpress search pages. It does not return product-page data: no SKU/variant matrix, no full description, no shipping cost, no store name or store rating. AliExpress serves those through an API behind a slider captcha, which this actor does not attempt.
• Order counts are AliExpress's number, period unlabelled. AliExpress shows "N sold" without saying over what period; ordersCount is that same count, unmodified.
• 🔎 Prices exclude shipping and tax. salePrice is the lowest variant price on the card. Shipping costs are not on search cards; freeShipping and deliveryEstimate appear only when AliExpress shows them.
• 💸 Prices are in USD by default. AliExpress prices in the currency of the country the request comes from; the default proxy is US, so currency is USD and minPrice/maxPrice are in dollars. Change the proxy country and both prices and the price filter switch to that country's currency (e.g. a Swedish IP returns SEK).
• Depth: 60 products per page, at most 60 pages (3,600) per keyword. AliExpress may report far more results (e.g. 17,763), but only the first 60 pages can be read.
• Sort by newest is not offered: AliExpress ignores that sort for these requests.

⚡ Try the example

{
  "searchTerms": ["mechanical keyboard"],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 120,
  "sortBy": "orders",
  "minPrice": 20,
  "maxPrice": 60
}

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchTerms	array of strings	required	Keywords, up to 100 per run.
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	100	Products per keyword. 0 = as many as AliExpress lists (max 3,600).
sortBy	default · orders · priceAsc · priceDesc	default	AliExpress sort order. orders = most sold first.
minPrice / maxPrice	number	—	Price range in the listing currency (USD on the default proxy), applied by AliExpress.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter, US	Switch to RESIDENTIAL if a run reports blocked keywords.
feedback	string	—	A note to the maintainers. Read by a human; does not change output.

🧱 Stable fields for automations

These fields keep their names and meaning across versions; new fields are only ever added. A field is omitted (not null) when AliExpress does not show it for that product.

Field	Meaning
itemId	Product id used in aliexpress.com/item/<itemId>.html. Unique per run.
productId	AliExpress's search-card id for the same product (itemId + 2⁵¹).
title	Product title as shown in search.
salePrice	Lowest current price on the card, number.
currency	Currency of the prices, e.g. USD.
originalPrice	Struck-through price, only when higher than salePrice.
discountPct	Discount AliExpress displays, integer percent.
ordersCount	AliExpress order count, integer.
ordersText	The label shoppers see, e.g. 10,000+ sold.
rating	Star rating, 0–5.
imageUrl	Main image.
itemUrl	Canonical product link (tracking parameters removed).
isSponsored	true for paid (ad) placements.
freeShipping	true when the card shows free shipping; omitted otherwise.
deliveryEstimate	Delivery window shown on the card, e.g. Oct 22 - 27.
position	Rank in the search results (1 = first card on page 1).
source	{source: "search", searchTerm, page}.

📦 Output example

{
  "itemId": "1005007352046243",
  "productId": "3256807165731491",
  "title": "Original Lenovo XT80 Sports Wireless Earphones with Mics, LED Power Display,Hifi Stereo Sound Bluetooth 5.3 TWS HeadphHeadphones",
  "salePrice": 12.79,
  "currency": "USD",
  "originalPrice": 35.93,
  "discountPct": 64,
  "ordersCount": 37932,
  "ordersText": "10,000+ sold",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sc304388c77474000888a8dd1027131046.jpg",
  "itemUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007352046243.html",
  "isSponsored": true,
  "deliveryEstimate": "Oct 22 - 27",
  "position": 4,
  "source": { "source": "search", "searchTerm": "bluetooth earphones", "page": 1 }
}

🧠 Advanced usage

• 💸 Best sellers in a price band: sortBy: "orders" with minPrice/maxPrice; read the first 60–120 rows.
• 💸 Daily price monitoring: schedule the same keywords each day and join runs on itemId; compare salePrice and ordersCount.
• Organic results only: filter isSponsored == false.
• 🌐 Completion check: read the RUN_SUMMARY record — status (COMPLETE, PARTIAL, BLOCKED, BUDGET_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT, INVALID_INPUT), products, per-keyword terms (each with status pending · done · blocked · layout_changed · error, products delivered and lastPage reached), and warnings.

🔌 Integrations

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or RSS; push to Google Sheets; trigger from Make, Zapier or n8n; webhook on run finish; schedule with the Apify Scheduler.

💸 How much does it cost?

1,000 products ≈ $2.50. The recorded 120-keyboard run above cost about $0.30 and took 14 seconds. Failed requests are free. Platform usage is included.

💰 Pricing

Event	Price	Covers
product	$2.50 / 1,000	One product row delivered to the dataset

Available to free-plan users using their Apify credits. This release has no waived-charge preview allowance: the 60-product prefill costs up to $0.15 in product events.

Platform usage and proxy are included. Nothing is charged for failed requests, failed pages or duplicate products. If a keyword is blocked partway, the products delivered before the block are kept and charged; nothing after it is.

❓ FAQ

Can I get product variants, descriptions or shipping costs? No. Those live on product pages that AliExpress protects with a slider captcha; this actor returns search-card data only.

Can I get the seller/store name? No, it is not on search cards.

Is ordersCount lifetime or last 30 days? AliExpress doesn't say. It is the same count behind the "N sold" label.

Why did a keyword come back blocked? AliExpress refused a page of that keyword on four fresh IPs in a row. Pages that failed were not charged; products delivered before the block are kept (and charged). Rerun the keyword, or switch the proxy to RESIDENTIAL.

Do I need an AliExpress account or cookies? No.

How many products per keyword? Up to 3,600 (60 pages of 60), fewer when AliExpress runs out or repeats itself.

How fast? About 5–6 seconds per page of 60 per keyword, with up to 4 keywords in parallel (recorded: 600 products from 2 keywords in 40 s).

🤖 For AI agents & LLM apps

architekture/aliexpress-search-scraper returns every product card from an AliExpress keyword search — price, discount, exact order count, rating, sponsored flag and item URL — as deterministic, schema-stable JSON, one object per product, same fields on every run, so agents and RAG pipelines can parse it without defensive code. Invoke it from any agentic workflow via the Apify API or the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com) as a tool call; pay-per-event billing means a run costs a known amount before it starts ($2.50 per 1,000 products, maxItemsPerQuery caps it). Each run writes a RUN_SUMMARY record with a machine-readable status and per-keyword outcome, so an agent can branch on BLOCKED or BUDGET_LIMIT instead of parsing logs. Honest limits: search cards only — no variants, descriptions, shipping costs or store names.

Works out of the box with LangChain, LlamaIndex and AI coding agents — call it as a tool from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client via mcp.apify.com.

🧰 More Architekture scrapers

• 🔎 E-commerce & grocery: AliExpress Search (you are here) · Woolworths AU · Coles AU · ALDI AU · Woolworths NZ · Tesco UK · Sainsbury's UK
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Field names are similar across our e-commerce actors but not identical; map them per actor.

🙋 Support

Open an Issue on this actor's page; a human replies within a day.

⚖️ Legal compliance

This actor reads publicly available search pages, without logging in. You are responsible for how you use the data, including AliExpress's Terms of Service, intellectual property in product titles and images, and data-protection law where it applies.

📝 Changelog

• 🔎 2026-10-17 — 1.0: keyword search with server-verified sort (orders, price) and price range; exact order counts; sponsored flag; free-shipping and delivery estimate; de-duplication across pages and keywords; IP rotation under AliExpress's per-IP limit; clean stops at spending limit and timeout; resumable after platform migration.