🏮 Taobao in English - Search Scraper with English Keywords & Titles (淘宝 天猫)

Search Taobao and Tmall with English or Chinese keywords. Get sales-ranked products with Chinese and English titles, prices, sales, shops and clean links.

Taobao in English, as clean data. Type what you are looking for in English, and this Actor searches Taobao and Tmall in Chinese for you, then hands back sales-ranked products with English titles, prices, sales, shops and product links, ready for a spreadsheet or your own tools. No Chinese, no Taobao account and no browser translation plugin needed.

⚡ Why This Actor?

Type English or Chinese keywords and get back Taobao and Tmall products ranked by sales, with the original Chinese title PLUS an English title, in one run. Built for sourcing teams, resellers and researchers who do not read Chinese. You type "wireless earbuds", the Actor searches Taobao in Chinese, and you get clean rows with prices, sales labels, shop names, images and a clean product link.

This Actor returns search results only. It does NOT return product detail pages, SKUs or variants, stock levels, reviews, buyer questions, or any seller contact details. It does not sort or filter results: Taobao's own sales ranking is what you get.

🌐 Why English Keywords Fail on Taobao (and How This Actor Fixes It)

Taobao's search is built for Chinese. English keywords often match the wrong products. In our own live test, searching the English word "dress" returned diapers on page 1.

This Actor fixes that automatically:

• English (or other non-Chinese) keyword: it is translated to Chinese first, and the Chinese keyword is what gets searched.
• Keyword that already contains Chinese characters: it is searched exactly as you typed it, with no translation.
• Full transparency: every row has a searchedAs field showing the exact Chinese keyword that was searched, so you can check it.

Chinese keywords are searched as typed, without translation.

🔎 Search Taobao in English: Three Ways Compared

	Taobao app set to English	Browser page translation	This Actor
Where it works	Only in regions where the app offers English	Any browser	Anywhere you can use Apify
What you type	English, but Chinese terms usually find more	Chinese, since the search box still searches in Chinese	English or Chinese; English is translated to Chinese for you
Listing titles	Often still in Chinese	Translated on screen only	Chinese title plus an English title in every row
What you keep	Nothing to export	Nothing to export	A dataset: CSV, Excel, JSON or API
Many keywords at once	One search at a time	One search at a time	Up to 200 keywords per run

The common advice for searching Taobao in English is to translate your term into simplified Chinese and search that instead (for example "water bottle" to 水杯). This Actor does exactly that step for you, and shows the Chinese term it used in searchedAs.

🎯 Use Cases

• Product sourcing - see which products sell best on Taobao and Tmall for a keyword before you source, import or dropship
• Price benchmarking - compare listed prices and display prices across many shops for the same product type
• Market research - see which product types and shops lead a category by sales labels
• Competitor monitoring - check where a brand's listings appear in sales-ranked results over time
• Trend spotting - compare sales labels across many keywords to spot categories that are moving
• Catalog enrichment - add Chinese and English titles, images and clean links to an internal sourcing sheet
• Brand protection - find listings that use your brand name so your team can review them manually
• Taobao agent and proxy-service shoppers - find the exact items you want in English, then pass the clean product links to the Taobao agent or proxy service you already use (this Actor only finds products; it does not buy, pay or ship)
• Taobao dropshipping research - shortlist best-selling Taobao products for a niche, with English titles, prices and images to evaluate before you list anything
• Taobao best sellers by keyword - every keyword returns products in Taobao's own sales ranking, with the sales label and a parsed sales number
• Developers and AI agents - call it through the Apify API or Apify's MCP server to give your app or agent Taobao search results in English

🚀 Quick Start

1. Click Try for free on this Actor's page
2. Enter one or more keywords (see Inputs Overview below)
3. Run the Actor
4. Download results as JSON, CSV, or XLSX, or pull via Apify API

⚙️ Inputs Overview

Input	Type	Required	Description	Example/Allowed Values
keywords	array of strings	✅	English or Chinese keywords, 1 to 200 per run. English keywords are translated to Chinese before searching; Chinese keywords are searched as typed.	["wireless earbuds", "连衣裙"]
maxProductsPerKeyword	integer	❌	Maximum number of products per keyword. 0 = all available (up to about 4,600 per keyword). Default 100, maximum 5000. Free Apify plan: up to 5 results per run; paid plans: no limit.	100
translateTitles	boolean	❌	Add English titles and English price labels. Default true. The price is the same whether this is on or off.	true

There are no sort, Tmall-only, price-range or location inputs. Results come in Taobao's own sales ranking, and this Actor never filters out rows you have already paid for.

💰 Pricing

Pay-per-event model on Apify. You pay only for products delivered.

Event	Price	When it is charged
apify-actor-start	$0.02 per run	Once per run (Apify's standard start event)
product	$4.49 per 1,000 ($0.00449 each)	Once per unique product per keyword, English title included

Never charged: error rows, "no results" rows, and any other information row.

Free plan limit: NOTE: Free Apify users receive up to 5 results per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove this limit. This limit was set by the Actor developer, not by Apify. See Free Plan Limit below.

