Alibaba Scraper
Deprecated
Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
Alibaba Scraper
Deprecated
The Apify Alibaba Scraper is an efficient web crawling tool designed to scrape Alibaba, extracting product information, prices, and reviews. This crawler streamlines data collection by quickly crawling and scraping content, providing valuable insights for research and analysis.
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Pricing
$30.00/month + usage
4
Monthly users
14
Last modified
a year ago
You can access the Alibaba Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=lexis-solutions/alibaba-scraper"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Alibaba Scraper via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Alibaba Scraper within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Alibaba Scraper Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "startUrls": [
8 {
9 "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&categoryId=201153401&keywords=Groom+Wear&knowledgeGraphId=100010232-10000166340&viewtype=L&&pricef=80&pricet"
10 }
11 ],
12 "maxItems": 5
13},
14 "name": "lexis-solutions/alibaba-scraper"
15 }
16}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Alibaba Scraper
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "lexis-solutions/alibaba-scraper"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
Pricing
Pricing model
RentalTo use this Actor, you have to pay a monthly rental fee to the developer. The rent is subtracted from your prepaid usage every month after the free trial period. You also pay for the Apify platform usage.
Free trial
1 day
Price
$30.00
