Alibaba Scraper — Alibaba.com Products, Prices, MOQ and Suppliers to CSV, Excel or JSON

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Alibaba Scraper is an Alibaba.com scraper and Alibaba API alternative for B2B sourcing data: type a keyword such as bluetooth speaker, yoga mat or cnc machine, paste an Alibaba search URL or give a category ID, and it exports every product it finds with the price range and quantity price tiers, minimum order quantity (MOQ), units sold, lead time, product certifications, images, category and the supplier behind the offer — company name, country, years on Alibaba, Gold Supplier, Verified Supplier and Verified PRO status, Trade Assurance, supplier rating and review count, response rate, staff, floor space, main products, export markets, management certificates and links to the supplier's store, profile and contact form. Scrape alibaba.com product search results without login, without cookies and without writing code, then export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or straight into Google Sheets, a database or an AI agent. One keyword gives up to ten thousand products; with deep search switched on (the default) big searches continue in price bands, so a single niche can give tens of thousands of unique products in one run.

People use it as an Alibaba product scraper, an Alibaba supplier scraper and a lightweight Alibaba.com API for wholesale price research, supplier lists, MOQ comparison, private-label and dropshipping product research, "China + 1" sourcing from Vietnam, India or Turkey, price monitoring and B2B lead generation. It answers long-tail needs like export Alibaba search results to Excel, scrape Alibaba suppliers with Trade Assurance, find low MOQ products on Alibaba, Alibaba price tracker, Alibaba wholesale data extractor or Alibaba verified supplier list, and the Chinese-language ones sourcing teams search for: 阿里巴巴国际站数据采集、阿里巴巴国际站爬虫、阿里巴巴商品采集、阿里巴巴供应商数据导出、阿里巴巴国际站产品抓取、外贸选品数据、跨境电商选品工具、起订量和阶梯价导出. Every row is a real Alibaba.com listing with a stable product ID, cleaned types (numbers as numbers, ISO dates, absolute URLs) and nothing invented.

Table of contents

1. At a glance
2. What you get
3. Who uses it
4. Cookbook: ready-made inputs
5. How to run it in Apify Console
6. How to run it through the API
7. Input reference
8. Data dictionary
9. Real output sample
10. How much data and how fast
11. What you pay
12. Integrations
13. Performance tips
14. Troubleshooting and status messages
15. Honest limits
16. Alibaba Scraper compared with the other options
17. FAQ
18. Glossary
19. Is it legal to scrape Alibaba.com?
20. Changelog
21. Support

At a glance

What it scrapes	Alibaba.com (the international B2B marketplace) product search results: keyword searches, pasted search URLs and category browsing
One row	One product offer with its supplier (60 columns)
Input	Search terms, Alibaba URLs or category IDs, plus Alibaba's own filters: supplier country, price range, max MOQ, Trade Assurance, Verified Supplier, Verified PRO, product certificate, supplier certificate, minimum rating, sort
Depth	Up to ~10,000 products per search window; deep search adds up to 16 price bands per search. Measured: 25,000 unique products from two keywords in one run
Speed	50 products in 3–5 seconds; 1,000 products in about 20 seconds; 25,000 products in about 3 minutes (platform runs, 24 October 2026 UTC)
Login / cookies	None. No Alibaba account needed
Export	JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table, RSS; API; integrations (Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, webhooks, MCP)
Duplicates	Every product is saved once per run (de-duplicated by product ID across all searches and bands)
Pricing	Pay per result: from $2.50 per 1,000 products on the free plan, down to $1.60 per 1,000 on higher Apify plans

What you get

Each dataset row is one Alibaba.com product offer. The 60 columns fall into seven groups; the full list with types, meanings and measured fill rates is in the data dictionary.

Product identity. productId (Alibaba's product number, the stable key), url (the product page with tracking parameters removed), title (plain text, search highlighting removed), categoryId and categoryName (Alibaba's own category, e.g. 202063712 · Non-Noise Cancelling TWS Earphones & Headphones).

Price and order terms. price exactly as Alibaba shows it (US $4.60-$5.40), priceMin and priceMax as numbers, currency (USD for almost everything; CNY, CAD and others when a supplier quotes in another currency), priceUnit (piece, set, meter, watt …), priceTiers — the volume price ladder, for example 20–499 pieces at $5.40, 500–1,999 at $5.20, 2,000–9,999 at $4.90 and 10,000+ at $4.60 — plus promotionPrice and promotionEndsAt while a promotion runs, and minOrder / minOrderQuantity / minOrderUnit for the MOQ.

Demand and logistics. soldCount and popularity (7,907 sold, 17 views) when Alibaba shows them, leadTimeDays (the shortest processing time before dispatch), deliveryEstimate for Ready-to-Ship items (Delivery by Dec 30), badges (Ready to Ship, Easy Return) and sponsored (true for paid placements Alibaba mixes into results).

Compliance. productCertifications (CE, ROHS, FCC, UKCA, LVD, EMC, ETL, Declaration of Conformity …), supplierCertifications (ISO, BSCI, SEDEX, SA8000, IATF 16949 …) and supplierVerifiedBy (the inspection company — SGS, TÜV Rheinland, Intertek — that verified the supplier).

Media. image (full-size main image, not the thumbnail), images (up to six gallery images at full size) and hasVideo.

Supplier. supplierName, supplierId, supplierCountryCode / supplierCountry, supplierYears (years on Alibaba), goldSupplier, verifiedSupplier, verifiedProSupplier, tradeAssurance, supplierResponseRate (%), supplierResponseTime, supplierRating and supplierReviewCount, the three review sub-scores (supplierProductQualityRating, supplierServiceRating, supplierOnTimeShipmentRating), reviewTags (most mentioned review phrases with counts), supplierEmployees, supplierFloorSpaceM2, supplierMainProducts, supplierExportCountries, and links: supplierUrl (store), supplierProfileUrl, supplierProductsUrl, supplierLogo and supplierContactUrl (Alibaba's "Contact supplier" form for that product).

Search context. searchQuery, search (the search, its filters and the deep-search price band that found the product), searchPage, searchPosition (rank in the results — useful for rank tracking) and scrapedAt.

Who uses it

1. Private-label and Amazon FBA sellers. Search the product idea (silicone kitchen utensils, posture corrector), set Max minimum order to 500 and Verified Supplier only, sort the export by soldCount and supplierRating, and shortlist ten suppliers with a response rate above 95 % and at least five years on Alibaba before sending inquiries through supplierContactUrl.

