# Taobao Scraper - Search, Item Details & Shops | 淘宝 (`dami_studio/taobao-scraper`) Actor Taobao and Tmall products by search word, category, shop or item id: full title, price in yuan, promotion label, shop and its scores, category. Add the item page for ship-from city, shop age and credit level, and review counts. - **URL**: https://apify.com/dami_studio/taobao-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Dami's Studio](https://apify.com/dami_studio) (community) - **Categories:** E-commerce - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.12 / 1,000 products This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. 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. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## 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. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README **Taobao scraper (淘宝) for search words, categories, shops and item ids, one row per product**: the full Chinese title, the price in yuan with its promotion label, the same price in Hong Kong, Taiwan and US dollars, the photo, the shop and its score, and the category. Switch on the item pages and each row also gets Tmall or Taobao, where it ships from, the shop's age, size and credit level, and the review counts. The awkward part first. Taobao keeps public pages only for words people search often. A search word gives you up to 200 products: its 40 best sellers, then the best sellers in nine price bands. Not thousands, and a long or very specific search may find nothing at all. SKUs, stock and sales counts are not on those pages, so they are not in the rows either. | | | |---|---| | **Input** | Search words (Chinese finds the most), category ids, shop ids, or item ids and links | | **Output** | One row per product: full title, price in yuan, promotion label, HKD, TWD and USD prices, photo, shop, category. With item pages: Tmall or Taobao, ships from, shop age and credit level, three shop scores, review counts | | **Ceiling** | 200 products per search word, 60 per shop, 20 per category; 10,000 products per run | | **Speed** | 987 products from five search words took 3 minutes; about 150 from search words, a shop and a category about 30 seconds; 50 to 60 products with their item pages 2.5 to 3 minutes | | **Account needed** | None | | **Price** | $1.12 per 1,000 products, the same on every plan; $3.25 per 1,000 when the item page is read; $1.40 per 1,000 shops. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 4,400 products | | Using an AI agent? | | |---|---| | Actor | `dami_studio/taobao-scraper` | | Set one field | `keywords`, labelled "Search words" in the Console | | Cap the bill | `maxTotalChargeUsd` on the run, for example `0.10`: it never charges past that | | MCP, one link | `https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/taobao-scraper` | | How often | Weekly, to follow what sells under a search word and at what price | ### 🌏 中文说明 按搜索词、类目、店铺或商品编号读取淘宝和天猫的公开页面，每个商品一行：完整中文标题、人民币价格和促销标签、港币、新台币和美元价格、图片、店铺和类目。打开商品页后还有天猫或淘宝、发货地、开店时间、店铺规模、信用等级、三项店铺评分和评价数量。没有SKU、库存和销量。 在`keywords`（Search words）里填搜索词，点Start就行，不需要账号。按商品条数收费，价格见上方表格。本工具不是淘宝的官方产品，与淘宝没有关联。 ### 🔍 What Taobao Scraper does You give it any mix of four things. A search word returns the best sellers Taobao lists for it, in Taobao's order, with titles in simplified Chinese: the first 40, then the best sellers in nine price bands from the cheapest up, then by seller rating, until it reaches your number. Each product comes once per word. You can sort by price or seller rating instead, keep one brand, use Taobao's free-shipping filter, add the words Taobao suggests, or leave out what an earlier run already returned. A category id returns that category's top 20. A shop id returns one row for the shop (its name, seller id and three scores) and the products its page lists. An item id or link returns that one product with everything its item page shows. "Open each product's page" adds the item page to the products from searches, categories and shops. It is slower, about three seconds a product, because the pages are read one after another. ### 📋 What data you get from each Taobao product | What you want | Fields | |---|---| | The product | `itemId`, `title`, `titleCutShort`, `url`, `imageUrl` | | Price | `price`, `priceLabel`, `currency`, `priceHkd`, `priceTwd`, `priceUsd`, `usdRate`, `usdRateDate` | | Shop | `shopId`, `shopName`, `shopDescriptionScore` | | Category | `categoryId`, `rootCategoryId` | | Where it was found | `keyword`, `position`, `source`, `priceBand`, `brand`, `relatedTo`, `scrapedAt` | | From the item page (optional) | `platform`, `originalPrice`, `hasPriceRange`, `shipsFrom`, `categoryPath`, `sellerId`, `sellerType`, `shopOpenedAt`, `shopItemCount`, `shopCreditLevel`, `shopServiceScore`, `shopDeliveryScore`, `paymentMethods` | | Reviews, from the item page (optional) | `goodReviews`, `badReviews`, `goodPercent`, `neutralPercent`, `badPercent` | | Shop rows | `shopId`, `shopName`, `sellerId`, `descriptionScore`, `serviceScore`, `deliveryScore`, `logoUrl`, `shopUrl`, `productCount` | ### ▶️ How to scrape Taobao products 1. Open Taobao Scraper on Apify and click **Try for free**. 