Global Sources Scraper & API: Products, MOQ, Verified Suppliers

This Global Sources scraper turns GlobalSources.com product search results into clean JSON, CSV or Excel: enter a keyword and get every product's FOB price range, MOQ, lead time, FOB port, category, supplier name, location, star ranking (P1-P6), years on Global Sources, verified supplier / verified manufacturer badges and trade show history. Use it as a Global Sources product scraper for sourcing and price research, a Global Sources supplier scraper for verified-manufacturer lead lists, or an unofficial Global Sources API you call from your own code, Make, Zapier or n8n.

It reads the same JSON Global Sources' own search page loads, over plain HTTP, with no headless browser and no login. 80 products per request; 1,000 products take well under a minute.

How to use

1. Enter one or more keywords in Search terms (e.g. led light, yoga mat), or paste a Global Sources search URL (its filters are kept).
2. Optionally set filters: price, MOQ, supplier location, verified manufacturers only, supplier ranking, years in business, product or company certificates, FOB port, OEM service, trade show exhibitors.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Output tab, or fetch them through the Apify API.

What you get

• Product: title, product URL, main image and gallery, video, model number, category with the full category path, first-listed month, sponsored flag.
• Price & MOQ: FOB price from / to in USD, the price text, price type (by order quantity or range), minimum order quantity and its unit, production lead time, FOB port.
• Supplier: company name, Global Sources supplier ID and homepage, country / region, star ranking P1-P6, years on Global Sources, business types (manufacturer, trading company, exporter, ...), verified supplier and verified manufacturer badges, one-line highlight, 360° factory tour flag, trade show history and booth.
• Filters applied before you pay: everything you filter out is skipped and never charged.

Sample output

Real rows from a test run (led light), a few of the 40+ fields:

title	FOB price	MOQ	supplier	ranking	years	verified mfr
Multi function LED Work Light / Rotatable, Ma...	$7.30 - 7.50	100 Boxes	Market Union Co. Ltd	P6	4	no
Reversing work light 12w trucks flood round L...	$5.68 - 5.80	50 Pieces	M&F Industries Limited	P4	7	no
Patio Holiday Garden Wedding Decor LED Cafe S...	$2.43 - 2.87	3000 Pieces	Jinjiang Naike EcoTechnology Co...	P6	10	yes
Led Light Street, IP65 DLC ETL 100w 200w 130l...	$80.90 - 89.90	1 Pieces	Shenzhen JMK Technology Co., Ltd.	P5	4	yes

Use cases

• Sourcing: shortlist verified factories with a low MOQ for a product in minutes
• Price research: compare FOB prices across hundreds of suppliers
• Supplier lead lists by country, ranking, certificate or business type
• Trade show prep: find exhibitors in your category
• Monitoring: schedule runs and track new products and suppliers over time
• Alibaba alternative: cross-check the same product on a second B2B marketplace (pair it with our Alibaba scraper)

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.50 per 1,000 results (one result = one product saved to the dataset).

• 1,000 results = $1.50
• 10,000 results = $15.00

No start fee. Products removed by your filters, duplicates and failed requests are never charged. Platform usage is tiny because no browser runs. If you set a maximum cost per run, the scraper stops cleanly when it reaches it.

Other Global Sources scrapers on the Store charge $5.00-$10.00 per 1,000 results.

Input

Field	Default	Description
searchTerms	led light	Keywords or Global Sources search URLs, one per line
maxResultsPerSearch	100	Products per search. 0 = everything (up to 20,000)
minPrice / maxPrice	-	FOB unit price filter in USD
maxMoq	-	Only products with an MOQ at or below this number
supplierLocations	-	China, Vietnam, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR, South Korea, Thailand, United States, ...
verifiedManufacturerOnly	false	Only suppliers verified as manufacturers
businessTypes	-	Manufacturer, Exporter, Wholesaler, Agent, Importer, Online Seller, Retailer, Consultant
minSupplierLevel	-	Star ranking 1-6 (6 = P6, the top tier)
minYearsInBusiness	-	e.g. 15 (Global Sources buckets: 30+, 25-29, 15-24, 5-14, under 5)
productCertifications	-	e.g. CE, ROHS, FCC
companyCertifications	-	e.g. ISO 9001:2015, BSCI
fobPorts	-	e.g. Shenzhen, Ningbo
oemOnly	false	Only suppliers offering OEM / private label
tradeShowExhibitorsOnly	false	Only Global Sources trade show exhibitors
includeAds	true	Keep sponsored listings (flagged isAd)

