Alibaba Image Search Scraper

🚀 Alibaba Image Search Scraper

Find Alibaba.com suppliers from a product photo. The Alibaba Image Search Scraper takes one or more image URLs and returns the Alibaba.com products that look like them, with price ranges, minimum order quantities, supplier details, verification and ratings. It's built for product sourcing, supplier discovery and checking what a product costs at the factory.

✨ Features

• 📸 Search by photo: paste the URL of any product photo (from Amazon, Shopify, Instagram, a competitor's site or your own files as a data: URL) and get visually similar Alibaba.com listings.
• 🏭 Supplier data on every match: supplier name, country, years on Alibaba.com, third-party verification (e.g. SGS, Intertek, TÜV), store link and company profile link.
• 💰 Sourcing numbers: price range as text and as numbers (min/max), promotion price and discount, minimum order quantity and unit, sold count when shown, and estimated delivery.
• ⭐ Quality signals: product review score and count, supplier service score, on-time shipping score, product and supplier certifications.
• 🔎 Up to 100 matches per photo, and more on request: above 100, the search continues with the other objects detected in the photo and then with the suggested product categories, 100 at a time. Every row says what it matched on.
• 🧾 Honest billing: images that can't be loaded or return no matches get a free error row, so you only pay for searches that found something.

🛠️ How It Works

1. Add image URLs: one photo per line. JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and AVIF up to 10 MB are supported.
2. Set how many matches you want per image: 50 by default, 100 in one search, more if needed.
3. Run the scraper: each photo is searched separately. Results land in the dataset in similarity order and can be exported to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pulled through the API.

💵 Pricing

Pay per event, with no start fee:

Event	Price	When it's charged
Image search	$0.02	Once per image that returns matches. Covers the first set of up to 100 similar products.
Additional results	$0.01	Per extra set of up to 100 new matches for the same image, only when you ask for more than 100.

Images that fail or have no matches are free. Example: 200 photos × 50 matches = 10,000 rows for $4.00.

📊 Sample Output Data

Each match is one row. Example:

{
    "queryImage": "https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SUj2aKoEL.jpg",
    "rank": 9,
    "matchedBy": "photo",
    "productId": "1601451709122",
    "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/AI-Smart-Earbuds-Real-Time-144_1601451709122.html",
    "title": "AI Smart Earbuds Real-Time 144 Language Translation OLED Color Display Instant for Bluetooth Communication for Language Learning",
    "imageUrl": "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H534a6c30f77b4ae1ab8a0daf3312d202w.png_300x300.png",
    "images": [
        "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/H534a6c30f77b4ae1ab8a0daf3312d202w.png_300x300.png",
        "https://s.alicdn.com/@sc04/kf/Hf460382a4ce048d99939c8b9abe4f3d1v.jpg_300x300.jpg"
    ],
    "priceText": "$12.99-14.92",
    "priceMin": 12.99,
    "priceMax": 14.92,
    "promotionPriceMin": null,
    "promotionPriceMax": null,
    "discount": null,
    "currency": "USD",
    "minOrderQuantity": 5,
    "minOrderUnit": "pieces",
    "soldCount": 1,
    "estimatedDelivery": null,
    "customizable": false,
    "certifications": [],
    "supplierName": "Shenzhen Kingstar Mould Co., Ltd.",
    "supplierId": "200016787",
    "supplierUrl": "https://kskingstar.en.alibaba.com/",
    "supplierProfileUrl": "https://kskingstar.en.alibaba.com/company_profile.html",
    "supplierCountry": "CN",
    "supplierYears": 19,
    "verifiedBy": "SGS",
    "supplierCertifications": [],
    "reviewScore": 4.5,
    "reviewCount": 53,
    "supplierServiceScore": 4.6,
    "onTimeShippingScore": 4.6,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-21T09:25:08.341Z"
}```

`matchedBy` is `photo` for the first 100 matches, `object in photo` for matches on another object detected in the picture, and `category: <name>` for matches within a suggested category. Category matches are broader: the later categories drift further from the original photo.

Images that could not be searched produce a row with `status` (`image_error`, `no_matches` or `failed`) and an `error` message instead of product fields.

## ❓ FAQ

**Do I need an Alibaba.com account?** No. The scraper only uses public search results.

**Which currency are prices in?** US dollars, as shown on Alibaba.com's international site.

**Can I search with a photo from my computer?** Yes. Convert it to a base64 `data:image/jpeg;base64,...` URL and paste it in place of a link.

**Looking for other marketplaces?** Try the AliExpress Image Search Scraper and 1688 Image Search Scraper for the same job on retail and Chinese wholesale catalogs.

Start sourcing from a photo with the **Alibaba Image Search Scraper** today! 🚀