AliExpress Search Scraper

AliExpress Search Scraper turns AliExpress keyword searches into clean, ready-to-use product rows: price, list price and discount, exact units sold, rating, Choice and free-shipping flags, ships-from country, image and link. Run the same keywords in several ship-to countries in one run to compare markets, and schedule change-only mode to get just the price moves.

Try it in one click: the form is pre-filled with one keyword (wireless earbuds), one country (US) and 100 products. A test run on Apify with that input returned 100 products in 5.4 seconds and cost $0.07.

• ✅ No AliExpress account, no login, no cookies from you
• ✅ Search pages, search URLs and category URLs
• ✅ Exact units sold (for example 4115, not just "4,000+ sold") and a flag for first-order "new shopper" prices
• ✅ US, DE, GB and other markets in one run, each in its own currency
• ✅ Pay only for unique products: duplicates, filtered rows and unchanged products are free
• ✅ Collects public data only: search cards carry no seller names or other personal data

What can you use it for?

You are	You use it to
Dropshipper	Find winning products by units sold and price band
Product researcher or agency	Size a niche and track price moves on a schedule
Price-comparison or catalogue builder	Get image, title, price and link in bulk
Multi-market seller	Compare the same keyword across US, DE, GB and more in one run

What data does it extract?

Field	What it is
title, productUrl, imageUrl	Product title, link and main image
productId	Global AliExpress product ID, the same in every market
price, priceFormatted, currency	Price a logged-out visitor sees in that market
originalPrice, discountPercent	Crossed-out list price and discount
isNewShopperPrice	true when the shown price is a first-order (new shopper) deal
regularOfferPrice	Price without the new-shopper deal (meaning inferred from AliExpress's own data, not confirmed)
soldCount, soldLabel	Exact units sold when AliExpress provides it (most cards), and the label shown
rating	Star rating
isChoice, freeShipping, deliveryNote, shipFrom	Choice badge, free-shipping badge, delivery promise, ships-from country
isPromoted, placementType, position, organicPosition	Ad flag, card type and rank on the page (with and without ads)
categoryIds, launchDate	AliExpress category IDs and listing date
keyword, country, sort, page, scrapedAt	Where and when the row was found
changeType, previousPrice, firstSeenAt, seenInRuns	Change-only mode only (see below)

How to use it

1. Click Try for free and keep the pre-filled input, or type your own keywords.
2. Pick ship-to countries (ISO codes such as US, DE, GB) and, if you like, a sort order, price range or filters.
3. Set Max products per keyword and country (up to 3,600, the most AliExpress shows) and Max products per run.
4. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the Apify API.

Input example

{
  "keywords": ["yoga mat", "wireless earbuds"],
  "countries": ["US", "DE", "GB"],
  "sort": "orders",
  "maxItemsPerKeyword": 500,
  "maxItems": 3000
}

Other options: startUrls (AliExpress /w/wholesale-*.html search URLs or /category/<id>/<name>.html category URLs), currency, language, minPrice / maxPrice (whole numbers), shipFrom, freeShippingOnly, choiceOnly, minRating, minSold, includePromoted. Every field is explained in the input form.

Output example

One row per unique product per country. This row is from a real run on 24 October 2026:

{
  "keyword": "phone case",
  "country": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "sort": "best_match",
  "page": 1,
  "position": 1,
  "organicPosition": 1,
  "isPromoted": false,
  "placementType": "natural",
  "productId": "1005012594256426",
  "cardId": "3256812407941674",
  "title": "INS Korean Polka Dots Dopamine Soft TPU Phone Case for iPhone 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 Pro Max 16E 17E 18 Pro Silicone Cream Cover",
  "productUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012594256426.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S34be593b88f0488ca16b517948db9201i.jpg",
  "price": 1.09,
  "priceFormatted": "US $1.09",
  "originalPrice": 4.23,
  "discountPercent": 74,
  "regularOfferPrice": 4.16,
  "isNewShopperPrice": true,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "soldCount": 4115,
  "soldLabel": "4,000+ sold",
  "isChoice": true,
  "freeShipping": false,
  "deliveryNote": "Fastest delivery in 6 days",
  "categoryIds": ["202192403", "202228401", "202229403"],
  "launchDate": "2026-06-25",
  "shipFrom": "CN",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T12:58:56Z"
}

The dataset has two views: Products (image, title, price, units sold, rating, link) and Prices and deals (list price, new-shopper flag, change type, previous price). The run's OUTPUT record holds a per-keyword summary: pages, cards, rows, duplicates, filtered rows and the reason the run stopped.

