AliExpress Affiliate

AliExpress Affiliate

This connector calls the AliExpress Affiliate API (AliExpress Open Platform, api-sg.aliexpress.com) with your own affiliate app: product search and details, hot products, featured promotions, coupons, shipping cost to a country, affiliate link generation and the orders and commissions your links earned. Everything is read-only.

What you need: an AliExpress Portals affiliate account, an Open Platform developer account with an app in the Affiliates category, and a tracking ID. About 15 minutes, plus AliExpress's review of the developer profile and app category.

Setup

1. Sign up as an affiliate at https://portals.aliexpress.com and create a tracking ID there; it attributes the commissions of your links.
2. At https://openservice.aliexpress.com click Create Account (or sign in), open your profile and choose the developer type Affiliate (individual) or Affiliate (corporation). AliExpress reviews the profile.
3. In the App Console click Create, apply for the Affiliates app category, then create the app (the callback URL is not used by this connector, any https address of yours works). The same Open Platform account cannot hold both an Affiliate and a Dropshipping app: for dropshipping use the AliExpress Dropshipping connector with its own account.
4. On the app's overview page copy the App Key into ALIEXPRESS_APP_KEY and the App Secret (click View) into ALIEXPRESS_APP_SECRET, and put your tracking ID in ALIEXPRESS_TRACKING_ID.
5. A new app runs in test status with a low call quota; click Apply Online in the console when you are ready.

How it signs: every call carries app_key, method, a millisecond timestamp, sign_method=sha256 and sign, an upper-case HMAC-SHA256 of all parameters sorted by name, keyed with the app secret. The secret never leaves AnythingMCP. A timestamp more than two hours off is refused, so the host clock must be right.

Where to start

• Product research: aliexpress_affiliate_search_products (keywords, category, price range, delivery days), aliexpress_affiliate_list_hot_products (raised commission), aliexpress_affiliate_list_categories for category ids.
• One product: aliexpress_affiliate_get_products (up to 50 ids), aliexpress_affiliate_get_sku_details (variants, stock), aliexpress_affiliate_get_shipping (cost and delivery time of one SKU, using the sku_id, target_sale_price and tax_rate of a search result), aliexpress_affiliate_get_promotions (coupons now).
• Campaigns: aliexpress_affiliate_list_featured_promos, then aliexpress_affiliate_list_promo_products.
• Links: aliexpress_affiliate_generate_links turns up to 50 AliExpress URLs into links with your tracking ID. Search and detail results already carry a promotion_link.
• Earnings: aliexpress_affiliate_list_orders (time window and status), aliexpress_affiliate_get_orders (by id).

Units and formats: price filters min_sale_price and max_sale_price are in cents of target_currency; prices in answers are decimal strings with their currency next to them (target_sale_price, target_sale_price_currency). Rates such as commission_rate and discount are percentages as text ("7.0%"). Order times and promotion windows are Pacific time (PST/PDT), YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Product ids are long numbers: keep them as text.

Paging: page_no from 1 and page_size up to 50; answers give total_record_count and total_page_no. Ask for fewer fields to keep long lists short.

Answers and errors: results sit under aliexpress_affiliate_<call>_response.resp_result, where resp_code 200 is success and result holds the data; 405 means nothing matched, 402 a bad parameter. Gateway refusals come as error_response with a code: InvalidAppKey or IncompleteSignature (key or secret wrong or not of the same app), InsufficientPermission (the app lacks the API: check the app category and permission group in the console), call-limit codes when the quota is used up (test apps have a small one).