AliExpress Search Scraper: Prices, Orders & Shipping

AliExpress Search Scraper: Prices, Orders & Shipping

Turn AliExpress keyword searches into structured product data: prices, exact order counts where available, ratings, images, shipping labels, delivery estimates and search positions. AliExpress Search Scraper collects public search cards and saves them to an Apify dataset, ready for spreadsheets, price monitoring and repeatable market research.

Dropshippers can shortlist products by demand and shipping signals. E-commerce sellers can compare listed prices across keywords and destinations. Market researchers can follow product categories over time, while affiliate sites can collect product links, images and displayed prices for editorial research. Keep the same ship-to country and currency between runs to make comparisons useful.

Each row represents one product for one keyword. Welcome and bundle prices have separate flags so you can identify conditional offers before comparing them with ordinary prices. You can start in Console, call the API, or give an AI agent access through Apify MCP.

What data you get

Examples below come from the real wireless earbuds proof run aJxZB2AoOSM5fYvXB, captured on 17 October 2026. Coverage was measured separately across the 1,500 saved rows in the five reliability proof runs. Percentages describe that sample, not a promise about future searches. Missing scalar values are null.

Field	Real example	Meaning and measured coverage where incomplete
keyword	wireless earbuds	Original search term
page, position	1, 1	Page and unique-card rank before filters
productId	1005012594430190	Canonical product ID, stored as a string
url	https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012594430190.html	Canonical product link
title	HTC NE79 TWS Bluetooth 6.0 Earbuds AI Translation 135 Languages ENC Noise Cancelling HiFi Stereo Headphones with LED Display	Search-card title
imageUrl	https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sff7e4be36c804173b8bf2ad0f4a81b0bA.png	Main image
images	Same image URL, plus other card images	Array of available image URLs
salePrice, currency	7.39, USD	Displayed price and returned currency
originalPrice	17.21	Comparison price; 98% filled
discountPercent	57	Displayed discount; 91.87% filled
priceText	US $7.39	Formatted price; 96.13% filled
isWelcomeDeal, isBundleDeal	true, true	Independent conditional-price signals
rating	4.9	Card rating; 73.47% filled
orders, ordersText	14603, 10,000+ sold	Exact count and separate rounded label; each 92% filled
shippingText, isFreeShipping	null, false	Shipping label, 24.4% filled; explicit free-shipping flag
shipFrom	CN	Origin country; 94.07% filled
deliveryText	Delivery: Oct 23 - 28	Card delivery label; 41% filled
deliveryMinDays, deliveryMaxDays	6, 11	Site-provided day bounds; each 62.8% filled
tags	["Delivery: Oct 23 - 28"]	Plain-text selling points; 92.67% nonempty
isChoice, isSponsored	true, false	Choice and advertising markers
categoryId	63705	Leaf category ID; 98% filled
scrapedAt	2026-10-17T12:17:09.529Z	UTC capture time

An exact order count is never inferred from a rounded sold label. Review counts, seller profiles and store details are outside this search-card dataset.

How to use it

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and choose Input.
2. Enter Keywords, one search term per entry. The form starts with wireless earbuds.
3. Set Maximum products per keyword. The form prefills 20; choose filters and your destination if needed.
4. Keep the residential proxy default for your first run. Set a maximum charge in the run options to control spending.
5. Click Start, then inspect Output. Export JSON, CSV or Excel, or retrieve the dataset through the API.

JavaScript API

Install apify-client, set your APIFY_TOKEN environment variable, and run this example. The Apify JavaScript client waits for the run and provides its dataset ID.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('xmolodtsov/aliexpress-search-scraper').call({
    keywords: ['wireless earbuds'],
    maxItems: 20,
    shipToCountry: 'US',
    currency: 'USD',
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

curl and MCP

This synchronous API request returns dataset rows when the run completes. For longer batches, start an asynchronous run and fetch its defaultDatasetId afterwards.

curl --request POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/xmolodtsov~aliexpress-search-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"keywords":["wireless earbuds"],"maxItems":20}'

Always send keywords in API input: Console prefill is a form convenience, and an empty API body is rejected. For AI workflows, connect an Apify MCP client and expose xmolodtsov/aliexpress-search-scraper as a tool. Pricing and account limits also apply to MCP calls.

