Alibaba Scraper — Products, MOQ & Supplier Data

Search Alibaba.com by keyword and get wholesale product offers as clean JSON: price ranges, minimum order quantities, tiered quantity pricing, supplier profiles, review scores, and certifications.

Built on plain HTTP against Alibaba's own gallery data service — no browser, no login, 512 MB of memory. Runs are fast and cheap, and the output is sourcing-ready: every row tells you what the product costs at which quantity, who sells it, how long they've been on the platform, and how buyers rate them.

What you get per product

Field	Description
title, productUrl, productId	Clean title (no highlight markup) and canonical detail URL
price, priceMin, minOrder, unit	Display price range (e.g. US $0.71-$0.78), lowest price, MOQ (e.g. 5 meters)
quantityPrices	Tiered pricing: [{price, localPrice, quantityMin, quantityMax, unit}] — the actual wholesale ladder
supplierName, supplierCountry, supplierYears	Who sells it, from where, and for how long
goldSupplier, assessedSupplier, verifiedSupplierPro, tradeAssurance	Supplier trust signals
reviewScore, productReviewScore, supplierServiceScore, shippingTimeScore, reviewCount	Buyer ratings, split by dimension
responseRate, employeesTotal	Supplier responsiveness and size
certifications	Product certificates shown on the listing (CE, RoHS, …)
mainImage, images, hasVideo	Media
category, categoryId, isAd	Alibaba's leaf category and whether the listing is a sponsored (P4P) slot
searchTerm, page	Which input keyword and page produced the row

Rows are deduplicated across pages by productId (sponsored listings repeat between pages — you're never charged twice for the same offer).

Example input

{
    "searchTerms": ["led strip", "yoga mat"],
    "maxPages": 3,
    "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

Sourcing research is the obvious one: compare MOQ and price ladders across suppliers for a product you want to manufacture or resell. The supplier trust fields (gold status, assessment, trade assurance, response rate, years on platform) make shortlisting programmatic instead of tab-by-tab. Price-tracking across runs, category landscape analysis, and dropshipping catalog discovery all fall out of the same rows.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? Usually no — the default direct connection works. If runs start failing with blocks, switch the proxy input to Apify Proxy.

How many products per page? Alibaba returns roughly 20–48 offers per page depending on the query. totalCount for the keyword is logged at the start of each term.

Does it scrape product detail pages? Not in this actor — search rows already carry pricing tiers, MOQ, supplier data, and media. Detail-page and supplier-profile scraping are separate problems (those pages are aggressively bot-gated) and belong to a future actor.

Are sponsored listings included? Yes, marked with isAd: true so you can filter them out.

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🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Compact reference for AI agents calling this actor via the Apify MCP server or the Apify API (actor: memo23/alibaba-scraper).

Purpose: Keyword-searches Alibaba.com wholesale product offers over plain HTTP (no browser, no login) and returns sourcing-ready JSON rows — price ranges, MOQ, tiered quantity pricing, supplier profiles, review scores, and certifications.

Minimal input:

{
  "searchTerms": ["led strip"],
  "maxPages": 1,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Output: one dataset row per product offer; key fields: title, productUrl, productId, price, priceMin, minOrder, unit, quantityPrices (tiered ladder: price, localPrice, quantityMin, quantityMax, unit), supplierName, supplierCountry, supplierYears, goldSupplier, assessedSupplier, verifiedSupplierPro, tradeAssurance, reviewScore, productReviewScore, supplierServiceScore, shippingTimeScore, reviewCount, responseRate, employeesTotal, certifications, mainImage, images, hasVideo, category, categoryId, isAd, searchTerm, page.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• Always set maxItems (and/or maxPages, ~20–48 products per page) to cap output; each term in searchTerms runs its own search.
• No login or cookie required; the default direct connection usually works — switch proxy to Apify Proxy only if runs start failing with blocks.
• Rows are deduplicated across pages by productId, so repeated sponsored listings are not billed twice.
• Sponsored (P4P) listings are included and flagged with isAd: true for filtering.
• Billing: Pay-per-event billing — see the Pricing tab on the actor page.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor collects publicly displayed listing data from Alibaba.com for legitimate sourcing research, price monitoring, and market analysis. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Alibaba's terms. Do not use collected data for spam or unfair competitive practices.