# Alibaba Products & Suppliers Scraper (search, MOQ, prices) (`datahamster/alibaba-products`) Actor

Alibaba.com search results as flat rows: product, price range, MOQ, supplier name and years, country, review score and count, service and shipping scores, badges, images. Filters for price, sort and supplier country. Monitor mode alerts on price/MOQ changes. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/datahamster/alibaba-products.md
- **Developed by:** [Viktor Dubnytskiy](https://apify.com/datahamster) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 result items

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Alibaba Products & Suppliers Scraper (search, MOQ, prices)

Alibaba.com search results as flat rows for sourcing research: product title, price range, minimum order quantity, supplier (name, years on Alibaba, country, profile URL), product and review scores, service and shipping scores, badges and images. Filter by price, supplier country and sort. Monitor mode on a saved Task returns only new products and price / MOQ changes since the last run, with optional webhook / Telegram summary.

### What you get

`productId`, `url`, `title`, `priceText`, `priceMin`, `priceMax`, `currency`, `moqText`, `moq`, `moqUnit`, `images[]`, `supplierName`, `supplierId`, `supplierUrl`, `supplierYears`, `countryCode`, `productScore`, `reviewScore`, `reviewCount`, `supplierServiceScore`, `shippingScore`, `badges[]`, `certifications[]`, `isAd`, `query`, `page`, `rank`, `scrapedAt`.

### Input

- `queries`, `priceFrom` / `priceTo`, `sortBy`, `countryCode`, `maxPages` × 48 products.
- `maxItems`; `mode: monitor` for alerts.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| result | $0.001 per product ($1 per 1,000) |
| monitor-check | $0.005 per monitor run |
| change | $0.001 per new/changed product |

Charged only for products actually pushed. Alibaba serves full pages only to residential IPs; Apify bills that proxy traffic on top (about 1 MB per page of 48 products).

### Limits

- Product detail pages are not opened: tiered price tables, attributes and supplier contact details are not included.
- Prices are shown as Alibaba displays them in search (usually USD per unit range).

### Changelog

- 0.1: initial release — search, filters, monitor mode.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Product keywords (each paginated separately)

## `priceFrom` (type: `integer`):

Lower unit-price bound

## `priceTo` (type: `integer`):

Upper unit-price bound

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Result order

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

ISO code filter, e.g. CN, IN, VN, TR

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

48 products per page

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

Stop after this many listings (you are charged only for pushed items)

## `mode` (type: `string`):

scrape = full results; monitor = only new listings / price changes since the previous run of this task

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Optional state key when not running as a saved task

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

POST a change summary here in monitor mode

## `telegramBotToken` (type: `string`):

Optional: bot token for monitor-mode change summaries

## `telegramChatId` (type: `string`):

Optional: chat id that receives monitor-mode summaries

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "bluetooth speaker"
  ],
  "sortBy": "best_match",
  "maxPages": 3,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "mode": "scrape"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All pushed rows (dataset, JSON)

## `resultsTable` (type: `string`):

Dataset in the Console viewer

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

RUN\_SUMMARY record (pushed, skipped, emptyReason)

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "bluetooth speaker"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("datahamster/alibaba-products").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 = { "queries": ["bluetooth speaker"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("datahamster/alibaba-products").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "bluetooth speaker"
  ]
}' |
apify call datahamster/alibaba-products --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,datahamster/alibaba-products"
        }
    }
}

```

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/SsnebNIr1Edb7KjAx/builds/J0wHYVVZzJtW1eb8f/openapi.json