1688 Scraper — Wholesale Products, Prices & Suppliers (China)

Scrape 1688.com, Alibaba's Chinese wholesale marketplace used by dropshippers, Amazon sellers and sourcing agents. Search by keyword (Chinese or English), paste search, shop or offer URLs, or search by image to find the factory behind a product photo. Every offer comes with its CNY price, sales, repurchase rate, images, badges and the supplier's company name, location, years on 1688 and service scores. Turn on offer details for the minimum order quantity (MOQ), quantity price tiers, every SKU variant with price and stock, specifications, description images, ship-from city and package weight and size.

No 1688 account, no login and no browser: the Actor uses 1688's own search API and offer pages, like a signed-out visitor.

What data does 1688 Scraper extract?

Field	Example	Notes
offerId, url	927875250705, https://detail.1688.com/offer/927875250705.html
title	跨境适用苹果18promax手机壳磁吸16防摔磨砂iphone17pm保护壳批发	Chinese, as the seller wrote it (1688 offers no translation)
price	7.5	CNY, the price the result card shows
priceMin, priceMax, currency	7.04, 7.5, CNY	range over tiers / variants with details
priceTiers	[{"minQuantity": 50, "maxQuantity": 499, "price": 7.5}, ...]	details and image search
moq, unit	50, 个	details and image search
soldText, soldCount, soldScope	已售2.7万+件, 27000, 1688	allChannels when 1688 shows 全网 (all channels)
bookedCount	413	1688's order counter shown to its ranking
repurchaseRate, offerRepurchaseRate	60, 4	% (回头率 of the shop / of the offer)
image, images	full-size cbu01.alicdn.com URLs	details add the whole gallery
badges	["实力商家", "深度验商", "假一赔四", "48小时发货"]	supplier / service badges as shown
isAd	false	sponsored result
supplier.name, loginId, memberId	东莞市九美电子科技有限公司, 广东七彩电子, b2b-2210356332867938a0
supplier.province, city	广东, 东莞市
supplier.yearsOnPlatform	6	years on 1688
supplier.businessType, businessTypeEn	生产加工, manufacturer	manufacturer / wholesaler
supplier.serviceScores	{"composite": 4.5, "logistics": 4.0, "goods": 3.67, ...}	1688 service ratings
supplier.shopUrl, winportUrl	shop links	winportUrl works as a start URL for the shop's whole catalog
skus	[{"attributes": {"颜色": "黑色"}, "price": 20.01, "promotionPrice": 10.01, "stock": 24960}]	details
attributes	{"材质": "优质TPU", "品牌": "三丰"}	details: specification table
shipFrom, deliveryPromise, freeShipping	广东省佛山市, 承诺30天发货, false	details
unitWeightKg, packageSizes	0.04, [{"lengthCm": 17, "widthCm": 7, "heightCm": 1, "weightG": 40}]	details
rating, positiveRate, reviewCount	5.0, 99.9, 7970	details
descriptionImages, videoUrl	image URLs, MP4	details
supplier.isPowerMerchant, isSuperFactory, serviceScore, repurchaseRate3m	true, true, 5.0, 68.51	details
similarity	0.79	image search: how close the match is

How to use 1688 Scraper

1. Enter Search terms (e.g. 蓝牙耳机), and/or paste Start URLs, and/or Image URLs for image search.
2. Pick a sort order and an optional price range in yuan.
3. Set Max items (you pay per offer) and turn on Include offer details if you need MOQ, tiers and SKUs.
4. Keep the default proxy (Apify residential, China). Run, then export JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
  "searchTerms": ["蓝牙耳机"],
  "sortBy": "sales",
  "minPrice": 10,
  "maxPrice": 50,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeDetails": true
}

Start URLs can be a search page (https://s.1688.com/selloffer/offer_search.htm?keywords=..., filters such as sortType, priceStart or province in the URL are kept), a shop (https://winport.m.1688.com/page/index.html?memberId=b2b-...), an offer (https://detail.1688.com/offer/<id>.html, always with full details) or an image search page.

