AliExpress Search Scraper

Search AliExpress by keyword or search URL and export the product results at scale — price, original price, discount %, star rating, order count, store, "Choice" flag, selling points, image and product URL — as clean, structured JSON. Choose the sort order, page deep, and get analysis‑ready data for pricing, sourcing and market research.

Built on a real Chrome fingerprint with an automatic anti‑bot bootstrap, so runs stay reliable where simpler scrapers get blocked or return empty pages.

Who uses this

• Dropshippers & product researchers — find best‑selling products by order count, compare prices and discounts, and spot winners fast.
• Pricing & sourcing analysts — track price, discount depth and "Choice" status across a keyword set.
• Agencies & resellers — build product feeds and catalogs from AliExpress search.
• Data teams / SaaS — a stable JSON product feed for dashboards and models.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	The search keyword that produced the row
rank	number	Position within the keyword's results
product_id	string	AliExpress product ID
title	string	Product title
url	string	Product URL
image	string	Main product image URL
price	number	Current sale price (decimal)
price_formatted	string	Localized price string (e.g. US $14.19)
currency	string	Currency code
discount_percent	number	Discount vs original price
original_price	number	Pre‑discount price
original_price_formatted	string	Localized original price
rating	number	Average product rating (0–5)
orders	number	Number of orders/sales
orders_text	string	Raw orders label (e.g. 10,000+ sold)
store_id	string	Seller/store ID
sku_id	string	Default SKU ID
category_id	string	Category ID
is_choice	boolean	Whether it's an AliExpress Choice item
selling_points	array	Badges/tags (e.g. free shipping)
scraped_at	string	ISO‑8601 timestamp of extraction

High‑value use cases

1. Winning‑product discovery — sort by Most orders and pull the top 300 for a niche to find proven sellers.
2. Price & discount monitoring — schedule a keyword set and track price, discount_percent and original_price over time.
3. Catalog building — turn a list of keywords into a structured product feed with images and URLs.
4. Choice/quality filtering — keep only is_choice items for faster, more reliable fulfillment.
5. Competitive research — compare stores by rating and order volume across a category.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	—	Keywords to search (each scraped independently).
searchUrls	array	—	Full AliExpress search URLs (keyword parsed from the URL).
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	100	Max products per keyword (60 per page).
sort	string	default	default, orders, newest, price_asc, price_desc.
region	string	US	Ship‑to country code.
currency	string	USD	Price currency.
language	string	en_US	Display locale for titles.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy (Residential)	Residential proxies recommended.
headless	boolean	true	Run the bootstrap browser headless (keep on for Apify).

Example input

{
    "searchQueries": ["wireless earbuds", "mechanical keyboard"],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 120,
    "sort": "orders",
    "region": "US",
    "currency": "USD"
}

Example output row

{
    "keyword": "wireless earbuds",
    "rank": 1,
    "product_id": "3256806491670200",
    "title": "Lenovo GM2 Pro TWS Wireless HIFI Stereo Headset",
    "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806491670200.html",
    "image": "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/....jpg",
    "price": 14.19,
    "price_formatted": "US $14.19",
    "currency": "USD",
    "discount_percent": 56,
    "original_price": 32.55,
    "rating": 4.9,
    "orders": 275870,
    "orders_text": "275,870 sold",
    "store_id": "1101234567",
    "is_choice": true,
    "selling_points": ["Free shipping"],
    "scraped_at": "2026-08-22T10:14:21.000Z"
}

Scheduling & integrations

• Schedule keyword runs from the Apify Console to monitor prices and new products.
• Webhooks push results to your endpoint on completion.
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets, or integrate via Make, Zapier, and the Apify API.

Use from AI assistants (MCP)

Works with the Apify MCP server — AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients) can call this Actor as a tool: ask your agent to "find the best‑selling wireless earbuds on AliExpress" and get structured results back.

FAQ

Do I need an AliExpress account? No. The Actor scrapes public search results; it bootstraps the required anti‑bot cookie automatically.

Why should I use residential proxies? AliExpress challenges datacenter IPs aggressively. Residential proxies (the default) keep search results flowing.

How many products can I get per keyword? Up to AliExpress's practical search depth (~3,600). Set maxItemsPerQuery to cap it.

Can I paste search URLs instead of keywords? Yes — put them in searchUrls; the keyword is parsed from each URL.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live results; scraped_at records the time.

Is scraping this legal? The Actor collects only publicly available product data. You are responsible for using the output in line with AliExpress's terms and applicable law.

A run got interrupted — do I lose progress? No. Progress is checkpointed per keyword and resumes on a re‑run with the same input.