How much does it cost to scrape AliExpress?

You pay per result, nothing per minute of compute. Platform usage (compute, proxy, storage) is included in the price.

Event	Price
Unique product row	$0.70 per 1,000 ($0.0007 each)
Actor start	$0.00005 per run (Apify's standard start event, once per GB of memory; the default 512 MB counts once)

Worked examples:

• 1,000 products: 1,000 × $0.0007 + $0.00005 = $0.70.
• The pre-filled run (1 keyword, 100 products): 100 × $0.0007 + $0.00005 = $0.07005. A real run was charged exactly 100 product events and 1 start event.
• A 20-product test run on Apify was charged 20 product events and 1 start event: $0.01405.
• Large run: 4,800 products (5 keywords × 480 products × US and DE) = $3.36. On Apify this took 309 seconds with 0 failed pages.

Apify's Free plan includes $5 of monthly usage, which covers about 7,000 products.

You never pay for duplicates (the same product on several pages or keywords is charged once per country), rows removed by your filters (minRating, minSold, ads off), or unchanged products in change-only mode. The run also stops at Max products per run and at the maximum charge you set for the run, so the cost can't run away.

Change-only mode (price monitoring)

Turn on Only new products and price changes and schedule the Actor with the same State store name. Each run outputs only:

• priceChanged: a product seen before now has a different price (previousPrice shows the old one). Changes where only one side is a first-order new-shopper price are ignored, because that price differs per visitor.
• newInResults: the product wasn't in any of the last historyRuns runs (default 5).

Unchanged products are neither output nor charged. In a real pair of back-to-back runs on the same search, the second run output 43 newInResults rows and 1 priceChanged row, and skipped 136 unchanged products for free.

Important limit: AliExpress personalises and reshuffles search rankings. When we fetched the same search twice a few minutes apart, only about half of the page-1 products came back (30 of 60 in the US). So newInResults means "new in the results we scanned", not "newly listed on AliExpress". The window reduces this churn but doesn't remove it. Scan deeper (maxItemsPerKeyword 300 or more) for steadier results, and use launchDate to find recently listed products.

How reliable is it?

AliExpress shows a slider captcha after bursts of traffic. The scraper never solves captchas. Instead, it rotates browser-like cookie sessions, pauses and slows down when a captcha appears, retries the page in a fresh session, and switches to Apify's datacenter proxy at the first captcha cluster. In our largest test on Apify (101 pages, 4,800 products), 9% of requests met a captcha, all were retried successfully, and 0 pages failed. If AliExpress keeps blocking, the run stops cleanly, keeps everything already scraped and writes the reason to OUTPUT.

Field checks against an independent re-fetch of the same search pages: rating, Choice flag and units sold matched on 20 of 20 rows in both the US and DE. Price matched 18 of 20 in the US (the other 2 were new-shopper prices, which differ by session) and 20 of 20 in DE.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape AliExpress? This Actor reads only public search pages that any logged-out visitor can see, and the rows contain no personal data (no seller or buyer names). Check your own use against AliExpress's terms and the law where you work; if you're unsure, ask a lawyer.

Why is the price often $1.09 or so low? Logged-out visitors are often shown a first-order "new shopper" deal. Those rows have isNewShopperPrice: true; use originalPrice or regularOfferPrice for the usual price.

Why do I get different products in each country? AliExpress shows a different product set per market. In our tests US and DE shared 13 of the first 100 products, and US and GB shared 29. Each country is charged separately.

Why did I get fewer products than my limit? AliExpress shows at most 60 pages of 60 products per search, and the scraper stops when a page has no new products. Duplicates and filtered rows aren't counted or charged.

Can it scrape product detail pages, reviews or stores? No. It reads search and category result pages only.

Do I need a proxy? No setup needed. The default uses Apify's datacenter proxy only after AliExpress starts showing captchas. You can turn it off or use it from the first request.

Can I use it through the API or with integrations? Yes. Run it with the Apify API, the JavaScript or Python client, schedules, webhooks, or integrations such as Make, Zapier and Google Sheets.

Limits

• Search and category result pages only: no product details, reviews, store pages or shipping quotes.
• At most 60 pages of 60 cards per search (AliExpress's own limit).
• Titles and rankings vary a little between sessions because AliExpress personalises and tests them. productId is stable.
• regularOfferPrice is read from AliExpress's tracking data, and its meaning isn't confirmed.

Feedback

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run ID.