Output example

{
  "offerId": "649182176196",
  "url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/649182176196.html",
  "title": "适用于苹果iPhone12手机壳mini7透明13PromaxPC6硬壳11XS防摔防震",
  "price": 1.99,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "soldText": "已售100+件",
  "soldCount": 100,
  "soldScope": "1688",
  "bookedCount": 413,
  "repurchaseRate": 60,
  "image": "https://cbu01.alicdn.com/img/ibank/O1CN01gD1SRK1X38BzYFG2V_!!2210356332867-0-cib.jpg",
  "badges": ["假一赔四", "深度验商", "先采后付", "退货包运费"],
  "isAd": false,
  "supplier": {
    "name": "东莞市九美电子科技有限公司",
    "memberId": "b2b-2210356332867938a0",
    "yearsOnPlatform": 6,
    "province": "广东",
    "city": "东莞市",
    "businessType": "生产加工",
    "businessTypeEn": "manufacturer",
    "serviceScores": {"composite": 4.5, "consultation": 3.0, "logistics": 4.0, "dispute": 4.0, "returns": 4.0, "goods": 3.67}
  },
  "searchTerm": "手机壳",
  "position": 2
}

With Include offer details the same item also gets moq, priceTiers, skus, attributes, shipFrom, unitWeightKg, packageSizes, rating, reviewCount, images, descriptionImages and the supplier's badges.

How much does it cost?

Pay per result: $0.0015 per offer saved, plus $0.0025 per offer page when details are on (or for each offer URL you paste), so a fully detailed offer costs $0.004. There is no start fee. Proxy traffic is billed by Apify to your account at your plan's residential rate: about 50 KB per 60 search results and 30-120 KB per detailed offer, i.e. roughly $0.01 per 1,000 search results and $0.3-1 per 1,000 detailed offers at $8/GB (offers with hundreds of variants have bigger pages).

Search 1688 by image

Put product photos in Image URLs. Photos already on Alibaba's CDN (alicdn.com, e.g. from 1688, Taobao, AliExpress listings) are searched directly; other photos (your own, Amazon, Shopify) are uploaded to 1688's image search first. You get up to 40 matching offers per page, each with similarity, MOQ and quantity price tiers, so you can compare factories for the same product in one run. searchImageUrl tells which of your photos a match belongs to.

Does it work with English keywords?

Yes, but 1688 does not translate them: an English keyword matches offers whose Chinese titles contain that English word (common on cross-border listings, e.g. dress). Chinese keywords reach far more of the market. Titles are returned in Chinese; 1688 provides no English version.

Monitor changes on a schedule

Turn on Only new or changed items and the Actor remembers what earlier runs of the same input returned: each run outputs only offers that are new in the watched results or whose price (card price, price range, quantity tiers) or MOQ changed. Unchanged offers are dropped on the search results, before any offer page is opened, so they cost nothing; offer URLs are compared after their page is read and are not charged when unchanged. Max items becomes the window checked on every run, e.g. the first 60 results of a search sorted by sales. Save the input as a task and add a Schedule to it in Apify Console (for example daily). Every output offer carries changeType (new or changed); changed ones carry previousValues, e.g. {"price": 2.98}. Sold counts and repurchase rates move all the time and do not count. Use Monitoring key to keep several schedules on the same search separate.

Does it work without login?

Yes. Everything comes from what 1688 shows a signed-out visitor. 1688 answers its search API only from Chinese residential IPs (datacenter, US and HK addresses get a slider captcha) and blocks an IP after a couple of offer pages, so the Actor uses Apify's residential proxy in China and opens every offer page from a new IP. It does not solve captchas. Shop pages on <name>.1688.com need a login, so use the shop's winport link (every result has it in supplier.winportUrl).

Integrations and API

Use the results in Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets, or call the Actor from Python or JavaScript with the Apify client. The API tab has ready-made snippets.

Is it legal to scrape 1688.com?

The Actor collects only data 1688 shows publicly to signed-out visitors: offer listings, prices, sales figures and supplier business information (company name, location, ratings). It does not log in, does not reveal hidden values and does not collect personal data beyond the public shop and company names sellers publish. You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with 1688's terms and applicable law.

Support

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