2. In **Search words**, add one per line, for example `保温杯` or `手机壳`. Or fill **Item ids or links**, **Shop ids or links** or **Category ids or links** instead. 3. Set **Products per search word**, up to 200. 4. Optionally switch on **Open each product's page**, and set a price range in yuan. 5. Click **Start**, then open the **Output** tab or export to CSV, Excel or JSON. ### 💰 How much does it cost to scrape Taobao products? $1.12 per 1,000 products, the same on every plan, so 100 products cost $0.11. A product whose item page was read costs $3.25 per 1,000 instead, never both. A shop row costs $1.40 per 1,000, and its products are charged as products. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 4,400 products. Not charged: products outside your price range, a product listed twice on one page, and the note rows that say something has no public page, was not served or stopped early. ### 📥 What you give it | Field | What it does | Default | |---|---|---| | `keywords` | Search words, up to 50 a run | none | | `itemIds` | Item ids, or links with `id=` in them, up to 1,000 | none | | `shopIds` | Shop ids or shop links, up to 100 | none | | `categoryIds` | Category ids or category links, up to 50 | none | | `maxItemsPerKeyword` | Products per search word, 1 to 200 | `100` | | `maxItems` | Most products in the run, up to 10,000 | `1000` | | `sort` | `sales`, `price-asc`, `price-desc` or `seller-credit` | `sales` | | `brand` | One brand by name or id, as Taobao lists it for the word | none | | `freeShippingOnly` | Taobao's own free-shipping filter | `false` | | `relatedKeywords` | Also search up to this many of Taobao's suggested words per word, 0 to 10 | `0` | | `onlyNew` | Leave out products an earlier run with the same `stateKey` returned | `false` | | `stateKey` | The name of that list | `default` | | `includeShopProducts` | With shops, also return the shop's products | `true` | | `includeDetails` | Read each product's item page as well | `false` | | `minPrice` | Minimum price in yuan | none | | `maxPrice` | Maximum price in yuan | none | Fill at least one of the first four. A price range narrows the price bands too, and every product outside it is left out, so a narrow range gives fewer products than a wide one. ```json { "keywords": ["保温杯", "充电宝"], "maxItemsPerKeyword": 30, "includeDetails": true, "maxPrice": 200 } ``` ### 📤 What you get back ![Real run output](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/BTBHU3DdiuoF4JOsK/records/taobao-scraper-output.png) A real row with the item page read, trimmed: ```json { "recordType": "product", "itemId": "1061981418599", "title": "米菲兔女生高颜值吸管杯便携茶隔水杯可爱卡通学生保温杯闺蜜礼物", "url": "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1061981418599", "price": 69, "priceLabel": "特价秒杀", "currency": "CNY", "priceHkd": 82.03, "priceTwd": 338.66, "priceUsd": 10.35, "usdRate": 0.150006, "usdRateDate": "2026-10-28", "shopName": "Otaku Friends杂物社", "shopDescriptionScore": 4.87, "keyword": "保温杯", "position": 12, "source": "top-rated", "detailsRead": true, "platform": "Taobao", "shipsFrom": "浙江金华", "categoryPath": ["淘宝国际", "厨房/餐饮用具", "杯子/水杯/水壶", "保温杯"], "shopOpenedAt": "2012-08-17 17:07:44", "shopItemCount": 241, "shopCreditLevel": 15, "shopServiceScore": 4.8, "shopDeliveryScore": 4.9, "goodReviews": "4000+", "badReviews": "3", "goodPercent": "99%", "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T01:01:17.702Z" } ``` | Field | How to read it | |---|---| | `price` | The price Taobao shows a visitor, in yuan, promotion included. `originalPrice` is the item page's price before it | | `priceUsd` | Worked out from the European Central Bank's reference rates of `usdRateDate` (free on ecb.europa.eu): the ECB's USD rate divided by its CNY rate. For information, not for paying | | `title` | The full title from a search, category or shop page. Item pages often cut theirs short with "...", and a row for an item id carries that one; `titleCutShort` tells you | | `goodReviews` | Rounded the way Taobao shows it ("1万+", "4000+"). Tmall items show no review split, so these stay empty there | | `source` | For a search word: `top-rated` or `search` (the first 40), `sales`, `price-low`, `price-high`, `price-band` or `seller-credit` (the deeper or sorted pages); otherwise `category`, `shop` or `item` | | `relatedTo` | On rows from a suggested word, the search word it came from | | `priceBand` | The yuan band a `price-band` row was listed under, for example `20-30`. Taobao's bands are loose, so about half the rows of a band are priced outside it; `price` is the real price | | `shopDescriptionScore` | The shop's "item as described" score, 1 to 5 | ### 🧾 Reading the output Product rows carry `recordType: "product"` and shop rows `recordType: "shop"`. Note rows carry `_diagnostic: true`, `ok: false` and a `status`, and are never charged: | `status` | Meaning | |---|---| | `NO_RESULTS` | Taobao has no