Worked examples

Run	Products	English titles ON	English titles OFF
1 keyword, default cap (100)	100	$0.47	$0.47
10 keywords × 100	1,000	$4.51	$4.51
1 keyword, all products (0)	about 4,600	about $20.67	about $20.67
200 keywords × 100 (maximum keywords)	20,000	$89.82	$89.82

(Each total = $0.02 start + products × $0.00449. A keyword can return fewer products than the cap; you only pay for what you get.)

🆓 Free Plan Limit

NOTE: Free Apify users receive up to 5 results per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove this limit. This limit was set by the Actor developer, not by Apify.

The 5 results are counted across all keywords in the run. Error and information rows do not count toward the 5. On the free plan, a run also stops after 3 keywords return no products.

When a free plan run hits a limit, the run finishes successfully (status SUCCEEDED) and the run's status message explains what happened. The results you received are fully usable. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove these limits: https://apify.com/pricing

📊 Output Fields

One row per unique product per keyword.

Field	Type	Description
status	string	"ok" for product rows
keyword	string	Your keyword, exactly as entered
searchedAs	string	The Chinese keyword actually searched (same as keyword when it already had Chinese characters)
position	integer	Rank of the product within this keyword's results, starting at 1, after removing duplicates
itemId	string	Taobao item ID
title	string	Original Chinese title, with search-highlight tags removed
titleEn	string or null	Machine-translated English title. null when translateTitles is off or translation failed for this row
price	number or null	The listing's price value, in CNY
displayPrice	number or null	The price the listing displays, in CNY. It can differ from price
displayPriceLabel	string	The listing's own label next to the display price, as returned (for example 优惠后; often empty)
displayPriceLabelEn	string or null	The listing's own label, machine-translated; it is not our discount calculation. null when the label is empty or translateTitles is off
currency	string	Always "CNY"
salesText	string or null	The listing's sales label as shown, for example 4000+人收货 or 本月行业热销
salesCount	integer or null	Number parsed from salesText (4000+人收货 → 4000, 1万+人收货 → 10000). null when the label has no number
shopName	string or null	Shop name
shopTag	string or null	Shop tag text shown by Taobao
location	string or null	Seller location (province/city) as shown
isSponsored	boolean	true when the listing is a paid placement
imageUrl	string or null	Main product image URL (always https://)
url	string	Clean product link: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=<itemId>
scrapedAt	string (ISO 8601)	When the row was collected
_metadata	object	{ page, searchedAs }: the result page the product came from and the keyword searched

About the two prices: price and displayPrice are both shown exactly as the listing provides them. Example from a live test: one dress had price 435 and displayPrice 369 with the label 优惠后; a Uniqlo item had both at 99 with an empty label. On sponsored listings (isSponsored true) the source sends these two values the other way round; this Actor puts them back in the same order as every other listing, so displayPrice is always the price next to the label. This Actor does not calculate discounts. displayPriceLabelEn is the listing's own label, machine-translated; it is not our discount calculation.

Information and error rows (never charged)

error.type	When	What happens
NO_RESULTS	A keyword returned no products	One row for that keyword; the run continues
KEYWORD_NOT_PREPARED	An English keyword could not be translated	One row for that keyword; it is skipped (the untranslated English is never searched)
INVALID_KEYWORD	The search source rejected the keyword	One row for that keyword; the run continues
FREE_PLAN_LIMIT	The free plan's 5-result limit was reached	One row; the run stops
FREE_PLAN_NO_RESULTS	On the free plan, 3 keywords returned no products	One row; the run stops
MAX_CHARGE_REACHED	Your "Maximum cost per run" was reached	One row (if the platform still allows it); the run stops
SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE	The product source was temporarily unavailable	One row; the run stops. Products already delivered stay delivered
INVALID_INPUT	The input could not be used (for example no keywords, more than 200 keywords, or a negative cap)	One row; the run ends without searching
INTERNAL_ERROR	An unexpected problem in the Actor	One row; the run ends as failed. Please open an issue with your run ID

Shape: { "status": "error" or "info", "keyword": "...", "error": { "type": "...", "message": "..." }, "charged": false }

Example product row (illustrative values)

{
  "status": "ok",
  "keyword": "dress",
  "searchedAs": "连衣裙",
  "position": 1,
  "itemId": "000000000000",
  "title": "(Chinese title as listed)",
  "titleEn": "(English machine translation)",
  "price": 435,
  "displayPrice": 369,
  "displayPriceLabel": "优惠后",
  "displayPriceLabelEn": "(machine translation of the listing's label)",
  "currency": "CNY",
  "salesText": "4000+人收货",
  "salesCount": 4000,
  "shopName": "(shop name)",
  "shopTag": "(shop tag)",
  "location": "(province/city)",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://...",
  "url": "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=000000000000",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Real product row (live run, keyword "dress")

This row comes from a real run. The English keyword "dress" was searched as 裙子:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "keyword": "dress",
  "searchedAs": "裙子",
  "position": 2,
  "itemId": "1055953464259",
  "title": "拼接层叠连衣裙/无袖优衣库女装裙子487286",
  "titleEn": "Layered patchwork dress / sleeveless Uniqlo women's dress 487286",
  "price": 99,
  "displayPrice": 99,
  "displayPriceLabel": "",
  "displayPriceLabelEn": null,
  "currency": "CNY",
  "salesText": "4000+人收货",
  "salesCount": 4000,
  "shopName": "优衣库官方旗舰店",
  "shopTag": "回头客100万",
  "location": "上海",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "imageUrl": "https://g-search3.alicdn.com/img/bao/uploaded/i4/i4/196993935/O1CN01nyN3cSvZIeI21stE_!!4611686018427380623-0-item_pic.jpg",
  "url": "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=1055953464259",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T22:32:48.718Z",
  "_metadata": {
    "page": 1,
    "searchedAs": "裙子"
  }
}

