Where to find information on http://www.alibaba.com api in english?

Question

I would like to search, check new RFQ, and offers on http://www.alibaba.com in my application. I was looking for API but I cannot find any information about it. I wonder how such an integration could be implemented. I suppose that there must be some paid service.

Of course, the brute force approach would be to a browser automation with e.g., Watir.

UPDATE: I have found some information but in chinese: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.alisoft.com/home/index.html

Answer 1

The API isn't in English but if you use Google Chrome, you can right click and select translate to English. It does the trick for about 80 to 85% of the page!