Taobao search API
If you track prices, watch competitors or research what sells, you need Taobao listings as data — not screenshots. This API searches Taobao products and returns title, price, shop and sales notes as structured results you can compare and monitor over time.
What you get
- Products matching your query, sorted by sales, each with title, price and shop.
- A sales note on each product, as text, so you can see what is actually moving.
- The same request shape and response envelope as every other SerpHubAPI service: only engine and type change.
Example request
curl https://api.serphubapi.com/v1/search \
-H "X-API-Key: shapi_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"engine": "taobao", "type": "products", "q": "露营帐篷", "num": 10}'Response points: meta.service is taobao/products, meta.credits_charged is what the call cost, and results arrive under results.products.
Price
cache_first: half price. Cache hits, failed calls and empty results: free. Paid balance never expires. Full rates are on the pricing page.
Questions
Products matching your query, each with its title, price, shop and a sales note (for example, how many people bought it, as text). Results arrive under the products key, in the same envelope as every other SerpHubAPI service.
11 credits per successful live call — about $0.011 at the Starter rate. cache_first is half price; cache hits, failed calls and empty results are free.
We return the price fields exactly as they arrive, including both the headline price and the price detail where both are present. We do not guess which one is the original or the discounted price.
Sign up for 1,000 free credits, copy your key from the console, and call POST /v1/search with engine taobao and type products.