Taobao & 1688 Product Search | Prices & Agent Links

Taobao & 1688 Product Search

Turn English or Chinese product searches into a sourcing shortlist. Compare displayed CNY asking prices across Taobao and 1688, review product images and reported sales, and open shopping-agent links to investigate the products that interest you.

Use it to explore a product idea, compare price ranges, or build a shortlist before committing to an order.

Use cases

• Product research: check what a product idea costs on Taobao and 1688 before you design or source it, in both marketplaces in one run.
• Sourcing shortlists: turn a keyword into a ranked shortlist with images, prices and sales, ready to review with a shopping agent.
• Price monitoring: re-run the same keywords on a schedule and watch asking prices and sales move across marketplaces.
• Wholesale vs retail: search 1688 for bulk asking prices and Taobao for single-item prices side by side.

Quick start

Run it as-is to search both marketplaces for wireless mouse and get up to 40 products — empty input {} does exactly the same:

{
  "keywords": ["wireless mouse"],
  "platform": "both",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxTotalResults": 200,
  "requireKeywordMatch": true
}

Or build a smaller 1688 shortlist within a CNY price range:

{
  "keywords": ["无线鼠标"],
  "platform": "1688",
  "minPriceCny": 5,
  "maxPriceCny": 30,
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxTotalResults": 10
}

What you get

• Product names in Chinese and available English titles.
• Displayed asking prices in CNY and product images.
• Reported monthly-sales figures where available, with approximate figures kept distinct from exact counts.
• Shopping-agent product links and direct 1688 offer links where available.
• The marketplace, originating search terms and observation time for each row.

Missing information stays null. Minimum order quantity is not currently available, and no minimum order size is inferred from a product price.

Input

Every field is optional; the examples above show the defaults in use.

Field	Default	Meaning
keywords	["wireless mouse"]	1–10 English or Chinese search terms.
platform	both	Choose taobao, 1688 or both.
maxResults	20	Maximum matching products per keyword and marketplace, up to 200.
maxTotalResults	200	Maximum unique products across the run, up to 1,000.
minPriceCny, maxPriceCny	unset	Keep asking prices within your CNY range. Products without a price are excluded when a price range is set.
requireKeywordMatch	true	Limit results to titles matching your search terms. Turn off for broader discovery and review relevance yourself.

An empty input searches for wireless mice on both marketplaces, with up to 20 matching products from each. Search wording and translation differences can affect matches; try Chinese terms or adjust your wording when useful. Requested result counts are upper limits, and a search may return fewer products.

Output example

Selected fields only.

This illustrative excerpt shows customer-facing fields, not a complete export or a current listing. The shopping and image links are placeholders:

{
  "platform": "taobao",
  "title": "Wireless mouse",
  "titleEn": "Wireless mouse",
  "titleCn": "无线鼠标",
  "priceCny": 19.9,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "monthlySales": null,
  "monthlySalesText": "100+",
  "minimumOrderQuantity": null,
  "marketplaceProductId": null,
  "productUrl": null,
  "agentUrl": "https://example.com/shopping-agent/product",
  "imageUrl": "https://example.com/product-image.jpg",
  "observedAt": "2026-11-06T12:00:00Z"
}

Use monthlySalesText to retain a displayed estimate when an exact monthlySales count is unavailable. English titles, asking prices and sales figures come through shopping-agent listings and are not independently verified with the original seller.

Taobao rows do not currently include native Taobao product IDs or direct product links; use the returned shopping-agent link. Direct 1688 offer links are included when available. Links and product information may change.

Buying considerations

Asking prices are not final checkout prices. International shipping, shopping fees and taxes are additional, and a displayed price does not establish stock, a minimum order quantity or a completed sale.

Results are a bounded selection, not a complete marketplace inventory. A successful search can return no matching products. Treat repeated searches as separate snapshots and review the products before purchasing.

FAQ

Why did I get fewer products than I asked for? Requested counts are upper limits. The marketplace may return fewer distinct products, the literal keyword filter (on by default) drops unrelated suggestions, and a price range drops products without a published price. Turn off requireKeywordMatch for broader discovery and review relevance yourself.

Should I search in English or Chinese? Both work. English titles come from the marketplace's own translation and can differ between products; if you get few matches, try the Chinese term as well (for example \u65e0\u7ebf\u9f20\u6807 for wireless mouse).

Why is monthlySales null but monthlySalesText says "100+"? The marketplace reports many sales figures only as estimates. monthlySales stays null rather than guessing a number, and monthlySalesText keeps the label exactly as displayed.

Is minimum order quantity included? No. The search does not publish it, so minimumOrderQuantity stays null; nothing is inferred from the price. Check the minimum with the seller or your shopping agent before ordering.

Are these final prices? No. They are displayed asking prices in CNY. Shipping, shopping-agent fees and taxes are extra, and a displayed price does not confirm stock.

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Schedule the same keywords daily or weekly and treat each run as a fresh snapshot; read the dataset through the Apify API and export it as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Pricing

$0.0005 per product row plus a $0.005 start event per run; the Pricing tab has the current rates. A start event is charged per GB of memory with a one-GB minimum, so a default 256 MB run is one start event.

What a run costs: the default input (wireless mouse on both marketplaces, up to 20 products each) returns up to 40 rows, about $0.025 in total — $0.02 in row charges plus the $0.005 start. These service charges are separate from the product asking prices in your results.