AliExpress Scraper | Prices, Units Sold, $1.80/1K

What is AliExpress Scraper?

Research AliExpress products by keyword (price, discount, rating, units sold, ship-from country) for $1.80 per 1,000 products, no login, with sponsored results flagged.

For dropshippers and product researchers. Pick the ship-to country and currency so products and prices follow your market, and get only new listings on scheduled runs. Your first run with the example input costs about $0.055 (30 products in our test run).

▶ Watch the 75-second demo

Search by	Keywords, one search per line
Market	Ship-to country (22) and currency (17), or AliExpress's default
Sort and filters	Best match, most orders, price low/high; keep or drop sponsored results
Output	23 fields per product; JSON, CSV, Excel, API
Automate	Schedules, webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, MCP for AI agents
Price	$1.80 per 1,000 products ($1.26 per 1,000 products on paid Apify plans)
Login needed	No

Why AliExpress Scraper users pick this one

• Cheapest we compared. $1.80 per 1,000 products against $2.49 and $9.00; start fee $0.001.
• Demand you can sort. Units sold as a number, plus rating, price and discount.
• Your market's prices. Choose the ship-to country (22) and currency (17).
• Ads kept out. Sponsored results flagged or removed from your research.
• New products only. A mode that returns just listings you have not seen.

Get started in 3 steps

1. Type your search keywords into 'Search keywords', one per line (e.g. pet hair remover).
2. Optionally pick the ship-to country and currency, how many pages to read (60 products each), the sort order, and whether to keep sponsored results.
3. Click Start, then download JSON, CSV or Excel, or schedule it with 'Only new products' and send results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n.

▶ Try it with the example input

The form opens with an example input already filled in: that run costs about $0.055 on the free plan.

How much does it cost to scrape AliExpress?

Pay per event: you pay only for what the run returns, plus a small start fee. Bronze, Silver, Gold and higher Apify plans pay less per result.

Products	Free plan	Paid plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
100	$0.18	$0.13
1,000	$1.80	$1.26
10,000	$18.00	$12.60

Totals include the $0.001 start fee per run, rounded to the cent. Apify's free plan includes $5 of credit a month, enough for about 2,700 products.

Products whose titles do not match your search are dropped and not charged; a search AliExpress has no match for costs nothing beyond the start fee.

Billing events

Event	Free plan	Paid plans (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
product-result	$1.80 per 1,000 products	$1.26 per 1,000 products
apify-actor-start	$0.001 per run	$0.001 per run

AliExpress Scraper vs alternatives

	This Actor	kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper	zen-studio/aliexpress-scraper
Price per 1,000 products, free plan	$1.80	$9.00	$2.49
Price per 1,000 products, paid plans	$1.26	$8.00	$2.49
Start fee per run	$0.001	None	$0.05 (at 1 GB)
Platform usage billed on top	No	No	No
Ship-to country and currency	✓	not stated	✓
Units sold, discount, ship-from	✓	✓	✓
Sponsored results flagged or removed	✓	not stated	not stated
Only products new since your last run	✓	not stated	not stated
Variants, reviews, seller details	✗	✗	✓ (paid add-ons)

Prices checked regularly on each Actor's Store page.

Benchmarks: how we compare

Test	Input	Products returned	Run time
Two searches, 2 pages each	yoga mat, wireless earbuds	223	34 s
Three broad searches, 2 pages each	kitchen gadgets, home decor, car accessories	301	57 s
Only new products, 5 pages, first run	led strip lights	248	47 s
Only new products, same search again	led strip lights	183 new, 0 repeats	49 s
Non-Latin searches, 1 page each	Chinese, Russian and Japanese phrases	60 each	32 s (6 searches)
Symbol-only and gibberish searches	???, !!! ### $$$, xqzvbnmlkj	0, each named in the run status	same run
Sponsored results removed	phone case, most orders, 1 page	60, 0 sponsored	9 s
Three searches, 2 pages each	3 searches	359	36 s
Spot check vs product pages	10 random products	price, title, units sold, rating 10/10	-
Prefilled first run	phone case, cap 30	30 products, $0.055 charged	-

Measured on Apify cloud runs at 256 MB with the free datacenter proxy, logged out (one Actor run per row). The spot check compared 10 random products with a later visit to each product page; original_price matched 7 of 10, because AliExpress itself shows the struck-through price on some visits and not on others. In a hand check of 360 products from three broad searches, the title check dropped about 29 real matches (8%).

