# AliExpress Dropshipping Scraper: Winning Products & Profit (`serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping`) Actor

AliExpress dropshipping product research in one run: search by keyword sorted by real orders, then variants, stock, shipping cost and delivery days to your country, landed cost, suggested price, profit and margin. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping.md
- **Developed by:** [Serenido](https://apify.com/serenido) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.80 / 1,000 product saveds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

### What does AliExpress Dropshipping Scraper do?

It does **AliExpress dropshipping product research in one run**. Type a product idea (for example "phone holder"), pick your customers' country, and get a table of real AliExpress products with:

- **Real order counts** (AliExpress sorted by most orders) and rating, to find proven sellers
- **Shipping cost and delivery days to your country**, and whether it ships there at all
- **Landed cost** (product + shipping), a **suggested selling price**, **profit per sale** and **margin**, at the markup you choose
- **Stock**, variants (colours, sizes, each with its own price and stock), store name, store rating and followers, images

No AliExpress account, no login, no cookies. You only pay for useful rows: products that can't ship to your country, are out of stock, have no shipping cost shown, are outside your price range, were already saved for another keyword in the same run, or could not be loaded, are skipped and **never charged**.

### Why not just copy prices from the AliExpress page?

AliExpress often shows logged-out visitors a **new-shopper first-order price** (for example $1.09 on a product that normally costs $5 or more). A store owner can't buy at that price for every customer order. This scraper flags those products (`isNewShopperDeal`) and builds the landed cost and profit on the **regular price of the cheapest variant** instead (its own listed price), so the profit you see is a careful estimate, not a fantasy. The column `costBasis` tells you which price was used.

### Example output

Real run, 21 October 2026, keyword "led strip", shipping to Germany, prices in EUR, free shipping only:

| rank | product | price | shipping | landed cost | suggested price | profit | margin | orders | delivery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FCOB LED Strip Light | 4.29 | 0 | 4.29 | 10.99 | 6.70 | 61% | 27,682 | 9-18 days |
| 3 | RGB smart LED strip (5050) | 3.49 | 0 | 3.49 | 8.99 | 5.50 | 61.2% | 19,591 | 9-18 days |

Each row also has the product link, all images, every variant with price and stock, store details and the category.

### How to use it

1. Add one or more **keywords** (in English).
2. Pick **Ship to**: the country your customers live in. Shipping cost, delivery days and availability are calculated for that country.
3. Pick your **currency** and your **markup** (2.5 is a common start: a product that costs you 4.00 delivered is suggested at 9.99).
4. Optional filters: minimum orders, minimum rating, price range (in your currency, compared with the real cost per order), free shipping only, skip new-shopper prices.
5. Click **Start**. 20 products take about 15 seconds.

Input example:

```json
{
  "keywords": ["led strip", "phone holder"],
  "productsPerKeyword": 20,
  "shipTo": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "markup": 2.5,
  "minOrders": 1000,
  "minRating": 4.5
}
```

If strict filters leave fewer products than you asked for, the run says so for each keyword (for example: `Fewer than 8 matching products for: "dog toy" 3`).

### Output fields

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| searchKeyword, rank | Your keyword and the product's position (most orders first by default) |
| title, url, image, images | The product and its pictures |
| price, priceMax, originalPrice, discountPct, currency | Prices as AliExpress shows them for your country |
| shippingFee, freeShipping, shippingMethod, deliveryDaysMin, deliveryDaysMax | Shipping to your country |
| costBasis, costBasisPrice | Which price the profit maths uses (see above) |
| landedCost, markup, suggestedPrice, profitPerSale, marginPct | The dropshipping maths |
| orders, ordersSource | Total orders. "exact (search)" from the search page, or "rounded (product page)" (for example 1,000+) when a country's search page hides the exact count |
| listedSince | The listing date AliExpress shows. It can reset when a seller re-lists a product, so don't read it as the product's true age |
| rating, reviewCount, inStock, totalStock, skuCount, skus | Quality and stock, all variants |
| storeName, storeUrl, storePositiveRate, storeFollowers, isTopRatedSeller | The supplier |
| isChoice, isNewShopperDeal, priceNote, shipFrom, canShip, categoryPath, shipTo | Extra facts and flags |

### How much does it cost?

You pay only for products saved to your dataset. Products that are skipped (not shippable, filtered out, not loaded) are free. The run's status message lists what was skipped.

### Use it from AI agents and code

Run it from the Apify API, Python or JavaScript, Make, Zapier, n8n, or any MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) through Apify's MCP server: `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping`.

### FAQ

**Is the profit exact?** No tool can know your exact costs (payment fees, ads, returns). The suggested price and profit are a starting point from the product price and shipping to your country.

**Why are some products missing?** Products that AliExpress won't ship to your country, that are out of stock, that show no shipping cost, or that it hides from logged-out visitors, are skipped and not charged. The run's status message counts each reason.

**Need only product pages or only search results?** Use our [AliExpress Product Details Scraper](https://apify.com/serenido/aliexpress-product-details) or [AliExpress Search Scraper](https://apify.com/serenido/aliexpress-search-reliable).

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

What to research, one per line, in English. Each keyword is searched on AliExpress separately.

## `productsPerKeyword` (type: `integer`):

How many products to save for each keyword. Products that can't ship to your country are skipped and not counted.

## `shipTo` (type: `string`):

Shipping cost, delivery days and availability are for this country.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

Currency for prices, shipping, landed cost and profit.

## `markup` (type: `number`):

Suggested price = landed cost x markup, rounded to .99. 2.5 is a common starting point for dropshipping.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Most orders first finds proven sellers.

## `minOrders` (type: `integer`):

Skip products with fewer orders. If a country's search page hides order counts, the product page's (rounded) sold count is used.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Skip products rated below this (0 to 5).

## `minPrice` (type: `number`):

Optional. In your chosen currency. Compared with the real cost per order (the regular price, not a new-shopper first-order price).

## `maxPrice` (type: `number`):

Optional. In your chosen currency. Compared with the real cost per order.

## `freeShippingOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only products with free shipping to your country.

## `skipNewShopperDeals` (type: `boolean`):

AliExpress shows some logged-out visitors a first-order discount that a store owner can't use on every order. These rows are always flagged (isNewShopperDeal); turn this on to leave them out.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Higher is faster.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Not needed: the scraper uses Apify residential proxies on its own.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "phone holder"
  ],
  "productsPerKeyword": 20,
  "shipTo": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "markup": 2.5,
  "sortBy": "orders",
  "minOrders": 0,
  "minRating": 0,
  "freeShippingOnly": false,
  "skipNewShopperDeals": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `all` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "phone holder"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": ["phone holder"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "phone holder"
  ]
}' |
apify call serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,serenido/aliexpress-dropshipping"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Day5iJxJ3SpgD8nPk/builds/PtfJ08hTgkRM2hDm6/openapi.json