public page for that search word (try a shorter or more common word), your price range left out every product, the brand is not listed for it (`brandsListed` names those that are), or nothing is new since your last run with that key | | `NOT_FOUND` | No public page for that item, shop or category id | | `NOT_SERVED` | That page was not served this run. Re-run it later | | `TIME_LIMIT` | The run stopped before its time limit with inputs left, listed in `notRead` | | `COST_LIMIT` | The run reached the maximum cost you set | | `BAD_INPUT` | Something in the input could not be used, said in plain words | To keep only products, filter on `recordType` being `product`. ### 💡 What people use it for - **Sourcing for a shop abroad**: up to 200 best sellers for a product word, across price bands, with yuan and dollar prices side by side. - **Checking a supplier before ordering**: an item id with its page read gives the shop's age, size, credit level, scores and the share of bad reviews. - **Keeping an eye on a shop you sell against**: its first 60 products and their prices, week after week. - **Price research for a category**: one search word a run, sorted afterwards by `price` in your sheet. A simple recipe: get the words Chinese shoppers type from Taobao Keyword Suggestions Scraper, run them here with `maxPrice` set, then put the `itemId`s you like back in with `includeDetails` on to check the shops. ### 🚧 What it does not do - **No SKUs, stock or sales counts.** Taobao's public pages don't show them. - **200 products per search word at most**, and some words have fewer. Past the first 40 they come from price bands, so the deeper rows lean to the cheaper bands unless you ask for all 200. - **Long-tail words often have no public page**: you get a free `NO_RESULTS` row. - **Free shipping can't be checked product by product.** The filter is Taobao's own; the rows carry no shipping cost. - **No review texts and no reviewer names.** Only the counts and the good, neutral and bad shares, on Taobao shops. - **Shops: the first 60 products their page lists.** Categories: the top 20. - **Prices are what a signed-out visitor sees.** Coupons and member prices are not in them. - It is not an official Taobao tool. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Taobao, Tmall or Alibaba, or by any other company named on this page. ### 🧭 Which Taobao scraper do you need? | If you want | Use | |---|---| | Products by search word, category, shop or item id | This one | | All products in Taobao's 20 top-level category feeds | [Taobao Category Products Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/taobao-category-products-scraper) | | What Taobao's homepage feed is recommending now | [Taobao Product Feed Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/taobao-product-feed-scraper) | | The words Chinese shoppers type into Taobao | [Taobao Keyword Suggestions Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/taobao-keyword-suggestions-scraper) | | Wholesale offers with MOQ and price ladders | [1688 Wholesale Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/1688-wholesale-scraper) | | Second-hand Xianyu listings | [Goofish Scraper](https://apify.com/dami_studio/goofish-scraper) | ### ❓ Questions people ask #### Do I need a Taobao account? No. You don't need a Taobao account or cookies. #### Why is the price different from what I see in the Taobao app? The app shows coupons, member prices and your delivery region, and promotions change during the day. Open the product link in a private browser window to see what a signed-out visitor sees. #### How do I get more than 200 products for a product type? Set `relatedKeywords` to 3 or 5: the run also searches the words Taobao suggests (保温杯 brings 保温杯女, 儿童保温杯 and so on) and returns each product once across them. Words you list yourself are separate searches, and a product found under two of them comes back, and is charged, once for each. #### Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant? The [API tab](https://apify.com/dami_studio/taobao-scraper/api/python) has code for Python, JavaScript and the CLI. MCP clients like Claude and ChatGPT use `https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/taobao-scraper`. Both bill your Apify account at the same price. ```python ## pip install apify-client from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN") run = client.actor("dami_studio/taobao-scraper").call( run_input={ "keywords": ["保温杯"], "maxItemsPerKeyword": 20, }, max_total_charge_usd=0.10, # the most this run may spend ) for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): if row.get("ok") is False: # free note rows, not results continue print(row.get("price"), row.get("priceUsd"), (row.get("title") or "")[:60]) ``` #### Is scraping Taobao legal? These are public product and shop pages, read the way a signed-out visitor sees them, with no account and nothing private. Some shops trade under a person's name, which GDPR and similar laws treat as personal data, so keep only what you need. Taobao's own terms