Etsy Dropshipping & Supplier Finder — Who Makes It (POD / Production-Partner Detector)

Find out who ACTUALLY manufactures any Etsy product — the real factory or print-on-demand supplier behind any listing, shop, or niche.

Then turn it into money. Source the same factory a top seller uses and cut your unit cost 40–80%. Catch the "handmade" shops that are really dropshipping. Spot the niches where every top seller secretly shares one overseas factory. Vet a supplier before a big order. Price to win — on real margins, not guesses.

See it in one look. This "Baguette Birthstone Necklace" is an Etsy's Pick from a Star Seller, marked handmade, at $32.80 — but Etsy's own records show it's outsourced (fake_handmade), and the identical necklace is on Alibaba for $5.56 wholesale. A ~6× markup on a $5 mass-produced product, sold as handmade and badged by Etsy itself:

🛍️ Etsy — Divanjewelrygold · "Etsy's Pick" · $32.80	🏭 Alibaba — the same necklace, wholesale · $5.56/pc

That gap — $5.56 → $32.80 — is exactly what this actor exposes.

And the sneakiest one — an "Etsy's Pick" that's lying by omission. Etsy requires every seller to disclose their production partners. PBJewelryGift discloses none — badged "Made by PBJewelryGift," selling for $37.10 as an Etsy's Pick. So fake_handmade can't fire (nothing declared to contradict) and it ships domestically — every honest signal reads "clean." The actor catches it anyway — automatically. Turn on reverseImage and it matches the listing's own photo — the pixels, not the reworded title — straight to the wholesale original, while checkMarketplaces confirms the ring is all over the B2B sites. The exact one: DHgate, from ~$4/pc. A ~$4 wholesale ring sold at $37.10 — a ~9× markup, with the required factory disclosure simply left blank.

🛍️ Etsy — PBJewelryGift · "Etsy's Pick" · $37.10	🏭 DHgate — the same ring, wholesale · from ~$4/pc

How it was caught: the seller declared no production partner — which Etsy requires — so the honest signals (fake_handmade, made_in_china, ships_overseas) had nothing to flag. Two backstops did, both automated inside this actor: checkMarketplaces searched Alibaba / Temu / AliExpress / DHgate and flagged the ring as wholesale-available (the signal), and reverseImage matched the product photo to the exact DHgate source — title-independent, so rewording the listing doesn't help them. Text search proves it's a marketplace product; reverse-image nails the exact source. That's how you catch a seller who lies by omission — hands-off.

Here's what most people don't know: Etsy requires every seller to register their production partners — the outside factories, workshops, and print-on-demand services that make their goods. But that disclosure sits in a shop-settings field that never appears on the public listing. Buyers don't see it. Competitors don't see it. This actor reads it straight from Etsy's own records — including the partners a seller quietly leaves off the page.

Every other Etsy tool guesses the supplier from packaging photos, "made in" text, or shipping times. This one doesn't guess. It returns the exact production-partner records Etsy holds on file — factory name, location, country — for any listing, shop, or niche.

To be clear — using production partners is completely legitimate, and most sellers disclose them. Outsourcing to a factory or a print-on-demand service is an allowed, everyday part of selling on Etsy; Etsy requires sellers to register their partners and even marks on a listing that it was made with one. Plenty of sellers declare theirs properly — and for them, this actor simply hands you the real maker to source from, straight from Etsy's record. So the core job is mapping who actually makes any product — honest sellers included — for sourcing, competitor research, and niche intel. Catching the minority who mark a factory-made item "handmade" and leave the partner blank is a bonus outcome, not the whole point.

Etsy also flags every listing as handmade or not (is_handmade) and records where each item physically ships from. So a "Made in USA," handmade listing whose packages actually leave Pakistan gets flagged (ships_overseas: true), no matter how the shop brands itself. That's a fake-handmade dropshipper caught cold. In short, it's the print-on-demand & dropshipping detector for Etsy: is this shop POD? Is it dropshipping? Who prints for it? Answered.

Built for dropshipping product research, print-on-demand (POD) supplier sourcing, dropshipping/POD detection, competitor supply-chain intelligence, and private-label due diligence — whether you're a solo seller checking one niche or an agency profiling thousands of shops.

