Alibaba Scraper

Overview

An Apify actor that extracts structured product and supplier data from Alibaba search result pages. Provide a search URL, and it returns detailed listings in JSON format, suitable for market research, price monitoring, and supplier sourcing.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Data Extraction: Captures a wide range of fields from Alibaba product listings.
• Structured Output: Returns clean JSON, ready for analysis or integration into automated workflows.
• Flexible Integration: Supports direct download or connection via API, webhooks, Zapier, and Make.

Extracted data includes:
* Product Info: Title, ID, URL, images, price, MOQ, ratings, review count, sold orders.
* Supplier Details: Company name, ID, Gold Supplier status, trust indicators, contact URL.
* Logistics & Marketing: Shipping scores, delivery times, promotion badges, "Best Seller" labels, 180-day low price.
* Metadata: Country code, discount percentage, ad/organic listing flag.

How to Use

1. Run the actor on the Apify platform.
2. Provide an input configuration (see below).
3. The actor crawls the search result pages and extracts data from each product listing.
4. Retrieve the structured dataset from the actor's output, available for download in JSON, CSV, or Excel formats, or via API.

Input

Configure the actor using a JSON object. The primary requirement is the Alibaba search URL.

{
  "url": "https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=example",
  "max_page": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

• url: (Required) The Alibaba search results URL to scrape.
• max_page: Set the maximum number of result pages to scrape. 0 typically means "all pages".
• proxyConfiguration: Recommended configuration to avoid blocking, using Apify's residential proxies.

Output

The actor outputs an array of items, where each item is a detailed JSON object representing one product listing. The structure includes all fields listed in the Key Features section.

Example Output Snippet:

{
  "id": 1600981574830,
  "companyName": "Xiamen Tongsiyuan Trading Co., Ltd.",
  "companyId": "239820049",
  "countryCode": "CN",
  "goldSupplierYears": "4 Ans",
  "discount": "-11%",
  "displayStarLevel": "2",
  "loopSellingPoints": [
    {
      "loopType": "promotion_lowest_price_180_days",
      "text": "Prix inférieur à celui des produits similaires"
    },
    {
      "loopType": "logistics",
      "text": "Expédition en 5 jours"
    }
  ]
}