still apply to what you do with the data. Apify's write-up on [the legality of web scraping](https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/) is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers. ### 🆘 If something breaks Open the **Issues** tab on the actor page. Send the input you used and the run ID; the `status` on a note row usually names the problem on its own. # Actor input Schema ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Words to look up on Taobao, one per line. Chinese words find the most (保鲜盒, 手机壳, 连衣裙); some English ones work too. Taobao keeps public pages only for words people search often, so a long or very specific search may find nothing: you get a free note row saying so. ## `itemIds` (type: `array`): Taobao or Tmall item ids (1038060809278) or links that carry one (item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=..., detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=..., world.taobao.com/item/....htm). Each gives one row with the item page's details. ## `shopIds` (type: `array`): Taobao shop ids (59925401), or world.taobao.com/dianpu/....htm links. Each gives one shop row (name, seller id, three shop scores) and, if you leave the switch below on, the 60 products the shop's page lists first. ## `categoryIds` (type: `array`): Taobao category ids (50000567) or world.taobao.com/category/....htm links. Each gives the 20 best-selling products the category's page lists. ## `maxItemsPerKeyword` (type: `integer`): Up to 200. The first 40 are the word's best sellers; past those the run reads the best sellers in nine price bands, cheapest first, then by seller rating, about 20 new products a page. Some words have fewer. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): The run stops adding products here, across search words, categories, shops and item ids. Shop rows don't count toward it. ## `sort` (type: `string`): Best sellers (the default), price low to high, price high to low, or seller rating. A price order starts with Taobao's own cheapest or dearest listings, which can include 1-yuan samples; set a price range to skip them. ## `brand` (type: `string`): Only this brand, as Taobao lists it for the search word: a name (乐扣乐扣, Lock\&Lock) or its brand id. If the word has no such brand, you get a free note row with the brands it does list. ## `freeShippingOnly` (type: `boolean`): Taobao's own free-shipping filter for the search. The rows don't show a shipping cost, so it can't be checked product by product. ## `relatedKeywords` (type: `integer`): Also search up to this many of the words Taobao suggests for each search word (0 to 10). A product already returned for the word or another of its related words is not returned again. Rows carry relatedTo. ## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`): Leave out products this actor returned in an earlier run of yours with the same key below. The list is kept in a store in your own Apify account. The first run returns everything. ## `stateKey` (type: `string`): Runs with the same key share one list. Use a different key for each search you follow. Letters, digits, - and \_. ## `includeShopProducts` (type: `boolean`): With shop ids: also return the products on the shop's page (up to 60 a shop). ## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`): Adds what the item page shows: Tmall or Taobao, price before promotion, where it ships from, category path, the shop's age, size, credit level and three scores, and the review counts with good, neutral and bad shares. A product whose page was read costs the detailed-product price instead of the plain one. Slower: about 3 seconds a product. ## `minPrice` (type: `number`): Leave empty for no lower limit. Products below it are left out and not charged. ## `maxPrice` (type: `number`): Leave empty for no upper limit. Products above it are left out and not charged. ## Actor input object example ```json { "keywords": [ "保鲜盒" ], "maxItemsPerKeyword": 100, "maxItems": 1000, "sort": "sales", "freeShippingOnly": false, "relatedKeywords": 0, "onlyNew": false, "stateKey": "default", "includeShopProducts": true, "includeDetails": false } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): One row per product (`recordType: "product"`) and one per shop (`recordType: "shop"`). Free note rows (`_diagnostic: true`) say when something has no public page, was not served, or the run stopped early. # 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 = { "keywords": [ "保鲜盒" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("dami_studio/taobao-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 = { "keywords": ["保鲜盒"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("dami_studio/taobao-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 '{ "keywords": [ "保鲜盒" ] }' | apify call dami_studio/taobao-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/taobao-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 ` 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/oml71DF5i7MAMc3Xo/builds/hGRV7r5W5wKhVYPxD/openapi.json