💪 What you can do with it

• Source direct & cut costs — find the exact factory behind a proven product and order from it yourself, skipping the reseller markup (typically 40–80% off the unit cost).
• Detect dropshippers & fake-handmade — instantly see whether a shop is POD/dropshipping or genuinely handmade, and who fulfills it.
• Find the shared factory behind a niche — spot when the "top sellers" all run through one overseas workshop: a race-to-the-bottom warning, or your sourcing shortcut.
• Vet a supplier before you buy — confirm a "handmade" partner isn't a China dropship factory before a wholesale or private-label order.
• Pick under-saturated niches — measure how outsourced a category already is before you enter it.
• Out-research competitors — scan any shop's whole catalog to see who makes their products, where, and how much they outsource.

👥 Who it's for

🌱 New sellers — start with an edge. Found a product that's clearly selling? Run it and get its actual factory. Order direct instead of through a reseller and launch with a 40–80% lower unit cost — better margins than the very competitors you're studying. See which niches are already saturated with the same POD supplier (a trap) versus still wide open, and calculate your true landed cost before you commit a dollar. It's the sourcing head-start that normally takes months of trial-and-error to figure out.

📈 Scaling sellers — compound your edge. Scan competitors' bestsellers to see exactly who makes them and where. Find the shared factory a whole niche runs through — that's the moat, or your next supplier. Cut COGS by going direct, catch the dropship / fake-handmade rivals cheapening your category, and vet any supplier before a five-figure wholesale or private-label order. Turn "who's winning and how" from a guess into a map.

🔍 Three Modes, One Actor

Mode	You give it	You get
🔎 Niche	a keyword (e.g. custom neon sign)	the niche's top sellers → the factory behind each (name, location, country), ranked, with shared-factory & multi-front alerts
🏬 Shop	a shop name or URL	that shop's entire catalog → every factory it uses, with a verdict on how much it outsources
📋 Listing IDs	specific listing IDs	a clean per-listing record: full manufacturers[], ships_from, is_handmade, when_made, materials, price, live carts, shop stats

You only fill one. If you paste listing IDs they win; otherwise a shop wins; otherwise the keyword runs.

🧪 Example runs — pick your goal

🌱 "I found a product that's clearly selling — who makes it, so I can source it too?"

{ "listingIds": ["1552107102"], "reverseImage": true }

→ The exact factory behind that listing — name, location, country — its fake_handmade verdict, and (with reverseImage on) the exact wholesale source its photo traces to on Alibaba / DHgate / AliExpress — the real supplier even if the seller declared none. Order direct instead of paying a reseller's markup.

📈 "Is this competitor dropshipping — and who fulfills them?"

{ "shop": "https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheNeonDistrict" }

→ Their entire catalog matched to its factories, with a verdict.

Real result: 164/164 of its listings are outsourced (100%) — 100% overseas, dominant origin China. And one factory — 'George Chin – Vintage Signs' (Beijing) — makes all 164 of them. Not handmade; a single China workshop with a storefront.

"How saturated is this niche, and where does everyone actually manufacture?"

{ "keyword": "custom neon sign", "topSellers": 40, "rankBy": "listing_reviews" }

→ The top 40 shops → the factory behind each, ranked, with shared-factory & multi-front alerts.

Real result: 13/40 of the top sellers outsource (32%) — 100% overseas, dominant origin Hong Kong. Shared factory 'Usman Khan – Neon Crafts' (Lahore) appears across 2 shops; multi-front operator 'CarloHK' runs fronts in Hong Kong and London under the same name.

"Catch every fake-handmade / dropshipper in a niche"

{ "keyword": "personalized pet portrait", "originFilter": "ships_overseas", "onlyWithPartners": false }

→ Only shops whose packages physically ship from a different country than they claim — with ships_overseas, fake_handmade, and ships_from on every row. The caught-red-handed list.

"Just the serious China-based players (skip the hobbyists)"

{ "keyword": "resin coaster", "originFilter": "china", "minReviews": 100 }

→ Shops with 100+ reviews whose factory is in China — self-made shops and low-volume noise filtered out.

🔥 Popular niches to run it on

Some of the most-outsourced (and most-searched) Etsy niches in 2026 — great starting points:

custom neon sign · personalized pet portrait · pet memorial gift · custom wedding sign · zodiac wall art · astrology print · faith-based wall art · teacher gift · nurse gift · birth flower ring · resin coaster · macrame wall hanging · custom name necklace · LED bookshelf lamp · personalized dog bandana

Run any of these as a Niche keyword to see how outsourced the category is and which factories the top sellers use.

🔗 Need more shops to analyze?

Seed a niche into the Etsy Shop Finder to pull a bulk list of the shops selling in it — thousands per niche, past Etsy's 12k-per-search cap. It hands you a ready-to-copy shop-names.txt list; drop any of those shops into Shop mode here to see where each one manufactures. Discover the shops there, map the supply chain here.

