🛒 AliExpress Products Scraper

Scrape AliExpress search and category pages at scale and turn them into clean, structured product data — prices, discounts, ratings, review counts, order volume, images, and promo tags. Perfect for product research, dropshipping, price monitoring, and finding best-sellers.

Give it keywords (e.g. wireless earbuds) and/or ready-made AliExpress URLs, and it returns one row per product.

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✨ Why Choose This Actor?

• 🧠 Search + URL input — type keywords or paste AliExpress search / category / item URLs (bulk supported).
• 🌐 Smart proxy ladder — starts on a direct connection and only escalates to datacenter → residential proxies if AliExpress blocks the request. Once escalated, it sticks to the working tier. Every transition is logged.
• 💸 Real discounts & promos — current price, original price, discount %, and promotional tags (bulk-price, new-shopper deals).
• ⭐ Real review counts — optional enrichment fills the true review count from AliExpress's public feedback service.
• 💾 Live results — every product is saved the moment it's found; a crash never loses collected data.
• 🔁 Anti-bot resilient — rotating browser fingerprints + retry with backoff ride out transient blocks.

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🔑 Key Features

Feature	Description
Search queries	One keyword per line → AliExpress search pages
Direct URLs	Search, category, or item URLs (bulk / file upload)
Sort order	Default, price ↑, price ↓, best-selling
Max products	Cap per source
Review enrichment	Optional real review counts + rating backfill
Proxy ladder	direct → datacenter → residential (sticky)
Dataset views	Overview, Pricing, Ratings & Sales, Media

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📥 Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["wireless earbuds", "smartphone"],
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/category/100003109/women-clothing.html" }
  ],
  "sortBy": "orders",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "fetchReviews": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Keywords, one per line. Required if no URLs.
startUrls	array	AliExpress search / category / item URLs (bulk).
sortBy	string	default, price_asc, price_desc, orders.
maxItems	integer	Max products per source (default 50).
fetchReviews	boolean	Fetch real review counts (default true).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy settings; country recommended US.

At least one of searchQueries or startUrls must be provided.

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📤 Output

Each product is one dataset record:

{
  "productId": "3256811621288203",
  "title": "Pro 3 Bluetooth noise cancelling wireless earphones …",
  "productUrl": "https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256811621288203.html",
  "searchQuery": "wireless earbuds",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T09:45:24.005Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://ae-pic-a1.aliexpress-media.com/kf/….png",
  "imageWidth": 350,
  "imageHeight": 350,
  "priceCurrent": "US $19.87",
  "priceCurrentMin": 19.87,
  "priceCurrentMax": 19.87,
  "priceOriginal": "US $49.75",
  "priceOriginalMin": 49.75,
  "priceOriginalMax": 49.75,
  "priceDiscount": 60,
  "priceCurrency": "$",
  "ratingValue": 4.9,
  "reviewCount": 127,
  "soldCount": 3,
  "soldDescription": "3,000+ sold",
  "tags": "Save $29.88"
}

Field	Description
productId	AliExpress product ID
title	Product title
productUrl	Canonical item URL
searchQuery	Source keyword / category term
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp (ISO 8601)
imageUrl / imageWidth / imageHeight	Main image
priceCurrent*	Current/sale price (formatted + min/max)
priceOriginal*	Original price (formatted + min/max)
priceDiscount	Discount percentage
priceCurrency	Currency symbol
ratingValue	Star rating
reviewCount	Review count (filled when fetchReviews is on)
soldCount / soldDescription	Orders / units sold
tags	Promotional selling-point tags

The Output tab provides four ready-made views: 🛍️ Overview, 💰 Pricing & Discounts, ⭐ Ratings & Sales, and 🖼️ Media.

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🚀 How to Use (Apify Console)

1. Log in at https://console.apify.com → Actors.
2. Open AliExpress Products Scraper.
3. Enter Search Queries and/or URLs, pick a Sort order and Max Products.
4. (Optional) Adjust Proxy Configuration — US is recommended.
5. Click Start and watch products stream into the log in real time.
6. Open the Output tab and export to JSON / CSV / XLSX.

🤖 Use via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<ACTOR_ID>/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"searchQueries":["wireless earbuds"],"maxItems":50,"sortBy":"orders"}'

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💡 Best Use Cases

• 🛍️ Dropshipping product research & winner-finding
• 📉 Price & discount monitoring over time
• 📊 Market and competitor analysis
• 🔎 Building product catalogs / feeds

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💳 Pricing

This Actor uses Pay Per Event: you're charged per product result returned. No results, no charge for results. Underlying platform usage (compute, proxies) follows your plan.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a proxy? The Actor tries a direct connection first and automatically escalates to datacenter, then residential proxies only if AliExpress blocks it. Leaving Apify Proxy enabled (US) gives the most reliable results.

Why is reviewCount sometimes null? Listing cards don't include review counts. With fetchReviews on, the Actor fetches them from AliExpress's public feedback service; if that call fails for a product, the field stays null.

Can I scrape a whole category? Yes — paste a /category/<id>/<name>.html URL into URLs.

What currency are prices in? USD by default (US region/locale). Prices are geo-driven and pinned via cookie.

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⚖️ Legal & Compliance

Data is collected only from publicly available AliExpress pages. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws (GDPR, CCPA), AliExpress Terms of Service, and reasonable rate limits.

🆘 Support & Feedback

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab with your run ID and input, and we'll help.