# AliExpress Product Detail Scraper — Variants & Shipping (`bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper`) Actor

Get full AliExpress product detail by URL: per-variant prices, shipping cost & ETA, seller rating & tenure, specifications, rating, reviews, stock and images. Pay per product.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $13.87 / 1,000 product items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## AliExpress Product Detail Scraper

**Turn an AliExpress product URL into a complete, structured product record** —
the full detail page, not just the search-listing surface. For every product you
pass in, this Actor returns the **per-variant price matrix**, **shipping cost and
delivery estimate** to your target country, the **seller's rating, country and
store tenure**, the complete **specifications table**, the product **rating and
review count**, **live stock**, and the **image gallery** — all as clean JSON.

Most AliExpress scrapers stop at the listing card: title, a single price, an
image, a URL. The moment you need to know *which variant costs what*, *how much
shipping adds to the landed price*, *whether the seller is trustworthy*, or *what
the actual specifications are*, those tools return empty fields. This Actor is
built for exactly that depth.

***

### What you get per product

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `product_id`, `title`, `url` | Product identity and canonical link |
| `price`, `sale_price`, `original_price`, `discount_pct`, `currency` | Effective price, sale vs. list price, and the discount |
| `variants` | **Per-variant matrix**: each color/size/option combination with its own `sku_id`, label, `price`, `stock`, and availability |
| `variant_count` | Number of purchasable variants |
| `shipping_cost`, `shipping_currency`, `free_shipping`, `delivery_estimate` | **Shipping to your target country** and the delivery ETA when published |
| `seller_name`, `seller_id`, `store_url`, `seller_rating`, `seller_total_reviews`, `seller_level`, `seller_country`, `seller_open_year` | **Seller intelligence** — positive-feedback rate, store link, country and how long the store has operated |
| `rating`, `review_count` | Product star rating and number of reviews |
| `specifications` | **Full attribute table** as a key→value map (material, model, features, …) |
| `available_inventory` | Total units in stock |
| `images`, `main_image` | Image gallery URLs |
| `category_path`, `category`, `description_url` | Category taxonomy and the description page link |
| `parse_confidence`, `warnings`, `scraped_at` | Quality score (0–1), parse warnings, and the capture timestamp |

***

### Who it's for (use cases)

- **Dropshippers & resellers** — pull the per-variant price matrix and shipping
  cost to compute your true landed cost and margin before importing a product.
- **Price & competitor monitoring** — track sale vs. list price and discount
  depth across a basket of products on a schedule.
- **Product research & sourcing** — compare seller rating, store tenure and
  specifications across candidate suppliers for the same item.
- **Catalog enrichment** — feed your store or PIM with structured
  specifications, variants and images instead of hand-copying them.
- **Market & pricing analysts** — build datasets of AliExpress pricing,
  shipping and seller trust signals for modeling.

This Actor pairs naturally with a listing/search scraper: discover product URLs
in bulk, then enrich each one here with the deep detail fields.

***

### How to use it

1. Open the Actor and paste one or more **AliExpress product URLs** into
   `productUrls` (e.g. `https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html`).
   Bare numeric product ids work too.
2. Set your **target country** and **currency** so prices, shipping and the
   delivery estimate reflect your market.
3. Keep the default **Apify Residential proxy** (recommended) — AliExpress needs
   a residential IP for reliable access. It's billed to your run; no external
   account is required.
4. Run. Each product becomes one row in the dataset; export to JSON, CSV, Excel,
   or pull it via the API.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

#### Example output (abridged)

```json
{
  "product_id": "3256806779925038",
  "title": "Digital Display Bluetooth Earphones with Mic TWS …",
  "price": 2.02,
  "sale_price": 2.02,
  "original_price": 5.48,
  "discount_pct": 63.1,
  "currency": "USD",
  "variant_count": 5,
  "variants": [
    { "sku_id": "12000038883449394", "variant": "Color: green", "price": 3.17, "stock": 6, "available": true }
  ],
  "shipping_cost": 13.57,
  "shipping_currency": "CNY",
  "seller_name": "Stone's Store",
  "seller_rating": 100.0,
  "seller_country": "China",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "review_count": 13883,
  "available_inventory": 2046,
  "specifications": { "Brand Name": "…", "Model Number": "E6S" },
  "parse_confidence": 1.0
}
```

***

### Pricing

This Actor uses **pay-per-result**: you are charged per product detail record
returned. You only pay for products successfully scraped — failed or unavailable
products are skipped and not charged. Platform/proxy usage is billed to your own
Apify account at standard rates.

***

### Reliability

- **Structured-contract parsing.** The Actor reads AliExpress's own structured
  product data by stable contract keys — not by fragile CSS class names that
  change on every front-end redeploy. Each record carries a `parse_confidence`
  score so you can detect any upstream drift programmatically.
- **Resilient access.** AliExpress protects its product-detail data behind a
  challenge layer. The Actor handles this with a resilient browser session and
  rotates to a fresh residential exit when a request is rate-limited, so runs
  stay reliable without any manual setup on your side.
- **Graceful degradation.** A missing optional field (e.g. a delivery ETA that
  the page didn't render for a region) becomes `null` rather than failing the
  record.

***

### FAQ

**Do I need my own proxy or any external account?**
No. Apify Residential proxy is recommended and billed to your run. No third-party
key is required.

**Can I scrape many products at once?**
Yes — pass as many product URLs as you like in `productUrls`. Each is processed
and charged individually.

**Does it return variant-level prices?**
Yes. The `variants` array holds each purchasable combination with its own price,
stock and availability — a field most listing scrapers leave empty.

**Which countries / currencies are supported?**
Set any standard country and currency code (US, GB, DE, FR, ES, BR, …). Prices,
shipping and delivery reflect that market.

**Is this legal?**
This Actor collects **publicly available** product information that any visitor
can see on a product page. You are responsible for using the output in
compliance with applicable laws, AliExpress's terms, and data-protection rules.
No login, no private or personal data is accessed.

***

### Integrations

Pipe the output into Google Sheets, Airtable, your database, or any app via the
Apify API, webhooks, or the available integrations. Schedule runs to keep a
price/stock dataset fresh.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

List of AliExpress product URLs (or bare numeric product ids). Example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html . Each returns one full detail record with variants, shipping, seller and specifications.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code for prices, shipping cost and delivery estimate (e.g. US, GB, DE, FR, ES, BR). Default: US.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency code for prices (e.g. USD, EUR, GBP). Default: USD.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of products to process. 0 = all provided URLs. You are charged per product returned.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

REQUIRED. AliExpress requires a residential proxy for reliable access — datacenter IPs are rejected. Apify Residential proxy is recommended; it is billed to your run, no external account needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxItems": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset of product detail records (product\_id, title, price, sale\_price, original\_price, discount\_pct, currency, variants, shipping\_cost, delivery\_estimate, seller\_name, seller\_rating, rating, review\_count, specifications, available\_inventory, main\_image, url, parse\_confidence).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "productUrls": [
        "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html"
    ],
    "country": "US",
    "currency": "USD",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "productUrls": ["https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html"],
    "country": "US",
    "currency": "USD",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806779925038.html"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}' |
apify call bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bovi/aliexpress-product-detail-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PIFwj5ndRMQcwTLeX/builds/SK5xXYJxKztu1rb5Q/openapi.json