2. Dropshippers and small online shops. Look for Ready-to-Ship products with an MOQ of one or two pieces (Max minimum order = 2), check deliveryEstimate, badges and the first price tier, and import titles and full-size images into a product research sheet.

3. Sourcing agents and buying offices. Build a client brief in minutes: run the client's three keywords with One product per supplier on, filter by supplierCountry, verifiedSupplier, supplierEmployees and supplierFloorSpaceM2, and hand over a clean supplier list with store and profile links.

4. Procurement and purchasing managers. Benchmark what a part really costs at your volume: export a search, read the priceTiers ladder at 1,000 and 10,000 units, compare leadTimeDays and minOrderQuantity, and use the median as the reference price in your next negotiation.

5. Market researchers and category analysts. Measure a category: the run SUMMARY reports how many products Alibaba holds for each search, and the dataset gives the price distribution, the share of Verified and Gold Suppliers, the supplier country mix and the most common certifications.

6. B2B lead generation for services sold to exporters. Freight forwarders, inspection companies, packaging makers, marketing and translation agencies need lists of exporters: switch on One product per supplier, run the categories you serve and get company, country, years, size, main products, export markets and store URL for each supplier.

7. Price monitoring and competitive intelligence. Schedule the same keywords every week, join the runs on productId, and chart priceMin, priceMax, soldCount and promotionPrice over time to see who cuts prices and which listings gain sales.

8. Brand protection teams. Search your brand and model names, review listings that use them, and keep productId, url, supplierName and supplierUrl as evidence for takedown requests.

9. Compliance and quality teams. Before onboarding a supplier, filter for the certificate your market requires (Product certification = CE or UKCA, Supplier certification = ISO or BSCI) and keep supplierVerifiedBy to know which inspection company checked the factory.

10. Importers in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Compare MOQ and tier prices across suppliers for the goods you import, prefer tradeAssurance suppliers for payment protection, and use supplierExportCountries to see who already ships to your country.

11. "China + 1" and tariff diversification analysts. Run the same keyword with Supplier countries set to CN, VN, IN, TH and TR; compare how many suppliers each country has, their price ranges and their verification levels.

12. Catalog and marketplace builders. Seed a product taxonomy with Alibaba's categoryId / categoryName pairs and representative titles and attributes, then map your own catalog to it.

13. Data scientists. Train price-prediction or title-classification models on tens of thousands of labelled listings: titles, categories, MOQ, units, tier prices, certifications and supplier features are all clean typed columns.

14. Trade-show and event organisers. Build exhibitor prospect lists per industry with company size, years in business and main products, and invite the suppliers that fit the show.

15. Investors and consultants doing industry due diligence. Size the supply base of a product category, the share of verified factories and their export markets before a market-entry or supplier-consolidation project.

16. Alibaba sellers watching their own ranking. Run your target keywords daily and read searchPosition for your own supplierId, next to the prices and sales of the listings ranked above you.

Cookbook: ready-made inputs

Copy any of these into the Actor's JSON input (Console → Input → JSON) or send them to the API. Every field is optional except that at least one search term, URL or category is needed.

Recipe 1 — Quick sample of a keyword

{ "searchTerms": ["bluetooth speaker"], "maxItems": 50 }

Recipe 2 — 1,000 products for one keyword

{ "searchTerms": ["yoga mat"], "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 3 — A whole niche, tens of thousands of products

Deep search is on by default; the run continues in price bands after Alibaba's first ~10,000 results.

{ "searchTerms": ["led strip lights"], "maxItems": 30000, "deepSearch": true }

Recipe 4 — Many keywords, evenly

{
  "searchTerms": ["phone case", "screen protector", "charging cable", "power bank", "car phone holder"],
  "maxItemsPerSearch": 2000,
  "maxItems": 10000
}

Recipe 5 — Verified suppliers with Trade Assurance only

{ "searchTerms": ["stainless steel water bottle"], "verifiedSupplier": true, "tradeAssurance": true, "maxItems": 2000 }

Recipe 6 — Low-MOQ products for small orders

{ "searchTerms": ["custom t shirt"], "maxMinOrder": 10, "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 7 — A price window in US dollars

{ "searchTerms": ["office chair"], "minPrice": 20, "maxPrice": 80, "maxItems": 3000 }

Recipe 8 — Suppliers outside China

Each country is a separate search for every term.

{ "searchTerms": ["cotton t shirt"], "supplierCountries": ["VN", "IN", "BD", "PK", "TR"], "maxItemsPerSearch": 1000 }

Recipe 9 — CE-certified products

{ "searchTerms": ["led floodlight"], "productCertification": "CE", "maxItems": 2000 }

Recipe 10 — ISO-certified suppliers

{ "searchTerms": ["injection molding"], "supplierCertification": "ISO", "onePerSupplier": true, "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 11 — Best sellers of a keyword

Alibaba lists the top sellers (about 600 per search) in this order.

{ "searchTerms": ["wireless earbuds"], "sortBy": "best_selling", "maxItems": 600 }

Recipe 12 — Browse a category without a keyword

{ "categoryIds": ["202063712"], "maxItems": 5000 }

Recipe 13 — Paste an Alibaba search URL with its filters

{ "startUrls": ["https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=dog+toys&country=CN&pricef=1&pricet=3&ta=y"], "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 14 — A de-duplicated supplier lead list

{
  "searchTerms": ["packaging boxes", "paper bags", "labels stickers"],
  "onePerSupplier": true,
  "verifiedSupplier": true,
  "maxItems": 3000
}

Recipe 15 — Organic results only (no sponsored listings)

{ "searchTerms": ["kitchen sink"], "includeSponsored": false, "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 16 — Highly rated suppliers

{ "searchTerms": ["gaming chair"], "minSupplierRating": "4.5", "maxItems": 1000 }

Recipe 17 — Daily rank tracking for a seller

Schedule this every morning and filter the output by your supplierId; searchPosition is your rank.