⚙️ How It Works

Etsy's production-partner data is required-but-buried — collected by Etsy, mandatory for sellers, invisible to everyone else. This actor goes and gets it:

1. Finds the real sellers. Resolves your niche (or shop) to its genuine best-sellers — ranked by a listing's own review count, a far truer signal than the shop's all-time sales across unrelated products.
2. Reads Etsy's own production-partner records for each listing — the exact factory name, location, and country the seller registered, including the ones kept off the public page.
3. Untangles the supply chain. Clusters factories so one workshop shared across many shops shows up as one operator, and flags multi-front operators — the same manufacturer running, say, a Hong Kong and a UK front under two different names to look local.
4. Delivers a clean dataset — every seller matched to the factory (or factories) behind it, with a plain-English verdict of how outsourced the niche really is.

No login, no cookies, no scraping of packaging photos — it reads the structured record Etsy already holds.

📊 Reliability & Speed

• 100% fetch success at scale — measured across bulk runs; every reachable listing returns its full data.
• ~250 distinct sellers analyzed in ~2.5 minutes (deeper runs scale linearly — a busy niche can supply a few thousand distinct shops).
• De-duplicated by shop before any heavy work, so a niche with thousands of listings is analyzed with zero wasted effort.
• Always returns — never times out. The actor finalizes and outputs what it has before hitting any limit, so runs are safe to call synchronously (run-and-get-results in one request) for real-time lookups.
• Never double-billed. Charging is idempotent per reveal — if a long run is ever restarted mid-way by the platform, already-revealed factories are not charged again.

📝 Inputs

Mode 1 — Niche

• keyword — the niche to analyze (e.g. resin coaster, macrame wall hanging)
• topSellers — how many distinct shops to output (up to 2,000)
• scanDepth — how wide to search for candidates
• rankBy — reviews (recommended), live carts, Etsy rank, or shop all-time sales
• Origin filter — only sellers manufacturing overseas / China / domestic / a specific country, or ships_overseas (caught dropshippers — ships from abroad while claiming local)
• Minimum reviews — ignore tiny/noise shops
• Toggles: only sellers that outsource, one row per shop
• The specific-country origin filter is a pick-list of the common factory countries — no typing

Mode 2 — Listing IDs

• listingIds — one Etsy listing ID per line
• Filters: made in China, raw full response (cross-check is_handmade + ships_overseas for fake-handmade)
• checkMarketplaces — also search Alibaba / AliExpress / Temu for the product by text and return matching product pages (found_on_marketplace + marketplace_matches). Catches undeclared dropshippers — sellers with no registered factory who still resell a marketplace product.
• reverseImage — the exact-match tier (works in all modes now): reverse-image-search each photo across Alibaba / AliExpress / DHgate / Temu / CJ Dropshipping (matched on pixels, not the title), title-corroborated. Sets found_on_marketplace + image_match_evidence (the direct product-page URLs) + image_match_photo (the matched wholesale image) + image_match_confidence. Catches the undeclared dropshippers — the ones who registered no factory and reworded the title — which text search and Google Lens can't automate. Charged at the premium "wholesale source" tier (a step above a registered factory — see live pricing). A live per-product lookup (a few seconds each), so it runs on the first 250 photos by default (raise reverseImageMax to cover more); everything else still gets the full production-partner record.
• findCluster — returns every other Etsy shop selling the same product (Etsy's own visually-similar match) with each one's price and live carts (similar_listings + similar_count + similar_price_min/max). If a dozen "handmade" shops sell one product across a wild price range, it isn't handmade — and you see the whole price spread at a glance.

Mode 3 — Shop

• shop — a shop name (TheNeonDistrict) or URL (https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheNeonDistrict)

You only fill one input mode. If you paste Listing IDs they win; otherwise a Shop wins; otherwise the Keyword runs — so there's never ambiguity about what it'll do. Every input has an in-form description explaining exactly what it does.

