# AliExpress Supplier & Offer Monitor (`technicaldost/aliexpress-supplier-offer-monitor`) Actor

Refresh public AliExpress keyword search results and get normalized offer rows: price, discount, sold and rating signals, and seller/store details when public. Optional stateful change detection (new, price, sold, rating) for scheduled monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/technicaldost/aliexpress-supplier-offer-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Technical Dost Solutions](https://apify.com/technicaldost) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 product offer results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## AliExpress Supplier & Offer Monitor

Sourcing teams and cross-border sellers need repeatable supplier-price evidence, not a raw HTML dump. This Actor turns public AliExpress keyword results into normalized offer rows and can flag price, sold-count, and rating changes across scheduled runs.

### Cheap default run

```json
{
  "keywords": ["wireless earbuds"],
  "shipToCountry": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxProductsPerKeyword": 10,
  "onlyChanged": false,
  "stateStoreName": ""
}
```

One public search page is requested per keyword. Inputs are limited to five keywords and 100 results per keyword.

### Example result

```json
{
  "productId": "1005001",
  "title": "TWS Wireless Earbuds Bluetooth 5.3 Headphones",
  "productUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001.html",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Searbud1.jpg",
  "currentPrice": 8.99,
  "originalPrice": 17.98,
  "priceRange": null,
  "discountPercent": 50,
  "currency": "USD",
  "soldCount": 5000,
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 2311,
  "sellerName": "Sound Factory Store",
  "sellerUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1101234567",
  "storeName": "Sound Factory Store",
  "keyword": "wireless earbuds",
  "capturedAt": "2026-09-20T10:00:00.000Z",
  "isNew": true,
  "priceChanged": false,
  "soldChanged": false,
  "ratingChanged": false,
  "previousPrice": null,
  "previousSoldCount": null,
  "previousRating": null
}
```

### Inputs

| Field | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `keywords` | One to five public search phrases. |
| `shipToCountry` | Two-letter display-context country code. |
| `currency` | Requested three-letter display currency; no currency conversion is performed. |
| `maxProductsPerKeyword` | Useful rows kept per keyword, 1–100. |
| `onlyChanged` | Push only new offers or offers whose price, sold count, or rating changed. |
| `stateStoreName` | Optional named key-value store for an independent watchlist. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional override; ordinary Apify residential proxy is the default. |

Each dataset row is one real public offer. `RUN_SUMMARY` contains counts and bounded failure diagnostics; errors are never written as dataset rows.

### Scheduling and state

Schedule the Actor with the same `stateStoreName` to compare successive runs. The first sighting is marked `isNew`. Later rows include previous public values and change flags. State is capped at 10,000 product IDs. With `onlyChanged: true`, unchanged rows are not emitted or billed, but their last-seen state is refreshed.

### Limitations and failure behavior

AliExpress can change its embedded data and card markup. The parser uses a structural JSON scan plus a conservative HTML fallback, but a major redesign may require an update. Ship-to country and currency are display hints; this Actor does not promise checkout availability, shipping cost, or currency conversion. Public pages can vary by region.

Independent keyword failures are recorded and remaining keywords continue. A run fails if every keyword fails or if AliExpress returns a login, CAPTCHA, human-verification, or access-control page. The Actor does not solve or bypass those controls.

### Responsible use

Only public keyword result pages are requested. The Actor does not log in, use private data, visit checkout, scrape account pages, or claim affiliation with AliExpress. Use the output in line with applicable site terms and law.

### Pricing

The pre-release hypothesis is **$0.003 per dataset result**. This is not active pricing until it is configured and verified on Apify. Failed requests, duplicate rows, suppressed unchanged rows, and summary records are not dataset results.

# Actor input Schema

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

Search keywords to refresh, exactly as you would type them into AliExpress search. 1 to 5 keywords per run.

## `shipToCountry` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code used as the ship-to context of the search page (e.g. US, DE, BR). Display context only.

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

Three-letter currency code (e.g. USD, EUR) requested from the search page. Used for display only — prices are never converted.

## `maxProductsPerKeyword` (type: `integer`):

How many products to keep from each keyword's search page.

## `onlyChanged` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, rows that are not new and have no price, sold-count, or rating change since the previous run are not pushed to the dataset (they are still recorded in state).

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Named key-value store used to remember offers between runs (for change flags and onlyChanged). Leave empty to use the default key-value store.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional custom proxy settings. When omitted, Apify residential proxies are used automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "wireless earbuds"
  ],
  "shipToCountry": "US",
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxProductsPerKeyword": 10,
  "onlyChanged": false,
  "stateStoreName": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `changes` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (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": [
        "wireless earbuds"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("technicaldost/aliexpress-supplier-offer-monitor").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": ["wireless earbuds"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("technicaldost/aliexpress-supplier-offer-monitor").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": [
    "wireless earbuds"
  ]
}' |
apify call technicaldost/aliexpress-supplier-offer-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/NNdlkQCBYEQQRhKZr/builds/JHf0ZKNnqNHZyOrIR/openapi.json