Pricing

Pay for products saved to the dataset. Billing uses PAY_PER_EVENT with the standard apify-default-dataset-item event. Proxy and platform usage are included, with no start fee or separate usage surcharge.

Apify plan	Price per 1,000 results
Free	$2.50
Bronze (Starter)	$2.20
Silver (Scale)	$1.90
Gold (Business)	$1.60

Filtered cards and duplicates within a keyword are never saved or charged. A product matching two different keywords produces one row for each keyword, and each saved row is billable. Set your maximum charge per run to bound the result bill.

Is it free?

You can try the Actor using your available Apify credit on the Free plan; the Free tier price still applies. Free plan: 100 results per run, 20 runs per calendar month (a limit set by the developer, not by Apify). The result cap is shared across all keywords in the run. The monthly quota is per account and resets on the 1st.

After the monthly quota, a run ends successfully with an explanation and no results. Any paid Apify plan removes these developer free-plan caps; your requested result limit, available results and maximum charge still govern the run.

Input

Start with this small request, then add filters for your research:

{
    "keywords": ["wireless earbuds"],
    "maxItems": 20,
    "sort": "default",
    "shipToCountry": "US",
    "currency": "USD",
    "language": "en_US",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
    }
}

Input	Default	How it works
keywords	Required	1–100 nonempty terms; whitespace trimmed and repeated terms removed
maxItems	100; form prefill 20	Matching products per keyword, from 1 to 5000
sort	default	Best match, orders, price_asc, or price_desc
minPrice, maxPrice	Unset	Inclusive displayed-price limits in the requested currency
minRating	Unset	Minimum rating from 0 to 5; unrated cards are excluded when set
minOrders	Unset	Minimum exact order count; unknown counts are excluded when set
freeShippingOnly	false	Require an explicit unconditional free-shipping marker
choiceOnly	false	Require the AliExpress Choice marker
shipToCountry	US	Destination country from the form's supported ISO country codes
currency	USD	Requested display currency; the row records what AliExpress returned
language	en_US	Requested page language; some text may remain untranslated
proxyConfiguration	Residential Apify Proxy	Select a specific datacenter group to opt into datacenter

Filters apply to every keyword. Price, free-shipping and Choice settings are sent to AliExpress, then returned cards are checked locally. Rating and exact-order filters are applied locally. Paging continues to find matching products, rather than stopping after examining only maxItems cards.

The proof verified US/USD, DE/EUR, GB/GBP and German-language results. It also checked orders and both price sorts. Sponsored cards remain included and flagged, so advertised placements can interrupt an otherwise sorted sequence. A “free shipping over…” offer does not pass freeShippingOnly merely because it mentions free shipping.

Output

The Overview table shows images, keyword, rank, title, price, currency, discount, rating, orders, shipping, delivery, bundle status and product link. Download the full dataset to access every field.

This complete row comes from proof run aJxZB2AoOSM5fYvXB. The displayed offer has both conditional-price flags, and its absent shipping label remains null.

{
    "keyword": "wireless earbuds",
    "page": 1,
    "position": 1,
    "productId": "1005012594430190",
    "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012594430190.html",
    "title": "HTC NE79 TWS Bluetooth 6.0 Earbuds AI Translation 135 Languages ENC Noise Cancelling HiFi Stereo Headphones with LED Display",
    "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sff7e4be36c804173b8bf2ad0f4a81b0bA.png",
    "images": [
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/Sff7e4be36c804173b8bf2ad0f4a81b0bA.png",
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S25359d9379c446fda439fce29d51cb2dr.jpg",
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S1c0239287fab4907bc957afb4c622d22z.jpg",
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S44a300ec91be44e6847eccb29e8a18b6e.jpg",
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S273586500c16458dbe1aecada2e95e99v.jpg",
        "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/S7c8a630cd9f54980a1e8437dcc26ce51y.jpg"
    ],
    "salePrice": 7.39,
    "originalPrice": 17.21,
    "currency": "USD",
    "discountPercent": 57,
    "priceText": "US $7.39",
    "isWelcomeDeal": true,
    "isBundleDeal": true,
    "rating": 4.9,
    "orders": 14603,
    "ordersText": "10,000+ sold",
    "shippingText": null,
    "isFreeShipping": false,
    "shipFrom": "CN",
    "deliveryText": "Delivery: Oct 23 - 28",
    "deliveryMinDays": 6,
    "deliveryMaxDays": 11,
    "tags": [
        "Delivery: Oct 23 - 28"
    ],
    "isChoice": true,
    "isSponsored": false,
    "categoryId": "63705",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-17T12:17:09.529Z"
}

