Alibaba Products Scraper

Scrape Alibaba.com B2B product listings by keyword or URL and get clean, structured JSON for every product — tier prices, minimum order quantity (MOQ), supplier name, years on Alibaba, country, Gold Supplier status, response rate, transaction GMV, order count, and reviews. HTTP-only, fast, and MCP-ready for Claude / GPT / AI agents.

What you get

One record per product, straight from Alibaba's own search data — no fragile screen-scraping of visible HTML. Use it for supplier sourcing, wholesale price benchmarking, MOQ discovery, competitor monitoring, and procurement research.

When to use this actor

• Build a sourcing shortlist for a product category across many suppliers at once.
• Benchmark wholesale tier prices and MOQs before negotiating.
• Track Gold Suppliers, Trade Assurance, response rate, and GMV as trust signals.
• Feed a market-intelligence pipeline or an AI agent with structured Alibaba data.

Do not use this for AliExpress retail listings — use the dedicated aliexpress-product-search-scraper / aliexpress-all-in-one-scraper instead. This actor targets Alibaba.com wholesale/B2B.

Output fields

Field	Description
productId	Alibaba product/offer ID
title	Product title (highlight tags stripped)
productUrl	Canonical product-detail URL
image	Main product image (https)
hasVideo	Whether the listing has a video
priceText	Raw price string, e.g. US $0.36-$0.39
priceMin / priceMax	Parsed numeric price bounds
currency	Currency code when detected (e.g. USD)
minOrder	Minimum order quantity, e.g. 100 meters
unit	Order unit, e.g. meter, piece
supplierName	Supplier / company name
supplierId	Supplier ID
supplierUrl	Supplier company profile URL
supplierCountry / supplierCountryCode	Supplier country + ISO code
supplierYears	Years the supplier has been on Alibaba
isGoldSupplier	Gold Supplier badge
isAssessedSupplier	Assessed Supplier badge
provideProducts	Other product lines the supplier offers
tradeAssurance	Trade Assurance enabled
responseRate	Supplier response rate, e.g. 100.0%
supplierHistoryGmv / supplierHistoryGmvUsd	Historical GMV (raw + numeric)
supplierHistoryOrderCount	Historical order count
transactionLevel	Alibaba transaction level
reviewScore / reviewCount	Product rating + review count
isAd	Whether the listing is a paid (P4P) placement
keyword, page, scrapedAt	Query, page number, ISO timestamp

Pricing (Pay Per Event)

• Actor start: $0.00005 per run
• Product scraped: $0.003 per product (this is also your cost cap — set maxResults)
• Product enriched: $0.005 per product (only when enrichDetails is on)

100 products ≈ $0.30. Pay-Per-Usage (compute + proxy) is also available — pick at run time.

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["led lights", "solar panel", "yoga mat"],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "enrichDetails": false
}

Or scrape a search/showroom URL directly:

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=led+lights"],
  "maxResults": 38
}

Input	Type	Default	Notes
searchQuery	string	led lights	A single product keyword.
searchQueries	array	[]	Multiple keywords in one run — the way to scale volume.
startUrls	array	[]	Alibaba search or showroom URLs. Normalized automatically.
maxResults	integer	100	1–5000. Hard cost cap (one charge per product).
enrichDetails	boolean	false	Visit each detail page for description + specs (extra charge, slower).
customProxyUrls	array	[]	Your own residential proxy URLs for a higher success rate (recommended).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify datacenter	Used when customProxyUrls is empty.

Volume note: Each keyword or URL returns one Alibaba showroom page (~38 products). To collect hundreds of products, pass several keywords in searchQueries — they accumulate up to maxResults. Alibaba's deep search pagination (/trade/search) is captcha-gated, so this actor uses the more reliable showroom pages.

Reliability & proxies

Alibaba.com is IP-reputation sensitive and serves a slider-captcha to flagged IPs. This actor:

• Uses a rotating session pool and retires any session that hits a captcha.
• Reads Alibaba's embedded result JSON (no JS rendering needed) for speed and stability.
• Honestly fails a run (rather than silently returning nothing) when every request is blocked.

Realistic success rate by proxy type:

Proxy	Success rate	How to configure
Apify datacenter (default)	~85–90%	No config needed
BUYPROXIES94952 (recommended)	~99%	proxyConfiguration.apifyProxyGroups: ["BUYPROXIES94952"]
Your own residential	~99%+	customProxyUrls array

To use BUYPROXIES94952 (if your Apify plan includes it):

{
  "searchQuery": "led lights",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["BUYPROXIES94952"]
  }
}

For a near-100% success rate without a premium proxy group, supply your own residential proxies via customProxyUrls (e.g. DataImpulse, Bright Data). Residential IPs clear Alibaba's IP-reputation checks far more consistently than datacenter IPs.

Tip: if a keyword returns 0 with a "no scrapable listing data" message, try a pluralized or more specific term (e.g. phone cases instead of phone case) — Alibaba's showroom pages exist for some phrasings and not others.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is exposed in the Apify MCP server as apify--alibaba-products-scraper. Input is a single keyword or URL; output is flat, semantic JSON sized for LLM consumption.

Related actors

• aliexpress-product-search-scraper — AliExpress retail listings
• amazon-product-search-scraper — Amazon products
• ebay-all-in-one-scraper — eBay items
• google-shopping-scraper — Google Shopping

Legal & compliance

This actor collects publicly available product and supplier information from Alibaba.com for legitimate market-research and sourcing purposes. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with Alibaba's Terms of Service, applicable laws, and data-protection regulations. Do not use it to infringe intellectual property or for unlawful purposes.

FAQ

Does it need login or cookies? No. It reads public search data only.

Why showroom URLs and not /trade/search? Both work — /trade/search URLs are normalized to Alibaba's showroom listing path, which exposes the same product data via embedded JSON and is more stable for scraping.

Can I get full specs and descriptions? Yes — enable enrichDetails (extra charge per product). Listing cards already include price, MOQ, supplier and review data.

What if I get 0 results? Either the keyword genuinely has no matches (try broader terms) or your IPs were blocked — supply residential customProxyUrls and retry.