{ "searchTerms": ["solar panel 400w", "solar panel kit"], "maxItemsPerSearch": 500, "deepSearch": false }

Recipe 18 — Weekly price monitoring of a narrow product

{ "searchTerms": ["iphone 15 case magsafe"], "maxItems": 2000, "includeSponsored": false }

How to run it in Apify Console

1. Open the Actor and press Try for free (an Apify account is free to create; no Alibaba account is needed).
2. In Search terms, type one keyword per line exactly as you would on Alibaba.com — for example yoga mat.
3. Set Max products (total). Leave the default 1,000 for a first real run, or 50 for a quick look.
4. Optional: open Filters to choose supplier countries, a price window in USD, a maximum MOQ, Trade Assurance, Verified Supplier, Verified PRO, a product or supplier certificate, a minimum rating or the best-selling sort.
5. Optional: under Output, switch One product per supplier on for a supplier list, or Include sponsored listings off for organic results only.
6. Press Start. Products appear in the Output tab within seconds; the status line shows how many were saved and which page is being read.
7. When the run finishes, open Export and download CSV, Excel, JSON, XML or HTML — or switch the table view between Products, Prices & MOQ and Suppliers.
8. To repeat it, save the input as a Task, then add a Schedule (daily, weekly) and an integration or webhook so new results land where you work.

The run's key-value store holds a SUMMARY record with the outcome, the number of products Alibaba reports for each search, pages read, duplicates skipped and the network routes used — handy for audits and monitoring.

How to run it through the API

Every Apify Actor is an API. The simplest call starts a run, waits for it and returns the products in one response (keep it to small runs — the call waits for up to five minutes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/logiover~alibaba-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN&format=json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchTerms":["yoga mat"],"maxItems":200}'

For bigger runs, start the run asynchronously and fetch the dataset when it has finished — the official clients do the waiting for you.

Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('logiover/alibaba-scraper').call({
    searchTerms: ['stainless steel water bottle'],
    verifiedSupplier: true,
    maxItems: 5000,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0].title, items[0].priceTiers);

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("logiover/alibaba-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchTerms": ["cotton t shirt"],
    "supplierCountries": ["VN", "IN"],
    "maxItemsPerSearch": 1000,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["supplierCountryCode"], item["supplierName"], item["priceMin"], item["minOrder"])

The dataset can also be downloaded directly as a file: https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?format=csv (or xlsx, json, xml, html). Add &fields=productId,title,priceMin,priceMax,minOrderQuantity,supplierName to export only the columns you need, or &omit=images,priceTiers to drop the long ones.

Input reference

Field (API name)	Type	Default	What it does
Search terms (searchTerms)	array	[]	Keywords as typed on Alibaba.com, one per line. Each is one search (times every country and category chosen).
Alibaba search or category URLs (startUrls)	array	[]	Alibaba search, keyword (/products/, /showroom/, /countrysearch/CN/…) or category URLs. Keyword, category and Alibaba filter parameters in the URL are kept.
Category IDs (categoryIds)	array	[]	Alibaba category IDs (e.g. 202063712). Alone = browse the category; with search terms = narrow the searches to it.
Max products (total) (maxItems)	integer	1000	Limit for the whole run; 0 = no limit.
Max products per search (maxItemsPerSearch)	integer	0	Optional limit per search term / URL / category; 0 = none.
Deep search (split big searches into price bands) (deepSearch)	boolean	true	Continue big searches in 16 USD price bands after Alibaba's ~10,000-result window.
Sort (sortBy)	string (select)	"relevance"	Best match, or best selling (Alibaba lists only the top ~600 in that order; no deep search). Values: relevance, best_selling.
Supplier countries (supplierCountries)	array (select)	[]	Only suppliers in these countries; each country is its own search. 37 codes incl. CN, HK, TW, IN, VN, PK, TR, TH, MY, ID, BD, KR, JP, US, DE, IT, GB.
Min price (USD) (minPrice)	number	—	Lowest unit price in USD.
Max price (USD) (maxPrice)	number	—	Highest unit price in USD.
Max minimum order (MOQ) (maxMinOrder)	integer	—	Only products whose MOQ is at most this many units.
Trade Assurance only (tradeAssurance)	boolean	false	Only products covered by Trade Assurance.
Verified Supplier only (verifiedSupplier)	boolean	false	Only Verified Suppliers (company checked on site by an inspection company).
Verified Pro Supplier only (verifiedProSupplier)	boolean	false	Only Verified PRO suppliers.
Product certification (productCertification)	string	—	Only products listing this certificate (CE, ROHS, FCC, UKCA …).
Supplier (management) certification (supplierCertification)	string	—	Only suppliers holding this management certificate (ISO, BSCI, SEDEX …).
Minimum supplier rating (minSupplierRating)	string (select)	"any"	Minimum supplier review score. Values: any, 4, 4.5, 5.
Include sponsored listings (includeSponsored)	boolean	true	Off = drop paid placements and keep organic results only.
One product per supplier (supplier list) (onePerSupplier)	boolean	false	Keep the first product of each supplier only — a de-duplicated supplier list.
Proxy (proxyConfiguration)	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Leave as is: direct connection first, Apify datacenter proxies when needed, a few residential requests as a last resort.

Data dictionary

Fill rates were measured on a platform run of 25,000 products (keywords led strip lights and wireless earbuds, deep search, 24 October 2026 UTC). A fill rate below 100 % means Alibaba does not show that value for every product — for example only suppliers with reviews have a rating, and only some listings show a sales figure — never that the Actor dropped it. Boolean columns are always filled (true or false).

