Taobao Scraper
Extract Taobao and Tmall products by keyword, address or item id: prices in yuan, shops, seller scores, shipping location and the latest review, structured.
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Our Taobao scraper extracts products from Taobao (淘宝) and Tmall, the Alibaba marketplaces that share one search. Type keywords, in Chinese for best matches or brand names in English, and each returns the 20 products Taobao ranks first by sales; or paste product addresses and item ids. Each product is one row: price and original price in yuan, shop and seller type, credit level and three service scores, shop size, ship-from location, images and the latest buyer review. No Taobao account required. Export to JSON, CSV or API.
Why scrape Taobao?
Taobao and Tmall are Alibaba's consumer marketplaces: Tmall hosts brand flagships and business stores, Taobao individual and small sellers, under one search. Between 1688 wholesale and JD's retail shelf, they show which products Chinese shoppers actually buy, at what price and from whom. The catch: Chinese titles, counts written as 700+ or 1万+, and a public listing of one page per keyword.
Scraping it turns best-seller lists into a dataset. Prices are numbers in yuan, seller scores and shop sizes sort like any column, and each row says whether it comes from a Tmall business store or an individual Taobao seller. Run a handful of Chinese keywords for a market snapshot, then schedule the item ids that matter: price changes and new reviews show up as differences between runs.
What you can extract
Use cases
Supplier shortlists
Compare the 20 best sellers of a product by credit level, service scores and ship-from province before contacting any of them.
Price tracking
Rerun a watch list of item ids every morning and flag drops against the previous price or the original price.
Cross-border product research
See which products a Chinese keyword sells most, and at what price, before listing them on Amazon, Shopee or Lazada.
Brand protection
Find who sells your brand on Taobao and Tmall, at what price and with which seller scores, and keep the list current.
How it works
Configure your input
Paste a search URL or keywords and set your filters. No code required.
Run in the cloud
The Actor runs on Apify with proxy rotation and anti-bot handling, at any scale.
Get structured data
Download clean JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull results straight from the API into your stack.
Transparent pay-per-result pricing
$0.0029 per result
You only pay for the results you actually extract, no monthly subscription, no wasted spend. Start for free with your Apify credit and scale as you grow.
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Frequently asked questions
What does the Taobao scraper extract?
One row per product, from Taobao and Tmall alike: title, price and original price in yuan, marketplace, category, shop and seller type, credit level, description, service and logistics scores, shop size and opening date, ship-from location, images and the latest buyer review with its rating and SKU. Variant tables, stock and product descriptions are not on the public page, so they are out of scope.
How many products does a keyword return?
Twenty: the best sellers Taobao ranks first for that keyword, the ones a shopper sees first. The public listing has a single page in a fixed best-selling order, so use several keywords to cover a market, filter on price or seller scores after the run, and paste addresses or item ids to read products beyond the top 20.
Can I compare Taobao prices with wholesale costs?
Yes. Taobao and Tmall show what Chinese shoppers pay; 1688, Alibaba's domestic wholesale marketplace, shows what suppliers charge in bulk, also in yuan. Our 1688 scraper returns tiered wholesale prices and minimum order quantities, so the two datasets side by side show how much margin a product leaves.
1688 Wholesale ScraperHow much does it cost?
Pay-per-result: about $0.0029 per product, no subscription. Start free with Apify credit.
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