Products are deduplicated by canonical product ID within each keyword. position counts unique cards before filters, so gaps in the exported rank are expected. The same product may appear under another keyword with a different position. Search stops at the requested limit, exhausted results, repeated products, a repeated page, or the page cap; maxItems is an upper bound.

Guarantees and failure semantics

Only product rows are saved and charged. Error messages, filtered cards and repeated cards within a keyword never become billable dataset rows. Requests receive up to four attempts using fresh sessions in the selected proxy mode. Retries keep that mode.

If every keyword remains unanswered, the run is FAILED with a status beginning blocked:, network: or timeout:, according to the dominant cause. Invalid requests can produce invalid:. A persistent unreadable page layout with no saved products produces FAILED with outdated:; it is not presented as an empty search.

Partial results are SUCCEEDED, with affected keywords named in the status message when a keyword or later page fails. Saved rows remain available. A genuine answered search with no matches is also SUCCEEDED. The run stops at your maximum charge and keeps the rows saved within that budget. The runtime guard preserves saved results; reaching it before saving any products fails with timeout:.

The run's key-value store contains STATISTICS for request and blocked-attempt counts, rows saved, filtered and duplicate cards, and each keyword's stopping reason. In the 17 October reliability proof, 30 logical pages were answered across 15 keywords, yielding 1,500 rows; two timed-out attempts recovered on retry. This is a measured sample, not a future availability guarantee.

Integrations

Use Apify schedules for recurring price and search-position monitoring. Keep historical datasets and compare productId, keyword, salePrice and scrapedAt between captures. For cross-currency analysis, retain the returned currency alongside each price.

Apify API clients can feed saved rows into your application. Webhooks can trigger processing after success or failure, while Apify integrations connect workflows with spreadsheets, Make, Zapier and n8n. Check the status message before treating a successful run as complete: partial runs deliberately retain usable rows. AI agents can use the same input and output through MCP.

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FAQ

Is it legal to scrape AliExpress?

This Actor collects public product search data without signing in or accessing private account information. Legality depends on jurisdiction and use, including website terms and intellectual-property rights. Public availability does not remove GDPR or CCPA obligations where personal data is involved. Assess your intended processing and obtain legal advice when needed. See Apify's web scraping legality guide for background.

Why are some ratings/delivery dates empty?

AliExpress does not supply every field on every search card. Missing values stay null, never invented. Delivery text and numeric day bounds are separate signals and can have different coverage. Neither an empty shipping label nor isFreeShipping: false establishes a shipping fee; inspect the available offer information.

Datacenter vs residential proxy?

Residential Apify Proxy is the default. The explicit datacenter proof run sMnjthtXcbGuI9WKh returned 120 rows with 0 blocked attempts out of 3 (0%). That small sample does not establish a general datacenter block rate. Select a specific datacenter group only if you want to test it for your searches; retries retain your choice. Free-plan runs use Apify Proxy.

Does it get seller/store details?

No. The search cards used here do not carry the seller/store details needed for that output. The Actor does not visit stores or product detail pages for enrichment. It also omits review counts because the inspected cards do not provide them.

Are the listed prices final checkout prices?

They are search-card prices for the requested destination and currency. Welcome and bundle offers can have conditions; check isWelcomeDeal and isBundleDeal independently. Shipping labels and delivery estimates are observations, not checkout guarantees.

Support

Open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab on Apify with your run ID, input and the field or keyword affected. Include the status message for blocked, partial or outdated runs. Remove API tokens and other credentials before sharing input. Reproducible searches help us investigate changes to AliExpress cards.