Alibaba Listings Scraper

What it does. Search Alibaba.com B2B listings by keyword (or paste a search / category URL) and export every product card across pages — title, price range, MOQ, supplier name, country, years on Alibaba, verified / gold-supplier / trade-assurance flags, rating, image, and product URL. Lean, search-only, MCP-ready.

When to use it. Sourcing wholesale suppliers, building B2B price datasets, populating supplier directories, feeding sourcing-agent workflows. Use a keyword for fastest setup; paste startUrls when you've already built filtered queries.

When NOT to use it. Scraping a single product-detail page — this Actor is a search/listing scraper and rejects /product-detail/ URLs.

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Output

One record per product card. Filtered-out products are not billed.

Field	Type	Example
productId	string	1600123456789
title	string	Bluetooth 5.3 Wireless Earbuds TWS
productUrl	string	https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/..._1600123456789.html
imageUrl	string	https://s.alicdn.com/.../HTB1xxx.jpg
priceMin	number	2.50
priceMax	number	4.80
currency	string	USD
minOrderQuantity	integer	10
moqUnit	string	piece
supplierName	string	Shenzhen Audio Tech Co., Ltd.
supplierId	string	220123456789
supplierUrl	string	https://shenzhen-audio.en.alibaba.com
supplierCountry	string	CN
supplierYearsOnAlibaba	integer	7
isVerifiedSupplier	boolean	true
isGoldSupplier	boolean	true
isTradeAssurance	boolean	true
responseRatePercent	number	98.5
rating	number	4.8
reviewsCount	integer	342
ordersCount	integer	1250
position	integer	1
searchQuery	string	wireless earbuds
scrapedAt	string (ISO 8601)	2026-06-20T17:30:00.000Z

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Pricing — Pay Per Event

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.00005 / GB-RAM	Once per run start
product	$0.003	Each product card in the dataset

A 100-product run costs ~$0.30 + RAM. A 1,000-product run costs ~$3.00 + RAM.

Both PPE and Pay-Per-Usage are enabled — pick the billing model at run time.

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Inputs

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword to search (e.g. wireless earbuds).
startUrls	array	Alibaba search/category URLs (product-detail URLs are ignored).
maxResults	integer	Hard cap. Default 100. Doubles as your cost cap.
sortBy	enum	relevance (default), transactionDesc, responseRate, priceAsc, priceDesc, newest.
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	USD bounds on unit price.
minMoq	integer	Server-side MOQ floor.
maxMoq	integer	Client-side MOQ ceiling.
verifiedOnly	boolean	Keep only Verified / Gold suppliers.
tradeAssuranceOnly	boolean	Keep only Trade Assurance listings.
minSupplierYears	integer	Drop suppliers with fewer years on Alibaba.
supplierCountries	array of ISO-2	Whitelist countries (['CN','VN','IN','PK']).
minRating	integer	0–5 supplier rating floor.
minOrders	integer	Minimum transactions / orders.
proxyConfiguration	object	Defaults to Apify proxy. Residential strongly recommended.

A null/unknown field is dropped when a bound is set for it (so an unknown rating never silently passes a minRating filter).

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Example calls

Plain keyword search:

apify call khadinakbar/alibaba-listings-scraper \
  --input='{"searchQuery":"wireless earbuds","maxResults":10}'

Small-volume sourcing, verified suppliers only, China-based:

apify call khadinakbar/alibaba-listings-scraper \
  --input='{
    "searchQuery":"yoga mat",
    "maxResults":50,
    "maxMoq":50,
    "verifiedOnly":true,
    "tradeAssuranceOnly":true,
    "supplierCountries":["CN"],
    "minSupplierYears":3,
    "sortBy":"transactionDesc"
  }'

Direct search URL:

apify call khadinakbar/alibaba-listings-scraper \
  --input='{
    "startUrls":["https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=led+strip&IndexArea=product_en"],
    "maxResults":100
  }'

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MCP Tool Reference

Tool: apify--alibaba-listings-scraper

Description. Scrape Alibaba.com B2B product listings by keyword or search/category URL. Use for sourcing, supplier discovery, B2B price datasets, sourcing-agent workflows. NOT for single product-detail pages — those URLs are ignored. Returns one record per product card with supplier (name/country/years/verified flags), price range (min/max USD), MOQ, and rating. Charged $0.003 per product.

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Reliability notes

• Anti-bot. Alibaba (Baxia family) blocks most datacenter IPs aggressively. The Actor auto-prefers Apify Residential when your account has it and gracefully falls back to Apify Datacenter US when it doesn't. Use residential for production loads.
• Honest-fail. If every request is blocked and zero products are collected, the run pushes a single diagnostic record explaining the block, sets a clear status message, charges $0, and exits SUCCEEDED so the Store success-rate metric stays truthful.
• Soft-fail on bad input. Empty input / non-Alibaba URLs / product-detail URLs → 0 products, clear status message, SUCCEEDED.
• Cost-cap. Triple-guard charge counter — never bills past maxResults.
• Resilient extractor. Embedded JSON (__INITIAL_STATE__ / runParams / __NUXT__) → DOM fallback → diagnostic.

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Legal

Scrapes only publicly accessible search-result pages on Alibaba.com. Does not bypass authentication, does not collect personal data, and respects Apify's TOS. Users are responsible for complying with Alibaba.com's Terms of Service and applicable law in their jurisdiction. The data is provided "as is" with no warranty.

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Related actors

• aliexpress-product-search-scraper — consumer-side AliExpress search
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• b2b-lead-finder-enrichment — Google Maps + email enrichment

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