AliExpress Search Scraper: Products, Prices, Shipping & Sales Data

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Extract clean, structured product data directly from AliExpress keyword search results without dealing with anti-bot blocks, visual CAPTCHAs, or headless browser overhead. Get listing prices, original prices, discounts, exact order volumes, ratings, delivery estimates, shipping signals, and product images in your preferred destination country and currency.

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Who is this for?

• E-Commerce & Dropshipping Researchers: Compare product costs, historical discounts, and supplier shipping signals across niches to evaluate margin potential.
• Price Tracking & Market Intelligence: Run recurring snapshots to observe listing price fluctuations and newly introduced supplier SKUs over time.
• Automation Engineers (n8n & Make): Ingest structured AliExpress product feeds into Google Sheets, PostgreSQL, or WooCommerce catalogs.
• Autonomous AI Agents: Extract clean JSON feeds with explicit status codes, verified fields, and zero hallucinated values.

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Quickstart (Try a 5-product search)

1. Set your search keyword (e.g., yoga mat, usb c cable).
2. Pick your destination country (US, GB, DE, etc.) and currency (USD, EUR, GBP, etc.).
3. Run the Actor.

{
  "queries": ["yoga mat"],
  "max_results_per_query": 5,
  "sort": "best_match",
  "ship_to": "US",
  "currency": "USD"
}

Through the Apify API, set maxTotalChargeUsd=0.02 for this 5-product test run. At the standard rate ($0.0025 per product result), 5 products cost $0.0125 plus the startup event.

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Output Data Structure

Each product record contains 20+ verified data points:

{
  "query": "yoga mat",
  "position": 1,
  "product_id": "3256806808957451",
  "sku_id": "12000061384420702",
  "title": "Yoga Mat Pilates Fitness Mat 3/4/6mm Thicknes Non Slip Yoga Cushion Travel Fitness Exercise Pad for Women Home Gym Floor Workout",
  "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256806808957451.html",
  "image_url": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S2519edadb8104a8a914b2c6c1ff4151bZ.jpg",
  "gallery_images": [
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S2519edadb8104a8a914b2c6c1ff4151bZ.jpg",
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S098ef04cfd1c4366b55c986374788dfaS.jpg",
    "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S43a6f8d5c8784c8992b871c47225527fK.jpg"
  ],
  "price": 1.09,
  "original_price": 13.81,
  "discount_percent": 92,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "sold": 12315,
  "sold_text": "10K+ sold",
  "shipping": {
    "free_shipping": false,
    "cost": null,
    "delivery_estimate": "Fastest delivery in 7 days",
    "ship_from": "CN"
  },
  "badge": "Dollar Express",
  "tags": [
    "Fastest delivery in 7 days",
    "Gym | Exercise",
    "Save $8.62"
  ],
  "is_sponsored": false,
  "listed_since": "2024-05-16",
  "ship_to": "US",
  "scraped_at": "2026-11-04T08:42:00Z"
}

Data Fields Explained:

• product_id: Stable unique identifier for the AliExpress product.
• sku_id: Specific SKU identifier corresponding to the displayed search card.
• price: Active sale price in selected currency.
• original_price: Stated reference price before discount.
• discount_percent: Calculated or source-reported savings percentage.
• sold: Exact cumulative orders parsed from backend tracking or displayed card (e.g., 12315).
• shipping.free_shipping: true if free delivery is explicitly offered, false otherwise.
• shipping.cost: 0.0 if free shipping; null (unknown) if shipping fees vary at checkout.
• shipping.delivery_estimate: Estimated arrival window when available (e.g., "Fastest delivery in 7 days").
• shipping.ship_from: Warehouse origin code ("CN", "US", "PL", etc.) if specified.
• badge: Promotional channel banner ("Choice", "Dollar Express", "Plus").
• tags: Key marketing badges and seller promotions.

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Honest Product Scope & Boundaries

To ensure reliable data pipelines, this tool maintains strict boundaries:

• Keyword Search Only: Scrapes AliExpress search listings. Does not crawl individual product pages, full customer review text, or deep variant matrices.
• Listing Price vs. Landed Price: The displayed price is the seller's search-card price for the selected destination. Custom duties, regional VAT, and final checkout fees depend on buyer account level and exact shipping address.
• Missing Data Stays Empty: If AliExpress does not report a rating, original price, or shipping cost for a given listing, the field is returned as null (unknown). We never fabricate placeholder zeros or mock ratings.
• Cumulative Units Sold: Sold counts represent AliExpress's cumulative sales signal, not sales within a 24-hour or 30-day window.

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AI Agent & LLM Guidance

When integrating with autonomous agents (via Apify MCP or HTTP REST):

• Inspect OUTPUT in Key-Value Store: Every run deposits a run summary with:
  • outcome: COMPLETE (all searches collected), PARTIAL_SOURCE (source blocked or pagination bound reached), PARTIAL_LIMIT (run budget reached), SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE (network block/captcha), or INPUT_ERROR.
  • data_coverage: Counts of valid prices, ratings, and shipping signals found.
• Handling Zero Results: A status of NO_DATA means the search returned zero items naturally. SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE means AliExpress anti-bot protection blocked the session; retrying in a few minutes with a residential proxy is recommended.
• Input Aliases: Accepts both plural queries: [...] and singular aliases: query, keyword, keywords, or search. Running with {} defaults to ["yoga mat"].

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Pricing & Economics

Event	Price	Description
product-result	$0.0025	Per valid product extracted ($2.50 per 1,000 products).
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	Standard startup per GB RAM. Minimum 1 event.

• Tiered Volume Discounts: Apify platform subscribers automatically receive volume discounts (Bronze $0.00225, Gold/Platinum $0.0020).
• Free Plan Preview: Up to 100 products per run on free accounts without product-result charges (platform compute terms apply).
• No-Charge Failures: If AliExpress blocks or returns an error, zero product-result charges occur.

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Integration: n8n & Google Sheets

Use the official Apify node in n8n to automate weekly niche research:

1. Trigger: Schedule Trigger (Weekly on Monday).
2. Action: Apify -> Run an Actor (hirepulse/aliexpress-search-scraper).
3. Payload: {"queries": ["smart home gadgets"], "max_results_per_query": 20}.
4. Output: Pipe the dataset into Google Sheets -> Append Row or Slack/Discord for team alerts on products with >1,000 orders and >80% discount.

For a full step-by-step tutorial, visit the HirePulse Developer Tools Guide.