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["wireless earbuds", "连衣裙"],
  "maxProductsPerKeyword": 100,
  "translateTitles": true
}

Run summary and live view

• Run summary: each finished run stores a RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store, with products per keyword, the Chinese keyword searched, and the reason the run stopped early (if it did). It is linked from the run's Output tab.
• Live view: while a run is in progress, the Live view tab shows a progress page. The same data is available as JSON at /status on the run's container URL.

❓ FAQ

Q: Is this legal? A: This Actor calls a third-party product-data API, JustOneAPI, that handles the underlying data collection, and Google Cloud Translation for machine translation. Your downstream use of the data is your responsibility - see the full Terms of Service and the Actor-Specific Addendum below for details.

Q: Do I need an account with the data provider? A: No. You only need an Apify account.

Q: What about Taobao's anti-scraping enforcement? A: Taobao's terms restrict unauthorized automated collection of platform data. The third-party data provider handles the data collection and bears responsibility for its architecture's lawfulness. Your downstream use must comply with Taobao's and Tmall's terms.

Q: What if Taobao or Alibaba sends a cease-and-desist? A: Notify UnseenUser within 48 hours via the Apify profile contact form (apify.com/UnseenUser) and cease using this Actor immediately.

Q: Can I use this data to train AI? A: Not on the Publisher's authority. Product titles and images belong to the sellers who created them, and nothing in Taobao's terms or in these Terms grants you AI-training rights. Get proper licensing first. See the Actor-Specific Addendum below.

Q: What about minors? A: This Actor returns product listings, not user profiles, and never returns buyer data. The Terms still prohibit using any output to target children. See the Actor-Specific Addendum below.

Q: Why did "dress" give me strange results on Taobao before? A: Taobao's search works in Chinese, and English words often match unrelated products. This Actor translates English keywords to Chinese first and shows the searched term in searchedAs. Chinese keywords are searched exactly as you type them.

Q: Why did "dress" also return skirts? A: English keywords are machine-translated to a common Chinese word, and that word can be broader than you meant: "dress" becomes 裙子, which covers both dresses and skirts. For an exact match, type the Chinese word yourself (for example 连衣裙 for dresses). Chinese keywords are searched exactly as typed.

Q: Should I use English or Chinese keywords? A: Either works. Chinese keywords give you full control, because nothing is translated. English keywords are convenient; check searchedAs, and if the translation is not the term you wanted, add the Chinese term directly.

Q: Can I sort by price, filter to Tmall only, or set a price range or location? A: No. Results come in Taobao's own sales ranking. This Actor does not filter rows after the fact, because you would pay for rows you never see. Filter the dataset yourself after the run.

Q: Do I get SKUs, variants, stock or product details? A: No. This is a search-results Actor. Product details are not included in this version.

Q: Why are price and displayPrice different? A: Both come straight from the listing. displayPrice is what the listing displays, sometimes with its own label (displayPriceLabel). This Actor does not calculate discounts.

Q: Why did I get fewer products than my cap? A: Some keywords have fewer products, and duplicates across result pages are removed (you are never charged twice for the same product in one keyword). On the free plan, the run stops at 5 results.

If 2 result pages in a row bring no new products for a keyword, that keyword stops there instead of searching further pages that would only repeat what you already have.

Q: Does turning off English titles make it cheaper? A: No, the price is the same. Turn it off only if you do not need English titles.

Q: How do I search Taobao in English? A: Add your English keywords to keywords and run the Actor. Each English keyword is translated to Chinese, searched on Taobao and Tmall, and returned with an English title for every product. The searchedAs field shows the Chinese term that was used.

Q: Is there a Taobao API in English? A: Taobao's official open platform is in Chinese and built for registered developers and sellers. This Actor gives you Taobao and Tmall search results in English through the Apify API, with no Taobao account: start a run with your keywords and read the dataset as JSON.

Q: Is this a Taobao agent or a Taobao proxy service? A: No. It is a search tool, not an agent: it finds products and returns their details and links. It does not buy, pay, ship or contact sellers. Many people use it to find items in English, then order through the agent or proxy service they already use.

Q: Can I use it for Taobao dropshipping or sourcing? A: Yes, for research: finding best-selling products, comparing prices and building a shortlist with English titles. It does not place orders or sync products to a store. Read the Addendum below before reusing listing titles or images.

Q: Is there a free plan limit? A: NOTE: Free Apify users receive up to 5 results per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove this limit. This limit was set by the Actor developer, not by Apify. On the free plan, a run also stops after 3 keywords return no products.

Q: Can AI agents and MCP clients use it? A: Yes. Apify Actors can be called from AI agents through Apify's MCP server or the Apify API, so an agent can search Taobao in English and read the results as structured data.

