Taobao Scraper

Extract product listings, shop ratings, pricing in CNY, and transaction data from Taobao China marketplace. Built on spider-browser .

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target
taobao.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

taobao-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
  captcha: "solve",
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://s.taobao.com/search?q=headphones");
await page.content(12000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const items = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("a[href*='item.taobao'], [data-sku], [class*='Card--']").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("h3, [class*='Title'] span, [class*='title'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
    const price = [...(el.querySelectorAll("span") || [])].find(s => /¥|[\d,.]+/.test(s.textContent?.trim() || ""))?.textContent?.trim();
    const sales = [...(el.querySelectorAll("span") || [])].find(s => /sold|人付款|\d+\+/.test(s.textContent || ""))?.textContent?.trim();
    const shop = el.querySelector("a[href*='shop'], [class*='shop'] span")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) items.push({ name, price, sales, shop });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: items.length, items: items.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for taobao.com.

Structured JSON from taobao.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/taobao.com/

Product namePriceSales volumeShop nameRatingLocation

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/taobao.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/taobao.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/taobao.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction