Search 1688 wholesale products API

Price

$0.0072 / product + $0.0074 / call

Results per run

20 default · up to 500

Billing

Only results delivered are billed. Failed runs pay no call fee.

Hand it to your AI agent

Copy this prompt into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It tells the agent where the docs are and how to use your API key.

Use the Lovely Router data tool "Search 1688 wholesale products" (id `1688-products`, 1688) to get data for me. It returns JSON.

- Docs (read first): https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/run.md and https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/api/tools.md
- Input fields and price: GET https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/1688-products (public, no key needed). Price: $0.0072 / product + $0.0074 / call.
- Run: POST https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/1688-products/run with a body like `{"input":{"keywords":["phone case"],"maxResults":5},"max_results":10}`. A 200 has the finished run with `items`; a 202 means it is still running, so poll the `poll` path until `status` is `succeeded`, `failed`, `timed_out` or `stopped`.
- Only delivered results are billed. Keep max_results small on the first run, check the output, then scale up (up to 500 per run).
- If you support MCP, you can instead connect the server https://lovelyrouter.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, same key; https://lovelyrouter.com/docs/tools/mcp.md) and use suggest_tools, get_tool and run_tool with tool "1688-products".
- Auth: read my API key from the LOVELY_API_KEY environment variable and send it as `Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY`. Never print or commit the key. If it is not set, ask me to create one at https://lovelyrouter.com/app/keys.
- Billing is prepaid: every call is charged to my balance, so test with a small request before running anything large.
- Every docs page is plain Markdown; the full index is https://lovelyrouter.com/llms.txt.

My task: <describe the data you need, e.g. which places, profiles, keywords or URLs, and the output format>

Input

keywordsarray

English or Chinese search words, one search each.

offerIdsarray

1688 product ids to fetch directly (no search).

sortBystring

How to sort search results.

relevance · bestSelling · priceAsc · priceDesc

priceMininteger

Unit price at least this, in CNY.

priceMaxinteger

Unit price at most this, in CNY.

minOrderQuantityinteger

Suppliers whose minimum order is at most this.

merchantTypestring

Filter by supplier verification tier.Super Factory (超级工厂): top-tier manufacturers with verified production capacity.Verified Merchant (实力商家): trusted sellers with strong track records.

any · superFactory · verifiedMerchant

provincestring

Filter suppliers by province. Use Chinese name, e.g. 广东 (Guangdong), 浙江 (Zhejiang), 江苏 (Jiangsu).

citystring

Filter suppliers by city. Use Chinese name, e.g. 深圳市 (Shenzhen), 广州市 (Guangzhou), 义乌市 (Yiwu).

excludeKeywordsarray

Drop products whose title contains any of these words. Case-insensitive, Chinese or English.Useful when a search term has a second meaning: 刀模夹板 (die board) also returns hair straighteners (电夹板), and 毛毡 (felt) also returns felt handbags. Adding 直发, 卷发 or 包 removes them.Excluded products do not…

Try it

Input (JSON)

Max results

Costs at most $0.0794

Call it from code

How runs, polling and billing work →

curl https://lovelyrouter.com/v1/tools/1688-products/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOVELY_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"keywords":["phone case"],"maxResults":5},"max_results":20}'

# MCP (agents): suggest_tools → get_tool → run_tool
run_tool({
  "tool": "1688-products",
  "input": {"keywords":["phone case"],"maxResults":5},
  "max_results": 20
})

What it costs

Results	Runs (at 500 per run)	Cost
100	1	$0.727
1,000	2	$7.21
10,000	20	$72.15

Prepaid, no subscription. Fewer results than requested cost less. Pricing

Used for

Shortlist Chinese factories by minimum order and tiered price Vet Alibaba.com suppliers before you request quotes Find overseas suppliers from US import records for sourcing Taobao and Tmall product data for sourcing and price tracking Check what used goods really sell for on Xianyu before you buy or list

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Search 1688 wholesale products API cost?

$0.0072 / product + $0.0074 / call. 1,000 results, fetched in runs of up to 500, cost $7.21. There is no subscription: you pay from a prepaid balance.

How many results does one run return?

20 by default and up to 500 per run. Set max_results to cap a run: you are billed only for the results it delivers.

Do I need a 1688 account or API key?

No. You call the tool with your Lovely Router API key and get JSON back. There is nothing to set up on 1688.

Can an AI agent use this tool?

Yes. Connect Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to the Lovely Router MCP server: the agent finds the tool with suggest_tools and runs it with run_tool and the id 1688-products.

What happens if a run fails?

A run that fails or is stopped pays only for the results it delivered, with no call fee. The most a run can cost is held when it starts and the rest is released when it settles.