AliExpress Scraper

Scrape product listings from AliExpress, one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms. Extract prices, ratings, order counts, images, and shipping details. Perfect for dropshipping research, competitor analysis, and price monitoring.

Features

• Search by URL or keyword - provide AliExpress search URLs or plain text queries
• Rich product data - prices, discounts, ratings, order counts, multiple images
• Pagination - automatically follows search result pages up to your limit
• Sort options - best match, most orders, price ascending/descending, newest
• Anti-bot resistant - Chrome TLS fingerprinting via bogdanfinn/tls-client
• Lightweight - 128MB memory, ~12MB Docker image (Go + Alpine)

Output Data

Each product includes:

Field	Description
id	AliExpress product ID
title	Product title
price	Current/sale price
original_price	Original price before discount
currency	Currency code (USD, EUR, etc.)
discount_percent	Discount percentage
rating	Star rating (0-5)
orders_count	Number of orders (e.g., "2,000+ sold")
image_url	Primary product image
image_urls	All product images
shipping_info	Shipping description
free_shipping	Whether free shipping is available
category	AliExpress category ID
source_url	Direct link to the product page

Note: Store name, store URL, and store rating are only available on product detail pages and are not included in SERP-only results. Review count is also detail-page only on current AliExpress.

Input Examples

Search by keyword

{
  "searchQuery": "bluetooth speaker",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "sortBy": "orders"
}

Search by URL

{
  "searchUrls": ["https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-solar-panel.html"],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Multiple searches

{
  "searchUrls": [
    "https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-phone-case.html",
    "https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-usb-cable.html"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}

Proxy Configuration

AliExpress has anti-bot protection. RESIDENTIAL proxy is strongly recommended.

{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Datacenter proxies may work intermittently but can trigger CAPTCHAs or blocks.

Technical Details

• Runtime: Go 1.22, compiled to static binary (~12MB Docker image)
• TLS fingerprinting: Chrome 124 profile via bogdanfinn/tls-client
• Data extraction: Parses embedded JSON from window._dida_config_._init_data_
• Items per page: ~60 products per SERP page
• Rate limiting: 2-second delay between page fetches
• Memory: 128MB (fixed)

Pricing

Event	Price
product-serp-result	$0.002 per product

Limitations

• Store information (name, URL, rating) requires fetching individual product detail pages (not included in SERP data)
• Review count is not available in SERP results
• AliExpress may show localized prices based on detected region
• Heavy anti-bot protection may cause occasional blocks even with RESIDENTIAL proxy
• Maximum ~60 products per page, paginated search

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Issues & Feature Requests

If something is not working or you're missing a feature or data field, please open an issue and we'll look into it.