Cookbook·Marketplaces·aliexpress.com

Scrape product pages on aliexpress.com

The call that returns product pages from aliexpress.com today, with the parameters, patterns and failure modes read off the request log since 14 Aug 2026. Last tested 6 Sep 2026.

99.6% success · Aug 2026No browser neededComplex price · 2 credits

About aliexpress.com

Its robots.txt disallows 12 paths. It asks crawlers to wait 0s between requests.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.6%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.2% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 1.2s.

Among the 16 marketplaces sites in the Cookbook, aliexpress.com ranks 7 of 16 by success rate; the category median is 99.6%. Its median answer of 1.2s is faster than the category median of 7.1s. 7 of the 16 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

Product pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real product URL from the site.

Run in Playground
curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aliexpress.com%2Fpc%2Fexample-page"

Parameters that matter

ParameterSet it toWhy
countryleave unsetMost successful calls set no country (99.9%) and succeed at 99.8%.
javascriptleave unsetPlain-token calls succeed at 99.8% and make up 99.8% of the traffic. A browser costs more and, on this site, buys nothing.

URL patterns accounts fetch

PatternShare of successesJavaScript tokenCountryQuery parameters
/pc/{slug}100%0.0%noneproductId, lang, country

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on aliexpress.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

  • Home: WebSite

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

200: 25.4% of failures The site answered 200 with a block or consent page instead of the content, and Crawlbase counted it as a failure rather than bill you for it. Retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use.
999: 18.0% of failures 999 means the site refused the fetch. Treat it like a block: retry once with the JavaScript token and the country the successful calls use, then stop.
0: 8.0% of failures A status of 0 is a request that never got an answer inside the timeout. Retry once with the JavaScript token if the pattern needs a browser.
517: 36.8% of failures A 5xx is the site failing, not the fetch. Retry after a minute.

Run it on a schedule

A catalogue refresh is a list of product URLs. Push it to the Crawler with a callback, let it pace the calls and retry what the site refuses, and read the results from Cloud Storage. The median answer on this site is 1.2s.

Questions

Do I need a browser to scrape aliexpress.com?

No. 99.8% of plain-token calls succeed and accounts send 99.8% of their traffic without a browser.

How much does a aliexpress.com page cost on Crawlbase?

2 credits without a browser. aliexpress.com is in the complex tier.

Which country should I set for aliexpress.com?

None is needed: most successful calls leave it unset.

Other pages on aliexpress.com

Pages aliexpress.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.

PageExampleTokenCountryMedian
Home
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Structured data: WebSite
aliexpress.com/Plainnone11.9s
Site names identify the pages a recipe fetches. Crawlbase is not affiliated with any site listed. Use recipes within the acceptable use policy.Measured numbers from August 2026, refreshed monthly