Alibaba API

Alibaba Search API

Search Alibaba by keyword and get up to 25 wholesale listings (title, price range, minimum order, and supplier) in one normalized response.

POST/v1/run/alibaba.search
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 32 calls
Requests
32
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
8.5s
median · 30d

Pricing

One price, in dollars

Providers
Octopus32 served100.00% uptime8282ms p50$0.88/1k resultsup to $0.022 / request

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Sample response
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{
  "data": {
    "items": [
      {
        "countryCode": "US",
        "image": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
        "moq": "example",
        "priceText": "A short example description of this item.",
        "promotionPrice": "19.99",
        "rating": 4.6,
        "reviewCount": 12500,
        "supplierName": "Example title",
        "supplierYears": "example",
        "title": "Example title",
        "url": "https://example.com/page"
      }
    ]
  },
  "found": true
}
Response interface
interface AlibabaSearchResponse {
  data: {
    items: {
      countryCode?: string;
      image?: string;
      moq?: string;
      priceText?: string;
      promotionPrice?: string;
      rating?: number;
      reviewCount?: number;
      supplierName?: string;
      supplierYears?: string;
      title: string;
      url: string;
    }[];
  } | null;
  found: boolean;
}

Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.

Reference

Request, response, and price

Last verified 2026-09-16 · uptime and latency measured over 30d
POST /v1/run/alibaba.search
curl -X POST https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/alibaba.search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"limit":3,"query":"bluetooth speaker"}'
FieldTypeExample value
Request body
querystring"bluetooth speaker"Keywords to search for on Alibaba (e.g. "bluetooth speaker wholesale").
limitinteger3Maximum number of results to return (1-25, default 25). You are billed per result returned, so a lower limit costs less.
Response
dataobjectSearch result wrapper, or null when nothing matched.
data.itemsobject[]Matching Alibaba wholesale listings. Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.items[].countryCodestringSupplier country ISO code, e.g. "CN".
data.items[].imagestringPrimary product image URL.
data.items[].moqstringMinimum order quantity text, e.g. "Min. order: 1 piece".
data.items[].priceTextstringPrice or price range as displayed, e.g. "$40.80-45.80" (Alibaba lists ranges, not a single numeric value).
data.items[].promotionPricestringDiscounted promotional price when the listing is on sale; empty otherwise.
data.items[].ratingnumberAverage buyer review score, 0-5; 0 when the listing has no reviews.
data.items[].reviewCountintegerNumber of buyer reviews; 0 when none.
data.items[].supplierNamestringSupplier / company name.
data.items[].supplierYearsstringGold Supplier tenure text, e.g. "3 yrs"; empty when not a Gold Supplier.
data.items[].titlestringListing title as shown on Alibaba (may contain the supplier's inline markup). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
data.items[].urlstringCanonical product detail page URL (tracking query params stripped). Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.
foundbooleanTrue when the search returned at least one listing.
Price
Price per request (ceiling)USD$0.022
Price /1k resultsUSD$0.88

FAQ

About the Alibaba Search API

The AnyAPI Alibaba Search API returns Alibaba search data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/alibaba.search. Search Alibaba by keyword and get up to 25 wholesale listings (title, price range, minimum order, and supplier) in one normalized response. AnyAPI returns one normalized schema whichever source serves it. It costs $0.88 per 1,000 results, and never more than $0.022 for a single request, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Alibaba search calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 8.5 seconds across 32 measured calls.

It costs $0.88 per 1,000 results, and never more than $0.022 for a single request, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet, each call draws it down, and a failed request costs $0.

Search Alibaba by keyword and get up to 25 wholesale listings (title, price range, minimum order, and supplier) in one normalized response. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Alibaba search calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 8.5 seconds across 32 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.