Input example

{
    "searchTerms": ["yoga mat", "bluetooth speaker"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 200,
    "verifiedManufacturerOnly": true,
    "maxMoq": 1000,
    "maxPrice": 20
}

Output example

One dataset item per product. This one is from a real run for "led light":

{
    "searchTerm": "led light",
    "position": 1,
    "productId": "1230765239",
    "title": "Multi function LED Work Light | Rotatable, Magnetic Base & Rechargeable Spotlight with Multiple Light",
    "url": "https://www.globalsources.com/Work-light/LED-work-light-1230765239p.htm",
    "image": "https://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/S1230765239/LED-work-light.jpg?ver=6115387261",
    "hasVideo": true,
    "modelNumber": "1114",
    "priceMin": 7.3,
    "priceMax": 7.5,
    "priceText": "US $7.30 - 7.50",
    "currency": "USD",
    "priceType": "PRICE_BY_ORDER_QUANTITY",
    "moq": 100,
    "moqUnit": "Boxes",
    "leadTimeDays": 7,
    "fobPort": "Ningbo",
    "category": "Work lights",
    "categoryPath": ["Hardware", "Lighting & Electricals", "Industrial Lighting", "Work lights"],
    "firstListed": "11/24",
    "isAd": true,
    "supplierName": "Market Union Co. Ltd",
    "supplierId": "2008856541126",
    "supplierUrl": "https://market-union.manufacturer.globalsources.com/",
    "supplierLocation": "China",
    "supplierYearsOnGlobalSources": 4,
    "supplierLevel": 6,
    "supplierBusinessTypes": ["Buying Office", "Trading Company", "Agent"],
    "verifiedSupplier": true,
    "verifiedManufacturer": false,
    "supplierHighlight": "One of China's top 500 import and export enterprises",
    "supplierHasVirtualTour": true,
    "tradeShows": "Exhibited at 2 GS shows",
    "searchPage": 1,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-24T05:13:02.581Z"
}

The dataset has three views: Overview, Suppliers (all trust signals) and Prices & MOQ. The RUN_SUMMARY record shows, per search, how many products and suppliers Global Sources reports, how many were filtered out, and why each search stopped.

Integrations

• Make, Zapier and n8n: run the actor and pass the products on to any app.
• Google Sheets: export the dataset straight to a spreadsheet.
• Apify API: start runs and download results over REST, or with the JavaScript and Python clients.
• Webhooks: get notified when a run finishes.
• MCP for AI agents: the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents call this Global Sources scraper as a tool.

Limits

• Search results only. Full specifications, price tiers per quantity and the supplier's contact person are on the product page, which this version does not open (it keeps runs fast and cheap).
• Certificates in rows are sparse. Search cards rarely list product or company certificates, so productCertifications / supplierCompanyCertifications are usually empty; the certificate filters work fully because Global Sources applies them itself.
• Prices are FOB list prices from the search card; some suppliers hide prices (about 5% in tests, priceMin: null).
• minYearsInBusiness follows Global Sources' buckets, so 20 also includes suppliers with 15-19 years.
• Lead time and FOB port are filled only when the supplier gives them (about 10% of cards).

FAQ

Does it need a browser, cookies or a Global Sources account? No. Plain HTTPS requests to the JSON endpoint Global Sources' own search page uses. No login, no personal data.

Which proxy should I use? None: leave the default. The actor connects directly and retries any blocked request through Apify Proxy automatically (datacenter, then residential).

What do supplier level and verified manufacturer mean? supplierLevel is Global Sources' star ranking for paying suppliers (P6 = top tier). verifiedManufacturer: true means Global Sources verified the company as a factory, not a trader.

Why did a search return fewer results than I asked for? Global Sources ran out of matching products, or your filters removed them. RUN_SUMMARY shows the reported totals and the stop reason per search.

Can I search suppliers in several countries at once? Yes: supplierLocations: ["Vietnam", "India", "Thailand"] is one search.