What data you get

AliExpress Scraper turns AliExpress search results into clean rows: product ID, title, link, images, price and original price, discount, deal badge, rating, units sold as a number, listing date, ship-from country and a sponsored flag. Type any keywords, pick the country you ship to and the currency, and sort by best match, most orders or price, up to 60 pages of 60 products per search. Schedule it with 'Only new products' to get just the listings you have not seen before.

• product_id, title, product_url, image_url, images
• price, original_price, discount_pct, currency, deal (badge such as 'Dollar Express')
• rating, sold_text, sold_count
• listed_date, ship_from, ship_to, sponsored
• query, page, position, new_since_last_run
• source_url, scraped_at in ISO 8601 UTC

query	position	title	price	original_price	rating	sold_count	ship_from
pet hair remover	1	Pet Hair Remover Glove Portable Reusable Lint Brush For C...	1.12	2.6	4.9	60000	CN
pet hair remover	2	Pet Hair Remover Portable Washable Clothes Hair Dehairing...	1.09	30.04	4.9	60000	US
pet hair remover	3	Self Cleaning Reusable Double Sided Lint Roller Static Du...	1.09	6.06	4.9	40000	CN

One full product record, exactly as a real run returned it (long text and lists shortened here). From a real run:

{
  "query": "phone case",
  "page": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "product_id": "1005006995199586",
  "title": "New Armor Bumper Shockproof Phone Case For iPhone 15 11 12 13 Mini 14 Pro XR X Xs Max 7 8 Plus SE 2020 Silicone Hard Cov... [7 more characters]",
  "product_url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006995199586.html",
  "image_url": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sd23fa488f7864890bdff9e610c8bbe50v.jpg",
  "images": [
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sd23fa488f7864890bdff9e610c8bbe50v.jpg",
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S02a5c42b984e41e1beb5140c3445a4deU.png",
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Seedb43be9ea547de8d8a16eda7bcf784H.png",
    "... [3 more]"
  ],
  "price": 0.33,
  "original_price": 2.71,
  "discount_pct": 88,
  "currency": "USD",
  "deal": "Dollar Express",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "sold_text": "10,000+ sold",
  "sold_count": 10000,
  "listed_date": "2024-05-16",
  "ship_from": "CN",
  "ship_to": null,
  "sponsored": false,
  "source_url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-phone-case.html?SearchText=phone%20case",
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-04T11:24:32Z",
  "new_since_last_run": true
}

Use cases

• Dropshippers researching which products in a niche sell the most
• E-commerce sellers checking AliExpress prices and discounts before sourcing
• Product researchers watching a niche weekly for new listings
• Analysts comparing prices, ratings and units sold across search terms

Use-case recipes

Rank a niche by demand before you source

For dropshippers choosing what to stock. Put 2 or 3 product ideas in queries and sort by most orders. Sort the output by sold_count, then rating, and shortlist products with high units sold and a rating above 4.5. Shorten the winning titles to a search phrase and feed them to Google Trends to see whether demand is rising.

{
  "queries": [
    "posture corrector",
    "neck massager"
  ],
  "sort": "orders",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
}

Find local-warehouse stock for one market

For sellers who want shorter delivery times. Set shipToCountry to your buyers' country and the currency you sell in. In the output, filter ship_from to that country (for example DE): those products ship from a local warehouse, priced as a shopper there sees them.