Q: Why doesn't my Taobao app show English? A: The Taobao app offers English only in some countries and regions, so the option can be missing where you live. This Actor does not depend on the app's language settings: you type English keywords on Apify and get English titles back, wherever you are.

Q: Do I need a Taobao API key? A: No. You do not need a Taobao developer account, app approval or API key. You pay per product delivered on Apify (see Pricing above), and rows that explain an error are free.

Q: Is this a Taobao scraping API? A: Yes, in practice. Start a run through the Apify API with your keywords, then read the results as JSON from the run's dataset. You can also schedule runs or connect them to other tools, as shown in the videos below.

Q: What do I give a Taobao agent? A: Agents usually ask you to paste a Taobao product link. Every row has a clean url in the standard Taobao item format (https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=...) that you can copy into the agent's order form. This Actor itself does not place orders.

Q: How do I find products for Taobao dropshipping? A: Search your niche in English, then sort the dataset by salesCount and compare price, displayPrice and imageUrl to build a shortlist. Check sellers, variants, shipping and margins yourself before you list anything; this Actor returns search results, not order fulfillment.

Q: Do I need a China proxy or VPN to research Taobao? A: No. There are no proxies, cookies or logins to set up. You only need an Apify account.

🎬 Demo Videos

Run your Taobao keyword searches on a schedule, for example every Monday, to watch best sellers and prices move:

Send new Taobao results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or your own webhook:

🔗 Related Actors

• 1688 in English wholesale scraper - compare Taobao retail prices with 1688 wholesale price tiers and factory suppliers
• Google Shopping scraper - compare the same products across Western online stores
• TikTok Shop product scraper - see what is selling on TikTok Shop
• TikTok Shop product reviews scraper - read what buyers say about TikTok Shop products
• Facebook Marketplace scraper - collect local Marketplace listings and prices

🔧 How It Works

• Live data: every run searches Taobao and Tmall at the moment you run it. Nothing is served from a stored copy.
• No login, no cookies, no proxies: you only need an Apify account.
• Keywords: English keywords are translated to Chinese before searching; Chinese keywords are searched exactly as typed. The searchedAs field shows what was searched.
• Results: products come in Taobao's own sales ranking, with duplicates removed per keyword, so each row is a unique product for that keyword.
• What ends a run: every keyword reaches your maxProductsPerKeyword cap or runs out of products; your "Maximum cost per run" is reached; on the free plan, 5 results are delivered or 3 keywords return no products; or the data source stays unavailable after automatic retries. In every case the run finishes with a plain-English status message, and products already delivered stay in your dataset.
• Typical speed: 100 products for one keyword usually arrive in well under a minute, and a small run (2 keywords × 10 products) takes about 30 seconds. Larger caps and more keywords take proportionally longer, and a busy source can occasionally slow things down.
• Output: results stream into an Apify dataset as they are found. Download them as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them via the Apify API. A live progress view and a run summary are included.
• Memory: the default 256 MB is enough; you do not need to raise it.

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PREAMBLE - UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHITECTURE

Before using the Actor, please understand the technical architecture of the service:

The Data Flow

You (User) → Apify Platform → Actor (software) → Third-Party API → Source Platform
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You (User) ← Apify Platform ← Actor (software) ← Third-Party API

What Each Party Does

• You (the User): Run the Actor on the Apify platform with input parameters you choose
• Apify: Operates the cloud infrastructure that hosts and executes Actors. Apify is a Czech-incorporated company (Apify Technologies s.r.o.) governed by its own Terms of Service.
• The Publisher (us): Publishes software code (the Actor) on Apify's platform. The Actor is a thin wrapper that translates your input into requests to a third-party API and returns the API's responses to you. The Publisher does not operate scraping infrastructure. The Publisher does not store or retain data returned by the Actor. The Publisher does not see, log, or process the personal data of any individuals returned in the Actor's outputs beyond what is incidental to passing the data through.
• Third-Party API Provider: JustOneAPI (https://justoneapi.com). This is an independent third-party company that operates data infrastructure that retrieves publicly listed product data from source platforms and returns it.
• Translation Service: Google Cloud Translation (https://cloud.google.com/translate), used only to translate search keywords and product titles.
• Source Platform: Taobao and Tmall (Alibaba Group). These are the platforms whose publicly visible data is accessed by the Third-Party API Provider.

Why This Matters

Your relationship with the Publisher is that of a software user to a software vendor. The Publisher has the responsibilities of a software vendor (functional code, accurate documentation) and the limits of one (the Publisher is not responsible for how you use the data you obtain).

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These Terms operate alongside but do not replace:

• Apify's Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy (governing your relationship with Apify)
• JustOneAPI Terms of Service (governing the underlying data infrastructure) and Google Cloud Terms of Service (governing the translation service)
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1. NATURE OF THE SERVICE

1.1 What the Actor Is

The Actor is a software program published on the Apify platform. Each Actor:

• (a) Accepts structured input from you on the Apify platform
• (b) Translates that input into HTTP requests to a third-party API operated by JustOneAPI
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The Actor's source code is hosted on Apify's infrastructure. The Actor runs in Apify's cloud, not on the Publisher's servers. The Publisher operates no servers running the Actor.

