AliExpress Product & Variant Scraper

Turn AliExpress search results, category pages and product links into clean, ready-to-use product data — including the SKU-level variant table (every colour/size option with its own price and stock) that most catalogue scrapers leave out.

Give the Actor a few keywords, listing URLs or bare product IDs. It returns one row per product with title, image gallery, current price, pre-discount price, discount percentage, rating, review and orders count, store details, dispatch country, shipping cost and delivery estimate, breadcrumb category path, and the full variant list.

No browser is used: the Actor reads the JSON that AliExpress embeds in its own pages, so runs are fast and cheap.

Price

$0.0015 per product returned (pay-per-event product-scraped). You are only charged for rows that actually land in your dataset — pages that fail or are filtered out cost nothing. Apify platform usage is billed separately by Apify as usual.

100 products ≈ $0.15. 10,000 products ≈ $15.

Typical uses

• Dropshipping and product research: find winning items by price, orders and rating.
• Competitive price monitoring, including per-variant prices your competitors hide.
• Building a supplier catalogue feed with images, options and stock levels.
• Checking landed cost for one market: shipping cost and delivery ETA for your country.

Inputs

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchQueries	array of strings	[]	Keyword phrases to search, e.g. mechanical keyboard. Each query is paginated until maxItems is reached.
startUrls	array of strings	[]	AliExpress search, category or product URLs to scrape directly. Product URLs are fetched as single products.
productIds	array of strings	[]	Bare AliExpress item IDs, e.g. 1005006238899018.
maxItems	integer	100	Hard cap on how many products are output across all inputs. The run stops fetching as soon as it is reached.
shipToCountry	string	US	ISO-2 country code used to resolve prices, shipping cost and delivery estimate, e.g. US, DE, BR.
currency	string	USD	Currency requested for returned prices, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP.
language	string	en	Site language for titles and attribute names, e.g. en, es, fr.
sortBy	string	default	Listing order: default, price_asc, price_desc, orders_desc, newest.
minPrice	integer	0	Drop products cheaper than this (in the chosen currency). 0 disables.
maxPrice	integer	0	Drop products more expensive than this. 0 disables.
includeVariants	boolean	true	Also open each product page to collect per-variant price, stock and attributes, plus store, gallery, shipping and category data. Slower, much richer.
freeShippingOnly	boolean	false	Keep only products confirmed to ship free to the selected country.

At least one of searchQueries, startUrls or productIds must be filled.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["mechanical keyboard", "usb c cable"],
  "startUrls": ["https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-smart-watch.html"],
  "productIds": ["1005006238899018"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "shipToCountry": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "language": "en",
  "sortBy": "orders_desc",
  "minPrice": 5,
  "maxPrice": 120,
  "includeVariants": true,
  "freeShippingOnly": false
}

Output

One dataset row per product.

Field	Type	Description
productId	string	AliExpress item ID.
url	string	Canonical product URL.
title	string	Product title.
imageUrl	string	Main product image.
images	array	Gallery image URLs (filled when the product page is opened).
price	number	Current sale price.
originalPrice	number	Pre-discount list price when shown, otherwise null.
discountPercent	number	Discount off the list price, otherwise null.
currency	string	Currency code of the returned prices.
ratingAvg	number	Average stars out of 5, when shown.
reviewCount	integer	Number of reviews, when shown.
ordersCount	integer	Units sold / orders as shown by AliExpress.
storeName	string	Seller store name.
storeId	string	Seller store ID.
storeUrl	string	Seller store URL.
shipsFrom	string	Declared dispatch country.
shippingCost	number	Shipping cost to the selected country, 0 when free.
deliveryEstimate	string	Delivery window text for the selected country.
variants	array	SKU rows: skuId, attributes, price, originalPrice, stock, inStock.
categoryPath	array	Breadcrumb category names.
sourceQuery	string	The query, URL or ID that produced the row.
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 extraction timestamp.

Example output row

{
  "productId": "1005009494458560",
  "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009494458560.html",
  "title": "AJAZZ NK61 Wired Gaming Mechanical Keyboard 60% RGB Hot-Swappable 61 Keys Red Switch Mini Keyboard for Gamer PC",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S21fa9e98da3547c5a2e840c1917ce9cdI.png_480x480.png",
  "images": [
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S21fa9e98da3547c5a2e840c1917ce9cdI.png",
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S4b1f7b7a1a6f4c0aa7b1b0a9a1d0f1e2.png"
  ],
  "price": 31.49,
  "originalPrice": 43.16,
  "discountPercent": 27.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "ratingAvg": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 2841,
  "ordersCount": 15288,
  "storeName": "AJAZZ Official Store",
  "storeId": "1102283018",
  "storeUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1102283018",
  "shipsFrom": "CN",
  "shippingCost": 0,
  "deliveryEstimate": "Delivery: Feb 18 - Mar 02",
  "variants": [
    {
      "skuId": "12000049283740115",
      "attributes": { "Color": "Black", "Switch": "Red Switch" },
      "price": 31.49,
      "originalPrice": 43.16,
      "stock": 812,
      "inStock": true
    },
    {
      "skuId": "12000049283740116",
      "attributes": { "Color": "White", "Switch": "Brown Switch" },
      "price": 33.99,
      "originalPrice": 45.99,
      "stock": 0,
      "inStock": false
    }
  ],
  "categoryPath": ["Computer & Office", "Keyboards & Mice", "Keyboards"],
  "sourceQuery": "mechanical keyboard",
  "scrapedAt": "2024-06-05T09:41:12Z"
}

Limits and honest notes

• Only what AliExpress publishes. Fields such as reviewCount, shippingCost, deliveryEstimate, shipsFrom or originalPrice are returned when the page exposes them and are null otherwise. Nothing is guessed.
• Variants require includeVariants: true, which opens one extra page per product. With it off the run is faster but variants, images, store and shipping fields stay mostly empty.
• Ship-to country, currency and language are requested through AliExpress's own site preference mechanism. AliExpress may still answer in its regional default for some routes; the currency field always reports the currency of the prices actually returned.
• Sponsored cards appear in AliExpress listings and are returned like any other product.
• Pagination depth is limited by AliExpress itself (roughly a few dozen pages per query). Use several narrower queries or price bands for large harvests.
• If AliExpress blocks the run (HTTP 403 / 429 or an anti-bot challenge), the Actor logs this clearly and stops instead of trying to get around it. You keep everything already scraped and are billed only for delivered rows.
• Requests are sent with the honest User-Agent

  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; aliexpress-catalog-variant-scraper/1.0)
  , at most 4 in parallel, with retries and a pause between listing pages.

Terms

This Actor reads only publicly reachable AliExpress catalogue pages; it never logs in and collects no buyer, reviewer or other personal data. AliExpress's terms of use discourage automated collection and redistribution of site content, so you are responsible for making sure your use of the output complies with those terms and with applicable law in your jurisdiction. Prices, stock and delivery estimates change constantly — treat every row as a snapshot taken at scrapedAt.