1688 Product Scraper — Wholesale Prices, MOQ & Suppliers

1688 Product Scraper extracts wholesale product data from 1688.com — Alibaba's China-domestic B2B marketplace — by product URL: title, description, price tiers, MOQ, supplier name and location, sold count, attributes and images. You paste the product links you care about and get clean, structured data back, with no login, no cookies and no setup.

Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it through the API, schedule it, or feed it straight to an AI agent. Think of it as a 1688 product API for the data the official site doesn't hand you.

What can you do with it?

• 🛒 Wholesale sourcing for dropshipping & importing — pull MOQ, tiered pricing and supplier details for the offers you're evaluating, and decide what to import.
• 🏭 Supplier comparison — collect supplier name, location and the same offer across multiple links to compare factories side by side.
• 💰 Price & MOQ research — track wholesale price ranges and minimum order quantities to model landed cost and margins.
• 📊 Market & product research — build datasets of competing offers to spot trending products and price floors before you commit.
• 🤖 AI / LLM datasets — produce structured product JSON for RAG pipelines, sourcing agents and analysis.

What data does it extract?

Field	Description
title	Product title (original Chinese)
description	Product/offer description
priceText	Wholesale price or price range as shown (e.g. ¥1.20 - ¥5.00)
moqText	Minimum order quantity text (MOQ)
soldText	Sold / transaction volume text
supplierName	Supplier / seller company name
supplierLocation	Supplier location
attributes	List of product attributes (material, color, spec…)
images	Product image URLs
offerId / url	Offer identifier and canonical product link
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of the scrape

⚠️ Free vs. paid Apify plans

This actor relies on a premium unblocking backend that the author pays for. 1688's anti-bot is among the toughest in China, so free Apify accounts cannot pull live 1688 data.

• Free plan: returns a small, clearly-labelled MOCK sample so you can inspect the exact output shape first.
• Paid plan: real, live 1688 product data via a premium Scraping Browser backend.

Upgrade at https://apify.com/pricing and re-run — the actor detects your plan automatically, no input change needed.

Input

This is a product-detail scraper: you provide one or more 1688 product URLs, and it returns one record per offer. It does not search by keyword — give it the exact links you want.

Field	Type	Description
productUrls	Array (required)	1688.com product detail URLs. Format: https://detail.1688.com/offer/{offerId}.html. Add as many as you like.
includeReviews	Boolean	If true, also scrape recent product reviews (slower). Default false.
debug	Boolean	Verbose logging for troubleshooting. Default false.

Tip: collect the product URLs from 1688 search, category or supplier pages first (in your browser), then paste them into productUrls. Each URL is scraped independently, so a single bad or removed link won't stop the rest of the batch.

Output

One record per product URL (real data on paid plans; mock sample on free plans):

{
  "url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/610234176288.html",
  "offerId": "610234176288",
  "title": "隐形肩带透明文胸肩带加宽透明磨砂隐形带调整型内衣带防滑配件",
  "description": "阿里巴巴（1688.com）是全球企业间（B2B）电子商务的著名品牌 …",
  "priceText": null,
  "moqText": null,
  "supplierName": "义乌市唐婷服饰有限公司",
  "supplierLocation": null,
  "soldText": null,
  "attributes": [],
  "images": [
    "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01Mu1MIC2HWQJQT4v5N_!!3696439158-0-cib.jpg_284x284q90.jpg_.webp",
    "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01JP2GkA1g76d62HKdp_!!2219382864094-0-cib.jpg_284x284q90.jpg_.webp"
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T01:07:14.042Z"
}

Field notes

• title / description are returned in the original Chinese, exactly as 1688 publishes them — run them through your own translation step if you need English.
• priceText, moqText, soldText are extracted as displayed. Some offers redact or hide these for logged-out visitors, so they may be null on a given page — the actor never fabricates a value.
• supplierLocation is null when 1688 doesn't expose it on the public offer page; supplierName is the company behind the listing.
• attributes is a list of product spec strings (material, color, size…) and can be empty for sparse listings.
• images contains the product image URLs found on the offer; alicdn thumbnails and gallery images are included.
• offerId is the numeric ID from the URL — a stable key for deduping or joining runs.

Integrations

• API — start runs and fetch the dataset via the Apify API (REST/JSON) or the JS/Python clients. A 1688 API for the product data the official site doesn't expose.
• Schedule & monitor — run on a schedule to re-check prices and stock on the offers you track; get notified on failures.
• AI agents / MCP — expose this actor to ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants through the Apify MCP server so an AI can pull live 1688 product data on demand.
• No-code — pipe results into Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack or your database with Apify integrations and webhooks.

FAQ

What is 1688? 1688.com is Alibaba's China-domestic wholesale (B2B) marketplace — the platform Chinese suppliers and factories sell on at wholesale prices and minimum order quantities. It's where many products on AliExpress, Temu and Amazon are originally sourced.

How does 1688 Product Scraper work? You give it 1688 product URLs. For each link it opens the offer page exactly as a buyer would, copies the visible data — title, price, MOQ, supplier, images, attributes — and organizes it into a structured dataset, only much faster and at scale.

Do I need a 1688 account or login? No. No account, cookies or credentials — proxy and unblocking are handled automatically. Note that a few B2B-exclusive fields are only shown to logged-in buyers, so they may come back null.

Can I search by keyword? Not directly — this actor scrapes product detail by URL, not keyword search. Find the offers you want on 1688 first (search, category or supplier pages in your browser), then paste those product links into productUrls.

Why are some fields null? 1688 redacts certain fields (price, MOQ, sold count, supplier location) for logged-out automated requests on some offers. When a value isn't present on the public page, the actor returns null rather than guessing.

Is it legal to scrape 1688? The actor collects only publicly available product information (no login, no personal data). As with any scraping, you are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with applicable laws and terms. See Is web scraping legal?

Can I get the data through an API? Yes — run it via the Apify API or the JS/Python clients and fetch results as JSON, CSV or Excel. See Integrations above.

Can I connect it to AI / MCP? Yes — expose it to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants through the Apify MCP server so an agent can fetch 1688 product data on demand.

How much does it cost? Pay only for what you scrape on a paid Apify plan. Free plans get a mock sample only.

Related Actors

Building a sourcing or marketplace data pipeline? Pair 1688 Product Scraper with:

• Goofish (Xianyu) Scraper — second-hand listings from Xianyu / Goofish.
• Shopee Scraper — products, prices and sellers from Shopee.
• Temu Scraper — products and prices from Temu.

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