1.2 What the Actor Is Not

The Actor is not:

• (a) A scraping tool - the Publisher does not operate scraping infrastructure, proxies, headless browsers, or fake accounts
• (b) A direct connection to any source platform - connections to source platforms are made by JustOneAPI
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1.4 The Third-Party API Provider's Role

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• (a) Operates data infrastructure that retrieves publicly listed product data from source platforms and returns it
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• Building services that competitively substitute for source platforms

4.7 Reselling the Actor's Service

• Reselling raw Actor outputs as your own data product or scraping-as-a-service
• Sharing your Apify credentials to provide third parties indirect access
• Building competing API services using Actor outputs

4.8 AI Training Without Authorization

• Using Actor outputs as training data for commercial AI/ML models without separate licensing authority from the source platform

4.9 Sensitive Targeting

• Specifically targeting or profiling based on health conditions, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political opinions, or other sensitive characteristics
• Targeting children under 16 (or local age of consent for data processing)

4.10 Privacy Law Violations

• Processing personal data of EU/UK/California/Israeli residents without complying with applicable privacy law
• Failing to honor data subject access, deletion, or objection requests
• Processing data for purposes incompatible with its publication context

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5. SOURCE PLATFORM TERMS - YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

5.1 Acknowledgment

The Actor accesses publicly visible data on third-party platforms ("Source Platforms") through the Third-Party API Provider (JustOneAPI). Source Platforms include Taobao and Tmall (Alibaba Group).

5.2 Your Sole Responsibility

You acknowledge:

• (a) You are solely responsible for ensuring your downstream use of data obtained through the Actor complies with the Source Platform's Terms of Service
• (b) The Publisher makes no representation that any specific use is permitted under any Source Platform's terms
• (c) The Third-Party API Provider, not the Publisher, bears responsibility for the lawfulness of the data collection itself
• (d) You should review Source Platform terms, and the terms of the services this Actor relies on, before commercial use:
  • Taobao Platform Service Agreement (Chinese only): https://terms.alicdn.com/legal-agreement/terms/TD/TD201609301342_19559.html
  • Taobao Platform Service Agreement, overseas version (Chinese only): https://terms.alicdn.com/legal-agreement/terms/c_end_product_protocol/20240717213127627/20240717213127627.html
  • JustOneAPI Terms of Service: https://justoneapi.com/en/terms
  • Google Cloud Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/terms

5.3 Cease-and-Desist Compliance

If you receive a cease-and-desist letter or other legal demand from a Source Platform regarding your use of Actor outputs, you must:

• (a) Cease the contested use immediately
• (b) Notify UnseenUser within 48 hours via UnseenUser's Apify profile contact form (https://apify.com/UnseenUser)
• (c) Cooperate with the Publisher as needed to mitigate
• (d) Not assert against the Publisher any claim arising from your inability to use the Actor for that Source Platform

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6. DATA PROTECTION - REFLECTING ACTUAL ARCHITECTURE

6.1 Roles Under Privacy Law

For purposes of GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA, Israel's Privacy Protection Law (PPL) including Amendment 13, and equivalents:

• You (the User) are the Data Controller of any personal data you obtain through the Actor and subsequently process for your own purposes
• JustOneAPI is the entity that collects data from source platforms - it bears the responsibilities of a data processor or controller (depending on context) for the collection itself
• The Publisher acts solely as a software vendor, not as a data controller or processor, because the Publisher does not store, retain, or substantively process personal data - the Actor merely passes API responses through

6.2 No Data Retention by the Publisher

The Publisher confirms:

• (a) The Publisher does not maintain a database of personal data obtained through the Actor
• (b) The Actor passes data from the Third-Party API directly to you on the Apify platform - data does not flow through the Publisher's infrastructure
• (c) Apify's standard execution and operational logging may include limited information about Actor runs (input parameters, run duration, data volume) - this is governed by Apify's own privacy practices
• (d) The Publisher does not access, view, or analyze your Actor outputs except as needed for technical support if you specifically share them with the Publisher

6.3 Your Obligations as Data Controller

Where your use of the Actor involves processing personal data, you are responsible for:

• (a) Establishing a lawful basis for your processing (consent, legitimate interest with documented balancing test, contract, etc.)
• (b) Providing transparent notice to data subjects as required by applicable law
• (c) Honoring data subject access, rectification, erasure, restriction, and portability requests
• (d) Implementing appropriate security measures
• (e) Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments where required
• (f) Appointing a Data Protection Officer if your operations require one
• (g) Registering databases with applicable supervisory authorities
• (h) Honoring opt-out requests for direct marketing
• (i) Cross-border transfer safeguards where data crosses borders

6.4 Israel's Amendment 13 - User Compliance

If your use of the Actor involves Israeli residents' personal data, you must comply with the Privacy Protection Law as amended (Amendment 13, effective August 14, 2025). These obligations are yours as the data controller, not the Publisher's as the software vendor.

6.5 Sensitive Data Targeting Restrictions

You will not use the Actor to specifically target, profile, or build datasets focused on:

• Health or medical conditions
• Religious beliefs
• Political opinions
• Sexual orientation or gender identity
• Genetic or biometric data
• Criminal history
• Children under 16

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7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

7.1 Actor Code

The Actor's source code, schemas, documentation, and branding are owned by the Publisher. You receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Actor for permitted purposes during your active subscription/run with Apify.

