# Taobao Product Scraper — Tmall Item, Shop & Reviews (`thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper`) Actor

Paste Taobao or Tmall item links and export each item's price, images, category path, ship-from city, payment methods, the shop with its ratings and credit level, and buyer review themes with the newest review.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [The Netaji](https://apify.com/thenetaji) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.25 / 1,000 products

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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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

## Taobao Product Scraper

The Taobao Product Scraper turns Taobao and Tmall item links into structured records: price, images, category path, ship-from city, accepted payment methods, the shop with its credit level and ratings, and the review summary with the newest review. It accepts item links from either site, mobile links, and bare item numbers.

### Accepted input

`productUrls` takes one item per line, for example `https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299`, `https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299` or `1079352038299`. The id is read from `id=`, `itemId=` or `/item/` in a link. Entries that contain no item id are listed in the log and skipped; repeated items are fetched once.

```json
{
  "productUrls": ["https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299"]
}
```

### Response fields

`item_id`, `url`, `platform`, `title`, `title_truncated`, `category_id`, `root_category_id`, `category_path`, `images`, `location`, `price`, `original_price`, `currency`, `has_price_range`, `free_shipping`, `area_limit`, `payment_methods`, `shop_id`, `shop_name`, `shop_url`, `shop_logo`, `seller_id`, `seller_type`, `seller_credit_level`, `shop_opened_at`, `shop_item_count`, `shop_new_item_count`, `shop_ratings`, `review_count_label`, `review_positive_rate`, `review_neutral_rate`, `review_negative_rate`, `review_highlights` and `latest_reviews`.

```json
{
  "item_id": "1079352038299",
  "platform": "tmall",
  "price": 118,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "location": "上海",
  "payment_methods": ["蚂蚁花呗", "信用卡支付", "集分宝"],
  "shop_name": "腔调会员精选旗舰店",
  "seller_type": "B",
  "seller_credit_level": 19,
  "shop_opened_at": "2023-05-08 14:16:16",
  "shop_ratings": [{ "type": "desc", "title": "商品描述", "score": 4.9, "vs_category": 1 }],
  "review_count_label": "2000+",
  "review_highlights": [{ "tag": "声音质量好", "mentions": 86 }]
}
```

### Behaviour on partial results

Taobao serves some titles shortened on the item page; `title_truncated` is then `true`, and the full title is available from the listing rows of the Search Scraper. `has_price_range` is `true` when variants are priced differently, in which case `price` is the lowest variant price. `review_positive_rate` and its neutral and negative counterparts are published for Taobao sellers only and are null on Tmall. A removed or region-restricted item is recorded in the log and skipped without a charge.

### Related Actors

The [Taobao Search Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/taobao-search-scraper) finds item links by keyword and can add these same fields to each listing. The [Taobao Scraper](https://apify.com/thenetaji/taobao-scraper) accepts item links together with keywords and shop links.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrls` (type: `array`):

Taobao or Tmall item links, one per line, such as https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299. The id number on its own works too.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

All records scraped by this run

# 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 = {
    "productUrls": [
        "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper").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 = { "productUrls": ["https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper").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 '{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1079352038299"
  ]
}' |
apify call thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thenetaji/taobao-product-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/7dqxOOQQ9U30s5gJT/builds/zAfwJaYl88tmNl0M0/openapi.json