Pinduoduo product data API

ShopAPIS extracts structured product data from Pinduoduo — China’s group-buy marketplace and price-floor leader — and returns it as clean JSON. For any PDD listing you get title, single-buy and group-buy price, group threshold, factory-direct sourcing signals, sales count, basic seller data and the image gallery, despite Pinduoduo being one of the most app-locked, web-sparse platforms in commerce.

Pinduoduo holds roughly 19% of Chinese domestic e-commerce with an estimated ~720M monthly active users and ~$715B GMV in 2024 (estimate — PDD does not disclose per-app figures; plan2 research). Its ultra-low price points and group-buy thresholds make it the single best source for price-floor benchmarking in China.

Why Pinduoduo data is hard to get

Pinduoduo is app-first and exposes almost no web surface. Most listings, prices and group mechanics live inside the mobile app, protected by device fingerprinting, encrypted in-app traffic and adaptive anti-bot challenges; there is no public commerce API. Web pages, where they exist, render dynamically behind GeeTest-style protection and Great Firewall (GFW) geo-blocking (GeeTest ). ShopAPIS uses in-region mobile-grade clients to reach app endpoints and returns parsed JSON, removing the need to reverse-engineer the PDD app yourself.

Data fields returned

• Identity — goods ID, title, category, brand (where present)
• Price — single-buy price, group-buy price, currency (CNY)
• Group mechanics — group-buy threshold (people required), discount delta
• Sales signal — units sold (“已拼”), sales rank signals
• Sourcing — factory-direct / 工厂店 flag, ships-from origin
• Seller — shop name, basic shop rating where exposed
• Reviews — review count, rating, sample review text
• Media — image gallery

Sample response

{
  "platform": "pinduoduo",
  "goods_id": "562839104772",
  "url": "https://mobile.yangkeduo.com/goods.html?goods_id=562839104772",
  "title": "纸巾抽纸整箱批发 家用实惠装 30包",
  "category": ["居家日用", "纸品湿巾"],
  "price": { "single": 29.90, "group": 19.90, "currency": "CNY" },
  "group_buy": { "people_required": 2, "discount_vs_single": 10.00 },
  "units_sold": 1480000,
  "sourcing": { "factory_direct": true, "ships_from": "山东 临沂" },
  "seller": { "shop_name": "洁柔工厂直营店", "rating": 4.7 },
  "reviews": { "count": 96200, "rating": 4.7 },
  "images": ["https://img.pddpic.com/.../1.jpg"]
}

Markets and domains covered

Pinduoduo is China-domestic (pinduoduo.com, yangkeduo.com, mobile.yangkeduo.com), CNY-priced, Simplified Chinese. Its cross-border export sibling Temu is a separate US/EU/LatAm-facing channel and is not covered here. ShopAPIS resolves PDD by goods ID or URL.

Use cases

• Price-floor benchmarking — PDD’s group-buy prices set the market floor for value goods and FMCG (/solutions/price-monitoring).
• Sourcing intelligence — factory-direct flags surface low-cost manufacturers and resellers.
• Competitive intelligence — track units sold and price moves against your own listings (/solutions/competitive-intelligence).
• Inventory tracking — monitor availability of high-velocity value SKUs (/solutions/inventory-tracking).

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