7.2 Output Data

The Publisher claims no ownership over the public data the Actor returns. Source Platforms may have copyright, database rights, or other rights in their data; data subjects may have copyright in user-generated content. Your use of output data must respect these rights independently.

7.3 Restrictions

You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or reuse the Actor's code in a competing actor.

7.4 Feedback

Feedback you provide may be used by the Publisher to improve products without compensation to you.

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8. PRICING AND PAYMENT

8.1 Apify Platform Billing

Pricing is administered through Apify's pricing models. Apify processes all payments. Apify's payment terms govern refunds and disputes.

8.2 Pricing Changes

The Publisher may change Actor pricing with at least 14 days' notice via the Actor's Apify listing.

8.3 No Refunds for Misuse

If your access is suspended or terminated for breach of these Terms, you forfeit any unused balance and are not entitled to refunds.

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9. SERVICE AVAILABILITY AND CHANGES

9.1 No Uptime Guarantee

The Actor depends on:

• (a) The Apify platform
• (b) Underlying API providers (JustOneAPI for product data; Google Cloud Translation for translation)
• (c) Source Platforms' continued public accessibility

Any of these may change behavior, restrict access, or become unavailable without notice. The Publisher makes no uptime guarantees.

9.2 Service Discontinuation

The Publisher may discontinue any Actor at any time. Reasonable notice will be provided when feasible.

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10. DISCLAIMERS

10.1 "AS IS" Service

THE ACTOR IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ACCURACY OF DATA.

10.2 No Representation of Lawfulness

The Publisher makes no representation that your specific use of the Actor or the data it returns is lawful in your jurisdiction or under any Source Platform's terms. The burden of determining lawfulness for your use case is yours.

10.3 No Endorsement of Source Content

Content returned by the Actor was created by third parties. The Publisher does not endorse, verify, or take responsibility for it.

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11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

11.1 Aggregate Liability Cap

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE PUBLISHER FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE ACTOR EXCEED THE GREATER OF:

• (a) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100), OR
• (b) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID THROUGH APIFY FOR USE OF THE ACTOR IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE EVENT

11.2 Excluded Damages

THE PUBLISHER IS NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, OR DATA, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

11.3 Time Limit

Any claim must be brought within one (1) year of the event.

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12. INDEMNIFICATION

12.1 Your Indemnification of the Publisher

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Publisher from any:

• Claims arising from your use of the Actor
• Claims arising from your violation of these Terms
• Claims arising from your violation of any law (including privacy law)
• Claims arising from your violation of any Source Platform's Terms of Service
• Claims arising from your processing of personal data obtained through the Actor
• Reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of defending such claims

12.2 Defense

The Publisher may assume defense at your expense. You will cooperate with the Publisher's defense.

12.3 Scope

The indemnification covers reasonable, foreseeable third-party claims arising from your use. It does not extend to:

• Claims arising from the Publisher's gross negligence or willful misconduct
• Claims regarding the Actor's source code itself (those are the Publisher's responsibility)
• Claims regarding the Third-Party API Provider's data collection (those are their responsibility)

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13. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION

13.1 Termination by the Publisher

The Publisher may terminate your access for material breach, illegal use, breach of warranty, or upon credible legal demand.

13.2 Effects of Termination

Your license ends, you must cease use, and applicable provisions survive.

13.3 Termination by You

You may stop using the Actor at any time on Apify.

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14. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

14.1 Informal Resolution First

Send a detailed written description of the dispute via UnseenUser's Apify profile contact form (https://apify.com/UnseenUser) and wait 60 days for resolution attempt before any formal claim.

14.2 Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the substantive laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict of law principles.

14.3 Exclusive Jurisdiction

Any dispute shall be brought exclusively in the competent civil courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.

14.4 No Class Actions

You agree to bring claims only in your individual capacity.

14.5 Attorneys' Fees

The prevailing party recovers reasonable attorneys' fees.

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15. MISCELLANEOUS

15.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms (with Addendum and incorporated documents) are the entire agreement.

15.2 Severability

Unenforceable provisions are reformed to the minimum extent or severed.

15.3 Assignment

You may not assign without the Publisher's consent. The Publisher may assign to affiliates, successors, or acquirers.

15.4 Force Majeure

Neither party is liable for failure due to events beyond reasonable control, including changes by Source Platforms or Third-Party API Providers, or actions by Apify.

15.5 Third-Party Beneficiaries

Apify and JustOneAPI are intended third-party beneficiaries of Sections 4 (Prohibited Uses), 5 (Source Platform Compliance), and 12 (Indemnification).

15.6 Survival

Sections 0 (Acceptance), 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15 survive termination.

15.7 Language

English controls. Translations are for convenience only.

15.8 Publisher Identification for Legal Process

The Publisher operates on the Apify platform under the username UnseenUser (apify.com/UnseenUser). The Publisher is a registered legal entity. Upon receipt of valid legal process (subpoena, court order, or equivalent) directed through Apify's official channels, the Publisher's full legal identity may be disclosed as required by law. This Section ensures that you have a valid path to legal recourse if needed.

