Taobao — Keyword Search

keyword + optional filters → paginated product listing (itemId, title, price, shop, image, sales)

Language

Objective

Prerequisites

• Target page is already open in the browser: https://s.taobao.com/search
• User is logged in to Taobao (user avatar or nickname visible in the page header)

Pre-execution Checks

1. Tool Readiness

2. Login Verification

• User nickname visible (e.g., "心林vs妞妞") → logged in, continue execution
• "亲，请登录" or login button visible → not logged in, inform the user that Taobao login is needed first, assist the user in completing the login flow

Capability Components

This Skill's operational boundary = what the user can manually do in their browser. It only reads data already displayed to the user on the page, never bypassing authentication or access controls. JS code is encapsulated in Python files under the scripts/ directory, invoked via eval "$(python scripts/xxx.py {params})". $(...) is bash syntax; it is recommended to use the bash tool for execution.

DOM: product search results (data extraction)

1. navigate "https://s.taobao.com/search?q={keyword}&page={page}&ie=utf8"
2. wait stable
3. eval "$(python scripts/search-products.py '{keyword}' --page {page} --sort '{sort}' --tab '{tab}' --start-price {startPrice} --end-price {endPrice})"

• q: URL-encoded keyword
• page: page number, 1-based, default 1
• sort: sort order — empty string (default/recommended), sale-desc (by sales), price-asc (price low→high), price-desc (price high→low)
• tab: mall for Tmall-only results; omit for all results
• startPrice / endPrice: price range filter in yuan (e.g., startPrice=100&endPrice=500)

[
  {
    "itemId": "694593508978",
    "itemUrl": "https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=694593508978",
    "title": "蓝牙耳机2025新款官方",
    "subTitle": "AI耳机热卖榜第1名",
    "priceYuan": 79.9,
    "priceDesc": "券后价",
    "imageUrl": "https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/...",
    "salesCount": "40万+人付款",
    "shopName": "金运旗舰店",
    "location": "广东",
    "rating": null,
    "tags": ["政府补贴15%", "官方立减26元"]
  }
]

• priceYuan is the displayed price (may be post-coupon price, not pre-coupon)
• priceDesc indicates price type: 券后价 (after coupon), 补贴价 (subsidized price), etc.
• rating is rarely shown on search cards; null is expected
• Sponsored/ad items have itemUrl pointing to click.simba.taobao.com — they will have itemId extracted from query params

Enum Parameters

Pagination

Success Criteria

Known Limitations

• Requires Taobao login; unauthenticated sessions redirect to login page
• Prices shown are displayed prices (may be post-coupon), not pre-discount prices
• Sponsored/ad items appear at unpredictable positions in results
• Price filter (startPrice/endPrice) filters on pre-coupon prices, so post-coupon prices displayed may fall outside the requested range near boundaries
• Taobao may return different result counts across pages; page count is approximate

Execution Efficiency

• Batch orchestration: Write a bash script to loop through keywords serially within a single session; do not parallelize within one browser (prone to triggering anti-scraping restrictions). Add 2–3 second intervals between page navigations. To increase throughput, open multiple stealth browser sessions and distribute keywords across them.
• Test before batch execution: After writing a batch script, you must first test with 1–2 keywords to verify the script runs correctly; only then run the full batch. Never skip testing and execute in batch directly.
• Reduce redundant pre-operations: When scraping multiple pages for one keyword, navigate page 2, 3 etc. within the same session without re-login checks.
• Error resumption: Save results item by item during batch processing; on failure, resume from the breakpoint rather than starting over.

Experience Notes