Field	Type	Meaning	Fill rate	Example
productId	string	Alibaba.com product ID — the number at the end of the product URL. Stable; every product is saved once per run.	100 %	1601233565568
url	string	Product page on www.alibaba.com, tracking parameters removed.	100 %	https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/…_1601233565568.html
title	string	Product title as the supplier wrote it (plain text, search highlighting removed).	100 %	New Arrival Bt5.3 Hifi Stereo Bass Neckband Earbuds…
categoryId	string	Alibaba category the product is listed in. Use it in the Category IDs input to browse or narrow that category.	100 %	202063712
categoryName	string	Name of that Alibaba category.	100 %	Non-Noise Cancelling TWS Earphones & Headphones
price	string	Unit price or price range exactly as Alibaba displays it, currency marker included.	100 %	US $2.10-$2.40
priceMin	number	Lowest unit price of the displayed range, as a number in currency.	100 %	2.1
priceMax	number	Highest unit price of the displayed range (equals priceMin for a single price).	100 %	2.4
currency	string	ISO code of the price: USD for almost all products; CNY, EUR, CAD … when the supplier quotes in another currency; null when Alibaba shows only "Other".	100 %	USD
priceUnit	string	What one price unit is: piece, set, meter, watt, roll …	100 %	piece
priceTiers	array	Volume pricing: [{minQuantity, maxQuantity (null = and more), price, promotionPrice, unit}].	93.4 %	[{"minQuantity":10,"maxQuantity":99,"price":2.65,…}]
promotionPrice	string	Discounted price while an Alibaba promotion runs (as shown).	4.1 %	$0.64-0.81
promotionEndsAt	string	End of that promotion (ISO 8601, UTC).	4.1 %	2027-04-01T06:59:59.000Z
minOrder	string	Minimum order quantity (MOQ) as Alibaba shows it.	100 %	10000 pieces
minOrderQuantity	number	The MOQ as a number.	100 %	10000
minOrderUnit	string	Unit of the MOQ.	100 %	pieces
soldCount	number	Units sold as shown on the product card ("7,907 sold"), when Alibaba shows a sales figure.	21.3 %	7907
popularity	string	The sales or views line of the product card exactly as shown ("7,907 sold", "17 views").	26.1 %	7,907 sold
leadTimeDays	number	Shortest processing time before dispatch, in days, that Alibaba lists for the product.	100 %	7
deliveryEstimate	string	Delivery promise shown for Ready-to-Ship items, relative to the run date (US delivery address).	34.4 %	Delivery by Nov 27
badges	array	Service badges on the product card, e.g. Ready to Ship, Easy Return.	46.2 %	["Ready to Ship"]
productCertifications	array	Product certificates the supplier lists (CE, ROHS, FCC, UKCA, Declaration of Conformity …).	24.2 %	["CE","ROHS"]
attributes	array	Key product attributes Alibaba shows on the card: [{name, value}]. Only some products have them.	11.9 %	[{"name":"Warranty(Year)","value":"2-Year"}]
image	string	Main product image at full size.	100 %	https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H….jpg
images	array	Product gallery images at full size (up to 6).	100 %	["https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H….jpg"]
hasVideo	boolean	Whether the listing has a product video.	100 %	true
sponsored	boolean	True for paid placements Alibaba mixes into search results (P4P / promoted listings). They are real products.	100 %	false
supplierName	string	Company name of the supplier.	100 %	Shenzhen Jinma Communication Co., Ltd.
supplierId	string	Alibaba company ID of the supplier.	100 %	200939949
supplierCountryCode	string	ISO 3166 code of the supplier location.	100 %	CN
supplierCountry	string	Supplier country / region name as Alibaba writes it.	100 %	China
supplierYears	number	Years the supplier has been on Alibaba.com (the "16 yrs" on the card).	100 %	16
goldSupplier	boolean	Alibaba Gold Supplier membership.	100 %	true
verifiedSupplier	boolean	Company information verified on site by a third-party inspection company (Alibaba "Verified Supplier").	100 %	true
verifiedProSupplier	boolean	Alibaba "Verified PRO" supplier (strictest verification level).	100 %	false
tradeAssurance	boolean	Orders with this supplier can be covered by Alibaba Trade Assurance.	99.6 %	true
supplierResponseRate	number	Share of buyer messages the supplier answers, in percent.	99.9 %	98.2
supplierResponseTime	string	Typical reply time when Alibaba shows it.	13 %	≤1h
supplierRating	number	Supplier review score on Alibaba (out of 5). Null when the supplier has no reviews yet.	88.5 %	4.8
supplierReviewCount	number	Number of buyer reviews of the supplier.	100 %	83
supplierProductQualityRating	number	Product-quality sub-score of the supplier reviews (out of 5).	88.5 %	4.8
supplierServiceRating	number	Supplier-service sub-score of the reviews (out of 5).	88.5 %	4.8
supplierOnTimeShipmentRating	number	On-time shipment sub-score of the reviews (out of 5).	88.5 %	4.8
reviewTags	array	Most mentioned review phrases with counts: [{text, count}].	64.5 %	[{"text":"Good service","count":2}]
supplierEmployees	number	Staff count the supplier lists on Alibaba (may differ slightly from the live profile page).	25.6 %	260
supplierFloorSpaceM2	number	Factory / office floor space the supplier lists, in square metres.	28.5 %	48000
supplierMainProducts	string	What the supplier says it mainly makes or sells.	98.9 %	TWS Earbuds, Bluetooth Headphones, Wired Earphones
supplierExportCountries	array	Countries the supplier reports exporting to.	39.4 %	["Bolivia","China","Spain","India",…]
supplierCertifications	array	Management-system certificates of the supplier (ISO, BSCI, SEDEX …).	11.1 %	["ISO","BSCI"]
supplierVerifiedBy	string	Inspection company that verified the supplier (SGS, TÜV Rheinland, Intertek, Bureau Veritas).	32.9 %	SGS
supplierUrl	string	Supplier mini-site on Alibaba.com.	100 %	https://kimmar.en.alibaba.com/
supplierProfileUrl	string	Company profile page of the supplier.	100 %	https://kimmar.en.alibaba.com/company_profile.html
supplierProductsUrl	string	All products of the supplier.	100 %	https://kimmar.en.alibaba.com/productlist.html
supplierLogo	string	Company logo image.	90.5 %	https://sc02.alicdn.com/kf/….jpg
supplierContactUrl	string	Alibaba "Contact supplier" form for this product (an Alibaba buyer login is needed to send).	100 %	https://message.alibaba.com/msgsend/contact.htm?…
searchQuery	string	Keyword of the search that found the product (null for category browsing).	100 %	wireless earbuds
search	string	The search that found the product, with its filters and deep-search price band.	100 %	"led strip lights" [US$0–0.5]
searchPage	number	Alibaba result page (100 per page) the product was on. Null for the large merged page Alibaba returns around result 1,000.	96.1 %	3
searchPosition	number	Position of the product in that search's results.	100 %	212
scrapedAt	string	When this run collected the product (ISO 8601, UTC).	100 %	2026-10-24T22:04:12.642Z

Notes on reading the numbers:

• Price. When the Alibaba search card shows a single number, it is the price at the minimum order — the first quantity tier — which is priceMax here; priceMin is the price at the largest tier. priceTiers gives the whole ladder.
• Ratings and reviews are supplier-level. Alibaba's search data carries the supplier's review score and count (they match the supplier's own profile page), not a per-product review score.
• Employees and floor space are the values the supplier lists in Alibaba's search data; the live profile page can show a slightly newer figure.
• Delivery estimates are calculated by Alibaba for a delivery address in the United States, relative to the day of the run.

