# Alibaba Scraper - Products, Prices, MOQ & Suppliers (`conscious_gecko/alibaba-search-scraper`) Actor Scrape Alibaba.com search results by keyword: product title, price, MOQ, supplier (company, country, years), rating, reviews, image gallery, and URLs. Reliable through Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot via an undetected browser on rotating residential IPs. Built for wholesale sourcing and market research. - **URL**: https://apify.com/conscious\_gecko/alibaba-search-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Naveen V](https://apify.com/conscious_gecko) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $5.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## 🏭 Alibaba Scraper — Products, Prices, MOQ & Verified Suppliers Scrape [Alibaba.com](https://www.alibaba.com) search results by keyword and get clean, structured wholesale data — **product title, price (and price breaks), MOQ, supplier, rating, reviews, image gallery, and links** — reliably, even through Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot that blocks most scrapers. > Built for **sourcing agents, dropshippers, Amazon/Walmart wholesale resellers, private-label > brands, procurement teams, and price/market researchers.** ### ⚡ Why this one is reliable (and most aren't) Alibaba gates its search behind an anti-bot captcha that makes most scrapers fail a large share of runs (or give up and stay free). This actor clears that challenge reliably on rotating **residential IPs**, so you get a full page of results — **~48 products per page** — on every request. ### 📦 What you get for every product - 🏷️ **title**, **price** (incl. tiered price breaks like `$1.99~2.38`) - 📊 **moq** (minimum order) + parsed **moqQuantity** - 🏢 **companyName**, **companyId**, **countryCode**, **goldSupplierYears** (supplier tenure) - ⭐ **reviewScore** (rating) + **reviewCount** - 🛡️ **certifications** / supplier badges - 🖼️ **mainImage** + full **images** gallery - 🔗 **productUrl** + **supplierUrl** ### ▶️ Example input ```json { "searchTerms": ["phone case", "led strip light"], "maxPagesPerTerm": 3, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ```` ### 📤 Example output ```json { "searchTerm": "phone case", "productId": "1601822685583", "title": "1500D Aramid Fiber Magnetic Phone Case Ultra Thin for iPhone 17 16 Pro Max", "price": "$12.40-13", "moq": "Min. order: 500 pieces", "moqQuantity": 500, "companyName": "Guangzhou Ruite Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.", "companyId": "243508786", "countryCode": "CN", "goldSupplierYears": "8 yrs", "reviewScore": 4.6, "reviewCount": 107, "certifications": [], "mainImage": "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H3cc3919a42d2442da1bf53d366f0b4e6T.png_300x300.png", "images": ["https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/...jpg", "..."], "productUrl": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/..._1601822685583.html", "supplierUrl": "https://ruitetec.en.alibaba.com/" } ``` ### ⚙️ Input reference | Field | Description | | --- | --- | | `searchTerms` | Products to search (e.g. `["phone case", "led strip"]`). One search per term. | | `maxPagesPerTerm` | Result pages per term (~48 products each). | | `maxProductsPerTerm` | Optional cap on kept products per term (stops early once reached). | | `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | Keep only products in this USD unit-price range (also applied server-side). | | `minMoq` / `maxMoq` | Filter by minimum order quantity — e.g. `maxMoq: 100` finds low-MOQ suppliers. | | `minReviewScore` | Keep only suppliers rated ≥ this (1–5). | | `minSupplierYears` | Keep only established suppliers with ≥ this many gold-supplier years. | | `maxRetriesPerTerm` | Fresh residential IPs to try before giving up on a term. | | `proxyConfiguration` | Apify Proxy. **RESIDENTIAL is required** — Aliyun blocks datacenter IPs. | ### ❓ FAQ **Do I need an Alibaba account?** No — it scrapes public search pages. **Why is residential proxy required?** Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot blocks datacenter IPs outright. Residential IPs (rotated per run) are what make it reliable; the actor enforces this by default. **How many products per search?** ~48 per page. Set `maxPagesPerTerm` higher for more — Alibaba reports thousands of results per popular query. **Does it get supplier contact details?** It returns the supplier company, country, tenure, and profile URL. It does not harvest private contact emails/phones. # Actor input Schema ## `searchTerms` (type: `array`): Products to search Alibaba for (e.g. 'phone case', 'led strip', 'yoga mat'). ## `maxPagesPerTerm` (type: `integer`): Result pages to scrape per term (Alibaba shows ~48 products per page). ## `maxProductsPerTerm` (type: `integer`): Optional cap on kept products per term. Scraping stops once reached (across pages). Leave empty to use the page limit fully. ## `minPrice` (type: `integer`): Only keep products at or above this unit price. Also applied as an Alibaba server-side filter for efficiency. ## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`): Only keep products at or below this unit price. ## `minMoq` (type: `integer`): Only keep products whose minimum order quantity is at least this. ## `maxMoq` (type: `integer`): Only keep products whose minimum order quantity is at most this (find low-MOQ suppliers). ## `minReviewScore` (type: `integer`): Only keep products whose supplier rating is at least this (1-5). ## `minSupplierYears` (type: `integer`): Only keep established suppliers with at least this many gold-supplier years (a verified-supplier proxy). ## `maxRetriesPerTerm` (type: `integer`): How many fresh residential IPs to try for a term before giving up. The slider is solved in-browser; retries cover hard-blocked (punish) IPs. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Proxy. RESIDENTIAL is required — Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot blocks datacenter IPs, and rotating a fresh residential IP on each challenge is the core of the reliability (this is what the cheaper Alibaba scrapers get wrong). ## Actor input object example ```json { "searchTerms": [ "phone case" ], "maxPagesPerTerm": 3, "maxRetriesPerTerm": 6, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `products` (type: `string`): One row per Alibaba product — title, price, MOQ, supplier, rating, images, URLs. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "searchTerms": [ "phone case" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("conscious_gecko/alibaba-search-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "searchTerms": ["phone case"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "US", }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("conscious_gecko/alibaba-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "searchTerms": [ "phone case" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } }' | apify call conscious_gecko/alibaba-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=conscious_gecko/alibaba-search-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Alibaba Scraper - Products, Prices, MOQ & Suppliers", "description": "Scrape Alibaba.com search results by keyword: product title, price, MOQ, supplier (company, country, years), rating, reviews, image gallery, and URLs. Reliable through Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot via an undetected browser on rotating residential IPs. Built for wholesale sourcing and market research.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "oAPMS9yB2w1PlZxcS" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/conscious_gecko~alibaba-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-conscious_gecko-alibaba-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/conscious_gecko~alibaba-search-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-conscious_gecko-alibaba-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/conscious_gecko~alibaba-search-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-conscious_gecko-alibaba-search-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "searchTerms" ], "properties": { "searchTerms": { "title": "Search terms", "type": "array", "description": "Products to search Alibaba for (e.g. 'phone case', 'led strip', 'yoga mat').", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxPagesPerTerm": { "title": "Max pages per term", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Result pages to scrape per term (Alibaba shows ~48 products per page).", "default": 3 }, "maxProductsPerTerm": { "title": "Max products per term (optional)", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Optional cap on kept products per term. Scraping stops once reached (across pages). Leave empty to use the page limit fully." }, "minPrice": { "title": "Min price (USD)", "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep products at or above this unit price. Also applied as an Alibaba server-side filter for efficiency." }, "maxPrice": { "title": "Max price (USD)", "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep products at or below this unit price." }, "minMoq": { "title": "Min order quantity", "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep products whose minimum order quantity is at least this." }, "maxMoq": { "title": "Max order quantity", "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep products whose minimum order quantity is at most this (find low-MOQ suppliers)." }, "minReviewScore": { "title": "Min supplier rating", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5, "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep products whose supplier rating is at least this (1-5)." }, "minSupplierYears": { "title": "Min gold-supplier years", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Only keep established suppliers with at least this many gold-supplier years (a verified-supplier proxy)." }, "maxRetriesPerTerm": { "title": "Max IP-rotation retries per term", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 25, "type": "integer", "description": "How many fresh residential IPs to try for a term before giving up. The slider is solved in-browser; retries cover hard-blocked (punish) IPs.", "default": 6 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Apify Proxy. RESIDENTIAL is required — Alibaba's Aliyun anti-bot blocks datacenter IPs, and rotating a fresh residential IP on each challenge is the core of the reliability (this is what the cheaper Alibaba scrapers get wrong).", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ], "apifyProxyCountry": "US" } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```