Vipshop (VIP.com) product data API

ShopAPIS extracts structured product data from Vipshop (VIP.com) — China’s leading flash-sale and branded-discount marketplace — and returns it as clean JSON. For any Vipshop listing you get title, brand, flash-sale price and discount depth, original/tag price, sale countdown, size/color variants, stock, rating, review count and the image gallery — the time-boxed discount data that defines Vipshop’s apparel-led model.

Vipshop reported roughly RMB209 billion in GMV for 2024 and RMB105.9 billion in revenue for 2025, with a loyal SVIP base (Vipshop FY2024 results ). Its specialty is branded apparel and footwear sold through limited-time flash sales, making it the best Chinese source for tracking branded-discount price floors.

Why Vipshop data is hard to get

Vipshop has no public product API, and its value lives in fast-expiring flash-sale state. Each sale is time-boxed: the discounted price, countdown timer and remaining stock change minute to minute, and member (SVIP) pricing differs from public pricing. The platform applies China-grade defenses including GeeTest-style CAPTCHA, device fingerprinting and rate-limiting, with content served from in-region CDNs. ShopAPIS captures the live flash-sale price, countdown and stock at parse time and normalizes brand/size/color into one schema.

Data fields returned

• Identity — product ID (spuId), title, brand, category path
• Price — flash-sale price, tag/original price, discount %, SVIP price, currency (CNY)
• Flash sale — sale active flag, countdown / sale end time
• Variants — size/color matrix, per-variant price and stock
• Availability — in-stock flag, remaining-stock signal
• Reviews — count, average rating, fit feedback
• Media — image gallery

Sample response

{
  "platform": "vipshop",
  "product_id": "67891234",
  "url": "https://detail.vip.com/detail-1234567-67891234.html",
  "title": "针织开衫女 宽松慵懒风 春秋款",
  "brand": "ONLY",
  "category_path": ["女装", "针织衫", "开衫"],
  "price": { "flash_sale": 199, "tag": 599, "discount_pct": 67, "svip": 189, "currency": "CNY" },
  "flash_sale": { "active": true, "ends_at": "2026-06-08T23:59:59+08:00" },
  "variants": [
    { "color": "米白", "size": "M", "price": 199, "in_stock": true },
    { "color": "米白", "size": "L", "price": 199, "in_stock": false },
    { "color": "雾蓝", "size": "M", "price": 199, "in_stock": true }
  ],
  "reviews": { "count": 8420, "rating": 4.7, "fit_feedback": "偏大" },
  "images": ["https://a.vpimg2.com/upload/merchandise/67891234/1.jpg"]
}

Markets and domains covered

Vipshop is China-domestic (mainland): domain vip.com (products under detail.vip.com), CNY-priced and Chinese-language. ShopAPIS resolves by product ID or URL and captures the live flash-sale window.

Use cases

• Discount and price-floor monitoring — track how deep branded apparel discounts go (/solutions/price-monitoring).
• Competitive intelligence — compare a brand’s Vipshop clearance pricing vs Tmall list price (/solutions/competitive-intelligence).
• Inventory tracking — monitor flash-sale stock burn-down per size/color (/solutions/inventory-tracking).
• MAP compliance — detect when flash-sale prices breach minimum-advertised-price rules (/solutions/map-compliance).

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