Real output sample

One complete row from the measured platform run of 24 October 2026 (UTC), unmodified:

{
  "productId": "1601653556184",
  "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Q16-2-in-1-TWS-Earbuds_1601653556184.html",
  "title": "Q16 2-in-1 TWS Earbuds Wireless V 5.3 Headphones Noise Cancelling Gaming Headset Type-C Fast Charging IPX Waterproof Earbuds",
  "categoryId": "202061615",
  "categoryName": "Sports Earphones & Headphones",
  "price": "US $4.60-$5.40",
  "priceMin": 4.6,
  "priceMax": 5.4,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceUnit": "piece",
  "priceTiers": [
    {
      "minQuantity": 20,
      "maxQuantity": 499,
      "price": 5.4,
      "promotionPrice": null,
      "unit": "pieces"
    },
    {
      "minQuantity": 500,
      "maxQuantity": 1999,
      "price": 5.2,
      "promotionPrice": null,
      "unit": "pieces"
    },
    {
      "minQuantity": 2000,
      "maxQuantity": 9999,
      "price": 4.9,
      "promotionPrice": null,
      "unit": "pieces"
    },
    {
      "minQuantity": 10000,
      "maxQuantity": null,
      "price": 4.6,
      "promotionPrice": null,
      "unit": "pieces"
    }
  ],
  "promotionPrice": null,
  "promotionEndsAt": null,
  "minOrder": "20 pieces",
  "minOrderQuantity": 20,
  "minOrderUnit": "pieces",
  "soldCount": 55,
  "popularity": "55 sold",
  "leadTimeDays": 7,
  "deliveryEstimate": "Delivery by Dec 30",
  "badges": [
    "Ready to Ship"
  ],
  "productCertifications": [
    "FCC",
    "DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY"
  ],
  "attributes": [],
  "image": "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H418baf51ef584e06a33240fe14c70703u.jpg",
  "images": [
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H418baf51ef584e06a33240fe14c70703u.jpg",
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/Ha4b1c51f69c046cf8ad341f83fb7cf2ez.jpg",
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/Hf9d824abac9e4cfb9c8eb3b1e1d279ceR.jpg",
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H7d375c4298014f1c94391824e6c3ba0e2.jpg",
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/Hd5007264dbe04a9a87bf8adc26712b9eO.png",
    "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/Hd8a5a49a5e8c42a1ac48fc4e93e75f250.png"
  ],
  "hasVideo": true,
  "sponsored": false,
  "supplierName": "Dongguan Yoright Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.",
  "supplierId": "254567908",
  "supplierCountryCode": "CN",
  "supplierCountry": "China",
  "supplierYears": 6,
  "goldSupplier": true,
  "verifiedSupplier": true,
  "verifiedProSupplier": false,
  "tradeAssurance": true,
  "supplierResponseRate": 99.9,
  "supplierResponseTime": null,
  "supplierRating": 4.6,
  "supplierReviewCount": 73,
  "supplierProductQualityRating": 4.5,
  "supplierServiceRating": 4.6,
  "supplierOnTimeShipmentRating": 4.7,
  "reviewTags": [
    {
      "text": "Fast delivery",
      "count": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "good job",
      "count": 2
    }
  ],
  "supplierEmployees": 40,
  "supplierFloorSpaceM2": 800,
  "supplierMainProducts": "Earphone, Charging Cable, Wireless Charger",
  "supplierExportCountries": [],
  "supplierCertifications": [
    "BSCI",
    "ISO"
  ],
  "supplierVerifiedBy": "TÜV Rheinland",
  "supplierUrl": "https://yoright.en.alibaba.com/",
  "supplierProfileUrl": "https://yoright.en.alibaba.com/company_profile.html",
  "supplierProductsUrl": "https://yoright.en.alibaba.com/productlist.html",
  "supplierLogo": "https://sc02.alicdn.com/kf/H183638753a8e40c5a88e1198ee9753acg.jpg",
  "supplierContactUrl": "https://message.alibaba.com/msgsend/contact.htm?action=contact_action&appForm=s_en&chkProductIds=1601653556184&chkProductIds_f=IDX1IXBTvLcI-L8-hU3Qhy80x4LBCDYLqByaZkV19W2yXtKHBvlaj1cN3LwSmN0pHlIs&tracelog=contactOrg&mloca=main_en_search_list",
  "searchQuery": "wireless earbuds",
  "search": "\"wireless earbuds\"",
  "searchPage": 1,
  "searchPosition": 15,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T22:04:12.642Z"
}

CSV and Excel columns. In a CSV or Excel export each column above becomes a column; arrays are flattened into numbered columns, for example priceTiers/0/minQuantity, priceTiers/0/price, priceTiers/1/minQuantity …, images/0 … images/5, productCertifications/0, reviewTags/0/text. The first columns of a CSV export are:

productId, url, title, categoryId, categoryName, price, priceMin, priceMax, currency, priceUnit, priceTiers, promotionPrice, promotionEndsAt, minOrder, minOrderQuantity, minOrderUnit, soldCount, popularity, leadTimeDays, deliveryEstimate, badges, productCertifications, attributes, image, images, hasVideo, sponsored, supplierName, supplierId, supplierCountryCode … and the remaining supplier, link and search columns in the order of the data dictionary.

How much data and how fast

All numbers below were measured on the Apify platform on 24 October 2026 (UTC) with the default memory (1,024 MB) and default settings unless noted.

Run	Products saved	Duplicates	Duration	Pages read
Prefill: bluetooth speaker, max 50	50	0	3–5 s (first products after ~2 s)	1
yoga mat, max 1,000 (default settings)	1,000	0	20–21 s	17–18
led strip lights, max 12,000, deep search	12,000	0	85.5 s	165
solar panel, max 12,000, deep search	12,000	0	65 s	144
led strip lights + wireless earbuds, max 25,000, deep search	25,000	0	182 s	446

In the 25,000-product run, led strip lights (Alibaba reported 271,619 matching products) gave 11,582 unique products from three result windows and wireless earbuds (Alibaba reported 23,413) gave 13,418 unique products from seven windows — more than half of everything Alibaba lists for that keyword.

Why about 10,000 per search. Alibaba.com reports large totals (hundreds of thousands for broad keywords) but lists at most 100 pages of 100 results for one search; beyond that it repeats a fixed fallback list. In a test walk of all 100 pages of wireless earbuds with one consistent session, 9,047 of the 10,000 positions were unique products. The Actor stops a window when pages stop bringing new products.

How deep search goes further. When a search has more products than one window can list and you asked for more, the Actor repeats the search in 16 US-dollar price bands (0–0.5, 0.5–1, 1–2, 2–3, 3–5, 5–8, 8–12, 12–20, 20–35, 35–60, 60–100, 100–200, 200–500, 500–1,500, 1,500–5,000 and 5,000+), two bands at a time, each band being a full search of its own. Products are de-duplicated across bands and searches, and the split stops as soon as Max products is reached. Your own price filter is respected: bands are cut to the window you set.

What makes it fast. One request returns 100 products with all their supplier details, so 1,000 products need about ten requests. Up to four pages of a search and up to three searches are read in parallel, and every page is saved the moment it arrives.

Ranking consistency. Alibaba personalises the order of results per visitor. Each search is read with one consistent session from its first page to its last, which keeps its pages from overlapping; the order can still differ from what you see in your own browser.

What you pay

This Actor is priced per result: you pay only for products saved to your dataset, nothing for pages, retries, proxies or compute.

Products	Free Apify plan ($2.50 / 1,000)	Higher Apify plans (down to $1.60 / 1,000)
1,000	$2.50	from $1.60
10,000	$25.00	from $16.00
100,000	$250.00	from $160.00

The per-1,000 price steps down with your Apify plan: $2.50 on the free plan, $2.20 and $1.90 on the next two discount tiers and $1.60 on the highest tiers. The exact price for your account is shown on the Actor's pricing tab before you start.

Maximum cost per run. Apify lets you set a Max cost per run (in the run options, or maxTotalChargeUsd in the API). The Actor reads that limit before writing, saves exactly as many products as the limit covers, writes its SUMMARY and finishes as Succeeded with the message "Saved N product(s) — stopped at the run's maximum cost per run. Raise "Max cost per run" to collect more." It does not keep reading pages it could not save. Example: with a $5 limit on the free plan the run stops at 2,000 products. For large exports set both Max products and a cost limit you are comfortable with.

Integrations

• Google Sheets. Use Apify's Google Sheets integration (or the dataset's CSV URL with IMPORTDATA) to send each run's products to a sheet — one tab per keyword works well with Max products per search.
• Make, Zapier and n8n. All three have Apify modules: trigger "Actor run finished", then map title, priceMin, minOrder, supplierName and supplierUrl into your CRM, a spreadsheet, Slack or email.
• Airtable. Send rows into an Airtable base and link products to suppliers by supplierId for a lightweight sourcing database.
• Webhooks. Add a webhook on run succeeded to call your own endpoint with the dataset ID, then pull the items through the API.
• Schedules. Save the input as a task and schedule it daily or weekly for price monitoring, rank tracking or a fresh supplier list; join runs on productId.
• AI agents and MCP. Apify's MCP server exposes Actors as tools, so an AI assistant can run Alibaba Scraper with a JSON input ("find 200 verified suppliers of silicone baby bibs with MOQ under 500") and reason over the returned rows.
• Data warehouses. Load the JSON or CSV export into BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres or a data lake; productId is the primary key and supplierId the supplier key. Fetching the dataset with format=json&clean=1 gives one object per product ready for bulk loading.
• Python and Node.js. See How to run it through the API for client code.

Performance tips

• Ask for what you need. Runs stop as soon as Max products is reached; the prefill of 50 finishes in a few seconds.
• Spread budgets across keywords with Max products per search, otherwise the first keyword may take most of a total limit.
• Use Alibaba's filters instead of filtering afterwards. Country, price, MOQ, certification and verification filters are applied by Alibaba itself, so every saved product already matches and you pay only for products you want.
• Prefer several specific keywords (led strip 12v, cob led strip, neon led strip) over one very broad one when you want precise niches; prefer deep search on one broad keyword when you want the widest coverage.
• Leave deep search on for completeness; switch it off for rank tracking, where only the first pages matter.
• Best-selling sort is ideal for the top ~600 sellers of a keyword, not for bulk exports.
• Default memory (1 GB) is enough — the 25,000-product run peaked at about 150 MB.
• Keep the default proxy setting. The Actor starts on the direct connection, moves to Apify datacenter proxies on its own when needed and uses a handful of residential requests only as a last resort.

Troubleshooting and status messages

The run's status line always says what happened, and the SUMMARY record in the key-value store has the details per search.

Status message (start)	Run status	What it means and what to do
COMPLETED — saved N Alibaba product(s) (maxItems reached) from P page(s) in S s.	Succeeded	Everything requested was collected. Without "(maxItems reached)" the searches simply had no more products.
PARTIAL — saved N Alibaba product(s) … stopped at the run's time limit — give the run a longer timeout to collect more	Succeeded	The run's timeout ended the crawl. Raise the timeout (default 3,600 s) or lower Max products.
PARTIAL — saved N … X page(s) could not be read	Succeeded	A few pages failed after all retries; the products from all other pages are saved. Running again usually fills the gap.
Saved N product(s) — stopped at the run's maximum cost per run. Raise "Max cost per run" to collect more.	Succeeded	Your cost limit was reached; see What you pay.
EMPTY_RESULT — Alibaba.com has no products for … Try a broader keyword or fewer filters.	Succeeded	Alibaba answered and listed nothing for that combination of keyword and filters (for example a certificate no supplier in that country lists).
EMPTY_RESULT — Alibaba returned products, but all of them were removed by your options …	Succeeded	Products existed but Include sponsored listings = off or One product per supplier removed every one.
BLOCKED — Alibaba.com refused every request (…). This is usually temporary — run again in a few minutes.	Failed	Every route was refused. Run again later; keep the default proxy setting.
FETCH_FAILED — no products could be read from Alibaba.com (…). Run again in a few minutes.	Failed	Network errors on every route (or a custom proxy that does not work). Check custom proxy URLs, then retry.
FETCH_FAILED — some pages were read but the ones holding products failed (…). Run again.	Failed	Alibaba answered but every page with products failed; a rerun normally succeeds.
TIME_UP — the run's time limit was reached before Alibaba returned the first page.	Failed	The timeout was too short for even one page (for example 10 s from an API call). Give the run at least 60 s.
INVALID_INPUT — Give at least one search term …	Failed	Nothing to search: add a keyword, an Alibaba URL or a category ID.
INVALID_INPUT — "…" is a single product page …	Failed	Product pages are not supported; paste a search or category URL, or use the product's keywords.
INVALID_INPUT — "…" is not an alibaba.com URL / is not a valid URL / has no search keyword or category ID	Failed	Check the pasted URL; it must be an alibaba.com search, keyword or category page.
INVALID_INPUT — Category ID "…" is not a number	Failed	Category IDs are numbers such as 202063712 (see the categoryId column).
INVALID_INPUT — Supplier country "…" must be a two-letter ISO code	Failed	Use CN, VN, IN, US …
INVALID_INPUT — Unknown sortBy / maxMinOrder must be 1 or more	Failed	Use relevance or best_selling; set the MOQ limit to 1 or more, or leave it empty.

