AliExpress product data API

ShopAPIS extracts structured product data from AliExpress — Alibaba’s cross-border B2C marketplace — and returns it as clean JSON. For any AliExpress listing you get title, localized price and currency, full SKU variant matrix, ships-from / ships-to options, shipping cost and lead time, store rating, order count, review count and the image gallery, normalized across the 100-plus countries AliExpress serves.

AliExpress draws an estimated 615–646M global monthly visits and ~159M monthly active users, with ~$102.7B in platform revenue in 2025 (plan2 research). It is the dropship long-tail of choice and the most API-accessible of the major Chinese-origin marketplaces.

Why AliExpress data is hard to get

AliExpress has an official Open Platform, but it is gated and seller-scoped. It will not return arbitrary competitor catalogs or per-country price localization at scale, and public pages render prices, variants and shipping client-side with rotating endpoints and GeeTest-style protection on aggressive crawling (GeeTest ). Critically, the same SKU shows different prices, shipping and availability per ship-to country — a hard problem for naive scrapers. ShopAPIS resolves per-country localization and returns consistent JSON regardless of geo.

Data fields returned

• Identity — product ID, title, category, brand
• Price — localized current price, original price, discount %, currency
• Variants — SKU matrix (color/size/spec), per-SKU price and stock
• Shipping — ships-from country, ship-to options, cost, lead-time estimate
• Seller — store name, store ID, positive-feedback %, store age
• Sales signal — orders/sold count, wishlist count
• Reviews — count, average rating, review text
• Media — image gallery, video where present

Sample response

{
  "platform": "aliexpress",
  "product_id": "1005006789012345",
  "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006789012345.html",
  "title": "Wireless Bluetooth 5.3 Earbuds Noise Cancelling",
  "category": ["Consumer Electronics", "Earphones & Headphones"],
  "ship_to": "US",
  "price": { "current": 18.99, "original": 39.99, "discount_pct": 53, "currency": "USD" },
  "skus": [
    { "sku_id": "black", "color": "Black", "price": 18.99, "stock": 4200 },
    { "sku_id": "white", "color": "White", "price": 18.99, "stock": 0 }
  ],
  "shipping": { "ships_from": "China", "method": "AliExpress Standard", "cost": 0.00, "lead_time_days": "12-20" },
  "seller": { "store_name": "TechAudio Official Store", "store_id": "1102345678", "positive_feedback_pct": 97.8 },
  "orders_sold": 38120,
  "reviews": { "count": 9140, "rating": 4.6 },
  "images": ["https://ae01.alicdn.com/.../1.jpg"]
}

Markets and domains covered

AliExpress serves 100-plus countries from aliexpress.com, with localized subdomains (e.g. pt.aliexpress.com, ru.aliexpress.com) and per-country pricing/currency. ShopAPIS accepts a ship_to parameter so prices and shipping reflect the destination market.

Use cases

• Cross-border price monitoring — track the same SKU’s price across ship-to countries (/solutions/price-monitoring).
• Dropship sourcing — surface low-cost long-tail products with order counts and lead times.
• Competitive intelligence — benchmark store assortment and pricing (/solutions/competitive-intelligence).
• Catalog enrichment — pull titles, images and variants for your own listings (/solutions/catalog-enrichment).

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