Shopee Keyword Research Scraper

Shopee's own autocomplete, turned into a keyword research tool — across 11 marketplaces, with no API key, no login and no browser.

Shopee returns at most 12 suggestions for any one prefix. This Actor probes the seed and the seed followed by each letter, then deduplicates — so "sandals" returns 63 keywords instead of 12, and "phone case" returns 141.

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Why the expansion matters

A bare autocomplete call is capped and shallow. Walking the alphabet surfaces the long tail that the seed alone never shows:

Prefix probed	Terms only it revealed
sandals	sandals women, sandals men, sandals for women
sandals a	sandal anak, sandal accessories, sandal ap
sandals b	sandals big size, sandal baby, sandals birkenstock
sandals c	sandal crocs

Every row records the prefix that surfaced it, so you can see exactly which branch produced which term.

What you get

{
  "keyword": "sandals big size",
  "seedKeyword": "sandals",
  "prefix": "sandals b",
  "region": "sg",
  "country": "Singapore",
  "rank": 0,
  "categoryId": null,
  "categoryName": null,
  "isCategoryScoped": false,
  "searchUrl": "https://shopee.sg/search?keyword=sandals%20big%20size",
  "wordCount": 3,
  "extendsSeed": true
}

Field	Notes
keyword	The suggested term, exactly as Shopee autocompletes it
prefix	Which probe surfaced it — the seed, or the seed + a letter
rank	Position in Shopee's own ordering — the closest thing to a demand signal here
extendsSeed	true = long-tail variant of your seed; false = a lateral term Shopee thinks is related
wordCount	Quick long-tail filter
searchUrl	Ready to open
categoryId / categoryName	Present when Shopee scopes the suggestion to a category

extendsSeed: false is often the interesting column — seed phone case surfaces iphone case magsafe, iphone case silicone, iphone case cute, which are adjacent demand you would not have thought to seed.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["sandals", "phone case"],
  "expansion": "alphabet",
  "regions": ["sg", "my"],
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Option	Default	Notes
keywords	—	Required. Broad seeds work best.
expansion	none	none (1 request), alphabet (27), alphanumeric (37) — per seed, per market.
regions	["sg"]	Suggestions differ genuinely per country.
maxItems	1000	Hard cap across all seeds and markets.
proxyConfiguration	off	Leave off — see below.

There is no "list everything" mode: autocomplete needs something to complete. Give it broad seeds and let the expansion do the work.

Marketplaces

Singapore · Malaysia · Indonesia · Thailand · Vietnam · Philippines · Taiwan · Brazil · Mexico · Colombia · Chile

Suggestions come back in each market's own language and reflect that market's demand — the same seed gives genuinely different results per country, not translations.

Speed and cost

Each probe is a few kilobytes. Two seeds with full a-z expansion — 54 requests, 204 unique keywords — complete in about 3 seconds at 256 MB. No browser is launched.

Duplicates are removed before anything is stored, so overlapping probes never inflate your row count.

No proxy is used unless Shopee actually blocks an IP, and then the Actor escalates on its own — datacenter first (included in every Apify plan, free tier included), residential only if your plan has it.

Use it for

• Shopee SEO — find the exact phrasings buyers type, then write listing titles around them.
• Listing optimisation — rank shows which variant Shopee itself pushes hardest.
• Market entry — run one seed across SG, MY, ID and VN to see how demand is phrased in each.
• Ad keyword lists — export straight to CSV for Shopee Ads.
• Product research — extendsSeed: false reveals adjacent categories you did not seed.

Related

Shopee Category Tree Scraper for the taxonomy behind categoryId, Shopee Product Catalog & Variant Scraper for the listings themselves, and Shopee Official Brand Store Directory for who is selling.