1688.com product data API

ShopAPIS extracts structured B2B wholesale data from 1688.com — Alibaba’s domestic Chinese sourcing hub — and returns it as clean JSON. For any 1688 listing you get the product title, minimum order quantity (MOQ), the full tiered/quantity-break pricing ladder, supplier and factory profile, trade terms, lead time and ships-from origin — the resell-able B2B fields that consumer-marketplace APIs simply do not expose.

1688.com draws roughly 31M monthly visits and is the wholesale catalog behind a huge share of Chinese resellers and Taobao/Pinduoduo sellers (plan2 research). Its factory-direct pricing, MOQ thresholds and supplier data make it uniquely valuable for sourcing and cost-floor intelligence.

Why 1688.com data is hard to get

1688 pairs Alibaba’s anti-bot stack with B2B-specific complexity. Expect GeeTest v4 sliders, device fingerprinting and Great Firewall (GFW) geo-blocking of non-mainland traffic, plus prices that change by order quantity and buyer membership (GeeTest ). The site is Simplified-Chinese, domestic-buyer oriented, and the Alibaba Open Platform coverage is partial and gated. ShopAPIS runs in-region and parses the full tiered-price ladder and supplier block into structured fields.

Data fields returned

• Identity — offer ID, title, category, brand (where present)
• Pricing — tiered price ladder (quantity ranges → unit price), currency (CNY)
• MOQ — minimum order quantity (起批量)
• Supplier — company name, factory vs trading-company flag, years on platform, transaction level, response rate
• Trade terms — trade-assurance status, payment terms
• Logistics — ships-from origin, lead time, sample availability
• Specs — customization options, material, model
• Sales signal — 90-day transaction volume (“成交”), repeat-buyer rate
• Media — image gallery

Sample response

{
  "platform": "1688",
  "offer_id": "678901234567",
  "url": "https://detail.1688.com/offer/678901234567.html",
  "title": "纯棉帆布托特袋 现货批发 可定制LOGO",
  "category": ["箱包皮具", "帆布袋"],
  "moq": 100,
  "price_tiers": [
    { "min_qty": 100, "max_qty": 499, "unit_price": 8.50 },
    { "min_qty": 500, "max_qty": 1999, "unit_price": 7.20 },
    { "min_qty": 2000, "max_qty": null, "unit_price": 6.10 }
  ],
  "currency": "CNY",
  "supplier": {
    "company_name": "义乌市佳艺箱包有限公司",
    "type": "工厂 (manufacturer)",
    "years_on_platform": 7,
    "transaction_level": "实力商家",
    "response_rate_pct": 98,
    "trade_assurance": true
  },
  "customization": { "logo_print": true, "min_custom_qty": 500 },
  "logistics": { "ships_from": "浙江 义乌", "lead_time_days": "7-15", "sample_available": true },
  "sales_90d": 42000,
  "images": ["https://cbu01.alicdn.com/.../1.jpg"]
}

Markets and domains covered

1688.com is China-domestic wholesale: domains 1688.com and detail.1688.com, CNY-priced, Simplified Chinese. ShopAPIS resolves by offer ID or URL and returns the raw Chinese supplier fields plus normalized values.

Use cases

• Sourcing and cost-floor intelligence — compare factory MOQ and tiered unit pricing to find true landed cost.
• Competitive intelligence — see what suppliers your competitors source from and at what break points (/solutions/competitive-intelligence).
• Price monitoring — track wholesale price ladders over time (/solutions/price-monitoring).
• Catalog enrichment — pull supplier specs and customization options into your sourcing catalog (/solutions/catalog-enrichment).

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