# AliExpress Scraper: Products, Prices & Reviews (`ksvan/aliexpress-scraper`) Actor

Scrape AliExpress search results: price, original price, discount, rating, orders sold, ship-from, Choice, images, badges. Any country and currency, sort and price filters. Plus product reviews with text, translation, stars, buyer country, variant and photos.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ksvan/aliexpress-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [K.S. Van](https://apify.com/ksvan) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## AliExpress Scraper: Products, Prices & Reviews

Scrape **AliExpress search results and product reviews**. Search by keyword or paste AliExpress search URLs, choose the **ship-to country and currency**, sort by orders or price, filter by price, free shipping and warehouse country. Every product comes with **price, original price, discount, rating, orders sold**, ship-from country, Choice and free-shipping flags, badges, promotion, images and URL. Add **reviews** for the products you find, or for any product URL, with text, English translation, stars, buyer country, variant and photos.

No login, no browser. Pay only per product and per review delivered.

### What you can paste

- **Keywords**: `wireless earbuds`, `led strip`, `phone case`
- **Search URLs** (filters in the URL are kept):
  - `https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-wireless-earbuds.html?minPrice=10&maxPrice=30`
  - `https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-led-strip.html?SortType=total_tranpro_desc`
- **Product URLs or IDs** for reviews: `https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006123456789.html` or `1005006123456789`

### What you get

#### Products

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `productId`, `title`, `url` | 1005008908983422, Shockproof Clear Phone Case for iPhone 16 |
| `price`, `originalPrice`, `discountPercent`, `currency`, `priceText` | 1.09, 4.56, 76, USD, US $1.09 |
| `rating`, `orders`, `ordersText` | 4.8, 10000, 10,000+ sold |
| `shipFrom`, `isChoice`, `freeShipping` | CN, true, true |
| `badges`, `promotion`, `isAd` | \["Free shipping"], Dollar Express, false |
| `categoryId`, `listedSince` | 380230, 2025-03-14 |
| `imageUrl`, `images` | main image and gallery |
| `sourceProductId` | for US local-warehouse listings (IDs starting 3256), the original global listing |
| `searchInput`, `scrapedAt` | the keyword or URL that found it |

#### Reviews

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `productId`, `reviewId` | 1005008908983422, 60123456789012345 |
| `rating`, `date` | 5, 17 Oct 2026 |
| `text`, `textTranslated`, `additionalFeedback` | original text, English translation, follow-up review |
| `buyerName`, `buyerCountry`, `variant` | J\*\*\*n, US, Color: Black |
| `images`, `helpfulCount`, `shipping` | review photos, 3, AliExpress Standard Shipping |
| `productRating`, `productReviewCount`, `productStars` | on the first review of each product: 4.8, 2154, stars 5 to 1 |

Fields AliExpress does not show for a product are `null`. `originalPrice` is filled only when the product is discounted. Welcome-gift products (`promotion`: "{FREE} with any purchase") show no price.

### Use cases

- **Dropshipping and product research**: find best sellers by orders, compare prices and discounts, check ship-from warehouses.
- **Price monitoring**: track prices and promotions of products or whole searches over time with Schedules.
- **Review analysis**: read what buyers love and hate before you sell a product, with translated texts and photos.
- **Market research**: see how many sellers, at what price and rating, compete for a keyword in a given country.

### How to use

1. Add keywords or paste AliExpress search URLs.
2. Choose **Ship to country**, **Currency** and **Sort by**; optionally set price, free shipping and ships-from filters.
3. Set **Max products per search**. Optionally set **Reviews per found product**, or list products under **Products for reviews**.
4. Run. Each product and each review is one dataset record. The **Products** and **Reviews** views in the Output tab show them as tables.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["wireless earbuds", "phone case"],
  "sortBy": "orders",
  "country": "DE",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "maxProductsPerSearch": 300,
  "reviewsPerFoundProduct": 10
}
```

### Pricing

- **Product**: charged per product saved to the dataset.
- **Review**: charged per review saved to the dataset.

Searches that fail or find nothing are reported as `error` records and are **not charged**.

### Tips and limits

- AliExpress shows at most **60 pages of 60 products** for one search. For more, split a keyword into narrower ones or use price ranges.
- Product pages are rendered in the browser, so product data comes from search results. Item specifics and full descriptions are not included.
- Category pages (`/category/...`) are not supported yet; use a keyword search instead.
- Use **Schedules** in Apify Console for daily price and discount tracking.

### FAQ

**Is it legal?** The actor reads public product listings and reviews that AliExpress shows to every visitor. Use the data in line with AliExpress terms and data protection rules.

**Why do prices differ from what I see?** Prices depend on country, currency and current promotions. Set **Ship to country** and **Currency** to match your own view.

**Something missing?** Open an issue on the Issues tab and I will look at it.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

What you would type in the AliExpress search box, e.g. 'wireless earbuds', 'led strip', 'phone case'.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional. Search pages like https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-wireless-earbuds.html?minPrice=10\&maxPrice=30 (filters in the URL are kept) or product pages like https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006123456789.html (their reviews are scraped).

## `maxProductsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

AliExpress shows up to 60 pages of 60 products for one search.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of search results.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Prices, shipping and availability as shown to buyers in this country.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency of prices.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional. In the selected currency.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Optional. In the selected currency.

## `freeShippingOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only products with free shipping.

## `shipFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional. Two-letter code of the warehouse country, e.g. 'US', 'DE', 'ES', 'PL', 'CN'.

## `skipAds` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out promoted (ad) results.

## `reviewsPerFoundProduct` (type: `integer`):

Also scrape this many reviews for every product found by searches. 0 = no reviews.

## `reviewProducts` (type: `array`):

Optional. Product URLs or IDs whose reviews you want, e.g. 1005006123456789.

## `maxReviewsPerProduct` (type: `integer`):

Limit for products listed above and product URLs.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many products + reviews. 0 = no limit.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Each retry uses a new proxy IP.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy (datacenter) works well.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "phone case"
  ],
  "maxProductsPerSearch": 120,
  "sortBy": "best-match",
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "freeShippingOnly": false,
  "skipAds": false,
  "reviewsPerFoundProduct": 0,
  "maxReviewsPerProduct": 100,
  "maxItems": 0,
  "maxRetries": 6,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One record per product or review (failed inputs appear as error records and are not charged).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "phone case"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ksvan/aliexpress-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQueries": ["phone case"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ksvan/aliexpress-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "phone case"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call ksvan/aliexpress-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ksvan/aliexpress-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/NXtUjr14aUOWUcUzh/builds/mszqjDdPnPTUazZZG/openapi.json