While the run is working, the status line shows progress such as Saved 7,659 product(s) · "led strip lights" [US$0–0.5] page 3 of ~100.

Odd products for a very rare word? Alibaba's search never answers "nothing" for an unknown word — it fuzzy-matches (a nonsense string returns part numbers that share letters with it). The Actor saves what Alibaba lists; check title and categoryName when you search for rare terms.

Honest limits

• Search results, not product pages. The Actor reads Alibaba's search results, which already carry prices, tiers, MOQ, certifications and the supplier block. It does not open individual product pages: Alibaba guards them with a slider check, and long descriptions, full specification tables, SKU variants and shipping quotes are only there.
• No e-mail addresses or phone numbers. Alibaba.com does not publish supplier e-mails or phones in search results; buyers reach suppliers through Alibaba's contact form, which supplierContactUrl links to (sending a message needs an Alibaba buyer account).
• About 10,000 results per search. Alibaba's own limit. Deep search, several keywords, countries and categories go beyond it; a single broad keyword will not return all of the hundreds of thousands Alibaba reports.
• Best-selling order stops at roughly 600 products per search — also Alibaba's limit.
• Order differs from your browser. Alibaba personalises ranking per visitor; the set of products for a search is the same kind, the exact order may not be.
• Sponsored listings are mixed in by Alibaba. They are real products, flagged in sponsored, and can be excluded.
• Some values are not shown for every product (sales figures, delivery estimates, attributes, staff numbers); the data dictionary gives the measured share.
• Delivery estimates assume a US address, and prices are in the currency the supplier uses — USD for nearly all listings.
• Supplier staff and floor space come from Alibaba's search data and can lag the supplier's live profile slightly.
• Alibaba.com only. 1688.com (Alibaba's Chinese domestic wholesale site) and AliExpress are different sites and are not covered by this Actor.

Alibaba Scraper compared with the other options

	Alibaba Scraper	Copying from the website by hand	Alibaba.com's own tools
Speed	1,000 products in ~20 s	Minutes per page	Not designed for export
Volume	Tens of thousands of products per run	A few dozen before fatigue	Saved lists / favourites only
Fields	60 typed columns incl. tiers, certifications, supplier verification	Whatever you copy	Varies
Filters	Alibaba's own filters, set once in the input	Clicked per search	Yes, in the browser
De-duplication	Automatic, by product ID	Manual	—
Repeatable / scheduled	Yes (tasks, schedules, API, webhooks)	No	No
Login	Not needed	Not needed for browsing	Buyer account
Cost	Pay per product	Your time	Free

Alibaba.com does not offer buyers a public API for searching its product catalogue; its developer programmes are aimed at sellers and partners managing their own stores. For buyers, analysts and sales teams who need search results as data, a scraper is the practical route.

FAQ

How do I scrape Alibaba.com without coding?

Open the Actor, type your keywords into Search terms, set Max products and press Start. Download the results as CSV or Excel from the Export button. No code, browser extension, Alibaba account or cookies are needed.

Is there an official Alibaba.com API for product search?

Not for buyers. Alibaba's developer programmes serve sellers and partners managing their own listings and orders. This Actor works as an Alibaba API alternative: you send a JSON input and get structured products back through Apify's API.

Can I export Alibaba search results to Excel or CSV?

Yes. Every run's dataset exports to Excel (XLSX), CSV, JSON, XML and HTML. Nested values such as price tiers and images become numbered columns in CSV and Excel.

How many products can I scrape from Alibaba?

As many as your searches hold. One search window lists up to about 10,000 products; deep search continues in 16 price bands, and you can add more keywords, supplier countries and categories. A measured run collected 25,000 unique products from two keywords in about three minutes.

Why does Alibaba report 200,000 results when I get about 10,000 per search?

Alibaba shows only the first 100 pages of 100 for any search. The Actor's deep search re-runs the search in price bands to reach products beyond that window; the SUMMARY record shows how many products Alibaba reported for each search.

How do I get Alibaba supplier emails or phone numbers?

Alibaba.com does not show them publicly. The Actor gives the supplier's name, store, profile and the link to Alibaba's "Contact supplier" form (supplierContactUrl), plus company facts — years, size, verification, main products — to qualify the lead.

Do I need an Alibaba account, login or cookies?

No. The Actor reads public search results that any visitor sees.

Can it scrape Alibaba product details such as the description, specifications or variants?

No. It exports the search-result data (prices, tiers, MOQ, lead time, certifications, attributes when shown, images and the supplier block). Alibaba protects individual product pages with a slider check, so long descriptions and SKU variants are out of scope.

How do I get only Verified Suppliers, Gold Suppliers or Trade Assurance products?

Switch on Verified Supplier only, Verified Pro Supplier only or Trade Assurance only in the input. Gold Supplier status is in the goldSupplier column for filtering after the run.

How do I find low MOQ products on Alibaba?

Set Max minimum order (MOQ) — for example 1 for single-piece orders or 50 for small batches. Every saved product then has a minOrderQuantity at or below that number.

How do I find suppliers in Vietnam, India, Turkey or another country?

Choose them in Supplier countries. Each country runs as its own search for every keyword, and supplierCountryCode confirms the location of each supplier.

How do I scrape a whole Alibaba category?

Put the category ID in Category IDs and leave Search terms empty. IDs are in the categoryId column of any run or in Alibaba URLs (categoryId=…).

Can I paste an Alibaba search URL?

Yes, into Alibaba search or category URLs. The keyword, category and Alibaba's own filter parameters in the URL are kept; tracking parameters are ignored.

What currency are the prices in?

US dollars for nearly every listing (currency = USD). When a supplier quotes in another currency the currency column says which (for example CNY or CAD); when Alibaba shows only "Other", the currency and the numeric prices are left empty and price keeps the text.

