1688 Scraper: Alibaba China wholesale products, price tiers, MOQ, suppliers and search by image

Scrape 1688.com (阿里巴巴1688), Alibaba's wholesale marketplace for China, without an account, cookies or a browser: products found by keyword in English or Chinese, price in yuan, quantity price tiers, minimum order quantity (MOQ), units sold, repurchase rate, images, supplier company, business type (manufacturer or wholesaler), verified years, factory inspection, service scores, province and city. Turn on the full product page to add variants with photos, every attribute, the image gallery, video, stock, want-to-buy count, ships-from, delivery days and buyer protections.

Search by image: paste a product photo from Amazon, AliExpress, Shopee, Temu or any site (or upload one, or give a 1688 product) and get the 1688 suppliers selling the same or a similar item, most similar first.

Built for sourcing and dropshipping research, price comparison between 1688 and Amazon, AliExpress or Shopee, supplier shortlists, product trend tracking and datasets for pricing tools and LLMs.

At a glance

	This Actor	zen-studio/1688-wholesale-scraper (most used)	devcake/1688-com-products-scraper	datacach/1688-search-scraper	memo23/1688-wholesale-scraper
Price per 1,000 products, Free plan	US$ 1.00 (search) / US$ 2.00 (with full product page)	US$ 4.99	US$ 2.00	US$ 1.00	US$ 2.00
Fee per run start	None	US$ 0.0049	None	US$ 0.00005	US$ 0.005
Search by keyword, English or Chinese	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Search by image (photo link, upload, similar to a 1688 product)	Yes, US$ 0.004 per image, 60 products included	No	No	No	No
Price and province filters, sort by price or sales	Yes	Yes	Province and city	Not stated	Not stated
Product links or ids	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Full product page (variants, attributes, gallery, video, stock)	Yes, optional	Yes	Specs	No	Yes
Sponsored listings flagged (isAd) and optional skip	Yes	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Error rows (bad link, product taken down, no results)	Free, with an errorCode	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Users in the last 30 days	New	574	163	36	19
Public run success, last 30 days	10 of 10 local test cases passed	99.5%	99.6%	99.2%	100%

Competitor figures were read from the public Apify API (api.apify.com/v2/acts/<actor>) on 2026-09-28; the Store shows the live numbers.

One real row

From a test run on 2026-09-28 with the full product page on (lists shortened):

{
  "type": "product",
  "offerId": "735353578254",
  "url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/735353578254.html",
  "title": "适用iphone18PRO大视窗磁吸手机壳15磨砂漏标苹果11秒变17保护套",
  "price": 9.0,
  "priceType": "quantity_tiers",
  "priceMin": 7.5,
  "priceMax": 9.0,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "unit": "个",
  "priceTiers": [
    {"minQuantity": 2, "maxQuantity": 499, "price": 9.0},
    {"minQuantity": 500, "maxQuantity": 4999, "price": 8.5},
    {"minQuantity": 5000, "maxQuantity": null, "price": 7.5}
  ],
  "minOrderQuantity": 2,
  "soldText": "1万+",
  "soldCount": 17662,
  "wantToBuy": 914,
  "stockAvailable": 2696036,
  "variants": [
    {"name": "樱桃红【纳米磨砂防指纹手汗】", "imageUrl": "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01mLerzF1OFCHJw6Hvh_!!3872131675-0-cib.jpg"}
  ],
  "attributes": [
    {"name": "材质", "value": "PC"},
    {"name": "功能", "value": "其它,磁吸,防摔,抗指纹"}
  ],
  "videoUrl": "https://cloud.video.taobao.com/play/u/3872131675/p/2/e/6/t/1/533538773043.mp4",
  "shipsFrom": "广东深圳",
  "deliveryDays": 2,
  "supplier": {
    "companyName": "深圳市亿佳合兴科技有限公司",
    "memberId": "b2b-38721316754ec7c",
    "isFactory": false
  },
  "detailsLoaded": true,
  "errorCode": null
}

A search row (full product page off) also brings repurchaseRatePercent, province, city, serviceTags, isAd, position, page, and the supplier's businessType (生产加工 = manufacturer, 经销批发 = wholesaler), trustPassYears, factoryInspected, superFactory, shopUrl and scores (overall, goods, consultation, logistics, disputes, returns, 0 to 5).

Input

{
  "keywords": ["phone case", "瑜伽垫"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "sortBy": "sales",
  "minPrice": 5,
  "maxPrice": 30,
  "province": "Guangdong",
  "excludeAds": true,
  "includeDetails": false
}

• keywords: one per line. English is translated by 1688; Chinese gives the most precise match.
• maxItems: products in the whole run (0 = no limit). maxItemsPerKeyword caps each keyword.
• sortBy: relevance, price_low, price_high or sales.
• minPrice / maxPrice: in Chinese yuan. province: English (Guangdong, Zhejiang...) or Chinese (广东, 浙江...).
• excludeAds: skip sponsored placements.
• offerUrls: product links or numeric offer ids; each returns the full product page.
• includeDetails: open every product found by the search for the full page.