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16. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

By using any Actor, you acknowledge that:

• (a) You have read these Terms
• (b) You understand the architecture: you are using software (the Actor) on Apify's platform that calls third-party APIs
• (c) You accept responsibility for your use, including for compliance with Source Platform terms
• (d) Your indemnification obligations cover third-party claims arising from your use
• (e) Disputes are resolved in Israeli courts
• (f) The Publisher's identity, while not publicly disclosed in this listing, can be obtained through valid legal process via Apify

For questions, use UnseenUser's Apify profile contact form (https://apify.com/UnseenUser) before running the Actor.

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APPENDIX - Document Version History

Version	Date	Summary
1.0	May 5, 2026	Initial publication
2.0	May 5, 2026	Hardened (over-broad - treated User as data broker)
3.0	May 5, 2026	Architecturally accurate - Publisher as software vendor
4.0	May 5, 2026	Anonymous Publisher. All personally identifying information removed. Acceptance-by-Use mechanism formalized.

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These Terms reflect best practices for anonymous Apify actor publishing as of May 2026. Not a substitute for legal advice.

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🛡️ Actor-Specific ToS Addendum - 🏮 Taobao Search Scraper - English Keywords & Titles (淘宝 天猫)

This addendum supplements the Master Terms of Service V4.0. By running this Actor, you accept both the Master ToS and this addendum.

A. Architectural Disclosure

This Actor is a software wrapper. It accepts your input parameters, calls TWO third-party endpoints in one run (the JustOneAPI product search /api/taobao/search-item-list/v2, and the Google Cloud Translation /language/translate/v2 endpoint used only to translate keywords and product titles), combines the results into a structured output, and returns the combined data to you on the Apify platform. UnseenUser does not store, log, or substantively process the data returned. The data flows from the third-party services through Apify's runtime directly to you.

B. Nature of Data Returned

This Actor returns: public Taobao and Tmall search-result listings for your keywords, ranked by sales. Each row contains the item ID, the Chinese product title and a machine-translated English title, the listing's price and display price with the listing's own price label (and its machine translation), the currency, the listing's sales label and a number parsed from it, the shop name and shop tag, the seller location (province or city level) as shown, a paid-placement flag, the main image URL, and a clean product link. It does NOT return buyer names, reviews, buyer questions, seller contact details, or user IDs (the raw userId field is dropped).

Where the Actor's output includes individual people's names, photos, contact details, or content authored by them, that data constitutes personal data subject to GDPR, CCPA, Israeli Privacy Protection Law (including Amendment 13), and equivalent privacy laws in your downstream processing - but only in your hands as the data controller, not in UnseenUser's hands as the software vendor.

C. Permitted Use Cases

You may use this Actor for the following purposes (non-exhaustive list):

• Product sourcing - see which products sell best on Taobao and Tmall for a keyword before you source, import or dropship
• Price benchmarking - compare listed prices and display prices across many shops for the same product type
• Market research - see which product types and shops lead a category by sales labels
• Competitor monitoring - check where a brand's listings appear in sales-ranked results over time
• Trend spotting - compare sales labels across many keywords to spot categories that are moving
• Catalog enrichment - add Chinese and English titles, images and clean links to an internal sourcing sheet
• Brand protection - find listings that use your brand name so your team can review them manually

D. Specifically Prohibited Uses

In addition to Master ToS Section 4 prohibitions, you may NOT:

• Republish product titles, images or listings in bulk as your own catalog or storefront (for example, mirroring Taobao listings on your own shop without the sellers' permission)
• Build a "Taobao mirror", price-comparison site or search engine that substitutes for Taobao or Tmall using this data
• Resell the raw output as a data product or feed
• Use the data to coordinate prices with competitors, or to support any other conduct prohibited by competition law
• Publicly accuse a shop of selling counterfeits based only on this data, without your own verification
• Use the data to identify, profile or contact individual people (for example sole-proprietor sellers) for unsolicited marketing
• Train commercial AI/ML models on titles or images without proper licensing (see Section I)
• Use other endpoints of the underlying provider that return buyer data (reviews, buyer questions) through or alongside this Actor's outputs to link buyers to products

E. Platform Terms of Service Considerations

Taobao's and Tmall's terms restrict unauthorized automated collection of platform data. The Taobao Platform Service Agreement lists, among prohibited content, malicious programs such as crawlers that obtain platform or user data without authorization. Chinese courts have also treated platform data products as protected business interests under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (for example, Taobao v. Anhui Meijing, Hangzhou, 2018). This Actor accesses publicly visible Taobao and Tmall listing data via the third-party data provider named in Section A - that provider bears responsibility for the lawfulness of the data collection. Your downstream use must independently comply with Taobao's and Tmall's terms. Note that Taobao's terms are published in Chinese only (see Master ToS Section 5.2).

If Taobao, Tmall or Alibaba Group issues a cease-and-desist regarding data obtained via this Actor, notify UnseenUser within 48 hours via the Apify profile contact form (apify.com/UnseenUser) and cease your use immediately.

F. Combined-Endpoint Data Sensitivity

This Actor combines two endpoints in one run. For this Actor the combination adds convenience, not sensitivity:

• Product search alone: low sensitivity (public product listings; shop names are businesses)
• Translation alone: no data from Taobao; it only receives your keywords and the Chinese titles and price labels
• Combined: the same product listings, with an English title and label added. No personal data is added by the combination.

