🏭 Alibaba Product & Supplier Scraper — 11 Operations, No Login

Pull products, suppliers, reviews, categories and search suggestions straight from Alibaba.com — no account, no API key. One actor, 11 operations:

✅ Product search  ✅ Product detail  ✅ Product reviews ✅ Supplier search  ✅ Supplier detail  ✅ Supplier products  ✅ Supplier reviews ✅ Image search  ✅ Autocomplete  ✅ Trending keywords  ✅ Category tree

Most Alibaba scrapers on the Store only do product search + product detail. This one also gives you the full supplier side (profile, their entire catalog, their reviews) and discovery tools (image search, autocomplete, trending, categories) — the whole sourcing workflow in one actor instead of stitching three together.

Keywords: Alibaba scraper · B2B sourcing · wholesale supplier data · MOQ pricing · China supplier lookup · product sourcing automation.

🎯 Use cases

• B2B sourcing — pull tiered pricing, MOQ and verified-supplier status for a product category before you contact anyone.
• Supplier due diligence — years on Alibaba, Trade Assurance, Verified Pro status, response rate and review scores in one call.
• Price/market monitoring — re-run a saved search weekly to track price and supplier changes.
• Dropshipping/arbitrage research — cross-reference Alibaba wholesale prices against retail listings.

📥 Input

Pick one operation per run (full field list and examples are in the Actor's Input tab):

Operation	What it needs
productSearch	query or categoryId, plus optional price/MOQ/rating/certification/Trade-Assurance filters
productDetail	productId or productUrl
productReviews	productId or productUrl
supplierSearch	query, plus optional country/verification filters
supplierDetail / supplierProducts / supplierReviews	supplierId or supplierUrl
imageSearch	imageUrl
autocomplete / trending	query (autocomplete only)
categories	parentCategoryId (optional — omit for the top-level tree)

Example input

{ "operation": "productSearch", "query": "bluetooth speaker", "currency": "USD", "tradeAssurance": true }

📤 Output (real example — live-tested)

{
  "_operation": "productSearch",
  "id": 1600805245747,
  "title": "Latest New Portable Waterproof Wireless Speaker BT Speaker Tent Light Speaker with White and Dancing RGB Light",
  "link": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Latest-New-Portable-Waterproof-Wireless-Speaker_1600805245747.html",
  "price": { "min": 10.0, "max": 11.4, "currency": "USD", "formatted": "$10-11.40" },
  "moq": { "quantity": 2, "unit": "pieces" },
  "rating": { "product_score": 4.9, "review_score": 4.8, "review_count": 12 },
  "supplier": {
    "id": 200016282,
    "name": "Shenzhen Highstar Electrical Co., Ltd.",
    "country_code": "CN",
    "years_on_alibaba": 16,
    "is_gold_supplier": true,
    "is_verified_pro": false
  }
}

Every run also pushes one report row (pagination/total count) before the results. A failed run pushes {"success": false, "error_type": "...", "error": "..."} instead of fabricated data.

✅ Why it's reliable

Reads Alibaba's own search/detail/review pages directly — not a cached third-party mirror. 10 of the 11 operations are plain HTTP and return live data in seconds; only supplier search needs a real browser page load (Alibaba gates that one endpoint behind a fingerprint check), which this Actor handles automatically. Blocked/rate-limited responses come back as a distinct, labelled error — never silently empty or fabricated data.

🆚 How this compares

	Typical Alibaba actors	This Actor
Product search + detail	✅	✅
Product reviews	❌	✅
Supplier profile, catalog & reviews	❌ or partial	✅ full coverage
Image search	❌	✅
Autocomplete / trending / categories	❌	✅
Operations in one actor	1-2	11

🚀 How to use

1. Open the Actor, pick an operation, fill in the relevant fields.
2. Click Start.
3. Export results as JSON/CSV/Excel, or pull them via the API.

💰 Cost

Pay-per-result, no subscription.

🔌 Integrations

• Zapier / Make / n8n — feed a weekly supplier price-check into your sourcing workflow.
• API — call this Actor directly with the Apify API client or plain REST.

👤 About the developer

Built and maintained by an indie developer running a suite of global business-data Actors (Singapore company/property registries, US business registry, SEC EDGAR, Google Hotels/Flights). Need a 12th operation or a specific field added? Reach out.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an Alibaba account or API key? No — every operation works anonymously.

Q: Why is supplier search slower than product search? It's the one endpoint Alibaba gates behind a real-browser fingerprint check (a slider captcha that only a genuine page load passes); every other operation is plain HTTP and much faster.

Q: Can results be missing fields? Alibaba's page layout varies slightly by product/supplier type — optional fields (e.g. certifications) come back empty rather than guessed.