Search by image:

{
  "imageUrls": ["https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SUj2aKoEL._AC_SL1500_.jpg"],
  "similarToOffers": ["735353578254"],
  "maxResultsPerImage": 20,
  "maxPrice": 60
}

• imageUrls: public JPG, PNG or WebP links, one per line. imageFile: upload a photo instead.
• similarToOffers: 1688 product links or ids; the Actor uses each product's main photo to find other suppliers.
• maxResultsPerImage: products per image (empty = 20, 0 = all 1688 shows, about 700). Price, province and sponsored filters also apply. Each image row adds searchImage, imageId, matchRank and similarityScore.

An empty input runs the example search "phone case" with 20 products.

Price

• US$ 1.00 per 1,000 products (US$ 0.001 each), no fee per run.

• US$ 1.00 per 1,000 full product pages on top, only for products that came back with the full page (includeDetails on, or product links and ids). A product whose page could not be loaded is delivered with the search data and this second event is not charged.

• Store discounts on the product event: US$ 0.95 per 1,000 on Bronze, US$ 0.90 on Silver, US$ 0.85 on Gold and above. The full product page event is US$ 1.00 per 1,000 on every plan.

• Never charged: error rows, duplicates, sponsored listings you excluded and products outside your price filter.

• Search by image: US$ 0.004 per image that returns at least one product, with up to 60 products included. From the 61st product of the same image on, each product costs US$ 0.001. Images that could not be read or returned nothing are free.

Examples: 1,000 products from a keyword search = US$ 1.00. 1,000 products with the full page = US$ 2.00. 100 photos with 20 similar products each (2,000 products) = US$ 0.40.

You can set a maximum cost per run in Apify: the Actor stops when the limit is reached and keeps what it saved.

Errors you may see

Every error is a row with errorCode and is never charged:

errorCode	Meaning
INVALID_INPUT	A field has a wrong value (the message says which).
INVALID_URL	Not a 1688 product link or offer id, or an image link that does not start with http(s)://.
IMAGE_UNREADABLE	The image link did not return a JPG, PNG or WebP picture (or it is over 15 MB).
NOT_FOUND	The product does not exist or was taken down.
NO_RESULTS	1688 has no products for this keyword and filters.
BLOCKED	1688 refused every attempt for this search or product; run again.
NOT_REACHED	The run timeout arrived before this item.

Good to know

• 1688 shows at most about 2,000 products per search. For more, use several related keywords.
• Prices are in Chinese yuan (CNY) as 1688 shows them, before shipping and import costs. price is the price on the search card or product page; priceTiers are the quantity tiers; for products priced per variant (priceType: per_variant) there are no tiers and priceMin / priceMax give the range across variants.
• Titles, attributes and variant names stay in Chinese, as the suppliers wrote them.
• The Actor uses Apify's datacenter proxy and, when 1688 refuses it, a residential IP in China for that request. You pay only the per-product price above.
• No personal data: suppliers come as companies (company name, an opaque memberId, shop link, scores). Account names, chat links, phone numbers and emails are never collected.

FAQ

Do I need a 1688 or Alibaba account? No. Everything comes from public pages, without login.

Can I search in English? Yes. 1688 translates English keywords; Chinese keywords are more precise.

How do I get the variants and attributes? Turn on "Include full product page", or paste product links.

Can I find the 1688 supplier of a product I saw on Amazon or AliExpress? Yes: paste the product photo link in "Image links". 1688 returns visually similar listings, most similar first; check similarityScore and the photo.

Is this Alibaba.com? No. 1688.com is Alibaba's marketplace for the Chinese domestic wholesale market, with factory prices in yuan. Alibaba.com is the international site.

Something broke or a field is missing? Open an issue on the Actor page. Issues are answered within a day.

Changelog

• 0.1 (28 Sep 2026): first version. Search by image (photo link, upload, or similar to a 1688 product). Keyword search in English or Chinese with price, province and sponsored filters and sorting; quantity price tiers, MOQ, sold count, repurchase rate and supplier data from the search; optional full product page with variants, attributes, gallery, video, stock and delivery; product links and ids.

Em português

Coleta produtos do 1688.com (atacado da Alibaba na China) por palavra-chave em inglês ou chinês: preço em yuan, faixas de preço por quantidade, pedido mínimo, vendidos, taxa de recompra e o fornecedor (empresa, fábrica ou atacadista, anos verificado, notas, província). Opcional: a página completa do produto com variantes, atributos, galeria, vídeo, estoque e prazo de envio. Busca por imagem: mande a foto de um produto (Amazon, AliExpress, qualquer site) e receba os fornecedores do 1688 que vendem igual ou parecido. US$ 1,00 por mil produtos, mais US$ 1,00 por mil páginas completas; busca por imagem a US$ 0,004 por foto, com 60 produtos incluídos.