New service: cainiao

[mishailovic]

They don't have official api for parcel tracking, but we can do something with html parsing. Usually AliExpress uses this provider for parcels that are going to Russia

[mishailovic]

Upd: actually this service can track every Chinese package, and not only those which were sent to Russia

[mishailovic]

might be little old, but they updated their api, and now its publicly available: https://global.cainiao.com/global/detail.json?mailNos={YOUR_TRACK_NUMBER_HERE}&lang=en-US&language=en-US gives you detailed json. Hope it helps. Also the service itself covers more than 100+ providers now, so if we implement this we basically add 100+ new services

[proninyaroslav]

@mishailovic
Do they have any restrictions and do they have documentation?

[mishailovic]

They have no restrictions afaik, tho website gives you cloudflare verification when you reload fast for 10 times or so, but I don’t think it covers the api. Speaking about documentation: no, I don’t think they have it. They might have, but I didn’t find any

[mishailovic]

@proninyaroslav there is also url scheme to check if track number is valid: https://global.cainiao.com/global/check.json?mailNos={TRACKNUMHERE}&lang=en-US&language=en-US

and url to get languages https://global.cainiao.com/banner/language.json?lang=en-US&language=en-US

[d1nuc0m]

@mishailovic @proninyaroslav Maybe it is interesting, Cainiao seems to have API docs, although for different endpoints - I haven't tried it. The relevant APIs might be CAINIAO_LPS_QUERY_PARCEL_ARRIVED_PUDO and CN_OVERSEA_DL_QUERY_PACKAGE_STATUS?

[proninyaroslav]

@d1nuc0m
Documentation should make implementation a bit easier.