Alibaba Product & Supplier Scraper

Search Alibaba.com by keyword, or paste an Alibaba search, showroom or product URL, and get structured data back: products with their price tiers, minimum order, specifications, SKU options, lead time and certificates, together with the supplier's contact person, response time, on-time delivery rate and orders in the last six months. Switch to Suppliers mode to get one row per supplier instead, ready to use as a sourcing shortlist.

It reads the same pages a buyer sees, without a login. Alibaba does not publish suppliers' phone numbers or emails to logged-out visitors, so these are not in the data (see the FAQ).

What you can do with it

• Sourcing and procurement: compare price tiers, MOQ and lead times for a product across hundreds of suppliers, filtered to Trade Assurance or verified suppliers.
• Amazon FBA and dropshipping research: find low-MOQ products (minOrderQuantityTo), sort by sales volume, and check how much each supplier actually sold in the last six months.
• Supplier lead lists: use Suppliers mode to list manufacturers and trading companies by country with the contact person, job title, response time and trade history.
• Price and market monitoring: schedule the same search every week and track price tiers and rankings (rank is the position in the results).
• Category research: ask for the best-selling products of a keyword and read their category ranking and ratings.

Output

Products mode (one row per product). Fields marked * need Include product details (on by default).

Field	Description
productId, url, title, query, page, rank	Identity and position in the results
priceText, currency, priceMin, priceMax	Price as shown and as numbers
minOrderText, minOrderQuantity, minOrderUnit	Minimum order
soldText, soldCount	Units sold, when Alibaba shows it (keyword search without filters)
imageUrl, images	Images
supplierId, supplierName, supplierCountry, supplierYears, supplierUrl	The supplier
tradeAssurance, ratingScore, ratingCount	Order protection and store rating
priceLadder *	Price tiers: [{minQuantity, maxQuantity, price}]
priceUnit, priceTerm *	Unit and trade term (for example piece, FOB)
attributes *	Specification attributes as {name: value}
skuOptions *	Variant axes such as colour, size, power
leadTimeDays *	Lead time by order quantity
unitSize, unitWeightKg *	Packed unit size and weight
customization, certificates *	Customisation options and certificates (name, number, authority, validity)
productRating, productReviewCount, categoryRank, categoryRankName *	Product rating and Alibaba's category ranking
supplier *	contactName, jobTitle, businessType, yearsOnPlatform, responseTime, onTimeDeliveryRate, orders6m, orderAmount6m, tradeAssurance, verified, goldPlus, rating, storeUrl

Suppliers mode (one row per unique supplier): supplierId, supplierName, supplierCountry, storeUrl, contactName, jobTitle, businessType, registerCountry, yearsOnPlatform, responseTime, onTimeDeliveryRate, orders6m, orderAmount6m, tradeAssurance, verified, goldPlus, rating, rank, and sampleProduct (one product that matched, with its price and minimum order).

Input

Field	What it does
mode	products (default) or suppliers
searchQueries	Keywords, one search each
startUrls	Alibaba search URLs (your filters are kept), showroom URLs or product URLs
supplierCountries	Two-letter country codes; each country is searched separately
maxItemsPerQuery, maxItems	Limit per keyword / URL and for the whole run
includeDetails	Open every product page for the starred fields (always on in Suppliers mode)
tradeAssuranceOnly, verifiedSuppliersOnly, samplesAvailableOnly	Alibaba's own filters
minOrderQuantityFrom, minOrderQuantityTo, minPrice, maxPrice	Order quantity and unit price range
minSupplierRating	4, 4.5 or 5 and up
sortBy	Best match, sales volume or response rate
maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration	Speed and proxy (keep Apify Residential, country US)

Example, low-MOQ stainless steel tumblers from verified suppliers in China, best sellers first:

{
    "mode": "products",
    "searchQueries": ["stainless steel tumbler"],
    "supplierCountries": ["CN"],
    "verifiedSuppliersOnly": true,
    "minOrderQuantityTo": 50,
    "sortBy": "salesVolume",
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Example, a supplier lead list for garden hoses made in India:

{
    "mode": "suppliers",
    "searchQueries": ["garden hose"],
    "supplierCountries": ["IN"],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 100
}

Limits worth knowing

• Without filters Alibaba serves about 20,000 results per keyword; with filters or a sort about 4,800. Use several keywords, countries or price ranges to go further.
• Prices are in US dollars when the default US proxy country is kept.
• Alibaba shows a slider after a few requests from one IP, so the actor changes IP for every request. Keep the default Residential proxy setting; without it most runs will be blocked.
• Each product and each supplier is returned once per run, even if several keywords find it.

Scheduling and integrations

Run it on a schedule (for example weekly) and send the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable or your own webhook with Apify integrations. The rank, priceLadder and orders6m fields make week-over-week comparisons easy.

Use it from AI assistants

The actor can be called from the Apify MCP server and from the Apify API, so an AI assistant can ask for "the ten best-selling low-MOQ yoga mats from verified suppliers in India" and read the rows back.

FAQ

Do I get suppliers' emails or phone numbers? No. Alibaba only shows these to logged-in buyers who send an inquiry. You get the contact person's name and job title when Alibaba shows them, the supplier's store URL and the trade figures; reach the supplier through its store.

Which supplier details are missing? Factory size, staff counts and similar company-profile fields, supplier verification reports and store reviews are not included.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads Alibaba live.

Why did my run stop early with "blocked"? Alibaba rate-limits aggressively. The actor retries on new IPs and keeps what it collected; run it again with the same input to continue where it stopped, and make sure the proxy is Apify Residential.

Is it legal? The actor collects publicly visible product and company information. You are responsible for using it in line with Alibaba's terms and applicable law, and for not using personal data without a legal basis.