taobao-connector

taobao-connector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vladimir-Human/ru-marketplace-mcp. It costs 76 tokens per session (477 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A connector for Taobao, a Chinese online marketplace, that reads marketplace data through the operator's logged-in Chrome browser.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Chinese or English Taobao listings and read an item's price, shop, sales label, description, and images.
Why use it?
It avoids unreliable anonymous requests and lets the operator retrieve data from Taobao's live website session.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to search Chinese or English Taobao listings and read an item's price, shop, sales label, description, and images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vladimir-human/ru-marketplace-mcp/taobao-connector
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Vladimir-Human/ru-marketplace-mcp --skill taobao-connector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vladimir-Human/ru-marketplace-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 477 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.00477
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00238
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00048

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99a9b0e7ebf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taobao-connector scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

dsh/skills/taobao-connector/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Taobao Connector

Reads Taobao inside the operator's own Chrome over CDP. The search page is a client-side React app whose data layer is the signed mtop API — every XHR wants a sign computed from the _m_h5_tk cookie, and unsigned probes answer FAIL_SYS_TOKEN_EMPTY. There is no anonymous tier; the site's own JS signs requests natively in a real browser.

When to use

  • Search Taobao by Chinese or English text
  • One item's price, shop, sales label, description images

Tools available

  • taobao_search(query, page) — listings. Prices are in YUAN (CNY), never converted: price_cny is None when hidden — never 0.
  • taobao_card(item_id_or_url) — one item card. item ids are 9-13 digit strings; pass a bare id or an item.taobao.com URL.

Not an MCP tool: taobao_selfcheck() is a tri-state canary that renders one live search page. It is CLI-only — marketplace-mcp doctor runs every connector's canary at once.

Gotchas

  • Prices stay in yuan. Comparing against ruble sources needs an explicit rate; a baked-in one would go silently stale.
  • A login wall (title 登录) means the scraping profile is logged out of taobao.com — log in there, then retry.
  • The operator's Chrome must be running with CDP (scripts/start_chrome_cdp.sh).

DSH activation

In DeepSeek Harness, the default profile exposes only compare_prices and compare_sources through the cheap compare mount. Per-marketplace tools and marketplace_sources require RU_MARKETPLACE_MCP_FULL=1 and a profile restart; do not call them in the default mode.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +6 lines 99a9b0e7ebf4
  2. 12d ago First seen · 34 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A b99015a92802

Subscribe to this mod's changes

taobao-connector is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vladimir-Human/ru-marketplace-mcp (93 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 477 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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