What is the difference between priceMin, priceMax and priceTiers?

priceMin–priceMax is the displayed range. priceTiers lists each quantity bracket with its price. When the Alibaba card shows one number, it is the price at the minimum order, which equals priceMax.

Can I monitor Alibaba prices every day?

Yes. Save your input as a task, add a daily schedule and compare runs on productId — prices, sales, promotions and rank (searchPosition) are all in each row.

Why are some products marked sponsored?

Alibaba mixes paid placements into its results. They are genuine listings; the sponsored column flags them and Include sponsored listings = off removes them.

Why is the order different from what I see on Alibaba?

Alibaba personalises the ranking per visitor and per session. The Actor keeps one consistent session per search, so its own pages do not overlap, but your browser may rank the same products differently.

How do I get one row per supplier instead of one per product?

Switch on One product per supplier. The first product of each supplier is kept and later ones are skipped, which turns the dataset into a supplier list with a sample product each.

How fast is it?

Three to five seconds for 50 products, about 20 seconds for 1,000 and about three minutes for 25,000, measured on 24 October 2026 (UTC).

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 Alibaba products?

$25.00 on the free Apify plan and down to $16.00 on higher plans — you pay per product saved, with no extra charge for proxies or compute.

What happens when I set a maximum cost per run?

The Actor saves exactly as many products as the limit pays for, writes its summary and finishes successfully with a message that the cost limit was reached.

Can I use it from Python or Node.js?

Yes — with Apify's official apify-client packages, or plain HTTP. See How to run it through the API.

Can I connect it to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n?

Yes. Apify integrations and webhooks send each run's products to Google Sheets, Airtable, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack or your own endpoint.

Can AI agents use the Alibaba Scraper?

Yes. Through Apify's MCP server an AI assistant can call the Actor with a JSON input and work with the returned products.

Does it work for 1688.com or AliExpress?

No. This Actor covers Alibaba.com, the international B2B site. 1688.com (阿里巴巴1688, the Chinese domestic wholesale site) and AliExpress are separate sites.

Are Chinese-language listings supported?

Alibaba.com is the English-language international site, so titles and supplier names are in English; Chinese suppliers appear under their English company names. The output is UTF-8, so symbols such as °, ㎡ or accented names are kept intact.

What does lead time mean here?

leadTimeDays is the shortest processing time in days that Alibaba lists before the supplier dispatches the order (usually for the smallest quantity tier). Shipping time comes on top.

What is the difference between Gold Supplier, Verified Supplier and Verified PRO?

Gold Supplier is Alibaba's paid supplier membership. Verified Supplier means a third-party inspection company (SGS, TÜV Rheinland, Intertek …) checked the company on site — named in supplierVerifiedBy. Verified PRO is Alibaba's strictest verification level.

Why do some suppliers have no rating?

They have no buyer reviews yet; supplierRating is then empty and supplierReviewCount is 0.

My search returned products that do not match my keyword — why?

For very rare or misspelled words Alibaba fuzzy-matches instead of returning nothing. Check spelling, use common trade terms, and look at categoryName to spot stray matches.

What should I do if a run ends with BLOCKED?

Wait a few minutes and run again with the default proxy setting. The Actor already switches between the direct connection, datacenter proxies and a few residential requests on its own.

Are the images full size?

Yes. image and images point to the original files on Alibaba's image servers, not to the 300 × 300 thumbnails of the search page.

Glossary

Term	Chinese	Meaning
Alibaba.com	阿里巴巴国际站	Alibaba Group's international B2B marketplace for wholesale and manufacturing
1688.com	阿里巴巴1688	Alibaba's Chinese-language domestic wholesale site (not covered here)
MOQ (minimum order quantity)	起订量 / 最小起订量	The smallest quantity a supplier accepts per order
Price tiers	阶梯价	Unit prices that fall as the order quantity rises
Lead time	交期	Days of processing before the order is dispatched
Ready to Ship	现货	Items in stock, shipped without production time
Gold Supplier	金牌供应商	Alibaba's paid supplier membership
Verified Supplier	第三方验厂认证	Company information checked on site by an inspection company
Trade Assurance	信用保障（信保）	Alibaba's order-protection service for payments made through Alibaba
Sponsored / P4P	外贸直通车	Pay-for-performance ad placements in Alibaba search results
Supplier store / mini-site	旺铺	A supplier's own pages on Alibaba.com (supplierUrl)
Inquiry	询盘	A buyer's message to a supplier asking for a quote
Response rate	回复率	Share of buyer messages a supplier answers
Product certification	产品认证	Product-level certificates such as CE, FCC, ROHS
Management system certificate	体系认证	Company-level certificates such as ISO 9001, BSCI
Manufacturer / trading company	工厂 / 贸易公司	Producing factory vs. reseller
OEM / ODM	贴牌 / 代工设计	Production under the buyer's brand / to the supplier's own design
Cross-border e-commerce	跨境电商	Selling across borders, the main use of sourcing data
Sourcing / procurement	采购 / 外贸选品	Finding products and suppliers to buy from

Is it legal to scrape Alibaba.com?

The Actor collects only information Alibaba.com publishes openly to every visitor without a login: product listings and the business details suppliers choose to show. It does not bypass logins or paywalls, and it does not collect buyer data or private messages. Scraping publicly available data is generally lawful in many jurisdictions, but the responsibility for how you use the data is yours. Respect Alibaba.com's terms of use, do not republish copyrighted images or texts without the rights holder's permission, and if your use involves personal data (for example names of individual contact persons), comply with the laws that apply to you — China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), the EU and UK GDPR, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, the CCPA and others. Supplier data in this Actor is company data; treat any personal information carefully and only for legitimate business purposes. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

Changelog

• 1.0 (25 October 2026) — First release: keyword search, pasted search URLs and category browsing on Alibaba.com; Alibaba's own filters (supplier country, price, MOQ, Trade Assurance, Verified Supplier, Verified PRO, product and supplier certificates, rating, best-selling sort); deep search in 16 price bands; one-product-per-supplier and sponsored-listing options; 60-column output with price tiers, MOQ, lead time, certifications, full-size images and supplier verification, rating and response rate; per-result pricing with a clean stop at the maximum cost per run.

Support

Questions, a missing field, a search that behaves oddly? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with the run ID — we reply within 24 hours. Feature requests are welcome; tell us which Alibaba filter or column would help your workflow.