Taobao & Tmall Scraper: product prices, shops and reviews (淘宝 天猫 商品采集)

Get Taobao and Tmall products as clean rows: title, price and original price in yuan, the city the seller ships from, whether it is a Tmall store, the shop's name, credit level, opening date and its three rating scores, the share of positive, neutral and negative reviews, the latest review, images and the category path. Search by keyword, paste product links or IDs, or list a whole category or shop.

$2.50 per 1,000 products (Free plan; less on paid plans), with the product page details included and platform usage included. No login, no cookies, no proxy to set up.

How it works

Taobao publishes a public copy of its catalogue for visitors outside mainland China (the pages on world.taobao.com and www.taobao.com/list that search engines index). This actor reads those pages. It never logs in, never touches the login or slider wall on item.taobao.com, detail.tmall.com or s.taobao.com, and solves no captchas. Links to those pages are fine as input: the actor reads the product ID or keyword out of them.

What the public catalogue shows, and so what you can expect:

Input	What you get
A keyword (连衣裙, 蓝牙耳机, iphone)	Up to about 40 top products for it, each with its product page details
A product link or ID	That product's page: price, original price, ship-from, shop and review summary
A category ID	The category's top 20 products
A shop	Up to 60 of the shop's products, plus the shop's rating scores

Taobao shows one page per keyword, category or shop. There is no page 2 on the public catalogue, so the actor does not invent one: when a keyword returns 40 products, that is everything Taobao publishes for it. To cover more, run several related keywords (they are de-duplicated across the run).

How it compares

	This actor	Typical Taobao scraper on the Store
Price per 1,000 products	$2.50, product page details included	$3 to $4 for list rows, $4.50 to $8 with details
Products per keyword	up to about 40	20 for most
Inputs	keywords, product links or IDs, categories, shops	usually keywords or links
Proxy setup	none, nothing to configure	often asks for residential proxies
Buyer data	none (reviewer names are masked by Taobao and not kept)	varies

What you get

One row per product:

Field	Description
itemId, url, publicPageUrl	Product ID, the Taobao or Tmall product link, and its public world.taobao.com page
title, titleShortened	Title in Chinese as listed. Taobao shortens the title on the product page itself, so a product you paste by link comes back with the short title and titleShortened: true; products found by keyword, category or shop carry the full title
platform, isTmall	taobao or tmall
price, originalPrice, hasPriceRange	Current price and original price in yuan (CNY) from the product page; hasPriceRange is true when variants have different prices
listingPrice, discountPrice, discountLabel	The price shown in the search list and its promotion label (优惠价, 新品促销...)
priceHkd, priceTwd	The same price in Hong Kong and Taiwan dollars, as Taobao converts it
shipsFrom, freeShipping, deliveryRestricted	Seller's city (浙江杭州), free shipping, and whether delivery is limited to some regions
imageUrl, imageUrls	Main image
categoryId, rootCategoryId, categoryPath	Taobao category and its path (品牌女装 > 连衣裙 > 气质连衣裙)
sellingPoints, reviewTags	The seller's highlighted selling points, and what buyers mention most with a count, when Taobao shows them
shopId, shopName, shopUrl, sellerId, shopLogoUrl	The shop
shopCreditLevel, shopOpenedAt, shopItemCount, shopNewItemCount	Seller credit level, opening date, products listed and recently added
shopScoreDescription, shopScoreService, shopScoreDelivery	The shop's three ratings out of 5 (item as described, service, delivery)
positiveReviews, positiveReviewsMin, negativeReviews	Review counts as Taobao shows them (900+) and as a number
positiveRate, neutralRate, negativeRate	Share of reviews in percent (Taobao shows these for Taobao shops, not for Tmall)
latestReview	The newest review: rating, text, date and the variant bought
paymentMethods	Payment options listed on the product page
source, search, rank	How it was found (keyword, category, shop, product), your search, and its position on Taobao's page
detailsIncluded, scrapedAt	Whether the product page was read, and when

Sales counts, the full variant (SKU) table and stock are not on the public pages, so they are not in the output.

Example row (real, 2026-10-21)

{
  "itemId": "1090460480215",
  "title": "美洋MEIYANG 小魔女连衣裙 省心可机洗_立领中长款小黑裙【70】",
  "url": "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1090460480215",
  "platform": "taobao",
  "isTmall": false,
  "price": 499,
  "originalPrice": 499,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "priceHkd": 592.56,
  "shipsFrom": "福建厦门",
  "categoryPath": ["品牌女装", "连衣裙", "气质连衣裙"],
  "shopName": "美洋MEIYANG",
  "shopCreditLevel": 20,
  "shopOpenedAt": "2015-08-11 10:30:32",
  "shopScoreDescription": 4.9,
  "shopScoreService": 4.9,
  "shopScoreDelivery": 4.9,
  "positiveRate": 100,
  "latestReview": { "rating": 5, "text": "该用户觉得商品非常好，给出好评", "date": "2026-10-21 17:11", "variant": "颜色分类:黑色连衣裙;尺码:XL" },
  "source": "keyword",
  "search": "连衣裙",
  "rank": 1
}

Who uses it

• Dropshippers and sourcing agents: find the best-rated products for a keyword and check the shop (credit level, age, scores) before buying.
• Cross-border sellers: compare prices on Taobao with your own listings, in yuan, HKD or TWD.
• Brand and pricing teams: watch the price and original price of a list of products by running the same links on a schedule.
• Market research: the top products, shops and ship-from cities of a category or a keyword.

Input examples

Top products for two keywords:

{
  "searchKeywords": ["连衣裙", "蓝牙耳机"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 40
}

A list of products by link or ID (links from item.taobao.com, detail.tmall.com, detail.tmall.hk, m.intl.taobao.com and world.taobao.com all work):

{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=730344766230",
    "https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=1077492506594",
    "1090460480215"
  ]
}

A category and a shop:

{
  "categoryIds": ["50010850"],
  "shopUrls": ["https://shop128593474.taobao.com/"]
}

Pricing

Pay per product delivered: $2.50 per 1,000 on the Free plan, less on paid Apify plans (Bronze $2.25, Silver $2.00, Gold $1.75), plus $0.001 per run. Product page details are included. Keywords, categories or shops with no public page, and pasted products Taobao no longer shows, cost nothing.

FAQ

Can I search in English? Partly. Taobao publishes keyword pages for common Chinese shopping words, and for some English words it sees often (dress, iphone, phone case). There is no translation step. If an English keyword has no page, the run says so and you can try the Chinese word (蓝牙耳机 rather than bluetooth earphones).

Why do I get about 40 products per keyword and not thousands? Taobao's public catalogue shows one page per keyword: about 40 top products. The total Taobao counts for the keyword is in the run log. Run related keywords, categories or shops to cover more products.

Does it scrape item.taobao.com or s.taobao.com directly? No. Those pages need a Taobao login or a slider check, and this actor does neither. It reads the public catalogue pages Taobao serves outside mainland China. Your item.taobao.com and detail.tmall.com links still work as input.

Why is the title shortened for a pasted product? Taobao shortens titles on its public product page (美洋MEIYANG ...). Products found by keyword, category or shop get the full title from the list. titleShortened tells you which one you have.

Does it return sales numbers or every SKU? No, the public pages do not show them. You get the product page price, the original price and whether the price varies by variant.

What happens to products that no longer exist? Taobao answers them with its "page not found" redirect; the run skips them, does not charge for them, and names how many in its status message.

Do I need a proxy? No. There is no proxy setting; the actor picks its own route and pays for it.

What currency are prices in? Yuan (CNY), with Taobao's own HKD and TWD conversions alongside.

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