Practical guides, implementation tutorials and API updates for teams building product discovery, procurement, warehouse fulfillment and international shipping workflows with HioBuy.
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New open-source Python example that plugs live 1688 and Taobao product tools into Anthropic's commerce-agents blueprint via HIOBuy Agent API or MCP — clone, set Live keys, run locally.
Read guide →Search and detail return an opaque id. Order lines must use that id — not the numeric marketplace item_id. How 1688, Taobao, and Weidian identifiers map from catalog to procurement.
Can you buy on 1688 or Taobao yourself — or have HioBuy buy — and still use a China warehouse plus international shipping via API? Two layers of choice, three paths, and the exact order of calls.
Guides, tutorials and platform updates from the HioBuy team.
Open-source Next.js demo that maps a prompt or photo to HIOBuy Agent API tool calls (product.search / product.search_by_image) so teams can put conversational 1688/Taobao search on their own frontend.
If you already have a site, the missing piece is live Taobao and 1688 catalog data on your own frontend — search, image search, paste a link, SKU detail — without scraping. Walk through HIOBuy’s open-source Next.js starter and the four Product API calls it actually makes.
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