# 1688 Image Search —

An ecommerce tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/crawleast/1688-image-search-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `imageUrls` (array): Product image URLs
- `imagesBase64` (array): Product images (base64)
- `offerIds` (array): 1688 offer IDs (detail-only mode)
- `maxImages` (integer): Max images (e.g. 10)
- `maxResultsPerImage` (integer): Max results per image (e.g. 20)
- `enrichDetails` (boolean): Enrich matches with full details

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=1688%20Image%20Search%20%E2%80%94 with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "1688 Image Search —"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md