📤 Outputs

Dataset — one row per seller (or per listing). Here's a real row (pulled live) — a UK Star Seller with 2,113 reviews and 24,600 sales, listed as handmade, that ships from the UK… yet Etsy's own records hold a Hong Kong factory for it:

{
  "shop_name": "EndlesslandDesign",
  "title": "Neon Sign Custom Name, Custom Neon Sign, Neon Name Sign for Wedding",
  "url": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/1476496443/...",
  "seller_location": "United Kingdom",
  "ships_from": "United Kingdom",
  "ships_overseas": false,
  "is_handmade": true,
  "fake_handmade": true,
  "uses_production_partner": true,
  "made_in_china": false,
  "manufacturer_names": "CarloHK, CarloUK",
  "manufacturer_countries": "England, Hong Kong",
  "manufacturer_count": 2,
  "processing_time": "2-5 business days",
  "is_star_seller": true,
  "is_bestseller": true,
  "listing_reviews": 2113,
  "favorites": 17876,
  "shop_all_time_sales": 24600,
  "price": 37.9,
  "listing_id": 1476496443,
  "manufacturers": [
    {
      "factory": "CarloHK",
      "factory_location": "Hong Kong",
      "factory_country": "Hong Kong",
      "factory_makes": "Family-owned studio based in HK ... Just like our UK studio, the one in HK guarantees the BEST quality in everything we create ..."
    },
    {
      "factory": "CarloUK",
      "factory_location": "London, England",
      "factory_country": "England",
      "factory_makes": "Our UK studio ..."
    }
  ]
}

Read that row — this is the power. By every normal check this shop is airtight: a UK Star Seller, 2,113 reviews, 17k favorites, 24,600 sales, marked handmade, and it ships from the UK — so "made in the USA/UK" and "ships from abroad" filters both wave it through. But fake_handmade: true fires anyway, because Etsy's own records hold two registered factories for it: CarloHK (Hong Kong) and CarloUK (London) — the same operator running a Hong Kong workshop and a UK front under one name (a multi-front tell the actor flags). The Hong Kong factory's own description even says "Just like our UK studio, the one in HK guarantees the BEST quality…" — the outsourcing spelled out, in Etsy's data, in the seller's own words. That's what no other tool can see: not the small obvious dropshipper, but the polished, trusted, "handmade" brand that's actually a Hong Kong factory with a storefront.

Every row carries: ships_from + ships_overseas (claimed-local-but-ships-abroad flag), uses_production_partner, made_in_china, fake_handmade (handmade claim plus a registered factory — a contradiction in Etsy's own data), is_handmade, is_made_to_order, is_digital, manufacturer_names (factory names, comma-joined), manufacturer_countries, manufacturer_count, processing_time, and the full manufacturers[] (factory, factory_location, factory_country, factory_makes — each partner exactly as the seller registered it with Etsy); the product's category, materials, and tags (the seller's SEO keywords); plus listing_reviews, favorites, in_cart_count, price, is_bestseller, is_star_seller, shop_all_time_sales, shop name, title, URL, listing ID, and seller location.

Every row also carries a plain-English verdict — 🏭 outsourced (declared factory) / 🔴 dropship (no factory declared) / ⚪ self-made (no supplier found) — for one-click sorting. And when reverseImage is on, a caught listing adds found_on_marketplace, image_match_confidence, image_match_evidence (the wholesale product-page URLs), and image_match_photo (the matched wholesale image, for a visual side-by-side with the listing photo).

What a partner record is — and isn't. A manufacturers[] entry is the seller's registered production partner: airtight proof of where and by whom the item is really made (that's the detection, and it's always solid). But it is not always a supplier you can hire. Sometimes it's a real third-party factory or POD provider you could use too (a China workshop, a print house); other times it's the seller's own in-house or family studio — e.g. a self-branded overseas workshop like the one in the example above — that isn't open to outsiders. Treat the partner name as intelligence, not a guaranteed contact.

To actually source it, match on the photo. The reverseImage option reverse-image-searches the product photo and lands you on the exact item from open B2B suppliers — Alibaba / AliExpress / DHgate — where it's a real, contactable factory. Match on the pixels, open the source, request a quote. (When the registered partner is a seller's own in-house studio, this is how you find a supplier you can actually hire for the same product.)

🔎 Turn on reverseImage — the exact-match tier that reads the photo, not the title

First, the core use — no toggle needed. The straightforward, everyday job of this actor is simple: paste a listing, shop, or niche and it tells you who makes it — the real factory or POD supplier, read straight from Etsy's registered production-partner records (the manufacturers[] above). That's always the first answer, and it's always solid. reverseImage is an optional layer on top, for the harder case only: the seller who registers nothing and quietly resells a wholesale product. Treat a photo match as evidence the seller is reselling — a detection signal and a real sourcing lead — not a claim that it's their single, exclusive supplier (there may be others, and it surfaces the strongest match, not the only one). It exists to catch the sellers who won't admit they outsource, not to replace the who-makes-it answer above.

