Product
Scrape Alibaba product pages by product ID.
The alibaba_product source is designed to retrieve Alibaba product pages. The API returns the HTML for any Alibaba product you like.
Request samples
The samples below illustrate how you can get a rendered Alibaba product page.
curl 'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries' \
--user 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"source": "alibaba_product",
"product_id": "1601557767120",
"render": "html"
}'import requests
from pprint import pprint
# Structure payload.
payload = {
'source': 'alibaba_product',
'product_id': '1601557767120',
'render': 'html'
}
# Get response.
response = requests.request(
'POST',
'https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
auth=('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'),
json=payload
)
# Instead of response with job status and results url, this will return the
# JSON response with the result.
pprint(response.json())const https = require("https");
const username = "USERNAME";
const password = "PASSWORD";
const body = {
source: "alibaba_product",
product_id: "1601557767120",
render: "html"
};
const options = {
hostname: "realtime.oxylabs.io",
path: "/v1/queries",
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
Authorization:
"Basic " + Buffer.from(`${username}:${password}`).toString("base64"),
},
};
const request = https.request(options, (response) => {
let data = "";
response.on("data", (chunk) => {
data += chunk;
});
response.on("end", () => {
const responseData = JSON.parse(data);
console.log(JSON.stringify(responseData, null, 2));
});
});
request.on("error", (error) => {
console.error("Error:", error);
});
request.write(JSON.stringify(body));
request.end();# The whole string you submit has to be URL-encoded.
https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries?source=alibaba_product&product_id=1601557767120&render=html&access_token=12345abcde<?php
$params = array(
'source' => 'alibaba_product',
'product_id' => '1601557767120',
'render' => 'html'
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($params));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "USERNAME" . ":" . "PASSWORD");
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
const Username = "USERNAME"
const Password = "PASSWORD"
payload := map[string]interface{}{
"source": "alibaba_product",
"product_id": "1601557767120",
"render": "html",
}
jsonValue, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
client := &http.Client{}
request, _ := http.NewRequest("POST",
"https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries",
bytes.NewBuffer(jsonValue),
)
request.SetBasicAuth(Username, Password)
response, _ := client.Do(request)
responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace OxyApi
{
class Program
{
static async Task Main()
{
const string Username = "USERNAME";
const string Password = "PASSWORD";
var parameters = new {
source = "alibaba_product",
product_id = "1601557767120",
render = "html"
};
var client = new HttpClient();
Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://realtime.oxylabs.io");
client.BaseAddress = baseUri;
var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "/v1/queries");
requestMessage.Content = JsonContent.Create(parameters);
var authenticationString = $"{Username}:{Password}";
var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(authenticationString));
requestMessage.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64EncodedAuthenticationString);
var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(contents);
}
}
}package org.example;
import okhttp3.*;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public class Main implements Runnable {
private static final String AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = "Authorization";
public static final String USERNAME = "USERNAME";
public static final String PASSWORD = "PASSWORD";
public void run() {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
jsonObject.put("source", "alibaba_product");
jsonObject.put("product_id", "1601557767120");
jsonObject.put("render", "html");
Authenticator authenticator = (route, response) -> {
String credential = Credentials.basic(USERNAME, PASSWORD);
return response
.request()
.newBuilder()
.header(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, credential)
.build();
};
var client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
.authenticator(authenticator)
.readTimeout(180, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.build();
var mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
var body = RequestBody.create(jsonObject.toString(), mediaType);
var request = new Request.Builder()
.url("https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries")
.post(body)
.build();
try (var response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
if (response.body() != null) {
try (var responseBody = response.body()) {
System.out.println(responseBody.string());
}
}
} catch (Exception exception) {
System.out.println("Error: " + exception.getMessage());
}
System.exit(0);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
new Thread(new Main()).start();
}
}{
"source": "alibaba_product",
"product_id": "1601557767120",
"render": "html"
}We use synchronous Realtime integration method in our examples. If you would like to use Proxy Endpoint or asynchronous Push-Pull integration, refer to the integration methods section.
Request parameter values
Generic
Parameter
Description
Default Value
- mandatory parameter
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