{
  "queries": [
    "led strip lights"
  ],
  "shipToCountry": "DE",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
}

Watch a niche weekly for new listings

For product researchers. Turn on incremental and give a tracking name, then schedule the task weekly. The first run returns everything; later runs return only products the earlier runs did not return. Use listed_date and sold_count to spot new listings that already sell, and add a Slack or webhook URL to get the top 10 after each run.

{
  "queries": [
    "pet hair remover"
  ],
  "incremental": true,
  "stateKey": "pet-niche-weekly",
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
}

Ad-free price floor for a product

For buyers and analysts checking what a product really sells for. Sort by price low to high and turn off sponsored results, so ads do not skew the list. Compare price with original_price and discount_pct, and read the deal column: very low prices are often new-customer deals.

{
  "queries": [
    "phone case"
  ],
  "sort": "price-asc",
  "includeSponsored": false,
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 1,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
}

Input

Field	Type	What it does	Default
queries (Search keywords)	array	What to search for, one search per line, e.g. 'phone case', 'led strip lights', 'pet hair remover'.
maxPagesPerQuery (Pages per search)	integer	Result pages to read per search; each page has up to 60 products, e.g. 2 = up to 120.	1
maxResultsPerQuery (Max products per search)	integer	Upper limit of products saved per search, across all pages read, e.g. 30. 0 = no limit (only 'maxPagesPerQuery' applies).	0
sort (Sort by)	string	Order of results, as on AliExpress: best match, most orders, or price.	"best-match"
includeSponsored (Include sponsored results)	boolean	Keep the sponsored (ad) products AliExpress mixes into results.	true
incremental (Only new products)	boolean	Return only products not returned by a previous run of the same search and sort.	false

All 12 fields, with examples: see the Input tab.

Switching from kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper

Already running kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper? Most of its inputs map one to one; its price, rating and orders filters have no input here, so filter the output instead:

kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper input	This Actor's input	Notes
keywords	queries	Same idea: one search per line. Identical lines are merged.
sort	sort	Ours offers best-match, orders (most orders), price-asc and price-desc. There is no sort by rating.
maxItems	maxResultsPerQuery	Cap per search across all pages read. 0 means no cap; the page limit still applies.
maxPages	maxPagesPerQuery	Pages of up to 60 products each, 1 to 60. Default 1.
minPrice / maxPrice	no equivalent	Sort by price, or filter the price column after the run.
minRating	no equivalent	Filter the rating column after the run.
minOrders	no equivalent	Sort by orders and filter sold_count, which is units sold as a number.
requestTimeoutSecs	not needed	Each page load has a fixed 45-second timeout and up to 4 tries, with a fresh proxy session after a slider check.
no equivalent	shipToCountry / currency	Search as a shopper in one of 22 countries, with prices in one of 17 currencies.
no equivalent	includeSponsored / incremental	Drop ads from the results, and return only products your earlier runs of the same search did not return.

• Units sold come in sold_count as a number ('10,000+ sold' becomes 10000) next to the original sold_text.
• Every row says where it came from: query, page and position on that page, plus a sponsored flag.
• A product is returned once per search, by product_id; the same product found by two different searches appears under each.
• Pricing is per product with a $0.001 start fee and no platform usage on top; products dropped by the title check or as sponsored are not charged.

Use with AI agents (Apify MCP server, Claude, ChatGPT, n8n AI agent)

AliExpress Scraper is a ready-made tool for AI agents. Through the Apify MCP server an agent reads this Actor's input schema, fills in the input from your request, starts the run and reads the products back. You pay the same per-result price as a run started by hand, from your own Apify account.

Example prompts

• "Search AliExpress for posture corrector sorted by most orders and give me the top 30 with price, rating and units sold in a table"
• "Find led strip lights on AliExpress that ship to Germany, prices in EUR, and list only the ones shipping from DE"
• "Compare AliExpress prices and units sold for pet hair remover, lint roller and fur brush, 1 page each, without sponsored results"

Claude (claude.ai and Claude Desktop)

Open Settings > Connectors, choose Add custom connector, paste https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search and sign in to Apify when asked. Then ask Claude one of the prompts above.

Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search"

Clients configured with JSON take the same URL:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search"
    }
  }
}

A client without Apify sign-in sends the header Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>; to run the server locally instead, use npx -y @apify/actors-mcp-server --actors aurelix/aliexpress-product-search with APIFY_TOKEN set.

ChatGPT

Where your ChatGPT plan offers custom connectors (developer mode), add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search as a connector, sign in to Apify, and ask for the data in plain words.

n8n AI agent

Give an AI Agent node an MCP Client Tool with the endpoint https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search and a Bearer credential holding your Apify token. The agent can then call AliExpress Scraper whenever a workflow step needs products; for a fixed, non-agent workflow use Apify's n8n node with Run Actor instead.

Use it from AI agents (MCP), the API or no-code

Copy this to your AI assistant

Use the Apify Actor aurelix/aliexpress-product-search (AliExpress Scraper) through Apify's MCP server or API. Main input: queries (Search keywords). Example input: {"queries": ["pet hair remover", "posture corrector"], "maxPagesPerQuery": 2, "sort": "orders"}. Each result is one product with fields such as query, page, position, product_id, title, product_url, image_url, images. It costs $1.80 per 1,000 products on Apify's free plan plus a $0.001 start fee per run, and needs no login.

MCP server URL for this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=aurelix/aliexpress-product-search (setup for each client in the section above).

API

Start a run and read the dataset with Apify's REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("aurelix/aliexpress-product-search").call(run_input={"queries": ["pet hair remover", "posture corrector"], "maxPagesPerQuery": 2, "sort": "orders"})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

No-code: schedule it in 3 clicks

Send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n, Slack or any webhook URL.

1. Fill in the input, then click Save as a new task.
2. In the task, click Schedule and pick daily or weekly (Apify Schedules).
3. Turn on Only new products so each run returns only what is new, and paste a Slack or webhook URL into Slack webhook URL / Webhook URL to get a digest of the new items (count plus the top 10) after every run.

Prefer n8n or Make? Ask in the Issues tab and we will share a ready-made workflow for it.

FAQ

Can I scrape AliExpress without login?

Yes. It never logs in, so you need no AliExpress account, password or cookies; only a free Apify account to run it.

Is there a AliExpress API?

You can use this Actor as one. Start it with Apify's REST API or the Python and JavaScript clients and read the results as JSON (see the code above), or call it from an AI agent through MCP.

How much does it cost to scrape AliExpress?

About $1.80 for 1,000 products on Apify's free plan and $1.26 on paid plans, start fee included. The free $5 monthly credit covers about 2,700 products.

Can I export AliExpress data to Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes. Download the results as Excel, CSV, JSON, XML or HTML from the run's Storage tab, or send them to Google Sheets with Apify's Google Sheets integration or the API.

Is it legal to scrape AliExpress?

It reads only public data any logged-out visitor can see: AliExpress search result pages. It goes at a polite pace, never logs in and never solves CAPTCHAs. It returns product listing fields only (title, price, rating, orders sold, shipping, links); no buyer data or review text. To have a record removed, open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab; if AliExpress formally asks us to stop, this Actor will stop. You are responsible for using the data lawfully, incl. anti-spam and privacy laws; this is not legal advice.

Why are some prices very low?

AliExpress shows logged-out visitors new-customer deals such as 'Dollar Express' or 'Free with any purchase'. The price is exactly what the search page shows; the deal field names the badge. original_price (and discount_pct) is set only when the search page shows a struck-through price; otherwise it is empty.

Which currency are prices in?

The one you pick in 'Currency'; if you leave it empty, the ship-to country's currency, or the one AliExpress picks for the visitor (usually USD) when no country is set. It is in the currency field of every product.

Can I see prices for my country?

Yes. Set 'Ship to country': AliExpress then shows the products, prices (including taxes it applies to that market) and local-warehouse offers a shopper there sees. The country is in each row's ship_to field.

Why does a second run show products the first did not?

AliExpress reorders and varies its results between visits. 'Only new products' returns only products your earlier runs of the same search have not returned, so nothing repeats.

What does sold_count mean?

Units sold as AliExpress shows it, as a number: '100K+ sold' becomes 100000 (a lower bound).

Does it include store or seller names?

No. Only product data from the search results.

What am I charged when a search returns nothing or only part of the results?

Each run pays the $0.001 start fee, and then only for products saved to the dataset. Products dropped by the title check, sponsored products you chose to remove, and repeats skipped by 'Only new products' are not charged. A search with no letters or digits (e.g. '???') or with no matching products returns 0 rows and is named in the run status. If AliExpress blocks a search midway, the products already read are kept and charged, and the status starts with 'Partial'.

How many products can one search return?

Up to 60 pages of up to 60 products, so 3,600 at most, AliExpress' own limit. 'Pages per search' sets how many pages are read, and 'Max products per search' caps the saved products across those pages. The Actor stops early when AliExpress has no more results or a page has no product whose title matches your search.

How are duplicates handled?

Within one search, each product_id is returned once even if AliExpress shows it on two pages. Identical search lines are merged. The same product found by two different searches is returned under each search, with that search in the query field.

How does 'Only new products' remember what I have seen?

It keeps a memory per search text, sort order, ship-to country and tracking name. Currency is not part of it. A product stays remembered for 60 days after the last run that saw it. The first run returns everything; use a different 'Tracking name' to keep separate memories for the same search, e.g. one per client.

Can I search in other languages?

Yes. Searches in Chinese, Russian, Japanese and other scripts work. The title check accepts a product when its title matches your words or AliExpress' own English translation of them. In our test runs, one Chinese, one Russian and one Japanese search each returned 60 matching products.

What do position and page mean?

page is the results page the product was on, and position is its place on that page as AliExpress showed it (1 to 60), counting sponsored products and products dropped by the title check. So positions can skip numbers.

Can I filter by price, rating or number of orders?

Not in the input. Sort by price or by most orders, then filter the price, rating or sold_count columns in the dataset, in Excel or in Google Sheets.

How fast is it?

It pauses about 3 seconds between page loads to stay polite. In our test runs, 2 searches of 2 pages each returned 223 products in 34 seconds, and 3 searches of 2 pages each returned 301 products in 57 seconds.

What happens on empty or partial runs

• A search with no letters or digits, or with no products matching its title words, returns 0 rows; the run still succeeds and the status names that search under 'no results'.
• If AliExpress keeps showing a slider check on the first page of a search, that search is skipped and named under 'not read'; the other searches still run.
• If the check appears after some pages, the products already read are kept and the status starts with 'Partial' and says after which page it stopped.
• Only the $0.001 start fee and the products actually saved are charged, so an empty run costs $0.001.
• When the maximum charge you set for the run is reached, the Actor stops saving products and ends.

Limits (stated honestly)

• Search results only: no product-page details such as full descriptions, variants or shipping cost.
• Up to 60 pages of 60 products per search (AliExpress' own limit).
• Prices are as shown to a logged-out new visitor and can include new-customer deals.
• Results vary between visits, so two runs of the same search are not identical.
• Only products whose title contains at least half the words of your search (or of AliExpress' English translation of a non-English search) are returned and charged. A search AliExpress has no match for returns 0 products and costs nothing beyond the start fee; broad category searches (e.g. 'kitchen gadgets') can miss products whose title names neither word.
• If AliExpress answers with a slider check, the Actor retries with a fresh connection; if it keeps refusing, the products already read are kept and the run status says 'Partial'.

Works great with

• Then: Google Trends Scraper: put product names (shortened to the search phrase) into its keywords input to see whether demand is rising before you stock or list them

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Recent changes

• 0.1: Ship-to country (22) and currency (17) inputs; ship_to field on every product.

The full history is on the Changelog tab.

Tested daily

An automated health check runs this Actor every day on a fixed input and checks that at least 40 products come back with product_id, title, product_url, price, currency, source_url filled in; a failed check alerts the maintainer straight away.

Your feedback

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