1688 Supplier & Factory Finder for Sourcing

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Product query in, 1688 suppliers and sourcing data out. Supplier scoring and change intelligence are optional value layers after direct discovery.

Search 1688 by product query and return suppliers, factories, prices and sourcing fields in structured results, with optional supplier ranking and snapshot comparison.

1688 contains enormous wholesale supply, but procurement work is not finished when product rows arrive. This Actor ranks public supplier and trade signals into an explainable shortlist.

Why use this Actor

This Actor is built for users who need structured evidence and a decision layer rather than a pile of raw HTML. It extracts public-source data, normalizes the records, assigns deterministic scores that can be inspected, and emits compact actions suitable for people, APIs, MCP clients, and autonomous agents. The design favors lightweight HTTP execution where the source permits it and fails explicitly when a source blocks access instead of silently inventing rows. Snapshot input can be reused across scheduled runs to turn one-time extraction into monitoring.

Key features

• Wholesale search with structured offer and supplier fields.
• Price, monthly sales, total sales, MOQ, supplier years, delivery and service tags when public.
• Deterministic supplierScore and sourcingScore.
• SHORTLIST_SUPPLIER and REVIEW_SUPPLIER actions.
• Prior-snapshot price, sales, MOQ and tag deltas.
• Signed 1688 H5/MTOP search transport.
• Direct MTOP first, with rotating Apify proxy fallback when a cloud egress IP is challenged.

Input

Provide product keywords, result limit, optional sales/price filters and a previous snapshot.

Output

Each row is a qualified 1688 offer with supplier signals, sourcing score, change intelligence and action.

Example

{
  "queries": [
    "LED灯"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 2,
  "minMonthlySales": 0,
  "maxPriceCny": 0,
  "previousSnapshot": []
}

The default dataset contains one billable decision-ready row per extracted entity. Aggregate summaries and reusable snapshots are stored in the default key-value store when applicable. Scores are deterministic heuristics, not claims of certainty.

Use cases

• Supplier discovery and procurement.
• Dropshipping and wholesale sourcing.
• Price/MOQ monitoring.
• Supplier-change alerts for agents.

Pricing

Initial benchmark price: US$0.006 per qualified sourcing row before tier discounts.

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. The primary event is one qualified row written to the default dataset. The product is designed to keep platform cost materially below the event price at normal workloads; the factory rechecks margin from live validation runs before publication.

Limitations

1688 actively changes anti-bot behavior. Managed proxy fallback can add platform cost, and public signals do not replace supplier due diligence.

Public web sources change. A successful extraction today is not a contractual guarantee that a source will preserve the same markup tomorrow. Anti-bot systems, regional network behavior, deleted content, private accounts, and login-only data can reduce coverage. This Actor does not bypass account access controls and does not claim access to private data. Use the output as operational evidence and revalidate high-stakes decisions against the original source.