Taobao Agent Link Converter — CNFans, Hoobuy, OOPBuy, Superbuy & 20+ Agents

What does Taobao Agent Link Converter do?

Paste any China product link and get it back in every form you need. It recognizes raw Taobao, Tmall, 1688, Weidian, JD and Xianyu product URLs (desktop, mobile, app-share and short links) and product links from 30+ shopping agents — CNFans, Mulebuy, Orientdig, Joyagoo, Lovegobuy, ACBuy, Hoobuy, Usfans, Ponybuy, OOPBuy, Ootdbuy, Hipobuy, Cnshopper, CSSBuy, Superbuy, AllChinaBuy, Sugargoo, Kakobuy, Hubbuy, EastMallBuy, Loongbuy, iTaoBuy, plus legacy Pandabuy, Wegobuy, Hagobuy, Joyabuy, Wemimi and Basetao links (old spreadsheets convert too) — and returns the marketplace, the product ID, the canonical marketplace URL and a ready-to-open link for every current agent. No login, no browser, no China IP.

Why use this Actor?

• Convert between agents in bulk: turn a Pandabuy-era spreadsheet into CNFans or Hoobuy links in one run, or publish one list that works for every agent.
• Recover the real Taobao / Weidian / 1688 URL behind any agent link.
• Short links resolved: m.tb.cn share pages, k.weidian.com and qr.1688.com redirects are followed so app-shared links convert too (expired Taobao shares are reported as such).
• Honest output: every input gets a row; unrecognized or unresolvable links say why in the error column instead of disappearing.
• Near-zero cost: conversion is pure parsing — thousands of links finish in seconds.

How much does it cost?

You pay per link processed. At $0.50 per 1,000 links, converting a 500-row spreadsheet costs $0.25. Blank lines are skipped and not billed; rows that could not be converted (unrecognized / unresolved) are still processed rows and count.

Input

Field	Type	Description
links	array	Product links, one per line. Raw marketplace URLs, agent links, or short links.
resolveShortLinks	boolean	Follow redirects for short links (default true). One HTTP request per short link.
agents	array	Agents to generate links for. Empty (default) means all supported agents.

Output

One dataset item per non-empty input link, in input order (blank lines are skipped and surrounding whitespace is trimmed):

{
    "inputUrl": "https://hoobuy.com/product/0/1025411009174",
    "status": "ok",
    "platform": "1688",
    "productId": "1025411009174",
    "rawUrl": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/1025411009174.html",
    "sourceAgent": "hoobuy",
    "inputType": "agent",
    "agentLinks": {
        "cnfans": "https://cnfans.com/product?id=1025411009174&platform=ALI_1688",
        "mulebuy": "https://mulebuy.com/product/?shop_type=ali_1688&id=1025411009174",
        "acbuy": "https://www.acbuy.com/product?id=1025411009174&source=AL",
        "hoobuy": "https://hoobuy.com/product/0/1025411009174",
        "oopbuy": "https://oopbuy.com/goods/details?id=1025411009174&channel=1688",
        "cssbuy": "https://www.cssbuy.com/item-1688-1025411009174.html",
        "superbuy": "https://www.superbuy.com/en/page/buy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdetail.1688.com%2Foffer%2F1025411009174.html",
        "allchinabuy": "https://www.allchinabuy.com/en/page/buy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdetail.1688.com%2Foffer%2F1025411009174.html",
        "sugargoo": "https://www.sugargoo.com/#/home/productDetail?productLink=https%3A%2F%2Fdetail.1688.com%2Foffer%2F1025411009174.html",
        "kakobuy": "https://www.kakobuy.com/item/details?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdetail.1688.com%2Foffer%2F1025411009174.html",
        "joyagoo": "https://joyagoo.com/product?id=1025411009174&platform=ALI_1688",
        "...": "one key per selected agent (22 by default)"
    },
    "error": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-10T14:30:00.000Z"
}

status is ok, unrecognized (no known pattern matched) or unresolved (a short link that could not be followed). The Agent links dataset view flattens agentLinks into one column per agent for spreadsheet export.

Tips and tricks

• Tmall items are Taobao items to every agent: a Tmall link keeps platform: "tmall" and a Tmall rawUrl, but its agent links use the agents' Taobao channel.
• Weidian, JD and Xianyu are supported by fewer agents; agents that cannot open a platform get null in agentLinks rather than a guessed URL.
• Legacy agents (Pandabuy, Wegobuy, Hagobuy, Joyabuy, Wemimi, Basetao) are parsed so old spreadsheets convert, but no links are generated for them. Pandabuy page.link short links are reported as unresolvable — that shortener is gone for good.
• Messy real-world links are fine: double- or triple-encoded URLs, agent links wrapped in other agent links or login redirects, .html leaking into an ID, affiliate and spm tracking parameters, missing schemes — all handled.
• Usfans and Ponybuy only publish Taobao and Weidian product routes, so their links are null for 1688 items.
• Taobao search tokens (the 47-character IDs from CNFans/OOPBuy search results) are not product IDs and cannot be converted; use numeric item IDs.

Integrations

Export the dataset as CSV/Excel from the Apify Console, connect it to Google Sheets, Zapier or Make, or call the Actor from your own spreadsheet builder or Discord bot through the Apify API.