The registered-factory check above is airtight but only fires when a seller declares a partner. The seller who declares nothing and ships from a domestic warehouse leaves no structured trace — and rewording the title defeats any text search. So the actor does what you'd do by hand with Google Lens, automated: it reverse-image-searches the listing's own photo across Alibaba / AliExpress / DHgate / Temu / CJ Dropshipping, matched on the pixels, then corroborates each hit against the listing title so a similar-but-different product never counts. Here's a real listing (pulled live) — a "925 Sterling Silver Sakura Ring" sold as handmade, whose photo traces straight to the Alibaba wholesale original:

{
  "shop_name": "StudioNetShop",
  "title": "Birth Flower Ring, 925 Sterling Silver Sakura Ring, Mother of Pearl",
  "url": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/4532227483/...",
  "seller_location": "United States",
  "is_handmade": true,
  "manufacturer_count": 0,
  "found_on_marketplace": true,
  "image_match_confidence": "strong",
  "image_match_evidence": [
    "https://thai.alibaba.com/product-detail/925-Sterling-Silver-Flower-Real-Shell-1601593196754.html",
    "https://turkish.alibaba.com/product-detail/Handmade-925-Sterling-Silver-Vintage-Buddhist-10000035614962.html"
  ]
}

Nothing was declared — manufacturer_count: 0, marked handmade, ships from the US, so every registered-data check waves it through. But its own product photo is live on Alibaba as a "925 Sterling Silver Flower Real Shell Ring, Cherry Blossom / Sakura, Mother-of-Pearl, Adjustable" — a wholesale ring rebranded as a handmade birth-flower ring. The strong confidence means the source title corroborates the listing (the actor demotes look-alikes — a different silver ring photographed the same way scores weak and never sets found_on_marketplace). Run it across a niche and it splits sellers into 🔴 photo traces to a wholesale source vs ⚪ no marketplace match in one pass — free, matched on the image, no Google Lens tab required.

See it on a real match — same bracelets, wholesale vs retail. reverseImage flagged this evil-eye listing and traced the photo to the exact Alibaba wholesale supplier. On the left, PlataVictoria925's Etsy listing (a "lot of 12" for $20.99, on sale at $10.49). On the right, the identical bracelets on Alibaba from $0.29–$0.50 each (sample: $3). The seller isn't even hiding it — their own title says "Wholesale."

🛍️ Etsy — PlataVictoria925 · lot of 12, $20.99	🏭 Alibaba — the exact supplier · $0.29–$0.50 ea

Same red/blue bracelets, same photo — the tool matched on the pixels, not the title, and landed on a Chinese wholesaler selling them for pennies.

It works across categories, not just jewelry — and it beats reworded titles. This one's an Etsy's Pick with "12 bought in the last 24 hours," sold as a "Personalized Pet Toy Basket | Custom Cotton Rope Storage" for $18.16–$30.27. The photo traces to Alibaba (Qingdao Miserno Arts & Crafts) as a "Personalized Name Hand Woven Cotton Rope Storage Basket" at $2.65–$3.96 a piece — where the factory itself does the name embroidery. The seller reworded "nursery storage basket" into "pet toy box," but the pixels gave it away; even the "personalization" is the factory's, not the seller's.

🛍️ Etsy — EtherealEssenceArtCo · $18.16–$30.27	🏭 Alibaba — the exact supplier · $2.65–$3.96 ea

An "Etsy's Pick" personalized basket — matched on the photo to a Chinese factory that even embroiders the names. Reworded title, same product.

🛒 The other two listing-mode signals

checkMarketplaces — a text backstop for the undeclared dropshipper: it searches Alibaba / AliExpress / Temu / DHgate for the product and returns any matching product pages. Broader than reverse-image (catches items even when no photo matches), but a category-level signal rather than exact:

{
  "found_on_marketplace": true,
  "marketplace_matches": [
    { "site": "DHgate",  "title": "Birth Flower Ring 925 Sterling Silver",        "url": "https://www.dhgate.com/product/birth-flower-ring-925-sterling-silver-christmas/1085044385.html" },
    { "site": "Alibaba", "title": "Birthstone Flower Rings Women Non-Tarnish",     "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Birthstone-Flower-Rings-Women-Non-Tarnish_1601820263447.html" }
  ]
}

findCluster — every other Etsy shop selling the same product (Etsy's own visually-similar match), with each one's price and live carts. If one "handmade" design is being sold by 28 shops from $27 to $98, it isn't handmade — and you see the whole spread at once:

{
  "similar_count": 28,
  "similar_price_min": 27.0,
  "similar_price_max": 98.0,
  "similar_listings": [
    { "shop_name": "JadedSB",     "title": "Dainty Layered Necklace Set, Set of 3, Gold", "price": 98.0, "in_cart_count": 3, "is_star_seller": true },
    { "shop_name": "LusixSparkle", "title": "Eternity Circle Necklace, Karma Necklace",     "price": 27.0, "in_cart_count": 2, "is_star_seller": true }
  ]
}

Same product, 28 storefronts, a 3.6× price spread — the clearest tell that a "handmade" listing is a shared wholesale design.