Two things still matter:

• Your keywords are sent to the translation service. Do not put confidential information (unreleased product names, client names, personal data) into keywords.
• The combined dataset is still a copy of a commercial platform's catalog. Don't sell it as a product, don't build a "Taobao replacement" with it, and use it for your own internal research and sourcing.

G. Machine Translation - Accuracy and Labels

searchedAs, titleEn and displayPriceLabelEn are machine translations. They can be wrong, literal, or miss product-specific terms (sizes, materials, brand names). In particular:

• displayPriceLabelEn is the listing's own label, machine-translated; it is not our discount calculation. Neither price nor displayPrice is calculated by this Actor. Do not present either one to your customers as a "discount" or "sale" price based on this data.
• searchedAs decides what was searched. If a translated keyword does not match what you meant, results will not match either. Check it, and use Chinese keywords for full control.
• Do not rely on machine-translated titles alone for legal, safety, customs, or compliance decisions (for example product classification, certifications, or restricted goods). Verify with a fluent reader or the seller.

H. Product Listing Copyright and Images

Each listing's title, images and description are created by the seller and may be protected by copyright, trademark, or Taobao's own rights. You may:

• Analyze listings (prices, sales labels, categories, rankings)
• Quote small parts with attribution where fair use or fair dealing applies
• Use aggregated metrics (counts, averages, price ranges)

You may NOT:

• Download and reuse product images in your own store, ads or marketplace listings without the rights holder's permission
• Republish titles or descriptions verbatim as your own product copy
• Strip seller or brand attribution before redistribution
• Use brand names from listings in a way that suggests a relationship with the brand

imageUrl is a link to an image hosted by the source platform. Possession of the link is not a license to use the image.

I. AI Training - Special Notice

Nothing in Taobao's or Tmall's terms, or in these Terms, authorizes you to use product titles, images or listing data to train AI/ML models. The Publisher (UnseenUser) does NOT authorize, and has no ability to authorize, AI training use.

Recent litigation (NYT v. OpenAI, Andersen v. Stability AI, Reddit v. Perplexity, multiple class actions) demonstrates AI training on platform data is contested. Product images are a common subject of such disputes. Get proper licensing or do not train on this data.

Your AI training use is your own legal exposure.

J. Shop Names and Seller Data

Shop names, shop tags and seller locations are business information. However, some Taobao sellers are individuals running small shops, so a shop name can sometimes identify a person. Treat it accordingly:

• Use shop data for market and sourcing research, not to build profiles of individual sellers
• Do not combine shop data with other sources to find a seller's personal identity, home address or personal contacts
• If you contact sellers, do it through Taobao's own channels and in line with anti-spam laws (Israel's Anti-Spam Law, GDPR, CAN-SPAM, CASL, and China's Personal Information Protection Law where it applies)
• location is province or city level as Taobao shows it; never use it to locate a person

This Actor deliberately never returns buyer names, reviews or buyer questions, and drops the raw userId field.

K. Prices, Sales Figures and Consumer Law

Prices and sales labels are point-in-time snapshots shown by the listing. They change often and may include promotions, coupons, or platform-specific conditions that this Actor does not see.

• Not authoritative: do not present this data to your customers as a guaranteed current price, stock level or sales volume
• Sales labels are rounded text (for example 4000+人收货). salesCount is a number parsed from that text, not an exact sales figure. Labels without a number (for example 本月行业热销) give salesCount null
• Comparative advertising: if you publish price comparisons using this data, consumer-protection and advertising laws in your market apply (accuracy, date of the price, conditions)
• Competition law: using shared price data to coordinate prices with competitors is prohibited in most jurisdictions

L. Brand Protection and Counterfeit Use - Verify First

Searching for your own brand to find possible counterfeit listings is a permitted use. But this data alone is not proof:

• ✅ "Find listings that use our brand name so our legal team can review them" - permitted
• ✅ "Track how many listings use our brand name each month" - permitted
• ❌ "Publicly name shops as counterfeiters based only on titles and prices" - prohibited (defamation risk)
• ❌ "Send automated takedown or legal threats to every listing found" - prohibited without human review

Use Alibaba's own intellectual-property protection channels for takedowns, with your own evidence.

M. Sanctions and Export Compliance

Buying from, paying, or shipping goods from Chinese sellers can be subject to sanctions, export-control, customs and product-safety rules in your country (for example US OFAC and export controls, EU sanctions and import rules, Israel's Trading with the Enemy Ordinance and import standards). Some listed products may be restricted or prohibited in your market.

This Actor returns listing data only. YOU are responsible for sanctions, export, customs and product-safety compliance in any sourcing or purchase you make based on it.

N. Cost Controls and Free-Plan Limit

• Price: $0.02 per run plus $4.49 per 1,000 products ($0.00449 each), English titles included. Error and information rows are never charged.
• Duplicates: consecutive result pages repeat some products. Duplicates are removed per keyword before charging, so you never pay twice for the same product in the same keyword. The same product found under two different keywords appears (and is charged) once per keyword.
• Free plan: NOTE: Free Apify users receive up to 5 results per run. Upgrade to any paid Apify plan to remove this limit. This limit was set by the Actor developer, not by Apify.