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Downloading an Alibaba supplier's whole catalog as JSON (and vetting suppliers with it)
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Downloading an Alibaba supplier's whole catalog as JSON (and vetting suppliers with it)

DEV Community: python·Gio Rich·about 11 hours ago
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I built this actor; it's a paid tool on Apify with a free trial credit.

Searching Alibaba shows you products from hundreds of suppliers. Once you have a shortlist, the useful question flips: what else does this supplier sell, how focused is the catalog, which of their products actually sell, what is certified, and is the company behind it a 140-person factory or an 8-person trading office? That answer lives on the supplier's storefront ( name.en.alibaba.com ), 16 products per page, often 30 to 80 pages deep.

Copying that by hand gets old fast, so I wrote Alibaba Supplier Store Scraper to turn a store URL, a product URL or a keyword into one clean JSON row per product, over plain HTTP.…

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