The contrast — a row you can source. Not every shop uses an in-house studio. Here's a real US seller of a "levitating moon lamp" (made_in_china: true) whose registered partners are real, named, contactable suppliers:

{
  "shop_name": "MareryShop",
  "url": "https://www.etsy.com/listing/1888890617/magnetic-levitating-moon-lamp-galaxy",
  "seller_location": "United States",
  "made_in_china": true,
  "manufacturer_count": 5,
  "manufacturer_names": "Hengyi Technology Co., Ltd, Printify, Shenzhen Sweetmade Gifts CO Ltd, Sichuan Huadun Import & Export Co., Ltd., Zhaoqing Goodwell Electronic Company Limited",
  "manufacturers": [
    {
      "factory": "Hengyi Technology Co., Ltd",
      "factory_location": "Zhaoqing, China",
      "factory_country": "China"
    },
    { "factory": "Shenzhen Sweetmade Gifts CO, Ltd", "factory_location": "Shenzhen, China", "factory_country": "China" },
    { "factory": "Printify", "factory_location": "Los Angeles, CA", "factory_country": "USA" }
  ]
}

Here the partner names are actual companies — Shenzhen Sweetmade Gifts, Sichuan Huadun Import & Export, Zhaoqing Goodwell Electronic, and Printify (a POD provider anyone can sign up for). Search a real name like these on Google or Made-in-China and you land on the actual supplier's page — and reverseImage traces the exact product to the consumer marketplaces it's dropshipped from (this lamp is live on Temu for a fraction of the Etsy price). This is a "custom" US listing that's really a cheap marketplace product you could order yourself and undercut. (Compare the earlier CarloHK example, where the partner was the seller's own family studio — great for proving it's outsourced, but not a supplier you could hire.)

See for yourself — same lamp, two prices. The actor flagged this listing as a Chinese factory product. Here it is on Etsy for $80, next to the identical item (same product photo) on Temu for $52.29 — the exact source reverseImage traces the photo to. Not handmade; a marketplace lamp with an Etsy markup.

🛍️ Etsy — MareryShop · $80.00	🏭 Temu — the exact product · $52.29

Same photo, same lamp — the tool called it, and the Temu link took us straight to the source.

SUMMARY record (in the run's Storage tab) — the whole niche as one JSON object: the verdict, pct_using_partner, pct_overseas_by_reviews, dominant country, the ranked list of factories (with how many shops each supplies), and the country breakdown.

🖥️ Ready-made output views

The Output tab ships with two focused table views — pick the lens you need, no CSV wrangling:

• Factories (one row each) (default) — one row per registered production partner: the factory (name, location, what they make), the seller's claimed location right beside it (claims-vs-reality at a glance), and — when reverseImage is on — the listing photo next to the exact wholesale photo it was traced to, plus the source URLs. The visual "who's really behind this" list.
• Who makes it (verdict) — one row per seller, led by a Verdict column — 🏭 outsourced (declared factory) / 🔴 dropship (no factory declared) / ⚪ self-made (no supplier found) — so you can sort to group them instantly (e.g. isolate every seller who doesn't use a supplier, or every hidden dropshipper). Plus what they claim vs where it ships, made-in-China, fake-handmade, factory names + countries, and processing time.

Every view exports to CSV / JSON / Excel, and the full nested manufacturers[] + reverse-image fields stay in the raw JSON.

💰 Pricing

You pay only when it finds the maker — a low flat rate per registered factory, and a step more when reverseImage traces the photo to the exact wholesale source. A genuine miss is never charged. (Live per-event prices are shown in the pricing box above.)

What one revealed factory is actually worth

This is data you cannot get anywhere else — not from eRank, not from a scraper, not from the listing itself. And a single reveal routinely pays for itself thousands of times over:

• Source it direct. The factory behind a top seller's product is the same one you can order from — cutting the middleman and typically 40–80% off the unit cost. A sourcing agent charges $300–$500 to track down one verified factory. Here it's a rounding error.
• The middleman math. Skipping the reseller saves a typical 10–30% markup: on a $3 factory unit that's $0.75 saved per unit — $7,500 on a 10,000-unit order. For a two-cent lookup.
• Dodge a five-figure mistake. Before a wholesale or private-label order, confirm a "handmade" supplier isn't secretly a China dropship factory. One reveal can save a five-figure bad order.
• Read the whole niche. Learning that 40% of the top sellers all run through the same Lahore workshop tells you exactly where the moat is — and where it isn't — before you spend a dollar entering it.

