# Alibaba Product Profile Scraper (`w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-scraper`) Actor

Extract public Alibaba product profiles, offers, supplier signals, attributes, and media.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [w3crawler](https://apify.com/w3crawler) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.99 / 1,000 product details

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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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Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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

## Alibaba Product Details Scraper

This Actor extracts rich, publicly visible product profiles from Alibaba product-detail pages. It combines Schema.org JSON-LD with visible attribute rows and returns normalized product identity, descriptions, offers, supplier signals, ratings, media, attributes, breadcrumbs, and provenance.

It is read-only: no login, private supplier portal, quotation submission, CAPTCHA bypass, fingerprint spoofing, or access-control evasion is attempted. The dataset contains source-backed product profiles only; blocked and unusable pages are counted in the run summary and detailed in logs.

### Input examples

Single product:

```json
{
  "productUrl": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Public-Steel-Bottle_1600374022155.html",
  "maxItems": 1,
  "includeMedia": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 45
}
```

Batch with filters and sorting:

```json
{
  "productUrls": [
    "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Public-Steel-Bottle_1600374022155.html",
    "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Another-Public-Product_1600000000000.html"
  ],
  "minRating": 4,
  "minReviewCount": 10,
  "currency": "USD",
  "textQuery": "bottle",
  "sortBy": "rating_desc",
  "deduplicate": true
}
```

Supported `sortBy` values are `relevance`, `price_asc`, `price_desc`, `rating_desc`, `reviews_desc`, `supplier_asc`, and `title_asc`. Output controls can omit media, attributes, or supplier details without changing the public fetch contract.

### Developer options

The input schema groups bounded operational controls under Developer options:

- `requestTimeoutSecs` (5-300), with legacy alias `timeoutSecs`
- `requestDelayMs` (0-15,000)
- `maxConcurrency` (1-5)
- `maxRequestRetries` (0-10)
- `maxBytes` (1,000-15,000,000)

Requests use the standard Fetch API without proxy routing or browser-fingerprint headers. Access challenges and rate limits are terminal; the Actor records the failure and does not attempt a bypass.

### Dataset output

Product rows can include:

- `productId`, `title`, `name`, `description`, `productUrl`, `sourceUrl`, `sku`, and `mpn`
- `price`, `priceMin`, `priceMax`, `priceFormatted`, `currency`, `availability`, and MOQ fields when visible
- `supplierName`, `companyName`, supplier profile/location/rating, and public supplier badges
- `ratingValue`, `productRating`, `reviewCount`, `soldCount`
- `imageUrl`, `thumbnail`, `images`, `imageUrls`, and `imageCount`
- visible `attributes`, `specifications`, `variations`, and `breadcrumbs`
- public shipping/lead-time and assurance/verification flags when exposed

The dataset does not contain `fieldCoverage`, `dataQuality`, `recordId`, `recordType`, `success`, `dataAvailable`, proxy metadata, request counters, diagnostics, or other Actor-debugging fields. Each row has a public product URL, product ID, visible title, and scrape timestamp.

Example product row:

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Public-Steel-Bottle_1600374022155.html",
  "productUrl": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Public-Steel-Bottle_1600374022155.html",
  "productId": "1600374022155",
  "title": "Public Steel Bottle",
  "description": "A public wholesale bottle.",
  "supplierName": "Public Supplier",
  "price": 12.5,
  "priceMin": 12.5,
  "priceMax": 12.5,
  "currency": "USD",
  "availability": "InStock",
  "productRating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 18,
  "imageUrl": "https://sc04.alicdn.com/public-bottle.jpg",
  "thumbnail": "https://sc04.alicdn.com/public-bottle.jpg",
  "images": ["https://sc04.alicdn.com/public-bottle.jpg"],
  "imageCount": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-07T07:40:28.085Z"
}
```

`OUTPUT_SUMMARY` contains persisted product, operational issue, filter, retry, request, and deduplication counts. Failure details stay in run logs, and the dataset contains source-backed product rows only.

Runs that save product rows and also encounter per-item or optional-output failures finish as `SUCCEEDED` with `dataStatus: PARTIAL`. A batch whose source profiles were all successfully filtered out completes with `status: SUCCEEDED` and `dataStatus: NO_RESULTS`. A blocked request or extraction failure with no saved product rows is reported as `FAILED` and exits nonzero.

### Offline QA and deployment

For deterministic offline QA, set `fixturePath` to `test/fixtures/product.json` in the input. The checked-in `.actor/input.json` is a single live public product URL intended for cloud runs.

```bash
npm ci
npm test
npm run check
apify run --input-file fixture-input.json --purge
```

Checked-in fixtures are for local automated QA only. Live runs use public product URLs.

Run summaries include the required `status`, `runStatus`, and `dataStatus` fields. `status` and `runStatus` are `SUCCEEDED` when source-backed rows were saved or a run completed cleanly with no matches; they are `FAILED` only when a real failure occurs before any rows are saved. `dataStatus` is `COMPLETE`, `PARTIAL`, `NO_RESULTS`, or `FAILED`. Failure details stay in the run logs; key-value summaries retain counts only.

# Actor input Schema

## `productUrl` (type: `string`):

One HTTPS public Alibaba product-detail URL.

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

Additional HTTPS public Alibaba product-detail URLs. Each URL is fetched independently.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Compatibility alias for productUrls.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum product or diagnostic rows emitted after filtering, sorting, and deduplication.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Stable order applied after all product URLs are processed.

## `textQuery` (type: `string`):

Keep profiles whose title, description, supplier, category, availability, SKU, or MPN contains this text.

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

Keep profiles with this three-letter price currency code.

## `minPrice` (type: `number`):

Keep profiles whose normalized minimum price is at least this value.

## `maxPrice` (type: `number`):

Keep profiles whose normalized minimum price is at most this value.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Keep profiles with a product rating at or above this value.

## `minReviewCount` (type: `number`):

Keep profiles with at least this many reviews.

## `supplierCountries` (type: `array`):

Keep profiles whose visible supplier country/location contains one of these values.

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Keep one row per public product identifier or canonical product URL.

## `includeMedia` (type: `boolean`):

Include public Alibaba image URLs, thumbnails, and image counts.

## `includeAttributes` (type: `boolean`):

Include visible attributes, specifications, and breadcrumbs.

## `includeSupplierDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Include supplier identity, profile URL, location, and rating fields.

## `includeDiagnostics` (type: `boolean`):

Add URL/error/errorCode/scrapedAt rows for failed or unusable public pages.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum time for each public product request.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Compatibility alias for requestTimeoutSecs.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between public requests per worker.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum simultaneous product-page workers.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries for timeouts and transient server failures. Access challenges and rate limits are terminal.

## `maxBytes` (type: `integer`):

Reject unusually large public product responses before parsing.

## `fixturePath` (type: `string`):

Relative JSON, HTML, or text fixture used for deterministic offline QA.

## `fixturePaths` (type: `array`):

Use one fixture per product URL, or reuse the last fixture for additional URLs.

## `fixtureHtml` (type: `string`):

Inline HTML fixture for offline QA; do not combine with fixturePath(s).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 25,
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "deduplicate": true,
  "includeMedia": true,
  "includeAttributes": true,
  "includeSupplierDetails": true,
  "includeDiagnostics": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 45,
  "requestDelayMs": 1000,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "maxBytes": 5000000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-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 '{}' |
apify call w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,w3crawler/alibaba-single-product-details-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/Wu38pKWbchwcolzo4/builds/AF5whcZQYQDgPwdx1/openapi.json