Switching from AliExpress Search Scraper to AliExpress Search Scraper

AliExpress Search Scraper (arcadium/aliexpress-search) reads input written for kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper: 5 of its 9 input fields work as they are. Field list from its public input schema (build 0.0.13, 2026-10-31); prices and run results from the public Apify API, 2026-11-02.

Their fields that work as they are

Their fields this actor does not read

minRating, minOrders, maxPages, requestTimeoutSecs. Leave them out of the input; the actor’s own options are in the guide.

Side by side: their input, our rows

{
  "keywords": [
    "wireless earbuds"
  ],
  "sort": "orders",
  "minPrice": 5,
  "maxPrice": 30,
  "maxItems": 100
}

{
  "rowType": "product",
  "platform": "aliexpress",
  "productId": "1005007097199333",
  "title": "Wireless LED Night Lights Motion Sensor Lights Closet Kitchen",
  "url": "https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007097199333.html",
  "price": 0.33,
  "currency": "USD",
  "originalPrice": 5.36,
  "discountPercent": 93,
  "soldText": "100K+ sold",
  "soldMin": 100000,
  "soldCount": 241114,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "shipFrom": "CN",
  "isAd": false,
  "searchTerm": "lamp",
  "searchRank": 1
}

Output fields: rowType, statedResults, sampleSize, sort, priceBands, newUserPromoShare, discountStats, soldStats, salesConcentration, adShare, choiceShare, freeShippingShare, ratingStats, shipFromMix, deliveryMaxDaysMedian, trends, trendsStatus, generatedAt, platform, productId, title, url, price, priceMax, currency, originalPrice, discountPercent, promoPrice, promoType, soldText, soldMin, soldCount, rating, imageUrl, shipFrom, freeShipping, deliveryText, deliveryMinDays, deliveryMaxDays, isChoice, isAd, looseMatch, searchTerm, searchRank, scrapedAt, input, code, message. The rows use these names, not the other actor’s.

Price

Live Apify prices on 2026-11-02, in USD, for each actor’s main charged event. Start fees and platform usage are not included. Units differ: compare what one charged row contains. The Store page of each actor is the current source.

Common issues: failed or timed-out runs

• AliExpress Search Scraper timed out: 8.3% of 4,058 runs timed out.

Apify’s public run statistics for each actor, last 30 days to 2026-11-02: FAILED and TIMED-OUT runs as a share of all runs. Shown from 50 runs. A failed run can also come from a bad input. Here an input that cannot be read comes back as a free error row with a code, and the other inputs still arrive.

How to switch

In the Apify Store

1. Open arcadium/aliexpress-search and sign in to Apify.
2. On the Input tab, switch the editor to JSON and paste the input you used for kawsar/aliexpress-search-scraper, without the fields listed above as not read.
3. Start the run. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options if you want a hard cap.

Over the API

Change the actor ID in the URL from kawsar~aliexpress-search-scraper to arcadium~aliexpress-search; the body stays the same apart from the fields this actor does not read.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arcadium~aliexpress-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords":["wireless earbuds"],"sort":"orders","minPrice":5,"maxPrice":30,"maxItems":100}'

In n8n

In the Apify node, change the actor to arcadium/aliexpress-search and keep the input JSON. With an HTTP Request node:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "Run arcadium/aliexpress-search",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arcadium~aliexpress-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
        "authentication": "genericCredentialType",
        "genericAuthType": "httpHeaderAuth",
        "sendBody": true,
        "specifyBody": "json",
        "jsonBody": "{\"keywords\":[\"wireless earbuds\"],\"sort\":\"orders\",\"minPrice\":5,\"maxPrice\":30,\"maxItems\":100}",
        "options": {
          "timeout": 300000
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

From an AI assistant (MCP)

Add the actor as a tool on Apify’s MCP server; an agent can pass the same input fields.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=arcadium/aliexpress-search",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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