At a low per-factory rate, a full competitive supply-chain map of a niche costs less than lunch — for intel that used to mean weeks of manual sleuthing or a paid sourcing agent.

How you're billed — you pay when it finds the maker, however it finds it

• Registered factory revealed. The seller declared their production partner and we read it from Etsy's records — the base rate.
• Wholesale source revealed by photo (when reverseImage is on). The product photo was reverse-image matched to its exact source on Alibaba / DHgate / AliExpress / Temu / CJ — the premium tier, because it catches the undeclared dropshippers who registered nothing and are the hardest (and most valuable) to expose. One charge per row, at the tier of the strongest find (a photo match outranks a self-declared factory).
• A genuine miss is free. No registered factory and no photo match (a truly handmade listing) is never charged. The niche verdict is always free.

(The exact per-event prices are shown live in the pricing box at the top of this page.)

• Pay-per-result — no subscription, no per-seat fees, no monthly minimum.

So a heavily-outsourced niche bills for the factories it maps; turn on reverseImage and it also bills for every undeclared dropshipper it catches by photo — the ones that used to slip through free.

Tip: set "Maximum cost per run" to cap spend, or leave it empty for unlimited. Start with topSellers: 10 to preview the goods before scaling up.

❓ FAQ

Where do Etsy sellers get their products? Far more often than buyers realize: overseas factories and print-on-demand / dropship suppliers (Alibaba, DHgate, AliExpress, CJ). Etsy requires sellers to declare their production partners — but hides that disclosure from the public listing. This actor reads it straight from Etsy's own records and reverse-image-matches the product photo to the exact wholesale source, so you can see who really makes any product, shop, or niche.

Is everything on Etsy actually handmade? No — and this shows you exactly which isn't. Plenty of "handmade" listings are mass-produced with an overseas factory quietly declared in shop settings (or left blank entirely). The fake_handmade flag fires when Etsy marks a listing handmade and holds a registered factory for it — its own two records contradicting each other.

Is dropshipping allowed on Etsy? Using production partners is allowed if the seller discloses them — Etsy even labels "made with a production partner." What breaks policy is passing factory-made goods off as handmade with no disclosure. This tool tells the two apart automatically (fake_handmade, ships_overseas, and a reverse-image match to the wholesale source).

Can you scrape Etsy without the Etsy API? Yes. No API key, no developer approval, no waiting on "pending personal approval." Paste a keyword, shop, or listing and go — it reads Etsy's public and production-partner data directly.

How do I find suppliers to source products for my own Etsy shop? Run a proven seller or an entire niche → get the factories behind the best-selling products → order direct and skip the reseller markup (typically 40–80% off the unit cost). It's competitor sourcing in reverse.

Where do Etsy sellers get their mockups? Many print-on-demand sellers reuse the same stock lifestyle mockups. Turn on reverseImage and a "product shot" that's really a shared template gets exposed — a fast way to spot POD shops.

Do I pay for sellers that don't have a production partner? Only if reverseImage catches them anyway. A seller with no registered factory is free — unless you turned on reverseImage and it traced their product photo to an exact wholesale source, in which case it's charged at the premium "wholesale source revealed" tier (you found the real maker they were hiding). A genuinely handmade listing — no factory, no photo match — is never charged. The niche verdict is always free.

Is this Etsy shop dropshipping? / How do I tell if an Etsy seller is print-on-demand? Run the shop (Mode 3) or the listing (Mode 2). If it returns production partners overseas, or ships_overseas: true (ships from a different country than it claims), it's outsourced/POD — not handmade — even when is_handmade is set. The verdict tells you what % of a shop's or niche's listings are outsourced at a glance.

Who prints this product / who's the POD supplier behind it? Paste the listing ID (Mode 2) or run its shop. The actor returns the actual print provider / production partner(s) — name, location, country — that the seller registered for that listing, including ones not shown on the public page — plus a reverse-image link to find the exact product on Alibaba/AliExpress.

How do I find the manufacturer behind an Etsy listing? Same thing — paste the listing ID (Mode 2) or run the niche/shop it belongs to. You get the real manufacturer(s), not an inference.

Can I see who makes a competitor's product, or who a competitor's shop uses? Yes — that's Shop mode. Paste their shop name or URL and get their whole catalog mapped to the factories behind it.

Does it detect dropshippers or fake-handmade listings? Yes. Use the ships_overseas origin filter (or cross-check is_handmade: true + made_in_china, or the fake_handmade flag) to surface sellers that claim handmade/local while actually manufacturing and shipping from overseas.

What if a seller dropships but doesn't register a factory (and ships domestically)? That's the honest edge. The fake_handmade flag reads Etsy's registered production-partner records — so it's certain when a seller declares a factory (many do; it's required). But a seller who registers nothing and ships from a domestic warehouse leaves no structured trace, and "no registered factory" is not proof of handmade. For those you have two backstops (listing mode): checkMarketplaces searches Alibaba / AliExpress / Temu for the product by text, and reverseImage reverse-image-searches the listing's actual photo (matched on pixels, then title-corroborated) — the exact-match tier that catches photo-thieves even when they reword the title, setting found_on_marketplace + image_match_evidence. So: registered → fake_handmade (certain); undeclared → checkMarketplaces (text) / reverseImage (photo) — the catch-the-rest.

Does this Etsy seller ship from China? / Is this listing printed on demand or manufactured elsewhere? Run the listing or its shop. ships_from shows where the package physically originates and made_in_china flags a China-based production partner — so you can tell at a glance whether it's really handmade or fulfilled by an overseas factory / POD provider.

Who makes this item for this Etsy shop? / Same supplier as a top shop? Run the shop (Mode 3) or its listings (Mode 2). You get the exact production partner(s) — factory name, location, country — that Etsy holds on record, so you can see who fulfills a shop and whether two shops share the same factory.

Is it "fake handmade"? The fake_handmade flag is true when Etsy marks a listing handmade and holds a registered factory for it — Etsy's own two records contradicting each other. No guessing.

Is there an official Etsy API for production partners? Etsy mandates the disclosure but only exposes it inside seller-side settings — not on the public listing and not through any open API. So every third-party "spy" tool is left inferring the supplier from packaging or shipping clues, which is a guess. This actor reads the actual per-listing production-partner record instead.

Why don't a shop's production partners show on its listings? Etsy keeps the disclosure requirement (transparency) separate from what it renders publicly (a clean listing page). The data exists and is required — it's just not surfaced. That gap is exactly what this actor closes.

Can I actually source from the same factory? Yes — match on the photo. Turn on reverseImage and it reverse-image-searches the product photo to surface the exact item on Alibaba / AliExpress / DHgate — the real, contactable factory. Open the source and request a quote. It's title-independent, so it works even when the seller reworded the listing to hide it.

How many sellers can it analyze? Up to 2,000 distinct shops per niche run, and a shop's full catalog in Shop mode. Deeper runs just take proportionally longer. Need to go wider than one niche's search cap? Pull a bulk shop list with the Etsy Shop Finder (thousands of shops per niche, past Etsy's ~12k-per-search ceiling), then feed those shops into Shop mode here to map each one's supply chain.

What niches does it work for? Any Etsy search term. Some niches are genuinely handmade (you'll see 0% outsourced) and some are heavily outsourced — the actor reflects the real variance instead of guessing.

Can I test with a small run first? Yes — set topSellers to 10 (or paste a couple of listing IDs) to see the output before scaling up.

How This Compares to Other Etsy Tools

vs. Etsy SEO / research tools (Marmalead, eRank, Alura, Sale Samurai): they run on keywords, tags, and estimated sales/revenue — black-box guesses, not measured numbers (their "competitor sales" figures are modeled, not real). Fine for wording a title; worthless for sourcing. None of them can tell you who manufactures a product or where — that data was never in the public listing they scrape. This actor returns the real, on-file record; they return an educated guess.

vs. import / customs databases (ImportYeti-style): built for container-scale importers with customs filings. They miss the print-on-demand shops and small overseas workshops that power most of Etsy, and they can't take a niche and hand you its sellers mapped to their factories.

vs. generic Etsy scrapers: they pull what's on the public listing — title, price, tags, reviews. Production-partner data was never on the public listing. Surfacing it, clustering shared factories, and flagging multi-front operators is a different job, and it's the only job this actor does.

The bottom line: everyone else scrapes what Etsy shows the public, or guesses from packaging and shipping clues. This actor reads what Etsy actually holds on file — the seller's own registered production partners — then de-duplicates the shared factories, catches the multi-front operators, and traces the product photo to the exact wholesale source. That's the difference between guessing who makes it and knowing.

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